.~ Reshaping running or indefinite-length work {5}
284
.~.~ Deforming the surface only
DEFINITION
Classification: 264/284
(under subclass 280) Processes which the surface configuration only of the workpiece is altered by raising bosses or protuberances thereon or causing surface portions to be depressed below the plane of the workpiece surface.
(1) Note. Where a surface only is altered by a cutting, scribing or plowing only, and no material is removed or separated therefrom through these operations, the patent will be placed herein.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
138+, for processes involving a severing or material removal
operation.
293, for processes including an embossing step on nonrunning length material.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS 101, Printing,
32, for embossing processes there provided for.
156, Adhesive Bonding and Miscellaneous Chemical Manufacture,
209, and 219+ for embossing combined with a laminating step.
425, Plastic Article or Earthenware Shaping or Treating: Apparatus,
319+, for shaping apparatus comprising the combination of means to form a preform and means to convolute or twist the preform, subclasses 323+ for pretzel bending apparatus and subclass 383 for a molding apparatus including means to reshape a preform.
