US PATENT SUBCLASS 28 / 240
.~.~ Stretching apparatus

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217  DF  THREAD FINISHING {4}
219  DF  .~ Surface modification of running length {5}
240.~.~ Stretching apparatus {4}
241  DF  .~.~.~> Control means responsive to sensed condition {1}
243  DF  .~.~.~> Variable denier
244  DF  .~.~.~> Progressively lengthening lateral path
245  DF  .~.~.~> Between spaced, differentially driven surfaces {1}

DEFINITION

Classification: 28/240

(under subclass 219) Apparatus for attenuating or elongating a thread beyond the elastic limit thereof.

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220+, for combined diverse thread finishing operations, including stretching.

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8, Bleaching and Dyeing; Fluid Treatment and Chemical Modification of Textiles and Fibers,

132, for swelling or plasticizing of artificial fibers combined with a stretching operation. 57, Textiles: Spinning, Twisting, and Twining,

287+, and 310 for spinning, twisting or twining devices combined with means to stretch the thread being twisted concomitantly with or subsequent to the twisting operation and subclass 362 for processes for making strand structures either wholly or in part from synthetic filaments or fibers by a combined spinning, twisting or twining and stretching operation.

65, Glass Manufacturing,

535+, for apparatus for glass fiber or filament formation combined with stretching or drawing means.

66, Textiles: Knitting,

125+, for treating, including stretching, and feeding thread to a knitting machine.

72, Metal Deforming,

376, for processes of attenuating or elongating metal work by application of tensile forces.

264, Plastic and Nonmetallic Article Shaping or Treating: Processes,

165+, for formation of continuous or indefinite length filaments combined with a stretching thereof, and subclasses 288.4+ for process of stretching by applying tension.

425, Plastic Article or Earthenware Shaping or Treating: Apparatus,

66, for combined filament forming and stretching apparatus.