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Patent No. 6049912

Mountable Printable Placard With Headband

A resilient headband in a shape for being mounted on the head of the user. The headband is equipped with a longitudinal slotted member for holding a placard.

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Class 368 - Horology: time measuring systems or devices

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Definition

A. GENERAL STATEMENT OF THE CLASS SUBJECT MATTER

1. This class is the generic class for instruments or portions of instruments employed for the measurement of time passage in units of hours, minutes, seconds, or fractions thereof or the like.

2. Also this class is the residual class for systems or devices or portions thereof, so constituted as to effect (i.e., control) the operation of the time measuring instrument.

B. SUBCOMBINATIONS OF TIME PIECE SYSTEMS OR DEVICES

1. This class includes signal indicators (e.g., alarms, striking mechanisms, displays, etc.) specially designed for operation with or by time measuring instruments.

2. Similarly, other parts of time measuring instruments, (e.g., time bases, escapements, oscillators, etc.) relating to the subject matter of other classes but designed to function as components of timepiece systems or devices are classified in this class.

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COMBINATIONS OF OTHER APPARATUS WHICH INCLUDE APPARATUS OF THIS CLASS

A. Subject matter where the time measuring system or device is controlled by a disparate device is classified here only if not elsewhere classifiable.

B. Noninteractive combinations of disparate devices and time measuring systems or devices are classifiable here if the time measuring art is more than nominally claimed, or not elsewhere classifiable.

C. This class does not include the following subject matter:

(1) Excepting the apparatus combinations as provided for in the Class Definition, B, and in Lines With Other Classes and Within This Class, paragraphs A and B above, systems or devices or portions thereof whose operation is affected (i.e., controlled) by a time measuring mechanism.

(2) Systems or devices which perform computations involving time or nontime parameters with an output time signal or indication (e.g., average wait time, estimated time of arrival, etc.), such subject matter can be found elsewhere. (See References to Other Classes, below.)

(3) Systems or devices where the time indicating means is a tracing, marking, or the like made by a recording instrument is excluded, such subject matter being proper elsewhere. (See References to Other Classes, below.)

(4) Sundials and like instruments which measure time by the position of a shadow are classified elsewhere. (See References to Other Classes, below.)

 
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