Cutting

SECTION I - CLASS DEFINITION

Class 83 is the residual locus of patents directed to methods and machines for penetrating material, without substantial reshaping flow of such material, by means of (1) a solid tool, or fluid current, either of which applies mechanical deforming force to the material by direct physical contact therewith, the fluid current forcing the material against a solid tool whose edge defines the line of cut; (2) a heated solid tool which directly engages the material (to effect penetration thereof by melting, or by transmission of mechanical energy, or both); or (3) opposed, controlled fluid currents.

(A) Specifically (as well as implicitly) excluded, is a patent to apparatus or process for cutting by the transmission of heat to the work material from a hot gas, such as flame cutting (for the location of which, see Lines With Other Classes, subsection A, Relationship to Other Classes Including, per se, Cutting, Severing, or Incising, paragraph 8, Classes related to flame or other heat-cutting).