CPC Definition - Subclass B65B
This place covers:
The following general guidance can be applied in this subclass:
Main groups B65B 1/00-B65B 17/00 relate to general aspects of packaging, wrapping, bundling and closing of packages.
Main groups B65B 19/00-B65B 29/00 relate to the packaging, wrapping or bundling of articles/materials with special problems.
Main group B65B 31/00 relates to the packaging under special atmospheric conditions.
Main group B65B 33/00 relates to packaging by applying removable/strippable coatings.
Main groups B65B 35/00-B65B 39/00 relate to the feeding of material to be packaged.
Main groups B65B 41/00-B65B 45/00 relate to the feeding/supporting of the wrapping material/container.
Main groups B65B 47/00-B65B 53/00 and B65B 61/00 relate to operations preformed on the wrapping material/container.
Main group B65B 63/00 relates to auxiliary operations performed on the article/material to be packaged.
Main group B65B 55/00 relates to preserving/sterilising.
Main groups B65B 57/00-B65B 59/00 and B65B 65/00 relates to the control/adaptation/details of the packaging machine.
Main group B65B 67/00 relates to manual packaging.
Main group B65B 69/00 relates to unpacking.
Machines, apparatus, or methods of general application for packaging individual articles, groups of articles or quantities of material in solid, pulverulent, liquid, semi liquid or mixed solid and liquid form including mainly the following operations:
- filling portable containers or receptacles with articles or materials to form packages;
- inserting articles or groups of articles into containers or receptacles;
- closing filled containers or receptacles otherwise than by metal-working, glass-working, or wood-working operations;
- enclosing, or partially enclosing, articles or quantities of material, in sheets, strips, blanks, webs, or tubes of thin flexible material, e.g. wrapping;
- applying removable coatings, e. g. strippable coatings;
- bundling articles, e.g. holding articles together in groups by applying string or wire;
- attaching articles to cards, sheets, or webs.
Machines, apparatus, or methods adapted for packaging articles or materials presenting special problems or for special packaging operations e. g. packaging of specially shaped articles, of fragile, sensitive, tacky objects or of all sorts of foodstuffs.
Machines, apparatus, or methods adapted for packaging of articles or materials in packages that can have an additional function e. g. packaging of tea in tea-bags or of food intended to be cooked in the package.
Machines, apparatus, or methods adapted for packaging of articles or materials under special atmospheric or gaseous conditions.
Filling aerosol containers with propellants.
Packaging articles by applying removable e.g. strippable coatings.
Details of, auxiliary devices applied to, or auxiliary measures taken in, machines, apparatus, or methods
- relating to the articles or materials to be packed:
- supplying, feeding, arranging, or orientating articles to be packed;
- supplying or feeding fluent-solid, plastic, or liquid material, or loose masses of small articles to be packaged;
- nozzles, funnels, or guides for introducing articles or materials into containers or wrappers;
- miscellaneous auxiliary devices operating on articles or materials to be packaged and not otherwise provided for;
- relating to the containers, packages or receptacles in association with packaging:
- forming, feeding, opening, or setting-up containers or receptacles;
- supplying or feeding container-forming sheets or wrapping material;
- apparatus or devices for supporting or holding wrappers during wrapping operation;
- apparatus or devices for forming pockets or receptacles in or from sheets, blanks, or webs;
- devices for folding or bending wrappers around contents;
- devices for, or methods of, sealing or securing package folds or closures, e.g. twisted bag necks;
- shrinking wrappers, containers, container covers or container cover securing members during or after packaging;
- miscellaneous auxiliary devices for operating on sheets, blanks, webs, binding material, containers or packages, and not otherwise provided for;
- relating to the machines, apparatus, or methods themselves:
- automatic control, checking, warning, or safety devices of packaging machines;
- arrangements to give access for cleaning or maintenance purposes;
- arrangements to enable machines to handle articles of different sizes, to produce packages of different sizes, to vary the contents of packages;
- details peculiar to packaging machines and not otherwise provided for, e. g. special gearing, anti- sticking material, devices for counting and registering;
- preserving, protecting, or purifying packages or package contents in association with packaging.
Apparatus or devices facilitating manual packaging operations.
Sack holders.
Unpacking of articles or materials.
Operations like filling, inserting, enclosing or bundling of articles or attaching articles to webs or cards that are employed in the manufacture of the articles and not part of a packaging process, are covered by the appropriate subclasses, e.g. making confectionery products by casting in moulds formed by wrappers A23G, filling ammunition, e.g. cartridges, F42B 33/02.
Similarly, operations like filling, inserting, enclosing of material into bags, webs and similar material that are employed in the manufacture of a wrapping material as such, are not considered to be packaging in the meaning of B65B and covered by the appropriate subclasses, e.g. making dunnage or cushion pads B31D 5/0039.
Packaging operations for a particular purpose, for which a special classification place exists and which is listed in the application oriented references, are only classified in B65B if the packaging operation is also of general interest and applicable to operations for other purposes.
Relationship with subclass B65D:
B65B does not cover methods of packaging, which are wholly characterised by the form of the package produced, or the form of the container or packaging-element used, which are covered by B65D.
Relationship with subclass B65G:
B65G covers storage or transport devices (e.g. conveyers) in general whereby B65B covers those devices if they are restricted to packaging.
Relationship with subclass B67C:
The group B67C 3/00 covers primarily the filling or bottling of bottles, cans, jars, barrels or casks with beverages or other (similar) liquids or semi-liquids, on a relatively large production scale, for example as is done in the beverage, soft drink or wine industry or in breweries. The filling of containers with liquids or semi-liquids using apparatus other than bottling or like apparatus is covered by the group B65B 3/00.
This place does not cover:
Bundling and pressing devices for cigars | |
Devices for tensioning and securing binders adapted to be supported by the article or articles to be bound | |
Applying closure members to bottles jars, or similar containers; | |
Concurrent cleaning, filling and closing of bottles | |
Emptying bottles, jars, cans, casks, barrels or similar containers |
Examples of places where the subject matter of this place is covered when specially adapted, used for a particular purpose, or incorporated in a larger system:
Machines for forming slabs of butter with packaging devices | |
Sausage filling or stuffing machines | |
Shopping bag or carton-dispensing systems specifically adapted for check-out counters | |
Shopping bag or paper bag holders for shops | |
Filling and assembling of medical capsules | |
Filling of syringes in situ | |
Inserting documents in envelopes and closing the latter | |
Filling fuel into fuel tanks | |
Packaging of matches | |
Cutting machines specially adapted for sugar in combination with sorting and packaging machines | |
Filling of grease guns | |
Packaging of ammunition or explosive charges | |
Devices for wrapping coins |
Examples of places in relation to which this place is residual:
Hand or power-operated devices not attached to, or not incorporated in, containers or container closures for opening closed containers |
Attention is drawn to the following places, which may be of interest for search:
Preservation of foodstuffs in general | |
Manufacture and preparation of tobacco | |
Apparatus for applying liquids or other fluent materials to surfaces in general | |
Cleaning machinery and conduits | |
Hand-held nailing or stapling tools; manually operated portable stapling tools | |
Cutting or severing in general | |
Nailing or stapling devices | |
Sealing thermoplastics in general by joining | |
Presses in general | |
Making bags and boxes in general | |
Printing in general | |
Labelling | |
Containers for storage or transport of articles or materials e.g. bags, barrels, bottles, boxes, cans, cartons, etc. and other packaging elements, e.g. binders, closures, protective caps | |
Transport or storage devices in general, e.g. conveyers for loading or tipping; Stacking and de-stacking of articles in general | |
Handling sheets or webs of interest apart from their application in packaging machines | |
Filling bottles or other containers with liquids or semi-liquids by bottling machines | |
Funnels, e.g. for bottling liquids | |
Volumetric measurement in general | |
Weighing in general |
In subclass B65B all embodiments of a document and all aspects of that embodiment are to be classified, irrespective of it being subject-matter of a claim or not.
Classification is done in the lowest subgroup that applies. If several subgroups apply equally, for example for various embodiments of a document, the document is classified in all of those subgroups, but not collectively in the higher ranking group, unless the higher group is the only group that applies for a particular embodiment.
