IPC 7 English version B41L 38/00-B41L 49/04

B41L03800-B41L04904

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 L

APPARATUS OR DEVICES FOR MANIFOLDING, DUPLICATING, OR PRINTING FOR OFFICE OR OTHER COMMERCIAL PURPOSES; ADDRESSING MACHINES OR LIKE SERIES-PRINTING MACHINES (printing presses or machines for industrial purposes B41F; stamps, stamping or numbering devices B41K)

38/

Devices for attaching coverings or make-ready devices; Guiding devices for coverings (make-ready devices B41N 6/00; blankets or like coverings B41N 10/00) [5]

38/

attaching to impression cylinders [5]

38/

attaching of endless or like continuously-fed coverings [5]

39/

Indicating, counting, warning, control or safety devices (ink-level control devices B41L 27/04; such devices in general, see the relevant subclasses, e.g. counting in general G06M) [3]

39/

Indicating devices, e.g. counters

39/

Tripping devices or stop-motions

39/

for starting or stopping operation of sheet or web feed

39/

for starting or stopping operation of cylinders

39/

for starting or stopping operation of damping or inking units

39/

for starting or stopping the machines as a whole

39/

Automatic control of tripping devices by feelers, photoelectric devices, pneumatic devices, or other detectors

39/

Programming systems for automatic control of sequence of operations

41/

Cleaning arrangements or devices

41/

for forme cylinders

41/

for inking rollers

41/

for offset cylinders

43/

Auxiliary folding, collecting, or depositing of sheets or webs

43/

Folding

43/

lengthwise

43/

crosswise

43/

Folding-cylinders or -drums

43/

Collecting

43/

and stapling

43/

Adding inserts

43/

Depositing

Addressing machines or like series-printing machines

45/

Kinds or types of addressing machines or of like series-printing machines

45/

using printing plates

45/

composed on type-setting machines

45/

for addressing combined with other operations, e.g. franking, collating documents

45/

with printing surfaces in the form of belts, or carried by chains

45/

for addressing combined with other operations, e.g. franking, collating documents

45/

with separate devices for printing additional texts or images, e.g. for printing receipts on blank sheets or webs

47/

Details of addressing machines or like series-printing machines (common details of printing machines B41F 21/00 to B41F 35/00)

47/

Applications of printing surfaces in addressing machines or like series-printing machines (printing surfaces in general B41N)

47/

of flat or curved plates for relief printing

47/

of flat or curved stencils

47/

of flat or curved plates for hectographic printing

47/

of printing surfaces in the form of belts or chains

47/

Auxiliary devices, e.g. for flattening plates, for assembling plates in predetermined order, for wetting stencils

47/

Devices or arrangements for storing or handling plates

47/

Magazines

47/

Devices for feeding the plates in their plane

47/

Devices for feeding the plates otherwise than in their plane, e.g. transversely thereto

47/

with means for presenting plates for repeated printing operations

47/

Mechanisms for conveying copy material through addressing machines or like series-printing machines (in general B65H)

47/

for conveying or positioning single sheet-like articles, e.g. envelopes

47/

with gauging-rulers or the like, e.g. for facilitating hand-printing of copy material fed from stacks

47/

for conveying webs

47/

combined with devices for other purposes, e.g. for cutting, severing, gluing

47/

specially adapted for conveying chains of forms

47/

for conveying sheets or webs for tabulating purposes; Tabulating mechanisms combined with sheet or web conveyers

47/

with clamping means for head or margin

47/

with means for automatically reciprocating sheet or web transversely to enable addresses to be printed in columns side by side

47/

Printing mechanisms

47/

using flat platens

47/

using line-contact members, e.g. rollers, cylinders

47/

with inking or ink-ribbon devices

47/

using multiple impression-members or -surfaces, e.g. for printing series of addresses with standing context, for printing from selected parts of printing surfaces (applications of counting, numbering, or dating apparatus B41L 49/02)

47/

with movable counter-pressure plates for printing from selected areas of printing surfaces

47/

with means for automatically reciprocating printing plate transversely to enable addresses to be printed in columns side by side

47/

Indicating, warning, control or safety devices (B41L 47/58 takes precedence)

47/

Arrangements or devices for selecting, or for facilitating selection of, text or image to be printed

47/

Markings applied to printing plates, e.g. code marks, colours, clips, perforations, edge notches, projections

47/

Selecting devices, e.g. cams, windows, position indicators

47/

Automatic selecting devices with or without overriding manual control, e.g. with scanning-fingers, with presetting controls operable by push-buttons, with programme control by punched tapes

49/

Accessories or attachments for addressing machines or like series-printing machines

49/

Counting, numbering, or dating devices

49/

Devices for applying selection markings to printing plates

B41L 19/00 - B41L 35/34