|  | B |
SECTION B — PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING

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) This class covers subject matter restricted to adaptations or associations of handling sheets, webs, or blanks peculiar to paper-working, e.g. bag or box making, machinery. This class does not cover: making articles directly from paper pulp, which is covered by Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...D21J; handling sheets, webs, or blanks of wider applicability, irrespective of whether described or claimed only for paper-working machinery, which is regarded as being of a more comprehensive nature and is covered by Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...B65H. In this class, the following term is used with the meaning indicated: "paper" covers material worked in a manner analogous to paper, e.g. plastics sheet materials, laminated materials or metal foils.

|  | 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 subclass, envelopes or bags are regarded as being essentially flexible containers, the final shape of which is determined by their contents. In this subclass, the following expression is used with the meaning indicated: "boxes or cartons" includes bags formed similarly to cartons, trays with upstanding side-walls, barrels, tubes and cups, other than articles formed by winding.

|  | B31C |
MAKING WOUND ARTICLES, e.g. WOUND TUBES (characteristics relating to the working of plastics Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...B29; shaping of plastics or substances in a plastic state Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...B29C)

|  | B31C |
Note(s) In this subclass, the following term is used with the meaning indicated: "winding" means forming two or more complete convolutions.

|  | B31D |
MAKING OTHER PAPER ARTICLES (manufacture by dry processes of articles made from particles or fibres consisting of wood or other lignocellulosic or like organic material Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...B27N; making layered products not composed wholly of paper or cardboard Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...B32B; making cardboard or paper Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...D21F, Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...D21H, making articles from wood pulp Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...D21J)

|  | B31D |
Note(s) This subclass covers the making, otherwise than by winding, of 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)