|  | D |
SECTION D — TEXTILES; PAPER

TEXTILES OR FLEXIBLE MATERIALS NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR

|  | D06 |
TREATMENT OF TEXTILES OR THE LIKE; LAUNDERING; FLEXIBLE MATERIALS NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR

|  | D06B |
TREATING TEXTILE MATERIALS BY LIQUIDS, GASES, OR VAPOURS (applying liquids to surfaces in general Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...B05; conveying in general, handling webs or filaments in general Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...B65; treating leather Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...C14C; mechanical removal of impurities from animal fibres Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...D01B; laundering Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...D06F; chemical matters, see Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...D06L-D06Q) [2]

|  | D06B |
Note(s) In this subclass, the following terms or expressions are used with the meaning indicated: "fabric" includes yarns in warp or sheet form; [2] "textile material" includes fabrics, yarns or other fibrous materials; [2] "indefinite length" means an extent of material having the characteristic that the longitudinal dimension is effectively infinite in so far as the procedure for advancing or moving the material is concerned. [3]

|  | D06B |
Subclass index
FLUID TREATMENT |
Applying to the surface of, or forcing through, material | 1/00, 5/00
Passing material through the treating fluid | 3/00
Solvent-treating | 9/00
Local treating | 11/00
Mercerising | 7/00
Other treatments | 13/00, 17/00, 19/00, 21/00
REMOVAL OF TREATING FLUID | 15/00
GENERAL APPARATUS | 23/00

|  | D06C |
FINISHING, DRESSING, TENTERING, OR STRETCHING TEXTILE FABRICS (chemical matters, see Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...D06L-D06Q; drying Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...F26B) [2]

|  | D06C |
Note(s) In this subclass, the following term is used with meaning indicated: "fabric" includes yarns in warp or sheet form.

|  | D06C |
Subclass index
GENERAL TREATMENTS |
Without elimination of material |
heating or cooling | 7/00
stretching or tentering; shaping or stretching; shrinking by compressing | 3/00; 5/00; 21/00
calendering, ironing, or glazing; fulling; breaking or softening | 15/00; 17/00; 19/00
With slight elimination of material |
singeing; teasing or napping; shearing or cropping | 9/00; 11/00; 13/00
For decoration | 23/00
SPECIAL TREATMENTS |
Making patterns or designs | 23/00
Treating selvedges or edges | 25/00
FINISHING OR DRESSING NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR |
Compound processes or apparatus; other treatments | 27/00; 29/00

|  | D06F |
LAUNDERING, DRYING, IRONING, PRESSING OR FOLDING TEXTILE ARTICLES (apparatus for blocking, pressing, steaming, or stretching hats Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...A42C; treating textile materials by liquids, gases or vapors Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...D06B; chemical matters, see Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...D06L, Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...D06M)

|  | D06F |
Note(s) This subclass covers: domestic or laundry dry-cleaning apparatus using volatile solvents; domestic, laundry, or tailors' ironing or other hot-pressing of clothes, linen, or other textile articles. This subclass does not cover apparatus for wringing, washing, dry-cleaning, ironing, or other hot-pressing of textiles in manufacturing operations, which is covered by subclasses Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...D06B, Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...D06C.

