PRODUCING PARTICULAR ARTICLES FROM PLASTICS OR FROM SUBSTANCES IN A PLASTIC STATE (making granules B29B9/00; making preforms B29B11/00)

Introduced: September 1968

Description

B29D covers the manufacture of finished or semi-finished plastic articles through various forming and shaping processes applied to plastic materials or substances in a plastic state. This subclass encompasses diverse production techniques including molding, extrusion, thermoforming, casting, and lamination, applied to create specific end products such as containers, films, tubes, sheets, and composite structures. The classification focuses on the article-specific manufacturing processes rather than the general working methods, which are covered in the parent class B29C, or the machines and equipment used in production.

Title

Titles differ between systems:

IPC: PRODUCING PARTICULAR ARTICLES FROM PLASTICS OR FROM SUBSTANCES IN A PLASTIC STATE

CPC: PRODUCING PARTICULAR ARTICLES FROM PLASTICS OR FROM SUBSTANCES IN A PLASTIC STATE (making granules B29B9/00; making preforms B29B11/00)

Full Title

Full titles differ between systems:

IPC:

PRODUCING PARTICULAR ARTICLES FROM PLASTICS OR FROM SUBSTANCES IN A PLASTIC STATE

CPC:

PRODUCING PARTICULAR ARTICLES FROM PLASTICS OR FROM SUBSTANCES IN A PLASTIC STATE (making granules B29B9/00; making preforms B29B11/00)

Additional Content IPC

Glossary

Bearing bearings Plastic device to allow constrained relative motion between two or more parts, typically rotation or linear movement. Bush bushes Thin plastic sleeve or tubular lining serving as a bearing or guide. Carrier of records a body, such as a cylinder, disc, card, tape, or wire, capable of permanently holding information, which can be read-off by a sensing element movable relatively to the record carrier.

Limiting references

Making granules Making performs Manufacture of layers comprising fibrous parallel reinforcements of substantial or continuous length Connection of valves to inflatable elastic bodies

IPC and CPC are identically structured here. All 20 subcodes exist in both systems.

9 shared codes have differing titles between IPC and CPC.

Child Classifications

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B29D 1/00 Producing articles with screw-threads +1 CPC IPC+CPC Available in IPC and CPC
B29D 11/00 Producing optical elements, e.g. lenses or prisms (grinding or polishing of optical elements B24B; constructional form of optical elements G02B; ) +10 CPC IPC+CPC Available in IPC and CPC
B29D 12/00 Producing frames IPC+CPC Available in IPC and CPC
B29D 15/00 Producing gear wheels or similar articles with grooves or projections, e.g. control knobs IPC+CPC Available in IPC and CPC
B29D 16/00 Producing articles with corrugations (B29D23/18 takes precedence) since 1985 IPC+CPC Available in IPC and CPC
B29D 17/00 Producing carriers of records containing fine grooves or impressions, e.g. disc records for needle playback, cylinder records (recording sound or other information using formed grooves or the equivalent G11B); Producing record discs from master stencils +2 CPC IPC+CPC Available in IPC and CPC
B29D 19/00 Producing buttons or semi-finished parts of buttons IPC+CPC Available in IPC and CPC
B29D 21/00 Producing hair combs or similar toothed or slotted articles IPC+CPC Available in IPC and CPC
B29D 22/00 Producing hollow articles (tubular articles B29D23/00; pneumatic tyres B29D30/00) since 1985 +1 CPC IPC+CPC Available in IPC and CPC
B29D 23/00 Producing tubular articles (B29D24/00 takes precedence) +1 CPC IPC+CPC Available in IPC and CPC
B29D 24/00 Producing articles with hollow walls since 1985 +2 CPC IPC+CPC Available in IPC and CPC
B29D 25/00 Producing frameless domes IPC+CPC Available in IPC and CPC
B29D 28/00 Producing nets or the like, (by knotting D04G) since 1985 +1 CPC IPC+CPC Available in IPC and CPC
B29D 29/00 Producing belts or bands IPC+CPC Available in IPC and CPC
B29D 30/00 Producing pneumatic or solid tyres or parts thereof (producing inner tubes B29D23/24; constructional form of tyres or parts thereof B60C; connection of valves to inflatable elastic bodies B60C29/00; testing of tyres G01M17/02) since 1985 +4 CPC IPC+CPC Available in IPC and CPC
B29D 33/00 Producing bushes for bearings since 2010 IPC+CPC Available in IPC and CPC
B29D 35/00 Producing footwear since 2010 +2 CPC IPC+CPC Available in IPC and CPC
B29D 5/00 Producing elements of slide fasteners; Combined making and attaching of elements of slide fasteners IPC+CPC Available in IPC and CPC
B29D 7/00 Producing flat articles, e.g. films or sheets (B29D24/00 takes precedence) IPC+CPC Available in IPC and CPC
B29D 99/00 Subject matter not provided for in other groups of this subclass since 2010 +17 CPC IPC+CPC Available in IPC and CPC

Top Applicants

Top Applicants (IPC)

Class B29,2013–2023, worldwide · Source: EPO PATSTAT

HEWLETT-PACKARD DEVELOPMENT COMPANY US 3,802
BOEING COMPANY US 3,087
COMPAGNIE GENERALE DES ETABLISSEMENTS MICHELIN FR 2,315
SUMITOMO RUBBER IND 1,784
GE (GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY) US 1,663
CANON 1,658
3M INNOVATIVE PROPERTIES COMPANY (MINNESOTA MINING AND MANUFACTURING INNOVATIVE PROPERTIES COMPANY) US 1,587
TORAY INDUSTRIES JP 1,555
BASF (BADISCHE ANILIN & SODA FABRIK) DE 1,470
LG CHEM KR 1,415

Top Applicants (CPC)

Class B29,2013–2023, worldwide · Source: EPO PATSTAT

HEWLETT-PACKARD DEVELOPMENT COMPANY US 4,167
BOEING COMPANY US 3,701
COMPAGNIE GENERALE DES ETABLISSEMENTS MICHELIN FR 2,554
3M INNOVATIVE PROPERTIES COMPANY (MINNESOTA MINING AND MANUFACTURING INNOVATIVE PROPERTIES COMPANY) US 2,240
TORAY INDUSTRIES JP 2,133
GE (GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY) US 2,069
BASF (BADISCHE ANILIN & SODA FABRIK) DE 2,028
LG CHEM KR 1,962
DOW GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES US 1,896
CONTINENTAL REIFEN DE 1,725