US PATENT SUBCLASS 427 / 255.24
.~.~ Fiber or fibrous web or sheet base (e.g., strand, filament, fabric, cloth, etc.)

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427 /   HD   COATING PROCESSES

248.1  DF  COATING BY VAPOR, GAS, OR SMOKE {9}
255.23  DF  .~ Mixture of vapors or gases (e.g., deposition gas and inert gas, inert gas and reactive gas, two or more reactive gases, etc.) utilized {5}
255.24.~.~ Fiber or fibrous web or sheet base (e.g., strand, filament, fabric, cloth, etc.)

DEFINITION

Classification: 427/255.24

Fiber or fibrous web or sheet base (e.g., strand, filament, fabric, cloth, etc.):

(under subclass 255.23) Process wherein the coated base is a fiber, strand, filament or fiber containing web or sheet.

(1) Note. A fiber is considered to be a relatively short,

slender, flexible element of macroscopic size and finite length and having a width and thickness of the same order of magnitude. A fiber is generally of staple length to facilitate its being spun, twisted or otherwise secured together into a composite strand but may be of shorter length requiring bonding, felting or matting to form a strand or layer. It may be of animal (e.g., wool, rabbit hair, etc.), vegetable (e.g., cotton, jute, hemp, etc.), or mineral (e.g., asbestos, glass, metal, etc.) origin and may be natural, modified, or synthetic.

(2) Note. A strand is considered to be a relatively slender and flexible element having a width and thickness of the same order of magnitude and a length which is either (a) indeterminate or (b) coextensive with the length or width of a sheet or layer with which it may be associated. A strand may be a monofilament or it may include either a plurality of filaments or fibers disposed in parallelism (e.g., tow, etc.) or constituent fibers and/or filaments knitted, plaited, braided, twisted, interlaced, interlocked, or otherwise secured together to form a unit such as roving, thread, yarn, cord, rope, or cable.

(3) Note. A filament is considered to be a fine threadlike body or structure whose width and thickness are of the same order of magnitude.

(4) Note. A fibrous web is considered to be a sheet of random or organized fibers having length and width each greater than its thickness and with at least its longitudinal dimension indeterminate.

(5) Note. A fabric is considered to be a web, sheet or film used in the manufacture of household furnishings (e.g., draperies, upholstery, etc.) and roofing, clothing, tires, etc. and is generally claimed as a textile, cloth or fabric.