CPC Subclass Not Allocatable
G07B TICKET-ISSUING APPARATUS; FARE-REGISTERING APPARATUS; FRANKING APPARATUS
Description
G07B encompasses mechanical and electronic apparatus for issuing tickets, measuring taxi fares, collecting tolls or admission fees at control points, and applying postal franking marks. The class covers ticketing systems for transportation and venues, fare-metering devices, toll collection infrastructure, and automated franking machines for postal use. Related technologies include turnstiles, barrier gates, fare validators, and associated control mechanisms that process or verify payments at entry/exit points. This subclass excludes general vending machines (G07G) and purely computational aspects of fare calculation unless integrated into a physical apparatus.
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Child Classifications
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- G07B 1/00 Machines for printing and issuing tickets (printing mechanisms per se B41; output mechanisms of digital computers G06C11/00)
- G07B 11/00 Apparatus for validating or cancelling issued tickets
- G07B 13/00 Taximeters (measuring distance travelled G01C; measuring time G04)
- G07B 15/00 Arrangements or apparatus for collecting fares, tolls or entrance fees at one or more control points (handling coins or valuable papers, e.g. banknotes, G07D; apparatus for vending or hiring articles or services activated by coins, credit cards, paper currency or the like G07F7/00, G07F17/00)
- G07B 17/00 Franking apparatus (printing aspects B41)
- G07B 3/00 Machines for issuing preprinted tickets
- G07B 5/00 Details of, or auxiliary devices for, ticket-issuing machines (for validating inserted tickets G07B11/02)
- G07B 7/00 Holders providing direct manual access to the tickets
- G07B 9/00 Ticket punches (perforating pliers B26F1/36; marking record carriers in digital fashion by punching G06K1/02)