(under the class definition) Cabinet structure including structure particularly configured for supporting a piece, roll, or stack of sheet material.
(1) Note. Particular housing of a roll with a nominal recitation of an axially supported roll holder (e.g., spindle, spool, etc.,) or mounting structure therefore, without a means to particularly facilitate winding or unwinding (e.g., particular relationship between the roll holder and the housing, particular roll drive means, feeding mechanism, winding or unwinding mechanisms, etc.) is classified in Class 312.
Particular housing that peripherally supports a roll, without recitation of a means to particularly facilitate winding or unwinding (e.g., particular relationship between the roll support and the housing, particular roll drive means, feeding mechanism, winding and unwinding mechanism, etc.) is classified here in Class 312. Class 312 takes particular housing with nominal recitation of a drive means (e.g., cranking means, feeding means, etc.). See search notes refer to Class 242 below.
Exception to the above notes: Class 312 will take housing of a continuous reusable type of towel (usually made of cloth) wherein the housing sometimes includes details of an axially supported roll holder, or mounting structure therefore, or details of a means to facilitate winding or unwinding (e.g., particular relationship between the roll support and the housing, a roll drive means, winding or unwinding mechanism, etc.). This type of housing usually includes a means to store the solided portion of the towel (e.g., a take-up roll, a storing compartment, etc.).
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS
4, Baths, Closets, Sinks, and Spittoons,
243.3, for a continuous roll of flat covers.
83, Cutting, appropriate subclasses for movable cutting means for sheet material.
206, Special Receptacle or Package,
389+, for container or wrapper for coiled or wound material with or without support structure wherein the coiling or winding is disclosed as performed while said material is disassociated from encompassing container or wrapper. The term "disassociated" indicates that there is a destruction of wrapper, package, cover material retainer structure in order to wind or unwind material, subclasses 39+ for special receptacle for ticket, subclass 233 for special receptacle wherein one of the contents is a roll or thin sheets to be removed one at a time, subclasses 225+ for special receptacle wherein one of the contents is a sheet or roll.
211, Supports: Racks,
135, or 45+ for support or shelf-type support of sheet or textile sheet material, subclasses 6 and 16 for towel service type racks, per se.
221, Article Dispensing,
33+, for napkin holders, subclass 25 for progressively destroyed cellular magazine type supply source, subclasses 70+ for rolled or folded web type magazine, subclasses 282+ for article dispensing with a casing or support which is not otherwise provided for. Class 221 does not take apparatus which forms articles by cutting them from a continuous strip. Class 221 will take cabinet serving as or source of supply for discrete articles combined with means to eject or release such articles (dispensing means), without regard to the presence or absence of cabinet structure.
225, Severing by Tearing or Breaking, appropriate subclasses for devices or processes accomplishing manual severing of indefinite or fixed length material wherein a static blade having a severing edge is provided.
226, Advancing Material of Indeterminate Length, appropriate subclasses for methods of and apparatus for, feeding material without utilizing the leading edge or trailing ends to effect movement of the material,
127+, for dispenser, subclass 188 for means to advance material, subclasses 135 and 136 for means to select or adjust increments of advance material. Class 226 will take an original patent claiming means for positively moving an indeterminate length strip provided that the supply roll and its mounting is not specially recited. A patent claiming a device wherein the strip is directly grasp to pull the strip out of the cabinet, will be placed as an original in Class 312.
232, Deposit and Collection Receptacles, 18, for ticket registers and recorders.
242, Winding, Tensioning, or Guiding,
550+, and 590+ for dispensing elongated material from a coil.
271, Sheet Feeding or Delivering, appropriate subclasses for sheet feeding means, per se, when not necessarily reeling or unreeling.
