PLANING; SLOTTING; SHEARING; BROACHING; SAWING; FILING; SCRAPING; LIKE OPERATIONS FOR WORKING METAL BY REMOVING MATERIAL, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR (making toothed gears or the like B23F; cutting metal by applying heat locally B23K; arrangements for copying or controlling B23Q)

Introduced: September 1968

Description

B23D covers machine tools and metal-working operations that remove material through planing, slotting, shearing, broaching, sawing, filing, scraping, and similar processes not specifically classified elsewhere. This subclass includes the machines, tools, and techniques for these cutting and abrading operations on metal workpieces, encompassing both manual and powered equipment. It serves as a residual classification for metal removal operations that do not fall under more specialized subclasses (such as grinding, drilling, or turning). Adjacent classes like B23B (turning) and B23H (other metal-working processes) handle alternative removal methods with different cutting geometries or principles.

Title

Titles differ between systems:

IPC: PLANING; SLOTTING; SHEARING; BROACHING; SAWING; FILING; SCRAPING; LIKE OPERATIONS FOR WORKING METAL BY REMOVING MATERIAL, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR

CPC: PLANING; SLOTTING; SHEARING; BROACHING; SAWING; FILING; SCRAPING; LIKE OPERATIONS FOR WORKING METAL BY REMOVING MATERIAL, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR (making toothed gears or the like B23F; cutting metal by applying heat locally B23K; arrangements for copying or controlling B23Q)

Full Title

Full titles differ between systems:

IPC:

PLANING; SLOTTING; SHEARING; BROACHING; SAWING; FILING; SCRAPING; LIKE OPERATIONS FOR WORKING METAL BY REMOVING MATERIAL, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR

CPC:

PLANING; SLOTTING; SHEARING; BROACHING; SAWING; FILING; SCRAPING; LIKE OPERATIONS FOR WORKING METAL BY REMOVING MATERIAL, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR (making toothed gears or the like B23F; cutting metal by applying heat locally B23K; arrangements for copying or controlling B23Q)

Of 43 combined children, 42 exist in both systems.

1 codes are CPC-only extensions.

Note: 1 CPC extensions are marked as secondary classification only.

28 shared codes have differing titles between IPC and CPC.

Child Classifications

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B23D 1/00 Planing or slotting machines cutting by relative movement of the tool and workpiece in a horizontal straight line only +1 CPC IPC+CPC Available in IPC and CPC
B23D 11/00 Planing or slotting devices able to be attached to a machine tool, whether or not replacing an operative portion of the machine tool IPC+CPC Available in IPC and CPC
B23D 13/00 Tools or tool holders specially designed for planing or slotting machines (features applicable also to turning-machines B23B27/00, B23B29/00; for cutting gear teeth B23F21/04) +1 CPC IPC+CPC Available in IPC and CPC
B23D 15/00 Shearing machines or shearing devices cutting by blades which move parallel to themselves +3 CPC IPC+CPC Available in IPC and CPC
B23D 17/00 Shearing machines or shearing devices cutting by blades pivoted on a single axis (on an axis parallel to the blade B23D15/10; hand-held devices B23D29/00) IPC+CPC Available in IPC and CPC
B23D 19/00 Shearing machines or shearing devices cutting by rotary discs (by friction saw-discs B23D45/00) IPC+CPC Available in IPC and CPC
B23D 21/00 Machines or devices for shearing or cutting tubes (as additional equipment for deep-drawing presses B21D24/16) +2 CPC IPC+CPC Available in IPC and CPC
B23D 2277/00 Reaming tools 2nd only +41 CPC CPC only CPC only
B23D 23/00 Machines or devices for shearing or cutting profiled stock (hand-held devices B23D29/00) +1 CPC IPC+CPC Available in IPC and CPC
B23D 25/00 Machines or arrangements for shearing stock while the latter is travelling otherwise than in the direction of the cut (controlling slack in travelling flexible stock B21C47/10) IPC+CPC Available in IPC and CPC
B23D 27/00 Machines or devices for cutting by a nibbling action IPC+CPC Available in IPC and CPC
B23D 29/00 Hand-held metal-shearing or metal-cutting devices (with nibbling action B23D27/02; hand-operated devices for metal-cutting otherwise than by shearing B26B) +3 CPC IPC+CPC Available in IPC and CPC
B23D 3/00 Planing or slotting machines cutting by relative movement of the tool and workpiece in a vertical or inclined straight line IPC+CPC Available in IPC and CPC
B23D 31/00 Shearing machines or shearing devices covered by none or more than one of the groups B23D15/00 - B23D29/00; Combinations of shearing machines +3 CPC IPC+CPC Available in IPC and CPC
B23D 33/00 Accessories for shearing machines or shearing devices (feeding stock to machines or removing stock B21D43/00) +2 CPC IPC+CPC Available in IPC and CPC
B23D 35/00 Tools for shearing machines or shearing devices; Holders or chucks for shearing tools +4 CPC IPC+CPC Available in IPC and CPC
B23D 36/00 Control arrangements specially adapted for machines for shearing or similar cutting, or for sawing, stock which the latter is travelling otherwise than in the direction of the cut since 1974 +2 CPC IPC+CPC Available in IPC and CPC
B23D 37/00 Broaching machines or broaching devices +1 CPC IPC+CPC Available in IPC and CPC
B23D 39/00 Accessories for broaching machines or broaching devices IPC+CPC Available in IPC and CPC
B23D 41/00 Broaching machines or broaching devices characterised only by constructional features of particular parts (constructional features of these parts per se B23Q) IPC+CPC Available in IPC and CPC