Characteristics merely mentioned in the description as possible embodiments but not allowing complete understanding of its implementation are classified as additional information. For example, in the following disclosure:
"The seal head which has been described in detail in this application is also applicable to vertical form fill seal machines as known from the prior art."
-the seal head should be classified as invention information and the vertical form fill seal machine as additional information.
Similarly, features identifiable from the drawings but not described in the description should be classified as additional information.
In this place, the following terms or expressions are used with the meaning indicated:
Packaging | Should be understood as including mainly the following operations: - Filling portable containers or receptacles with materials or small articles to form packages; - inserting articles, or groups of articles, into containers or receptacles; - closing filled containers or receptacles otherwise than by metal-, glass-, or wood-working operations; - enclosing, or partially enclosing, articles or quantities of material, in sheets, strips, blanks, webs, or tubes of thin flexible material, e.g. wrapping; - bundling articles, e.g. holding articles together in groups by applying string or wire;- attaching articles to cards, sheets, or webs. |
Package | Is used to mean the end product of a packaging operation, e.g. a filled and closed container, an article enclosed in a wrapper, a group of articles held together by string or wire, a crate of bottles. |
Materials | Is to be understood as embracing matter, or masses of articles, which are to be packaged, as distinct from separate or individual articles. |
Container/Receptacle | An individual structure comprising a barrier for confining its content, e.g. bags, sacks, boxes, cartons, cans, jars. |
Wrapper | A wrapper can refer both to the wrapping material as such, e.g. in form of a strip or a sheet of flexible material, as well as to the finished flexible structure for containing the product.When a wrapper is used as an alternative to a container in the titles of B65B, it is to be understood as a more flexible structure than the container. |
Wrapping material | Blanks, sheets, and webs (see definition below). |
Blanks | Sheets pre-cut and creased for being folded into an individual container. |
Strips/Sheets | Individual pre-cut sections of flexible material used for forming a single container or for producing a single package. |
Webs | Continuous sections of flexible material used for partially or wholly enclosing the contents before separating the so formed package from the web supply. |
Examples of places where the subject matter of this place is covered when specially adapted, used for a particular purpose, or incorporated in a larger system:
Packaging materials presenting special problems |
Attention is drawn to the following places, which may be of interest for search:
Packaging liquids in individual containers | |
Packaging articles in individual containers | |
Packaging materials presenting special problems | |
Packaging under special atmospheric or gaseous conditions | |
Filling bags at stream, river, coast or marine sites, e.g. sandbags |
This place covers:
Forming or setting-up containers just before filling, the material being subsequently filled into these preformed containers.
Machines incorporating means for making the containers or receptacles from flat, folded, or tubular webs of flexible sheet material, but which containers or receptacles are separated from the web before being filled
This place does not cover:
Packaging successive quantities of material in flat, folded, or tubular webs of flexible sheet material |
Attention is drawn to the following places, which may be of interest for search:
Making boxes or bags independently from packaging operations see the relevant groups of | B31B and its Indexing Codes |
Attention is drawn to the following places, which may be of interest for search:
Supplying or feeding material by vibratory feeders |
Attention is drawn to the following places, which may be of interest for search:
Cleaning of, or removing dust from, containers, wrappers or packaging |
This place does not cover:
Check-weighing of filled containers or receptacles |
Attention is drawn to the following places, which may be of interest for search:
Separating measured quantities from supply by weighing | |
Weighing of cut products | |
Weighing in general | |
Loss-in-weight type feed control in general, i.e. differential dosing | |
Combinatorial weighing in general |
This place does not cover:
Checking volume of filled material |
Attention is drawn to the following places, which may be of interest for search:
Separating measured quantities from supply by volume measurement | |
Volumetric measurement in general |
Attention is drawn to the following places, which may be of interest for search:
Details of pistons |
Attention is drawn to the following places, which may be of interest for search:
Check weighing in general |
Examples of places where the subject matter of this place is covered when specially adapted, used for a particular purpose, or incorporated in a larger system:
Dispensing a measured quantity of ingredients into a cup or other receptacle as part of a beverage making apparatus | |
Filling fuel into fuel tanks | |
Filling lubricants into machine tanks | |
Filling liquids with coin-freed apparatus, i.e. vending |
Attention is drawn to the following places, which may be of interest for search:
Packaging powders in individual containers | |
Packaging articles in individual containers | |
Packaging under special atmospheric or gaseous conditions; Adding propellants to aerosol containers | |
Filling bottles or other containers with liquids or semi-liquids by bottling machines |
This place covers:
Filling of medical containers with semi-liquids, liquids, mixed solids and liquids and fluidised powder.
Examples of places where the subject matter of this place is covered when specially adapted, used for a particular purpose, or incorporated in a larger system:
Filling and assembling of medical capsules | |
Filling of syringes in situ |
Attention is drawn to the following places, which may be of interest for search:
Sealing filled ampoules | |
Applying plugs/stoppers to filled syringes | |
Fraction collection sampling | |
Automatic devices for transferring samples to, in or from the analysis apparatus | |
Mixing different liquid (medication) in a vending machine | |
ICT specially adapted for therapies or health-improving plans relating to drugs or medications, e.g. for ensuring correct administration to patients |
This place covers:
Forming or setting-up containers just before filling, the material being subsequently filled into these preformed containers.
Machines incorporating means for making the containers or receptacles from flat, folded, or tubular webs of flexible sheet material, but which containers or receptacles are separated from the web before being filled.
Attention is drawn to the following places, which may be of interest for search:
Attention is drawn to the following places, which may be of interest for search:
For blow moulding preforms by hot liquids that remain in the finished container see also the indexing scheme of | |
Moulds for blow-moulding |
Attention is drawn to the following places, which may be of interest for search:
Forming three-dimensional containers from sheet material by folding | |
Making boxes independently from packaging operations see the relevant groups of |
Attention is drawn to the following places, which may be of interest for search:
Making containers independently from packaging operations see the relevant groups of |
This place covers:
Methods of, or means for filling the material into individual containers or receptacles and interconnected bags.
Attention is drawn to the following places, which may be of interest for search:
Foam dispersion or prevention | |
Preventing foaming in bottles |
Attention is drawn to the following places, which may be of interest for search:
Head space air removing device |
Attention is drawn to the following places, which may be of interest for search:
Separating measured quantities from supply by weighing | |
Weighing in general |
Attention is drawn to the following places, which may be of interest for search:
Separating measured quantities from supply by volume measurement | |
Volumetric measurement in general |
Attention is drawn to the following places, which may be of interest for search:
Details of pistons |
Examples of places where the subject matter of this place is covered when specially adapted, used for a particular purpose, or incorporated in a larger system:
Packaging bottles | |
Packaging articles presenting special problems |
Attention is drawn to the following places, which may be of interest for search:
Packaging powders in individual containers | |
Packaging liquids in individual containers | |
Packaging under special atmospheric conditions | |
Packages for surgical instruments |
This place covers:
Forming or setting-up containers just before filling, the articles being subsequently filled into these preformed containers.
The container can be a collapsed carton sleeve; accent remaining on filling.
Machines incorporating means for making the containers or receptacles from flat, folded, or tubular webs of flexible sheet material, but which containers or receptacles are separated from the web before being filled.
Attention is drawn to the following places, which may be of interest for search:
Making bags independently from packaging operations see the relevant groups of |
This place covers:
Cartons formed adjacent to the articles, the articles being subsequently inserted into these preformed cartons.
Attention is drawn to the following places, which may be of interest for search:
Packaging by wrapping a carton blank around the article | |
Opening, erecting or setting up cartons | |
Making containers independently from packaging operations see the relevant groups of |
Attention is drawn to the following places, which may be of interest for search:
Making trays independently from packaging operations see the relevant groups of |
Attention is drawn to the following places, which may be of interest for search:
Making containers independently from packaging operations see the relevant groups of |
Attention is drawn to the following places, which may be of interest for search:
Packaging of bread |
This place covers:
This subgroup covers the gripping of a group of articles, wherein the articles are being gripped individually and simultaneously by the gripper.
Attention is drawn to the following places, which may be of interest for search:
Arranging and feeding articles in groups by grippers | |
Grippers in general | |
Grippers for transferring articles to/from/between conveyors |
Attention is drawn to the following places, which may be of interest for search:
Stacking one article or groups of articles upon another before packaging |
This place covers:
This group covers the packaging pills or tablets in containers or receptacles and in a blister web.
