US PATENT SUBCLASS 156 / 72-- .~.~ Setting or embedding tufts or discrete pile elements onto backing (e.g., rugs, brushes, etc.)

US PATENT SUBCLASS 156 / 72
.~.~ Setting or embedding tufts or discrete pile elements onto backing (e.g., rugs, brushes, etc.)

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156 /	HD	ADHESIVE BONDING AND MISCELLANEOUS CHEMICAL MANUFACTURE

1	DF	METHODS {7}
60	DF	.~ Surface bonding and/or assembly therefor {93}
72		.~.~ Setting or embedding tufts or discrete pile elements onto backing (e.g., rugs, brushes, etc.)

DEFINITION

Classification: 156/72

(under subclass 60) Processes which involves bonding a cluster of flexible parts, to a sheetlike lamina by causing each cluster to penetrate within the surface of the bonding medium or lamina to maintain the cluster and sheet in assembled relationship.

(1) Note. Processes of bonding tufts to a backing to form a pile fabric are classified herein.

(2) Note. The flexible parts for this subclass may be hair, feathers, etc.

SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:

63, for processes of manually arranging different colored or shaped discrete elements on to a backing to form a design.

297+, for processes of bonding plural discrete laminae to a single face of an additional lamina. SEE OR SEARCH CLASS

28, Textiles: Manufacturing,

159+, for processes for pile tufting other than by bonding.

300, Brush, Broom, and Mop Making,

21, for processes of making a brush, broom or mop which may include a laminating operation.