US PATENT SUBCLASS 156 / 398
.~.~ Means operating on the bead portion of the tire

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156 /   HD   ADHESIVE BONDING AND MISCELLANEOUS CHEMICAL MANUFACTURE

349  DF  SURFACE BONDING MEANS AND/OR ASSEMBLY MEANS THEREFOR {34}
394.1  DF  .~ Tire body building type {14}
398.~.~ Means operating on the bead portion of the tire {3}
399  DF  .~.~.~> Means trimming fabric adjacent bead
400  DF  .~.~.~> Means folding carcass fabric about a bead {2}
403  DF  .~.~.~> Means placing bead ring on tire carcass

DEFINITION

Classification: 156/398

(under subclass 394.1) Apparatus especially designed to perform a shaping, cutting, uniting or assembling operation on a tire in the area of the bead.

(1) Note. The mere recitation that beads are present in a tire or that a building form is adapted to receive a bead is not sufficient to place a patent in this subclass. Such patents are classified according to their assembly means. The claims must recite some specific means which compensates for the fact that a bead is present or is being incorporated into the tire. For example, a stitching element which merely traverses the area of the bead is placed in subclasses 408+ and not here while a stitching element designed to fold fabric around a bead is placed in this and indented subclasses.