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Class Number: 425
 Class Title: PLASTIC ARTICLE OR EARTHENWARE SHAPING OR TREATING:
              APPARATUS

Subclass  Subclass
Number    Title

  1       MEANS UTILIZING FORCE FROM EXPLOSIVE OR THERMIC COMPOSITION
  2       SHAPING MEANS EMPLOYING ANATOMICAL BODY OR PORTION THEREOF
           (I.E., ANIMAL OR PLANT)
  3       WITH DIRECT APPLICATION OF MAGNETIC FORCE TO MANIPULATE SHAPING
           MEANS OR WORK
  4 R     WITH MECHANICAL MEANS FORMING OR EXPANDING PORES (E.G.,
           FOAMING, ETC.)
  4 C     .Continuously
  5       MEANS ENCAPSULATING NORMALLY LIQUID MATERIAL
  6       MEANS MAKING PARTICULATE MATERIAL DIRECTLY FROM LIQUID OR MOLTEN
           MATERIAL
  7       .By means applying fluid jet or blast to unconfined liquid
            material
  8       .By slinger or rotating liquid comminutor
  9       ..Cotton candy maker
  10      .And distinct means applying congealing fluid to formed
            particles
  11      PRODUCT OR PREFORM REPAIR OR RESTORING MEANS
  12      .Hand manipulable tool
  13      .Means feeding fluent stock under pressure
  14      .Shape conforming sleeve or deformable pressure wrap means
  15      .Tire segment engaging channel box coacting with pressure
            surface or rim
  16      ..Adjustable sidewall channel box
  17      .Tire recapping, rebeading or sidewall replacing means
  18      ..Simultaneously on plural tires
  19      ..Including carcass or tread mold aligning means
  20      ..Band or channel type recapping mold
  21      ...Including axially supported bead spreading means
  22      ...Including sidewall pressure platens
  23      ...Means applying pressure to carcass interior
  24      ....Means applying fluid pressure directly
  25      ...Diametrically separable mold sections coacting with tire
              carcass
  26      .Means for supporting only a portion of a tire
  27      ..Expansible internal support
  28.1    RESHAPING, RESIZING OR VULCANIZING MEANS FOR TIRE, TIRE
           TUBE, OR DRIVE BELT
  29      .Control means responsive to condition sensing means
  30      .Control means responsive to independently operated timer
  31      .Means shaping drum shaped preform to tire casing shape
  32      ..Mold or housing encasing preform
  33      ...And means inserting pressurizing diaphragm into mold or
              housing
  34.1    .Plural female molds for plural preforms
  34.2    ..Forming belts (e,g., drive, transmission, endless)
  34.3    ..Within separate vulcanizing chamber
  35      .Toroidal or annular female shaping means and coacting means
            holding preform thereagainst
  36      ..Including distinct means to engage tire-type bead
  37      ..Including core pins forming transverse voids in solid tiree
             portion
  38      ..Including means placing preform in mold or removing product
             from mold
  39      ..Female mold surface is expansible
  40      ..Including heating or cooling means
  41      ...Electrical
  42      ...Within cavity of hollow preform
  43      ..Coating holding means is expansible structure
  44      ..Means to directly apply fluid pressure to preform
  45      ...Inner tube type including valve stem feature
  46      ..Including removable tire tread shaping portion
  47      .Sectional female mold including locking or clamping assembly
            means
  48      .Interior holding means or curing bag inserter, releaser, or
            remover
  49      .Internal mold, form or support for toroid
  50      ..Including heating or cooling means
  51      ..Expansible surface
  52      ...Fluid pressure actuated diaphragm type
  53      ....Including valve stem
  54      ..Sectional
  55      ...Removable portion
  56      ....Annular assembly clamping ring
  57      ....Internal support held in assembly by cam or wedge means
  58      ..Bead clamping means, air bag support means or means sealing
             tire opening
  58.1    .Post cure inflator
  59      UTILIZING SUBTERRANEAN FEATURE AS SHAPING MEANS
  60      BOOM MOUNTED DEPOSITING AND FORMING MEANS OF THE CARROUSEL TYPE
  61      WITH SHIP OR BOAT LAUNCHING MEANS OR DRYDOCK
  62      WITH TRANSPORTATION DEVICE FOR RELOCATING MOLDING APPARATUS TO
           DIFFERENT SITE (E.G., LAND VEHICLE, ETC.)
