US PATENT SUBCLASS 432 / 10
.~.~ Localized treating or shielding of work area


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432 /   HD   HEATING

1  DF  PROCESSES OF HEATING OR HEATER OPERATION {14}
9  DF  .~ Treating an article, container, batch or body as a unit {3}
10.~.~ Localized treating or shielding of work area


DEFINITION

Classification: 432/10

(under subclass 9) Process in which heating, cooling or other treatment is concentrated on a section of the entity; or a section of the entity is shielded from heating, cooling or other treatment.

SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:

62, for a heater having a mask, baffle, or conductor concentrating heat on, or protecting a section of an article.

123, for a work handler outside a heating chamber supporting work partially within the chamber.

184, for a heating chamber having an opening through which an article is partially inserted into the chamber to be heated.

225, for a heat applicator mounted on or assembled about a work article.

SEE OR SEARCH CLASS 53, Package Making,

477, for a process involving closing a package and heat sealing it at a localized area.

83, Cutting,

16, for a cutting process having an ancillary heating of a localized area.

148, Metal Treatment, particularly

194+, for processes of chemical heat-removing (e.g., flame-cutting, etc.) or burning of metal, subclasses 210+ for processes of carburizing or nitriding of a selected area or zone of metal, or subclass 627 and subclasses 639-644 for localized or zone heating of iron base alloys.