| IPC 6 English version | B65G04700-B65G05146 | |
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SECTION B | – PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING |
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CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL |
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TRANSPORT OR STORAGE DEVICES, e.g. CONVEYERS FOR LOADING OR TIPPING; SHOP CONVEYER SYSTEMS; PNEUMATIC TUBE CONVEYERS (transport or storage devices used in a particular handling or treatment of articles or materials, see the relevant subclass, e.g. in metal-working B 21 D 43/00, B 23 Q 7/00, B 23 Q 41/02; vehicle, railway, sea or aircraft aspects B 60 to B 64; in packaging B 65 B; handling thin or filamentary materials B 65 H; hoisting, lifting, hauling, e.g. truck loaders B 66; handling liquids B 67; specially adapted to underground conditions E 21 F 13/00; storing or distributing gases or liquids F 17; in handling radioactive materials G 21 C 19/00) |
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47/ | 00 | Article or material-handling devices associated with conveyers; Methods employing such devices (for sorting, e.g. postal, B 07 C) |
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47/ | 02 | . | Devices for feeding articles or materials to conveyers |
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47/ | 04 | . . | for feeding articles |
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47/ | 06 | . . . | from a single group of articles arranged in orderly pattern, e.g. workpieces in magazines (de-stacking devices B 65 G 59/00; picking-up flat workpieces B 65 H) |
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47/ | 08 | . . . . | spacing or grouping the articles during feeding (during transit by conveyer B 65 G 47/28) |
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47/ | 10 | . . . | from several groups of articles |
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47/ | 12 | . . . | from disorderly-arranged article piles or from loose assemblages of articles |
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47/ | 14 | . . . . | arranging or orientating the articles by mechanical or pneumatic means during feeding (during transit by conveyer B 65 G 47/24, B 65 G 47/26) |
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47/ | 16 | . . | for feeding materials in bulk |
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47/ | 18 | . . . | Arrangements or applications of hoppers or chutes |
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47/ | 19 | . . . . | having means for controlling material flow, e.g. to prevent overloading (controlling feed or discharge by weighing a continuous stream of material G 01 G 11/08) |
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47/ | 20 | . . . . | the hoppers or chutes being movable |
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47/ | 22 | . | Devices influencing the relative position or the attitude of articles during transit by conveyers (during feeding B 65 G 47/14) |
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47/ | 24 | . . | orientating the articles |
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47/ | 244 | . . . | by turning them about an axis substantially perpendicular to the conveying plane [5] |
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47/ | 248 | . . . | by turning over or inverting them (B 65 G 47/244 takes precedence) [5] |
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47/ | 252 | . . . . | about an axis substantially perpendicular to the conveying direction [5] |
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47/ | 256 | . . . | removing incorrectly orientated articles [5] |
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47/ | 26 | . . | arranging the articles, e.g. varying spacing between individual articles (stacking or de-stacking B 65 G 57/00, B 65 G 59/00, B 65 G 61/00) |
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47/ | 28 | . . . | during transit by a single conveyer |
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47/ | 29 | . . . . | by temporarily stopping movement |
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47/ | 30 | . . . | during transit by a series of conveyers |
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47/ | 31 | . . . . | by varying the relative speeds of the conveyers forming the series |
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47/ | 32 | . . . . | Applications of transfer devices |
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47/ | 34 | . | Devices for discharging articles or materials from conveyers (B 65 G 47/256 takes precedence; sorting in general B 07) |
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47/ | 36 | . . | by detaching suspended articles |
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47/ | 38 | . . | by dumping, tripping, or releasing load-carriers |
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47/ | 40 | . . . | by tilting conveyer buckets |
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47/ | 42 | . . | operated by article or material being conveyed and discharged |
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47/ | 44 | . . | Arrangements or applications of hoppers or chutes |
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47/ | 46 | . . | with distribution, e.g. automatically, to desired points (in tube mail systems B 65 G 51/36; postal or like sorting B 07 C) |
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47/ | 48 | . . . | according to bodily destination marks on either articles or load-carriers (marking data records G 06 K) |
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47/ | 49 | . . . . | without bodily contact between article or load-carrier and automatic control device |
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47/ | 50 | . . . | according to destination signals stored in separate systems (control by programme G 05 B 19/00) |
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47/ | 51 | . . . | according to unprogrammed signals, e.g. influenced by supply situation at destination (volume, flow, or liquid level meters G 01 F; scales or weighing machines G 01 G; remote controls G 05 G) |
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47/ | 52 | . | Devices for transferring articles or materials between conveyers, i.e. discharging or feeding devices (loading or unloading by means not incorporated in, or not operatively associated with, conveyers B 65 G 65/00; transfer of workpieces during metal rolling B 21 B 41/00) |
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47/ | 53 | . . | between conveyers which cross one another [3] |
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47/ | 54 | . . . | at least one of which is a roller-way [3] |
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47/ | 56 | . . | to or from inclined or vertical conveyer sections |
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47/ | 57 | . . . | for articles |
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47/ | 58 | . . . | for materials in bulk |
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47/ | 60 | . . | to or from conveyers of the suspended, e.g. trolley, type |
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47/ | 61 | . . . | for articles |
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47/ | 62 | . . . | for materials in bulk |
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47/ | 64 | . . | Switching conveyers |