  63      BUILDING FORMS OR CONSTRUCTION ENGINEERING TYPE MOLD WITH
           REPOSITIONING MEANS FOR PROGRESSIVE MOLDING
  64      .Including mold charging means
  65      .Means penetrating or embedded in previously formed section to
            support mold
  66      CONTINUOUS FILAMENT FORMING OR FILM CASTING MEANS WITH
           STRETCHING MEANS COMPRISING PRODUCT ADVANCING MEANS
  67      IMMERSED SHAPING ORIFICE DISCHARGING DIRECTLY INTO LIQUID BATH
           OR SHOWER MEANS
  68      .Additional downstream means for treating product by fluid
  69      .Shaping orifice and bath or shower means mounted for relative
            movement
  70      .Means directing product through tubular conduit within bath or
            shower means
  71      INCLUDING MEANS ADVANCING CONTINUOUS LENGTH WORK THROUGH
           DOWNSTREAM LIQUID BATH OR SHOWER MEANS
  72.1    SHAPING ORIFICE AND DOWNSTREAM WORK CONTACTING GASEOUS
           TREATING MEANS
  72.2    .Orifice for filaments or fibers (e.g., spinneret)
  73      INCLUDING VENTILATING TYPE HOOD OR CHAMBER ENCASING A MATERIAL
           HANDLER
  74      .Recovering or recycling gas or vapor
  75      .Material handler is endless casting surface
  76      MEANS IMPARTING IRREGULAR DENIER TO FILAMENTS
  77      ULTRA HIGH PRESSURE GENERATING DEVICE
  78      MEANS FOR MOLDING POWDERED METALL
  79      .Continuous length product formation
  80.1    AIR FELTING TYPE SHAPING MEANS
  81.1    .Means forming stratified products
  82.1    .With particle liberating means (e.g., cutting, carding,
            etc.)
  83.1    .Means forming running length product
  84      WITH FORAMINOUS OR ABSORBENT MEANS FOR REMOVAL OF VEHICLE OR
           COMPONENT IN LIQUID FORM DURING OR AFTER SHAPING
  85      .Vacuum means
  86      INCLUDING HANDLING MEANS OR FEATURE FOR TREATING LIQUID OR
           VEHICLE LIQUID, OR CONDENSATE
  87      HAND MOVABLE, SUBSTRATE TRAVERSING, PLURAL DIMENSION SHAPING
           MEANS INCLUDING MOLDING MATERIAL SUPPLY
  88      WITH FACTORY STRUCTURE FEATURE
  89      WITH INTERPOSED NON-ADHERING WEB OR SHEET TYPE PARTING MEANS
  90      WITH MEANS APPLYING COATING (E.G., PARTING, ETC.) MATERIAL TO
           WORK OR WORK CONTACT MEANS
  91      .Plural diverse type applicators
  92      .Plural spaced applying means applying material to work and work
            contact means
  93      .Immersion type
  94      .Means contacting work downstream of shaping member
  95      .By means attached to or within male shaping member
  96      .Separate means applying material directly to shaping means,
            dough divider trap chamber, or between work and shaping means
  97      ..By means injecting material into extrusion head or nozzle
  98      ..To female mold or dough divider trap chamber
  99      ...Orbital or conveyor mounted mold
  100     ....By spray means or pneumatic conveyor type applicator
  101     ..To endless surface type shaping means
  102     .To work contact means upstream of shaping means
  103     ..By spray means or pneumatic conveyor type applicator
  104     .To work downstream of shaping means
  105     ..By means striping or applying a definite pattern
  106     ..With reshaping or cutting means downstream of coating means
  107     WITH MEANS LUBRICATING COOPERATING APPARATUS PARTS
  108     ROD END TO ROD END SPLICING OR JOINING TYPE
  500     PREFORM ASSEMBLY MEANS AND MEANS FOR BONDING OF PLURAL PREFORMS
           INVOLVING PREFORM RESHAPING OR VULCANIZING
  501     .Vulcanizing or curing means including a conforming preform
            support
  502     ..With means to release or remove product from support
  503     .Reshaping means utilizing fluid pressure directly contacting
            work
  504     ..Vacuum or suction
  505     .Means forming indefinite length product
  506     .With treatment means other than assembling, bonding, shaping or
            reshaping means
  507     ..Means to modify temperature of work or product
  508     ...Heating
  509     ....And cooling
  510     ..Severing means
  511     ...And means for forming preform from bulk material
  512     ...Plural distinct severing means
  513     ....Diverse
  514     ...Downstream of bonding means
  515     .With additional shaping means to form or reshape preform
            upstream of bonding meanss
  516     ..Extrusion
  517     .Means press fitting or forcibly embedding one preform into
            another preform
  518     .Plural reshaping means
  519     ..Opposed, registering, coacting mold cavities
  520     .Opposed coacting press members
  521     ..Male shaping member and female mold
  110     DISTINCT MEANS TO FEED, SUPPORT OR MANIPULATE PREFORM STOCK AND
           MEANS FOR SHAPING FLUENT OR BULK STOCK TO FORM UNITED PRODUCT
  111     .And means to apply stress to preform and uniting in stressed
            condition
  112     .And means to form or reshape preform
  113     .Extrusion shaping means
  114     ..Means to feed or support plural preforms to or at extrusion
             means
  115     .Endless surface means to shape fluent material
  116     .Opposed registering coacting female molds
  117     .Female mold type means
  118     ..Including hand manipulatable support for edible receiver
             (e.g., ice cream cone, etc.)
