(under the class definition) Structure comprising a rigid material retainer*, e.g., form-sustaining, elongate rod members, as opposed to chain links, articulatively or angularly joined to one another at their ends to pass over and to encompass a load unit in tight encirclement thereof.
(1) Note. 270 encompassment against a planar freight carrier surface is adequate for this subclass definition. [figure]
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97+, for chain means for flexibly encircling lading or for the combination of flexible and rigid wraparound members, in either case to constitute a flexible (retainer)* (wraparound)*.
