(under subclass 107) Method or apparatus wherein the needling operation effects the formation of continuously extending links, loops or stitches of component members or the nonwoven textile article or structure along an axis thereof.
(1) Note. Needling devices termed "interlacers" and provided with hooked, not barbed, needles which are capable of chain entanglement of the fibers of the article or structure will be placed in this subclass and appropriately cross-referenced herein below.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS
66, Textiles: Knitting, appropriate subclass especially
85+, for the fabrication of an article or fabric by entangling or interlocked successive loops of thread or yarn.
