B65H HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL, e.g. SHEETS, WEBS, CABLES
Description
B65H encompasses machinery and devices for handling, processing, and transporting thin or filamentary materials such as sheets, webs, cables, and similar elongated products. This subclass covers unwinding, winding, tensioning, guiding, feeding, and edge-control mechanisms for materials in roll or continuous form, as well as apparatus for splicing, severing, and detecting defects in such materials. Applications include textile processing, paper handling, film conversion, wire and cable management, and similar industrial operations where precise material manipulation is required throughout manufacturing workflows.
Filing statistics
CPC subclass B65H recorded 133,109 patent applications worldwide between 2013 and 2023. Annual filings grew from 7,651 in 2013 to 12,565 in 2023 (+64%), peaking at 16,310 applications in 2020. The most active applicants in class B65 are P&G (PROCTER & GAMBLE COMPANY) (3,369 applications), KRONES (3,304 applications) and TETRA LAVAL HOLDINGS & FINANCE (2,227 applications).
Source: EPO PATSTAT, worldwide filings
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- B65H 1/00 Supports or magazines for piles from which articles are to be separated (carriers used for associating, collating, or gathering articles B65H39/00)
- B65H 11/00 Feed tables
- B65H 13/00 Lifting the ends of piles to facilitate the formation of overlapped piles
- B65H 15/00 Overturning articles
- B65H 16/00 Unwinding, paying-out webs
- B65H 18/00 Winding webs
- B65H 19/00 Changing the web roll
- B65H 20/00 Advancing webs
- B65H 21/00 Apparatus for splicing webs (during web-roll changing B65H19/00)
- B65H 2220/00 Function indicators
- B65H 23/00 Registering, tensioning, smoothing or guiding webs (registering articles B65H9/00; in connection with splicing B65H21/00)
- B65H 2301/00 Handling processes for sheets or webs
- B65H 2401/00 Materials used for the handling apparatus or parts thereof; Properties thereof
- B65H 2402/00 Constructional details of the handling apparatus
- B65H 2403/00 Power transmission; Driving means
- B65H 2404/00 Parts for transporting or guiding the handled material
- B65H 2405/00 Parts for holding the handled material
- B65H 2406/00 Means using fluid
- B65H 2407/00 Means not provided for in groups B65H2220/00 – B65H2406/00 specially adapted for particular purposes
- B65H 2408/00 Specific machines
Top Applicants
Top 10 applicants by patent filingsfor class B65, 2013–2023, worldwide · Source: EPO PATSTAT
- P&G (PROCTER & GAMBLE COMPANY) US 3,369
- KRONES DE 3,304
- TETRA LAVAL HOLDINGS & FINANCE CH 2,227
- CANON JP 2,051
- AUTOSTORE TECHNOLOGY NO 1,731
- GPI (GRAPHIC PACKAGING INTERNATIONAL) US 1,707
- CANON 1,693
- G.D IT 1,678
- MURATA MACHINERY JP 1,664
- DAIFUKU COMPANY JP 1,654