CPC Definition - Subclass B42D
This place covers:
Particular final and input products of bookbinding processes, including
- bound products, especially books, obtained by connecting fillings to covers,
- book covers or bookbinding cases suitable for obtaining bound products,
- loose leaves modified for bookbinding,
- separately printed inserts to be permanently placed into, a main bound product;
Particular final and input products of other processes for associating printed sheets, signatures or webs, e.g. processes for interposing inserts, including
- sheets united without bookbinding to form pads or blocks,
- newspapers or the like,
- separately printed inserts, to be removably or permanently placed into, a main united or printed product;
Printed matter of special format, i.e. selection, arrangement, size or shape of the substrate, or style, i.e. selection or arrangement of indicia, comprising:
- book-keeping books, forms or arrangements, including arrangements for carrying forward or transferring entries from one page to another,
- postcards and greeting, menu, business or like cards,
- letter cards or letter-sheets,
- identity, credit, cheque or like information-bearing cards,
- other printed matter of special format or style not otherwise provided for;
Particular devices for use with the above products or printed matter, comprising
- bookmarkers, spot indicators, devices for holding books open, leaf turners,
- devices for carrying forward or transferring entries from one page to another,
- hanging or securing devices for books, newspapers, or the like,
- other devices for use with particular printed products or printed matter covered by this subclass and not otherwise provided for;
Movable-strip writing or reading apparatus.
Attention is drawn to the following places, which may be of interest for search:
Book-rests, book-ends; Desks, cabinets, racks, shelf units or troughs adapted for reading or storing books, documents, forms, or the like. | |
Permanently attaching together sheets, quires or signatures, or permanently attaching objects, e.g. map sections, thereto | |
Bookbinding | |
Sheets temporarily attached together; Filing appliances; File cards; Indexing means |
In this subclass, it is desirable to add the Indexing Codes of groups B42P 2201/00 - B42P 2261/00.
In this place, the following terms or expressions are used with the meaning indicated:
Binding | Used in the sense of book-binding for permanently connecting a filling to a cover to provide a bound product. Usually, the filling is a book block consisting of a set of printed sheets, quires, or signatures, which are loose or already permanently attached together, or insets which are individually mounted to become a permanent part of the book. Usually, the cover is a bookbinding case comprising a spine and the bound product is a book. |
In patent documents, the word/expression in the first column is often used instead of the word/expression in the second column, which is used in the classification scheme of this place:
"casing-in" | "binding" |
This place covers:
Books as an association of fillings with covers;
Albums as bound products comprising a cover associated with fillings, e.g.
- relatively stiff album pages and thin separator pages connected to the cover,
- stiff album pages united by photo prints and connected to the cover of a photo book, usually without an additional filing option;
Files with adhesive strips for mounting papers, the files providing a cover with adhesive strips allowing for permanently mounting papers thereto, e.g. insets or loose leaves, individual sheets or sheets already united to subunits, being subsequently mounted in one go or collected in the course of time and optionally modified for being mounted thereto.
Some special adaptations of book or other bound products for particular purposes are covered by other places, e.g.
- toy purposes by A63H, especially picture books with additional toy effects like pop-up or slide displays,
- teaching purposes by G09B, especially textbooks for teaching foreign languages, books combined with devices for teaching reading or with devices working with questions and answers,
- display purposes by G09F, especially books adapted for samples or modified for advertising.
- If books are provided with replaceable fillings or units of fillings, this aspect is covered by B42D, e.g. B42D 1/06 and B42F, e.g. by B42F 11/00.
Attention is drawn to the following places, which may be of interest for search:
Features of book covers; Covers or spine strips provided with adhesive for bookbinding | |
Sheet features for sheets united without binding or for sheets of printed matter of other special format or style | |
Diaries, memorandum calendars | |
Match books | |
Picture books with additional toy effects, e.g. pop-up or slide displays | |
Applying glue or adhesive peculiar to bookbinding and subsequently applying a cover | |
Machines or equipment for casing-in or applying covers to obtain books, or pamphlets, magazines, paper-covered pads or other paper-covered booklets | |
Multi-step processes for making books | |
Filing features of the fillings, i.e. for temporarily attaching objects to sheets | |
Indexing features of the fillings, e.g. thumb cuts | |
Textbooks for teaching foreign languages | |
Books of samples |
This place covers:
All kinds of covers: hard, soft, removable and permanent protective covers and particular details thereof;
Particular devices for use with covers, e.g. for protecting or reinforcing edges of corners thereof;
Accessories for book covers or books not otherwise provided for, specially adapted for use therewith or for removable attachment thereto, e.g. protective jackets or protective book cases.
