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| Class 53 | PACKAGE MAKING |
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![[List of Pre Grant Publications for class 53 subclass 394]](../as.gif) | ![[List of Patents for class 53 subclass 394]](../ps.gif) | 394 | MATCHBOOK MAKING |
| | 396 | METHODS |
| | 397 |  Applying a partial cover |
| | 400 | With adsorption or absorption of contents |
| | 401 | With nonreactive packaging materials |
| | 402 | With inhibitor |
| | 403 | Gas filling and/or evacuating and closing |
| | 404 |  With solder or wax sealing |
| | 405 | Evacuating only and closing |
| | 406 | With gas igniting |
| | 407 | With steam filling |
| | 408 | Including evacuating |
| | 409 | Annular package |
| | 410 | Forming a cover adjunct or application of a cover adjunct to a cover |
| | 411 | Printing or protective coating |
| | 412 | Package opening device (e.g., tear strip) |
| | 413 | Handle |
| | 414 | Binding string |
| | 415 | Strip, stamp, nonencircling label, or space filler |
| | 416 | Fastening or sealing |
| | 417 |  Applying the fastener to a gathered bag neck (e.g., staple or clip) |
| | 418 | Sewing |
| | 419 | Encircling sealing strip (e.g., adhesive tape) |
| | 420 | For preformed receptacle with separate closure |
| | 425 | Sterilizing complete package |
| | 426 | Sterilizing cover only |
| | 427 | Skin packaging (e.g., vacuum forming by conforming cover over contents) |
| | 428 | With contents treating |
| | 429 | Folding |
| | 430 | Winding |
| | 431 | Liquid treating |
| | 432 | Vacuum or gas treating |
| | 435 | Cutting |
| | 436 | Compacting or stretching |
| | 440 | Heating or cooling |
| | 441 | Conforming by stretching or shrinking of cover over contents |
| | 443 | Group forming of contents into a unit |
| | 444 | Of slender rod-shaped contents (e.g., cigarette) |
| | 445 | Of diverse contents (e.g., can and coupon) |
| | 446 | With orienting (e.g., turning labels face out) |
| | 447 | Stacking upon another before packaging |
| | 448 | Single layer forming |
| | 449 | Plural covers |
| | 450 | Enclosing contents within progressively formed web means |
| | 452 | Forming or partial forming a receptacle and subsequent filling |
| | 453 | Forming a pocket or depression in cover material by applying heat or pressure (e.g., stretch forming) |
| | 455 | Making a pocket in web material by folding and side sealing (e.g., flat bag making) |
| | 456 | Forming three-dimensional receptacle from web or blank |
| | 457 | Opening or setting up collapsed, preformed receptacle |
| | 460 | Envelope or triangular flap fold |
| | 461 | Wrapping contents including cover forming |
| | 462 | With slotted or scored wrapper blank |
| | 463 | With heat sealing of wrapper |
| | 464 | Cup or pouch forming about contents from web or blank |
| | 465 | Cinching or wiping around to form initial wrap |
| | 466 | U-fold forming initial wrap |
| | 467 | Filling preformed receptacle and closing |
| | 468 | Opening prior to filling and closing |
| | 469 | Flexible, expandable receptacle (e.g., bag, tube) |
| | 470 | Aerosol container |
| | 471 | With separate closure attaching (e.g., cap or plug) |
| | 472 | With protective media (e.g., shock absorbing) |
| | 473 | Filling preformed receptacle |
| | 476 | Closing package or filled receptacle |
| | 477 | By heat sealing |
| | 478 | Separate closure |
| | 479 | Of preformed nonfreestanding container deformed by contents (e.g., bag, tube) |
| | 480 | Closing preformed container deformed by contents |
| | 484 | Closing a preformed, freestanding, rigid or semi-rigid container (e.g., box, carton, bottle) |
| | 492 | Opening only |
| | 48.1 | MULTIPLE BOTTLE OR CAN CARRIER TYPE PACKAGE |
