|  | B |
SECTION B — PERFORMING OPERATIONS

SHAPING

|  | B29 |
WORKING OF PLASTICS; WORKING OF SUBSTANCES IN A PLASTIC STATE, IN GENERAL; WORKING OF SUBSTANCES NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR (see Section C, particularly Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...C08, for chemical matters; shaping clay or other ceramic compositions, slag, or mixtures containing cementitious material Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...B28B)

|  | B29 |
Note(s) For the purpose of this class, "plastics" means macromolecular compounds or compositions based thereon. A product is not classified here unless it results from a process which is itself classified in this class.

|  | B29H |
PROCESSES OR APPARATUS SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR WORKING OF NATURAL OR SYNTHETIC RUBBERS (working of rubber in the same manner as plastics, see the relevant sub-classes for plastics)

|  | B29H 1/00 |
Treatment of crude rubber, gutta-percha, or similar substances (tapping latex Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...A01G; chemical aspects Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...C08C)

|  | B29H 1/02 |
· | Coagulating devices

|  | B29H 1/04 |
· | Washing devices for rubber

|  | B29H 1/06 |
· | Drying or smoking rubber

|  | B29H 1/08 |
· | Breaking-up rubber bales

|  | B29H 1/10 |
· | Methods or apparatus specially adapted for mixing rubber with other substances, e.g. with solids, with fluids

|  | B29H 3/00 |
Shaping rubber articles in general

|  | B29H 3/02 |
· | from latex

|  | B29H 3/04 |
· | by the immersion method

|  | B29H 3/042 |
· · | Moulds; Cores, e.g. formers

|  | B29H 3/044 |
· · | Arrangements for removing the articles from the cores or formers

|  | B29H 3/06 |
· | by cutting, stamping, perforating, splitting, or trimming

|  | B29H 3/08 |
· | by injection moulding

|  | B29H 3/10 |
· · | by transfer moulding, i.e. from an injection chamber incorporated in the mould

|  | B29H 3/12 |
· · · | the injection chamber being engaged directly by the reciprocating press-ram

|  | B29H 3/14 |
· · | from a separate injection press adapted to be connected to the moulds

|  | B29H 5/00 |
Processes or devices for vulcanising rubber articles (for dental purposes Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...A61C 13/14; chemical vulcanisation Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...C08)

|  | B29H 5/01 |
· | Vulcanising processes

|  | B29H 5/012 |
· | Vulcanising pans

|  | B29H 5/02 |
· | for tyres; Vulcanising presses (with several moulds Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...B29H 5/20); Vulcanising moulds; Accessories for use in connection with, or associated with, vulcanising presses or moulds

|  | B29H 5/04 |
· · | for vulcanising retreaded tyres; Devices for forming and vulcanising the new tread

|  | B29H 5/06 |
· · | Devices for folding and inserting vulcanising cores into tyres before vulcanisation (insertion into tyres in a flat form before tyre is expanded to the normal shape Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...B29H 17/26)

|  | B29H 5/08 |
· · | Apparatus for removing cores from tyres after vulcanisation; Opening or closing vulcanising moulds

|  | B29H 5/10 |
· | for inner tubes

|  | B29H 5/12 |
· | for shoes

|  | B29H 5/14 |
· | for hot-water bottles

|  | B29H 5/16 |
· | for local vulcanisation, e.g. for repairing tyres, inner tubes, shoes

|  | B29H 5/17 |
· · | by applying patches

|  | B29H 5/18 |
· | Cores for use during vulcanisation, e.g. inflatable air-bags

|  | B29H 5/20 |
· | Vulcanising presses with several moulds stacked upon each other and acted upon by a single pressing-ram

|  | B29H 5/22 |
· | Heated platens for use in moulding-presses

|  | B29H 5/24 |
· | with automatic devices for regulating the duration or temperature of the vulcanising process

|  | B29H 5/26 |
· | Vulcanising devices in which the rubber is heated by using a high-frequency electric field

