.~.~ Accumulating work between successive tool stations
DEFINITION
Classification: 72/280
Accumulating work between successive tool stations:
(under subclass 278) Subject matter including means providing slack in moving work, or temporarily storing work, after it has passed one instrumentality and before it is deformed by an additional instrumentality.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
288, and 289, for a metal-deforming device having a single drum driven at a varying or uniform speed, respectively.