|  | B |
SECTION B — PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING

TRANSPORTING

|  | B65 |
CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL

|  | B65B |
MACHINES, APPARATUS OR DEVICES FOR, OR METHODS OF, PACKAGING ARTICLES OR MATERIALS; UNPACKING (bundling and pressing devices for cigars Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...A24C 1/44; paper-bag holders as shop or office accessories Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...A47F 13/08; apparatus for coating, e.g. by dipping, Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...B05C; devices for tensioning and securing binders adapted to be supported by the article or articles to be bound Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...B25B; nailing or stapling devices Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...B25C, Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...B27F; inserting documents in envelopes and closing the latter Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...B43M 3/00, Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...B43M 5/00; labelling Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...B65C; wrappers, containers or other packaging elements, e.g. binders, closures, protective caps, Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...B65D; transport or storage devices Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...B65G; devices for handling sheets or webs of interest apart from their application in packaging machines Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...B65H; applying closure members to bottles, jars or similar containers Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...B67B; hand- or power-operated devices not attached to, or not incorporated in, containers or container closures for opening closed containers Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...B67B 7/00; packaging of matches Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...C06F; wrapping sugar during manufacture Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...C13H; packaging of ammunition or explosive charges Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...F42B 39/00; making containers or receptacles, see the appropriate subclasses)

|  | B65B |
Note(s) This subclass does not cover: operations of the types mentioned in Note (2) (a) to (f), employed in the manufacture of articles other than packages, which are covered by other appropriate subclasses, e.g. making confectionery products by casting in moulds formed by wrappers Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...A23G, filling ammunition, e.g. cartridges, Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...F42B 33/02; methods of packaging, which are wholly characterised by the form of the package produced, or the form of the container or packaging-element used, which are covered by Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...B65D. In this subclass, the following terms are used with the meanings indicated: "packaging" includes mainly the following operations: filling portable containers or receptacles with materials or small articles to form packages; inserting articles or groups of articles into containers or receptacles; closing filled containers or receptacles otherwise than by metal-, glass-, or wood-working operations; enclosing, or partially enclosing, articles or quantities of material, in sheets, strips, blanks, webs, or tubes of thin flexible material, e.g. wrapping; bundling articles, e.g. holding articles together in groups by applying string or wire; attaching articles to cards, sheets, or webs. "package" means the end product of a packaging operation, e.g. a filled and closed container, an article enclosed in a wrapper, a group of articles held together by string or wire, a crate of bottles. "materials" includes matter, or masses of articles, which are to be packaged, as distinct from separate or individual articles.

|  | B65B |
Subclass index
METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR PACKAGING |
Of general application |
in individual receptacles: for materials; for objects; closing after filling | 1/00, 3/00; 5/00; 7/00
enclosing successively in webs; wrapping; by attachment to carriers | 9/00; 11/00; 15/00
for objects: bundling; joining | 13/00; 17/02
other processes and apparatus | 17/00
For particular objects or materials; under particular conditions |
for fragile rod-shaped or tubular objects; for bottles; for other articles presenting special problems | 19/00; 21/00; 23/00, 25/00
bundling particular articles | 27/00
using removable coatings | 33/00
for particular materials: fibrous; other | 27/00; 29/00
under particular atmospheric or gaseous conditions | 31/00
DETAILS OF APPARATUS AND AUXILIARY DEVICES OR OPERATIONS, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR |
Relating to contents |
supply arrangements; introducing into containers or wrappers; preservation, purification | 35/00, 37/00; 39/00; 55/00
other devices or methods | 63/00
Relating to containers |
supplying container-forming material; forming containers; forming pockets; holding wrappers during wrapping | 41/00; 43/00; 47/00; 45/00
bendling wrappers round contents; shrinking; closing; preserving, purifying | 49/00; 53/00; 51/00; 55/00
other devices or methods | 61/00
Relating to apparatus: control, safety; adaptation to different requirements; other details | 57/00; 59/00; 65/00
PACKAGING BY HAND | 67/00
UNPACKING NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR | 69/00

|  | B65C |
LABELLING OR TAGGING MACHINES, APPARATUS, OR PROCESSES (nailing or stapling in general Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...B25C, Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...B27F; processes for applying decalcomanias Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...B44C 1/16; applying labels for packaging purposes Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...B65B; labels, name-plates Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...G09F)

|  | B65C |
Note(s) In this subclass, the following term is used with the meaning indicated: "labels" covers also decalcomanias, stamps or the like.

