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Class Number: 242
 Class Title: WINDING AND REELING

Subclass  Subclass
Number    Title

  1       MISCELLANEOUS
  1.1 R   STATOR WINDING
  1.1 A   .Continuous shuttle type
  1.1 E   .Guide and end turn shapers
  2       BALL OR MASS WINDING
  3       SPHEROIDS
  4 R     RING WINDING
  5       .Armatures
  6       .Taping and insulating
  4 A     .Flexible shuttle
  4 B     .Rigid circular shuttle
  4 BE    ..With eccentric coil
  4 C     .Core holder
  7.01    COMPOSITE OBJECT MAKING
  7.02    .Method
  7.03    ..Electrical conductor or armature
  7.04    .Circumferentially wound armature
  7.0 5R  .Transverse slot wound armature
  7.0 5A  ..Rotatable armature core type
  7.0 5B  ..Rotatable shuttle type
  7.0 5C  ..Compound movement type
  7.06    .Electrical conductor
  7.07    ..Electromagnet or electrical coil
  7.08    ...Including taping or insulating
  7.09    ...Sequential windings
  7.11    ...Simultaneous windings
  7.12    ...Windings control responsive to electric property or
              work
  7.13    ...Having planar winding turn increment
  7.14    ...Apparatus includes driven, shiftably related core
              support and guide members
  7.15    ....Drive for rotating core and traversing guide
  7.16    .....Adjustably preselectable winding step
  7.17    ..Electrical connector or terminal making machine
  7.18    ...Including support for winding material supply holder
  7.19    .Localized winding
  7.21    .Hollow object
  7.22    ..Pail or pipe
  7.23    ..Taped
  16      SPOOLERS
  17      .Multiple
  18 R    BOBBIN AND COP WINDING
  18.1    .Ribbon breakers (i.e., means to prevent coil crowding)
  19      .Cutting devices
  20      .Sew machine shuttles
  21      ..Cutting devices
  22      ..Stops
  23      ..Disk type
  24      ..Thread pressers and pads
  25 R    .Wire
  25 A    ..Alternate or successive wind
  26      .Symmetrical layerss
  26.1    .Building mechanism (e.g., ring-rail type)
  26.2    ..Warp wind (i.e., full-traverse mechanism)
  26.3    ...Means to vary traverse mechanism
  26.4    ..Weft wind (i.e., short-traverse mechanism)
  26.41   ...Preliminary or bunch winders
  26.42   ....By auxiliary cam means
  26.43   ....By traverse-controlling means
  26.44   .....With means to control gain mechanism
  26.45   ...Means to vary service traverse and/or gain
  26.5    .Full traverse mechanism shifted in one direction
  27      .Cone wind
  27.1    ..Preliminary or bunch winders
  28      ..Detectors and stops
  29      ...Thread break or exhaust
  30      ...Load
  31      ..Quick traverse
  32      ..Multiple
  34      ..Pressers and shapers
  35      ..Spindles and appurtenances
  35.5 R  .Multiple
  35.5 A  ..Removing full and supplying empty bobbins
  35.5 T  ..Turret type
  35.6 R  .Reserve thread uniting
  35.6 E  ..End finder
  36      .Detectors and stops
  37 R    ..Thread break or exhaust
  38      ...Doubling machines
  37 A    ...Knotter
  39      ..Load
  40      ...Doubling machines
  41      .Ejectors
  42      .Doubling machines
  43 R    .Quick traverse
  43.1    ..By means to vary traverse mechanism
  43.2    ..By drum guide means
  43 A    ..Counter rotating fingers
  43 B    ..Air jets
  43 M    ..Magnetic
  45      .Tension devices
  46      .Spool and bobbin lifters
  46.2    .Driving connections
  46.21   ..Modified bobbin or cop
  46.3    ..Cop tube
  46.4    ..Clutch
  46.5    ...Centrifugal
  46.6    ..Resilient head
  46.7    ..Resilient socket
  46.8    ...Coil spring
  18 A    .Alternate, successive dual wind
  18 B    .Anti-bounce
  18 G    .Glass winding
  18 CS   .Change speed
  18 AA   .Air actuation
  18 DD   .Drum drive
  18 EW   .End wind
  18 PW   .Preliminary wind
  47      CORDAGE
  47.01   .Unidirectionally moving coilss
  47.02   ..With seal for coil support means
  47.03   ..With threading means
  47.04   ..Interdigitated composite rotating surface
  47.05   ...Rigid cages
  47.06   ...Elements pivot on axis parallel to rotating axis
