(under subclass 60) Apparatus having means to (1) restore or recondition an inoperative electric lamp or electric space discharge device to its functional, stable or working condition; (2) alter or modify an electric lamp or electric space discharge device to produce a lamp or device of substantially different capacity, size, function or type of operation; or (3) recover or reclaim a portion of an electric lamp or electric space discharge that would otherwise be discarded.
(1) Note. The apparatus in this subclass is limited by some claimed subject matter to use in repairing or salvaging a discharge device or lamp and is not merely apparatus of general utility which is disclosed as being useful in such repair or salvage.
(2) Note. Class 269 is the residual locus for patents to a device for clamping, supporting and/or holding an article (or articles) in position to be operated on or treated. See notes thereunder for other related loci.
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29, Metal Working, appropriate subclasses, note especially
762+, for means to disassembly miscellaneous electrical devices.
65, Glass Manufacturing,
286+, for apparatus for reshaping a glass preform.
118, Coating Apparatus, appropriate subclasses, for coating apparatus, per se.
204, Chemistry: Electrical and Wave Energy, appropriate subclasses, for electrolytic coating apparatus and cathode sputtering coating apparatus.
313, Electric Lamp and Discharge Devices,
236, for electric lamps and electric space discharge devices which are provided with a spare electrode, and subclass 237 for electric lamps and discharge devices which are provided with means so that an electrode can be readily replaced or which have the discharge device especially designed to be readily disassembled, and subclass 314 for electric lamps and discharge devices which are especially designed to be nonrepairable.
