IPC Main Group
C14B 1/00 Manufacture of leather; Machines or devices therefor
Introduced: September 1968
Last revised: January 2006
Classification Context
- Section:
- CHEMISTRY; METALLURGY
- Class:
- SKINS; HIDES; PELTS OR LEATHER
- Subclass:
- MECHANICAL TREATMENT OR PROCESSING OF SKINS, HIDES, OR LEATHER IN GENERAL; PELT-SHEARING MACHINES; INTESTINE-SPLITTING MACHINES
Related Keywords
GLOSSING of leatherLACQUERING or glossing leatherUNHAIRING hides and skins
9 direct subcodes
Child Classifications
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- C14B 1/02 Fleshing, unhairing, samming, stretching-out, setting-out, shaving, splitting, or skiving skins, hides, or leather
- C14B 1/26 Leather tensioning or stretching frames; Stretching-machines; Setting-out boards; Pasting boards
- C14B 1/28 Machines for treating leather combined with devices for measuring and printing
- C14B 1/3 Pressing or rolling leather
- C14B 1/38 Hammering leather
- C14B 1/4 Softening or making skins or leather supple, e.g. by staking, boarding, or crippling machines, by dry mills
- C14B 1/44 Mechanical treatment of leather surfaces
- C14B 1/58 Drying
- C14B 1/62 Winding or stacking hides or leather
Top Applicants
Top 10 applicants by patent filingsfor class C14, 2013–2023, worldwide · Source: EPO PATSTAT
- SHAANXI UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY 236
- SICHUAN UNIVERSITY 186
- XINGYE LEATHER TECHNOLOGY COMPANY 118
- NANTONG SIRUI ENGINEERING COMPANY 104
- HENAN PROSPER SKINS & LEATHER ENTERPRISE COMPANY 93
- LIAONING FUXIN NEW MATERIAL COMPANY 90
- FENGAN LEATHER COMPANY 70
- ZHANGZHOU XIANGZHOU LEATHER COMPANY 70
- STAHL INTERNATIONAL NL 68
- ZHEJIANG FUBANG GROUP COMPANY 61