US PATENT SUBCLASS 26 / 92
.~.~.~.~ With heater or dryer


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26 /   HD   TEXTILES: CLOTH FINISHING

71  DF  EXPANDING DEVICE FOR TEXTILE WEBS {6}
87  DF  .~ Spreader {2}
88  DF  .~.~ Acting on fabric edge only {3}
89  DF  .~.~.~ Edge-retaining traveler set (i.e., tenter) {5}
92.~.~.~.~ With heater or dryer


DEFINITION

Classification: 26/92

(under subclass 89) Spreader further including either (a) a heated member engageable with the running length of cloth; or (b) means to apply drying or heating gaseous fluid to the cloth.

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81, for heating or drying structure for a tubular fabric spreader.

106, for heating or drying means for structure which expands cloth longitudinally of the running length; which subclass (106) further serves for the cross-reference collection of heating or drying means used with spreader structure of general character (i.e., other than of instant subclass 92 or of subclass 81).

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34, Drying and Gas or Vapor Contact With Solids, appropriate subclass for the drying of web material, generally, including tenter means to advance the material to or through the dryer. See, for example, subclass(es):4 - 41, for methods of drying (the last being residual for the drying of webs); 43+, for the inclusion of web-condition-responsive dryer control; 115, for the conveying of the web over or around drying drums; 158, dryer-and-tenter-structure residually. This class (34) will take the combination of dryer structure for cloth with a tenter which is merely broadly claimed.