IPC 7 English version B42B-B42B 9/06

B42-B42B00906

SECTION B – PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING

B 42

BOOKBINDING; ALBUMS; FILES; SPECIAL PRINTED MATTER

B 42 B

PERMANENTLY ATTACHING TOGETHER SHEETS, QUIRES, OR SIGNATURES, OR PERMANENTLY ATTACHING OBJECTS THERETO (nailing or stapling in general B25C, B27F; machines for both collating or gathering and permanently attaching together sheets or signatures B42C 1/12; temporarily attaching sheets together B42F)

Permanently attaching together sheets, quires, or signatures by stitching with filamentary material, e.g. textile threads (discontinuously B42B 4/00) [2]

Machines for stitching with thread [2]

with straight needles [2]

with curved needles [2]

with devices for forming safety knots or with tying mechanisms [2]

Hand-stitching tools [2]

Permanently attaching together sheets, quires or signatures by discontinuous stitching with filamentary material, e.g. wire [2]

Rotary-type stitching machines [2]

Permanently attaching together sheets, quires, or signatures otherwise than by stitching (by deformation thereof B31F; by adhesive peculiar to bookbinding B42C 9/00)

by eyelets (for garments A41H 37/02; for shoes A43D 100/00)

by laces or ribbons

by clips

by finger, claw, or ring-like elements passing through the sheets, quires, or signatures

the elements being of castellated or comb-like form

the elements being coils

Permanently attaching objects, e.g. map sections, to sheets

Devices common to machines for carrying out the processes according to more than one of the preceding main groups (auxiliary equipment in making paper articles B31F; auxiliary equipment in printing machines B41; conveyers in general B65G)

for opening quires or signatures

for conveying downwardly-open signatures

for pasting (applying glue or adhesive peculiar to bookbinding B42C 9/00) [2]