HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL, e.g. SHEETS, WEBS, CABLES
B65H
Note(s)
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.:
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
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
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
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
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.
In this subclass:
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;
the groups relating to filamentary material (groups Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...B65H 49/00 onwards), as defined in Note (3) below, cover only methods or devices of general application or interest.
In this subclass, the following terms or expressions are used with the meanings indicated:
"handling" includes feeding, folding (other than in the manufacture of products), guiding, orientating, storing, unwinding, and winding;
"thin material" includes:
sheets, signatures, envelopes, blanks, and thin piles thereof (hereinafter referred to as "articles"), and
webs, tapes, and films, e.g. of paper, fabric, metal foil, or plastics;
"filamentary material" includes thread, wires, ropes, cables, and hoses;
"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.
B65H
Subclass index
ARTICLES
Feeding; piles
pile supports; lifting ends of piles for overlapping; overturning articles
Supports or magazines for piles from which articles are to be separated (carriers used for associating, collating, or gathering articles Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...B65H 39/00)
B65H 1/02
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adapted to support articles on edge
B65H 1/04
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adapted to support articles substantially horizontally, e.g. for separation from top of pile
B65H 1/06
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for separation from bottom of pile
B65H 1/08
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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 Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...B65H 1/06)
B65H 1/12
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comprising springs
B65H 1/14
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comprising positively-acting mechanical devices
B65H 1/16
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comprising pneumatic or hydraulic means
B65H 1/26
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with auxiliary supports to facilitate introduction or renewal of the pile
B65H 1/28
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compartmented to receive piles side by side
B65H 1/30
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with means for replenishing the pile during continuous separation of articles therefrom
using friction forces between articles and separator
B65H 3/06
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Rollers or like rotary separators
B65H 3/08
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using pneumatic force
B65H 3/10
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Suction rollers
B65H 3/12
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Suction bands, belts, or tables moving relatively to the pile
B65H 3/14
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Air blasts producing partial vacuum
B65H 3/22
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by needles or the like engaging the articles
B65H 3/24
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by pushers engaging the edges of the articles
B65H 3/30
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by escapement devices (screw or like separators Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...B65H 3/00); from staggered piles; from piles of articles having staggered formations, e.g. cuts or perforations
B65H 3/32
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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 Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...B65H 3/46)
B65H 3/44
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Simultaneously, alternately, or selectively separating articles from two or more piles
B65H 3/46
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Supplementary devices or measures to assist separation or prevent double feed (control means comprising detectors responsive to double feed Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...B65H 7/12)
B65H 3/48
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Air blast acting on edges of, or under, articles
B65H 3/52
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Friction retainers acting on under or rear side of article being separated
B65H 3/54
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Pressing or holding devices
B65H 3/56
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Elements, e.g. scrapers, fingers, needles, brushes, acting on separated article or on edge of the pile
B65H 3/60
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Loosening articles in piles
B65H 3/66
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Article guides or smoothers, e.g. movable in operation
P:120
B65H 5/00
Feeding articles separated from piles; Feeding articles to machines (identical mechanisms or parts for delivering or advancing articles from machines Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...B65H 29/00)
Duplicate, alternate, selective, or coacting feeds
B65H 5/28
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Feeding articles stored in rolled or folded bands
B65H 5/30
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Opening devices for folded sheets or signatures
B65H 5/32
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Saddle-like members over which partially-unfolded sheets or signatures are fed to signature-gathering, stitching, or like machines
B65H 5/34
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Varying the phase of feed relative to the receiving machine
B65H 5/36
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Article guides or smoothers, e.g. movable in operation
B65H 5/38
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immovable in operation
P:50
B65H 7/00
Controlling article feeding, separating, pile-advancing, or associated apparatus, to take account of incorrect feeding, absence of articles, or presence of faulty articles
Mechanisms in which power is applied to web-roll spindle [4]
B65H 18/14
