US PATENT SUBCLASS 30 / 169
.~ Scrapers
Current as of: June, 1999
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DEFINITION
Classification: 30/169
(under subclass 165) Cutting tools in which the blade edge or the blade edges are so formed and so related to the handle that the tool is especially adapted to be moved over a single surface and/or a plurality of adjacent or contiguous surfaces to remove material from such surface or surfaces by a scraping action of the edge or edges of the tool.
(1) Note. Cutting tools having a more general cutting function will be found in the structure subclasses of this class, even though called scrapers.
(2) Note. Cutting tools with single movable blades, even though called "scrapers", will be found in this class, subclasses 272.1+.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
136, for scrapers with means to catch the material, and subclasses 329+ for holders for detachable scraping blades.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS
7, Compound Tools, 124, for a scraper, used for erasing, combined with a burnishing tool which restores the disturbed area to smooth condition.
15, Brushing, Scrubbing, and General Cleaning, appropriate subclass, under
104.001+, for special scraping implements and for scrapers combined with other general cleaning implements, and subclass 236.01 for scraping tools for a general cleaning purpose.
425, Plastic Article or Earthenware Shaping or Treating: Apparatus,
458, for a putty-type knife compressing a hand movable, substrate traversing, plural dimension shaping means.
452, Butchering,
102+, for scraping implements specialized for use in the butchering art.
