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Class Number: 112
Class Title: SEWING
Subclass Subclass
Number Title
400 PRODUCTS
401 .Uniplanar sectional web, sheet or layer
402 .Sewn web or sheet
403 ..Including decomposable thread or component
404 ..Including feathers, beads or reflective material
405 ..With longitudinally non-coextensive super-imposed panel or
sheet
406 ..Including external fastener sewn thereto
407 ...Hook and/or eye
408 ...Button
409 ..Fringed
410 ..Tufted or looped surface
411 ...With tufts or loops formed by floating strand-like portions
412 ..Of strands or strand portions joined by sewing
413 ..Elastic strand or component
414 ...Including non-planar component
415 ..Specific strand arrangement or relationship
416 ...Knitted, netted or knotted
417 ..With strip, strand or strand portion between layers or
components
418 ..With strip sewn in or over seam or over edge (e.g., welt or
stay)
419 ...Channel-shaped edge binding
420 ..Fibrous or particulate layer between other layers
421 ..Including component of varying thickness
422 ..Non-planar uniform-thickness material
423 ...Bent flange or reverse fold at edge
424 ....Including concealed or blind stitching
425 .....Overedge or along offset fold
426 ....Included in seam joining contiguous components
427 ...Pleated, tucked or shirred
428 ...Plural components
429 ..Filamentary material or strand-like tape sewn to surface
430 ...Interlooped floating strands or strand portions
431 ...Around aperture (e.g., buttonhole)
432 ...Connecting parallel straight lines of stitching
433 ....Included in overedge stitching
434 ....Uniting contiguous components
435 .....Plural intersecting float threads
436 ...Incorporated with or held by overedge stitching
437 ..Apertured or open-work (e.g., buttonhole)
438 ..Chain stitch
439 ..Ornamental stitching (e.g., embroidery)
440 ..United components
441 ...By stitching along edge
2 SPECIAL MACHINES
2.1 .Mattress sewing
2.2 ..Tufting
4 .Jacquard card sewing
6 .Broom sewing
7 .Carpet sewing
8 ..Clampss
9 .Rug sewing
10 .Bag sewing
11 .Sewing filled sacks
12 .Sewing hats
13 ..Work supports
14 ...Rotary
15 ..Guides and pages
16 .Glove and fur sewing
17 ..Dyeing feature
18 ..Work holding and feeding
19 ...Clamp
20 ..Guiding
21 .Book sewing
22 ..Knotting
23 .Straw braid
24 .Straw sewing
25 .Looped fabrics
26 ..Preparing
27 ..Work holding and feeding
28 .Leather sewing
..Shoe sole
29 ...Separating and indenting
30 ...Tack pulling
31 ...Fair stitch
32 ...Loop lock
33 ...Tongue lock
34 ...Chain stitch
35 ....Curved needle
36 ...Lock stitch
37 ....Curved needle
38 .....Oscillating and rotating shuttle
39 ...Back gauges and rests
40 ...Guards
41 ..Heating
42 ..Waxing
43 ..Lubricating and moistening
44 ..Welt slitting and beveling
45 ..Channeling
46 ..Welt handling
47 ..Feeding
48 ...Awl
49 ...Needle
50 ..Channel guides
51 ..Edge and crease guides
52 ..Welt guides
53 ..Chain stitch
54 ..Lock stitch
..Thread handling
55 ...Orbital-movement loopers
56 ...Cast-offs
57 ...Take-ups
58 ...Pull-offs
59 ...Tensions
60 ..Presser devices
61 ...Locking
62 ..Work supports
63 .Tube forming
64 .Fringe formingg
65 .Buttonhole
66 ..Eyelet making
67 ..Start and stop mechanism
68 ..Cutting
69 ..Thrum mechanism
70 ..Clamp feeding
71 ...With rotatable needle bar
72 ...Right line and rotary
73 ...Vibrating needle
74 ...Spreading
75 ...Gauging
76 ...Clamps
77 ...Attachments
78 .Embroidering
80.01 ..Tufting (replacing subclass 79)
80.02 ...Rooting hair in doll or wig
80.03 ...Hand implement
80.04 ....With power drive
80.05 ....Having hollow or channelled needle
80.06 ....Having non-eyed needle
80.07 ...Yarn manipulation by fluid flow
80.08 ....Having hollow needle
80.15 ...Dual sided
80.16 ...Including hollow or channelled needle
80.17 ...Including non-eyed needle
80.18 ...With condition responsive stop motion means
80.23 ...With optical, electronic, or magnetic pattern program
means
80.24 ....Having pattern drum
80.3 ...With specific fabric supporting, manipulating, cutting,
or treating means
80.31 ....Means to shift fabric laterally of feed
80.32 ....Means to feed fabric