  119     ..Shoe last type support for preform
  120     ..Plural sources feeding the fluent material
  121     ..Means to feed or support common preform to or at spaced female
             molds
  122     ..Means to continuously feed indefinite length preform
  123     ..Means to support plural preforms in spaced relation in or at
             common female mold
  124     ...Washer type preform
  125     ..Female mold or preform support vertically movable
  126.1   ..Means to convey preform to female mold
  126.2   ...Stick inserter
  127     ..Preform stock acting as reaction shaping surface cooperating
             with recessed fluent stock shaping means
  128     ..Coacting pressure means
  129.1   ..Means to charge fuent stock under pressure
  129.2   ...Shoe or boot
  130     MEANS FEEDING FLUENT STOCK FROM PLURAL SOURCES TO COMMON SHAPING
           MEANS TO FORM COMPOSITE PRODUCT
  131.1   .Extrusion shaping means
  131.5   ..Comprising spinnerette
  132     ..Intermittent feed
  133.1   ..Concentric
  133.5   ..For extruding film
  134     .Traveling female mold type shaping means
  135     CONTROL MEANS RESPONSIVE TO OR ACTUATED BY MEANS SENSING OR
           DETECTING A CONDITION OR MATERIAL TRIGGERED
  136     .Means responsive to abnormal condition completely stop
            operation of machine
  137     ..Means responsive to material remaining in mold from previous
             molding operation
  138     ..Means responsive to improper mold position
  139     .Article ejector or stripper control
  140     .Control means responsive to product weight or dimension
  141     ..Thickness
  142     .Cutter control
  143     .Temperature control
  144     ..Of mold cavity or fluent material to shaping or discharging
             orificee
  145     .Feed control of material en route to shaping area
  146     ..By pressure actuated valve
  147     ..By stopping or adjusting flow responsive to material level in
             collector or mold
  148     ..By means responsive to weight of feed material
  149     .Molding pressure control means responsive to pressure at
            shaping area (e.g., injection or press mold, etc.)
  150     .Mold motion or position control
  151     WITH SAFETY FEATURE
  152     .Plural starting buttons or mold operating means dependent upon
            position of a machine element
  153     .Secondary means to prevent accidental motion, (e.g., mold
            closing, etc.) or means to relieve gaseous pressure
  154     .Means to alter operation due to presence of foreign matter or
            overload
  155     WITH CONTROL MEANS RESPONSIVE TO INDEPENDENTLY OPERATED TIMER
  156     .For timing period mold is closed or period molding pressure is
            maintained
  157     ..In press mold cycle
  158     ...With timer for molding material preheat period
  159     .For timing mold filling means
  160     .For timing heating or cooling means
  161     INTERLOCKED DIVERSE FUNCTION ELEMENTS
  162     WITH ELECTRICAL CONTROL SYSTEM
  163     .Of diverse shaping means or sequential contact of work with
            different shaping elements
  164     .For severing product from shaped mass
  165     .Of product removal from molding surface
  166     .Of intermittent delivery of fluent charges to shaping surface
  167     .Of ram or platen reciprocation in press molding cycle
  168     WITH MEANS ADJUSTING SYNCHRONIZATION OR COMPENSATING FOR WEAR
  169     WITH INDICATOR, SIGNAL, RECORDER, ILLUMINATOR, OR INSPECTION
           MEANS
  170     .For molding temperature or pressure
  171     .For determining, observing, or recording position of adjustable
            element
  172     ..Element is means determining product size
  173     .Means permitting visual inspection by operator
  174     MEANS APPLYING ELECTRICAL OR WAVE ENERGY DIRECTLY TO WORK
  174.2   .Sonic or supersonic wave energy
  174.4   .Radiated energy
  174.6   .Electrical energy conducted through work
  174.8 R .Electro-static or inductive field
  174.8 E ..Electro-static
  175     MEANS FORMING A MOLD; OR FLASK, PER SE
  176     .Including means to separate subsequently molded product from
            formed mold (e.g., destructible starch type, etc.)
  177     .Press means to form mold
  178     .Including ram type feed of molding material or means to break
            bond between flask and contents
  179     .Including, structurally integral fastening means
  180     .Three part flask
  181     CONVERTIBLE
  182     WITH APPARATUS ASSEMBLY OR DISMANTLING MEANS OR WITH IDLE PART
  183     .Plural wear or shaping surfaces mounted for alternative use
  184     .Shaping and severing means mounted for alternative use
  185     .Means permitting removal or substitution of elements during
            apparatus operationn
  186     .Including support or guide means for disassembled element
  187     .Means excavating from bulk with simultaneous shaping (e.g., ice
            cream scoop or plugger, etc.)
  188     .Pivotally joined housings or housing sections enclosing
            removable element
  189     .By handle or handwheel means
  190     .For extrusion or injection type shaping means
  191     ..Threaded die or die housing
  192 R   ..Including securing means retaining separable elements
  192 S   ...Spinnerets
  193     .For press shaping surface
  194     ..Calender roll or roll face
  195     ..Female mold
  196     .Blade type harvesting means or severing means
  197     WITH UPSTREAM SCREEN OR PERFORATED PLATE FOR STRAINING,
           HOMOGENIZING, OR MIXING MATERIAL TO BE SHAPED
  198     .Upstream of multi-orifice shaping die
  199     .Plural screens or plates
  200     WITH SEPARATE AND DISTINCT UPSTREAM AGITATING OR KNEADING MEANS
  201     .Mixing roll type (e.g., rubber mills, etc.)
