by controlling or regulating the web-advancing mechanism, e.g. mechanism acting on the running web

Introduced: September 1968

Last revised: January 2006

Full Title

Registering, tensioning, smoothing, or guiding webs > longitudinally > by controlling or regulating the web-advancing mechanism, e.g. mechanism acting on the running web

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

3 direct subcodes

Child Classifications

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B65H 23/182 in unwinding mechanisms or in connection with unwinding operations
B65H 23/188 in connection with running-web
B65H 23/195 in winding mechanisms or in connection with winding operations

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