|  | B29H 5/28 |
· | Continuous vulcanising machines

|  | B29H 5/30 |
· | Cold vulcanising devices

|  | B29H 7/00 |
Manufacture of particular vulcanised rubber articles or materials (vulcanising devices Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...B29H 5/00; tyres Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...B29H 11/00, Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...B29H 13/00, Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...B29H 17/00; inner tubes Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...B29H 15/00)

|  | B29H 7/02 |
· | substantially-closed hollow articles, wholly or partly of rubber, e.g. balls (constructional form of balls Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...A63B)

|  | B29H 7/03 |
· · | inflatable, e.g. toys, air cushions

|  | B29H 7/04 |
· · | formed by stamping parts from sheets and joining edges of parts together

|  | B29H 7/05 |
· · | of hot-water bottles (constructional form Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...A61F 7/04)

|  | B29H 7/06 |
· | of golf balls

|  | B29H 7/08 |
· | of shoes; parts of shoes (constructional form Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...A43B); Washer-feeding machines for making rubber heels

|  | B29H 7/12 |
· | of accumulator cases, e.g. made of ebonite

|  | B29H 7/14 |
· | of pipes, e.g. hose-pipe; tubes (inner tubes of tyres Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...B29H 15/00)

|  | B29H 7/15 |
· · | of pleated hoses

|  | B29H 7/16 |
· | of threads

|  | B29H 7/18 |
· · | made by cutting from sheets or cylinders

|  | B29H 7/20 |
· | of porous or cellular articles or sheets

|  | B29H 7/22 |
· | of driving belts (constructional form Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...F16G); of conveyer belts

|  | B29H 7/24 |
· | of floor coverings

|  | B29H 7/26 |
· | of gas masks

|  | B29H 7/27 |
· | of bathing caps

|  | B29H 7/28 |
· | of garment protectors, e.g. dress shields (constructional form Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...A41D 27/12)

|  | B29H 8/00 - B29H 9/00 |
Note(s) Classification in group Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...B29H 8/00 or Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...B29H 9/00 must be supplemented, in so far as any product is concerned, by classification in sub-class Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...B32B.

|  | B29H 8/00 |
Producing compound rubber sheet material, i.e. built-up from natural or synthetic rubber layers only

|  | B29H 9/00 |
Combining rubber with other materials (in making tyres Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...B29H 17/00)

|  | B29H 9/02 |
· | Threads, fabrics, or other coherent material treated with rubber or with rubber latex

|  | B29H 9/04 |
· · | Manufacture of layers comprising parallel threads or cords, without weft threads or cords, held together or embedded in rubber (with weft threads Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...B32B)

|  | B29H 9/06 |
· · | Spreading rubber coatings on coherent material, e.g. fabric or paper

|  | B29H 9/08 |
· · | Covering metal wire with rubber

|  | B29H 9/10 |
· | Fixing rubber on, or applying rubber to, other materials, e.g. metal, glass, leather (in shoemaking Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...A43D 25/00, Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...A43D 65/00)

|  | B29H 9/11 |
· · | to articles, e.g. sleeves

|  | B29H 9/12 |
· · | Manufacture of rubber printing-rolls

|  | B29H 11/00 |
Manufacture of solid rubber tyres (constructional form Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...B60C)

|  | B29H 13/00 |
Manufacture of resilient fillings for rubber tyres; Filling tyres therewith

|  | B29H 15/00 |
Manufacture of inner tubes

|  | B29H 15/02 |
· | with two or more air chambers or cells, e.g. safety inner tubes

|  | B29H 15/04 |
· | Joining or welding together the ends of non-vulcanised inner tubes

|  | B29H 15/06 |
· | Devices for removing air from inner tubes

|  | B29H 17/00 |
Manufacture of pneumatic tyres or parts thereof (constructional form, connecting to valves Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...B60C)

|  | B29H 17/02 |
· | Building-up tyres

|  | B29H 17/04 |
· · | on round cores, i.e. the shape of the core is approximately identical with the normal shape of the completed tyre