  202     .With cutting, severing or comminuting means
  203     .With separate and distinct gas withdrawal chamber
  204     .Plural means being diverse, or parallel and intermeshing or
            concentric
  205     .Serially arranged chambers each housing a kneading or mixing
            means
  206     .Within or at forming means
  207     .Within pressurizing chamber
  208     ..By modified screw helix
  209     .Agitator or kneader comprises means rotating about a horizontal
            axis
  210     WITH MEANS CLEANING AND PURIFYING ATMOSPHERE SURROUNDING MOLDING
           DEVICE
  211     WITH SOUND MUFFLING OR DAMPENING MEANS
  212     WITH MEANS TO RESET OPERATION CYCLE
  213     WITH PERSONNEL SUPPORT MEANS
  214     WITH MEANS TO RETARD OR STOP MOVING ELEMENT (E.G., BRAKE, ETC.)
  215     WITH MEANS TO GATHER EXCESS OR REJECTED STOCK MATERIAL
  216     .Dynamic gatherer
  217     ..Recycling type
  218     FEMALE MOLD AND COOPERATING STOCK SMOOTHING MEANS OR EXCESS
           STOCK REMOVING MEANS
  219     .Means carried by or attached to feeder
  220     .Conveyor or roll mounted mold with stationary smoothing or
            removing means
  221     .For means excavating from bulk source with simultaneous shaping
            (e.g., ice cream scoop or plugger, etc.)
  222     TUMBLING TYPE AGGLOMERATING MEANS FOR PARTICULATE MATERIAL
  223     ENDLESS CASTING SURFACE AND COOPERATING HARVESTING MEANS
  224     MEANS CASTING FLUENT STOCK OPERABLY ASSOCIATED WITH SHAPING
           SURFACE TO FORM INDEFINITE LENGTH PRODUCT
  225     WITH SEPARATE APPARATUS CLEANING MEANS
  226     .Coacting with diverse apparatus elements
  227     .Coacting with forming means or dough divider type trap chamber
  228     ..Reciprocating cleaner moving across a plunger face
  229     ..Cleaner moving into working engagement
  230     ..Cleaner coacting with endless surface press forming means or
             film forming casting surfacee
  231     ..Cleaner coacting with traveling former
  232     .Coacting with work contact means (e.g., conveyor or cutter,
            etc.) downstream of former
  233     SETS OF PRESS COUPLES COMPRISING REGISTERING FEMALE MOLD
           CAVITIES
  234     .Stacked
  235     .Coacting cutting; edges on female mold sections
  236     .Including positive means to eject product
  237     .Mounted on rolls
  238     DOUGH DIVIDER TYPE INCLUDING TRAP CHAMBER
  239     .Including positive discharge assistant in supply hopper
  240     .Reciprocating ram feeding to rotating trap chamber
  241     .Rotating trap chamber pickup
  522     FEMALE MOLD AND MEANS TO SHAPE PARISON DIRECTLY BY INTERNAL
           FLUID PRESSURE, (E.G., BLOW MOLD, ETC.)
  523     .Utilizing laminated parison
  524     .With filling means
  525     .Forming baffle, bottleneck, or handle
  526     .With heating or cooling means
  527     .With means to sever product
  528     .Including means to prepare parison
  529     ..Parison stretching means
  530     ...Comprising staged inflation means
  531     ..Parison severing means
  532     ..Parison forming extruder
  533     ..Parison forming injection mold
  534     ..Parison transfer means
  535     .Including blowing medium supply means
  536     ..Needle
  537     .Including product ejector
  538     .Plural female molds and means to shape parison at each directly
            by internal fluid pressure
  539     ..With means to support molds for movement with continuously
             moving work
  540     ..With rotary support for molds
  541     .Including means to close or lock blow mold
  542     FEMALE MOLD AND CHARGER TO SUPPLY FLUENT STOCK UNDER PRESSURE
           THERETO IN FLUID-TIGHT RELATIONSHIP (E.G., INJECTION MOLD,
           ETC.)
  543     .Molding of thermosetting or cross-linking stock
  544     ..Means for transfer molding
  545     .To make slide fastener element
  546     .With means to evacuate mold or provide controlled environment
  547     .With means to heat or cool
  548     ..Plural distinct means
  549     ..Including heated or cooled nozzle
  550     ..Including heated or cooled plasticizer
  551     ..Including heated or cooled material supply hopper
  552     ..Cooling means for female mold
  553     .With preform severing means movable relative to mold
  554     ..And product ejector
  555     .With shrinkage compensation means
  556     .With product ejector
  557     .With accumulator, trap chamber, or serially arranged valves
            between charger and mold
  558     ..Changeable volume accumulator
  559     ..Accumulator with check valve supplying fluent thereto
  560     ..Including valve to alternatively direct fluent stock too
             accumulator or mold
  561     ..Accumulator with plunger of charger acting as valve
  562     .With means between charger and mold to cut off flow of fluent
            stock (e.g., needle valve, baffle, etc.)
  563     ..Biased, pressure responsive means
  564     ..Nozzle valve
  565     ...Mold actuated
  566     ...Flush with or entering mold cavity
  567     .With coupling between charger and mold
  568     ..Including sepcific nozzle
  569     ...And means to connect nozzle to mold
  570     ...Plural nozzles
  571     ...Flush with or entering into mold cavity
  572     ..Supplying fluent stock to plural mold cavities
  573     ..Including plural passages to single mold cavity
  574     .With means to cause relative movement between mold and charger
  575     ..Means to move mold
  576     ...Rotary mold support
  577     .Mold having movable core or movable pin
  578     .With normally open stock chamber (e.g., hopper, etc.)