|  | D06F |
Subclass index
RECEPTACLES; REMOVABLE DEVICES FOR USE WITH DIFFERENT RECEPTACLES | 1/00; 7/00
HAND WASHING IMPLEMENTS |
Receptacles; hand rubbing apparatus; miscellaneous implements | 1/00; 3/00; 5/00
WASHING MACHINES |
using brushes, rollers | 9/00, 11/00
with stationary receptacle: using agitators; using beating or squeezing means; with agitation of liquid; with additional drying means | 13/00; 15/00; 17/00; 18/00
with moving receptacle |
with rotary movement, e.g. oscillatory: for washing; for washing and draining; for washing and draining with additional drying means | 21/00; 23/00; 25/00
with bodily movements, e.g. reciprocating or swinging | 27/00
using vibrations for washing | 19/00
Details of above machines | 1/00, 7/00, 37/00, 39/00
Combinations with other apparatus or machines | 29/00, 31/00
Control of washing operations | 33/00
Other washing machines or methods | 35/00
RINSING APPARATUS | 29/00, 41/00
DRY-CLEANING | 43/00
EXPELLING WATER FROM LINEN; SMOOTHING BY COLD ROLLING |
by rollers; by presses | 45/00; 47/00
by centrifugal movement of the receptacle | 23/00, 25/00, 49/00
Apparatus not otherwise provided for | 51/00
DRYING; AIRING |
Clothes-lines; clothes-pegs; other supporting means | 53/00; 55/00; 57/00
Driers | 58/00
Special supports retaining shape of articles to be dried | 59/00
IRONING; PRESSING |
Ironing |
by hand: |
Irons; accessories; ironing boards | 75/00; 77/00, 79/00; 81/00
by machine: |
using rollers; using rollers coacting with table; using rollers coacting with curved surfaces | 61/00; 63/00; 65/00
Details | 67/00
Other ironing machines | 69/00
Pressing |
Hot or cold pressing; smoothing by use of formers with heat or steam | 71/00; 73/00
Coverings or pads for equipment, elements interposed between article and ironing or pressing surface | 83/00, 85/00
AUXILIARY APPARATUS; LAUNDRY SYSTEMS |
Conditioning; folding; starching; counting, sorting, marking | 87/00; 89/00; 91/00; 93/00
Laundry systems, arrangements of apparatus or machines | 95/00

|  | D06G |
MECHANICAL OR PRESSURE CLEANING OF CARPETS, RUGS, SACKS, HIDES, OR OTHER SKIN OR TEXTILE ARTICLES OR FABRICS; TURNING INSIDE-OUT FLEXIBLE TUBULAR OR OTHER HOLLOW ARTICLES (mechanical preparation or mechanical treatment of bed feathers Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...B68G 3/00)

|  | D06H |
MARKING, INSPECTING, SEAMING, OR SEVERING TEXTILE MATERIALS (seaming by sewing Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...D05B; in connection with manufacturing, see the relevant subclasses)

|  | D06H |
Subclass index
MARKING, METERING, INSPECTING | 1/00, 3/00
SEAMING BY PROCESSES NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR | 5/00
APPARATUS OR PROCESSES FOR CUTTING OR OTHERWISE SEVERING | 7/00

|  | D06J |
PLEATING, KILTING, OR GOFFERING TEXTILE FABRICS OR WEARING APPAREL (corrugating, creasing, or otherwise deforming paper, or material worked in a manner analogous to paper, without removing material Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...B31F; by weaving Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...D03D; by sewing Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...D05B; apparatus for pressing or setting formed pleats Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...D06C)

|  | D06L |
BLEACHING, e.g. OPTICAL BLEACHING, DRY-CLEANING, OR WASHING FIBRES, THREADS, YARNS, FABRICS, FEATHERS, OR MADE-UP FIBROUS GOODS; BLEACHING LEATHER OR FURS (treatment of fibres or filaments of glass, mineral wool, or slag wool Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...C03; chemical treatment of fibrous material to obtain fibres for spinning Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...D01; for mechanical matters, see Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...D06B, Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...D06C, Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...D06F; bleaching paper pulp or cotton linters Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...D21)

|  | D06L |
Note(s) Processes using enzymes or micro-organisms in order to: liberate, separate or purify a pre-existing compound or composition, or to treat textiles or clean solid surfaces of materials are further classified in subclass Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...C12S. [5]

|  | D06M |
TREATMENT, NOT PROVIDED FOR ELSEWHERE IN CLASS Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...D06, OF FIBRES, THREADS, YARNS, FABRICS, FEATHERS, OR FIBROUS GOODS MADE FROM SUCH MATERIALS (surface treatment of fibres or filaments from glass, minerals or slags Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...C03C 25/00; treatment of textiles by mechanical means, see Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...D06B-D06J)

