|  | B |
SECTION B — PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING

PRINTING

|  | B41 |
PRINTING; LINING MACHINES; TYPEWRITERS; STAMPS (reproduction or duplication of pictures or patterns by scanning and converting into electrical signals Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...H04N) [4]

|  | B41B |
MACHINES OR ACCESSORIES FOR MAKING, SETTING, OR DISTRIBUTING TYPE; TYPE; PHOTOGRAPHIC OR PHOTOELECTRONIC COMPOSING DEVICES (photographic devices in general Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...G03)

|  | B41B |
Subclass index
HAND COMPOSING | 1/00
MECHANICAL COMPOSING |
Using prefabricated type; making type | 3/00; 5/00
By casting the type | 7/00, 9/00, 11/00
PHOTOGRAPHIC COMPOSING |
Machines composing lines prior to photography | 15/00
Machines without means for composing lines prior to photography | 17/00
Electronic machines | 19/00
Equipment for special work | 13/00
Details of machines; auxiliaries | 21/00; 23/00
PREPARATION OF RECORD CARRIERS | 25/00
CONTROL, INDICATING, SAFETY | 27/00

|  | B41C |
PROCESSES FOR THE MANUFACTURE OR REPRODUCTION OF PRINTING SURFACES (photomechanical processes for producing printing surfaces Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...G03F; photoelectrical processes for producing printing surfaces Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...G03G)

|  | B41D |
APPARATUS FOR THE MECHANICAL REPRODUCTION OF PRINTING SURFACES FOR STEREOTYPE PRINTING; SHAPING ELASTIC OR DEFORMABLE MATERIAL TO FORM PRINTING SURFACES (marking or engraving metal by the action of a high concentration of electric current Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...B23H 9/06; type, machines, or accessories for making, setting, or distributing type Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...B41B; processes for the manufacture or reproduction of printing surfaces Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...B41C; machines or apparatus for engraving in general, or for embossing Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...B44B 3/00, Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...B44B 5/00; chemical etching of metal Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...C23F 1/00, electrolytic etching Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...C25F 3/00; photomechanical reproduction Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...G03F)

|  | B41F |
PRINTING MACHINES OR PRESSES (machines for manufacturing footwear incorporating printing or embossing apparatus Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...A43D, e.g. Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...A43D 8/26, Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...A43D 95/14; presses in general Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...B30B; making of printing surfaces Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...B41C, Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...B41D; manifolding devices, office printing machines Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...B41L; stencilling Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...B41L; printing processes not dependent on the use of special machines Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...B41M; duplicating or marking by sublimation or volatilisation of design Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...B41M 5/035; thermography Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...B41M 5/26; embossing decorations or marks Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...B44B 5/00; handling thin or filamentary material Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...B65H; electrography, electrophotography, magnetography Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...G03G) [4]

|  | B41F |
Note(s) Attention is drawn to Notes (1) and (2) following the title of subclass Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...B41L. [6]

|  | B41F |
Subclass index
PLATEN PRESSES | 1/00
CYLINDER PRESSES | 3/00
ROTARY MACHINES |
Letterpress, lithographic, intaglio machines | 5/00, 7/00, 9/00
Other machines; combined machines | 11/00, 17/00; 19/00
Details | 13/00
Screen printers | 15/00
Transfer printing machines | 16/00
DETAILS |
Handling sheets or other surfaces to be printed; treating such surfaces | 21/00, 25/00; 22/00, 23/00
Attaching printing elements; make-ready arrangements, impression or offset surfaces; inking | 27/00; 30/00; 31/00
Auxiliary devices; cleaning | 33/00; 35/00

|  | B41G |
APPARATUS FOR BRONZE PRINTING, LINE PRINTING, OR FOR BORDERING OR EDGING SHEETS OR LIKE ARTICLES; AUXILIARY APPARATUS FOR PERFORATING IN CONJUNCTION WITH PRINTING (perforating in general Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...B26D; production of decorations Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...B44C; perforating in conjunction with sheet or web delivery Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...B65H 35/00; folding or unfolding thin material, e.g. sheets, webs, Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...B65H 45/00, Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...B65H 47/00)

|  | B41J |
TYPEWRITERS; SELECTIVE PRINTING MECHANISMS, i.e. MECHANISMS PRINTING OTHERWISE THAN FROM A FORME; CORRECTION OF TYPOGRAPHICAL ERRORS (composing Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...B41B; printing on special surfaces Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...B41F; laundry marking Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...B41K; erasers, rubbers or erasing devices Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...B43L 19/00; fluid media for correction of typographical errors by coating Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...C09D 10/00; recording the results of measuring Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...G01; recognition or presentation of data, marking record carriers in digital fashion, e.g. by punching, Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...G06K; franking or ticket-printing and issuing apparatus Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...G07B; electric keyboard switches, in general Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...H01H 13/70, Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...H03K 17/94; coding in connection with keyboards or like devices, in general Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...H03M 11/00; receivers or transmitters for transmission of digital information Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...H04L; transmission or reproduction of documents, or the like, e.g. facsimile transmission, Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...H04N 1/00; printing mechanisms specially adapted for apparatus, e.g. cash registers, weighing machines, producing records of their own performance, see the relevant subclasses)

