(under the class definition) Subject matter comprising means, or a method of using means, which includes a cable, a strap, or series of articulated links which engages and surrounds the major portion of the so-engaged periphery of work and, when placed under tension, applies deforming force to the work.
(1) Note. For placement in this subclass, the band or chain must encircle more than half the periphery of the workpiece (the remainder may be engaged by a fixed die or support); if the flexible tool means engages less than half the periphery of the work, it is regarded as a "yieldable-face" tool, for subclasses 396+, such tools requiring an opposed face
coacting tool to effect compression or crushing of work.
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54+, for a compression of work by surrounding fluent medium.
396+, for a tool having a flexible or yieldable face portion opposed by another tool, and see (1) Note above.
402, for a plurality of tools concurrently movable radially inwardly against work.
465.1+, for a flexible or yieldable tool, per se. SEE OR SEARCH CLASS
100, Presses,
1+, for process or apparatus for tautening a binder about material to compress it.
