Shearing machines or shearing devices cutting by rotary discs

Introduced: September 1968

Last revised: January 2006

Classification Context

Section:: PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
Class:: MACHINE TOOLS; METAL-WORKING NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
Subclass:: PLANING; SLOTTING; SHEARING; BROACHING; SAWING; FILING; SCRAPING; LIKE OPERATIONS FOR WORKING METAL BY REMOVING MATERIAL, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR

Filing statistics

IPC B23D 19/00 belongs to the parent subclass B23D, which recorded 132,167 patent applications worldwide between 2013 and 2023. Annual filings grew from 5,271 in 2013 to 17,326 in 2023 (+229%), peaking at 20,095 applications in 2020. The most active applicants in class B23 are ITW (ILLINOIS TOOL WORKS) (3,407 applications), FANUC (3,120 applications) and DISCO ABRASIVE SYSTEM (2,777 applications).

Source: EPO PATSTAT, worldwide filings

Related Keywords

CUTTING metal with rotary discs

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Child Classifications

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B23D 19/02 having both a fixed shearing blade and a rotary shearing disc
B23D 19/04 having rotary shearing discs arranged in co-operating pairs
B23D 19/08 for special use, e.g. for cutting curves, for chamfering edges

Top Applicants

Top 10 applicants by patent filingsfor class B23, 2013–2023, worldwide · Source: EPO PATSTAT

ITW (ILLINOIS TOOL WORKS) US 3,407
FANUC JP 3,120
DISCO ABRASIVE SYSTEM 2,777
HAN'S LASER TECHNOLOGY INDUSTRY GROUP COMPANY 2,629
ROBERT BOSCH DE 2,468
FANUC 2,273
DISCO CORPORATION JP 2,267
GE (GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY) US 1,611
CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES 1,534
ISCAR IL 1,499