80.33 ....Fabric vertically moveable at tufting position
80.4 ...Including specific needle supporting or manipulating
means
80.41 ....Means to shift needle laterally of fabric feed
80.42 ....Means to vertically adjust stroke
80.43 ....Means to selectively drive one of plural needles
80.44 ....Means to disconnect needle and drive
80.45 ....Supporting structure
80.5 ...Including specific loop catcher
80.51 ....Bill with clip or gate
80.52 ....Plural loop catchers having different shapes or
orientations
80.53 .....Stationary relative to one another
80.54 ....Variable height loops
80.55 ....With loop cutting means
80.56 .....Selective cutting means
80.57 .....Rotary cutter
80.58 .....Knife pivots on loop catcher
80.59 .....Cutting means stationary relative to loop catcher
80.6 .....Including supporting structure (e.g., knife block)
80.7 ...Including specific yarn manipulating, cutting, or
treating means
80.71 ....Cutting or treating means
80.72 ....Feed via intermeshing slats
80.73 ....Feed rollerr
81 ..Hemstitch
82 ...Universal feed
83 ..Horizontal needle
84 ...Pattern controlled
85 ....Boring
86 ....Fabric shifting
87 ...Stopping
88 ...Article attaching
89 ...Boring
90 ...Fabric shifting
91 ....Balancing
92 ....Spring
93 ...Stitch forming
94 ....Short thread
95 ....Shuttle type
96 ....Thread take-up
97 ....Thread tension
98 ..Vertical needle
99 ...Attaching ornaments
100 ....Thread
101 .....Attachments
102 ...Fabric shifting
103 ....Frames
104 .Article attaching
105 ..Hook and eye
106 ...Feeding
107 ...Carriers
108 ..Eye-shank button
109 ...Vibrating needle
110 ..Flat button
111 ...Vibrated needle
112 ...Vibrated clamp
113 ..Feeding
114 ..Clamps
115 ..Attachments
116 .Crocheting
117 .Quilting
118 ..Fabric shifting
119 ...Frames
120 .Infolding
121 .Darning
121.11 .Pattern controlled or programmed
121.12 ..Work carrier and support
121.13 .Stitch control
121.14 .Traveling
121.15 .Work carrier and support
121.16 .Tuft making
121.17 .Feather sewing
121.18 .Spiral feed
121.19 .Stringing
121.2 .Lacing or whipping, e.g., covering rings
121.21 .Sewing hemp-sole shoes
121.22 .Neckties
121.23 .Upholstery
121.24 .Circular line of stitch
121.25 .Stitch marking
121.26 .Fabric tensioning
121.27 .Elongated articles, e.g., belt, waistband and belt loopp
121.28 .Spherical object, e.g., baseball cover sewing
121.29 .Completed-work handling
* WORK MANIPULATING
122 .Trimmers
122.1 ..Having specified stitching mechanism
122.2 ...Pinker
122.3 ..Rotary cutter
122.4 ...Pinker
125 ..Manual control
126 ..Laterally adjustable
127 ..Ply separating
128 ..Needle-bar operated
129 ..Cutters
130 .Severing
131 .Creasers and markers
132 .Rufflers and gatherers
133 ..Smocking
134 ..Attachments
135 ...Vibrating blade
136 .Guides
137 ..Binders
138 ...Strip reversing
139 ..Braiders and corders
140 ..Blind stitch
141 ..Hemmers
142 ...Lap seam
143 ...Adjustable
144 ..Tucking
145 ...Box plait
146 ...Spacing
147 ..Folding
148 ..Fabric holding
149 ..Fringe turning
150 ..Pressure
151 ..Presser bar attached
152 ..Strip
153 ..Edge
154 STITCH FORMING
155 .Multiple machines
156 .Knot tying
157 .Zigzag
443 ..Vibrating needle
159 ...Shifting looper
444 ...Having indicator
445 ....And specified electronic memory
446 ...Closed pattern sewing (e.g., buttonhole)
447 ....Including electronic memory
448 ....Having cam actuation of needle or material feed
449 .....And means to change, without operator intervention, stitch
width or material feed
450 ...Basting stitch or skipping stitch
451 ...Backstitch
452 ...Having multiple needles
453 ...Having electronic memory
454 ....Plural diverse patterns in series
455 ....Having computer control of linkage intermediate motor and
needle or material feed
456 ....Including means to calculate needle or material feedd
parameters
457 ....Including programmable or detachable memory
458 ....Including pattern selection means
459 ...Having cam actuation of needle or material feed
460 ....Including detachable cam
461 ....And specified material feed
462 .....And fine adjustment of stitch width or material feed
463 .....And plural, selectively used cams
