CPC Definition - Subclass C14B
This place covers:
Methods and apparatuses for the mechanical treatment or processing of skins, hides or leather in general and furs
Pelt-shearing machines
Intestine-splitting machine
This place does not cover:
Attention is drawn to the following places, which may be of interest for search:
Footwear made of animal fibres | |
Making leather substitutes by plastic moulding processes B29, e.g. | |
Making articles from leather | |
Artificial leather |
In this place, the following terms or expressions are used with the meaning indicated:
Pelt | the skin of an animal with the fur, wool or hair still on it. |
This place covers:
Methods and machines for manufacturing leather. The machines can be in combination with other machines such as machines used for punching holes in belts, however such specific machines should be also classified for example in C14B 5/04
If the machine is clearly a machine for working leather, though leather per se may not be specifically mentioned, it should also be classified here. However, no machines should be classified here which are merely suitable to work leather, but not specially adapted to do so.
Attention is drawn to the following places, which may be of interest for search:
Surface finishing of leather by chemical treatment | |
Special processes of dyeing leather |
In this place, the following terms or expressions are used with the meaning indicated:
Buffing, fluffing and sanding | are all abrasive treatments. |
Attention is drawn to the following places, which may be of interest for search:
Ornamentation shoe part blanks | |
Working leather by laser beam | |
Inking and printing with a printer's forme on leather | |
Process for producing decorative surface effects in general | |
Removing surface-material, e.g. by engraving, by etching, by laser radiation in general | |
Chemical surface finishing of leather | |
Dyeing leather |
This place covers:
methods and apparatuses for milling leather.
In this place, the following terms or expressions are used with the meaning indicated:
Milling | is a process wherein the leather is rotated in a machine, comparable to a large clothes dryer just with the absence of air and heat. Through the soft falling action the natural fine lines in the leather are intensified. |
This place covers:
methods and apparatuses for clicking, perforating or cutting leather.
Attention is drawn to the following places, which may be of interest for search:
Working leather by laser beam | |
Removing surface-material, e.g. by engraving, by etching, by laser radiation for producing decorative surface effects in general |
In this place, the following terms or expressions are used with the meaning indicated:
Clicking | die cutting of leather. |
This place covers:
special leathers, methods and apparatuses for manufacturing special leathers, e.g. leather composites, fish skin leather, snake leather, powdered leather.
Attention is drawn to the following places, which may be of interest for search:
Layered products comprising leather |
This place covers:
methods and apparatuses for making driving belts or other leather belts or strips.
This place covers:
methods and apparatuses for finishing the edges of leather pieces, e.g. by folding, by burning.
This place does not cover:
Folding the edges of covers in manufacturing bookbinding cases or covers of loose-leaf binders |
Attention is drawn to the following places, which may be of interest for search:
Ornamenting the sole bottoms in footwear, e.g. finishing the edges of soles | |
Machines for burnishing the edges of soles |
This place covers:
methods and apparatuses for shredding hides or leather.
Attention is drawn to the following places, which may be of interest for search:
Shredding in general |
In this place, the following terms or expressions are used with the meaning indicated:
Shredding | cutting or tearing in small pieces. In case of leather the shredded particles are usually used to make leather composites with a binder. |
This place covers:
methods and apparatuses for mechanical treatment of furs.
This place does not cover:
Ornamenting, producing designs, embossing in leather |
In this place, the following terms or expressions are used with the meaning indicated:
Pointing furs | relates to a method whereby the furs are made by setting light coloured hairs in the fur skin. |
This place covers:
details of apparatus or machines for manufacturing or treating skins, hides, leather, or furs.
This place covers:
hand tools specially adapted for the treatment of hides, skins, or leather in the manufacture of leather and furs.
This place covers:
methods and apparatuses for splitting intestines or cutting intestines longitudinally.
This place does not cover:
Cleaning or cutting intestines during processing meat |
This place covers:
subject matter not provided for in the preceding groups of this subclass.