IPC Main Group
B65B 43/00 Forming, feeding, opening, or setting-up containers or receptacles in association with packaging
Introduced: September 1968
Last revised: January 2006
Classification Context
- Section:
- PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
- Class:
- CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
- Subclass:
- MACHINES, APPARATUS OR DEVICES FOR, OR METHODS OF, PACKAGING ARTICLES OR MATERIALS; UNPACKING
Related Keywords
OPENING containers in association with packaging
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Child Classifications
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- B65B 43/02 Forming flat bags from individual sheets or blanks
- B65B 43/04 Forming flat bags from webs
- B65B 43/08 Forming three-dimensional [3D] containers from sheet material
- B65B 43/12 Feeding flexible bags or carton blanks in flat or collapsed state; Feeding flat bags connected to form a series or chain
- B65B 43/24 Breaking creases to facilitate setting-up cartons
- B65B 43/26 Opening or distending bags; Opening, erecting, or setting-up boxes, cartons, or carton blanks
- B65B 43/38 Opening hinged lids
- B65B 43/4 Removing separate lids
- B65B 43/41 Opening drawer-and-shell cartons
- B65B 43/42 Feeding or positioning bags, boxes, or cartons in the distended, opened, or set-up state; Feeding preformed rigid containers, e.g. tins, capsules, glass tubes, glasses, to the packaging position; Locating containers or receptacles at the filling position; Supporting containers or receptacles during the filling operation
Top Applicants
Top 10 applicants by patent filingsfor class B65, 2013–2023, worldwide · Source: EPO PATSTAT
- CANON 3,755
- SGCC(STATE GRID CORPORATION OF CHINA) 3,721
- YOSHINO KOGYOSHO COMPANY 3,659
- DNP (DAINIPPON PRINTING COMPANY) 3,573
- KRONES DE 3,114
- P&G (PROCTER & GAMBLE COMPANY) US 2,777
- TOPPAN PRINTING COMPANY 2,720
- SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION 2,574
- KYOCERA DOCUMENT SOLUTIONS 2,371
- RICOH COMPANY 2,349