CPC Definition - Subclass B41L
This place covers:
Manifolding devices, which comprise assembled sheets or webs and interposed pressure-sensitive layers or intermediaries usually in the form of carbon sheets or layers;
carbons and other pressure-sensitive layers or coatings specifically adapted for manifolding;
apparatus or machines for duplicating or printing, which always use a static original in the form of a sheet for duplicating thereof or a static printing form, usually a printing plate, carrying a graphical and/or alphanumerical text or picture forming the duplicating or printing image;
printing or duplicating, always encompassing the use of ink or colour;
printing apparatus or machines exclusively for special uses like office printing or commercial purposes. These special uses encompass in general an almost low number, e.g. up to hundred, of copies or printed sheets;
addressing or like series-printing machines as an example of specific commercial purpose.
Feeding or handling of substrates to be duplicated or printed is covered from the in-feed device through the whole machine down to the delivery device.
Auxiliary folding, collecting or depositing of sheets or webs specifically adapted for said specific apparatus of the present subclass (cf. B41L 43/00).
This place does not cover:
Sheet materials used for printing purposes |
Attention is drawn to the following places, which may be of interest for search:
Spraying or atomizing of liquids/fluids or particles in general | |
Apparatus for applying liquids/fluids in general | |
Processes for applying liquids/fluids in general | |
Cleaning in general | |
Cutting, perforating, punching, stamping-out in general | |
Presses in general | |
Printing letters or types per se | |
Manufacture or reproduction of printing surfaces | |
Apparatus for mechanical reproduction of printing surfaces | |
Shaping elastic or deformable material to printing surfaces | |
Screen printing machines or presses | |
Apparatus for bronze or line printing, bordering or edging of sheets | |
Auxiliary perforating in conjunction with printing | |
Selective printing mechanisms which have single types or characters or selectively activated printing elements, e.g. ink jet or thermal print heads, for consecutively printing character by character and line by line;typewriters; correction of typographical errors | |
Printing, duplicating, marking or copying processes | |
Printing forms as such, e.g. printing plates, stencils | |
Preparing for use and conserving printing surfaces in general | |
Layers, shells, covers, surfaces specifically adapted for use in printing machines or presses in general | |
Permanently attaching together sheets, quires or signatures | |
Bookbinding | |
Books, book covers, printed matter of special format or style not otherwise provided for | |
Sheets temporarily attached together, filing appliances | |
Implements for writing or drawing in general, e.g. pens | |
Articles for writing or drawing upon in general | |
Bureau accessories not otherwise provided for, opening or closing of envelopes, inserting documents in envelopes | |
Machines, apparatus or tools for sculpturing, carving, engraving, guilloching in general | |
Machines or apparatus for embossing in general | |
Machines, apparatus or tools for branding in general | |
Machines or apparatus for inlaying in general | |
Producing decorative effects, mosaics, paperhanging | |
Applying transfer pictures or the like | |
Painting or artistic drawing | |
Special designs or patterns | |
Label dispensers having printing equipment | |
Feeding or handling thin material, e.g. sheets or webs, in general | |
Coating compositions: inks, paints, varnishes, lacquers, pastes or solids for printing | |
Adhesives | |
Paper making, production of cellulose | |
Measuring, testing in general | |
Electrography, electrophotography, magnetography in general | |
Controlling, regulating in general | |
Electric digital data processing | |
Ticket printing, franking apparatus in general | |
Displaying, advertising, signs, labels | |
Scanning, transmission or reproduction of documents |
In this place, the following terms or expressions are used with the meaning indicated:
Manifolding | always encompasses use of pressure-sensitive layers or intermediaries, e.g. carbon |
Hectograph or gelatine duplicator | transfer of a sheet-like original prepared with special inks including special aniline dyes onto an open pan containing gelatine,afterwards, paper copies are made by pressing a paper containing substrate against the inked and images gelatine surface |
Printing or duplicating | after applying ink or colour onto the surface of the original or of the printing form, the inked image is applied by contact pressure onto the surface of a substrate, most common in the form of paper, which will form the copy of printed matter, |
Print image or printing image | a coloured design having any shape, for e.g. alphanumerical characters |
Offset print or offset printing | §using an intermediate element, most commonly a blanket cylinder, for transfer in one step of the whole inked print image on the printing element, most commonly a printing plate, onto the surface of the substrate to be printed upon |
Stencil | sheet like printing plate having cut outs defining by their openings the print or printing image |
In patent documents, the following words/expressions are often used as synonyms:
- "offset" and "lithographic"
This place covers:
Devices for manifolding, e.g. assemblies in the form of pads or books of single sheets or in the form of continuous assemblies of webs,
devices for supplying pressure-sensitive material including carbon gloves,
devices for performing preparatory operations and
devices for performing operations subsequent to manifolding,
technology mostly used until the year 2000.