| | 49 | BOTTLE IN SHAPED COVER OR CARTON |
| | 50 | PACKAGE UNFOLDING OR OPENING WITH INSERTION OF ADDITIONAL CONTENTS |
| | 51 | REGISTER CONTROL |
| | 52 | WITH MEANS RESPONSIVE TO A SENSED CONDITION |
| | 53 | Separate delivery of incomplete or defective package |
| | 54 | Separate delivery of incomplete or defective contents or contents group |
| | 55 | Concurrent control of contents and receptacle feeds |
| | 493 | Of individual contents or group feed or delivery |
| | 494 | Responsive to incomplete group or subgroup (no group - no feed) |
| | 495 | Responsive to complete group or subgroup |
| | 496 | Responsive to the presence of only the lead article of a completed group |
| | 498 | By sensing each individual article of the group or subgroup |
| | 501 | By totalizing of individual contents |
| | 502 | By weight of contents |
| | 503 | By volume of contents |
| | 504 | By dimension of contents |
| | 505 | Responsive to presence or absence of cover material (e.g., wrapper, receptacle, lid) |
| | 64 | Of receptacle or cover feed or adjunct feed or application |
| | 65 | Of marker by defective package component |
| | 66 | Severed length determined by contents size |
| | 67 | Responsive to presence or absence of preformed receptacle |
| | 68 | With closure ejection means |
| | 69 | During infeed |
| | 70 | With solenoid control means |
| | 71 | With intermediate clutch |
| | 72 | And presence or absence of closure |
| | 73 | Skip feed by absence of contents |
| | 74 | Triggered by presence of contents |
| | 75 | Of package and filled receptacle closing or opening |
| | 77 | INTERRELATED OR SAFETY CONTROLS |
| | 507 | WITH ALARM, SIGNAL, OR INDICATOR |
| | 79 | GAS FILLING AND/OR EVACUATING OF RECEPTACLE AND CLOSING |
| | 80 | Including soldering means |
| | 84 | Pressure responsive and/or regulation |
| | 85 | Enclosure responsive |
| | 86 | Within enclosure |
| | 87 | With screen or graduated orifices |
| | 88 | For receptacle head only |
| | 89 | Machine positioned receptacle and/or closure |
| | 90 | Through lock or valve means |
| | 95 | Multiple individual receptacle chambers |
| | 97 | With closure assembling means |
| | 98 | Resilient hold-down |
| | 99 | Gravity plunger or platen |
| | 101 | Mechanically actuated plunger or platen |
| | 103 | Atmospheric pressure |
| | 109 | With cap lifter |
| | 110 | Within tunnel |
| | 509 | SKIN PACKAGING |
| | 111R | WITH CONTENTS TREATING |
| | 510 | Vacuum or inert atmosphere |
| | 113 | Reshaping |
| | 114 | Coil spring encasing |
| | 115 | Cushioning material inserting means (e.g., pill bottle cotton) |
| | 116 | Folding or rolling |
| | 121 | Crushing |
| | 122 | Molding or plastic deformation |
| | 513 | Cutting |
| | 514 | Food or edible material |
| | 520 | Film, sheet or weblike material |
| | 521 | Stuffing (e.g., mattress ticking) |
| | 522 | Strand, tube, or rodlike material (e.g., drinking straw) |
| | 523 | Compacting or stretching |
| | 127 | Heating or cooling |
| | 111RC | With reactive chemical |
| | 128.1 | WITH COVER-ADJUNCT APPLICATION OR FORMATION |
| | 129.1 | Adjunct comprising packing disk, sealing gasket, or "spot" applied to a closure |
| | 130.1 | Adjunct comprising closure retainer seated into and depressed with portion of bottle hood |
| | 131.1 | Adjunct comprising protective coating |
| | 131.2 | By printing |
| | 131.3 | On cover having separate closure or on such a separate closure |
| | 131.4 | Before or during packaging |
| | 132.1 | Adjunct comprising lever actuated to constrict passage of contents into package |
| | 133.1 | Adjunct comprising provision to allow access to contents, e.g., spout, straw, drain, opening, etc. |
