CLASS 112 SEWING 112 - 1

112 SEWING 400 PRODUCTS 430 ...Interlooped floating strands 401 .Uniplanar sectional web, sheet, or strand portions or layer 431 ...Around aperture (e.g., 402 .Sewn web or sheet buttonhole) 403 ..Including decomposable thread 432 ...Connecting parallel straight or component lines of stitching 404 ..Including feathers, beads, or 433 ....Included in overedge reflective material stitching 405 ..With longitudinally non- 434 ....Uniting contiguous components coextensive super-imposed 435 .....Plural intersecting float panel or sheet threads 406 ..Including external fastener 436 ...Incorporated with or held by sewn thereto overedge stitching 407 ...Hook and/or eye 437 ..Apertured or open-work (e.g., 408 ...Button buttonhole) 409 ..Fringed 438 ..Chain stitch 410 ..Tufted or looped surface 439 ..Ornamental stitching (e.g., 411 ...With tufts or loops formed by embroidery) floating strandlike portions 440 ..United components 412 ..Of strands or strand portions 441 ...By stitching along edge joined by sewing 2 SPECIAL MACHINES 413 ..Elastic strand or component 2.1 .Mattress sewing 414 ...Including non-planar component 2.2 ..Tufting 415 ..Specific strand arrangement or 4 .Jacquard card sewing relationship 6 .Broom sewing 416 ...Knitted, netted, or knotted 7 .Carpet sewing 417 ..With strip, strand, or strand 8 ..Clamps portion between layers or 9 .Rug sewing components 10 .Bag sewing 418 ..With strip sewn in or over seam 11 .Sewing filled sacks or over edge (e.g., welt or 12 .Sewing hats stay) 13 ..Work supports 419 ...Channel-shaped edge binding 14 ...Rotary 420 ..Fibrous or particulate layer 15 ..Guides and pages between other layers 16 .Glove and fur sewing 421 ..Including component of varying 17 ..Dyeing feature thickness 18 ..Work holding and feeding 422 ..Non-planar uniform-thickness 19 ...Clamp material 20 ..Guiding 423 ...Bent flange or reverse fold at 21 .Book sewing edge 22 ..Knotting 424 ....Including concealed or blind 23 .Straw braid stitching 24 .Straw sewing 425 .....Overedge or along offset 25 .Looped fabrics fold 26 ..Preparing 426 ....Included in seam joining 27 ..Work holding and feeding contiguous components 28 .Leather sewing 427 ...Pleated, tucked, or shirred ..Shoe sole 428 ...Plural components 29 ...Separating and indenting 429 ..Filamentary material or 30 ...Tack pulling strandlike tape sewn to 31 ...Fair stitch surface 32 ...Loop lock 33 ...Tongue lock

May 2008 112 - 2 CLASS 112 SEWING

34 ...Chain stitch 80.06 ....Having non-eyed needle 35 ....Curved needle 80.07 ...Yarn manipulation by fluid 36 ...Lock stitch flow 37 ....Curved needle 80.08 ....Having hollow needle 38 .....Oscillating and rotating 80.15 ...Dual sided shuttle 80.16 ...Including hollow or channelled 39 ...Back gauges and rests needle 40 ...Guards 80.17 ...Including non-eyed needle 41 ..Heating 80.18 ...With condition responsive stop 42 ..Waxing motion means 43 ..Lubricating and moistening 80.23 ...With optical, electronic, or 44 ..Welt slitting and beveling magnetic pattern program means 45 ..Channeling 80.24 ....Having pattern drum 46 ..Welt handling 80.3 ...With specific fabric 47 ..Feeding supporting, manipulating, 48 ...Awl cutting, or treating means 49 ...Needle 80.31 ....Means to shift fabric 50 ..Channel guides laterally of feed 51 ..Edge and crease guides 80.32 ....Means to feed fabric 52 ..Welt guides 80.33 ....Fabric vertically moveable at 53 ..Chain stitch tufting position 54 ..Lock stitch 80.4 ...Including specific needle ..Thread handling supporting or manipulating 55 ...Orbital-movement loopers means 56 ...Cast-offs 80.41 ....Means to shift needle 57 ...Take-ups laterally of fabric feed 58 ...Pull-offs 80.42 ....Means to vertically adjust 59 ...Tensions stroke 60 ..Presser devices 80.43 ....Means to selectively drive one of plural needles 61 ...Locking 80.44 ....Means to disconnect needle 62 ..Work supports and drive 63 .Tube forming 80.45 ....Supporting structure 64 .Fringe forming 80.5 ...Including specific loop 65 .Buttonhole catcher 66 ..Eyelet making 80.51 ....Bill with clip or gate 67 ..Start and stop mechanism 80.52 ....Plural loop catchers having 68 ..Cutting different shapes or 69 ..Thrum mechanism orientations 70 ..Clamp feeding 80.53 .....Stationary relative to one 71 ...With rotatable needle bar another 72 ...Right line and rotary 80.54 ....Variable height loops 73 ...Vibrating needle 80.55 ....With loop cutting means 74 ...Spreading 80.56 .....Selective cutting means 75 ...Gauging 80.57 .....Rotary cutter 76 ...Clamps 80.58 .....Knife pivots on loop catcher 77 ...Attachments 80.59 .....Cutting means stationary .Embroidering 78 relative to loop catcher ..Tufting (replacing subclass 79) 80.01 80.6 .....Including supporting 80.02 ...Rooting hair in doll or wig structure (e.g., knife block) 80.03 ...Hand implement 80.7 ...Including specific yarn 80.04 ....With power drive manipulating, cutting, or 80.05 ....Having hollow or channelled treating means needle

