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Class Number: 401
Class Title: COATING IMPLEMENTS WITH MATERIAL SUPPLY
Subclass Subclass
Number Title
1 WITH MEANS TO IMPART HEAT TO MATERIAL
2 .At discharge portion of implement
3 INCLUDING HEAT-INSULATING HANDLE
4 WITH MEANS TO AGITATE MATERIAL IN RESERVOIR
5 INCLUDING MEANS TO REGULATE COATING THICKNESS
6 WITH MEANS TO ATTACH OR CONFORM TO BODY OF USER
7 .Hand-or finger-receiving pocket
8 .Hand-or finger loop or strap
9 INCLUDING TOOL(S) FOR CURVED OR PLURAL WORK SURFACE(S)
10 .Confronting tool faces
11 .Concave tool face
12 ..For buttering ear corn
13 WITH MEANS TO WITHDRAW MATERIAL FROM WORK SURFACE INTO STORAGE
14 WITH SURFACE-PROTECTING BUMPER
15 WITH SPLASH GUARD OR DRIP CATCHER
16 DIVERSE COATING TOOLS
17 .Each with individual supply
18 .Separable for independent use
19 .Including solid material for rubbing contact
20 ..Pencil and bifurcate nib pen
21 .Including ball, roller or endless-belt tool
22 .Simultaneously operative along same path
23 .Including porous tool through which material flows
24 ..And brush, broom, or mop
25 .Including blade-like, pad-like, or apertured tool
26 ..Apertured tool
27 ..Including means for dispensing material directly to work
surface
28 MULTIPLE-TIP MULTIPLE-DISCHARGE TOOL (E.G., MASSAGE TOOL)
29 PLURAL TOOLS INCLUDING PROJECTABLE AND RETRACTABLE TOOL
30 .Single actuator for simultaneous projection of one tool and
retraction of another
31 .Including individual actuators
32 .Selective individual projection by single actuator
33 ..With retraction spring
34 PLURAL EXPOSED TOOLS EACH WITH INDIVIDUAL SUPPLY
35 .Side-by-side
36 INCLUDING MEANS FOR SUPPLYING MATERIAL ALTERNATIVELY TO EACH OF
PLURAL TOOLS
37 PLURAL TOOLS WITH SUPPLY TO LESS THAN ALL
38 .Including supply container and independent applicator
39 .Brush, broom or mop
40 CONCENTRATED MATERIAL AND LIQUID CARRIER
41 .Concentrated material in or adjacent reservoir outlet or
feeder
42 ..Including conduit supply means for liquid carrier
43 ...And bypass for liquid carrier
44 SEPARATE FEED FROM PLURAL SUPPLY MEANS TO TOOL OR TO WORK
45 .Selective feed
46 ..Including conduit supply means
47 .Diverse materials supplied
48 WITH MEANS SUPPORTING OR STABILIZING IMPLEMENT IN USEE
49 SOLID MATERIAL FOR RUBBING CONTACT OR SUPPORT THEREFOR
50 .With means for severing portion of sheath or for shaping tool
(e.g., pencil sharpener)
51 ..Orbiting blade
52 .Combined
53 .Including means to limit tool projection
54 .Cushioned tool
55 .Including means to advance material
56 ..Including means to selectively replenish guide
57 ..Including means to sequentially replenish guide
58 ..With reinforcement for tool
59 ..Inter-related with movable closure
60 ...Closure-actuated advancing means
61 ..Including removable cap for inactivating advancing means
62 ..And additional means to retract from operative position
63 ..And means to eject piece from advancing means
64 ...Including screw-feed means for both carrier and ejector
65 ..Step-by-step
66 ...Rack and pawl mechanism
67 ...Alternately grasping chucks
68 ..Screw feed
69 ...Compound screw
70 ...With means to disengage screw-feed members
71 ...Oppositely oriented helices
72 ...Material utilized as threaded advancing element
73 ...Breech loading implement
74 ...With retrograde-movement retarder
75 ...Including means to positively transmit rotation to sliding
screw-feed member
76 ....Keyed blade-like or eye-headed screw member
77 ....By pin and slot coupling
78 .....Including carrier for piece of material
79 ...Directly actuatable cam members
80 ..With resilient braking means
81 ..By spring pressure
82 ..Including manual actuator
83 ...And latch
84 ...And retrograde-movement preventer
85 ..With storage chamber for additional piece(s)
86 ..Including specific element-coupling or retaining means
87 ..Including specific carrier or guide
88 .Including holder
89 ..With storage chamber for additional material
90 ...Including means to selectively or sequentially replenish
guide
91 ..Expendable sheath and use-condition point-protector
92 ..Including chuck
93 ...And annular clamp for chuck jaws