| | 133.2 | Fitment to dispense flowable contents, e.g., spout |
| | 133.3 | Adjunct comprising provision to open package |
| | 134.1 | Adjunct comprising graspable appendage, e.g., handle |
| | 135.1 | Adjunct comprising nonencircling strip, e.g., stamp, label or gap filler |
| | 137.1 | Adjunct comprising bottle hood securing means |
| | 137.2 | Adjunct comprising package encircling sealing strip |
| | 138.1 | Adjunct comprising provision to secure cover |
| | 138.2 | Staple or clip |
| | 138.5 | Adjunct comprising sewn seam |
| | 138.6 | Tie string or wire |
| | 139.1 | Bag banding |
| | 139.2 | Reclosable, e.g., ziplock (TM) or with valve |
| | 139.4 | Adjunct comprising string or wire |
| | 139.5 | Adjunct comprising means to protect contents, e.g., padding or spacer |
| | 140 | WITH COVER MATERIAL PRODUCTION |
| | 141 | WITH FUGITIVE PRECONDITIONING OF COVER MATERIAL |
| | 142 | TAPERED OR HEADED ARTICLES |
| | 145 | FACING (E.G., FRUITS AND VEGETABLES) |
| | 147 | GROUP FORMING OF CONTENTS UNIT AND SUBSEQUENT OR FURTHER PACKAGING |
| | 148 | Long slender articles (e.g., cigarettes) |
| | 152 | Formed in vertically spaced ways and simultaneously removed |
| | 154 | From plural or different supply sources |
| | 158 | Joined receptacle or pockets |
| | 531 | Layer, stack, or column |
| | 532 | Assembling, gathering, and stacking coins or similar disclike articles |
| | 533 | Assembling sticks of chewing gum |
| | 534 | Receptacle advances as row groups are deposited therein |
| | 535 | Lowered support or raised wall |
| | 537 | Forming successive coplanar layers and depositing in cover means |
| | 539 | Simultaneous deposit to fill compartmented receptacle |
| | 540 | Stacking one article or group of articles upon another |
| | 542 | Grouping articles on edge in a linear relationship |
| | 543 | Forming single generally horizontal groups comprising plural rows and columns |
| | 544 | Orienting one or more units of the group |
| | 167 | COMBINED |
| | 168 | SELECTIVE OR ALTERNATE SUPPLY OF PLURAL COVERS AND/OR PLURAL CONTENTS |
| | 169 | SLIDING TRAY AND SHELL TYPE PACKAGE |
| | 170 | PLURAL LAYER PACKAGE MATERIAL |
| | 171 | Plural packages in outer cover |
| | 172 | Concurrently formed with multi-layered blank |
| | 173 | Filling preformed receptacle and subsequent covering |
| | 174 | Wrapping and subsequent filling of preformed receptacle |
| | 175 | Lining preformed receptacle |
| | 176 | At least one layer a band |
| | 545 | PROGRESSIVELY SEAMED COVER WEB OR WEB FOLDS |
| | 546 | Multirow |
| | 547 | With package severing and subsequent closing of severed end |
| | 548 | With closing of web between package units |
| | 556 | APPARATUS FOR CONTRACTION OF COVER BY STRETCHING OR SHRINKING |
| | 558 | APPARATUS FOR FORMING OR PARTIALLY FORMING RECEPTACLE AND SUBSEQUENTLY FILLING |
| | 559 | Forming a pocket, depression, or hollow compartment by application of heat or pressure (e.g., stretch forming) |
| | 562 | Forming a pocket or pouch by folding and side sealing (e.g., flat bag making) |
| | 563 | Forming a receptacle around a mandrel or former and removing therefrom prior to filling |
| | 564 | Forming by opening or setting up collapsed receptacle |
| | 565 | Gable-top carton (e.g., milk carton) |
| | 566 | Horizontally loaded box or carton |
| | 567 | Flexible tubular stock - preformed continuous tube |
| | 568 | Longitudinally prefolded web stock |
| | 569 | Letter-type envelope |
| | 570 | Bag or sack |
| | 574 | Forming receptacles whereby the receptacle is subsequently filled while on the forming means |
| | 580 | PARTIAL COVER APPLICATION |
| | 581 | Spindle or core |
| | 582 | Band or tube |
| | 583 | Bag neck banding |
| | 584 | Cigar banding |