  47.07   ...Independent radially moving elements
  47.08   ..Plural drums
  47.09   ...Single run contacting
  47.1    ....Planetating
  47.11   .....Helically grooved drum
  47.12   ..With lateral material-traverser
  47.13   ...Axially moving element
  47.5    .Storage on sheaves
  48      .Cutting devices
  49      .Detectors and stops
  50      .Cards, boards and forms
  51      .Heddle and seine needles
  52      .Tatting shuttles
  53      .Hank and skein winding
  54 R    REELING AND UNREELING
  54.1    .Magnetic wire recorders only
  54.4    .Slivers or rovings
  55      .Fabrics (i.e., web-like material)
  55.01   ..Storage on sheaves
  55.1    ..Fibrous webs
  179     ..Web carrying machine-convertible information
  55.16   ...Folded part of web wound into spiral coil
  55.17   ...Unidirectionally moving coil(s) for winding and
              unwinding
  55.18   ....Unwinding from center
  55.19 R .....While winding onto outside
  55.19 A ......Endless tape cartridge
  55.21   ....Winding into center
  180     ...Including support for additional webroll or roll holder
  181     ....And transfer means therefor
  182     ...Including low inertia bin or vacuum chamber
  183     ....Loop condition responsive operation control
  184     .....By electrical summing or comparison means
  185     .....By pneumatic condition sensing
  186     ...Web condition responsive operation control
  187     ....By shift of convolution-engaging member
  188     ....By sensing of differentiated web portion
  189     ....By web-induced shift of tension or guide member
  190     .....To control electrical operation
  191     ....Responsive to web-pull-induced reel velocity
  192     ...Convolution-engaging drive for web-roll or reel
  193     ...Coaxial reel-pair
  194     ....Including cartridge
  195     ...Including leader discrimination
  196     ...Variable ratio reel drive
  197     ...Including cartridge
  198     ....Dissembly disabled reel or assembly initiated operation
  199     ....Which encloses reel-pair
  200     .....With simultaneous or alternative reel drive coupling
  201     ...Plural or alternative reel drive
  202     ....Simultaneously operative
  203     .....Including drive motor for each reel
  204     ....Including synchronized brakee
  205     ....Cinematic
  206     ...Reel drive for association with linear drive
  207     ....Continuously controlled for accommodation to linear web
               advance
  208     ....Including operation coordinating means
  209     ...With linear drive
  210     ...Component for association with linear drive
  55.2    ..Delivery-roll holders (e.g., dispensers)
  55.3    ...Multiple roll
  55.42   ....Vertical axis of rolls
  55.53   ...With container
  55.54   ...Vertical axis of roll
  55.55   ...With deodorant-containing mandrel
  56 R    ..Cutting devices
  56.1    ...And single wind-up reel for plural webs (e.g., condenser
              winders)
  56.2    ...Longitudinal severing
  56.3    ....Positionally related tool and wound-package surface
  56.4    ....And severed-fabric separating
  56.5    .....By deflecting means
  56.6    ....And transverse cutter
  56.7    ....With slitter drive means
  56.8    ...Perforator or notcher
  56 A    ...Turret type
  56 B    ...Transverse cut on reel
  56.9    ..Multiple reel-simultaneous operation
  57      ..Detectors and/or stops
  57.1    ...With means to shift web roll axially (i.e., web
              registry)
  58      ..Web roll supply (e.g., plural-roll support for reverse-web
             storage)
  58.1    ...Web uniting
  58.2    ....New roll moved
  58.3    ....Expiring web moved
  58.4    ....New web end moved
  58.5    ....Splice preparing means
  58.6    ...Conveying roll to position
  59      ..Lapped or butted lengths of sheet-length material
  60      ..Bandage rolling
  61      ..Cards, boards and forms
  62      ..Cloth (i.e., special for textile material)
  63      ..Automatically contracting reel
  64      ..Revoluble reel carriers
  65      ..Friction-drum drive
  66      ...Multiple drum