|  | B29H 17/06 |
· · · | Cores

|  | B29H 17/08 |
· · · | Rolling-down or pressing-down the layers in the building-up process

|  | B29H 17/10 |
· · · | Applying the layers; Guiding or stretching the layers during the application

|  | B29H 17/12 |
· · · | Fitting the bead-rings or bead-cores; Folding the textile layers round these rings or cores

|  | B29H 17/14 |
· · | by the flat-tyre method, i.e. building-up on cylindrical drums

|  | B29H 17/16 |
· · · | Drums

|  | B29H 17/18 |
· · · | Rolling-down or pressing-down the layers in the building-up process

|  | B29H 17/20 |
· · · | Applying the layers; Guiding or stretching the layers during application

|  | B29H 17/22 |
· · · | Fitting the bead-rings or bead-cores; Folding the textile layers round these rings or cores

|  | B29H 17/24 |
· · | by jointly covering two bead-rings, located parallel to each other at a distance apart, with fabric or cord layers

|  | B29H 17/26 |
· | Expansion of tyres in a flat form, e.g. built-up by the flat-tyre method or by jointly covering two bead-rings, to the normal shape

|  | B29H 17/28 |
· | Forming textile inserts, e.g. cord or canvas layers, for tyres (making woven fabrics Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...D03D); Treatment of inserts prior to building-up the tyre (treatment of inserts with rubber Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...B29H 9/02; manufacture of layers consisting of parallel cords, without weft threads, held together by or embedded in rubber Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...B29H 9/04; constructional form of inserts Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...B60C)

|  | B29H 17/30 |
· · | Cutting textile inserts to required shape

|  | B29H 17/32 |
· | Manufacture of bead-rings or bead-cores (of wire Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...B21F 37/00); Treatment thereof prior to building-up the tyre (constructional form of bead-rings or bead-cores Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...B60C)

|  | B29H 17/34 |
· · | Covering, e.g. by winding, the separate bead-rings or bead-cores with textile material, e.g. with flipper strips (folding textile layers round bead-rings or bead-cores Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...B29H 17/12, Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...B29H 17/22; jointly covering bead-rings or bead-cores Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...B29H 17/24)

|  | B29H 17/36 |
· | Forming unvulcanised treads, e.g. on used tyres; Retreading (apparatus for forming and vulcanising treads Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...B29H 5/04)

|  | B29H 17/37 |
· · | Applying bands of rubber treads, i.e. applying camel back

|  | B29H 17/372 |
· · | Tyre spreaders

|  | B29H 17/38 |
· · | Moulding treads on to tyre casings, e.g. non-skid treads with spikes

|  | B29H 17/40 |
· · | Cutting profiles in the treads of tyres

|  | B29H 19/00 |
Recovery or processing of used rubber; Recovery of non-rubber constituents of rubber articles

|  | B29H 19/02 |
· | Separating rubber layers from other layers, e.g. separating rubber layers from canvas layers of tyres; Splitting or cutting used tyres

|  | B29H 19/022 |
· · | by means of tools which are moved round the work

|  | B29H 19/024 |
· · | by means of tools which are arranged stationary while work is moved

|  | B29H 19/04 |
· | Recovery of fibrous material from vulcanised rubber, e.g. from tyres (rough separation of layers Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...B29H 19/02)

|  | B29H 19/06 |
· | Pulverising waste rubber

|  | B29H 21/00 |
Other mechanical processing or treatment of rubber

|  | B29H 21/01 |
· | Devices for rasping, e.g. of treads of tyres

|  | B29H 21/02 |
· | Decorating; Marking; Applying colour

|  | B29H 21/04 |
· | Preventing sticking of rubber-articles to each other or to other articles, e.g. by treatment with talc, by roughening the surface, by means of separators

|  | B29H 21/06 |
· · | Dusting machines

|  | B29H 21/08 |
· | Cutting grooves in the surface (cutting profiles in treads of tyres Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...B29H 17/40)