IPC Main Group
D21F 1/00 Wet end of machines for making continuous webs of paper
Introduced: September 1968
Last revised: January 2006
Classification Context
- Section:
- TEXTILES; PAPER
- Class:
- PAPER-MAKING; PRODUCTION OF CELLULOSE
- Subclass:
- PAPER-MAKING MACHINES; METHODS OF PRODUCING PAPER THEREON
20 direct subcodes
Child Classifications
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- D21F 1/02 Head boxes of Fourdrinier machines
- D21F 1/04 Head boxes of cylinder machines
- D21F 1/06 Regulating pulp flow
- D21F 1/08 Regulating consistency
- D21F 1/1 Wire-cloths
- D21F 1/18 Shaking-apparatus for wire-cloths and associated parts
- D21F 1/24 Tilting, raising, or lowering mechanisms for wire-cloths
- D21F 1/3 Protecting wire-cloths from mechanical damage
- D21F 1/32 Washing wire-cloths or felts
- D21F 1/34 Construction or arrangement of spraying pipes
- D21F 1/36 Guiding mechanisms
- D21F 1/44 Watermarking devices
- D21F 1/48 Suction apparatus
- D21F 1/54 Skimming devices, e.g. froth ledges
- D21F 1/56 Deckle frame arrangements
- D21F 1/58 Deckle straps
- D21F 1/6 Cylinder moulds
- D21F 1/62 Sand traps
- D21F 1/64 Magnetic separators
- D21F 1/66 Pulp catching, de-watering, or recovering; Re-use of pulp-water
Top Applicants
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- P&G (PROCTER & GAMBLE COMPANY) US 862
- OJI HOLDINGS CORPORATION 696
- OMYA INTERNATIONAL CH 584
- SOUTH CHINA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY 571