Attention is drawn to the following places, which may be of interest for search:
Sheet materials used in connection with printing or duplicating in general |
This place covers:
Manually operable devices like flat supports, clamps or guides for moving into and holding in registered position with respect to each other of blank paper or blank forms, e.g. business forms, pressure sensitive layers or intermediaries, e.g. carbons, and duplicates.
Also auxiliary devices specifically adapted for use with said platens or supports, technology mostly used until the year 2000.
This place covers:
Portable box-like devices having a writing underlay almost in form of a flat plate for filling out forms, e.g. business forms, by handwriting, and a storage compartment for storing blank paper or blank forms, e.g. business forms, together with pressure sensitive layers or intermediaries, e.g. carbons, and/or for storing duplicates.
Also auxiliary devices specifically adapted for use with said registers, technology mostly used until the year 2000.
This place covers:
Apparatus for duplicating on sheets or webs,
clay or gelatine is used,
technology mostly used until the year 2000.
This place covers:
Flat supports or rotary cylinders carrying hectographic gelatine paper sheets of webs,
clay or gelatine is used,
technology mostly used until the year 2000.
This place covers:
Flat supports or cylinders or two cooperating rollers for carrying the master sheet,
clay or gelatine is used,
technology mostly used until the year 2000.
This place covers:
Printing apparatus or machines, as a whole as well as parts thereof, using a stencil as the image forming element,
a stencil which is usually a flexible sheet having one or a plurality of cutouts defining the print image; said stencil sheet usually having a plurality of layers often including an adhesive layer in order to fix the stencil onto a carrier as part of a printing apparatus,
printing apparatus, which either dispose of a flat stencil carrier or of a curved or rotary stencil carrier,
main special parts of the stencilling apparatus, like inking units, drive means, drive gears and control means, specifically adapted for use in said apparatus,
auxiliary devices, like means for punching, cutting or severing, specifically adapted for stencilling machines.
This place does not cover:
Screen or silk-screen printing apparatus |
Attention is drawn to the following places, which may be of interest for search:
Feeding or handling of sheet or web-like substrates to be printed upon in stencil printing machines | |
Feeding or handling of sheet or web-like substrates in to be printed upon in printing machines in general | |
Processes for stencil printing | |
Stencils used as writing or drawing aids | |
Artistic painting or drawing using at least one stencil | |
Kits having at least one stencil for painting or drawing | |
Feeding or handling thin material, i.e. sheets or webs in general |
This place covers:
Small scale printing apparatus suitable for office use,
usual output of a low number, e.g. less than hundred, of printed subject matter.
This place covers:
Small scale printing apparatus suitable for office use,
usual output of a low number, e.g. less than hundred, of printed subject matter.
This place covers:
Small scale printing apparatus suitable for office use,
usual output of a low number, e.g. less than hundred, of printed subject matter.
Attention is drawn to the following places, which may be of interest for search:
Printing apparatus of special types or for particular purposes in the industries, not otherwise provided for in general |
This place covers:
Devices specifically adapted for small scale printing apparatus suitable for office use,
usual output of a low number, e.g. less than hundred, of printed subject matter.
