US PATENT CLASS 289
Class Notes
Current as of: June, 1999
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DEFINITION
Classification: 289/
This class includes a method or an apparatus for intertwining one or more portions of a cord, strand or strip, while simultaneously maintaining the lay of the constituents, to form a knot, and the product of such method or apparatus.
LINES WITH OTHER CLASSES
Tools of the nature of pliers, tweezers, crochet-hooks, etc., capable of other uses, but which may be employed to form knots if desired, are otherwise classified. Pliers are found in Class 81, Tools, subclasses 300+; tweezers in Class 294, Handling: Hand and Hoist-line Implements, subclass 99.2; crochet-hooks in Class 66, Textiles: Knitting, subclass 118.
REFERENCES TO OTHER CLASSES
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28, Textiles: Manufacturing,
211, for knotters in combination with warp preparing apparatus.
56, Harvesters, 67+, 131+ and 433+.
57, Textiles: Spinning, Twisting, and Twining,
22+, for means for uniting portions of rope or cable where the unlaying of the strands is involved.
66, Textiles: Knitting,
118, for crocket-hooks, and see (1) Note, supra.
81, Tools,
300+, for pliers, and see (1) Note, supra.
87, Textiles: Braiding, Netting, and Lace Making,
12, for processes of and subclass 53 for apparatus for making knotted mesh fabrics.
100, Presses,
33+, for binder applying apparatus, not otherwise provided for, which include means for joining spaced portions of a material encircling tensioned binder, some of said means involving twisting of the spaced portions and subclasses 2+ for corresponding methods.
112, Sewing,
22, and 156.
140, Wireworking,
3+, and 111+ for means peculiarly adapted for uniting portions of wire or the like wherein the portions are held together only by reason of the rigidity of the material.
242, Winding, Tensioning, or Guiding,
475.1+, for means for uniting a reserve thread with the last end of the bobbin thread of a winding machine.
294, Handling: Hand and Hoist-line Implements,
99.2, for tweezers, and see (1) Note, supra.
493, Manufacturing Container or Tube From Paper; or Other Manufacturing From a Sheet or Web,
379+,.