US PATENT SUBCLASS 28 / 140
.~ Of thread interlaced article or fabric

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28 /   HD   TEXTILES: MANUFACTURING

100  DF  TEXTILE PRODUCT FABRICATION OR TREATMENT {4}
140.~ Of thread interlaced article or fabric {8}
141  DF  .~.~> Splicing or repair
142  DF  .~.~> Endless or tubular fabric
143  DF  .~.~> Article {6}
155  DF  .~.~> Elastic or crepe fabric {2}
158  DF  .~.~> Multi-ply fabric
159  DF  .~.~> Pile fabric {3}
163  DF  .~.~> Ornamental or surface textured fabric {1}
165  DF  .~.~> Treating {4}

DEFINITION

Classification: 28/140

(under subclass 100) Method or apparatus for the fabrication or treatment of a textile item or structure formed from thread by a braiding, knitting, x knotting, lacing, sewing or weaving operation or combinations thereof not otherwise provided for.

(1) Note. The term "thread" as utilized herein generally intends the fundamental unit of substantial determinate or indeterminate length in the preparation of a textile structure rendered coherent by an orderly, predetermined interlinking or intertwining of the unit with respect to itself or another such unit.

(2) Note. "Thread", as utilized herein, generally represents a slender elongate element composed of a fiber, filament, roving, sliver, strand, yarn or the like, of individual or multiple such elements, having twist therein or twistless, of a single or multi-ply and combinations thereof.

SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:

112, for the manufacture of a thread interlaced article or structure utilized as a substrate in the production of a composite, needled, nonwoven, textile structure.

122, for the manufacture of a thread interlaced article or structure utilized as a substrate in the production of a composite, compressively manipulated, nonwoven, textile structure.

218, for thread texturing by textile product fabrication-defabrication, e.g., knit- deknit.

SEE OR SEARCH CLASS

66, Textiles: Knitting, appropriate subclass for methods and apparatus for forming a textile product by the interlacing of yarn or thread in series of connected loops and for such fabrication combined with "on the machine" treatment of the yarn, thread or formed textile product.

87, Textiles: Braiding, Netting, and Lace Making, appropriate subclass for methods of and apparatus for a) intertwining a plurality of strands to form a plait-like structure, b) for intertwining or knotting a plurality of strands into an open mesh fabric, or c) forming a plurality of strands into an ornamental openwork fabric.

112, Sewing, appropriate subclass for the production of a thread interlaced textile structure by a thread stitching operation.

139, Textiles: Weaving, appropriate subclass for the fabrication of a thread interlaced textile product which is formed by arranging one set of threads generally transversely to another set such that each thread of one set lays above some and below other threads of the other set and is thus clamped in position by this arrangement and for such fabrication combined with "on the machine" treatment of the thread or yarn used in product fabrication or of the formed textile product.