This class includes flexible all-wire or slat-and-wire fabric, wire blanks, panels and fabric structures not otherwise classifiable, and miscellaneous wire fabric joints in which at least one of the intersecting or connected elements is bent, looped, twisted, or coiled about the other
or is subjected to an analogous wire-working operation to form or make the fabric or wherein wire is made an essential element of the invention. Fabrics, joints, or other structures wherein the elements are joined or secured together, for example, by tie-wires or ties, without bending or twisting the elements, or by weaving, welding, casting, nailing, and stapling and wherein wire is not made an essential element of the invention are excluded.
LINES WITH OTHER CLASSES
(1) Note. Wire fabrics to which features or elements have been added which particularly adapt such fabrics for conveyor use, and which may be considered as more than an improved fabric structure, are classifiable with conveyors (see the References to Other Classes below).
(2) Note. For composite fabrics comprising fabric or web structures in which a wire fabric is used for reinforcement or protection see Search Class notes below.
(3) Note. Class 428, Stock Material or Miscellaneous Articles, subclasses 544+ is the residual locus for patents drawn to stock materials which are all metal or have adjacent metal components. As such, it provides for many rod structures analogous to wire structures and should be considered proper as a supplementary search field.
REFERENCES TO OTHER CLASSES
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS
5, Beds, 186, 199 for structures specific thereto, as combinations with the frame, end springs, bottom springs, etc.
15, Brushing, Scrubbing, and General Cleaning,
238, and indented subclasses for combinations of wire fabrics with frames, borders, or end strips, scrapers, etc.
52, Static Structures (e.g., Buildings), appropriate subclasses for residual structural metal work and units, particularly
343, and 660+ for a surface forming fabric or lattice openwork, e.g., a grating or grille.
65, Glass Manufacturing,
50+, for a process of making sheet glass and bonding the formed sheet to glass, subclasses 147+ for glassworking apparatus including means to feed and laminate wire fabric thereto, and subclass 154 for glass to metal bonding by glassworking apparatus.
66, Textiles: Knitting,
169, for methods of forming meshes and ties.
101, Printing,
113, (See (2) Note above) 138, Pipes and Tubular Conduits,
123+, 131, 133, 134+, 138 and 139 for flexible pipes having wire fabric in the wall make-up thereof. (See (2) Note above)
152, Resilient Tires and Wheels,
202,. (See (2) Note above)
198, Conveyors: Power-Driven,
847, for an endless belt conveyor reinforced by wires and subclasses 848+ for an endless belt conveyor formed of wire fabric.
219, Electric Heating,
528+,.
256, Fences,
32+, for structures specific to fences, as the combination with posts, stretchers, joints, or for ornamental fence fabrics.
313, Electric Lamp and Discharge Devices,
348+, for electrodes and shields for electric lamps and electric space discharge devices which are formed of wire fabrics. 403, Joints and Connections,
384+, for rod-like members joined side-to-side.
404, Road Structure, Process, or Apparatus,
134+, for reinforcement structure, per se.
428, Stock Material or Miscellaneous Articles, appropriate subclasses for a stock material product in the form of a single or plural layer web or sheet including a wire fabric as a component, see especially
38, for a light transmissive mass which has an opaque frame or border therearound, which may be a wire fabric, (e.g., stained glass or wire reinforced glass), and subclass 608 for metallic stock which includes a layer or component comprising
interengaged fibers. (See (2) Note above)
442, Fabric (Woven, Knitted, or Nonwoven Textile or Cloth, etc.),
1+, for an open mesh material. (See (2) Note above)
450, Foundation Garments,
43, and 44 for brassiere cups incorporating wire fabric. (See (2) Note above)
474, Endless Belt Power Transmission Systems or Components, particularly 237+, for a friction drive belt which may be formed from a wire fabric or have a wire fabric as a component thereof. (See (2) Note above)