Attention is drawn to the following places, which may be of interest for search:
Books or other bound products, e.g. files with adhesive strips for mounting papers | |
Supports for note-pads combined with light emitting devices | |
Bookmarkers, spot indicators, devices for holding books open | |
Postcards, greeting, menu, business or like cards, letter cards or letter-sheets combined with permanently fastened sound-producing or light-emitting means or carrying sound records | |
Reading-desks, lecterns or pulpits characterised by association with line indicators or other auxiliary devices | |
Reading-racks or book-rests characterised by association with line indicators or other auxiliary devices | |
Manufacturing bookbinding cases or paper covers, e.g. decorating them | |
Jacketing books | |
Rebinding books | |
Covers for loose-leaf binders | |
Filing appliances with means for engaging perforations or slots combined or formed with other articles, e.g. with devices enabling the cover to be positioned upright | |
Indexing means | |
Electrically-operated educational appliances with both, visual and audible presentation of the material to be studied, combining audio and printed presentations, e.g. talking books |
Details of covers which are the same for book covers, and covers of loose-leaf binders, are classified in B42D 3/00 only.
This place covers:
Sheets of a pad, note-pad, tablet or block are united with the intention or option to permanently remove single sheets.
Particular supports or holders for such sheets united without binding, not otherwise provided for.
Combinations of such sheets, supports or holders with other articles, not otherwise provided for.
Attention is drawn to the following places, which may be of interest for search:
Similar features for book sheets, e.g. perforated | |
Form sheets per se, e.g. cheques, questionnaires, forms for book-keeping, planning or inventories, forms for commercial use | |
Foldable or multi-part cards or sheets, e.g. combined with detachably mounted or permanently fastened articles | |
Letter-cards or letter-sheets | |
Photograph stands | |
Devices for hanging pictures, mirrors, or the like | |
Apparatus for printing calendars | |
Manifolding assemblies made up of single sheets or forms, e.g. pads, or of continuous webs | |
Processes for uniting sheets without binding to form pads or blocks | |
Sheets perforated or punched for temporarily attaching them together | |
Clip boards, i.e. boards with devices clamping sheet edges | |
Writing or drawing underlays, e.g. blotting pads | |
Envelopes | |
Containers or packages with special means for dispensing thin flat articles in succession, e.g. with means assisting pulling out through an aperture | |
Perpetual calendars, e.g. with interchangeable or movably mounted members bearing the indicia |
In this place, the following terms or expressions are used with the meaning indicated:
Pad | A pad (GB) or tablet (US) comprises a set of identical stacked sheets, usually glued together at one edge and backed by a piece of cardboard provided with a cover flap. |
Note-pad | A note-pad is a united set of sheets with usually identical sheets for writing there upon, either unprinted or provided with guiding marks. |
Form set | A form set is a united set of sheets printed with a form comprising spaces for filling in data or text, e.g. by writing or printing. |
Block | A block is typically a block calendar or tear-off calendar comprising an ordered set of different sheets. |
Attention is drawn to the following places, which may be of interest for search:
Advertising on paper articles, e.g. booklets, newspapers |
Attention is drawn to the following places, which may be of interest for search:
Book covers combined with column markers or line or heading indicators | |
Book covers combined with means for holding books open | |
Reading-racks or book-rests characterised by association with leaf turners or other auxiliary devices | |
Indexing tabs integral with, detachably mounted to, or permanently fastened to sheets |
Apparatus making use of leaf turning devices:
Selective printing or marking mechanisms, e.g. ink-jet printers, thermal printers, for printing downwardly on bank books or the like | |
Numbering devices having integral means for supporting the articles to be stamped | |
Automatic teller machines (ATM) |
Attention is drawn to the following places, which may be of interest for search:
Book covers combined with column markers or line or heading indicators | |
Book-keeping books, forms or arrangements |
In patent documents, the following words/expressions are often used as synonyms:
- "book-keeping book", "ledger" and " account book"
- "book-keeping form" and "balance sheet"
This place covers:
Loose leaves modified for binding and insets become permanent part of the book or bound product, e.g. a laminated passport data page specially adapted for binding with other passport pages.
Attention is drawn to the following places, which may be of interest for search:
Preparing the edges or backs of leaves or signatures for binding | |
Sheets perforated or punched for temporarily attaching together | |
Advertising on paper articles, e.g. booklets, newspapers |
In this place, the following terms or expressions are used with the meaning indicated:
Binding | Used in the sense of book-binding and of permanently attaching sheets together |
This place covers:
Printed matter of special format or style comprises:
Particular features selected for the substrate, usually paper or plastic sheets or cards, e.g. the selected material, the size or shape of the article, the article being foldable or made up of multiple parts;
Particular selection, presentation or arrangement of the indicia, e.g. of guiding marks, as combination of markings, as a form or in a table, to obtain a particular technical effect related the intellectual impression provided by the indicia;
Particular association with devices for use therewith, e.g. with stamps, photographs or security elements.
Particular substrate and indicia features can contribute in combination to provide a printed matter specially adapted for a particular purpose, e.g. a bank-note, a postcard, a letter-sheet or an identity card.
Special adaptations of printed matter for particular purposes are often covered by other places, e.g.
- display or advertising purposes by G09F, e.g. labels, tag tickets or similar identification or indication means, security seals and postage or like stamps by G09F 3/00, especially attachment aspects thereof, or show-cards, signs, name or number plates, panels or boards with letters, numerals, or symbols;
- teaching purposes by G09B, especially maps, plans, charts or diagrams for teaching in general, guide sheets or tracing charts for teaching writing, textbooks for teaching languages or printed appliances for teaching book-keeping.
