US PATENT SUBCLASS 160 / 84.01
PLEATING TYPE

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160 /   HD   FLEXIBLE OR PORTABLE CLOSURE, PARTITION, OR PANEL

84.01PLEATING TYPE {8}
84.02  DF  .~> With power operating means
84.03  DF  .~> Multiple section unit
84.04  DF  .~> With preformed pleats {1}
84.06  DF  .~> With slide guides
84.07  DF  .~> Fan type (e.g., for arched windows)
84.08  DF  .~> Plural panel type
84.09  DF  .~> Lazy-tong links pivot about axes transverse to panel
84.11  DF  .~> Lazy-tong links pivot about axes parallel to panel

DEFINITION

Classification: 160/84.01

PLEATING TYPE:

(under the class definition) Subject matter in which the constructive material for a flexible closure may be contracted or expanded by imparting folds therein or by straightening or tending to straighten such folds and where means is provided for causing such folds to occur at or along predetermined lines by engaging the material at points at opposite ends of the fold lines or by securing an elongated element at each predetermined fold line.

SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:

130+, for interconnected slats or panels which do not form pleats.

340+, for devices of the hanging type which are freely suspended from their upper edge and also have folds imparted by lateral gathering or other gathering means.

370.23, for automotive windshield weather protectors or sunshields which are pleated or folded.

SEE OR SEARCH CLASS

92, Expansible Chamber Devices, 34+, for a bellows-type expansion chamber device.

105, Railway Rolling Stock,

18+, for a bellows-type diaphragm between two articulated railroad cars.