US PATENT SUBCLASS 254 / 389
DEVICE OR MEMBER FOR CONTACTING AND GUIDING MOVING CABLE

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254 /   HD   IMPLEMENTS OR APPARATUS FOR APPLYING PUSHING OR PULLING FORCE

389DEVICE OR MEMBER FOR CONTACTING AND GUIDING MOVING CABLE {2}
390  DF  .~> Including rotatable, cable contacting, pulley wheel element {9}
417  DF  .~> Having cable contacting portion revolving around another component of device

DEFINITION

Classification: 254/389

DEVICE OR MEMBER FOR CONTACTING AND GUIDING MOVING CABLE:

(under the class definition) Cable guides including a device or member which contacts a cable moving relative to it, and (a) regulates the course of the cable as it moves along its path of travel, or (b) changes the direction of a force transmitted through the cable to the object.

(1) Note. This subclass is the collecting point for a guide for a cable when the guide and cable are components of a mechanism which is similar in nature to an implement or apparatus of this class, (i.e., one which applies a tension-or pressure-exerting, pushing, or pulling force to an object, and wherein the object is (a) transported by the cable, or (b) separable from, rather than continuously attached to, the mechanism), provided that no other locus for the mechanism exists and no other components of the mechanism are claimed.

(2) Note. While the patents of this area frequently fail to claim the device or member in a manner whereby it is adapted, or otherwise restricted, to being used with an implement of this class or mechanism of a similar nature (see (1) Note of this subclass), such use is, nevertheless, the sole disclosed one.

(3) Note. Devices for guiding or directing cable to a haulage drum are found in Class 242 when there are features peculiar to how the cable is wound on the surface of the drum, (e.g., traversing guides).

SEE OR SEARCH CLASS

15, Brushing, Scrubbing, and General Cleaning,

246, for strand guides combined with strand cleaners.

16, Miscellaneous Hardware, 210+, for sash-cord guides; subclasses 194 and 219 for sash-cord counterweights with cord guiding structure; and subclasses 404+ for counterweights intended to be used with

doors or gates and having cord guiding structure.

24, Buckles, Buttons, Clasps, etc.,

115+, for cable gripping or holding structure when no specific cable guiding structure is claimed.

43, Fishing, Trapping, and Vermin Destroying,

24, for line guides for fishing rods.

54, Harness,

73,.

104, Railways,

165+, for cable guides limited to use in railway propulsion.

114, Ships,

179+, for hawse pipes; and subclass 101 for guides especially designed for use on spars and rigging. 116, Signals and Indicators,

173+, for flagstaffs.

211, Supports: Racks,

119.01+, for arrangements of cable used as clotheslines.

226, Advancing Material of Indeterminate Length, may include a nominal recitation of a supply or take-up coil (e.g., less than a support for such a coil or a cooperative relationship between a tension or exhaust detector and reel driving or reel stopping means, etc.),

196.1, for a passive guide combined with a material feeder.

242, Winding, Tensioning, or Guiding,

273+, for a guide in a fishing reel, subclass 377 for a guide in a spring powered reel, subclasses 397+ for a guide in a reeling device of general use, subclasses 548+ for a guide in a winding machine, subclass 566 for a guide in an unwinding machine, and subclasses 615+ for a guide for running material.

343, Communications: Radio Wave Antennas,

707, for antennas with aircraft of the traveling type and which may include fair-lead structure.