|  | D06M |
Note(s) In each of the groups Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...D06M 11/00-D06M 15/00, in the absence of an indication to the contrary, a substance is classified in the last appropriate place. [5] In this subclass: Within each one of main groups Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...D06M 11/00-D06M 15/00, a mixture of substances is classified at least according to the essential ingredient. If more than one ingredient is essential, the mixture is classified, in the absence of an indication to the contrary, according to the essential ingredient which belongs to the last appropriate place in the sequence of substance. Treatment by mixtures of substances covered by two or more of main groups Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...D06M 11/00-D06M 15/00 is classified in each appropriate main group. [5] In this subclass, the treatment of textiles, not provided for elsewhere in class Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...D06, is classified according to the following principles: Treatment of textiles characterised by the treating agent in groups Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...D06M 11/00-D06M 16/00. Treatment of textiles characterised by the process in group Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...D06M 23/00. [5] Processes using enzymes or micro-organisms in order to: liberate, separate or purify a pre-existing compound or composition, or to treat textiles or clean solid surfaces of materials are further classified in subclass Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...C12S. [5]

|  | D06M |
Subclass index
TREATMENT OF FIBRES, THREADS, YARNS, FABRICS, OR FIBROUS ARTICLES |
with inorganic substances | 11/00
with non-macromolecular organic substances | 13/00
graft polymerisation | 14/00
with macromolecular substances | 15/00
BIOCHEMICAL TREATMENT | 16/00
PHYSICAL TREATMENT | 10/00
TREATMENT CHARACTERISED BY THE PROCESS | 23/00
TREATMENT OF FEATHERS | 19/00
PRODUCING MULTI-LAYER FABRICS | 17/00

|  | D06N |
WALL, FLOOR, OR LIKE COVERING MATERIALS, e.g. LINOLEUM, OILCLOTH, ARTIFICIAL LEATHER, ROOFING FELT, CONSISTING OF A FIBROUS WEB COATED WITH A LAYER OF MACROMOLECULAR MATERIAL; FLEXIBLE SHEET MATERIAL NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR (laminates in general Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...B32B; coated webs which retain the character of paper or cardboard Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...D21)

|  | D06N |
Note(s) Layered products classified in this subclass are also classified in subclass Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...B32B.

|  | D06P |
DYEING OR PRINTING TEXTILES; DYEING LEATHER, FURS, OR SOLID MACROMOLECULAR SUBSTANCES IN ANY FORM (for mechanical matters, see Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...B41F, Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...D06B, Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...D06C printing on surfaces of materials other than textiles Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...B41M; surface treatment of fibres or filaments from glass, minerals, or slags Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...C03C 25/00; mordanting Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...D06M; dyeing paper Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...D21H)

|  | D06P |
Note(s) Processes using enzymes or micro-organisms in order to: liberate, separate or purify a pre-existing compound or composition, or to treat textiles or clean solid surfaces of materials are further classified in subclass Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...C12S. [5]

|  | D06P |
Subclass index
DYEING OR PRINTING PROCESSES |
Classified according to dyes or auxiliary agents | 1/00
Classified according to material treated | 3/00
Combined with mechanical treatment | 7/00
OTHER FEATURES, e.g. AFTER-TREATMENT, RESERVE DYEING OR PRINTING | 5/00

|  | D06Q |
DECORATING TEXTILES (for treatment of textiles by mechanical means, see Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...D06B-D06J; metallising the entire surface of textiles Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...D06M 11/83; textile threads, filaments, yarns or tow, glued on macromolecular material Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...D06N 7/00; dyeing or printing Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...D06P) [5]

|  | D06Q |
Note(s) In this subclass, the following term is used with the meaning indicated: "decorating" means "local treatment" or "local effects produced" as to change, e.g. optically, the appearance or the properties of textile materials. [5]