.~.~.~ With heat distribution means (i.e., heat applied to extended area)
DEFINITION
Classification: 219/228
(under subclass 227) Subject matter wherein electrical heating means is contained within or on an extended housing, casing or support designed to form a hand manipulative tool or instrument for distributing heat over a substantial surface area.
(1) Note. This subclass includes, by way of example, means for heating a substantial area of a painted surface combined with a scraper for scraping off the heated paint.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
245+, for hand held pressure application means such as laundry irons which heat a substantial surface area.
443.1+, for an exposed horizontal planar support surface for material to be heated (e.g., hot plate, etc.).
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS
15, Brushing, Scrubbing, and General Cleaning, 235.4+, for mason's trowels and floats and subclasses 236.01 for scrapers having a blade like edge used for cleaning and which trowels or scrapers may be electrically heated.
30, Cutlery,
140, for hand held electrically heated scrapers, and subclasses 169+ for hand held scrapers, per se. See (1) Note to this class relative to the combination of a surface heater and a paint scraper.
81, Tools,
3.5, for hand held or work-bench supported, electrically heated truncated mandrels for expanding spectacles frames.
