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84.47 - Knitting machines, stitch-bonding machines and machines for making gimped yarn, tulle, lace, embroidery, trimmings, braid or net and machines for tufting. - Circular knitting machines : 8447.11 - - With cylinder diameter not exceeding 165 rnrn 8447.12 - - With cylinder diameter exceeding 165 mm 8447.20 - Flat knitting machines; stitch-bonding machines 8447.90 - Other This heading covers all machinery for the roduction of fabrics pr trimmings by stitch-bonding, gimping, braiding, nettmg, d i n g , etc., or fm embroidery work on any whether using unspun rovings, textile (including peat fibre) yarns, other yarns (e.g., glass or asbestos) or wire. (A) KNITTING MACHINES These consist of two main groups : (1) Circular machines which produce either a strai the stitches in the rows, a sha ed tubular piece berets, fezes or similar knitted eadgear, etc.). R tubular fabric or, by varying the size of stockings, socks, sleeves of garments, (2) Flat machines for producing flat fabric of even width or, by increasing or decreasin the number of stitches tn the rows, flat but shaped pieces of fabnc to be subsequently m e up by sewing (e. , into stockin s or socks . Flat machines include machines for ordinary knitting ( e . ~Eotton7s , fismesf and warp itting (Raschel, milanese, lochit, etc., looms). e to large machines with many rows of These mac ines range from the ve needles, in some cases equipped w i g Jacquar slmple or similar mechanisms to produce various designs. J 1, P' This heading also covers small domestic knitting machines, and machines designed to knit just the few stitches necessary for re airin stockings. Machines for joining two pieces of lazitted fabric by simply sewing toget er tFle loops forming the kn~ttededges are classified in heading 84.52. E (B) STITCH-BONDING MACHINES includes all kinds of stitch-bonding machines which produce fabrics by a This grOuging process. The following are included : chain-stitc (1) Machines incorporating a needle mechanism for attaching the "warp " weft yams by chain-stitching. " yarns and the " (2) Machines for inserting loops of yarn in a fabric backing previously produced on a conventional weaving loom, and attaching them to the backing with hitting stitches. (3) Knitting-sewing machines operate by stitching seams in loose-fibre fabric already made by other machines (for example, cards and garnetting machines) and so produce a consolidated sheet of textile material used as filtering material, carpet underlay, insulating material, etc. (C) MACHINES FOR MAKING KNOTTED NET, TULLE, LACE, BRAID, OR TRIMMINGS, FOR GIMPING YARNS, FOR EMBROIDERY, FOR TUFTING, ETC. These include : (I) Machines for making nets or netting for any purpose, either in the piece or to the shape of finished articles (e.g., fishing nets). (2) Machines for making plain tulle. (3) Machines for making figured tulle, lace, etc. (4) Machines for making bobinot tulle, bobinot curtains and bobinot mechanical lace, which manufacture flat netting or flat net curtains, as well as mechanical (woven) lace fiom and weft strands. However, the warp and weft strands are not mterlaced at right ang es as in weavin but are surrounded and tied, by the to and fro movement of a shuttle, by a large number o warp strands (bobbin threads) arranged on small bobbins. F (5) Embroidery machines, including hand embroidery machines (embroidery machines with pantograph shuttles), which, by means of needles, embroider various desi s with one or more threads on an existing ground of woven fabric or other materiar Embroidery machines, other than manually operated, may be equi ped with Jacquard or similar I which withdraw, and bind mechanisms. The heading also covers thread drawing mac? ines the remaining threads into open-work embroidery. The heading does not cover chain or blanket stitch machines (mainly used to ed e certain textile articles, but which can also do simple embroidery), nor sewing machines whic can do simple embroidery work in addition to orchary sewing (heading 84.52). % (6) Gimping machines. These wrap one yarn in close spirals round a generally thicker core (e.g., of metal wire, rubber thread, unspun fibres, or of one or more coarser yams). These machines can also be used to gimp fine electrical wiring. (7) Machines for making various trimmings by interlacin ,in various complex wa s, yarns or unspun rovings (sometimes gimped) of various texti es (braiding looms, hooz looms, etc.). K The headin also covers machines for braiding a wire sheath on hose of rubber, plastics, etc., or for raiding tubular plaits ffom wire, provided they have the essential mechanical parts characteristic of the textile machines referred to in the preceding paragraph. i? (8) Machines for covering buttons, tassel cores, etc., with textile threads. (9) Tufting machines, for inserting loops or tuRs of textile yarn in a fabric backing in order to produce carpets, mats or lightweight articles (bedspreads, bath robes, etc.). PARTS AND ACCESSORIES Sub'ect to the general provisions regarding the classification of parts see the General Exp anatory Note to Sechon XVI), parts and accessories of the machines o this heading are classified in heading 84.48. i -
1.- This Chapter does not cover : (a) Millstones, grindstones or other articles of Chapter 68; (b) Machinery or appliances (for example, pumps) of ceramic material and ceramic parts of machinery or appliances of any material (Chapter 69); (c) Laboratory glassware (heading 70.17); machinery, appliances or other articles for technical uses or parts thereof, of glass (heading 70.19 or 70.20); (d) Articles of heading 73.21 or 73.22 or similar articles of other base metals (Chapters 74 to 76 or 78 to 81); (e) Vacuum cleaners of heading 85.08; (f) Electro-mechanical domestic appliances of heading 85.09; digital cameras of heading 85.25; (g) Radiators for the articles of Section XVII; or (h) Hand-operated mechanical floor sweepers, not motorised (heading 96.03). 2.- Subject to the operation of Note 3 to Section XVI and subject to Note 11 to this Chapter, a machine or appliance which answers to a description in one or more of the headings 84.01 to 84.24, or heading 84.86 and at the same time to a description in one or more of the headings 84.25 to 84.80 is to be classified under the appropriate heading of the former group or under heading 84.86, as the case may be, and not the latter group. (A) Heading 84.19 does not, however, cover : (i) Germination plant, incubators or brooders (heading 84.36); (ii) Grain dampening machines (heading 84.37); (iii) Diffusing apparatus for sugar juice extraction (heading 84.38);