US PATENT SUBCLASS 29 / 700
MEANS TO ASSEMBLE OR DISASSEMBLE

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700MEANS TO ASSEMBLE OR DISASSEMBLE {55}
701  DF  .~> With means to regulate operation by use of templet, tape, card or other replaceable information supply {2}
705  DF  .~> With means to test work or product
706  DF  .~> With randomly actuated stopping or disabling means {2}
709  DF  .~> With control means energized in response to activator stimulated by condition sensor {4}
720  DF  .~> With signal, scale, illuminator, or optical viewer {1}
722  DF  .~> Including means to provide a controlled environment
723  DF  .~> Nuclear device
724  DF  .~> Roller or ball bearing {1}
726  DF  .~> Heat exchanger {2}
728  DF  .~> Means to place sheath on running-length core
729  DF  .~> Means to assemble electrical device {14}
762  DF  .~> Means to disassemble electrical device {2}
765  DF  .~> Means to place traveler on ring or ring on bobbin of a textile machine
766  DF  .~> Slide fastener {4}
771  DF  .~> Means to interrelatedly feed plural work parts from plural sources without manual intervention {8}
791  DF  .~> Multiple station assembly or disassembly apparatus {3}
798  DF  .~> Means to drive self-piercing work part
799  DF  .~> Including assembly pallet
800  DF  .~> Including provision to utilize thermal expansion of work
801  DF  .~> Means to assemble or disassemble container and fluid component
802  DF  .~> Vehicle wheel {1}
804  DF  .~> Tumbler lock
805  DF  .~> Toy doll
806  DF  .~> Film or tape cartridge
807  DF  .~> Crystal to watch or clock
808  DF  .~> Means to insert or extract pen point
809  DF  .~> With magazine supply {3}
819  DF  .~> Running-length work {1}
821  DF  .~> Including means to vibrate work
822  DF  .~> Including work conveyer {1}
213.1  DF  .~> Valve applying or removing {4}
222  DF  .~> Piston ring inserter or remover {1}
225  DF  .~> Spring applier or remover {5}
231  DF  .~> Means to stake watch or clock {1}
233  DF  .~> Brake lining to brake shoe
234  DF  .~> Tube and coextensive core
235  DF  .~> To apply or remove a resilient article (e.g., tube, sleeve, etc.) {2}
237  DF  .~> Coupling to conduit
237.5  DF  .~> Loose-leaf sheet binder
238  DF  .~> Compressing parts together face to face
239  DF  .~> Spreading parts apart or separating them from face to face engagement
240  DF  .~> By rotation of work part {1}
241  DF  .~> Means to string
242  DF  .~> Tool handle and tool
243  DF  .~> Tool chuck and tool
243.5  DF  .~> Overedge assembling means {5}
244  DF  .~> Puller or pusher means, contained force multiplying operator {11}
269  DF  .~> Means comprising piston ring group contractor or holder
270  DF  .~> Means comprising hand manipulatable tool {3}
281.1  DF  .~> With work-holder for assembly {3}
281.5  DF  .~> Including means to relatively position plural work parts
281.6  DF  .~> Work-supported apparatus
282  DF  .~> Tube, sleeve or ferrule
283  DF  .~> Work gripper, anvil, or element
283.5  DF  .~> By deforming

DEFINITION

Classification: 29/700

MEANS TO ASSEMBLE OR DISASSEMBLE:

(under the class definition) Apparatus (1) including means for engaging a first work part and including means for engaging a second work part which means are adapted to either bring the two work parts into juxtaposed relationship or cause one of the work parts to intimately engage the other to thereby fasten the work parts together or, (2) including means to engage at least one work part and force that work part to move out of intimate engagement with another work part to which it has previously been secured.

(1) Note. To be proper for classification in this subclass a patent directed to clause (1) "assembly means" of the definition of this subclass must include structure to recognize (engage) the first work part and structure to recognize (engage) the second work part; whereas, a patent directed to clause (2) "means to disassemble" must include a claimed disclosure that the parts are either unfastened or moved out of positional relationship and must claim structure that recognizes (engages) at least one of the parts.

