IPC 6 English version B65H !A-B65H 9/20

IPC ⁶ English version		B65H-B65H00920
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SECTION B

– PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING

B 65

CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL

B 65 H

HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL, e.g. SHEETS, WEBS, CABLES

Notes

(1)

This subclass does not cover methods or devices intimately associated with other operations on thin or filamentary material, e.g. sheets, webs, cables or means for performing such operations, which are classified in the relevant subclasses for these operations, e.g.:

B 07 C `Postal sorting, similar sorting of documents, e.g. cheques

B 08 B 1/02 `Cleaning travelling work, e.g. webs, by methods involving the use of tools, brushes or like members

B 21 B 41/00 `Metal rolling involving guiding, conveying or accumulating easily-flexible work, e.g. wire, sheet metal bands, in loops or curves

B 21 C 47/00, B 21 C 49/00 `Winding-up, coiling, winding-off or temporarily accumulating metal wire, metal band or other flexible metal material, characterised by features relevant to metal processing only, other than by rolling

B 21 D 43/00 `Feeding, positioning or storing devices, combined with, or arranged in, or specially adapted for use in connection with, apparatus for working or processing sheet metal without essentially removing material

B 23 K 9/12 `Means for automatic feeding of electrodes for spot or seam welding or cutting

B 29 C 31/00 `Handling for shaping or joining of plastics, for shaping of substances in a plastic state in general or for after-treatment of shaped products, e.g. feeding the material to be shaped

B 41 B 15/32, B 41 B 21/32 `Film-handling mechanisms in photographic composing machines

B 41 F 13/02 `Conveying or guiding webs through rotary-printing presses or machines

B 41 J 11/00 to B 41 J 17/00 `Handling of copy- or impression-transfer material in typewriters or selective printing mechanisms

B 41 K 3/44 `Means for handling copy matter in stamping or numbering apparatus or devices

B 41 L `Handling sheets or webs in apparatus or devices for manifolding, duplicating or printing for office or other commercial purposes, or on addressing machines or like series-printing machines

B 42 B `Handling relating to permanently attaching together sheets, quires, or signatures

B 42 C `Handling sheets in book-binding

B 65 B `Handling of sheets or webs in apparatus for, or methods of, packaging articles, not of interest apart from their application in packaging machines

B 65 C `Handling of labels in labelling or tagging apparatus

C 14 B 1/62 `Winding or stacking hides or leather in machines or devices for manufacturing leather

D 01 `to D 07 Spinning, weaving, braiding, lace-making, knitting, sewing, making ropes or cables

D 21 F 2/00 `Transferring webs from wet ends to press sections in paper-making

F 26 B 13/00 `Handling fabrics, fibres, yarns or other material in long lengths in drying apparatus

G 03 B `Film-strip handling or handling of pictures in apparatus for taking photographs or for projecting or viewing them

G 06 K 13/00 `Conveying record carriers from one station to another

G 06 M 7/00 `Counting of flat articles, e.g. sheets, carried by a conveyer

G 11 B 15/00 to G 11 B 19/00, G 11 B 23/00, G 11 B 25/00 `Information storage based on relative movement between record carrier and transducer, involving handling record carriers for recording or reproducing

H 01 F 41/06 `Manufacturing coils for magnets, inductances, tranformers, by winding

H 01 G 13/02 `Machines for winding capacitors

H 04 N 1/00 `Sheet handling not of interest apart from its use in systems for transmission or reproduction of pictures or patterns not varying in time, e.g. facsimile transmission.

(2)

In this subclass:

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the groups relating to thin material, as defined under (i) of Note (3) below, are primarily intended to cover the handling of articles made of paper or cardboard, but also include the handling of articles made of other materials which have similar characteristics or present similar handling problems, e.g. articles made of sheet-plastics or leather;

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the groups relating to filamentary material (groups B 65 H 49/00 onwards), as defined in Note (3) below, cover only methods or devices of general application or interest.

(3)

In this subclass, the following terms or expressions are used with the meanings indicated:

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"handling" includes feeding, folding (other than in the manufacture of products), guiding, orientating, storing, unwinding, and winding;

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"thin material" includes:

(i)

sheets, signatures, envelopes, blanks, and thin piles thereof (hereinafter referred to as "articles"), and

(ii)

webs, tapes, and films, e.g. of paper, fabric, metal foil, or plastics;

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"filamentary material" includes thread, wires, ropes, cables, and hoses;

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"package" means a mass of filamentary material, formed by coiling, depositing, or winding, with or without a supporting core or former or an enclosing container or receptacle.

