(under subclass 232) Apparatus combined with means distorting a single workpiece to bring separate areas of the workpiece into face-to-face relationship or distorting the workpiece
into a grossly altered configuration.
(1) Note. In this subclass may be found for example, devices for twisting or rolling a web to form a strand of roving, or devices for forming a folded shaped article.
(2) Note. The art in subclass 270 differs from the art herein in that the distortion in the instant subclass is permanent, the material is distorted beyond its elastic limits, whereas in subclass 270 the distortion is transitory or temporary.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
270, and see (2) Note above.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS 270, Sheet-Material Associating or Folding,
61, for folders, per se.
493, Manufacturing Container or Tube From Paper; or Other Manufacturing From a Sheet or Web, for making an article of commerce from sheet or web material such as paper involving folding where there is no thickening or thinning flow of the material. Note that shaping of wet or damp paper usually involves thinning or thickening flow.