Attention is drawn to the following places, which may be of interest for search:
Checking correctness of packaged medicine, such as tablets, capsules, or the like, with optical means | |
Assembling and dispensing pharmaceutical articles in a coin-freed apparatus (i.e. vending machine) |
Packaging pills or tablets in a blister web are additionally classified in B65B 9/045 or B65B 11/52 according to the method in which the blister-web is produced.
Attention is drawn to the following places, which may be of interest for search:
Arranging and feeding separate articles by grippers | |
Arranging and feeding articles in groups by grippers | |
Grippers in general | |
Grippers for transferring articles to/from/between conveyors |
Attention is drawn to the following places, which may be of interest for search:
Guides or funnels for introducing articles into containers or wrappers |
Attention is drawn to the following places, which may be of interest for search:
Filling into individual containers | |
Packaging under special atmospheric or gaseous conditions | |
Conditioning packages in combination with closing/sealing containers | |
Securing package folds or closures, securing necks of bags | |
Shrinking wrappers containers or container covers | |
Sterilisation of packages or package contents | |
Control | |
Machine modularity/adaptability | |
Closing boxes or bags independently from packaging operations see |
Attention is drawn to the following places, which may be of interest for search:
Sealing of bags by generating heat or pressure |
Attention is drawn to the following places, which may be of interest for search:
Devices for gathering or twisting wrappers, or necks of bags |
Attention is drawn to the following places, which may be of interest for search:
Heating tube ends to facilitate their sealing | |
Details of tools for joining the tube end by welding plastics materials | B29C66/463123 |
Examples of places where the subject matter of this place is covered when specially adapted, used for a particular purpose, or incorporated in a larger system:
Closing metal cans or tins by metal-working operations |
Attention is drawn to the following places, which may be of interest for search:
B65B 7/16 does not cover the closing of metal containers with metal closures nor the closing of metal containers using purely metal-working operations, which are both covered by B21D 51/2653. Classification is done in both places for example when a filled non-metal container is covered by a metal closure using metal-working operations.
Attention is drawn to the following places, which may be of interest for search:
Filling ampoules | |
Scoring ampoules | |
Applying plugs or stoppers to filled syringes |
This place covers:
The closing of containers by feeding web material across the open container and securing it thereto.
Attention is drawn to the following places, which may be of interest for search:
Machines incorporating means for making the container | |
Making of container by forming pockets in a lower sheet or web to which the web is fed for securing is classified in the relevant subgroups of | |
Cutting of web |
Attention is drawn to the following places, which may be of interest for search:
Devices for applying or generating heat | |
Joining thermoplastic materials by heat in general |
Attention is drawn to the following places, which may be of interest for search:
Devices for heat shrinking |
This place does not cover:
Applying separate securing members, e.g. clips, staples, adhesive tape, stitches |
Attention is drawn to the following places, which may be of interest for search:
Feeding of auto-adhesives by labelling machines |
This place covers:
The application of plugs or stoppers to filled syringes.
This place does not cover:
Bottles or jars |
This place does not cover:
Securing closures on containers in general |
Attention is drawn to the following places, which may be of interest for search:
Securing package folds or closures, securing necks of bags |
Examples of places where the subject matter of this place is covered when specially adapted, used for a particular purpose, or incorporated in a larger system:
Forming the circumferential seam of a metal can by deformation |
B65B 7/285 does not cover the closing of metal containers with metal closures, which is covered by B21D 51/30. Classification is done in both places for example when a filled non-metal container is covered by a metal closure using metal-working operations.
Attention is drawn to the following places, which may be of interest for search:
Applying adhesive tape for securing package folds or package closures | |
Details of tools for joining plastic material by applying adhesive tape | |
Adhesive tape dispensers |
Attention is drawn to the following places, which may be of interest for search:
Devices for applying adhesives or sealing liquids | |
Details of gluing tools |
Attention is drawn to the following places, which may be of interest for search:
Devices for applying or generating heat | |
Joining plastics by heating in general |
Attention is drawn to the following places, which may be of interest for search:
Devices for heat shrinking |
This place covers:
Packaging successive articles or quantities of material in webs of flexible sheet material. The typical form fill seal machines (FFS) are classified here. "Successive" in the title should be understood such, that packaging of the next article or material in-line is started before the packaging of the present article is brought to an end. The present packaged article is normally not separated from the web before the next article is enclosed therein.
Attention is drawn to the following places, which may be of interest for search:
Enclosing articles in strips, sheets, blanks or webs of flexible material by wrapping | |
Packages for surgical instruments | |
Making cushion pads or dunnage products from paper or film | |
Fixing semiconductor or solid state devices or parts thereof (e.g. wafers) on specially adapted carriers | |
Loading electric components into containers during manufacture of printed circuits |
Operations like filling, inserting, enclosing of material into webs of flexible material that are employed in the manufacture of a wrapping material as such, are not considered to be enclosing in the meaning of B65B 9/00 and covered by the appropriate subclasses, e.g. making dunnage or cushion pads B31D 5/0039.
In this main group, the following features are additionally classified in the following places:
Packaging special articles | |
Conditioning packages | |
Feeding webs | |
Securing package folds or closures | |
Shrinking wrappers containers or container covers | |
Sterilisation of packages or package contents | |
Control | |
Machine modularity/adaptability | |
Operations on the web | |
Details of machines | |
Packaging special material |
Attention is drawn to the following places, which may be of interest for search:
Manufacturing absorbent pads, e.g. sanitary towels |
Attention is drawn to the following places, which may be of interest for search:
Forming tool details for thermoforming plastic materials are classified in |
In this group and its subgroups the tool detail rotary pocket former is also given the classification |
In this place, the following terms or expressions are used with the meaning indicated:
Fluent | liquid or gas or granular or pulverulent |
This place covers:
Blister packages where the pockets are formed before insertion of the articles.
This place does not cover:
Blister packs formed around articles |
In this group and its subgroups the detail forming shoulder is additionally given the classification B65B 2009/063
If the document discloses both continuous and intermittent operation, classification is done in both B65B 9/067 and B65B 9/073
If the document discloses both continuous and intermittent operation, classification is done in both B65B 9/067 and B65B 9/073
If the document discloses both continuous and intermittent operation, classification is done in both B65B 9/087 and B65B 9/093
If the document discloses both continuous and intermittent operation, classification is done in both B65B 9/087 and B65B 9/093
Examples of places where the subject matter of this place is covered when specially adapted, used for a particular purpose, or incorporated in a larger system:
Sausage filling or stuffing machines |
This place does not cover:
Distending tubes that are to be applied to bottles |
Attention is drawn to the following places, which may be of interest for search:
Evacuating, gassifying, or pressurising in combination with filling |
Packages of special shape are also classified in B65B 9/2056 or B65B 9/2063. Examples of packages classified in B65B 9/2056 comprise for instance pyramide bags, bags with double chambers and bags with varying cross-sections.
Packages produced with an apparatus/method of this subgroup(s) and which are additionally packaged into a further container are also classified in the Indexing Codes of B65B 2220/16.
This place covers:
Heated belts, heated rollers.
Attention is drawn to the following places, which may be of interest for search:
Structural features of longitudinal welding devices |
Attention is drawn to the following places, which may be of interest for search:
Tube formers | |
Guiding of the web by rollers before the tube is formed |
Rollers for guiding and for forming tubes are classified both here and in B65B 9/22
This place covers:
Spreading devices.
Gusset tucking devices.
Creation of additional edge welds after forming of tube for giving the package more stability.
This place covers:
Folding in corners
Rotary forming devices, etc.
This place does not cover:
Means for stripping to remove air or products from sealing area | |
If shaping takes place after cutting the container off, e.g. reshaping completed packages |
If document discloses both continuous and intermittent operation, classification is done in both B65B 9/213 and B65B 9/207
If document discloses both continuous and intermittent operation, classification is done in both B65B 9/213 and B65B 9/207
If tube is formed by rollers, then classification B65B 9/2035 is also given.
If document shows a form fill seal (FFS) machine then classification is also done in B65B 9/207 and/or B65B 9/213 or B65B 9/20
This place covers:
Two main aspects:
- Wrapping by application of a web in (several) layers onto the articles or quantities of material, the web not necessarily being a pre-cut strip, sheet or blank;
- Packaging in (cut off) strips sheets and blanks of flexible material applied around the articles or quantities of material.
