PTO Manual of Classification for US patents

PTO Manual of Classification for US patents

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Class Number: 226
 Class Title: ADVANCING MATERIAL OF INDETERMINATE LENGTH

Subclass  Subclass
Number    Title

  1       PROCESSES
  2       .Involving registration of material
  3       ..Involving lateral registration
  4       .Involving plural feeding means
  5       .Involving stripping from conveyer
  6       .By engaging material modifications
  7       .By fluid current
  8       .Intermittently or interruptedly
  9       CONTROL MEANS RESPONSIVE TO INDICIA CARRIED BY AUXILIARY RECORD
           (E.G., TAPE OR CARD)
  10      WITH MATERIAL-RESPONSIVE CONTROL MEANS
  11      .Responsive to break or depletion
  12      .For threading device
  13      .For flywheel
  14      .For festooner
  15      .To position material laterally
  16      ..With control of longitudinal movement
  17      ..By roller pair engaging web margin
  18      ..By shiftable material support
  19      ...Laterally movable support
  20      ....Responsive to photocell detection
  21      ...Pivotally mounted roller
  22      ....Responsive to pneumatic detection
  23      ....Responsive to material-contacting element
  24      .To regulate longitudinal movement of material
  25      ..Responsive to overload
  26      ..Responsive to weight of accumulation
  27      ..Registration
  28      ...Of continuously moving material
  29      ....By means to vary speed of material momentarily
  30      .....By means to vary speed of feed roll
  31      ......By ancillary power source
  32      ...By means to change feeding movement of intermittent feed
              stroke
  33      ...By means to discontinue movement of material
  34      ..By means to vary engagement of feed means with material
  35      ...Feed means moved out of engaging position
  36      ..By ancillary feed means
  37      ..By disconnectable connection in drive train
  38      ..By means to retard material movement
  39      ...By material contact
  40      ..By variable-ratio transmission
  41      ...Coaxially shiftable pulley cones
  42      ..By variable speed power source
  43      ...To stop and/or start movement of material
  44      ..Responsive to dancer detector
  45      .Detector means
  46      WITH INTERLOCK MEANS
  47      .And means to initiate operation of part
  48      WITH RANDOMLY ACTUATED STOPPING MEANS
  49      SELECTIVELY REVERSIBLE MATERIAL MOVER
  50      .By optional moving meanss
  51      .By optional drive trains
  52      MEANS TO ENGAGE LONGITUDINALLY SPACED MODIFICATIONS IN MATERIAL
  53      .Such means produces the modifications
  54      .Alternately selectable prongs
  55      .Prong operable intermittently to prevent longitudinal material
            movement (e.g., registration pins)
  56      ..With means to disable restraining operation of prong
  57      ..With positive actuator to project and to retract prong
  58      ..With resilient means to urge prong toward material
  59      .With additional means to restrict material movement
  60      ..Fluctuation damping means
  61      ...By flywheel
  62      .Reciprocating or oscillating claw or finger
  63      ..Serial sequentially operated claws
  64      ..With means to change path or extent of claw movement
  65      ...Range changer
  66      ....To stop material movement
  67      ..On longitudinally reciprocated carrier
  68      ...Claw pivotable on carrier
  69      ..On two rotated carriers
  70      ..On carrier pivoted about a fixed axis
  71      ...Claw pivotable on carrier
  72      ...Claw radially slidable on carrier
  73      ..Claw slides on and pivots about fixed stud
  74      .Pins on flexible belt or chain
  75      ..With means to effect supplementary pin movement
  76      .Rotating sprocket (e.g., pin-wheel)
  77      ..For concatenated material
  78      ..Circumferentially opposite pins engage looped material
  79      ..With laterally adjustable sprocket(s)
  80      ..With means to disengage material from prong(s)
  81      ...By supplementary movement of prong(s)
  82      ..With means to retain material on prong(s)
  83      ...Retainer and sprocket relatively displaceable
  84      ....Roller retainer
  85      ...Roller retainer
  86      ..With additional means to support material
  87      .Including detail of prong shape or construction
  88      WITH MEANS TO TEMPORARILY DEFORM MATERIAL LATERALLY (E.G., FOR
           STIFFENING)
  89      SHIFTABLE PART ALLOWING HAND LOADING
  90      .With shiftable roller
  91      THREADING DEVICE
  92      .With means to pull lead-end