  67      ..Belt reels
  67.1 R  ..Winding machines
  67.2    ...With feeding rolls
  67.3 R  ...With supply roll or rolls
  67.3 F  ....Fabric stretcher
  67.4    ...With reversing means
  67.5    ...With diameter compensation
  67.1 D  ...Drawing boards and tables
  68      ..Supporters and holders
  68.1    ...Driving stubs for cores
  68.2    ....Contractile stubs
  68.3    ...Core and single stub
  68.4    ...Core and opposed stubs or socketss
  68.5    ...Cores
  68.6    ....Means to reinforce end(s)
  68.7    ...Peripheral roll-supports
  71      ...For camera spool(s)
  71.1    ....Within magazine
  71.2    .....Double spoon
  71.3    ....Winding keys
  71.4    ....Rapid winders
  71.5    .....Automatic
  71.6    ....Rewinding feature
  71.7    ....Daylight film holders
  71.8    ...Special for strip material (e.g., spools for flange(s))
  71.9    ....Adjustable heads (i.e., axially positionable flanges)
  72 R    ...Contractile or expansible
  72.1    ....Axially slidable cam
  73      ....Lengthwise of spool
  72 B    ....With inflatable means
  73.5    ...Intermediate roll support (e.g., for awnings)
  74      ..Web fasteners (i.e., means to attach web to spool)
  74.1    ...Releasable clamp
  74.2    ....Spring-urged
  75      ..Tension devices
  75.1    ...Belt or roller driven reel
  75.2    ...Drag on running web
  75.3    ...Slack tensioner
  75.4    ...Supply roll brake
  75.41   ....Peripheral strap or belt
  75.42   .....Tension controlled
  75.43   ....Tension controlled
  75.44   .....Electrical control
  75.45   ....Diameter controlled
  75.46   ....Weight controlled
  75.47   ....Revolutions or speed controlled
  75.5    ...Speed and/or torque control of reel
  75.51   ....Electrical control means
  75.52   .....Photoelectric
  75.53   ....Hydraulic control means
  76      ..Guards and guides
  223     .Fishing rod reel
  224     ..Spinning reel (i.e., axial unwinding)
  225     ...Motor driven
  226     ....Spring motor
  227     ...Spool rotatable to wind
  228     ....With guide shiftable between wind and unwind positions
  229     ....Spool pivotal between wind and unwind positions
  230     ...With winding guide on rotor rearward of spool
  231     ....Guide shiftable on rotor
  232     .....Guide shifted to wind position by rotor drive
  233     ......Guide shifted to unwind position by discrete manual
                 operator
  234     ...With winding guid on rotor forward of spool
  235     ....Rotor drive shifts guide to unwind and wind positions
  236     ....With manual actuator to shift guide to unwind position
  237     .....Actuator forward of rotor
  238     .....With line snubber shifted by remote actuator
  239     ......Rotor and snubber shifted axially
  240     .......Guide shifted radially
  241     ...With level-winding mechanismm
  242     ....Eccentric cam reciprocates spool
  243     ...With brake
  244     ....Continuously applied
  245     .....Between spool shaft and frame
  246     .....Between spool and spool shaft
  247     ....Positive
  248     .....Defines home position of reel part
  249     ..With drive mechanism
  250     ...Motor driven
  251     ....Spring motor
  252     .....Motor actuated in response to pull on line
  253     .....With independent manual drive
  254     .....With spring charger
  255     ...Multiple drive ratios
  256     ...Ratchet-type drive
  257     ...With disengageable positive drive components (e.g., a
              clutch)
  258     ....With alternative yieldable mechanism
  259     ....Axially engaged
  260     .....Coaxial of spool
  261     ......Reengageable responsive to drive rotation
  262     ....Reengageable responsive to drive rotation
  263     ....Gear pair
  264     ...With yieldable drive coupling (e.g., friction or fluid
              clutch)
  265     ....Variable by crank manipulation
  266     .....Variable within distinct range(s)
  267     ....Between drive shaft and crank
  268     ....Between drive shaft and gear
  269     ....Coaxial with line take-up
  270     .....Axially applied