  579     ..Charger including a shaping surface (e.g., Briquetting means,
             etc.)
  580     ..And feeder to supply granular fluent stock to charger
  581     ...Including plural molds
  582     ...Rotary feeder
  583     ...Reciprocating feeder
  584     ...Air or vacuum utilized to feed stock
  585     .Including feeder to supply stock to charger
  586     ..Means to feed measured charge
  587     ..Screw feeder
  588     .Plural mold cavities
  589     .With means to close mold
  590     ..Varying pressure and/or speed closing
  591     ..Common fluid pressure closes mold and performs injection
  592     ..Including articulated link
  593     ...Toggle
  594     ..Charger and closing means on same side of mold
  595     .With means to lock mold in closed position
  253     FEMALE MOLD, PALLET HANDLING MEANS AND MEANS TO CHARGE FEMALE
           MOLD
  254     .Including magazine type pallet supply means
  255     .Pallet supported within mold sidewalls by vertically movable
            stripper
  256     FEMALE MOLD AND MEANS TO FEED MEASURED CHARGE OF FLUENT MATERIAL
           THERETO
  257     .Plural separate and distinct feeders
  258     .Means to move feed means to female mold
  259     ..Traveling female mold
  260     ..Drawer type feed coacting with mold having movable bottom
  261     .Means to sequentially move female mold
  262     MEANS WITHDRAWING TROWEL TYPE SHAPING MEMBER FROM WITHIN OPEN
           ENDED MOLD TO SHAPE MATERIAL THEREIN
  263     POTTERY WHEEL TYPE SUPPORT AND PROFILE
  264     .Including separate and distinct male plunger
  265     .Plural profile tools of diverse configuration
  266     .Plural female molds or preform supports
  267     .Rotatable profile tool
  268     .Externally engaging profile tooll
  269     DIPPING TYPE SHAPING MEANS
  270     .Mounted on moving support
  271     ..Including means to infect or withdraw gas from internal
             portion of shaping means
  272     ..Means causing diverse motion of shaping means (e.g., rotating
             during dipping, etc.)
  273     ..Means moving immersion bath
  274     ..Including stripper means
  275     .Dipping form per se
  276     MEANS EXCAVATING FROM A BULK SOURCE WITH SIMULTANEOUS SHAPING
           (E.G., ICE CREAM SCOOP OR PLUGGER, ETC.)
  277     .Means includes enclosure for fluids of high specific heat
  278     .Including means to arrange shaping surface during penetration
            of bulk
  279     .Including means to aid separation of shape product from bulk
  280     .Rotating or oscillating means to aid penetration of bulk
  281     .Shaping surface having serrated or cutting edge
  282     .Including product release means
  283     ..Segmented or expansible shaping surface
  284     ..Movable blade
  285     ...Pivoted to rim
  286     ..Ejector
  287     FORMER OF THE DIE EXPRESSING TYPE MAKING DOUGHNUT SHAPES
  288     .Relatively movable concentric internal and external members
            coacting with orifice means
  289     PREFORM SEVERING MEANS
  290     .Severing means is perforator
  291     ..With scoring or diverse severing means
  292     .Cutter guided by or cooperating with peripheral edge of female
            mold
  293     ..And crimper
  294     .Rotating means comprising circumferentially extending cutting
            and shaping channels coacting with a roll or platen having
            complementary channels
  295     .Cutter guided by a template or a pattern
  296     .Means for forming from bulk material, means for severing and
            means for reshaping
  297     ..Severing means preceding reshaping means
  298     .Configuration of cutting implement providing shaping cavity
  299     ..Including surface deformation means
  300     ..Honeycomb type cutters coacting internally of female mold or
             mold sidewalls
  301     .Diverse severing means
  302.1   .Serially arranged with preform reshaping means
  303     ..Corrugating reshaper
  304     ..Separate and distinct surface deformation means
  305.1   ..Severing means preceding shaping means
  306     .Plural distinct cutters
  307     ..Cutters downstream of former
  308     .Means forming from bulk and downstream severing means
  309     ..Cutter operated by means extending from within shaping
             orifice
  310     ..Utilizing former as cutter reaction surface
  311     ...Moving cutter, stationary former
  312     ....Cutter mounted on flexible endless conveyor
  313     ....Single assembly plural cutting elements
  314     ...Stationary cutter, plural forming
  315     ..Utilizing product handler downstream of former as cutter aidd
  316     ...Single assembly plural cutting elements
  317     COMBINED
  318     HAND MANIPULABLE SHAPING COUPLE
  319     MEANS TO FORM PREFORM FROM BULK AND MEANS TO CONVOLUTE OR TWIST
           THE PREFORM
  320     .Convoluting means includes an endless surface
  321     ..Convoluting means includes two or more endless surfaces
  322     ..Convoluting means includes a roll
  323     PRETZEL BENDING TYPE
  324.1   DIVERSE DISTINCT TYPE SHAPING MEANS