Attention is drawn to the following places, which may be of interest for search:
Conveying devices for webs in printing presses in general | |
Conveying devices for sheets in printing machines in general |
This place covers:
Devices specifically adapted for small scale printing apparatus suitable for office use,
usual output of a low number, e.g. less than hundred, of printed subject matter.
Attention is drawn to the following places, which may be of interest for search:
Devices for treating the surfaces of substrates to be printed upon in connection with printing in general |
This place covers:
Devices specifically adapted for small scale printing apparatus suitable for office use.
Usual output of a low number e.g. less than hundred, of printed subject matter.
Attention is drawn to the following places, which may be of interest for search:
In patent documents, the following words/expressions are often used as synonyms:
- "repellent" and "repellant"
This place covers:
Devices specifically adapted for small scale printing apparatus suitable for office use,
usual output of a low number, e.g. Less than hundred, of printed subject matter.
Attention is drawn to the following places, which may be of interest for search:
Inking arrangements or devices in printing presses in general |
This place covers:
Devices specifically adapted for small scale printing apparatus suitable for office use,
usual output of a low number, e.g. less than hundred, of printed subject matter.
Attention is drawn to the following places, which may be of interest for search:
Devices for attaching printing elements or formes in general |
This place covers:
Devices specifically adapted for small scale printing apparatus suitable for office use,
usual output of a low number, e.g. less than hundred, of printed subject matter.
Attention is drawn to the following places, which may be of interest for search:
Devices for removing flexible printing formes in general |
This place covers:
Devices specifically adapted for small scale printing apparatus suitable for office use.
Usual output of a low number, e.g. less than hundred, of printed subject matter.
Attention is drawn to the following places, which may be of interest for search:
Devices for pressing sheets or webs against cylinders in printing presses in general |
This place covers:
Cylinders and associated devices, e.g. bearings, tripping devices, adjusting devices, guards, covers, heating means, specifically adapted for small scale printing apparatus suitable for office use,
usual output of a low number, e.g. less than hundred, of printed subject matter.
Attention is drawn to the following places, which may be of interest for search:
Cylinders and associated devices for printing machines in printing presses in general |
This place covers:
Devices specifically adapted for small scale printing apparatus suitable for office use,
usual output of a low number, e.g. less than hundred, of printed subject matter.
Attention is drawn to the following places, which may be of interest for search:
Devices for attaching covers in printing presses in general |
This place covers:
Devices specifically adapted for small scale printing apparatus suitable for office use,
usual output of a low number, e.g. less than hundred, of printed subject matter.
Attention is drawn to the following places, which may be of interest for search:
Indicating, counting, warning, control or safety devices in printing presses in general |
This place covers:
Devices specifically adapted for small scale printing apparatus suitable for office use,
usual output of a low number, e.g. less than hundred, of printed subject matter.
Attention is drawn to the following places, which may be of interest for search:
Cleaning arrangements or devices in printing presses in general |
This place covers:
Devices specifically adapted for small scale printing apparatus suitable for office use,
usual output of a low number, e.g. less than hundred, of printed subject matter.
Attention is drawn to the following places, which may be of interest for search:
Auxiliary folding, collecting or depositing of sheets or webs in printing presses in general |
This place covers:
Machines using printing plates, separate printing devices and printing surfaces carried by belts or chains,
devices for other operations, e.g. franking or collating, forming part of an addressing machine are included,
technology mostly used until the year 2000.
This place covers:
Printing surfaces, devices for handling printing plates, printing mechanisms, devices for text or image selection, mechanisms for conveying copy material, indicating, warning, control and safety devices and auxiliary devices specifically adapted for addressographs,
technology mostly used until the year 2000.
This place covers:
Accessories or attachments, e.g. counting, numbering or dating devices specifically adapted for addressographs,
technology mostly used until the year 2000.