.~ Treating an article, container, batch or body as a unit {3}
10
.~.~ Localized treating or shielding of work area
DEFINITION
Classification: 432/10
(under subclass 9) Process in which heating, cooling or other treatment is concentrated on a section of the entity; or a section of the entity is shielded from heating, cooling or other treatment.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
62, for a heater having a mask, baffle, or conductor concentrating heat on, or protecting a section of an article.
123, for a work handler outside a heating chamber supporting work partially within the chamber.
184, for a heating chamber having an opening through which an article is partially inserted into the chamber to be heated.
225, for a heat applicator mounted on or assembled about a work article.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS 53, Package Making,
477, for a process involving closing a package and heat sealing it at a localized area.
83, Cutting,
16, for a cutting process having an ancillary heating of a localized area.
148, Metal Treatment, particularly
194+, for processes of chemical heat-removing (e.g., flame-cutting, etc.) or burning of metal, subclasses 210+ for processes of carburizing or nitriding of a selected area or zone of metal, or subclass 627 and subclasses 639-644 for localized or zone heating of iron base alloys.