The first aspect is covered by subgroups B65B 11/006, B65B 11/008, B65B 11/02 and B65B 11/04.
The second aspect is covered by subgroups B65B 11/004, B65B 11/06, B65B 11/48, B65B 11/50, B65B 11/54, B65B 11/56 and B65B 11/58.
This place does not cover:
Bundling articles by applying narrow strips or bands of flexible material |
Attention is drawn to the following places, which may be of interest for search:
Cartons pre-formed adjacent to the article, the article subsequently being inserted into the pre-formed carton | |
Enclosing successive articles or materials in flexible webs | |
Devices for folding or bending wrappers around contents | |
Devices for gathering or twisting wrappers | |
Shaping webs or sheets by stretching |
The following features are additionally classified in the following places:
Packaging bottles B65B 21/00
Packaging special articles B65B 25/00
Conditioning packages B65B 31/00
Feeding webs B65B 41/00
Devices for folding or bending wrappers around contents B65B 49/00
Details of securing package folds or closures B65B 51/00 .
Shrinking wrappers containers or container covers B65B 53/00 .
Sterilisation of packages or package contents B65B 55/00.
Control B65B 57/00.
Machine modularity/adaptability B65B 59/00
Operations on the web B65B 61/00.
Details of machines B65B 65/00.
Attention is drawn to the following places, which may be of interest for search:
Folding blanks around a mandrel to create a container see | |
Devices for folding or bending wrappers around contents |
Documents classified here are additionally classified in B65B 11/06 and its subgroups, provided they apply.
Documents classified here are additionally classified in B65B 2210/14 and its subgroups, provided they apply.
In this place, the following terms or expressions are used with the meaning indicated:
Roping | gathering the flat web into a rope, which is applied helically around the object or to finish the wrapping operation. |
This place covers:
Helicoidal wrapping, the article being moved:
JP2002225807
This place does not cover:
Helicoidal wrapping around stationary or merely rotating articles |
Documents classified here are additionally classified in B65B 2210/14 and its subgroups, provided they apply.
This place does not cover:
Wrapping articles by doubling a wrapper and securing its opposed free margins to enclose contents | |
Wrapping articles by disposing contents between two sheets and securing their opposed free margins |
Attention is drawn to the following places, which may be of interest for search:
Covering or wrapping cores by winding webs, tapes, or filamentary material |
This place covers:
WO2006050440 Rotary arm type
EP1471004 stationary ring type, the dispenser alone moving along the ring
EP1705119 rotary ring type
Documents classified here are additionally classified in B65B 2210/14 and its subgroups, provided they apply.
Examples of places where the subject matter of this place is covered when specially adapted, used for a particular purpose, or incorporated in a larger system:
Wrapping devices for individual bales of straw, hay or the like, in particular as part of a bailing press |
This place covers:
the conveying of wrapper and article along common paths.
Emphasis is put on the word common, meaning the path taken by the article from the point where it first touches the wrapper.
Examples:
- The article is conveyed along a straight path and pushed into a seat of a wrapping machine - this would be a common straight path whereby the wrapper is folded around the article.
- The article is conveyed along a straight path and pushed into a seat of a wrapping machine, the wrapping machine subsequently completing the wrapping of the article along a different straight direction than the first straight path -this would be a two straight paths taken by wrapper and article.
- The wrapper with the article undergo a folding operation along the rotary path of a turret - this would be a common curved path taken by the article and wrapper.
- A wrapping operation comprising both a straight path and a curved path would be a combination of straight and curved paths.
This place does not cover:
Wrapping of coins |
Articles wrapped in preformed blanks, e.g. blanks precut and creased for
Folding, are additionally classified in |
Attention is drawn to the following places, which may be of interest for search:
Wrapping bottles |
Attention is drawn to the following places, which may be of interest for search:
Wrapping bottles |
Attention is drawn to the following places, which may be of interest for search:
Twisting devices |
Attention is drawn to the following places, which may be of interest for search:
Twisting devices |
Attention is drawn to the following places, which may be of interest for search:
Twisting devices |
Attention is drawn to the following places, which may be of interest for search:
Twisting devices |
This place covers:
Blister packs formed around the articles by two sheets
Attention is drawn to the following places, which may be of interest for search:
Enclosing successive articles in blister packages where the pockets are formed in one or both of two opposed webs | |
Packaging articles by applying removable, e.g. strippable coatings, for example by spraying or dipping or by use of curtain coaters |
Attention is drawn to the following places, which may be of interest for search:
Flexible brushes or diaphragms to bend wrapper around contents | |
Twisting the end of the wrapper |
Examples of places where the subject matter of this place is covered when specially adapted, used for a particular purpose, or incorporated in a larger system:
For bottles |
Examples of places where the subject matter of this place is covered when specially adapted, used for a particular purpose, or incorporated in a larger system:
Bundling particular articles presenting special problems using string, wire, or narrow tape or band | |
Specially adapted for harvesting |
Attention is drawn to the following places, which may be of interest for search:
Straining wire in general | |
Connecting wire to wire in general | |
Securing cargo in vehicles |
Bundling special articles are additionally classified in the relevant subgroups of B65B 27/00
Examples of places where the subject matter of this place is covered when specially adapted, used for a particular purpose, or incorporated in a larger system:
Tying devices in bailing presses | |
Applying reinforcing means to non-metal sleepers |
Examples of places where the subject matter of this place is covered when specially adapted, used for a particular purpose, or incorporated in a larger system:
Hand tools for applying strapping material on building sites |
Elongated bars for manually guiding a strap underneath a pallet are additionally to be classified in B65B 13/08
This place covers:
E.g. a buckle.
Attention is drawn to the following places, which may be of interest for search:
Securing ends of binding material by applying separate securing members | |
Applying hose clamps |
Guides in the form of elongated bars for manual guidance under a pallet are additionally classified in B65B 13/025
This place covers:
bundling or wrapping
Attention is drawn to the following places, which may be of interest for search:
Labelling machines in general |
Attention is drawn to the following places, which may be of interest for search:
Tensioning load in cars and lorries |
Examples of places where the subject matter of this place is covered when specially adapted, used for a particular purpose, or incorporated in a larger system:
Hand held tools for twisting ends of strapping material on building sites |
Attention is drawn to the following places, which may be of interest for search:
Details of friction sealing tools |
Attention is drawn to the following places, which may be of interest for search:
Details of ultrasonic sealing tools |
Attention is drawn to the following places, which may be of interest for search:
Joining tools of hand held type |
Attention is drawn to the following places, which may be of interest for search:
Securing straps having integral preformed connecting means | |
Hand tools for crimping metal |
Attention is drawn to the following places, which may be of interest for search:
Adding cards or other inserts to package contents |
Attention is drawn to the following places, which may be of interest for search:
Cards for buttons, collar-studs, or sleeve-links |
This place does not cover:
Packaging ammunition using cartridge belts |
Examples of places where the subject matter of this place is covered when specially adapted, used for a particular purpose, or incorporated in a larger system:
Placing of electric components on belts holding the terminals |
This place covers:
This main group covers all packaging machines, apparatus or methods that are not covered by any other of the B65B main groups.