  271     ......By center pin
  272     ...With feed roller
  273     ...With level winding
  274     ....Line shifts along rotatable cam bar
  275     ....Line traction guide wheel
  276     ....Manually shifted guide
  277     ....Drive mechanism oscillates guide
  278     ....Drive mechanism reciprocates guide
  279     .....Reversely threaded screw
  280     ......Guide shiftable between wind and unwind positions
  281     ......Guide has line removal opening
  282     ...Alternative right or left side drive
  283     ...Hand crank feature
  284     ....Collapsible or extensible
  285     ..With brake
  286     ...Unwinding speed regulator (e.g., anti-backlash brake)
  287     ....Line tension responsive actuator
  288     ....Magnetic
  289     ....Centrifugal
  290     ...Spool bearing brake
  291     ...Manual pressure control
  292     ....Radially applied
  293     .....Rolling contact
  294     .....Separable attachment
  295     ...Connected to spool by one-way clutch
  296     ...Adjustable pressure pawl (e.g., braking clicker)
  297     ...Positivee
  298     ....One-way
  299     ....With disabler
  300     .....Rotation responsive
  301     ...Radially engaged
  302     ...Axially engaged
  303     ....Coaxial with spool
  304     ....On adjustable lever
  305     ..With unwinding indicator (e.g., bell or flashing light)
  306     ...Clicking indicator (e.g., flexible pawl and toothed member)
  307     ...Spring biased pawl
  308     ....Plural spring sections
  309     ..With line unwinding limiter
  310     ..Frame or static component
  311     ...Spinning reel frame
  312     ...Frame disassembly feature
  313     ....Hinged frame section
  314     ....Rotated joint
  315     .....Threaded
  316     ...Reel support (e.g., reel foot)
  317     ...Stub shaft support (e.g., fly casting reel)
  318     ....With spool retainer feature
  319     ...With line or water shield
  320     ...With lubrication feature
  321     ...With bearing feature
  322     ..Spool or spool shaft feature
  323     ..Reel attachment
  77      .Reels
  77.1    ..Made for spaced turns of material
  77.2    ..Wire fabricated
  77.3    ..Sheet material fabricated
  77.4    ...Bolt connections
  78      ..Metal working
  78.1    ...Sheet metal coiling
  78.3    ....Blockers (i.e., means to attach strip to core)
  78.6    ....Uncoilers
  78.7    .....Cradle type (e.g., peripherally supported coil)
  78.8    .....With free-end grasping and/or inserting
  79      ...Coil conveying
  80      ...Multiple
  81      ...Coil strippings
  82      ...Revoluble-coiler
  83      ...Receptacle
  84      ...Retractile arm
  84.8    ..Tape measure type (i.e., springless)
  85      ..Carriers
  85.1    ...Nonrotatable strand-carrier
  86      ...Hose
  86.1    ....Double strand
  86.2    ....Wheel-supported
  86.3    .....Traction-driven
  86.4    ....Trundle (e.g., flange-wheel)
  86.5 R  ...Vehicle-mounted
  86.51   ....Mine locomotive type
  86.52   ....For web material
  86.6    ....Traction-driven
  86.61   .....With traverse guide
  86.62   ......Manual or line
  86.63   .......With brakee
  86.64   .....With brake
  86.7    ....With brake
  86.8    ....With manual or line traverse guide
  86.5 A  ....Water skiing reels
  94      ...Trundle reels (e.g., flange-wheel)
  95      ...Wheel-attached (i.e., secured to vehicle wheel)
  96      ...Hand or body
  99      ...Brakes
  100     ..Clothesline type
  100.1   ...Double strand
  100.2   ...Weight-actuated rewind
  103     ..Nailing or stapling machine type
  104     ..Line driers
  105     ..Box strap
  106     ..Bracket supported
  107     ..Spring-drum type
  107.1   ...Double strand
  107.11  ....Strand supported
  107.12  .....With releasable lock against return bias
  107.13  ....Parallel strand
  107.14  .....Vertical axis of drum
  107.15  ......With brake
  107.2   ...With strand engaging stop
  107.3   ...With brake
  107.4 R ...With unwinding lock
  107.4 A ....Vehicle motion sensitive inertia mass
  107.4 B ....Reel acceleration sensitive