94 ....Spring-urged clamp
95 ..Including means to increase effective length
96 ..Expendable sheath
97 ...Sectional, scored or weakened
98 ..And removable cap for tool
99 PROJECTABLE AND RETRACTABLE TOOL
100 .Magnetically projected, retracted, or latched
101 .With means to apply force on material in reservoir
102 .Retraction by application of removable closure cap
103 .Tip-pressure projectionn
104 .Clasp (e.g., Pocket Clip) associated with project-retract means
or with latch
105 ..Clasp passage blocked when tool is projected
106 ...By reception of clasp within implement wall recess
107 .With movable closure or gate
108 ..Interrelated with tool moving means
109 .Including retraction spring and projected-position retainer
110 ..Retainer guided in orbital path (e.g., rotary indexing)
111 ...And mechanical-movement actuator
112 ..Including laterally or circumferentially movable keeper
113 ...And separate release member
114 ....For releasing flexibly-biased keeper
115 .Projection by movement of implement
116 .By screw mechanism
117 .Manually reciprocable sleeve
118 SUPPLY CONTAINER AND INDEPENDENT APPLICATOR
119 .Applicator provided with material receiver
120 .Barometric reservoir
121 .With means for removing surplus material from tool
122 ..Straddling or encircling tool during withdrawal from supply
123 .Tool supported out of communication with supply
124 ..With removable cap for tool
125 ..Including compartment for tool
126 .Applicator includes container closure or overlies material
127 ..Applicator movable axially relative to closure
128 ..Rod-like or spoon-like solid applicator
129 ..Brush applicator
130 ..Blade-like or pad-like applicator
131 WITH MEANS TO SUPPORT OR STABILIZE IMPLEMENT WHEN NOT IN USE
132 INCLUDING RUPTURABLE MEANS OR SEALED-CARTRIDGE RECEIVER
133 .Sealed-cartridge receiver with flow-establishing means
134 ..By piercing cartridge
135 ...Implement includes vent, flow-regulator or force-applying
means
136 INCLUDING MEANS FOR DISCHARGING MATERIAL ALTERNATIVELY TO TOOL
OR TO WORK SURFACE
137 INCLUDING MEANS FOR DISPENSING MATERIAL DIRECTLY TO WORK
SURFACE
138 .Reservoir on elongated handle
139 .Blade-like or pad-like tool
140 RESERVOIR SEPARABLY MOUNTED ON ELONGATED HANDLE
141 INCLUDING FLOATING FOLLOWER IN RESERVOIR
142 .Fluid follower
143 INCLUDING MEANS TO APPLY MATERIAL-MOVING FORCE
144 .Including filling tube extensible beyond tool
145 .Including means to flex diaphragm within rigid reservoir
146 .In or at feeder
147 ..Actuated by work-contacting roller or ball
148 ..Actuated by pressure of tool on work surface
149 ..Inflexible solid means
150 ...Piston in cylinder
151 .Intercommunicable reservoirs or reservoir sections in series
152 .Including means to collapse flexible wall
153 ..Accordion fold wall
154 ..By axial twisting
155 ..By translatory movement along wall
156 ..Resilient wall or wall portion
157 ...Wall deformed by gas pressuree
158 ...Presser bar means
159 ....Actuated by clasp or closure cap
160 ....Pivoted on fixed axis
161 ....Including fixed guide
162 ....Resilient
163 ....Including mechanical-movement actuator
164 .....Screw
165 .....Lever
166 ......Including latch
167 ......Including spring
168 ....Including actuator and disabling latch
169 ...Movable axially of reservoir or chamber
170 .By telescoping cylinder means in continuous communication
171 .Piston-provided reservoir
172 ..Movable by screw means
173 ...On piston and reservoir wall
174 ...On piston and manual actuator
175 ....Screw means through piston
176 ..Slidable piston
177 ...In reservoir having enlarged bore portion
178 ...Including flow-regulator through piston
179 ...Including mechanical-movement actuator
180 ...Spring pressed
181 ...Including flexible or pivoted actuator
182 ...Including disengageable or extensible operating rod
183 .Manually engageable resilient wall or wall portion
184 ..Rigid reservoir with resilient wall portion
185 ...Squeeze bulb
186 ..Including flow-regulator
187 .By compression or suction of gas in reservoir
188 R ..By one-way means for adding gas to reservoir (e.g.,
pump)
188 A ...Pens