This place does not cover:
Bundling cans |
This place covers:
Packaging finished cigarettes, cigars and other rod-shaped articles
Attention is drawn to the following places, which may be of interest for search:
Packaging tobacco in bags (snus) | |
Manufacture or preparation of tobacco for smoking, the making of the cigarette and the making of chewing tobacco (snuff) | |
Final treatment of cigars or cigarettes after manufacture |
Attention is drawn to the following places, which may be of interest for search:
Auxiliary devices for drying glued or sealed packages |
Attention is drawn to the following places, which may be of interest for search:
Withdrawal of successive layers from a hopper using a pocketed conveyor |
This place covers:
Everything about "collars"
Attention is drawn to the following places, which may be of interest for search:
Cigarette boxes having hinged lids |
Attention is drawn to the following places, which may be of interest for search:
Feeding blanks in general |
Attention is drawn to the following places, which may be of interest for search:
Control devices of general application in packaging machines |
Attention is drawn to the following places, which may be of interest for search:
Examining cigarettes not in combination with packaging | |
Optical inspection of external surface of cylindrical bodies for the presence of flaws or contamination |
Attention is drawn to the following places, which may be of interest for search:
Bundling rod-shaped articles |
This place does not cover:
Bundling bottles |
Attention is drawn to the following places, which may be of interest for search:
Joining bottles directly to each other e.g. by glueing |
Documents classified in this main group should additionally be classified in the relevant subgroups of:
Attention is drawn to the following places, which may be of interest for search:
Introducing bottles into cases via centering devices or grids |
Attention is drawn to the following places, which may be of interest for search:
Arranging, assembling, feeding or orientating of articles to be packaged in general | |
Arranging, feeding, transferring or orientating of articles in association with conveyors are classified in the relevant subgroups of |
This place does not cover:
Picking up and depositing groups of bottles for filling the container in a single step |
Attention is drawn to the following places, which may be of interest for search:
Arranging and feeding bottles in groups by grippers | |
Grippers in general | |
Devices for picking-up and depositing articles in combination with conveyors |
This place does not cover:
Picking up and depositing single bottles and progressively filling/emptying a container with several groups of bottles is classified in |
Attention is drawn to the following places, which may be of interest for search:
Arranging and feeding bottles in groups by grippers | |
Grippers in general | |
Devices for picking-up and depositing articles in general |
This place covers:
Inflatable grippers for engaging bottle necks in combination with packaging
Attention is drawn to the following places, which may be of interest for search:
Inflatable grippers for picking up and depositing articles in combination with conveying |
This place covers:
Wrapping bottles with cardboard which has holes for the bottle necks.
Documents classified in B65B 21/24 and its subgroups are also classified in the relevant subgroups of B65B 9/00 or B65B 11/00
Attention is drawn to the following places, which may be of interest for search:
Machines incorporating means for making the containers from preform blanks | |
Feeding carton blanks | |
Erecting or setting up carton blanks |
This place covers:
Enclosing one or several bottles into a wrapper.
This place does not cover:
Applying wrappers to individual bottles by operations involving rotation or rolling of the bottles |
Attention is drawn to the following places, which may be of interest for search:
Enclosing bottles in narrow bands, i.e. bundling | |
Labelling by placing tubular labels around the container |
The application of sleeves to bottles is considered to be labelling B65C 3/065.
Attention is drawn to the following places, which may be of interest for search:
To articles in general | |
Straw-made wrappers |
This place does not cover:
Embedding articles in shock-absorbing media |
Attention is drawn to the following places, which may be of interest for search:
Fixing semiconductor or solid state devices or parts thereof (e.g. wafers) on specially adapted carriers | |
Loading electric components into containers during manufacture of printed circuits |
Documents classified in this main group should additionally be classified in the relevant subgroups of:
- B65B 9/00 and/or B65B 11/00
Attention is drawn to the following places, which may be of interest for search:
Testing, sorting or cleaning of eggs | |
Preservation of eggs |
Attention is drawn to the following places, which may be of interest for search:
Arranging, feeding or orientating of articles to be packaged in general | |
Arranging, feeding, transferring or orientating of articles in association with conveyors in general |
Attention is drawn to the following places, which may be of interest for search:
Testing, sorting or cleaning eggs | |
Transferring eggs to an inoculation machine | |
Egg grippers for cooking purposes |
Attention is drawn to the following places, which may be of interest for search:
Arranging, feeding or orientating of articles to be packaged in general | |
Arranging and feeding biscuits in connection with baking |
Attention is drawn to the following places, which may be of interest for search:
Bundling of bricks or other building blocks | |
Measures for preventing damage to stacked glass sheets |
This place does not cover:
Bundling |
Attention is drawn to the following places, which may be of interest for search:
Packages for surgical instruments |
Documents classified in this main group should additionally be classified in the relevant subgroups of:
B65B 9/00 and/or - B65B 11/00
Attention is drawn to the following places, which may be of interest for search:
Adding desiccant to the package, see also | |
Packaging under special atmospheric conditions | |
Preserving, protecting or purifying packages or package contents in association with packaging | |
General methods for preserving meat, sausages, fish or fish products | |
Preservation of fruits and vegetables | |
Preservation of edible seeds | |
Preservation of foods or foodstuffs, in general | |
Packages specially adapted herefor |
This place covers:
Packaging of all kind of information carriers (CD's,DVD's,videos,etc.)
Attention is drawn to the following places, which may be of interest for search:
CD cases |
Attention is drawn to the following places, which may be of interest for search:
Apparatus for measuring, weighing or wrapping of chocolate or candies |
Attention is drawn to the following places, which may be of interest for search:
Filling ice-cream into containers |
Attention is drawn to the following places, which may be of interest for search:
Immersing lenses in protective liquids | |
Contact lens cases | |
Moulding of contact lenses | |
Making of optical lenses |
This place does not cover:
Packaging tobacco |
This place covers:
Packaging fruit and vegetables in trays.
Examples of places where the subject matter of this place is covered when specially adapted, used for a particular purpose, or incorporated in a larger system:
Bag or sack filling devices associated with digging harvesters |
Attention is drawn to the following places, which may be of interest for search:
Applying stretch film over trays |
Attention is drawn to the following places, which may be of interest for search:
Adding desiccant to the package, see also |
This place does not cover:
Packaging fruit and vegetables in trays |
Attention is drawn to the following places, which may be of interest for search:
Adding desiccant to the package, see also |
This place does not cover:
Extrusion combined with cutting and packaging (e.g. butter) |
Attention is drawn to the following places, which may be of interest for search:
Packaging under special atmospheric conditions | |
Preserving, protecting or purifying packages or package contents in association with packaging |
This place does not cover:
Sausage making |
Attention is drawn to the following places, which may be of interest for search:
Packaging under special atmospheric conditions | |
Preserving, protecting or purifying packages or package contents in association with packaging |
Attention is drawn to the following places, which may be of interest for search:
Slicing machines with inter-leavers for stacked slices |
This place does not cover:
Inserting (packaging) documents into envelopes |
Attention is drawn to the following places, which may be of interest for search:
Bundling paper or like sheets |
This place covers:
Examples of folded articles are: towels, napkins, diapers, absorbent articles in general
Attention is drawn to the following places, which may be of interest for search:
Devices for folding articles |
This place covers:
E.g. toilet or kitchen rolls.
This place covers:
E.g. applying covers at the ends of the rolls.
This place does not cover:
Applying tape on the paper roll |
Attention is drawn to the following places, which may be of interest for search:
Means for folding down the protruding parts of the wrapper onto the end faces of the roll |
This place covers:
Packaging bread in general, e.g. by wrapping.
Attention is drawn to the following places, which may be of interest for search:
Cutting or slicing machines or devices specially adapted for baked articles other than bread | |
For bread |
This place does not cover:
Packaging garments in combination with folding |
Attention is drawn to the following places, which may be of interest for search:
Folding of garments without packaging |
This place covers:
Edible articles
This place does not cover:
Packaging edible materials (i.e. powder/liquid) which are to be cooked/infused in the package |
Attention is drawn to the following places, which may be of interest for search:
Bundling annular objects |
In patent documents, the following words/expressions are often used as synonyms:
- "tyres" and "tires"
Attention is drawn to the following places, which may be of interest for search:
Bundling articles in general |
Documents classified in this main group should additionally be classified in the relevant subgroups of B65B 13/00
Attention is drawn to the following places, which may be of interest for search:
Packaging plate glass, tiles or shingles |
This place does not cover:
Joining cans directly to each other | |
Joining cans by top carrier element |
Attention is drawn to the following places, which may be of interest for search:
Wrapping bottles |
In cases where the cans or bottles are bundled together by a "top carrier element" in addition to a strap, classification B65B 17/025 is given in addition to B65B 27/04.
EP1886921
This place covers:
e.g. bundling of rolls of sheet metal
US5540142 Bundling through coil
US3662628 Bundling around coil
Attention is drawn to the following places, which may be of interest for search:
Packaging annular articles |
This place covers:
Bundling of banknotes
Attention is drawn to the following places, which may be of interest for search:
Packaging paper or like articles |
Attention is drawn to the following places, which may be of interest for search:
Packaging rods, sticks or like elongated objects |
Examples of places where the subject matter of this place is covered when specially adapted, used for a particular purpose, or incorporated in a larger system:
Bailing presses for straw, hay or the like |
Attention is drawn to the following places, which may be of interest for search:
Baling presses in general |
Bailing presses with integral bundling apparatus are classified both here and in B30B 9/30.
