(under subclass 16) Devices in which the tie is a metallic band, and the connection is made by means of some integral part of the band, either by bending, cutting, or forming up a portion of the same. Devices are also included where the invention is the band itself.
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100, Presses,
212, for pressing devices not elsewhere provided for, which are supported from the ground or from a material penetrating element and in which the material is pressed within a bendable filament, strand or band by contracting it around the material. See the reference to Class 24 in the class definition of Class 100 for a statement of the line between the classes.