May 2008 CLASS 112 SEWING 112 - 3

80.71 ....Cutting or treating means 470.06 ..Positionable work carrier under 80.72 ....Feed via intermeshing slats electronic pattern or program 80.73 ....Feed roller control 81 ..Hemstitch 470.07 ...For workpiece edge sewing 82 ...Universal feed 470.08 ...For stocking 83 ..Horizontal needle 470.09 ..Positionable work carrier under 84 ...Pattern controlled mechanical pattern or program 85 ....Boring control 86 ....Fabric shifting 470.11 ...Spiral pattern 87 ...Stopping 470.12 .Traveling sewing machine 88 ...Article attaching 470.13 ..Multidirectional or rotational 89 ...Boring 470.14 .Positionable work carrier 90 ...Fabric shifting 470.15 ..For stocking 91 ....Balancing 470.16 ..For folding the work 92 ....Spring 470.17 ..For stitching in a circle 93 ...Stitch forming 470.18 ..Driving mechanism for work 94 ....Short thread carrier 95 ....Shuttle type 470.19 .Feather sewing machine 96 ....Thread take-up 470.21 .Stringer 97 ....Thread tension 470.22 ..With knotter 98 ..Vertical needle 470.23 .For sewing same length stranded 99 ...Attaching ornaments material together 100 ....Thread 470.24 ..Fabric tuft 101 .....Attachments 470.25 .For making shoe sole of plant 102 ...Fabric shifting stalk material (e.g., hemp, 102.5 ....Electronic pattern controlled jute, straw, etc.) or programmed 470.26 .Necktie 103 ....Frames 470.27 .Upholstery 104 .Article attaching 470.28 .Having drag clamp 105 ..Hook and eye 470.29 .Having tube end tensioner 106 ...Feeding 470.31 .For sewing plural workpieces 107 ...Carriers under tension 108 ..Eye-shank button 470.32 ..Differential feed of plural 109 ...Vibrating needle workpieces 110 ..Flat button 470.33 .Elongated article 111 ...Vibrated needle 470.34 ..For attaching a belt loop 112 ...Vibrated clamp 470.35 .Spherical object 113 ..Feeding 470.36 .With diverse downstream 114 ..Clamps operation 115 ..Attachments WORK MANIPULATING 116 .Crocheting 122 .Trimmers 117 .Quilting 122.1 ..Having specified stitching mechanism 118 ..Fabric shifting 122.2 ...Pinker 119 ...Frames 122.3 ..Rotary cutter 120 .Infolding 122.4 ...Pinker 121 .Darning 125 ..Manual control 470.01 .Pattern controlled or programmed 126 ..Laterally adjustable 470.02 ..With stitch counter 127 ..Ply separating 470.03 ..Material sensing and subsequent feed adjustment 128 ..Needle-bar operated 470.04 ..Operator controlled data entry 129 ..Cutters means 130 .Severing 470.05 ..With means for performing a 131 .Creasers and markers diverse operation 132 .Rufflers and gatherers

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133 ..Smocking 458 ....Including pattern selection 134 ..Attachments means 135 ...Vibrating blade 459 ...Having cam actuation of needle 136 .Guides or material feed 137 ..Binders 460 ....Including detachable cam 138 ...Strip reversing 461 ....And specified material feed 139 ..Braiders and corders 462 .....And fine adjustment of 140 ..Blind stitch stitch width or material feed 141 ..Hemmers 463 .....And plural, selectively used 142 ...Lap seam cams 143 ...Adjustable 464 ....Including fine adjustment of 144 ..Tucking stitch width 145 ...Box plait 465 ....Including plural, selectively 146 ...Spacing used cams 147 ..Folding 466 .....And plural followers 148 ..Fabric holding 467 ...Having specified looptaker 149 ..Fringe turning structure 150 ..Pressure 160 ..Surging 151 ..Presser bar attached 161 ..Purling 152 ..Strip 162 .Overseaming 153 ..Edge 163 .Multiple needle 154 STITCH FORMING 164 ..Shuttle type 155 .Multiple machines 165 ..Chain and double chain 156 .Knot tying 166 ...Multiple looper 157 .Zigzag 167 ..Adjustable 443 ..Vibrating needle 168 .Convertible 159 ...Shifting looper 169 .Hand implements 444 ...Having indicator 170 .Short thread 445 ....And specified electronic 171 ..Double-pointed needle memory 172 ..Overedge 446 ...Closed pattern sewing (e.g., 173 .Running stitch buttonhole) 174 ..Crimping 447 ....Including electronic memory 175 ..Stationary needle 448 ....Having cam actuation of 176 .Blind stitch needle or material feed 177 ..Overseaming 449 .....And means to change, without 178 ..Work handling operator intervention, stitch 179 .False hemstitch width, or material feed 180 .Bobbin ejector 450 ...Basting stitch or skipping 181 .Revolving-hook type stitch 182 ..Timing 451 ...Backstitch 183 ..Reciprocating bobbin 452 ...Having multiple needles 184 ..Vertical axis 453 ...Having electronic memory 185 .Shuttle type 454 ....Plural diverse patterns in 186 ..Shuttle replenishing series 187 ..Loop spreaders 455 ....Having computer control of 188 ..Bobbin latch linkage intermediate motor and 189 ..Rotary needle or material feed 190 ...Timing 456 ....Including means to calculate 191 ...Vertical axis needle or material feed 192 ..Oscillatory parameters 193 ...Vertical axis 457 ....Including programmable or 194 ..Reciprocatory detachable memory 195 ...Longitudinal 196 ..Holders and raceways

