D
SECTION D — TEXTILES AND PAPER
  
TEXTILES AND FLEXIBLE MATERIALS NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
 D01
NATURAL OR ARTIFICIAL THREADS OR FIBRES; SPINNING (metal threads B21; fibres or filaments of softened glass, minerals, or slag C03B 37/00; yarns D02)
 D01

Note(s)

In this class, the following words are used with the meanings indicated:

  1. "fibre" means a relatively-short, elongated member of natural or artifical material.
  2. "filament" means an endless or quasi-endless, elongated member of natural or artificial material.
  3. "yarn" means a unitary assembly of fibres, usually produced by spinning.
  4. "thread" means an assembly of yarns or filaments, usually produced by twisting.

 D01C
CHEMICAL TREATMENT OF NATURAL FILAMENTARY OR FIBROUS MATERIAL TO OBTAIN FILAMENTS OR FIBRES FOR SPINNING; CARBONISING RAGS TO RECOVER ANIMAL FIBRES
 D01C

Note(s)

Attention is drawn to the note following the class title of class D01.

 D01C 1/00
Treatment of vegetable material
 D01C 1/02
·  by chemical methods to obtain bast fibres
 D01C 1/04
·  Bacteriological retting
 D01C 3/00
Treatment of animal material, e.g. chemical scouring of wool (recovery of lanolin or wool wax C11B 11/00)
 D01C 3/02
·  De-gumming silk
 D01C 5/00
Carbonising rags to recover animal fibres (chemical removal of vegetable impurities from threads or fabrics of animal fibres D06M)