(under subclass 544) Subject matter of overall indeterminate shape having as its only continuum, network of flexible, narrow elongated constituents, usually intertangled or interengaged.
(1) Note. See the main class definition, section VI, C, 2, a and VI, C, 2, b for the locus of patents to fibrous materials having an ordered interengagement of fibers, e.g., metal textiles, etc.
(2) Note. Patents classified herein are not cross-referenced to subclass 606.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
606, for individual filaments smaller than 6 mils.
608, 611 and 614, for metallic webs or sheets having other continual and containing fibers. SEE OR SEARCH CLASS
15, Brushing, Scrubbing, and General Cleaning,
209, for steel-wool implements of that class.
29, Metal Working,
415, for apparatus and processes for manufacturing metal wool.
267, Spring Devices,
147, for a device of that class comprising compressed wire mesh, and subclass 148 for a device comprising a fibrous metallic body.
