|  | B |
SECTION B — PERFORMING OPERATIONS

SHAPING

|  | B31 |
MAKING PAPER ARTICLES; WORKING PAPER (making layered products not composed wholly of paper or cardboard Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...B32B; handling thin material, e.g. sheets, webs, Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...B65H)

|  | B31 |
Note(s) The word "paper" in this class is to be interpreted as covering material worked in a manner analogous to paper, e.g. plastic sheet materials, laminated materials or metal foils. This class does not include making articles directly from paper pulp, which is covered by Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...D21J. This class is to be understood as restricted to adaptations or associations of handling sheets, webs, or blanks peculiar to paper-working, e.g. bag or box making, machinery. Handling sheets, webs, or blanks of wider applicability, irrespective of whether described or claimed only for paper-working machinery, is to be regarded as of a more comprehensive nature and as such classified in Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...B65H.

|  | B31B |
MAKING BOXES, CARTONS, ENVELOPES OR BAGS (incising, scoring, in general Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...B26D 3/08; combined making and filling Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...B65B)

|  | B31B |
Note(s) In this sub-class, envelopes or bags are regarded as being essentially flexible containers, the final shape of which is determined by their contents. Boxes or cartons, on the other hand, are regarded as being essentially rigid or semi-rigid containers, the final shape of which is not determined by their contents. The term "boxes or cartons" is to be interpreted as including bags formed similarly to cartons, trays with upstanding side-walls, barrels, tubes and cups, other than articles formed by winding. If any further subdivision of any of groups Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...B31B 3/00-B31B 41/00 becomes necessary, the new sub-groups to be provided will correspond exactly in wording and sub-group numbering to the relevant sub-groups of group Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...B31B 1/00.

|  | B31C |
MAKING WOUND ARTICLES, e.g. WOUND TUBES (characteristics relating to the working of plastics Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...B29)

|  | B31C |
Note(s) The term "winding" in this sub-class means forming two or more complete convolutions.

|  | B31D |
MAKING OTHER PAPER ARTICLES (making articles from wood fibre Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...B29J 5/00; making layered products not composed wholly of paper or cardboard Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...B32B; making cardboard and paper Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...D21F, Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...D21H, making articles from wood pulp Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...D21J)

|  | B31D |
Note(s) This sub-class is to be understood as covering making, otherwise than by winding, articles other than boxes, cartons, envelopes, bags, and tubes from paper, other than from paper pulp.

|  | B31F |
MECHANICAL WORKING OR DEFORMATION OF PAPER OR CARDBOARD (cutting, trimming, in general Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...B26; incising, scoring, in general Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...B26D 3/08; making layered products not composed wholly of paper or cardboard Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...B32B; multi-ply material of paper or cardboard, its manufacture Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...D21H)