  325     .Shaping orifice and either a downstream preform reshaping means
            or vulcanizing means including conforming preform support
  326.1   ..Utilizing a fluid pressure differential as a reshaping
             means
  327     ..Reshaping or vulcanizing means is a press
  328     .Roll means and diverse press means
  329     THREE OR MORE ENDLESS SURFACES COOPERATING TO DEFINE A SHAPING
           APERTURE
  330     THREE OR MORE PLATENS MOVABLE ON INTERSECTING PATHS TO DEFINE A
           SHAPING CAVITY
  331     TRAVERSING ROLL PRESSURIZING MEANS OPERABLY ASSOCIATED WITH
           DOWNSTREAM PERFORATED PLATE
  332     MEANS IMPARTING ROLLING ACTION TO DISCRETE CHARGE OF STOCK TO
           FORM A BALL
  333     .Molding means having material shaping guideway providing
            arcuate path
  334     SETS OF CONVOLUTING OR TWISTING MEANS
  335     SETS OF SHAPING COUPLES COMPRISING AN ENDLESS SURFACE FOR PRESS
           FORMING, RESHAPING (PLURAL STAGE OR PASS) OR VULCANIZING
  336     .Corrugating means for running length work
  337     .Including intermediate chute, conveyor or guide means
  338     GANG-PRESS, PLURAL PARALLEL LEAVES OR PLATENS
  339     .Reshaping or vulcanizing means including conforming preform
            support
  340     PLURAL RESHAPING MEANS OR PLURAL VULCANIZING MEANS INCLUDING
           CONFORMING PREFORM SUPPORT
  341     .Including plural feeding means for preforms
  342.1   .Including means for contacting work by fluid pressure
  343     .Spaced reshaping or vulcanizing means acting on a single
            preform
  344     PLURAL SETS EACH COMPRISING A FEMALE MOLD AND OPPOSED COAXIAL
           DYNAMIC PRESS MEMBERS
  345     .Molds or press members traveling transversely to molding
            motion
  346     SETS OF MALE-FEMALE PRESS MOLDS
  347     .Traveling female mold
  348 R   ..Orbiting
  349     ...Reciprocable mold, non-reciprocable plunger
  350     ...Including positive downstream ejection means
  348 S   ...Split female mold
  351     .Including positive means to eject product
  352     FEMALE MOLD AND OPPOSED COAXIAL DYNAMIC PRESS MEMBERS
  353     .Mold or press member traveling transversely to molding motion
  354     .Opposed press members simultaneously moving in the same
            direction
  355     .Opposed press members each moving one at a time toward the
            other
  356     PLURAL SHAPING PLUNGERS OR ROLLS COACTING WITH A SINGLE FEMALEE
           MOLD
  357     PLURAL FEMALE MOLD CAVITIES COOPERATING WITH SINGLE PRESS
           MEMBER
  358     .Male-type press member
  359     ..Transversely traveling female mold cavities
  360     ...Orbiting about horizontal axis
  361     ...Orbiting about vertical axis
  362     .Roll press member coacting with endless surface having product
            forming shape imparting cavities
  363     PRESS FORMING MEANS, PRESS RESHAPING MEANS, OR VULCANIZING MEANS
           IS ENDLESS SURFACE TYPE
  364 R   .Endless belt coacting with stationary platen or with
            reciprocating shaping means
  364 B   ..Bagel
  365     .Roll mounted within cooperating drum
  366     .Cooperating rolls having nonparallel axes
  367     .Including means to adjust relative position of a roll
  368     .Expansible roll type
  369     .Means corrugating a preform
  370     ..Endless belt
  371     .Cooperating endless belts
  372     ..Including speed differential means
  373     .Roll and coacting endless belt press member
  374     .Roll and coacting stationary shaping surface
  375     PATTERN CONTROL OF TRAVEL FOR A FORMING MEANS (E.G., DEPOSITING,
           ETC.)
  376.1   STOCK PRESSURIZING MEANS OPERABLY ASSOCIATED WITH
           DOWNSTREAM SHAPING ORIFICE
  377     .Including product handling means
  378.1   .Including heating or cooling means
  378.2   ..Spinneret
  379.1   ..Plural spaced
  380     .Including auxiliary shaping means (e.g., mandrel, etc.)
            associated with molding orifice
  381     ..Movable orifice or movable mounted inner mandrel within
             orifice
  381.2   .Centripetal elastic melt extruder type
  382 R   .Plural orifices
  382.2   ..Spinneret type
  382 N   ..Netting
  382.3   .Including additional rotating means downstream of the
            primary pressurizing means
  382.4   .Including restriction upstream of shaping orifice and
            downstream of primary pressurizing means
  383     PREFORM RESHAPING OR RESIZING MEANS: OR VULCANIZING MEANS
           INCLUDING A CONFORMING PREFORM SUPPORT
  384     .Including both heating and cooling means
  385     .Surface deformation means only
  386     ..Sealing wax type
  387.1   .Including shaping means comprising fluid pressure
            contacting work directly
  388     ..Vacuum or suction means
  389     .By fluid pressure actuated flexible diaphragm
  390     ..Opposed, registering, coacting mold cavities
  391     .Convoluting or twisting means
  392     .Rod or tubular preform
  393     ..Mandrel to interiorly support work and means urging work
             against mandrell
  394     .Coacting shaping surfaces (e.g., pressure surfaces, etc.)
