US PATENT SUBCLASS 81 / 9.2
STYLUS
Current as of: June, 1999
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DEFINITION
Classification: 81/9.2
(under the class definition) Tool adapted to be drawn across the surface of a sheet of material to produce indicia (e.g., by an indenting or manifolding operation) on that surface or any underlying surface, without depositing any coating material on that surface and without cutting or scratching hat surface.
(1) Note. The implement may be a stencilling tool; i.e., one which displaces lines of wax coating on a stencil.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS
30, Cutlery,
358+, for a perforating or indenting implement (e.g., scratch awl).
33, Geometrical Instruments, 18+, for the combination of an awl or scriber with means to guide the tool along a predetermined path to form a line.
101, Printing,
26, for a piercing and printing machine.
401, Coating Implements With Material Supply,
208+, for an implement with material supply, the tool of which implement is a roller (e.g., ball in indented subclasses 209+) which deposits coating material onto the surface to which is applied; and subclasses 258+ and 292 for a similar implement whose tool is a stylus or is stylus-like.
