(under the class definition) Apparatus including means to bend a woven or knitted fabric to enclose in it the material compacted.
(1) Note. In the patents classified herein the covering material is always folded about the material compacted as distinguished from devices in which textile bags are filled with material to be compacted and pressed in such bags, the bags being closed by means other than by folding, such devices being in this class, subclasses 122+.
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122+, and see (1) Note above.
298, for apparatus for removing a cloth from a compacted cake.
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53, Package Making, and appropriate subclasses, for apparatus for making commercial packages by enclosing material with a cover made from sheet material stock, and especially 523+, for such apparatus involving compacting the materials which are so enclosed.
