IPC Main Group
D05C 11/00 Devices for guiding, feeding, handling, or treating the threads in embroidering machines; Machine needles; Operating or control mechanisms therefor
Introduced: September 1968
Last revised: January 2006
Classification Context
- Section:
- TEXTILES; PAPER
- Class:
- SEWING; EMBROIDERING; TUFTING
- Subclass:
- EMBROIDERING; TUFTING
7 direct subcodes
Child Classifications
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- D05C 11/02 Machine needles
- D05C 11/08 Thread-tensioning arrangements
- D05C 11/16 Arrangements for repeating thread patterns or for changing threads
- D05C 11/18 Shuttles
- D05C 11/2 Arrangements for cutting the needle or lower threads
- D05C 11/22 Arrangements for cutting-out broken threads
- D05C 11/24 incorporating devices for dyeing or impregnating the threads
Top Applicants
Top 10 applicants by patent filingsfor class D05, 2013–2023, worldwide · Source: EPO PATSTAT
- JACK SEWING MACHINE COMPANY 1,314
- JUKI CORPORATION 537
- ZHEJIANG MAQI SEWING MACHINE COMPANY 534
- GUANGDONG ESQUEL TEXTILES COMPANY 526
- BROTHER INDUSTRIES 481
- BULLMER ELECTROMECHANICAL TECHNOLOGY COMPANY 466
- ZHEJIANG ZOJE SEWING MACHINE COMPANY 406
- GUILIN ESQUEL TEXTILES COMPANY 402
- TIANJIN RICHPEACE COMPUTERIZED MACHINERY COMPANY 352
- JACK TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD. 298