US PATENT SUBCLASS 144 / 4.8
.~.~ Printing or marking


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144 /   HD   WOODWORKING

2.1  DF  SPECIAL-WORK MACHINE {34}
3.1  DF  .~ Combined {25}
4.8.~.~ Printing or marking


DEFINITION

Classification: 144/4.8

Printing or marking:

(under subclass 3.1) Special work machine wherein the second structure is particularly adapted to placing an identifying coating on a workpiece, which coating may comprise recognizable indicia.

SEE OR SEARCH CLASS

101, Printing, for a process of or apparatus for placing a recognizable indicia on a workpiece, generally. Generally speaking, the recording of intelligence by cutting is proper subject matter for Class 101, Printing. More particularly, individual cases of cutting machines or method may be tested for aptness to Class 101 by reference to the following statements: (a) A patent for a machine or process for cutting on or adjacent the printed or written matter on a document to prevent unauthorized or fraudulent alteration of such matter due to the proximity of the cut surfaces to the printed or written matter (e.g., check protecting) will be placed originally in Class 101,

3.1+, ; (b) A patent for a machine or process for cutting work in the form of a character, a design, or a pattern which will impart information to an observer is proper for Class 101, subclasses 3.1+, if a cut is disclosed as extending only part way through the thickness of the work (e.g., embossing). If all of the cuts forming such character, design, or pattern are disclosed as extending all the way through the thickness of the work, and the work is of wood, the patent will be found in Class 144; (c) If in addition to a cutting machine or process of this class 144 there is claimed a means or step peculiar to Class 101 (e.g., the application of ink to the cutting tool to additionally outline or mark an aperture made by the punch), such an addition has been considered sufficient to place a patent directed to such combination in Class 101, subclasses 3.1+. This is in accordance with the general rule that a patent for a combination of cutting with another treatment of the work will be placed in the class of the other treatment; (d) An original patent claiming both the process and apparatus for the manufacture of stencils by cutting, or only such process, will be found in Class 101, subclass 128.4.

118, Coating Apparatus, for means to place a coating on a workpiece.

401, Coating Implements With Material Supply, for a pencil which may be used to mark a wood workpiece.