This place covers:
Packaging tobacco in bags (snus)
Attention is drawn to the following places, which may be of interest for search:
Packaging finished cigarettes, cigars and other rod-shaped articles | |
Manufacture or preparation of tobacco for smoking, the making of the cigarette and the making of chewing tobacco (snuff) |
Documents classified in this main group should additionally be classified in the relevant subgroups of:
B65B 9/00 and/or - B65B 11/00
In this place, the following terms or expressions are used with the meaning indicated:
Snus | snuff |
This place covers:
Procedures or methods for packaging of tea, coffee, herbs, etc. intended to be infused in the package.
Attention is drawn to the following places, which may be of interest for search:
Coffee making machines | |
Disposable containers that are infused, such as tea bags or coffee cartridges like Nespresso™ |
In this place, the following terms or expressions are used with the meaning indicated:
Capsule | a rigid package. |
Filter bag | a non-rigid package having loose contents. |
Pod | a non-rigid package having compressed contents and possibly rigid inserts. |
This place covers:
Edible materials, i.e. in powder or liquid form.
This place does not cover:
Packaging edible articles that are to be cooked in the package |
Attention is drawn to the following places, which may be of interest for search:
Packaging two different substances not isolated from each-other | |
More component mortars | |
Grouting cartridges |
This place covers:
E.g. the deaeration of packages with mechanical means (e.g. compressing package before sealing).
Attention is drawn to the following places, which may be of interest for search:
Gas treatment of milk products, e.g. milk powder | |
Milk preparations containing gases | |
Auxiliary treatments during loading or unloading of large container and the like; Loading or unloading of large containers in a fluid medium other than air |
This place covers:
Everything concerning the filling and refilling of aerosols.
B65B 31/003 includes the filling of any liquid to an aerosol container the liquid does not specifically have to be the propellant because the propellant is implicitly added at one stage or another to the aerosol.
Attention is drawn to the following places, which may be of interest for search:
Aerosol containers per se |
Pressurisation by nozzle cooperating with a check valve is additionally classified in B65B 31/047.
In patent documents, the following words/expressions are often used as synonyms:
- "aerosol container" and "spray can"
This place covers:
Fluids including cryogenic fluids.
Attention is drawn to the following places, which may be of interest for search:
Package under superatmospheric pressure |
This place covers:
Evacuating, pressurising or gasifiying a container or wrapper completely enclosed in a chamber.
Attention is drawn to the following places, which may be of interest for search:
Skin packaging | |
Laminar flow cabinets | |
Glove boxes |
Attention is drawn to the following places, which may be of interest for search:
Skin packaging |
If said lid is fed as a web to securing means, it is additionally to be classified in B65B 7/162.
This place covers:
The element "nozzle" is important for this group; otherwise it is classified in B65B 31/00
Attention is drawn to the following places, which may be of interest for search:
Evacuating, pressurising or gasifiying a container or wrapper completely enclosed in a chamber | |
Nozzles for introducing articles or materials into containers |
Additional aspects of vertical form fill seal (VFFS) machines are classified in the relevant subgroups of B65B 9/20
This place covers:
Bag evacuating and sealing apparatus devices whereby only a part of the bag is enclosed in the apparatus.
This place covers:
E.g. nozzles co-operating with the valve of an aerosol.
Attention is drawn to the following places, which may be of interest for search:
Pumps |
The details of sealing means are additionally classified in B65B 51/00.
Attention is drawn to the following places, which may be of interest for search:
Adding propellants in liquid form | |
Aerosol containers per se |
In patent documents, the following words/expressions are often used as synonyms:
- "aerosol container" and "spray can"
This place covers:
Applying a removable coating, for example by spraying, by dipping or by use of curtain coaters in order to package an article or material. Curtain coaters are apparatuses used for coating a product with a curtain of heated plastic material, i.e. with plastic material flowing down over the product in a plastic state.
This place does not cover:
Enclosing by disclosing contents between two sheets, one sheet being rendered plastic |
Examples of places where the subject matter of this place is covered when specially adapted, used for a particular purpose, or incorporated in a larger system:
Applying removable film, e.g. a peelable masking composition, onto a surface not to be coated |
Attention is drawn to the following places, which may be of interest for search:
Wrapping by feeding product to a curtain of web or sheet material, the material not being in the plastic state | |
Covering cheese e.g. with paraffin wax | |
Coating of foodstuffs with edible coatings | |
Coating of foodstuffs with non-edible coatings | |
Applying liquids or other fluent materials to surfaces in general | |
Apparatus for coating by immersing product in coating liquid in general | |
Curtain coaters in general | |
Lining or sheating with plastic foil by applying a provisional sheating, for example to screens or window panes | |
Lining or sheating with plastic foil, e.g. phones | |
Wrapping cores by winding | |
Applying wax to closed wine bottles | |
Coating compositions for coatings strippable as coherent films |
This place covers:
Applying removable protective films to mobile phones or other screens.
This place covers:
Supplying articles that are to be packaged
Examples of places where the subject matter of this place is covered when specially adapted, used for a particular purpose, or incorporated in a larger system:
Cigarettes | |
Bottles | |
Eggs | |
Biscuits |
Attention is drawn to the following places, which may be of interest for search:
Supplying powders or liquids to be packaged | |
Supplying, feeding containers to the filling position | |
Adjustable conveying means | |
If not restricted to packaging machines |
Attention is drawn to the following places, which may be of interest for search:
Devices for arranging articles or materials during feeding (rotating platform) | |
Separating single articles from loose masses of articles in general and not limited to packaging |
Attention is drawn to the following places, which may be of interest for search:
Orientating |
Attention is drawn to the following places, which may be of interest for search:
Orientating |
This place does not cover:
Stacking one article or groups of articles upon another directly in the packaging container |
Attention is drawn to the following places, which may be of interest for search:
Stacking, not in conjunction with subsequent wrapping | |
Special features of the stacking apparatus |
This place covers:
Building a stack from the bottom, by adding objects to the bottom of the stack.
GB616902
Attention is drawn to the following places, which may be of interest for search:
Stacking from below, not in conjunction with wrapping | |
Special features of the stacking apparatus |
Attention is drawn to the following places, which may be of interest for search:
Multiple parallel packaging lines | |
Plurality of alternative input or output lines for improving machine flexibility | |
Conveying from one conveyor to many conveyors and vice versa |
This place covers:
Orientation in a passive way
Attention is drawn to the following places, which may be of interest for search:
Devices for arranging articles or materials during feeding (rotating platform) |
This place covers:
Orientation in an active way
Attention is drawn to the following places, which may be of interest for search:
Devices for presenting articles in predetermined attitude or position at the labelling station, e.g. to receive the label |
This place covers:
Supplying powders or liquids that are to be packaged
Attention is drawn to the following places, which may be of interest for search:
Supplying articles | |
Silos | |
Emptying silos |
Attention is drawn to the following places, which may be of interest for search:
Methods or means for filling the material into containers or receptacles by screw type rotary feeders |
This place does not cover:
Attention is drawn to the following places, which may be of interest for search:
Weighing in general |
Attention is drawn to the following places, which may be of interest for search:
Sterilising or cleaning machinery or conduits | |
Funnels for coffee mills | |
Nozzles in general | |
Fuel tank nozzles | |
Funnels in general |
The following features are additionally classified in the following places:
Strainer means B65B 2039/008
Multiple outlets B65B 2039/009
Cleaning arrangements B65B 2210/08 .
This place does not cover:
Nozzles with flow cut-off means contained in bottling machines |
Attention is drawn to the following places, which may be of interest for search:
Filling individual containers with articles with article support means temporarily arranged in the container |
Attention is drawn to the following places, which may be of interest for search:
Making of bags | |
Supplying or feeding sheet-like material in general |
Attention is drawn to the following places, which may be of interest for search:
Changing the rolls |
This place covers:
The recognition of marks on the web and the control of the web-feed based on the mark.
Attention is drawn to the following places, which may be of interest for search:
Controlling web feed | |
Controlling transverse register of web |
The making of bags and the making and setting up boxes are additionally classified in the relevant subgroups of B31B.