  395     ..Opposed, registering, coacting mold cavities
  396     ..Corrugating platens or dies
  397     ..Including particular handling means for preform
  398     ..Relatively reciprocating plunger and female mold
  399     ...Stationary plunger and reciprocating female mold
  400     ...Including means positioning or centering work
  401     ...Including sprue or vent
  402     .Utilizing rotary motion of work
  403     .Shaping surfaces per se (e.g., mandrel, etc.)
  403.1   .Including product handling means
  404     SHAPING MEANS AND SUBSEQUENT PRODUCT TREATMENT MEANS
  405.1   MEANS TO CREATE A VACUUM OR APPLY FLUID PRESSURE WITHIN A
           PRESS FORMING MOLD
  405.2   .Isostatic type
  406     PRESS FORMING APPARATUS HAVING OPPOSED PRESS MEMBERS
  407     .Including both heating and cooling means
  408     .Opposed, registering, coacting mold cavities
  409     .Pressure applying member mounted for arcuate motion
  410     .Periphery of female mold limiting the movement of a dynamic
            press member
  411     .Opposed press shaping members insertable between opposed
            pressure applying means
  412     .Male shaping member and female mold
  413     ..Including pallet handling means
  414     ..Including means to insert or remove core
  415     ..Female mold movably associated with opposed press surfaces
             position therein
  416     ..Male shaping member penetrating superposed mold
  417     ..Expansible male shaping member
  418     ..Means rotating male shaping members
  419     ..Including means varying pressure of male shaping member during
             pressing
  420     ..Including provision to remove entrained gas
  421     ..Including vibrator or tamper
  422     ..With positive means to remove or eject product
  423     ..Female mold moving into a mating relationship with a male
             shaping member
  424     FEMALE MOLD VIBRATOR OR TAMPER, AND PRODUCT RELEASE MEANS
  425     FEMALE MOLD INCLUDING TAMPING MEANS OR MEANS UTILIZING MOLD
           MOTION TO DISTRIBUTE OR COMPACT STOCK THEREIN
  426     .Relatively moving female type shaping member and internal
            (e.g., trowel, etc.)shaping member
  427     ..Moving internal shaping member, stationary female-type member
  428     ..Including tamper
  429     .Including means imparting diverse motion
  430     ..Plural female molds
  431     .Including tamper
  432     .Means to vibrate shaping surface
  433     .Peripherally supported for rotation on endless belt
  434     .Plural female molds
  435     .Means to rotate female mold about horizontal axis
  436 R   SHAPING SURFACE INCLUDING MEANS TO RELEASE OR REMOVE
           PRODUCT FROM SHAPING SURFACE
  437     .By differential gas pressure ejecting means
  438     .By means releasing article from interiorly placed shaping
            surface
  439     .By means inverting moldd
  440     .By means flexing or deforming the mold
  441     .By movable mold sections
  442     ..Hinged mold sections
  443     ..Sections relatively movable vertically
  444     .By movable ejector means entering mold cavity
  436 RM  .Removal-Miscellaneous
  445     MEANS TREATING SHAPED WORK
  446     .In or on work confining surface
  447     FORMING SURFACE AND MEANS FEEDING FLUENT STOCK THERETO
  448     .Trap measuring compartment (e.g., feed drawer, etc.)
  449     .Utilizing positive charging means
  450.1   MOLD OPENING AND CLOSING MEANS AND SEGMENTED FEMALE MOLD
  451     .Including traveling mold carrier or support
  451.2   .Varying pressure and/or speed closing
  451.3   .Rack and pinion
  451.4   .Rotary cam
  451.5   .Articulated link
  451.6   ..Toggle
  451.7   .Wedge or screw
  451.9   SEGMENTED FEMALE MOLD AND MOLD CLAMPING MEANS
  452     FEMALE MOLD AND PALLET HANDLING MEANS
  453     DYNAMIC SUPPORT OR DYNAMIC CARRIER AND FEMALE MOLD
  454     .Means to raise or lower mold
  456     VIBRATING MEANS (E.G., TAMPING ROD OR JARRING MEANS, ETC.)
           INCLUDING MECHANICAL MOVEMENT OR POWER MEANS
  457     DYNAMIC MALE SHAPING MEANS INCLUDING MECHANICAL MOVEMENT OR
           POWER MEANS
  458     HAND MOVABLE, SUBSTRATE TRAVERSING, PLURAL DIMENSION SHAPING
           MEANS
  459     PROFILE, JIGGER TOOL OR POTTER'S WHEEL PER SE
  460     SHAPING MEMBER FOR TRAVERSING THE INTERIOR SURFACE OF HOLLOW
           WORK
  461     MEANS PROVIDING A SHAPING ORIFICE
  462     .Plural distinct feed inlets
  463     ..Plural distinct shaping orifices
  464     .Single inlet, plural shaping orifices
  465     .Including means forming products with distinct portions of
            varying cross section
  466     .Adjustable shaping orifice or shape imparting insert member
            (e.g., core, etc.)
  467     .Core, pin or insert member
  468     CORE AND POSITIONING MEANS THEREFOR
  469     TAMP ROD, PLUNGER OR MALE SHAPING MEMBER
  470     SHAPING OR CASTING SURFACE (E.G., PLASTERING OR GUNITE TYPE,
           ETC.)
