MECHANICAL TREATMENT OR PROCESSING OF SKINS, HIDES OR LEATHER IN GENERAL; PELT-SHEARING MACHINES; INTESTINE-SPLITTING MACHINES (making leather substitutes B29, D06N; making articles from leather B68F; mechanical cleaning of hides or the like D06G; artificial leather D06N)

Description

C14B covers mechanical operations applied to raw or partially processed skins, hides, and leather materials to prepare them for further treatment or final use. This includes machinery and methods for physical manipulation such as cleaning, splitting, stretching, shaving, and surface preparation of animal pelts and hides. The subclass also encompasses specialized equipment like pelt-shearing machines for removing hair or wool, and intestine-splitting machines used in processing animal byproducts. Chemical treatment, tanning processes, and finishing operations are excluded and fall under related subclasses in the C14 group.

13 direct subcodes

Child Classifications

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C14B 1/00 Manufacture of leather; Machines or devices therefor
C14B 11/00 Finishing the edges of leather pieces, e.g. by folding, by burning (milling C14B3/00)
C14B 13/00 Shredding hides or leather (shredding in general B02C)
C14B 15/00 Mechanical treatment of furs
C14B 17/00 Details of apparatus or machines for manufacturing or treating skins, hides, leather, or furs
C14B 19/00 Hand tools specially adapted for the treatment of hides, skins, or leather in the manufacture of leather and furs (equipment and tools for saddlery B68C)
C14B 21/00 Splitting intestines; Cutting intestines longitudinally (cleaning or cutting intestines during processing of meat A22C17/00)
C14B 2700/00 Mechanical treatment or processing of skins, hides or leather in general; Pelt-shearing machines; Making driving belts; Machines for splitting intestines
C14B 3/00 Milling leather
C14B 5/00 Clicking, perforating, or cutting leather (for shoe parts, e.g. soles, A43D; apparatus not specially adapted for leather B26D)
C14B 7/00 Special leathers and their manufacture
C14B 9/00 Making driving belts or other leather belts or strips
C14B 99/00 Subject matter not provided for in other groups of this subclass