|  | B65D |
CONTAINERS FOR STORAGE OR TRANSPORT OF ARTICLES OR MATERIALS, e.g. BAGS, BARRELS, BOTTLES, BOXES, CANS, CARTONS, CRATES, DRUMS, JARS, TANKS, HOPPERS, FORWARDING CONTAINERS; ACCESSORIES, CLOSURES, OR FITTINGS THEREFOR; PACKAGING ELEMENTS; PACKAGES (containers specially adapted for storing agricultural or horticultural products Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...A01F 25/14; containers specially adapted for use in dairies Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...A01J; travelling bags or baskets, suitcases Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...A45C; travelling or camp equipment Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...A45F; household or table equipment Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...A47G; letter-boxes for home use Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...A47G 29/12; kitchen equipment Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...A47J; associated with vehicles, see the appropriate subclass of Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...B60-B64; machines, apparatus, or devices for, or methods of, packaging articles or materials Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...B65B; sack holders Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...B65B 67/00; refuse receptacles Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...B65F 1/00; handling sheets, webs or filamentary material Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...B65H; load-engaging elements or devices attached to lifting or lowering gear of cranes or adapted for connection therewith for transmitting lifting forces Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...B66C; liquid handling Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...B67; storing gases Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...F17; making containers, see subclasses dealing with the working of the material concerned)

|  | B65D |
Note(s) This subclass covers: [6] containers, packaging elements or packages with auxiliary means or provision for displaying articles or materials; [6] methods of packaging which are wholly characterised by the form of the package produced or the form of the container or packaging element used, as distinct from the operations performed or the apparatus employed, which are covered by subclass Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...B65B. [6] This subclass, which is intended to be as comprehensive as possible, only excludes containers or packages of a nature clearly confined to a single other subclass, which are classified in that subclass. In this subclass, groups Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...B65D 5/00, Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...B65D 27/00, Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...B65D 30/00 or Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...B65D 65/00 include constructional features of foldable or erectable container or wrapper blanks as well as the containers or wrappers formed by folding or erecting such blanks. Containers, packaging elements or packages classified in group Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...B65D 85/00, are also classified according to the constructional or functional features, if such features are of interest. [6] In this subclass, the following terms or expressions are used with the meanings indicated: "rigid or semi-rigid containers" includes: containers not deformed by, or not taking-up the shape of, their contents; containers adapted to be temporarily deformed to expel their contents; pallets; trays; "flexible containers" includes: containers deformed by, or taking-up the shape of, their contents; containers adapted to be permanently deformed to expel their contents; "packaging elements" includes: elements, other than containers, for covering, protecting, stiffening, or holding together articles or materials to be stored or transported; packaging materials of special type or form not provided for in other subclasses; "packages" includes: combinations of containers or packaging elements with articles or materials to be stored or transported; articles joined together for convenience of storage or transport; "paper" includes materials, e.g. cardboard, plastic sheet materials, laminated materials, or metal foils, worked in a manner analogous to paper; "large containers", in groups Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...B65D 88/00 or Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...B65D 90/00, means containers having about the size of containers used in container traffic, sometimes referred to as freight, forwarding or "ISO" (International Standardization Organization) containers, or larger containers. [3] Tamper-indicating means for containers or closures are classified in the group appropriate to the type of container or closure, e.g. Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...B65D 5/43, Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...B65D 5/54, Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...B65D 17/00, Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...B65D 27/30, Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...B65D 27/34, Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...B65D 33/34, Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...B65D 41/32, Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...B65D 47/36, Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...B65D 49/12, Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...B65D 51/20, Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...B65D 55/06. [6]

