US PATENT CLASS 163
Class Notes
Current as of: June, 1999
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DEFINITION
Classification: 163/
This class contains special apparatus and processes for the manufacture of crocheting, knitting, and sewing needles, both for hand and machine use; also, machines and processes for making garment-fastening pins of the ordinary form, as well as safety pins. All such single operations as bending, swaging, groove-milling, point-grinding, turning, and the like will be found in appropriate subclasses under the corresponding fuctional title.
REFERENCES TO OTHER CLASSES
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53, Package Making, appropriate subclasses for methods of and apparatus for encompassing or encasing goods or materials with a separate cover or band which serves as means for identifying, protecting or unit handling the goods or materials.
72, Metal Deforming, appropriate subclasses, for a specified metal shaping operation.
140, Wireworking, appropriate subclass for devices for making wire objects, including hair pins.
221, Article Dispensing,
156+, for article orienting dispensing and feeding subcombinations not otherwise provided for, and subclasses 175+ for devices for forming stacks of disarranged articles, included in an article dispensing or feeding combination. 223, Apparel Apparatus,
108, and 109 for needle holders.
227, Elongated-Member-Driving Apparatus,
65, for apparatus for buckling work and inserting a member, e.g., pin, through the buckled portion.