189 ..By one-way means for removing gas from reservoir
190 .Including pressurized reservoir (e.g., Aersol)
191 MATERIAL-CARRYING TOOL MOVABLE AWAY FROM SUPPLY MEANS
192 TRANSPARENT OR TRANSLUCENT WALL
193 WITH WORK-ENGAGING GUIDE
194 WITH SIGNAL OR INDICATOR
195 COMBINED
196 MATERIAL FLOWS THROUGH POROUS TOOL
197 .Hollow roller
198 .Wick feed from within reservoir to tool
199 ..Wick separate from tool
200 .Particulate fluent material
201 .Including compartment for soluble solid material
202 .With removable cap for tool
203 .Couplable to external source
204 ..With flow-regulator
205 .With flow-regulator
206 ..Resiliently biased
207 .Tool or tool unit separable from reservoir
208 INCLUDING BALL, ROLLER OR ENDLESS-BELT TOOL
209 .Ball
210 ..Adjustable-length reservoir
211 ..Magnetic ball-retainer
212 ..Ball-bearing mounting
213 ..With sealing capp
214 ..Elastic ball-mounting
215 ..Specific ball
216 ..Specific ball-retainer
217 ..With means to vent reservoir
218 .Engageable with feed roller
219 .With flow-regulator
220 ..By movement of roller
221 BIFURCATE POINTED NIB TOOL (E.G., FOUNTAIN PEN)
222 .Including reservoir and feeder
223 ..Including capillary material-retainer filling reservoir
224 ..Including filamentary conductor for material or air
225 ..Including overflow receiver
226 ...Hooded tool
227 ...Transverse overflow-receiving grooves or slots
228 ...Laterally exposed
229 ...In or contiguous to feed path
230 ..Intercommunicable reservoir sections in series
231 ..Means regulating nib slit width or flexure
232 ..With flow-regulator
233 ...By adjusting gap between broad-face tool elements (e.g.,
ruling pen)
234 ...Actuated by protective cap for tool
235 ...By pressure of tool on work surface
236 ...For adjusting feeder channel
237 ....Apertured flow-regulator part
238 ..Feeder overlying tool
239 ...With additional feed element underlying tool
240 ..Angulated or curved feed path
241 ..Feeder extending into reservoir
242 ..Distinct air passage in feeder
243 ..Including removable cap for tool
244 ...And latch
245 ...Cap includes means for sealing feeder or air passage
246 ...Cap shoulder abutting outer end of pen section
247 ...Composite cap
248 ..Hooded tool
249 ..Tool and feeder specifically related
250 ...Integral or interlocked
251 ..Specific joint or connection
252 .Attached coating material retainer feeding directly to tool
253 ..Transversely grooved or slotted
254 ..Cooperating with tool to form pocket
255 ...Overlying tool
256 .Broad face, adjustable gap tool (e.g., ruling pen)
257 ..Pivotally related tool elements
258 INCLUDING STYLUS
259 .Axially movable by pressure on work surface
260 ..Resiliently biased outwardly
261 INCLUDING TOOL WITH BLADE-LIKE, PAD-LIKE, OR APERTURED
WORK-CONTACTING END
262 .With removable cap for tool
263 .With flow-regulator
264 ..By pressure of implement on work surface
265 .Apertured tool
266 ..Blade-like or pad-like
267 .Supply-means at tool only (e.g., lettering pen)
268 BRUSH, BROOM, OR MOP
269 .With removable cap for tooll
270 .With flow-regulator
271 ..Actuated by material supply
272 ..Actuated by telescoping of tool or by pressure of tool on work
surface
273 ...Resiliently biased to closed position
274 ..Responsive to movement of implement
275 ..Actuated by movable implement handle
276 ..Vent-regulating means
277 ..Having operating screw
278 ..Resiliently biased
279 ...Including mechanical-movement actuator
280 ..Apertured movable part
281 ...Rotatable or revoluble
282 .Including feeder
283 ..Porous feeder
284 ..Material directed to periphery of tool
285 ..Elongated perforated tube transverse of tool elements
286 ..Feeder terminates among tool elements
287 ...Plural feeder terminals
288 ...Encompassed by confining means for tool elements
289 ..Attached or attachable to conduit supply means
290 ..Including specific retaining means for tool
291 ..Perforated support
292 MISCELLANEOUS
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* DIGESTS
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DIG 1 Readily detachable lipstick cartridges
DIG 2 Remote recording of writing
DIG 3 Point Shape