US PATENT SUBCLASS 396 / 655
RETOUCHING
Current as of: June, 1999
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DEFINITION
Classification: 396/655
RETOUCHING:
(under the class definition) Subject matter including mechanical means for improving a photos:graphic surface by adding lines, stipples, etc.
(1) Note. Broadly claimed tools, per se, that are disclosed for multiple utility will be classified with the other art device; e.g., cleaning, abrading, coating, etc.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
, FOR 966+, for foreign art collections involving photos:graphic retouching.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS
401, Coating Implements With Material Supply, and the notes thereto in regard to manually manipulated devices for applying or spreading a coating on a work surface by movement of the device relative to the surface and contact therewith. Note especially section V of the definitions thereat.
433, Dentistry,
118+, for similar tools.