(under subclass .3) Processes and apparatus in which the filamentary starting material moves in an axial direction and is both laterally and longitudinally cohesive and, as a whole, remains so during the staplizing operation.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
.46+, for inventions relating to the staplizing of continuously flowing filamentary material, characterized by the treatment of the material prior to or preparatory to severing.
.56, for processes and apparatus for staplizing continuously running material, the performance or use of which results in some additional treatment of the material subsequent to or during the staplizing.
35+, for staplizing apparatus and methods effective to break continuously running filamentary material by application of opposed longitudinal forces.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS 28, Textiles: Manufacturing,
172+, for methods and apparatus for manipulating sheets of parallel strands, the sheet generally having a thickness of one strand.
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; where a group of strands constitutes a discrete sheet or web in and of itself, the mere feeding thereof is proper subject matter for Class 226, the feeding of a multiplicity of such groups being considered a plural web feeding.
