IPC Main Group
B65H 29/00 Delivering or advancing articles from machines; Advancing articles to or into piles
Introduced: September 1968
Last revised: January 2006
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
Filing statistics
IPC B65H 29/00 belongs to the parent subclass B65H, which recorded 387,782 patent applications worldwide between 2013 and 2023. Annual filings grew from 15,473 in 2013 to 53,694 in 2023 (+247%), peaking at 56,827 applications in 2020. The most active applicants in class B65 are CANON (3,755 applications), SGCC(STATE GRID CORPORATION OF CHINA) (3,721 applications) and YOSHINO KOGYOSHO COMPANY (3,659 applications).
Source: EPO PATSTAT, worldwide filings
Related Keywords
DELIVERING of sheets from machinesseparating or advancing sheets from or to PILE(S)PILING of sheets
15 direct subcodes
Child Classifications
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- B65H 29/02 by mechanical grippers engaging the leading edge only of the articles
- B65H 29/12 by means of the nip between two, or between two sets of, moving tapes or bands
- B65H 29/16 by contact of one face only with moving tapes, bands, or chains
- B65H 29/2 by contact with rotating friction members, e.g. rollers, brushes, or cylinders
- B65H 29/24 by air-blast or suction apparatus
- B65H 29/26 by dropping
- B65H 29/38 by movable piling or advancing arms, frames, plates, or like members with which the articles are maintained in face contact
- B65H 29/48 by tables arranged to be tilted to cause sliding of articles
- B65H 29/5 Piling apparatus of which the discharge point moves in accordance with the height of the pile
- B65H 29/52 Stationary guides or smoothers
- B65H 29/54 Article strippers, e.g. for stripping from advancing elements
- B65H 29/58 Article switches or diverters
- B65H 29/66 Advancing in streams of overlapping articles
- B65H 29/68 Reducing the speed of articles as they advance
- B65H 29/7 Article-bending or stiffening arrangements
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