Examples of places in relation to which this place is residual:
Book-keeping forms or arrangements | |
Securities or banknotes characterised by colour effects | |
Cards of card games; Special shapes of such cards | |
Sheets temporarily attached together; Sheet details therefor; Sheets and objects temporarily attached together; Means therefor | |
Maps, plans, charts, diagrams, e.g. route diagrams | |
Cardboard or like show-cards of foldable or flexible material | |
Labels, tag tickets, or similar identification or indication means; Seals; Postage or like stamps |
Attention is drawn to the following places, which may be of interest for search:
Card games appurtenances, e.g. card-presses, card holders, shufflers or dealers | |
Tickets for lotto or bingo games having a message becoming legible after rubbing-off a coating or removing an adhesive layer | |
Layered products; Methods or apparatus for laminating | |
Printing machines or presses | |
Selective printing mechanisms, i.e. mechanisms printing otherwise than from a forme | |
Manifolding assemblies made up of single sheets or forms | |
Security printing processes | |
Duplicating or marking methods; Sheet materials for use therein | |
Permanently attaching objects, e.g. map sections, to sheets | |
Sheets temporarily attached together or sheets and objects temporarily attached together; Sheet details and devices therefor | |
Machines or apparatus for embossing decorations or marks, e.g. embossing coins | |
Producing decorative effects | |
Designs or pictures characterised by colour effects, e.g. changing, amusing, or secret pictures, or iridescent effects | |
Envelopes | |
Cards, coupons, being located within a pouch or envelope attached to the exterior of packages, e.g. shipping mailers | |
Non-fibrous material added to the pulp or paper impregnating or coating material, characterised by its function, form or properties, e.g. agents facilitating proof of genuineness or preventing fraudulent alteration, e.g. for security paper | |
Optical elements, systems or apparatus | |
Photosensitive materials for photographic purposes; Photographic processes; Auxiliary processes in photography | |
Photomechanical production of textured or patterned surfaces, e.g. for printing; Materials therefor; Originals therefor; Apparatus specially adapted therefor | |
Electrography; Electrophotography; Magnetography | |
Holographic processes or apparatus | |
Methods or arrangements for graph-reading or for converting the pattern of mechanical parameters, e.g. force or presence, into electrical signals | |
Record carriers for use with machines and with at least a part designed to carry digital markings, e.g. credit or identity cards with integrated circuit chips | |
Character recognition, recognising digital ink or document-oriented image-based pattern recognition | |
Testing specially adapted to determine the identity or genuineness of paper currency or similar valuable papers, e.g. for segregating those which are unacceptable or alien to a currency | |
Mechanisms actuated by coded identity card or credit card to free or to actuate vending, hiring, coin or paper currency dispensing or refunding apparatus | |
Teaching appliances of chart form working with questions and answers, e.g. of the multiple-choice answer type or with invisibly printed correct answers | |
Guide sheets or tracing charts for teaching hand-writing, shorthand, drawing, or painting |
In this place, the following terms or expressions are used with the meaning indicated:
Printed matter | Articles bearing visible indicia produced by a graphic process, which effect primarily intellectual impressions, e.g. information, as opposite to esthetical impressions. Usually, the articles are sheet materials, the indicia are characters or patterns and examples for the graphic processes are printing, marking, duplicating, copying or decalcomania. |
Attention is drawn to the following places, which may be of interest for search:
Book-troughs; Accessories specially adapted for book-storing, e.g. book-ends | |
Filing appliances with separate intermediate holding means engaging folds | |
Suspended filing appliances |
Attention is drawn to the following places, which may be of interest for search:
Autographic registers or like manifolding apparatus using movable strips or webs, e.g. with mechanisms for feeding webs | |
Drawing boards with paper rolls and means for clamping sheets of paper thereto | |
Unwinding or winding webs in general | |
Moving webs in general, e.g. advancing, registering, tensioning, smoothing, or guiding webs | |
Receipt-giving machines or cash registers giving receipts | |
Maps, plans, charts or diagrams of belt form, e.g. endless belt | |
Indicating arrangements for variable information in which the complete information is permanently attached to a moving band which brings it to the display position |
This place does not cover:
Printing processes to produce identification or security features |
Attention is drawn to the following places, which may be of interest for search:
Machines or apparatus for embossing decorations or marks | |
Agents, added to the pulp or applied with paper impregnating or coating material, facilitating proof of genuineness or preventing fraudulent alteration, e.g. for security paper | |
Diffracting gratings | |
Holograms used as optical elements | |
Holography | |
Pattern authentication or markers therefor, forgery detection | |
Character recognition, recognising digital ink or document-oriented image-based pattern recognition | |
Testing specially adapted to determine the identity or genuineness of paper currency or similar valuable papers | |
Record carriers in general |
This place does not cover:
Apparatus for printing and issuing |
This place does not cover:
Record carriers for use with machines and with at least a part designed to carry digital markings |
This place does not cover:
Marking by removal of material using electromagnetic radiation |
This place does not cover:
Marking by removal of material using chemicals |