(under subclass 394.1) Apparatus which is especially adapted to travel along the surface of a tire body and apply pressure thereto for the purpose of pressing superimposed layers into an adhering relationship.
(1) Note. This subclass does not include rollers, per se, or rollers with handles merely because they are disclosed as useful as tire stitching tools. To be included here the stitcher must either include some structure which renders the device useful only as a tire stitching tool or it must be claimed in combination with some supporting or manipulating structure other than a handle. This subclass includes, for example, cylindrical stitchers with a surface shaped to conform to the cross section of a tire or a stitcher especially adapted to fit over a bead. 492, Roll or Roller.
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492, Roll or Roller, for a roll, per se, not elsewhere provided for, and see the notes thereunder.
