US PATENT SUBCLASS 15 / 159.1
.~ Brush or broom

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15 /   HD   BRUSHING, SCRUBBING, AND GENERAL CLEANING

104.001  DF  IMPLEMENTS {28}
159.1.~ Brush or broom {11}
160  DF  .~.~> Special work {4}
168  DF  .~.~> Bridles {2}
171  DF  .~.~> Heads and casings {7}
184  DF  .~.~> Housings {1}
186  DF  .~.~> Individual-bristle mount {1}
189  DF  .~.~> Stitched and wire bound
190  DF  .~.~> Tuft fasteners
191.1  DF  .~.~> Tuft socket {7}
206  DF  .~.~> Twisted bristle holder
207  DF  .~.~> Wire wound
207.2  DF  .~.~> Bristle configuration or composition

DEFINITION

Classification: 15/159.1

Brush or broom:

(under subclass 104.001) Apparatus including separate, natural, or artificial elements, such as bristles, splints, fibers, broomstraws, grass, or other stems (in distinction from sheets, blocks, strands or layers of felted, spun, woven, pulped, or molded fabric, pelts scrapers or sponge, per se) which are arranged in, generally, parallel relation so that their assembled ends constitute collectively a

working surface intended for cleaning or polishing by brushing or scrubbing or for applying paint, powder or other coating, coloring, or cleaning material.

SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:

4+, for a cleaning machine having a brush in combination with another cleaning instrument.

21+, for a cleaning machine with a brush as the only cleaning instrument.

SEE OR SEARCH CLASS

56, Harvesters,

400.17+, for a broom type rake intended for use in a harvesting operation. 209, Classifying, Separating, and Assorting Solids,

385+, for a brush used in clearing a passage in a sifter.

401, Coating Implements With Material Supply, appropriate subclasses, particularly

24, for a brush or broom with material supply combined with a diverse coating tool; subclass 39 for plural brushes or brooms with material supply to at least one, but not all, of the implements; and subclasses 268+ for a brush or broom with material supply.

607, Surgery: Light, Thermal, and Electrical Applications,

79, for a brush combined with means to apply an application of light, thermal or electrical energy to the human body.