CUTTING; DETAILS COMMON TO MACHINES FOR PERFORATING, PUNCHING, CUTTING-OUT, STAMPING-OUT OR SEVERING

Introduced: September 1968

Last revised: January 1990

Classification Context

Section:: PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
Class:: HAND CUTTING TOOLS; CUTTING; SEVERING
Subclass:: CUTTING; DETAILS COMMON TO MACHINES FOR PERFORATING, PUNCHING, CUTTING-OUT, STAMPING-OUT OR SEVERING

Description

B26D covers mechanical cutting machines and apparatus that sever, cut, perforate, punch, or stamp materials. This subclass encompasses the structural design, operational mechanisms, and shared technical features of cutting machinery across industries—including blade configurations, feed systems, guides, clamps, and safety devices common to multiple cutting processes. It excludes hand-held cutting tools (covered by B26B) and specialized machines for particular materials or end-uses, which are classified in their respective technology branches. B26D serves as the primary classification for innovations in the mechanical and control aspects of industrial cutting equipment.

Scope Notes

Limiting references: Disintegrating by knives or other cutting or tearing members which chop material into fragments Blast guns generating high velocity abrasive fluid jets for cutting materials Hand-held cutting tools Cutting-out or stamping-out Severing with heated members | Application references: Soil-working Harvesting or mowing Hand-operated implements for cutting-up straw, hay or the like Cutting of straw, hay or the like Cutting implements specially adapted for horticulture and forestry Cutting of butter during butter manufacturing , Cutting, stamping, slotting, slitting or perforating of dough and cutting or slicing of baked articles other than bread Slaughtering Processing meat, poultry, or fish Cutting for tobacco, cigars or cigarettes , , Marking-out, perforating or making buttonholes Manufacturing or repairing footwear Brushmaking Surgical cutting instruments Devices or methods specially adapted for bringing pharmaceutical products into particular physical or administering forms Cutting of the kind used for metal working Cutting of wood or similar materials , , , , , Cutting shaped articles made of clay or other ceramic compositions Cutting of stone or stone like materials Working of plastics or substances in a plastic state Moulds with means for cutting plastic articles Making boxes, cartons, envelopes or bags, of paper or similarly worked materials, e.g. metal foil Cutting related to typewriters or selective printing mechanisms , Auxiliary cutting of sheets in rotary printing presses Cutting related to apparatus or devices for manifolding, duplicating, or printing or related to addressing machines or like series-printing machines Sharpeners for pencils or leads Devices for opening envelopes Cutting for severing webs for packaging, or for separating joined packages Cutting-off the web for changing web rolls , Article or web delivery apparatus incorporating cutting or line-perforating devices Hand- or power-operated cutting devices for opening closed containers Cutting of leather or upholstery , , Cutting of glass Cutting explosives Making matches Cutting of peat Cutting of soap Reducing the size of material from which sugars are to be extracted Cutting of sugar Cutting of textile material Working rails, sleepers, baseplates, or the like Forming cuts into roads or like surfaces Cutting in earth or rock drilling and mining , , Cutting in connection with devices or accessories for making or mounting lamellar blinds or parts thereof Devices for withdrawing samples by cutting Preparing the ends of light guides, e.g. cutting Cutting processed photographic material Cutting for removing insulation or armouring from cables Cutting of a semiconductor body into separate parts ,

Related Keywords

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Child Classifications

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B26D 1/00 Cutting through work characterised by the nature or movement of the cutting member; Apparatus or machines therefor; Cutting members therefor
B26D 11/00 Combinations of several similar cutting apparatus
B26D 3/00 Cutting work characterised by the nature of the cut made; Apparatus therefor
B26D 5/00 Arrangements for operating and controlling machines or devices for cutting, cutting-out, stamping-out, punching, perforating, or severing by means other than cutting
B26D 7/00 Details of apparatus for cutting, cutting-out, stamping-out, punching, perforating, or severing by means other than cutting
B26D 9/00 Cutting apparatus combined with punching or perforating apparatus or with dissimilar cutting apparatus