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47/ | 66 | . . | Fixed platforms or combs, e.g. bridges between conveyers |
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47/ | 68 | . . | adapted to receive articles arriving in one layer from one conveyer and to transfer them in individual layers to more than one conveyer, or vice versa, e.g. combining the flows of articles conveyed by more than one conveyer |
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47/ | 69 | . . . | the articles being accumulated temporarily |
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47/ | 70 | . . . | with precedence controls among incoming article flows |
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47/ | 71 | . . . | the articles being discharged to several conveyers |
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47/ | 72 | . . | transferring materials in bulk from one conveyer to several conveyers, or vice versa |
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47/ | 74 | . | Feeding, transfer, or discharging devices of particular kinds or types |
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47/ | 76 | . . | Fixed or adjustable ploughs or transverse scrapers |
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47/ | 78 | . . | Troughs having discharge openings and closures |
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47/ | 80 | . . | Turntables carrying articles or materials to be transferred, e.g. combined with ploughs or scrapers |
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47/ | 82 | . . | Rotary or reciprocating members for direct action on articles or materials, e.g. pushers, rakes, shovels |
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47/ | 84 | . . | Star-shaped wheels or devices having endless travelling belts or chains, the wheels or devices being equipped with article-engaging elements |
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47/ | 86 | . . . | the article-engaging elements being grippers |
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47/ | 88 | . . | Separating or stopping elements, e.g. fingers (attached to star-shaped wheels B 65 G 47/84) |
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47/ | 90 | . . | Devices for picking-up and depositing articles or materials |
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47/ | 91 | . . . | incorporating pneumatic, e.g. suction, grippers |
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47/ | 92 | . . . | incorporating electrostatic or magnetic grippers |
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47/ | 94 | . . | Devices for flexing or tilting travelling structures; Throw-off carriages |
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47/ | 95 | . . . | adapted for longitudinal delivery |
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47/ | 96 | . . . | Devices for tilting links or platforms |
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49/ | 00 | Conveying systems characterised by their application for specified purposes not otherwise provided for (for conveying sheet material B 65 H) |
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49/ | 02 | . | for conveying workpieces through baths of liquid |
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49/ | 04 | . . | the workpieces being immersed and withdrawn by movement in a vertical direction |
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49/ | 05 | . | for fragile or damageable materials or articles [4] |
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49/ | 06 | . . | for fragile sheets, e.g. glass (transporting of glass products during their manufacture C 03 B 35/00) [4] |
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49/ | 07 | . . | for semiconductor wafers (apparatus for supporting or positioning semiconductor wafers during manufacture H 01 L 21/68) [5] |
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49/ | 08 | . . | for ceramic mouldings (charging, discharging, manipulation with charge in kilns F 27 D 3/00) [4] |
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Non-mechanical conveying through pipes or tubes (pipe-line systems F 17 D); Floating in troughs |
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51/ | 00 | Conveying articles through pipes or tubes by fluid flow or pressure (pneumatic railways B 61 B) |
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51/ | 01 | . | Hydraulic transport of articles (B 65 G 51/04 takes precedence; water roundabouts A 63 G 3/00) [6] |
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51/ | 02 | . | Directly conveying the articles, e.g. slips, sheets, stockings, containers or workpieces, by flowing gases |
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51/ | 03 | . . | over a flat surface or in troughs [4] |
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51/ | 04 | . | Conveying the articles in carriers having a cross-section approximating that of the pipe or tube; Tube mail systems |
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51/ | 06 | . . | Despatch carriers for tube mail |
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51/ | 08 | . . | Controlling or conditioning the operating medium (in compressors F 04; air-conditioning, e.g. de-watering, in pneumatic systems F 16 L 55/09) |
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51/ | 10 | . . . | at section junctions of pneumatic systems |
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51/ | 12 | . . . . | Pneumatic gates |
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51/ | 14 | . . . . | Pneumatic sluices |
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51/ | 16 | . . . | varying, e.g. starting or stopping, gas pressure or flow |
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51/ | 18 | . . | Adaptations of pipes or tubes; Pipe or tube joints |
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51/ | 20 | . . | Braking arrangements |
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51/ | 22 | . . | Arrangements for stopping the carriers en route in order to control carrier sequence; Blocking or separating devices |
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51/ | 24 | . . | Switches |
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51/ | 26 | . . | Stations |
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51/ | 28 | . . . | for despatch |
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51/ | 30 | . . . | for delivery |
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51/ | 32 | . . . | for despatch, delivery, and transit |
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51/ | 34 | . . | Two-way operation |
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51/ | 36 | . . | Other devices for indicating or controlling movements of carriers, e.g. for supervising individual tube sections, for counting carriers, for reporting jams or other operating difficulties |
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51/ | 38 | . . . | Contact devices on interior of tubes for detecting passage of carriers |
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51/ | 40 | . . . | Automatically distributing the carriers to desired stations |
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51/ | 42 | . . . . | according to indications on carriers |
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51/ | 44 | . . . . . | without mechanical contact between carriers and controllers |
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51/ | 46 | . . . . | according to separate signal systems |
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