US PATENT SUBCLASS 57 / 3
.~ Covering or wrapping

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57 /   HD   TEXTILES: SPINNING, TWISTING, AND TWINING

1 R  DF  APPARATUS AND PROCESSES {45}
3.~ Covering or wrapping {10}
3.5  DF  .~.~> With core substitution
4  DF  .~.~> Hair, grass, quillstock or the like
5  DF  .~.~> With loose fibers
6  DF  .~.~> With other operations {3}
10  DF  .~.~> Stationary core type
11  DF  .~.~> Rotating core type
12  DF  .~.~> With twisting of core or product
13  DF  .~.~> With plural strands {3}
18  DF  .~.~> With coaxial covering material supply
19  DF  .~.~> With stopping or starting

DEFINITION

Classification: 57/3

Apparatus for winding one or more strands spirally about a core to form a strand of indefinite length.

(1) Note. For apparatus for covering wire by an operation other than spiral winding, such as, for example, by folding, see the Search Notes below.

SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:

21, for apparatus for forming endless bands by winding strands about a core.

22, and 23, for apparatus for splicing strands which may also include covering or wrapping operations.

24, for comparison with this subclass.

SEE OR SEARCH CLASS

28, Textiles: Manufacturing,

176, for apparatus for winding a thread spirally around a warp chain. 29, Metal Working,

202.5, for a cable wrapping device which "sets" the wrapping material by means other than the mere application, and see (1) Note thereunder.

53, Package Making, appropriate subclasses for methods of and apparatus for encompassing or encasing goods or materials with a separate cover or band which serves as means for identifying, protecting or unit handling the goods or materials, especially

203+, and subclasses 204 and 210+ indented thereunder for apparatus to wrap a contents to form a package.

156, Adhesive Bonding and Miscellaneous Chemical Manufacture, appropriate subclasses for laminating processes and apparatus and especially

51+, for covering electrical conductors of indefinite length, subclasses 169+ for processes of winding strands about a core, and subclasses 184+ for processes of winding a sheet or web about a core.

242, Winding, Tensioning, or Guiding,

434+, for ring winding and subclasses 430+ for forming an article by winding material onto a core.