HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL, e.g. SHEETS, WEBS, CABLES

Introduced: September 1968

Classification Context

Section:: PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
Class:: CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
Subclass:: HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL, e.g. SHEETS, WEBS, CABLES

Description

B65H encompasses machinery and devices for handling, processing, and transporting thin or filamentary materials such as sheets, webs, cables, and similar elongated products. This subclass covers unwinding, winding, tensioning, guiding, feeding, and edge-control mechanisms for materials in roll or continuous form, as well as apparatus for splicing, severing, and detecting defects in such materials. Applications include textile processing, paper handling, film conversion, wire and cable management, and similar industrial operations where precise material manipulation is required throughout manufacturing workflows.

Additional Content

Winding or unwinding metal band or like flexible metallic material during manufacture Working or processing wire , In selective printing mechanisms Unwinding, paying-out, forwarding, or winding ropes or cables in load-moving apparatus , , Creels, warping, beaming, or leasing machines or methods for textile manufacturing purposes In cinematographic or photographic apparatus Winding, unwinding, or feeding tape to, in, or from, information-processing apparatus ,

Related Keywords

temporarily ACCUMULATING web or filamentary material in generaldischarging BLANKS from machines in generalfeeding BLANKS to machines in generalhandling or piling BLANKShandling CABLE(S)CREEL(S) for supplying filamentary materialhandling or filing ENVELOPEShandling sheets or webs of FABRICSFEEDING of sheets, webs, or filamentary materialhandling FIBRES or filamentary materialhandling FILM(S) or tapeshandling FOIL(S) in sheet or web formhandling sheets, webs, or filamentary material by GRIPPINGGUIDING of sheets, webs, or filamentary materialHANDLING sheets, webs, or filamentary materialhandling HOSE(S)IDLERS for adjusting tension of web or filament feedORIENTING of sheets, webs or filamentary materialhandling PAPER sheets or webshandling PILE(S) of sheetsPIRNShandling ROPE(S)discharging sheet material from machines in generalfeeding sheet material to machines in generalhandling or piling of SHEET(S)handling or piling SIGNATURESSMOOTHING of sheets or webs, in combination with feedingSTORAGE of sheets by pilinghandling TAPE(S)UNWINDING of webs or filamentary materialhandling WEB(S)WINDING or unwinding wire, metal strip or other metallic material for metal workingWINDING of webs or filamentary materialhandling WIRE(S)

46 direct subcodes

Child Classifications

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B65H 1/00 Supports or magazines for piles from which articles are to be separated
B65H 11/00 Feed tables
B65H 13/00 Lifting the ends of piles to facilitate the formation of overlapped piles
B65H 15/00 Overturning articles
B65H 16/00 Unwinding, paying-out webs
B65H 18/00 Winding webs
B65H 19/00 Changing the web roll
B65H 20/00 Advancing webs
B65H 21/00 Apparatus for splicing webs
B65H 23/00 Registering, tensioning, smoothing, or guiding webs
B65H 26/00 Warning or safety devices, e.g. automatic fault detectors, stop-motions, for web-advancing mechanisms
B65H 27/00 Special constructions, e.g. surface features, of feed or guide rollers for webs
B65H 29/00 Delivering or advancing articles from machines; Advancing articles to or into piles
B65H 3/00 Separating articles from piles
B65H 31/00 Pile receivers
B65H 33/00 Forming counted batches in delivery pile or stream of articles
B65H 35/00 Delivering articles from cutting or line-perforating machines; Article or web delivery apparatus incorporating cutting or line-perforating devices, e.g. adhesive tape dispensers
B65H 37/00 Article or web delivery apparatus incorporating devices for performing specified auxiliary operations
B65H 39/00 Associating, collating, or gathering articles or webs
B65H 41/00 Machines for separating superposed webs

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