B
SECTION B — PERFORMING OPERATIONS
  
SHAPING
 B26
HAND CUTTING TOOLS; CUTTING; MACHINES OR DEVICES NOT SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR PARTICULAR MATERIALS OR PURPOSES
 B26B
HAND-HELD OR OTHER PORTABLE CUTTING TOOLS NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR (for harvesting A01D; for culture of vegetables, flowers, or fruits, for forestry A01G; for butchering or meat treatment A22; for manufacturing or repairing footwear A43D; toilet requisites A45D; kitchen or other domestic appliances A47J; for surgical purposes A61B; for severing metal B23D; plierlike tools B25B 7/00; pincers B25C 11/02; guillotine-type cutters B26D; for erasing B43L 19/00)

 B26D
CUTTING MACHINES; DETAILS COMMON TO MACHINES FOR SEVERING, e.g. BY CUTTING, PERFORATING, PUNCHING, STAMPING-OUT (soil-working A01B; for growing crops or plants A01D, A01G; for fodder or straw A01F; for bulk butter A01J; for dough A21C; slaughtering A22B; for tobacco, cigars or cigarettes A24; marking-out, perforating or making buttonholes A41H 25/00; shoemaking A43D; brushmaking A46D; surgery A61B; disintegrating, mincing or shredding in general B02C; cutting wire, making pins or nails B21F, B21G; of the kind used for metal B23; hand-held cutting tools B26B; perforating, cutting-out, stamping-out or punching, or severing by means other than cutting B26F; for wood B27; for stone B28D; for plastics, rubber B29C, B29D, B29H; making boxes, cartons, envelopes or bags B31B; drawing or cutting paper from rolls B65H; for leather or upholstery B68, C14B; for glass C03B; making matches C06F; for peat C10F; for sugar C13H; cutting-off yarns or woven fabrics from webs or the like D06H; civil engineering, building, mining, Section E; processing photographic material G03D)
 B26D

Note(s)

  1. This sub-class provides for cutting non-metallic sheet material and metal foil in general and for cutting other forms of non-metallic material not otherwise provided for.
  2. This sub-class includes also features specific to machines for cutting, perforating, punching, cutting-out, stamping-out, and severing by means other than cutting, which relate to a requirement or problem of a nature which is not peculiar to a machine for cutting or for perforating, punching, cutting-out, stamping-out or for severing by means other than cutting, that is, details of and arrangements for operating and controlling such machines, although the realisation of such features may differ according to the kind of machine concerned. This sub-class provides in general for such features even if the feature in any particular case is to some extent peculiar to, or is claimed only for, a machine designed for perforating, punching, cutting-out, stamping-out, or for severing other than by cutting. If the details or arrangements have no essential features specific to cutting, perforating, punching, cutting-out, stamping-out or severing machines, the more general class, e.g. F16, takes precedence.
  3. In this sub-class, in the sub-groups of the main groups B26D 5/00 and B26D 7/00, the term "cutting" is intended to include cutting-out, stamping-out, punching, perforating, and severing by means other than cutting.

 B26F
PERFORATING; PUNCHING; CUTTING-OUT; STAMPING-OUT; SEVERING BY MEANS OTHER THAN CUTTING (marking-out, perforating or making buttonholes A41H 25/00; shoemaking A43D; surgery A61B; punching metal B21D; drilling metal B23B; details common to machines for severing B26D; drilling wood B27C; drilling stone B28D; drilling plastics, rubber B29C, B29D, B29H; making boxes, cartons, envelopes or bags B31B; of glass C03B; of leather C14B; of tickets G07B)
 B26F

Note(s)

  1. This sub-class provides for perforating, punching, cutting-out, stamping-out, and for severing, by means other than cutting, non-metallic sheet material and metal foil in general and also for severing, by means other than cutting, other forms of non-metallic materials not otherwise provided for.
  2. Sub-class B26D provides for features specific to machines for cutting, perforating, punching, cutting-out, stamping-out, and severing by means other than cutting which relate to a requirement or problem of a nature which is not peculiar to a machine for these purposes, that is, details of, and arrangements for, operating and controlling such machines, although the realisation of such features may differ according to the kind of machine concerned. Sub-class B26D provides in general for such features even if the feature in any particular case is to some extent peculiar to, or is claimed only for, a machine designed for perforating, punching, cutting-out, stamping-out, or for severing other than by cutting. If the details or arrangements have no essential features specific to cutting, perforating, punching, cutting-out, stamping-out, or severing machines, the more general class, e.g. F16, takes precedence.