(under the class definition) Method or apparatus involving operations to place slender, elongate textile material composed of fibers or of filaments strands, yarns and the like, hereafter termed "thread", of individual or multiple components, in better marketable condition or to prepare such material for subsequent fabrication into articles or fabrics.
(1) Note. The term thread as used herein is intended to include sliver, roving and the like.
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112, for treatment, inclusive of thread finishing, of a component member of a nonwoven textile article or structure prior to a needling operation.
122, for treatment, inclusive of thread finishing, of a component member of a nonwoven textile article or structure prior to a felting operation.
166, for treatment, inclusive of thread finishing, of a component member prior to fabrication into a thread interlaced fabric.
178+, for the fluid treatment of a running length of a plurality of threads in the form of a warp sheet. SEE OR SEARCH CLASS
8, Bleaching and Dyeing; Fluid Treatment and Chemical Modification of Textiles and Fibers, appropriate subclass for methods of bleaching and dyeing and chemical modification of thread combined with a broadly recited textile operation other than spinning, twisting or turning.
57, Textiles: Spinning, Twisting, and Twining, appropriate subclass for methods of and apparatus for finishing thread
combined with spinning, twisting and twining thereof.
65, Glass Manufacturing,
376+, and 484+, respectively, for methods of or apparatus for making a glass filament or fiber combined with a finishing operation therefor.
68, Textiles: Fluid Treating Apparatus, appropriate subclass for apparatus for the fluid treatment of thread in general.
118, Coating Apparatus, appropriate subclass for apparatus for coating thread other than in the form of a warp sheet.
264, Plastic and Nonmetallic Article Shaping or Treating: Processes, appropriate subclass for methods of finishing a filament combined with the forming thereof and
342+, for methods of finishing a unitary thread or filament formed of distinct, diverse extruded polymeric components which are arranged to run the length of the thread in a side by side fashion, e.g., a bicomponent filament, to effect distortion thereof by differential shrinkage.
423, Chemistry of Inorganic Compounds,
447.1+, for methods of carbonizing thread. 425, Plastic Article or Earthenware Shaping or Treating: Apparatus, appropriate subclass for apparatus for finishing a filament combined with forming means therefor.
427, Coating Processes, appropriate subclass for methods of coating thread combined with a broadly recited textile operation.
451, Abrading, for a method of or apparatus for abrading of thread, per se.