|  | B41J |
Note(s) This subclass covers: manually controlled power-operated apparatus or apparatus of this type with additional control by input of recorded information, e.g. on punched cards or tapes; the "print-out" features of apparatus controlled by record carriers or electric signals in so far as these are of general interest, e.g. impression, inking, line-spacing mechanisms, printing heads. [5] This subclass does not cover: electrical features of apparatus controlled by record carriers or electric signals and of interest apart from the "print-out" features of said apparatus; apparatus controlled by record carriers or electric signals, as a whole. [5] In this subclass, the following term is used with the meaning indicated: "paper" covers also similar flexible copy material; [3] "printing material" covers both paper and temporary record carriers from which records are transferred to a paper, but does not cover printing masters, e.g. formes. [5]

|  | B41J |
Subclass index
KINDS OF APPARATUS |
characterised by the mounting, arrangement, or disposition of the types or dies | 1/00
characterised by the printing or marking process for which they are designed | 2/00
characterised by the purpose | 3/00
COMMON DETAILS OR ACCESSORIES |
Character selection | 5/00, 7/00
Hammer impression | 9/00
Supporting or handling copy or duplicating material | 11/00 - 15/00
Transfer material |
of page-width | 17/00
in ribbon form; ink ribbon cartridges | 31/00, 33/00, 35/00; 32/00
Inking | 27/00
Spacing | 19/00
Drives | 23/00
Particular operations | 21/00
Others | 25/00, 29/00, 35/00

|  | B41K |
STAMPS; STAMPING OR NUMBERING APPARATUS OR DEVICES (marking meat Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...A22C 17/10; embossing combined with printing Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...B41F 19/00; selective printing mechanisms Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...B41J; embossing decorations or marks Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...B44B 5/00; marking or coding completed packages Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...B65B 61/26; ticket printing and issuing, fare registering, non-printing aspects of franking apparatus Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...G07B)

|  | B41L |
APPARATUS OR DEVICES FOR MANIFOLDING, DUPLICATING, OR PRINTING FOR OFFICE OR OTHER COMMERCIAL PURPOSES; ADDRESSING MACHINES OR LIKE SERIES-PRINTING MACHINES (printing presses or machines for industrial purposes Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...B41F; stamps, stamping or numbering devices Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...B41K)

|  | B41L |
Note(s) This subclass does not cover constituent parts common to manifolding by means of pressure-sensitive layers or intermediaries, to apparatus or machines for duplicating or printing for office or other commercial purposes, or to addressing machines or like series-printing machines, which are covered by subclass Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...B41F. In this subclass, as indicated by the references, groups Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...B41L 15/00 and Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...B41L 17/00 are intended to cover letterpress and lithographic printing apparatus only in so far as it is specially adapted for office or other commercial purposes; the general constructions or features of apparatus of these types are classified in subclass Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...B41F. Constructions or features determining classification in these groups are, for example: ease of operation by clerical staff, cleanliness of operation in non-industrial environments, the use of printing surfaces constructed for the production of a limited number of copies. In this subclass, the following terms are used with the meanings indicated: "manifolding" means the obtaining of several copies simultaneously by means of pressure-sensitive layers when making an original; "duplicating" means the obtaining of successive copies from a master, e.g. a hectographic image; "stencilling" involves the use of a printing surface which is perforated to form the image, the ink flowing through the perforations on the copy material.

|  | B41L |
Subclass index
MANIFOLDING | 1/00, 3/00, 5/00
DUPLICATING |
From hectographic masters | 7/00, 9/00, 11/00
By stencil | 13/00
Otherwise | 19/00
PRINTING |
Letterpress apparatus | 15/00
Lithographic apparatus | 17/00
Other apparatus | 19/00
COMMON DETAILS OR ACCESSORIES |
Treatment of surfaces before printing; handling thereof | 23/00; 21/00, 33/00
Impression or offset surfaces; moistening thereof | 38/00; 25/00
Inking | 27/00
Handling printing elements or formes | 29/00 - 33/00
Cylinders; Attaching coverings or make-ready devices | 35/00; 38/00
Auxiliary operations | 39/00, 41/00, 43/00
SPECIAL MACHINES FOR SERIES-PRINTING | 45/00, 47/00, 49/00

|  | B41M |
PRINTING, DUPLICATING, MARKING, OR COPYING PROCESSES; COLOUR PRINTING (correction of typographical errors Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...B41J; processes for applying transfer pictures or the like Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...B44C 1/16; fluid media for correction of typographical errors by coating Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...C09D 10/00; printing textiles Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...D06P)

|  | B41N |
PRINTING PLATES OR FOILS (photosensitive materials Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...G03); MATERIALS FOR SURFACES USED IN PRINTING MACHINES FOR PRINTING, INKING, DAMPING, OR THE LIKE; PREPARING SUCH SURFACES FOR USE OR CONSERVING THEM