.~ With stretching, tensioning, decurling, flexing or breaking
DEFINITION
Classification: 162/197
(under subclass 100) Processes including a step of distorting the product by stretching, subjecting a product to tensile force, repeatedly bending a product to physically modify the product without altering its shape, or restoring a distorted normally planar sheet to its original planar configuration by a mechanical shaping step.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
270, for apparatus performing similar functions.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS
156, Adhesive Bonding and Miscellaneous Chemical Manufacture, appropriate subclasses for stretching, stressing, shaping and deforming steps combined with laminating. See particularly
