.~> Responsive to condition of work or product {1}
DEFINITION
Classification: 72/1
WITH RANDOMLY ACTUATED STOPPING:
(under the class definition) Subject matter comprising apparatus including, or method employing, means capable of bringing to a halt any or all of the moving parts of a metal-deforming instrumentality, such means acting in response to a condition or signal or impulse whose time of occurrence cannot be predicted.
(1) Note. Disclosure of a machine capable of stopping will not be placed here as an original unless a claim particularly recites such stopping as a result of an unplanned or unpredictable occurrence.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
14.3, and 21.3, for a disclosure wherein a machine, or a part thereof, stops in response to a tool sensor.
30.1+, for a disclosure wherein a machine, or a part thereof, stops when an intended operation has been completed, and see (1) Note above.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS
83, Cutting,
58, for stopping means in a cutting machine, wherein the stopping means, per se, is similar to those of this and indented subclasses. 192, Clutches and Power-Stop Control, for stopping means in general; and
134, for stopping of a machine responsive to part of an operative's body.
234, Selective Cutting (e.g., Punching),
30, for selective cutting means provided with randomly actuated stopping means.
