(under the class definition) Apparatus for creating or generating the cover material into a sheet or sheet-like form.
(1) Note. The generation of a thin tubular stock material is considered to be the production of a sheet-like form and will be found here.
(2) Note. The casting or molding of discrete container-like elements, even though the walls are relatively thin, and which elements are later filled and closed, is not considered to be the production of a sheet-like form, such apparatus being classified in Class 425, Plastic Article or Earthenware Shaping or Treating: Apparatus.
(3) Note. The mere formation of a thin enclosing cover upon an article by a coating operation, e.g., by spraying or immersion is found in Class 118, Coating Apparatus, appropriate subclasses and in the special case where the enclosed material is in the form of a liquid which is coated by immersion, the apparatus will be classified in Class 425, Plastic Article or Earthenware Shaping or Treating: Apparatus, subclass 5.
(4) Note. The encapsulating of liquid by extrusion of both a drop and encapsulating material from a nozzle and hardening the composite drop as formed will be found in Class 264, Plastic and Nonmetallic Article Shaping or Treating: Processes, appropriate subclasses, particularly subclass 4.
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118, Coating Apparatus, and see (3) Note above. 264, Plastic and Nonmetallic Article Shaping or Treating: Processes, and see (4) Note above.