May 2008 CLASS 112 SEWING 112 - 5

197 .Chain or double chain 221 ..Needle 198 ..Hooked needle 222 .Needles 199 ..Oscillating or reciprocating 223 ..Thread releasing looper 224 ..Threading structure 200 ..Four-motion looper 225 ..Setting and threading 201 ..Rotating looper attachments 202 ..Vertical-axis looper 226 ..Clamping 303 .Feeding work material 227 ..Guiding 304 ..By endless conveyor 228 .Revolving hooks 305 ..Under tension 229 ..Bobbin tensioning 306 ..Having means to align work 230 ..Sectional 307 ..Work of indeterminate length 231 ..Bobbin holders and casings 308 ..Having curvate feature 232 .Shuttles 309 ...Capable of feeding through 360 233 ..Tensioning degrees 234 ..Longitudinally reciprocating 310 ..Needle and helper 235 .Presser devices 311 ..Clamp type 236 ..Embroidering and darning 312 ..Plural differential feed means 237 ..Lifting 313 ...Having adjustment feature 238 ...With tension release 314 ..Having adjustment feature 239 ...Automatic 315 ...Stitch length 240 ..Detachable connections 316 ....Reversible feed direction 241 .Take-ups 317 ...Reversible feed direction 242 ..Pull-offs 318 ...Rotary feed 243 ...Automatic control 319 ...Intermittent feed 244 ..Presser-bar controlled 320 ..Engaging upper side of work 245 ..Needle-bar actuated material 246 ..Adjustable 321 ...Needle acts as feed means 247 ..Resilient 322 ..Rotary feed 248 ..Rotary 323 ..Four motion feed 249 ..Stationary cam 324 ..Feed dog structure 250 ..Clamp carrying 217 .Seam finishing 285 .Thread cutting, severing or 217.1 WITH TABLES OR STANDS breaking 217.2 .For plural sewing units 286 ..With thread wiping 217.3 .With power control or clutch 287 ..With thread disposal by air 217.4 ..Conversion of foot-treadle flow driven machine 288 ..Thread chain 270 ELEMENTS 289 ..Rotary type 271 .Starting or stopping 290 ..Hot wire type 272 ..Work sensing 291 ..Upper and lower threads 273 ..Thread sensing 292 ...Single cutter 274 ..With element positioning 293 ..Upper thread 275 ...Electrically operated 294 ...Scissors type 276 ..Fluid operated or controlled 295 ...Single blade cutter 277 ..Electrically operated or 296 ..Lower thread controlled 297 ...Scissors type 278 .Thread sensing 298 ...Single blade cutter 279 .Bobbin winding 299 ..Manual control 280 .Cooling 300 ..Electrically actuated 281 ..Needle 301 ..Fluid actuated 282 .Waste extraction 253 .Thread end clamps 283 .Fly wheels 302 .Thread guiding or handling 284 .Linkage systems 254 .Tensioning 220 .Driving mechanisms 255 ..Intermittent

May 2008 112 - 6 CLASS 112 SEWING

256 .Lubricating 257 .Attachment holders 258 .Frames 259 ..Heads 260 ..Work supports 261 .Guards 475.01 METHOD OF SEWING 475.02 .Material sensing 475.03 ..Workpiece edge guiding 475.04 .Workpiece manipulation other than straight line feeding 475.05 ..Workpiece manipulation according to calculated data or operator produced recording 475.06 ..Folding workpiece 475.07 ..Delivering or removing workpiece to or from a sewing machine 475.08 .On specified product 475.09 ..Garment 475.11 ...Headwear 475.12 ...Stocking (e.g., sock, hose, pantyhose, etc.) 475.13 ...Trousers 475.14 .Attaching fastener 475.15 ..Button 475.16 ..Zipper 475.17 .Stitch forming 475.18 ..Embroidery 475.19 ...Electronically stored pattern 475.21 ...Edging 475.22 ...Relief 475.23 ...Pile type 475.24 ..Blind stitch forming 475.25 ..Buttonhole finishing or forming 475.26 ..Overedge stitch forming 1 MISCELLANEOUS

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