(2) Note. Means to relatively position two elements of a machine, i.e., to adjust the machine, is not considered to be an assembly or disassembly means for this subclass and those indented hereunder.

(3) Note. A portion of material to be assembled to another portion will be considered to be a "part" in this subclass and in the subclasses indented hereunder even if both portions to be assembled are surfaces of the same member.

(4) Note. This subclass is the residual home for a device for assembling or disassembling a first and a second work part. Therefore, classification is in this and the indented subclasses only when no other class (or preceding subclass of this class) provides for the type of apparatus claimed. See the search notes below.

(5) Note. A mechanical manufacturing apparatus often includes an assembling means combined with a shaping means. Such apparatus will fall into one of two groups: (a) those including a shaping means intended to operate simultaneously or subsequently to a juxtaposing means and serving only to secure the work parts together or, (b) those including a shaping device whether acting preliminarily, simultaneously, or subsequently to the juxtaposing of the parts intended to shape a work part(s) other than or in addition to securing. Group (a) apparatus recognizing at least two work parts (see

(1) Note, above) have their generic locus provided for in this and the indented subclasses unless elsewhere classified. The apparatus of group (b) are classified either in the preceding subclasses of Class 29, particularly subclasses 33+, or in other appropriate classes on the basis of the shaping operation.

(6) Note. Generally, apparatus for the manufacture of a particular article which apparatus is peculiar to that manufacture will be found in the appropriate class directed to making of that article. Examples of such classes providing for the manufacture of a particular article are in the SEarch Notes below, referencing this (6) Note. SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:

1.01, through 91.8, providing for the manufacture of a particular article. See (6) Note above.

1.1+, for a process of or apparatus for arms making.

3, for a process of or apparatus for buckle assembling.

11, for a process of or apparatus for hinge assembling.

23.1, for apparatus for making a toothed cylinder.

23.51, for apparatus for impeller making.

25, for umbrella frame assembling.

33+, for a combined machine for performing both an assembling operation and a shaping operation. An operation done as part of an assembling operation is not considered to be combined i.e., upsetting a rivet to secure the rivet to a plate is not considered to be forging plus assembling, but rather simply assembling.

592+, for a method of assembling. Since Class 29, subclass 592, precedes this subclass 700 in the schedule, where both a process is claimed and apparatus for its practice is claimed, the process claim governs classification. Therefore, this subclass 700 has no original patents claiming the process of assembling.

401.1, for process of converting an article or apparatus to produce an article or apparatus of substantially different function, capacity, or type.

402.01+, for miscellaneous process of repair. 408+, for process of making or assembling a slide fastener.

426.1+, for process of disassembly.

428+, for process of associating or fastening, particularly subclasses 505+, for the process of joining by means of a

deforming operation to interlock the parts, subclass 525 for the process of joining by means of a driven force fit and subclass 526 for the process of joining by means of a separate fastener.

650, for a combined machine for performing both an assembling and some other nonmaterial shaping manufacturing operation.

SEE OR SEARCH CLASS

7, Compound Tools, for a miscellaneous combination of two or more hand tools usable in assembling or disassembling. The hand tool of Class 7 is of general utility; i.e., it is not limited to assembling only a certain restricted type of work parts.

12, Boot and Shoe Making, for boot or shoe assembling.

19, Textiles: Fiber Preparation.

26, Textiles: Cloth Finishing.

28, Textiles: Manufacturing.

33, Geometrical Instruments, particularly 501.05+, for a collocating gauge.

52, Static Structures (e.g., Buildings), particularly

111+, 122.1+, 127.1+, 143, and 155+ for a building or a building component with fixedly mounted means for handling, assembling, transporting, or installing.

53, Package Making, for the method of or apparatus for encompassing or encasing goods or materials with a separate cover or band which serves as means for identifying, protecting, or unit handling the goods or materials. The juxtaposing of a closure and receptacle, with or without securing, is also classified in Class 53. See particularly

331.5, for tightening or loosening of a screw-type closure by rotation in combination with before or after handling of the work and subclasses 317+ for assembling of a screw-type closure onto a receptacle. Included in this subclass 700 and the subclasses indented hereunder is the assembly of a work part within an encompassing work part for the assembly of a manufactured article; e.g., see subclasses 266.1+ for means for assembling film into a cassette to form a manufactured assembly, generally, especially see subclass 284.4 for inserting X-ray film into a special receptacle.

