US PATENT SUBCLASS 8 / 127
.~.~.~ Wetting addition or pretreatment

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8 /   HD   BLEACHING AND DYEING; FLUID TREATMENT AND CHEMICAL MODIFICATION OF TEXTILES AND FIBERS

115.51  DF  CHEMICAL MODIFICATION OF TEXTILES OR FIBERS OR PRODUCTS THEREOF {7}
116.1  DF  .~ Cellulose fibers {8}
125  DF  .~.~ Mercerizing or alkaline treatment {1}
127.~.~.~ Wetting addition or pretreatment

DEFINITION

Classification: 8/127

(under subclass 125) Inventions wherein the textile material is pretreated with an agent to increase the wetting or penetrating capacity of the mercerizing or alkaline liquor, or such an agent is added to the mercerizing or alkaline bath.

SEE OR SEARCH CLASS

516, Colloid Systems and Wetting Agents; Subcombinations Thereof; Processes of Making, Stabilizing, Breaking, or Inhibiting,

198+, for wetting agents (e.g., spreading, penetrating, leveling) or making such agents, when generically claimed or when there is no hierarchically superior provision in the USPC for the specifically claimed art.