B26B 19/38 Details of, or accessories for, hair clippers, or dry shavers, e.g. housings, casings, grips, guards (cutters, cutting heads B26B19/04, B26B19/12, B26B19/14; cleaning or disinfecting devices A45D27/46; drying devices A45D27/48; casings for electric apparatus in general H05K)
Introduced: September 1968
Title
Titles differ between systems:
IPC: Details of, or accessories for, hair clippers or dry shavers, e.g. housings, casings, grips or guards
CPC: Details of, or accessories for, hair clippers, or dry shavers, e.g. housings, casings, grips, guards (cutters, cutting heads B26B19/04, B26B19/12, B26B19/14; cleaning or disinfecting devices A45D27/46; drying devices A45D27/48; casings for electric apparatus in general H05K)
Full Title
Full titles differ between systems:
Clippers or shavers operating with a plurality of cutting edges, e.g. hair clippers, dry shavers > Details of, or accessories for, hair clippers or dry shavers, e.g. housings, casings, grips or guards
Clippers or shavers operating with a plurality of cutting edges, e.g. hair clippers, dry shavers > Details of, or accessories for, hair clippers, or dry shavers, e.g. housings, casings, grips, guards (cutters, cutting heads B26B19/04, B26B19/12, B26B19/14; cleaning or disinfecting devices A45D27/46; drying devices A45D27/48; casings for electric apparatus in general H05K)
CPC subdivides this area 2x more granularly than IPC with 7 additional codes.
7 codes are CPC-only extensions.
2 shared codes have differing titles between IPC and CPC.
Child Classifications
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- B26B 19/42 providing for straightening the hair to be cut, e.g. by means of bristles; providing for tensioning the skin, e.g. by means of rollers, ledges (skin-stretchers for shaving per se A45D27/38) IPC+CPC Available in IPC and CPC
- B26B 19/44 Suction means for collecting severed hairs or for the skin to be shaved IPC+CPC Available in IPC and CPC
- B26B 19/46 providing for illuminating the area to be shaved or clipped IPC+CPC Available in IPC and CPC
- B26B 19/48 Accessory implements for carrying out a function other than cutting hair, e.g. attachable appliances for manicuring (massage means per se A61H7/00 - A61H23/00) IPC+CPC Available in IPC and CPC
Top Applicants
Top Applicants (IPC)
Class B26,2013–2023, worldwide · Source: EPO PATSTAT
- GILLETTE COMPANY US 1,650
- PHILIPS ELECTRONICS NL 1,359
- BIC-VIOLEX GR 618
- PHILIPS ELECTRONICS 373
- BRAUN DE 311
- DORCO COMPANY KR 298
- WEBER MASCHINENBAUBREIDENBACH DE 278
- GILLETTE COMPANY 277
- URSCHEL LABORATORIES US 255
- SGCC(STATE GRID CORPORATION OF CHINA) 241
Top Applicants (CPC)
Class B26,2013–2023, worldwide · Source: EPO PATSTAT
- GILLETTE COMPANY US 1,745
- PHILIPS ELECTRONICS NL 1,410
- BIC-VIOLEX GR 638
- PHILIPS ELECTRONICS 378
- DISCO CORPORATION JP 355
- BRAUN DE 325
- WEBER MASCHINENBAUBREIDENBACH DE 304
- DORCO COMPANY KR 297
- GILLETTE COMPANY 290
- URSCHEL LABORATORIES US 264