57, Textiles: Spinning, Twisting, and Twining, for apparatus for assembling a plurality of metal filaments to form a cable in the absence of metal working and see (9) Note of the Class Definition of Class 57 for the lines between Classes 29 and 57.

59, Chain, Staple, and Horseshoe Making,

7, for assembling or disassembling of sprocket chains including apparatus for removing a pin or a rivet. See (6) Note, above.

65, Glass Manufacturing.

66, Textiles: Knitting.

72, Metal Deforming, for deforming of a work part (without recognition of a second work part), particularly, 48+, for a tool couple adapted to fasten by pressing together surface portions of a single work member. See (5) Note, above.

75, Specialized Metallurgical Processes, Compositions for Use therein, Consolidated Metal Powder Compositions, and Loose Metal Particulate Mixtures,

401+, for treating multi-component metal-containing scrap having an integral substrate to separate metal therefrom..

76, Metal Tools and Implements, Making. See (6) Note above.

79, Button Making, for assembling button parts.

81, Tools, for a hand tool of general utility, or an assembling tool which structurally recognizes only one workpart.

86, Ammunition and Explosive-Charge Making, for the making, including assembling or disassembling, of an ammunition or explosive device.

87, Textiles: Braiding, Netting, and Lace Making, for means to braid a metallic cable, in the absence of metal working.

99, Foods and Beverages: Apparatus,

450.1+, for making an edible composite (e.g., sandwich, filled pie, etc.)

100, Presses, especially

78, for a press not elsewhere classified, having means to additionally wind material on a mandrel and means to pull or push a centrally located mandrel upon which the material has been wound from within the roll of material. 112, Sewing, for securing two workpieces by a filamentary thread.

114, Ships,

65+, for ship building and subclass 359 for a frame or former for assembling a boat hull.

118, Coating Apparatus, for means to apply a coating or modify a coating on work.

131, Tobacco, for cigar or cigarette manufacture.

137, Fluid Handling,

315+, for means to assemble a fluid system, especially, subclasses 317+ for assembling under pressure.

139, Textiles: Weaving, for interweaving a plurality of strands.

140, Wireworking, especially

3+, for means for or process of making metal fabric involving an operation other than those operations of the textile classes. For example, metal deforming while coiling the strands of a cable will be found in Class 140. See (6) Note, above.

144, Woodworking, especially 25, for box hooping.

147, Coopering, for wooden barrel, box, basket, or crate assembling.

156, Adhesive Bonding and Miscellaneous Chemical Manufacture, for securing parts together by nonmetallic adhesion including the combination with ancillary operation.

157, Wheelwright Machines, for process or apparatus for assembling a wheel.

162, Paper Making and Fiber Liberation.

164, Metal Founding, for means to mold metal onto a preform. See (5) Note, above.

166, Wells,

85.1+, for well head apparatus with assembly or disassembly means.

199, Type Casting, especially the various "assembling" subclasses.

204, Chemistry: Electrical and Wave Energy,

194+, for electrolytic apparatus, in general.

205, Electrolysis: Processes, Compositions Used Therein, and Methods of Preparing the Compositions,

80+, for a process of electrolytic coating, especially subclass 114 for united of two separate solid materials and subclass 115 for repairing.

219, Electric Heating, especially

78.02, 121.11+, 148, 603, 633, and 765 for electric heating for welding or soldering and subclasses 127 and 157 for electric riveting.

221, Article Dispensing, for an article dispenser (feeder) not otherwise provided for, and see the class definition of Class 221 for a statement of the class lines and for the disposition of related disclosures of article and strip feeding process or apparatus.

222, Dispensing, for means for discharging the contents of a receptacle or for material holder. See the notes to the definition of that class for the location of other art of that type.

223, Apparel Apparatus, particularly

48, for bead stringing and subclass 49 for assembling garment supporters.

