US PATENT SUBCLASS 445 / 66
.~ Assembly means

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445 /   HD   ELECTRIC LAMP OR SPACE DISCHARGE COMPONENT OR DEVICE MANUFACTURING

60  DF  APPARATUS {7}
66.~ Assembly means {4}
67  DF  .~.~> Having electrode positioning or assembly means {1}
69  DF  .~.~> Having means to manipulate lead wire, lamp base or terminal
70  DF  .~.~> Having evacuation or degasification means or means to introduce gas, vapor, liquid or solid treating agent
71  DF  .~.~> With turret means

DEFINITION

Classification: 445/66

Assembly means:

(under subclass 60) Apparatus including means for associating, juxtaposing or putting together, with or without securing, a plurality of self-sustaining preforms in a nontransitory arrangement.

(1) Note. Merely stacking, moving, or otherwise arranging preforms to effect or facilitate transportation, per se, is not considered an assembly operation.

(2) Note. Work holders are usually classified with the apparatus for performing the operation. Miscellaneous work holders for assembly operations are in Class 269, Work Holders.

SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:

23+, for methods including assembly. See also the search notes thereto.

SEE OR SEARCH CLASS

29, Metal Working,

729+, for an assembly apparatus for manufacturing miscellaneous electrical devices.

65, Glass Manufacturing,

152+, for glass fusion bonding means.

156, Adhesive Bonding and Miscellaneous Chemical Manufacture,

349+, for surface bonding means and/or assembly means therefor, note especially subclass 424 for apparatus for assembling and bonding an electric lamp or space discharge device envelope to its base.

227, Elongated-Member-Driving Apparatus. appropriate subclasses, for apparatus for driving a member such as a rivet into work, and particularly

51+, for combined apparatus for driving and heading such member.

228, Metal Fusion Bonding, appropriate subclasses, for joining of work portions by solder, welding or brazing.