for conveying sheets or webs for tabulating purposes; Tabulating mechanisms combined with sheet or web conveyors

Introduced: September 1968

Full Title

Full titles differ between systems:

IPC:

Details of addressing machines or like series-printing machines > Mechanisms for conveying copy material through addressing machines or like series-printing machines > for conveying sheets or webs for tabulating purposes; Tabulating mechanisms combined with sheet or web conveyors

CPC:

Details of addressographs or like series-printing machines (common details of printing machines B41F21/00 - B41F35/00) > Mechanisms for conveying copy material through addressographs or like series-printing machines (in general B65;) > for conveying sheets or webs for tabulating purposes; Tabulating mechanisms combined with sheet or web conveyors

IPC and CPC are identically structured here. All 2 subcodes exist in both systems.

Child Classifications

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B41L 47/38 with clamping means for head or margin IPC+CPC Available in IPC and CPC
B41L 47/40 with means for automatically reciprocating sheet or web transversely to enable addresses to be printed in columns side by side IPC+CPC Available in IPC and CPC

Top Applicants

Top Applicants (IPC)

Class B41,2013–2023, worldwide · Source: EPO PATSTAT

SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION 14,672
CANON 14,153
RICOH COMPANY 8,049
SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION JP 8,044
HEWLETT-PACKARD DEVELOPMENT COMPANY US 7,312
BROTHER INDUSTRIES 6,887
KYOCERA DOCUMENT SOLUTIONS 5,463
CANON JP 5,001
KONICA MINOLTA CORPORATION 4,512
BROTHER INDUSTRIES JP 3,681

Top Applicants (CPC)

Class B41,2013–2023, worldwide · Source: EPO PATSTAT

SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION 8,446
SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION JP 8,438
HEWLETT-PACKARD DEVELOPMENT COMPANY US 7,828
CANON JP 5,419
CANON 4,156
BROTHER INDUSTRIES JP 3,763
BROTHER INDUSTRIES 2,779
RICOH COMPANY JP 2,717
FUJIFILM JP 2,423
RICOH COMPANY 1,739