227, Elongated-Member-Driving Apparatus, especially

19+, for combined apparatus for juxtaposing work parts and applying a fastening member, e.g., a nail or rivet, thereto. This subclass (700) includes apparatus for driving one member to pierce and thereby be fastened to another member if the driven member is not an "elongated member" as required for Class 227. Also, this subclass includes structure for fastening by use of an "elongated member" if no driving structure is claimed which would, if claimed, establish classification in Class 227.

228, Metal Fusion Bonding, for apparatus for or the method of joining metallic work parts by a metallurgical bond. See

19, for apparatus and subclass 125 for the method of removing applied solder. 242, Winding, Tensioning, or Guiding,

430+, for making an article by winding an elongated article directly onto a core.

254, Implements or Apparatus for Applying Pushing or Pulling Force, see paragraph 4 of the class definition of Class 254.

264, Plastic and Nonmetallic Article Shaping or Treating: Processes, see (5) Note, above.

269, Work Holders, for a device which holds plural parts in

desired spatial relationship while being joined or secured together, means for joining or securing not being claimed. The inclusion of claimed means to move work parts relatively to each other or means to guide the parts for such movement is a greater combination than is provided for in Class 269 and is properly classified in Class 29,

700,. Class 269 is the residual locus for a device for clamping, supporting, or holding an article (or articles) in position to be operated on or treated. See section VII under the class definition of Class 269.

270, Sheet-Material Associating, for bringing plural sheets of material in a particular array.

277, Seal for a Joint or Juncture, for a seal having an installation, removal, assembly, disassembly, or repair feature,

323, for a seal for well apparatus, subclasses 370+ for a relatively rotatable extending sealing face member (e.g., face, mechanical, etc.) subclass 421 for a close proximity labyrinth seal, subclass 435 for a piston ring, piston ring expander, or seat therefor, subclass 511 for a dynamic, circumferential, contact seal intended for containment or compression by a gland member in a packing box, subclass 551 for a dynamic peripheral radially sealing flexible projection (e.g., lip seal, etc.) for other than a piston, subclass 598 for a static contact seal for use between parts of an internal combustion engine, subclass 609 for a static, contact seal intended for insertion between an end to end pipe, conduit, or cable joint, or subclass 630 for a static, contact seal for other than an internal combustion engine, or a pipe, conduit, or cable.

294, Handling: Hand and Hoist-Line Implements,

86.4+, for a hand-or-hoist-line grapple. 412, Bookbinding: Process and Apparatus,

9+, for apparatus specialized for the manufacture of books, which may include assembling means.

413, Sheet Metal Container Making,

1+, for the a method of fabricating sheet metal cans. See (6) Note above.

414, Material or Article Handling,

788+, for apparatus for assembling articles in a particular relationship wherein the assembling comprises or facilitates handling rather than the production of a final product.

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

48, for a curing bag inserter, releaser, or remover in a tire vulcanizing apparatus; subclasses 78+ for means for molding powered metal including molding onto a preform and subclasses 110+ for means to mold plastic material onto a preform. See (5) Note, above.

434, Education and Demonstration,

302, and 369 for apparatus for use in teaching of the subject of mechanics and subclass 52 for apparatus for use in demonstrating manufacturing stages.

470, Threaded, Headed Fastener, or Washer Making: Process and Apparatus, 2+, for methods for assembling and disassembling a bolt with a nut or washer and subclasses 48+ for apparatuses for assembling or disassembling a bolt with a nut or washer and subclasses 164+ for a distributor or feeder for bolts, nuts, rivets, screws, or washers.

493, Manufacturing Container or Tube From Paper; or Other Manufacturing From a Sheet or Web, for making a product from a nonmetal sheet or web, generally, particularly

374+, for assembling nonmetal sheet or web workpieces; generally subclasses 88 for applying a bail to a box and for making a box combined with applying a bail thereto, 93+ for making a box and inserting a lining therein, 102+ for making a box and applying an end closure, 374+ for applying a reinforced washer to an opening in a tag, and 375+ for attaching a fastener pin or wire to a tag and for attaching a string to a tag.