This place does not cover:
Making the bags just before filling them, e.g. on the same machine |
Attention is drawn to the following places, which may be of interest for search:
Forming flat bags from individual sheets or blanks independently from packaging operations see |
This place does not cover:
Making the bags just before filling them, e.g. on the same machine |
Attention is drawn to the following places, which may be of interest for search:
Forming flat bags from webs independently from packaging operations see | |
Details of filled bags connected together |
Attention is drawn to the following places, which may be of interest for search:
Forming flat bags by joining superimposed webs independently from packaging operations see |
Attention is drawn to the following places, which may be of interest for search:
Making containers independently from packaging operations see the relevant groups of | B31B and its Indexing Codes |
Attention is drawn to the following places, which may be of interest for search:
Details of bags |
This place covers:
Mostly stacks of carton blanks
Examples of places where the subject matter of this place is covered when specially adapted, used for a particular purpose, or incorporated in a larger system:
Shopping bag or carton-dispensing systems specifically adapted for check-out counters | |
Shopping bag or paper bag holders for shops |
Attention is drawn to the following places, which may be of interest for search:
Separating thin articles from piles in general |
Prebreaking of creases |
Attention is drawn to the following places, which may be of interest for search:
Opening bags or boxes independently of packaging operations |
This place covers:
I.e. opening bags with air jets
Attention is drawn to the following places, which may be of interest for search:
Filling nozzles, funnels, guides |
Attention is drawn to the following places, which may be of interest for search:
Presses in general |
The wrapping operation is additionally classified in B65B 11/00
This place does not cover:
Twisting wrappers in combination with wrapping in sheets of flexible material along predefined paths | B65B 11/14, B65B 11/16, B65B 11/24, B65B 11/26, B65B 11/34, B65B 11/36, B65B 11/44, B65B 11/46 |
Attention is drawn to the following places, which may be of interest for search:
Closing containers after filling |
Attention is drawn to the following places, which may be of interest for search:
Activating adhesives by applying heat or pressure | |
Glues in general | |
Applying adhesives for joining preformed parts |
This place does not cover:
Applying separate closure clips on sausages |
This place covers:
e.g. applying clips around bread bags
Attention is drawn to the following places, which may be of interest for search:
Adhesive tape dispensers |
Attention is drawn to the following places, which may be of interest for search:
Manually operable apparatus for closing bag necks |
Attention is drawn to the following places, which may be of interest for search:
Closing plastic tube ends in general | |
Joining plastics by heating in general |
Heat seal temperature control is additionally classified in B65B 2051/105.
Attention is drawn to the following places, which may be of interest for search:
Heat-seal temperature control in general |
Attention is drawn to the following places, which may be of interest for search:
Joining tools reciprocating along only one axis |
This place covers:
The closing of the typical TETRA PAK container.
Attention is drawn to the following places, which may be of interest for search:
Joining tools of hand held type |
Attention is drawn to the following places, which may be of interest for search:
Joining tools moving with the material to be joined |
Attention is drawn to the following places, which may be of interest for search:
Joining tools moving with the material to be joined | |
Joining tools of band or belt type |
Attention is drawn to the following places, which may be of interest for search:
Details of joining tools |
This place covers:
Welding by laser for sealing or securing package closures.
Attention is drawn to the following places, which may be of interest for search:
Sonotrodes |
Attention is drawn to the following places, which may be of interest for search:
Details of friction sealing tools |
Attention is drawn to the following places, which may be of interest for search:
Details of ultrasonic sealing tools |
Attention is drawn to the following places, which may be of interest for search:
Details of induction sealing tools |
Attention is drawn to the following places, which may be of interest for search:
Single flanged edge joints |
Documents classified here are additionally classified in groups B65B 2220/08, B65B 2220/10 or B65B 2220/12, provided they apply.
Attention is drawn to the following places, which may be of interest for search:
Making flat seams in tubular articles in general | |
Joining tools moving with the material to be joined of roller/cylinder type | |
Joining tools of jaw type mounted on rollers/cylinders |
Attention is drawn to the following places, which may be of interest for search:
For subdividing filled tubes involving displacement of contents | |
Details of heated tools | |
Making flat seams in tubular articles in general |
This place covers:
devices moving according to box-motion.
Attention is drawn to the following places, which may be of interest for search:
Joining tools reciprocating along only one axis |
This place covers:
counter rotating devices along circular, oval or other paths
Attention is drawn to the following places, which may be of interest for search:
Joining tools moving with the material to be joined |
Attention is drawn to the following places, which may be of interest for search:
Cooling articles to be packaged | |
Cooling joints after joining thermoplastics in general |
Attention is drawn to the following places, which may be of interest for search:
Bundles of articles in shrink foil | |
Articles in shrink foil |
This place does not cover:
By packaging under special atmospheric or gaseous conditions | |
Devices for placing protecting sheets, plugs, or wads over contents |
Attention is drawn to the following places, which may be of interest for search:
Sterilising foodstuffs or beverages in general | |
Preserving, protecting or purifying in general (i.e. sterilising) | |
Apparatus for cleaning or sterilizing or needles | |
Preserving alcoholic beverages |
This place covers:
Sterilising of complete and incomplete packages
This place does not cover:
Aseptic filling of bottles |
This place does not cover:
Aseptic filling of bottles |
Attention is drawn to the following places, which may be of interest for search:
Laminar flow cabinets | |
Clean rooms with manipulators | |
Clean rooms in general |
This place covers:
Sterilising wrappers, or receptacles such as bags, cartons, cups, etc. Also sterilising of bottles as long as the sterilisation does not take place in combination with filling and/or closing of bottles.
This place does not cover:
Sterilising of bottles in combination with filling and/or closing of bottles, specially the mechanical details, e.g. conveying means, bottle carrying means, etc, and/or the combination with some form of subsequent process in a bottle filling line |
Attention is drawn to the following places, which may be of interest for search:
The sterilising of bottles which mainly concerns the sterilizing media, processes, treatment and the like |
Attention is drawn to the following places, which may be of interest for search:
Details of the sterilising apparatus |
Attention is drawn to the following places, which may be of interest for search:
Details of the sterilising apparatus |
Attention is drawn to the following places, which may be of interest for search:
Adding desiccant to the package, see also |
This place does not cover:
Embedding material applied only over contents |
Attention is drawn to the following places, which may be of interest for search:
Making cushion pads or dunnage products from paper or film |
Attention is drawn to the following places, which may be of interest for search:
Packaging of contact lenses |
Attention is drawn to the following places, which may be of interest for search:
Cleaning machinery or conduits if highly related to packaging | |
Cleaning machinery or conduits in general |
This place does not cover:
Registering wrapping or container-forming material |
Attention is drawn to the following places, which may be of interest for search:
Accident-prevention measures applicable for general use | |
Check of leak tightness | |
Check of material | |
Job scheduling, system modularity, factory control, machine resources, "recipe handling" | |
Photoelectric cells |
Examples of places where the subject matter of this place is covered when specially adapted, used for a particular purpose, or incorporated in a larger system:
Checking correctness of packaged medicine such as tablets, capsules, or the like, with optical means |
Attention is drawn to the following places, which may be of interest for search:
Counting the number of articles fed/produced without controlling the feed of articles |
This place covers:
Arrangements to enable machines
- to account for aspects of format change, specifically
- to handle articles of different sizes,
- to produce packages of different sizes,
- to vary the contents of packages, or
- to handle different types of packaging material,
- or to give access for cleaning or maintenance purposes.
Documents classified here are additionally classified in the indexing code B65B 2210/04 if relating to customised on-demand packaging.
This place covers:
Arrangements to enable adjustments of machines, wherein this adjustment is caused by a change in the product to be packaged.
This place covers:
Arrangements to enable adjustments of machines, wherein this adjustment is caused by a change in the packaging material.
This place covers:
Arrangements to enable machines
- to handle articles of different sizes,
- to produce packages of different sizes,
- to vary the contents of packages,
- to handle different types of packaging material, or
- to give access for cleaning or maintenance purposes
by means of adjustable conveying means, wherein the conveying means are configured for being adjustable in at least one structural aspect.
This place covers:
Arrangements to enable at least one adjustment to be made while the machine is running, i.e. without stopping (on-the-fly).