  93      WITH ADHERENCE OR ATTRACTION OF MATERIAL TO ADVANCING MEANS
  94      .By electrostatic force
  95      .By pneumatic pressure
  96      .By adhesive nature of material
  97      BY FLUID CURRENT
  100     WITH ALARM, SIGNAL, OR INDICATOR
  101     CONVERTIBLE
  102     COMBINED
  104     BY FESTOONER
  105     .With means to shift girt with respect to festoon and conveyer
  106     .With means to hold material on girt
  107     .With means to feed girt to conveyer
  108     PLURAL MATERIAL-MOVING MEANS
  109     .With plural paths for materiall
  110     ..Alternately usable
  111     .With means to independently vary mover speed
  112     .Continuous feed from serial sequentially operated feeders
  113     .With bight former
  114     ..With pivotal former-support
  115     .With intermittent material-mover
  116     ..Including auxiliary material-mover for starting
  117     ..And continuous material-mover
  118     .With intermediate storage
  119     ..By means to direct material in sinuous path
  120     BY INTERMITTENT (INTERRUPTED) MATERIAL-MOVER
  121     .Stored material-movement-derived energy provides moving force
  122     .With means varying the material speed during movement
  123     .Cyclical unequal movements
  124     .Comprising constantly rotated roll on reciprocating or
            oscillating carrier
  125     .Including material abutment
  126     ..Movable with material
  127     .Manual material-mover (e.g., dispenser)
  128     ..With means to clamp material during dwell
  129     ..With means to limit increment of advance
  130     ...With means to disable operation of limit means
  131     ....Time-controlled
  132     ...Plural selectable limit means
  133     ...With means to adjust limit means
  134     .Unicyclic mover
  135     ..Plural means to select increments of advance
  136     ..With means to adjust increment
  137     .Adjustable feeder
  138     ..Operative-controlled, machine-powered adjustment
  139     ..Adjustable feed increment
  140     ...By means to vary material-engagement of recessed roll
  141     ...By means to change length of feeder travel
  142     ....Comprising variable-throw crank
  143     .With means to effect feed and retrograde movement
  144     .With overtravel preventer
  145     ..Intermittently acting
  146     ..And retrograde movement preventer
  147     .With retrograde movement preventer
  148     ..Unidirectionally rotating roll
  149     ..Positively actuated to grip
  150     ...By hydraulic or electrical means
  151     ..Yieldingly biased
  152     .Comprising material-moving roll
  153     ..Recessed roll
  154     ..With means to disengage roll from material
  155     ...Continuously rotating roll
  156     ..Unidirectional
  157     ...Ratcheted roll
  158     .Comprising reciprocating or oscillating material-mover
  159     ..With means to retard movement of advancer carrier
  160     ..On pivoted carrier
  161     ..With means to disable material-mover
  162     ..With means to move grip element into material engagement
  163     ...Comprising link positively connected to element
  164     ....Which link effects material-advancing movement
  165     ...Comprising camlike surface
  166     ....Which surface effects material-advancing movementt
  167     ..With spring-biased grip element
  168     BY ORBITALLY TRAVELING MATERIAL-ENGAGING SURFACE(S)
  169     .With start-facilitating means
  170     .On endless belt or chain
  171     ..With cooperating surface
  172     ...Comprising endless belt or chain
  173     ..With gripper(s) mounted thereon
  174     .With control or adjustment means
  175     ..To vary diameter of roll
  176     ..To vary bite of contacting pinch members
  177     ...Infinitesimally variable
  178     ..To vary speed of material-advancer
  179     ..For shifting roll(s) axially
  180     ..For shifting roll(s) angularly
  181     .Comprising rotary pinch pair
  182     ..Including radial material-engaging surface
  183     ..Including means to ensure arcuate engagement
  184     ..Tapered roll or bite
  185     ..Including equal-diameter coaxial rolls
  186     ..Yieldable bite
  187     ...Roll axis resiliently urged
  188     .With drive means
  189     .Plural spaced apart rolls (e.g., guide rolls)
  190     .Including details of roll or mount
  191     ..Roll surface radially movable
  192     ...And axially movable (e.g., centering rolls)
  193     ..Irregular friction surface (e.g., roughened)
  194     ..Bearing or support
  195     WITH MEANS TO RETARD MATERIAL MOVEMENT (E.G., "TENSIONER")
  196     STATIC GUIDE
  197     .Turning bar
  198     .Resiliently urged
  199     .Adjustable
  200     MISCELLANEOUS