464 ....Including fine adjustment of stitch width
465 ....Including plural, selectively used cams
466 .....And plural followers
467 ...Having specified looptaker structure
160 ..Surging
161 ..Purling
162 .Overseaming
163 .Multiple needle
164 ..Shuttle type
165 ..Chain and double chain
166 ...Multiple looper
167 ..Adjustable
168 .Convertible
169 .Hand implements
170 .Short thread
171 ..Double-pointed needle
172 ..Overedge
173 .Running stitch
174 ..Crimping
175 ..Stationary needle
176 .Blind stitch
177 ..Overseaming
178 ..Work handling
179 .False hemstitch
180 .Bobbin ejector
181 .Revolving-hook type
182 ..Timing
183 ..Reciprocating bobbin
184 ..Vertical axis
185 .Shuttle type
186 ..Shuttle replenishing
187 ..Loop spreaders
188 ..Bobbin latch
189 ..Rotary
190 ...Timing
191 ...Vertical axis
192 ..Oscillatory
193 ...Vertical axis
194 ..Reciprocatory
195 ...Longitudinal
196 ..Holders and raceways
197 .Chain or double chain
198 ..Hooked needle
199 ..Oscillating or reciprocating looper
200 ..Four-motion looper
201 ..Rotating looper
202 ..Vertical-axis looper
303 .Feeding work material
304 ..By endless conveyor
305 ..Under tensionn
306 ..Having means to align work
307 ..Work of indeterminate length
308 ..Having curvate feature
309 ...Capable of feeding through 360 degrees
310 ..Needle and helper
311 ..Clamp type
312 ..Plural differential feed means
313 ...Having adjustment feature
314 ..Having adjustment feature
315 ...Stitch length
316 ....Reversible feed direction
317 ...Reversible feed direction
318 ...Rotary feed
319 ...Intermittent feed
320 ..Engaging upper side of work material
321 ...Needle acts as feed means
322 ..Rotary feed
323 ..Four motion feed
324 ..Feed dog structure
217 .Seam finishing
217.1 WITH TABLES OR STANDS
217.2 .For plural sewing units
217.3 .With power control or clutch
217.4 ..Conversion of foot-treadle driven machine
270 ELEMENTS
271 .Starting or stopping
272 ..Work sensing
273 ..Thread sensing
274 ..With element positioning
275 ...Electrically operated
276 ..Fluid operated or controlled
277 ..Electrically operated or controlled
278 .Thread sensing
279 .Bobbin winding
280 .Cooling
281 ..Needle
282 .Waste extraction
283 .Fly wheels
284 .Linkage systems
220 .Driving mechanisms
221 ..Needle
222 .Needles
223 ..Thread releasing
224 ..Threading structure
225 ..Setting and threading attachments
226 ..Clamping
227 ..Guiding
228 .Revolving hooks
229 ..Bobbin tensioning
230 ..Sectional
231 ..Bobbin holders and casings
232 .Shuttles
233 ..Tensioning
234 ..Longitudinally reciprocating
235 .Presser devices
236 ..Embroidering and darning
237 ..Lifting
238 ...With tension releasee
239 ...Automatic
240 ..Detachable connections
241 .Take-ups
242 ..Pull-offs
243 ...Automatic control
244 ..Presser-bar controlled
245 ..Needle-bar actuated
246 ..Adjustable
247 ..Resilient
248 ..Rotary
249 ..Stationary cam
250 ..Clamp carrying
285 .Thread cutting, severing or breaking
286 ..With thread wiping
287 ..With thread disposal by air flow
288 ..Thread chain
289 ..Rotary type
290 ..Hot wire type
291 ..Upper and lower threads
292 ...Single cutter
293 ..Upper thread
294 ...Scissors type
295 ...Single blade cutter
296 ..Lower thread
297 ...Scissors type
298 ...Single blade cutter
299 ..Manual control
300 ..Electrically actuated
301 ..Fluid actuated
253 .Thread end clamps
302 .Thread guiding or handling
254 .Tensioning
255 ..Intermittent
256 .Lubricating
257 .Attachment holders
258 .Frames
259 ..Heads
260 ..Work supports
261 .Guards
262.1 METHODS
262.2 .Tubelike workpiece, e.g., hosiery, necktie, etc.
262.3 .Workpiece manipulated by mechanical means, other than
straight-line feeding
263.1 .Headwear sewing
264.1 .Buttonhole or eyelet forming
265.1 .Article attaching
265.2 ..Slide fastener or zipper tapes
266.1 .Ornamental stitching
266.2 ..Pilelike fabric forming, e.g., tufting
267.1 .Blind stitch forming
268.1 ..Overedge
269.1 .Overedge
1 MISCELLANEOUS
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* DIGESTS
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DIG 1 Suction thread cutting
DIG 2 Air work handlingg
DIG 3 Pneumatic