This place covers:
E.g. modular machines
This place covers:
devices and methods operating on the packaging material that are not covered by any other of the B65B main groups.
Attention is drawn to the following places, which may be of interest for search:
Miscellaneous auxiliary devices operating on articles or materials to be packaged and not otherwise provided for | |
Operations on sheets webs and blanks without a packaging operation taking place | |
Attaching accessories to blanks, webs, bags or boxes independently from packaging operations see the Indexing Codes of |
This place does not cover:
Removing packaging material to unpack articles or materials |
Attention is drawn to the following places, which may be of interest for search:
Removing waste material in combination with welding plastic material |
This place does not cover:
Perforating material prior to packaging | |
Severing/separating joined packages |
This place does not cover:
Making holes on films by laser beams, e.g. for vegetables |
In this place, the following terms or expressions are used with the meaning indicated:
Scoring | weakening material |
This place covers:
Applying marks on material prior to and during packaging, e.g. during heat sealing.
This place does not cover:
Printing onto bottles |
Attention is drawn to the following places, which may be of interest for search:
Marking or coding articles prior to packaging | |
Labelling and printing of labels |
This place does not cover:
Perforating strips of completed packages |
This place covers:
e.g. cutting by laser
Attention is drawn to the following places, which may be of interest for search:
Cutting webs along their longitudinal direction |
Attention is drawn to the following places, which may be of interest for search:
Driving gear herefor |
Attention is drawn to the following places, which may be of interest for search:
Applying tear strips or strings during the manufacture of boxes or bags see | |
Packages comprising tear strips/tapes |
Attention is drawn to the following places, which may be of interest for search:
Applying closure elements to bags or boxes independently from the packaging operations see |
Examples of places where the subject matter of this place is covered when specially adapted, used for a particular purpose, or incorporated in a larger system:
Attaching spouts to metal containers such as cans, tins or bottles |
Attention is drawn to the following places, which may be of interest for search:
Applying spouts to boxes or bags independently from the packaging operations |
Attention is drawn to the following places, which may be of interest for search:
Slide fastener details | |
Making bags having interengaging profile strips in general, i.e. independently from the packaging operation |
This place does not cover:
Adding unpacking elements |
Attention is drawn to the following places, which may be of interest for search:
Attaching articles to cards, sheets or other carriers | |
Adding desiccant to the package, see also | |
Devices for inserting documents into envelopes | |
Labelling | |
Adding insertions between pallet layers |
This place does not cover:
Embedding contents in shock absorbing media |
This place covers:
e.g. completely closed packages.
Attention is drawn to the following places, which may be of interest for search:
Shaping not yet completed packages on form fill seal (FFS) |
Attention is drawn to the following places, which may be of interest for search:
Printing in general | |
Coding by applying a label (labelling) | |
Advertisement |
This place covers:
All devices and methods operating on the article/material to be packaged that are not covered by any other of the B65B main groups.
Attention is drawn to the following places, which may be of interest for search:
Miscellaneous auxiliary devices operating on sheets, blanks, webs, binding material, or packages, and not otherwise provided for |
Attention is drawn to the following places, which may be of interest for search:
Applying code or date marks on packaging material prior to packaging |
Attention is drawn to the following places, which may be of interest for search:
For compressing an article in a package in order to remove air from the package (deaerating) see | |
Presses for tabletting or compressing of powders |
This place covers:
E.g. feeding through converging belts.
Attention is drawn to the following places, which may be of interest for search:
Folding or winding webs or filamentary material in general | |
Folding textile articles not in connection with packaging |
This place covers:
Packaging garments in combination with folding.
Attention is drawn to the following places, which may be of interest for search:
Packaging folded articles other than garments | |
Folding of garments without packaging |
Attention is drawn to the following places, which may be of interest for search:
Cooling package closures after heat sealing |
This place covers:
All details of the packaging machine that are not covered by any other of the B65B main groups.
This place covers:
Packaging lines of special shape, space reducing layouts, etc.
Attention is drawn to the following places, which may be of interest for search:
Feeding articles along multiple lines to single packaging position | |
Plurality of alternative input or output or alternative packaging units | |
Related to sealing plastic material |
Attention is drawn to the following places, which may be of interest for search:
Drives for cutting stations | |
Drives for thermoforming stations | |
Drives for sealing stations for joining plastics | |
Presses in general |
This place covers:
treating with a anti-friction material as well as with a friction enhancing material
Examples of places where the subject matter of this place is covered when specially adapted, used for a particular purpose, or incorporated in a larger system:
Counting, sorting and wrapping coins |
Examples of places in relation to which this place is residual:
Controlling the number of articles fed by counting them |
Attention is drawn to the following places, which may be of interest for search:
Counting in general |
This place covers:
Manual packaging operations as well as sack holders for both manual and automatic packaging operations.
Attention is drawn to the following places, which may be of interest for search:
Devices for closing bag necks |
Attention is drawn to the following places, which may be of interest for search:
Manual strapping of articles |
Attention is drawn to the following places, which may be of interest for search:
Constructional details of packaging material holders for coiled, wound or folded material |
This place does not cover:
Nozzles, funnels or guides adapted to support sacks |
Attention is drawn to the following places, which may be of interest for search:
Sack holders on hand carts | |
Refuse receptacles | |
Laundry bags and supports |
Attention is drawn to the following places, which may be of interest for search:
Means for gathering, closing or sealing sacks |
Attention is drawn to the following places, which may be of interest for search:
Shopping bag holders on check-out counters | |
Shopping bag holders per se, not in combination with means for supporting bag in open condition | |
Refuse receptacles with spare bags |
Attention is drawn to the following places, which may be of interest for search:
Preformed tubular webs stored on filling nozzles | |
Refuse receptacles with means for storing bags |
Attention is drawn to the following places, which may be of interest for search:
Refuse receptacles with sealing means |
Examples of places in relation to which this place is residual:
Unpacking bottles | |
Containers for transporting blister-packs comprising means for dispensing articles, e.g. tablets therefrom | |
Hand or power-operated devices not attached to, or not incorporated in, containers or container closures for opening closed containers such as bottles, jars, cans and similar containers |
Attention is drawn to the following places, which may be of interest for search:
Inhalators comprising devices for breaking, piercing or cutting capsules | |
Separating waste/refuse | |
Destroying/transforming solid waste; Removing gases or liquids from discarded articles, e.g. aerosols | |
Devices for opening envelopes |
Attention is drawn to the following places, which may be of interest for search:
Hand held metal wire cutters for shearing metal wire | |
Hand held cutting tools |
This place covers:
The cutting open of boxes with power-operated devices.
Cutting open of bags, wrappers, and coin wrappers, apart from hand-operated devices covered by B67B 7/30.
This place does not cover:
Opening or contents-removing devices added or incorporated during package manufacture |
Examples of places in relation to which this place is residual:
Pliable tubular containers with auxiliary devices for expelling contents | |
Large containers with deformable internal walls facilitating emptying |
Attention is drawn to the following places, which may be of interest for search:
Crushing, pulverising or desintegrating in general | |
Dispensers for silicon type cartridges | |
Presses for squeezing liquid from for ex. fruit |
This place covers:
For example, pressing tablets from a blister as long as the apparatus for opening does not form part of a container for storing the blister-pack.
Attention is drawn to the following places, which may be of interest for search:
Disposal of medical waste | |
Containers for storing a blister-package with special means for dispensing tablets from a blister web |
Examples of places in relation to which this place is residual:
Emptying large containers with use of heat |
Attention is drawn to the following places, which may be of interest for search:
Heating and cooling of liquids to be transferred |
Attention is drawn to the following places, which may be of interest for search:
Flexible large containers | |
Means facilitating the emptying of large containers | |
Methods or devices for emptying bunkers, hoppers, tanks | |
Preventing escape of dust |
In this place, the following terms or expressions are used with the meaning indicated:
FIBC | big bag |
Attention is drawn to the following places, which may be of interest for search:
Feeding along multiple lines to single packaging position | |
Multiple parallel packaging lines |
Attention is drawn to the following places, which may be of interest for search:
Volumetric dosing of several products into an individual container | |
Packaging two substances isolated from each-other but capable of being mixed in the package without opening the package |
Attention is drawn to the following places, which may be of interest for search:
Such containers as such |