(under subclass .46) Processes and apparatus in which the prior treatment comprises aligning the continuous filaments, separating or spacing them from one another, or both.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS
28, Textiles: Manufacturing,
198+, for means for separating adjacent strands of a warp sheet, one up and one down.
139, Textiles: Weaving,
98, for devices for separating adjacent warp strands while they are being fed in a loom.
226, Advancing Material of Indeterminate Length, appropriate subclasses for methods of, and apparatus for, feeding material without utilizing the leading or trailing ends to effect movement of the material.