  471     .Endless shaping surface
  472     MISCELLANEOUS
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  *       CROSS-REFERENCE ART COLLECTIONS
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  801     BUTTON
  802     CABLE TUBE OR ROD SPLICING
  803     CANDLE OR CRAYON
  804     CAPSULE MAKING
  805     COMB OR BRUSH
  806     FLASH REMOVAL
  807     LACE TIPPING
  808     LENS MOLDD
  809     SEAL (BOTTLE CAPS ONLY)
  810     SOUND RECORD
  811     STENCIL
  812     VENTING
  813     WATER BOTTLE
  814     ZIPPER
  815     CHEMICALLY INERT OR REACTIVE ATMOSPHERE
  816     GAS MASK
  817 R   MEANS MOLDING PORE FORMABLE MATERIAL
  817 C   .Continuous
  818     BELT
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  *       DIGESTS
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  DIG 1   Accumulator
  DIG 2   Air support
  DIG 3   Appendage
  DIG 4   Back pressure
  DIG 5   Cammed
  DIG 7   Coil
  DIG 9   Cooling and color
  DIG 10  Core positioning
  DIG 11  Dental injection
  DIG 12  Destructible mold and core
  DIG 13  Electric heat
  DIG 14  Expansible and collapsible
  DIG 15  Explosive
  DIG 16  Extrude and mold
  DIG 17  Filament stretching apparatus
  DIG 19  Flexible fluid pressure
  DIG 20  Fluidized bed
  DIG 21  Frictional drive
  DIG 22  Friction heat
  DIG 23  Glazing
  DIG 24  Gora
  DIG 25  Gutter
  DIG 26  High pressure
  DIG 27  Hot water bottle
  DIG 28  Impact
  DIG 29  Jigs and dies
  DIG 30  Laminated mold
  DIG 32  Lipstick
  DIG 33  Magnet
  DIG 34  Morin
  DIG 35  Opposed plunger
  DIG 36  Patching
  DIG 37  Perforate
  DIG 38  Pre-form
  DIG 39  Pre-heat
  DIG 40  Pulling wheel
  DIG 41  Reshape
  DIG 42  Ring
  DIG 43  Rocket fuel core
  DIG 44  Rubber mold
  DIG 45  Safety
  DIG 46  Scrap
  DIG 47  Seal ring
  DIG 48  Sheet clampingg
  DIG 49  Spinnerette mixer
  DIG 50  Spray
  DIG 51  Sprue removal
  DIG 53  Stretch
  DIG 54  Through travel mold
  DIG 55  Teflon
  DIG 56  Telephone
  DIG 57  Toy molding
  DIG 58  Undercut
  DIG 59  United parts
  DIG 60  Vacuum
  DIG 61  Venetian blind
  DIG 101 Aggregate and pellet
  DIG 102 Air ejection
  DIG 105 Brace
  DIG 106 Chamber
  DIG 107 Connection
  DIG 108 Conveyor
  DIG 109 Frangible connections
  DIG 110 Heated mold
  DIG 111 Hollow block
  DIG 112 Inflatable form
  DIG 113 Inner roll
  DIG 115 Lubricator
  DIG 116 Mold cleaning
  DIG 117 Pallet
  DIG 118 Pallet feeder
  DIG 119 Perforated or porous
  DIG 120 Pottery appendage
  DIG 121 Projection
  DIG 122 Reinforcing and aggregate
  DIG 123 Repress
  DIG 124 Rubber matrix
  DIG 125 Sand mold
  DIG 126 Silo mold
  DIG 127 Spring
  DIG 128 Swinging top press
  DIG 129 Wedge
  DIG 130 Wire reinforce
  DIG 131 Yielding plunger
  DIG 132 Portable
  DIG 200 Molding plant(s)
  DIG 201 .Diverse stations
  DIG 202 .Earthenwave type
  DIG 231 .Control for blow molding apparatus
  DIG 217 Spinnerette forming conjugate, composite or hollow
           filaments
  DIG 218 Pipe machine: socket forming apparatus
  DIG 219 With stick inserting means for edible product (e.g.,
           popsicles)
  DIG 221 Injection mold closing and locking clamp, wedge or
           retention means
  DIG 223 Injection mold closing means utilizing variable closing
           pressure
  DIG 224 Injection mold nozzle valve
  DIG 225 .Automatic control
  DIG 226 .Actuated by contact with mold
  DIG 227 Injection nozzle; positioned flush with mold or cavityy
  DIG 228 Injection plunger or ram: transfer molding type
  DIG 229 Injection mold runner valve
  DIG 230 Hay wafering or pelletizing means
  DIG 235 Calendar
  DIG 236 Attenuating
  DIG 237 Varying density foam
  DIG 238 Boat hull mold
  DIG 239 Modular mold
  DIG 240 Pre-fab mold
  DIG 241 Wall panel mold
  DIG 242 Pipe joint seal mold
  DIG 243 Extrusion or injection molding
  DIG 244 Die and matrix
  DIG 245 Heat
  DIG 246 Mold heating
  DIG 247 Multipart injection molds
  DIG 248 Uniting
  DIG 249 Character