IPC Subgroup
B41L 47/36 for conveying sheets or webs for tabulating purposes; Tabulating mechanisms combined with sheet or web conveyors
Introduced: September 1968
Last revised: January 2006
Full Title
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
Classification Context
- Section:
- PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
- Class:
- PRINTING; LINING MACHINES; TYPEWRITERS; STAMPS
- Subclass:
- APPARATUS OR DEVICES FOR MANIFOLDING, DUPLICATING OR PRINTING FOR OFFICE OR OTHER COMMERCIAL PURPOSES; ADDRESSING MACHINES OR LIKE SERIES-PRINTING MACHINES
2 direct subcodes
Child Classifications
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- B41L 47/38 with clamping means for head or margin
- B41L 47/4 with means for automatically reciprocating sheet or web transversely to enable addresses to be printed in columns side by side
Top Applicants
Top 10 applicants by patent filingsfor 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