  107.4 C ....Reel body movement
  107.4 D ....Rewinding responsive
  107.4 E ....Time delay
  107.5   ...With spring adjustment
  107.6   ...With lock against return bias
  107.7   ....With release (e.g., window shade type)
  110     ..Contractile (i.e., radially adjustable reel)
  110.1   ...Multi-part, with common actuator
  110.2   ....Axial link actuator
  110.3   ...Radially slidable, independently
  115     ..Knockdown or collapsible
  116     ..Separable disks or heads
  54 A    .Antenna reel
  117     WINDING DRUMS AND SAND REELS (I.E., DRUM STRUCTURE, PER SE)
  118     BOBBINS AND SPOOLS (I.E., PER SE)
  118.1   .Open-work structure
  118.11  ..Resilient
  118.2   .Resilient
  118.3   .Cop-tube type (i.e., headless or single-headed tube)
  118.31  ..Reinforcing feature
  118.32  ..Tube material feature
  118.4   .Double-headed spool
  118.41  ..Plural spools axially connected
  118.5   ..Head(s) adjustable along axis
  118.6   ..Head connections (e.g., bolted)
  118.61  ...Inserted head joint
  118.62  ....Screw connection(s)
  118.7   ..Spool material feature
  118.8   ...Sheet stock
  125     .Thread fasteners and guides
  125.1   ..Strand end attacherss
  125.2   ...Outer end
  125.3   ....Permits unwinding
  127     SKIEN HOLDERS
  128     UNWINDING DEVICES
  129     COIL HOLDERS (E.G., HOLDER FOR ROLL OF WIRE)
  129.1   TAKE-UPS
  129.2   .Lever type
  129.3   .Rewind type
  129.4   .Counterweight type
  129.5   SUPPORTERS FOR STRAND MATERIAL HOLDERS
  129.51  .Opposed stub-shafts
  129.53  ..With guide(s)
  129.6   .Shaft supported at both ends
  129.62  ..With guide(s)
  129.7   .With axial-position retainer for holder
  129.71  ..With retainer-spindle
  129.72  ..With guide(s)
  129.8   .With brake for holder and/or strand
  130     .For bobbins (i.e., commercial-type strand packages)
  130.1   ..With spindle modified for conical bobbin
  130.2   ..Vertically suspended spindle
  130.3   ..Pinboards (i.e., bobbin-storage trays)
  130.4   ..Skewer
  131     ..Creels
  131.1   ...Warp type
  132     ..Receptacle or trough
  134     .For spools (i.e., domestic-type strand packages)
  136     ..Carrier attachments
  137     ..Receptacles
  137.1   ...With guide eye
  138     ...Single spool
  139     ..Stands
  140     ..Thread guards and guides
  141     .For twine
  146     ..Receptacle
  147 R   TENSION DEVICES
  148     .Alarms and indicators
  149     .Clamp
  150 R   ..Disk type
  150 M   ...Magnetic
  151     ..Roller
  152     ...Fluted
  152.1   ..Ball
  153     .Tortuous course
  154     ..Adjustable
  155 R   .Wheel or pulley
  155 M   ..Magnetic
  155 BW  ..Bull wheels
  156     .Brakes
  156.1   ..Peripheral, on material itself
  156.2   ..Automatic, on disc other than spool
  147 A   .Air
  147 M   .Magnet
  157 R   GUIDES
  157.1   .Oscillatable or reciprocable
  157 C   .Pig tail
  158 R   TRAVERSE MECHANISM
  158.1   .Eccentric or crankk
  158.2   .Screw shaft
  158.3   ..Reversely threaded
  158.4 R .Reversing mechanism
  158.4 A ..Split nut alternately engaging left and right hand screw
             threads
  158.5   .Cam
  158 B   .Belt chain traverse
  158 F   .Air
  159     WOUND STRAND PACKAGES
  163     .Interconvolutionary strand delivery
  164     .Strand end feature
  165     ..Strand end forms winding
  166     .Plural windings
  167     ..Serially connected
  168     .Distorted winding
  169     ..Spooled
  170     .Housing or outer peripheral support
  171     ..With strand guide
  172     .Strand restraining or snarl preventing means
  173     ..Adhesive
  174     .Particular winding
  175     ..Cone wind
  176     ..On core
  177     ...Plain cone core
  178     ...Plain cylinder
  222     CARD, BOARD OR FORM
  *       ******************************
  *       CROSS-REFERENCE ART COLLECTION
  *       ******************************
  900     SPECIAL MATERIALS
  *       *****************************
  *       DIGESTS
  *       *****************************
  DIG 1   Tape program control means
  DIG 2   Narrow fabric winding apparatus
  DIG 3   Coreless coilers