US PATENT SUBCLASS 223 / 12
.~ Shaping

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223 /   HD   APPAREL APPARATUS

7  DF  HAT MAKING {11}
12.~ Shaping {5}
13  DF  .~.~> Fluid pressure
14  DF  .~.~> Brim curling
15  DF  .~.~> Stretching
16  DF  .~.~> Brim trimmers
17  DF  .~.~> Brim wirers

DEFINITION

Classification: 223/12

Includes devices and methods for blocking, pressing, molding, stretching, and otherwise permanently shaping a hat or hat part.

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8, 21.

51, for heaters, per se.

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28, Textiles: Manufacturing,

116+, and especially subclass 124 for processes of an apparatus for felting hats or hat blanks where no specific step of or mechanism for forming hat structure, e.g., a brim is present. There mere felting of a parabolic, conical or cylindrical blank will not exclude a patent from Class 28.

100, Presses, appropriate subclasses for presses not elsewhere provided for. 264, Plastic and Nonmetallic Article Shaping or Treating: Processes, appropriate subclasses for processes for molding or shaping plastic materials within the class definition, see for example

292, pertaining to processes which include the step of stretching or stretch drawing over a form and subclass 296 for plural sequential shaping processes wherein one step reshapes only a portion of an article.

425, Plastic Article or Earthenware Shaping or Treating: Apparatus,

383+, for a molding machine comprising preform reshaping or resizing means, or vulcanizing means with a conforming preform support.