|  | B65D |
Subclass index
GENERAL CONTAINERS |
Rigid or semi-rigid characterised by |
their structure or material | 1/00 - 13/00
their kind | 19/00, 21/00
opening by cutting or tearing | 17/00
their particular use | 81/00 - 85/00
details not otherwise provided for | 23/00, 25/00
Flexible characterised by |
their kind | 27/00 - 37/00
their particular use | 81/00 - 85/00
LARGE CONTAINERS | 88/00, 90/00
LETTER-BOXES | 91/00
MOVABLE OR HINGED CLOSURES |
Kinds of closure | 39/00, 41/00, 43/00, 50/00, 51/00
Clamping or using closures | 45/00, 47/00, 49/00
Accessories | 53/00, 55/00
PACKAGING ELEMENTS |
Material | 65/00, 67/00
For particular use | 81/00, 85/00
Accessories |
internal | 57/00, 59/00
external | 61/00, 63/00
not otherwise provided for | 67/00
KINDS OF PACKAGES |
Bales; articles on carriers; with enclosing tube, sheet, or web; using preformed containers | 71/00; 73/00; 75/00; 77/00
Assemblies of objects | 69/00, 71/00
For particular use | 81/00, 83/00, 85/00
Kinds or details not otherwise provided for | 79/00

|  | B65F |
GATHERING OR REMOVAL OF DOMESTIC OR LIKE REFUSE (disinfecting refuse Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...A61L; refuse disintegrators Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...B02C; sorting refuse Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...B03B, Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...B07B; handcarts for transporting refuse receptacles Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...B62B; sack holders Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...B65B 67/00; converting refuse into fertilisers Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...C05F; converting refuse into solid fuels Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...C10L; sewers, cesspools Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...E03F; arrangements in buildings for the disposal of refuse Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...E04F 17/10; refuse-consuming furnaces Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...F23G)

|  | B65G |
TRANSPORT OR STORAGE DEVICES, e.g. CONVEYERS FOR LOADING OR TIPPING; SHOP CONVEYER SYSTEMS; PNEUMATIC TUBE CONVEYERS (transport or storage devices used in a particular handling or treatment of articles or materials, see the relevant subclass, e.g. in metal-working Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...B21D 43/00, Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...B23Q 7/00, Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...B23Q 41/02; vehicle, railway, sea or aircraft aspects Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...B60-B64; in packaging Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...B65B; handling thin or filamentary materials Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...B65H; hoisting, lifting, hauling, e.g. truck loaders Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...B66; handling liquids Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...B67; specially adapted to underground conditions Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...E21F 13/00; storing or distributing gases or liquids Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...F17; in handling radioactive materials Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...G21C 19/00)

|  | B65G |
Subclass index
HANDLING AND STORAGE |
Loading and unloading | 65/00, 67/00, 69/00
Transfer, trans-shipment | 63/00
Storage | 1/00, 3/00, 5/00
Piling, unpiling |
of articles | 57/00 - 61/00
of loose material | 65/28
Assisting manual handling | 7/00, 9/00
CONVEYERS, CHUTES |
Mechanical |
with endless element | 15/00 - 23/00
with particular movement | 25/00, 27/00, 29/00, 33/00
other kinds | 35/00
combinations or systems of general use | 37/00, 49/00
chutes; roller-ways; projectors | 11/00; 13/00; 31/00
Parts or auxiliary devices applicable to different kinds |
rollers; frames; auxiliary handling | 39/00; 41/00; 47/00
control, safety; maintenance | 43/00; 45/00
Non-mechanical | 51/00, 53/00, 54/00

|  | B65H |
HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL, e.g. SHEETS, WEBS, CABLES