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Mechanisms in which power is applied to web roll, e.g. to effect continuous advancement of web [4]
P:210
B65H 19/00
Changing the web roll [4]
B65H 19/10
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in unwinding mechanisms or in connection with unwinding operations [4]
B65H 19/12
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Lifting, transporting, or inserting the web roll; Removing empty core [4]
B65H 19/18
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Attaching, e.g. pasting, the replacement web to the expiring web [4]
B65H 19/22
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in winding mechanisms or in connection with winding operations [4]
B65H 19/28
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Attaching the leading end of the web to the replacement web-roll core or spindle (cores, formers, supports or holders, e.g. reels, with arrangements for securing ends of material Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...B65H 75/28) [4]
B65H 19/30
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Lifting, transporting, or removing the web roll; Inserting core [4]
P:260
B65H 20/00
Advancing webs [4]
B65H 20/02
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by friction roller [4]
B65H 20/10
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by a feed band against which web is held by fluid pressure, e.g. suction or air blast [4]
Delivering articles from machines; Piling articles; Article or web delivery apparatus incorporating devices for performing specified auxiliary operations; Associating or gathering articles or webs; Machines for separating superposed webs (combinations of piling and depiling operations, of interest apart from the single operation of piling or depiling Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...B65H 83/00; recirculating articles Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...B65H 85/00)
Auxiliary devices for receiving articles during removal of a completed pile
B65H 31/34
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Apparatus for squaring-up piled articles
P:90
B65H 33/00
Forming counted batches in delivery pile or stream of articles
P:30
B65H 35/00
Delivering articles from cutting or line-perforating machines; Article or web delivery apparatus incorporating cutting or line-perforating devices, e.g. adhesive tape dispensers (cutting or perforating machines or devices in general Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...B26D, Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...B26F)
Article or web delivery apparatus incorporating devices for performing specified auxiliary operations (incorporating cutting or line-perforating devices Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...B65H 35/00)
B65H 37/04
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for securing together articles or webs, e.g. by adhesive, stitching, or stapling (adhering replacement to expiring web during change of web roll Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...B65H 19/18) [2]
P:0
B65H 39/00
Associating, collating, or gathering articles or webs (machines for both collating or gathering and permanently attaching together sheets or signatures Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...B42C 1/00)
B65H 39/10
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Associating articles from a single source, e.g. to form a writing pad
B65H 39/11
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in superposed carriers [3]
P:200
B65H 41/00
Machines for separating superposed webs
P:60
B65H 43/00
Use of control, checking, or safety devices, e.g. automatic devices comprising an element for sensing a variable
Folding thin material (specially adapted for the manufacture or treatment of particular products, see the relevant places, e.g. Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...D06F 89/00) [4]
Winding of balls; Forming hollow objects by winding on to fusible or soluble cores, e.g. forming pressure vessels
B65H 54/68
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Winding on to cards or other flat cores, e.g. of star form
P:390
B65H 55/00
Wound packages of filamentary material
P:370
B65H 57/00
Guides for filamentary materials; Supports therefor
P:310
B65H 59/00
Adjusting or controlling tension in filamentary material, e.g. for preventing snarling; Applications of tension indicators (tensioning devices of general interest in connection with the handling of webs, tapes, or filamentary material Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...B65H 77/00)
B65H 59/10
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by devices acting on running material and not associated with supply or take-up devices (by controlling speed of driving mechanism of material-forwarding devices Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...B65H 59/00)
Securing material to cores or formers (arrangements for securing ends of material to cores, formers, supports or holders, e.g. reels, Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...B65H 75/28) [3]
P:360
B65H 67/00
Replacing or removing cores, receptacles, or completed packages at paying-out, winding, or depositing stations
B65H 67/04
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Arrangements for removing completed take-up packages and replacing by cores, formers, or empty receptacles at winding or depositing stations; Transferring material between adjacent full and empty take-up elements
B65H 67/06
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Supplying cores, receptacles, or packages to, or transporting from, winding or depositing stations
P:290
B65H 69/00
Methods of, or devices for, interconnecting successive lengths of material; Knot-tying devices
P:300
B65H 71/00
Moistening, sizing, oiling, waxing, colouring, or drying filamentary material as additional measures during package formation (applying liquids or other fluent materials to surfaces in general Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...B05)
P:400
B65H 73/00
Stripping waste material from cores or formers, e.g. to permit their re-use
Combinations of piling and depiling operations, e.g. performed simultaneously, of interest apart from the single operation of piling or depiling (Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...B65H 85/00 takes precedence) [5]
P:70
B65H 85/00
Recirculating articles, i.e. feeding each article to, and delivering it from, the same machine work-station more than once [5]
P:450
B65H 99/00
Subject matter not provided for in other groups of this subclass [8]