US PATENT CLASS 66
Class Notes
Current as of: June, 1999
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DEFINITION
Classification: 66/
The manufacture of fabric structures from strands by forming loops and drawing the bights thereof through previously-formed loops.
(1) Note. The class includes articles and products involving any significant step of knitting and articles peculiarly adapted to be produced by significant knitting steps even when the production of such articles includes or involves subsequent operations, as sewing or cutting, to complete them.
(2) Note. Certain parts of knitting machines have been regarded as elements and have been placed after the "Machine" subclasses of this class. See Subclass References to this Class, below, for specific subclasses.
LINES WITH OTHER CLASSES
For combined knitting and weaving, see Class 139, Textiles: Weaving, subclasses 1 and 383.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
90, 114, 116, 125, 147, 157, 168, and 231+, and indented subclasses, for certain parts of knitting machines that have been regarded as elements and have been placed after the "Machine" subclasses of this class.