Feeding articles to machines; Separating articles from piles; Pile supports (combinations of piling and depiling operations, of interest apart from the single operation of piling or depiling B 65 H 83/00; recirculating articles B 65 H 85/00; manipulators B 25 J)

Supports or magazines for piles from which articles are to be separated (carriers used for associating, collating, or gathering articles B 65 H 39/00)

adapted to support articles on edge

adapted to support articles substantially horizontally, e.g. for separation from top of pile

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for separation from bottom of pile

with means for advancing the pile to present the articles to a separating device (pressing on piles from which articles are separated from the bottom B 65 H 1/06)

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comprising weights

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comprising springs

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comprising positively-acting mechanical devices

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comprising pneumatic or hydraulic means

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controlled by height of pile

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controlled by weight of pile; Floating arrangements

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moving in direction of plane of articles, e.g. for bodily advancement of fanned-out piles

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with means for relieving or controlling pressure of the pile

with auxiliary supports to facilitate introduction or renewal of the pile

compartmented to receive piles side by side

with means for replenishing the pile during continuous separation of articles therefrom

Separating articles from piles (associating, collating, or gathering articles B 65 H 39/00; machines for separating superposed webs B 65 H 41/00; unpiling thin material combined with folding B 65 H 45/26)

using friction forces between articles and separator

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Endless-belt separators

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Rollers or like rotary separators

using pneumatic force

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Suction rollers

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Suction bands, belts, or tables moving relatively to the pile

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Air blasts producing partial vacuum

using magnetic force

using electrostatic force

using adhesives

by needles or the like engaging the articles

by pushers engaging the edges of the articles

by separators engaging folds, flaps, or projections of articles

by screw or like separators

by escapement devices (screw or like separators B 65 H 3/28); from staggered piles; from piles of articles having staggered formations, e.g. cuts or perforations

by elements, e.g. fingers, plates, rollers, inserted or traversed between articles to be separated and remainder of the pile (such elements acting only as supplementary devices to assist separation or prevent double feed B 65 H 3/50)

Article-retaining devices controlling the release of the articles to the separators

by separators moved in special paths, e.g. enclosing an area

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the paths not enclosing an area

by two or more separators acting alternately on the same pile (rotary or oscillating bodies carrying two or more separators B 65 H 3/42)

by two or more separators mounted for movement with, or relative to, rotary or oscillating bodies

Simultaneously, alternately, or selectively separating articles from two or more piles

Supplementary devices or measures to assist separation or prevent double feed (control means comprising detectors responsive to double feed B 65 H 7/12)

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Air blast acting on edges of, or under, articles

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Elements, e.g. fingers, plates, rollers, inserted or traversed between articles to be separated and remainder of the pile

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Friction retainers acting on under or rear side of article being separated

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Pressing or holding devices

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Elements, e.g. scrapers, fingers, needles, brushes, acting on separated article or on edge of the pile

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Articles spiked, threaded, cemented, or gummed together, to prevent double feed, e.g. piles with gummed edges

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Loosening articles in piles

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by swinging, agitating, or knocking the pile

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by vacuum apparatus

Article guides or smoothers, e.g. movable in operation

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immovable in operation

Feeding articles separated from piles; Feeding articles to machines (identical mechanisms or parts for delivering or advancing articles from machines B 65 H 29/00)

by belts or chains

by movable tables or carriages (rotary tables B 65 H 5/18)

by rollers

by grippers, e.g. suction grippers

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Reciprocating or oscillating grippers

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Revolving grippers, e.g. mounted on arms, frames, or cylinders

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Details of grippers; Actuating mechanisms therefor

by pusher, needles, friction, or like devices adapted to feed single articles along a surface or table

by rotary dials or tables

by dropping-roller or like device

by air-blast or suction device (suction grippers B 65 H 5/08)

Feeding streams of overlapping articles

Duplicate, alternate, selective, or coacting feeds

Feeding articles stored in rolled or folded bands

Opening devices for folded sheets or signatures

Saddle-like members over which partially-unfolded sheets or signatures are fed to signature-gathering, stitching, or like machines

Varying the phase of feed relative to the receiving machine

Article guides or smoothers, e.g. movable in operation

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immovable in operation

Controlling article feeding, separating, pile-advancing, or associated apparatus, to take account of incorrect feeding, absence of articles, or presence of faulty articles

by feelers or detectors

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responsive to absence of articles, e.g. exhaustion of pile (B 65 H 7/14 takes precedence)

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responsive to presence of faulty articles or incorrect separation or feed (B 65 H 7/14 takes precedence)

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responsive to incorrect front register

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responsive to incorrect side register (controlling transverse register of webs B 65 H 23/032)

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responsive to double feed or separation

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by photoelectric feelers or detectors

Controlling air-supply to pneumatic separators

Modifying or stopping actuation of separators

Controlling associated apparatus

Registering, e.g. orientating, articles; Devices therefor

Gauge pins

Fixed or adjustable stops or gauges (gauge pins B 65 H 9/02)

Movable stops or gauges, e.g. rising and falling front stops

Holding devices, e.g. finger, needle, suction, for retaining articles in registered position

Pusher or like movable registers; Pusher or gripper devices which move articles into registered position

carried by article grippers

Retarding or controlling the forward movement of articles as they approach stops

Inclined tape, roller, or like article-forwarding side registers

Assisting by devices such as reflectors, lenses, transparent sheets, or mechanical indicators

Assisting by photoelectric, sonic, or pneumatic indicators

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