(under the class definition) Device including input-means* which means affects both mechanism for selective cutting as well as mechanism for applying embossed or visibly tinted character-representing symbols to a workpiece.
(1) Note. The printing and cutting operations may be applied to the same or to different workpieces, and either simultaneously or nonsimultaneously.
(2) Note. The claimed inclusion of any specific element of a printing device, which element is not a necessary part of the control or actuating mechanism of the selective cutting device, is a bar to placement of the patent in this class. For example, a patent to a combined "typewriter-punch" wherein the typewriter key levers actuate punch-selection mechanisms and the paper-carriage movement controls feed of a card to the punching station, would be placed as an original in Class 400, Typewriting Machines, if the claims referred also to "types", or ribbon feed or line-feed mechanism, etc.
(3) Note. For the relationship of this group of subclasses to other work-treating classes, see the class definition section entitled "Relationship to Other Classes Including, Per Se, Cutting or Other Treatment of Work".
