(under subclass 202) Device including separate feed means for advancing two or more lines of web or stock material, or successions of workpieces along different routes to the same tool or to different tools.
(1) Note. This does not include separate rolls or belts or sectionalized rolls on common shafts, which feed work in the same general plane or along converging or diverging paths.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
256, for work being fed in different directions to and between a plurality of tools for sequential operations by said tools on the same general areas of the work.