|  | B65H |
1. 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.:
   Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...B07C | Postal sorting, similar sorting of documents, e.g. cheques |
   Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...B08B 1/02 | Cleaning travelling work, e.g. webs, by methods involving the use of tools, brushes or like members |
   Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...B21B 41/00 | Metal rolling involving guiding, conveying or accumulating easily-flexible work, e.g. wire, sheet metal bands, in loops or curves |
   Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...B21C 47/00, Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...B21C 49/00 | 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 |
   Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...B21D 43/00 | 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 |
   Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...B23K 9/12 | Means for automatic feeding of electrodes for spot or seam welding or cutting |
   Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...B29C 31/00 | 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 |
   Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...B41B 15/32, Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...B41B 21/32 | Film-handling mechanisms in photographic composing machines |
   Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...B41F 13/02 | Conveying or guiding webs through rotary-printing presses or machines |
   Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...B41J 11/00-B41J 17/00 | Handling of copy- or impression-transfer material in typewriters or selective printing mechanisms |
   Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...B41K 3/44 | Means for handling copy matter in stamping or numbering apparatus or devices |
   Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...B41L | 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 |
   Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...B42B | Handling relating to permanently attaching together sheets, quires, or signatures |
   Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...B42C | Handling sheets in book-binding |
   Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...B65B | Handling of sheets or webs in apparatus for, or methods of, packaging articles, not of interest apart from their application in packaging machines |
   Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...B65C | Handling of labels in labelling or tagging apparatus |
   Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...C14B 1/62 | Winding or stacking hides or leather in machines or devices for manufacturing leather |
   Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...D01 | to Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...D07 Spinning, weaving, braiding, lace-making, knitting, sewing, making ropes or cables |
   Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...D21F 2/00 | Transferring webs from wet ends to press sections in paper-making |
   Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...F26B 13/00 | Handling fabrics, fibres, yarns or other material in long lengths in drying apparatus |
   Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...G03B | Film-strip handling or handling of pictures in apparatus for taking photographs or for projecting or viewing them |
   Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...G06K 13/00 | Conveying record carriers from one station to another |
   Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...G06M 7/00 | Counting of flat articles, e.g. sheets, carried by a conveyer |
   Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...G11B 15/00-G11B 19/00, Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...G11B 23/00, Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...G11B 25/00 | Information storage based on relative movement between record carrier and transducer, involving handling record carriers for recording or reproducing |
   Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...H01F 41/06 | Manufacturing coils for magnets, inductances, tranformers, by winding |
   Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...H01G 13/02 | Machines for winding capacitors |
   Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...H04N 1/00 | 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 | 1/00; 13/00; 15/00
separating from piles; feeding from piles or to machines; feed control; positioning; feeding to piles; feed tables | 3/00; 5/00; 7/00; 9/00; 11/00
Delivering |
from machines to piles | 29/00, 35/00, 37/00
gathering | 39/00
folding; unfolding | 45/00; 47/00
piling | 13/00, 15/00, 31/00, 33/00
Combinations of piling and depiling operations | 83/00
Recirculating articles | 85/00
Control, checking, safety | 43/00
WEBS |
Feeding |
unwinding, paying-out webs; winding webs; advancing webs | 16/00; 18/00; 20/00
changing the web roll; special constructions of feed or guide rollers; covering cores, not otherwise provided for | 19/00; 27/00; 81/00
webs: splicing; registering, tensioning or guiding; con- trolling tension | 21/00; 23/00; 77/00
Delivery from machines |
with or after auxiliary operations; gathering; separating | 35/00, 37/00; 39/00; 41/00
folding; unfolding | 45/00; 47/00
Machines: control, checking, safety or warning; driving gear not otherwise provided for | 26/00, 43/00, 63/00; 79/00
Storing | 75/00
FILAMENTARY MATERIAL |
Unwinding, paying out; forwarding | 49/00; 51/00
Winding, coiling, depositing; wound packages; guides; covering cores not otherwise provided for | 54/00; 55/00; 57/00; 81/00
Tension control; Measuring pre-determined lengths; joining | 59/00, 77/00; 61/00; 69/00
Cores, formers: securing material, replacing, removing, stripping-off waste material | 65/00, 67/00, 73/00
Treatment during formation of package | 71/00
Machines: control, checking, safety or warning; driving gear not otherwise provided for | 26/00, 43/00, 63/00; 79/00
Storing | 75/00