IPC 7 English version B41F !A-B41F 5/24

B41F-B41F00524

SECTION B – PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING

B 41

PRINTING; LINING MACHINES; TYPEWRITERS; STAMPS (reproduction or duplication of pictures or patterns by scanning and converting into electrical signals H04N) [4]

B 41 F

PRINTING MACHINES OR PRESSES (machines for manufacturing footwear incorporating printing or embossing apparatus A43D, e.g. A43D 8/26, A43D 95/14; presses in general B30B; making of printing surfaces B41C, B41D; manifolding devices, office printing machines B41L; stencilling B41L; printing processes not dependent on the use of special machines B41M; duplicating or marking by sublimation or volatilisation of design B41M 5/035; thermography B41M 5/26; embossing decorations or marks B44B 5/00; handling thin or filamentary material B65H; electrography, electrophotography, magnetography G03G) [4]

Note

Attention is drawn to Notes (1) and (2) following the title of subclass B41L. [6]

Subclass Index

PLATEN PRESSES

B41F 1/00

CYLINDER PRESSES

B41F 3/00

ROTARY MACHINES

Letterpress, lithographic, intaglio machines

B41F 5/00, B41F 7/00, B41F 9/00

Other machines; combined machines

B41F 11/00, B41F 17/00; B41F 19/00

Details

B41F 13/00

Screen printers

B41F 15/00

Transfer printing machines

B41F 16/00

DETAILS

Handling sheets or other surfaces to be printed; treating such surfaces

B41F 21/00, B41F 25/00; B41F 22/00, B41F 23/00

Attaching printing elements; make-ready arrangements, impression or offset surfaces; inking

B41F 27/00; B41F 30/00; B41F 31/00

Auxiliary devices; cleaning

B41F 33/00; B41F 35/00

Platen presses, i.e. presses in which printing is effected by at least one essentially-flat pressure-applying member co-operating with a flat type-bed

Hand-operated platen presses

for mono-impression printing, e.g. on sheets

with platen maintained parallel to bed during movement (preparing stereotype matrices using presses B41D 1/06)

on webs

for multi-impression printing in one or more colours, e.g. on webs

on sheets

using swinging platens, or forme supports

for offset printing

for lithography

for perfecting sheets, i.e. for printing on both sides of sheets

specially adapted for printing heads, e.g. letter heads

specially adapted for proof printing

Details

Sheet-conveying, -aligning or -clamping devices (in general B65H)

using rotary grippers

using air pressure, e.g. vacuum

Registering devices, e.g. gauges

Clamps for conveying sheets and for holding same on the platens

Platens or type-beds

Inking units

using flat inking elements, e.g. discs

using inking ribbons

using rollers

pivoting around the platen or base

supported on carriages for movement in or on runways

Carriage driving gear

Printing-pressure control devices

Auxiliary devices

Arrangements of counting devices for counting sheets

Safety devices

for preventing injury to operator

to the hands of the operator

responsive to incorrect operating conditions

Cylinder presses, i.e. presses essentially comprising at least one cylinder co-operating with at least one flat type-bed

with impression cylinder or cylinders rotating unidirectionally

intermittently; Stop-cylinder presses

continuously

Single-revolution presses

Two-revolution presses

Twin presses, i.e. with more than one cylinder or type-bed

with impression cylinder or cylinders rotating in opposite directions during each working cycle

Twin presses, i.e. with more than one cylinder or type-bed

of special construction or for particular purposes

with fixed type-beds and travelling impression cylinders

with more than one type-bed

with cylinders travelling around type-beds having upper and lower printing surfaces

with type-beds and impression cylinders simultaneously movable relative to one another

Proof-print presses for relief printing, lithography or intaglio printing, i.e. presses for checking accuracy of printing surfaces

for lithography (proof-print presses B41F 3/28)

Damping devices

for offset printing

for intaglio or heliogravure printing (proof-print presses B41F 3/28)

Wiping mechanisms

for perfecting sheets, i.e. for printing on both sides thereof

for multicolour printing on sheets

for monocolour or multicolour printing on one side of webs, or for perfecting webs, i.e. monocolour or multicolour printing on both sides of webs

Details

Press frames

Type-beds; Supports therefor (B41F 3/52 take precedence) [3]

Apparatus for cooling, heating, or drying printing surfaces [3]

Impression cylinders; Supports therefor (blankets or like coverings B41N 10/00)

Devices for adjusting cylinders relative to type-beds and setting in adjusted position

Driving, synchronising, or control gear

for type-beds

Applications of linkwork or gearing for producing reciprocatory or angular motion

of crank motions

of rack-and-pinion gearing

with pinion rotating unidirectionally

Applications of directly-coupled motors

of fluid motors

Applications of clutches

Applications of braking devices or of devices for stopping type-bed in registered position

Air cushions

for impression cylinders

Inking units [3]

Auxiliary devices

Arrangements of counting devices (in printing machines in general B41F 33/02) [2]

Numbering devices

Rotary machines

Rotary letterpress machines

for printing on sheets

for printing on webs

with several printing units in sequential arrangement

with several printing units in both superimposed and sequential arrangement

with several printing units arranged side by side

for printing on one side and on the other side of webs between the same forme and impression cylinders

with several impression cylinders arranged around a forme cylinder

for multicolour printing

using one impression cylinder co-operating with several forme cylinders

specially adapted for proof printing

for indirect printing [3]

for flexographic printing [3]

B41F 7/00 - B41F 15/46