D06C FINISHING, DRESSING, TENTERING OR STRETCHING TEXTILE FABRICS
Introduced: September 1968
Last revised: July 1974
Classification Context
- Section:
- TEXTILES; PAPER
- Class:
- TREATMENT OF TEXTILES OR THE LIKE; LAUNDERING; FLEXIBLE MATERIALS NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
- Subclass:
- FINISHING, DRESSING, TENTERING OR STRETCHING TEXTILE FABRICS
Description
D06C encompasses machinery and processes for post-weaving or post-knitting treatment of textile fabrics, including finishing operations that impart desired properties such as smoothness, stiffness, or aesthetic appearance. It covers tentering frames and stretching devices used to set fabric dimensions and remove wrinkles, as well as dressing processes that apply sizing agents or other chemical treatments. This subclass excludes general laundering and cleaning operations (D06B) and specific dyeing or color application methods (D06B or D06P), focusing instead on mechanical and chemical finishing treatments that prepare fabrics for final use.
Related Keywords
14 direct subcodes
Child Classifications
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- D06C 11/00 Teasing, napping or otherwise roughening or raising pile of textile fabrics
- D06C 13/00 Shearing, clipping or cropping surfaces of textile fabrics; Pile cutting; Trimming seamed edges
- D06C 15/00 Calendering, pressing, ironing, glossing or glazing textile fabrics
- D06C 17/00 Fulling
- D06C 19/00 Breaking or softening of fabrics
- D06C 21/00 Shrinking by compressing
- D06C 23/00 Making patterns or design on fabrics
- D06C 25/00 Treating selvedges or other edges, e.g. stiffening
- D06C 27/00 Compound processes or apparatus, for finishing or dressing textile fabrics, not otherwise provided for
- D06C 29/00 Finishing or dressing, of textile fabrics, not provided for in the other groups of this subclass
- D06C 3/00 Stretching, tentering or spreading textile fabrics; Producing elasticity in textile fabrics
- D06C 5/00 Shaping or stretching of tubular fabrics upon cores or internal frames
- D06C 7/00 Heating or cooling textile fabrics
- D06C 9/00 Singeing
Top Applicants
Top 10 applicants by patent filingsfor class D06, 2013–2023, worldwide · Source: EPO PATSTAT
- QINGDAO HAIER WASHING MACHINE COMPANY 10,520
- HAIER SMART HOME 8,532
- LG ELECTRONICS KR 7,853
- WUXI LITTLE SWAN COMPANY 5,749
- QINGDAO HAIER WASHING MACHINE COMPANY CN 2,905
- BSH (BOSCH UND SIEMENS HAUSGERAETE) DE 2,785
- SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS COMPANY KR 2,662
- GREE ELECTRIC APPLIANCES 1,701
- PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY 1,391
- MIELE DE 1,374