CPC Definition - Subclass B25C
This place covers:
- Hand-held nailing tools; Nail feeding devices;
- Portable devices for holding and guiding nails; Nail dispensers;
- Manually operated portable stapling tools; Hand-held power-operated stapling tools; Staple feeding devices therefore;
- Accessories for nailing or stapling tools, e.g. supports;
- Nail punches;
- Nail, spike, and staple extractors;
- Nail straightening devices.
B25C covers nailing and stapling tools, powered or manually actuated, including all mechanical details relating to these devices (e.g. feeding, safety, driving means).
B27F 7/00 covers stapling machines, including electric staplers usually incorporated in printing/copying machines, and details of said staplers (e.g. clinching mechanism).
This place does not cover:
For shoemaking |
Attention is drawn to the following places, which may be of interest for search:
Nailing or stapling: driving means operated by manual power | |
Nails, Staples | |
Washers |
In this place, the following terms or expressions are used with the meaning indicated:
Tool | Any portable instrument of operation for performing, assisting the work or facilitating mechanical operations. Tools can be manually operated or by machine tools, such as millers for milling machines. Machine tools (i.e. industrial or NC/CNC) are not considered as tools. |
Hand tool | Device for performing work on a material or a physical system using only muscular strength. |
Power-driven tool | Tool powered by a motor, e.g. electric, hydraulic, pneumatic, fluid-pressure. |
Portable | Capable of being easily carried or conveyed. |
This place covers:
- Nail feeding devices;
- Safety devices;
- Tools operated by manual power;
- Tools operated by fluid pressure;
- Tools operated by electric power;
- Tools operated by combustion pressure.
This place does not cover:
Nailing machines |
Attention is drawn to the following places, which may be of interest for search:
Manually operated portable stapling tools; Hand-held power-operated stapling tools; Staple feeding devices | |
Portable power-driven screw or nut setting or loosening tools | |
Details of, or accessories for screwdrivers | |
Hammers per se | |
Nailing or stapling; Nailed or stapled work | |
Gaseous fuels; Natural gas; Synthetic natural gas; Liquefied petroleum gas | |
Adaptations of engines for driving pumps, hand-held tools or electric generators; Portable combinations of engines with engine-driven devices, for hand-held tools | |
Electric spark ignition having characteristics not provided for | |
Devices for securing together, or preventing relative movement between, constructional elements or machine parts | |
Nails, staples | |
Details of vessels or of the filling or discharging of vessels - Means for coding or identifying them and/or their contents | |
Details of vessels or of the filling or discharging of vessels - Arrangement or mounting of valves and Mounting arrangements for vessels | |
Burners for combustion of a gas, e.g. of a gas stored under pressure as a liquid in association with a gaseous fuel source, e.g. acetylene generator, or a container for liquefied gas | |
Functional features or details both common to small arms and ordinance | |
Cartridge ammunition, e.g. separately-loaded propellant charges - cartridge casesmodified for housing an integral firing-cap | |
Practice or training ammunition - cartridges |
This place covers:
- nail dispensers with provision for holding and guiding nails;
- devices only for holding and guiding nails.
Attention is drawn to the following places, which may be of interest for search:
Nail punches | |
Hand hammers with provision for withdrawing or holding nails or spikes | |
Nails, staples |
This place covers:
- tools with provision for bending the ends of the staples on to the work;
- tools without provision for bending the ends of the staples on to the work;
- tool driving means;
- staple-feeding devices (e.g. with feeding means, supports for staples or accessories concerning feeding devices)
This place does not cover:
Hand-held power-operated stapling tools clip clamping hand tools | |
Details or components of portable power-driven tool not particularly related to the operation performed | |
Stapling machines | |
Staples |
Attention is drawn to the following places, which may be of interest for search:
Machines, appliances or methods for setting fastener-elements on garments | |
Clips, clamps, or like fastening or attaching devices, e.g. for electric installation | |
Hand tools for applying fasteners | |
Nailing machines | |
Stapling machines with provision for bending the ends of the staples on to the work | |
Permanently attaching together sheets, quires or signatures otherwise than by stitching | |
Labelling fabrics or comparable materials or articles with deformable surface, e.g. paper, fabric rolls, stockings, shoes using staples | |
Affixing tags | |
Implements for finishing work on buildings | |
Nails, staples | |
Fastening or securing by means not forming part of the material of the label itself by clamps |
In this place, the following terms or expressions are used with the meaning indicated:
Stapling tools | tools for driving u-shaped loops, e.g. of metallic material, into a surface to fix an object thereto, or trough layers of relatively thin material to hold them together, e.g. by clinching. |
This place covers:
Accessories and supports for nailing or stapling tools.
This place does not cover:
Accessories and supports for tools operated by detonation of a cartridge | |
Staple feeding devices coordinating with feeding of a second item (i.e. cap feeding means) |
Attention is drawn to the following places, which may be of interest for search:
Nails or staples formed in integral series but easily separable | |
Washers or equivalent devices; Other devices for supporting bolt-heads or nuts | |
Supports for pipes, cables or protective tubing, partly surrounding the pipes, cables or protective tubing and pressing it against a wall or other support |
This place covers:
Nail punches Tools with provision to drive nails flush with or below a working surface
This place covers:
Nail, spike and staple extractors. Manual and power actuated tools that remove nails, spikes, and staples from a working member.
This place does not cover:
Hammers (incorporating extractors) |
Attention is drawn to the following places, which may be of interest for search:
Crowbars or levers | |
Laying, rebuilding, or taking-up tracks; Tools or machines therefore | |
Removing sheet piles bulkheads, piles, mould-pipes or other moulds | |
Implements for finishing work on buildings for laying flooring | |
Wrecking of buildings | |
Parts, components, construction details, accessories, interior equipment, specially adapted for tents, e.g. guy-line equipment, skirts, thresholds | |
Devices for erecting or removing fences |
This place covers:
Nail straightening devices. This covers devices used to correct the shape of nails, with or without extracting means for nails.