| | 585 | Preformed tube |
| | 586 | U-fold forming initial banding |
| | 587 | Applied by rotation of contents |
| | 588 | Applied by rotation of band |
| | 589 | Applied by guiding band end about contents |
| | 590 | Applied by manipulating opposed band ends about contents |
| | 591 | Applied about series contents |
| | 592 | Applied by manual operation |
| | 593 | End or band interleaved with contents (e.g., book or magazine band) |
| | 594 | Uncovered reduced projection or handle (e.g., lollypop) |
| | 201 | CONVERTIBLE |
| | 202 | PLURAL LINE PACKAGING |
| | 203 | WRAPPING MACHINES |
| | 204 | Annular package |
| | 205 | Granular contents material |
| | 206 | Packet or envelope type |
| | 207 | Notched or corner-slit cover blanks |
| | 209 | Prepositioned cover and contents transported to wrapping means |
| | 210 | Cinched or wiped around initial wrap |
| | 218 | Fixed package support during wrapping |
| | 220 | Cover-wiping passage or pocket for initial wrap |
| | 235 | DEPOSITING ARTICLES AND ARRANGING MATERIAL IN PREFORMED RECEPTACLES |
| | 236 | Long slender articles (e.g., matches) |
| | 237 | Plural filling stations and/or contents sources for single receptacle |
| | 238 | Diverse forms or shapes of units |
| | 239 | Article and fluent material |
| | 240 | Successive filling stations |
| | 241 | Contents support extends through receptacle (e.g., garment baggers) |
| | 242 | Bottom filling |
| | 244 | Successive deposits of articles |
| | 247 | Simultaneous deposit of plural articles |
| | 248 | With means to retard free fall of articles into receptacle |
| | 249 | With movement of receptacle to or from filling station |
| | 254 | Disc packers |
| | 255 | Guide or inserted form or support for article contents |
| | 264 | WITH MEANS APPLYING CLOSURES OF INTERNALLY STOPPERED RECEPTACLES |
| | 265 | WITH MEANS APPLYING ATTACHED OR CONNECTED CLOSURES OF BAIL STOPPERED RECEPTACLES |
| | 266.1 | MEANS TO FILL AND CLOSE PREFORMED RECEPTACLE |
| | 267 | With compound fill-close station |
| | 268 | With common fill-close stations |
| | 269 | Closing mechanism tripped by vented air |
| | 270 | Closure release by withdrawal of fill means or receptacle |
| | 271 | Unidirectional infeed motion only |
| | 272 | Turret mounted (plural heads rotatively indexing and progressively acting) |
| | 273 | Swivel or slide relation to receptacle aperture |
| | 274 | Including closure port valve means |
| | 275 | Closure within or forming wall of pressure chamber |
| | 276 | Diverse heads rotatively indexing and progressively acting (turret) |
| | 281 | With separate closure |
| | 284 | Opposite end closing |
| | 284.2 | Receptacle comprising film mount |
| | 284.3 | Receptacle comprising envelope |
| | 284.4 | Means to insert X-ray film into and to close special receptacle |
| | 284.5 | Rigid receptacle |
| | 284.7 | Receptacle comprising bag |
| | 285 | CLOSING PACKAGES AND FILLED RECEPTACLES |
| | 286 | Plural independently closed covers |
| | 287 | Separate closure applying |
| | 288 | Cover to milk can |
| | 289 | With preliminary receptacle shaping |
| | 290 | With preliminary closure shaping and/or treatment |
| | 291 | Unfolding, opening and/or stretching capsules or cots |
| | 296 | Cutting and/or shaping means |
| | 299 | Receptacle delivery by case or row |
| | 300 | With receptacle support and/or feed by shoulder engagement |
| | 301 | Receptacle delivery to alternately acting headers |
| | 302 | Sequentially acting plural headers |
| | 305 | By hand operation with magazine supply |
| | 306 | Closure delivery from supply into or below bottom of header |
| | 309 | Closure delivery from supply through top of header |
| | 310 | Closure delivery from supply laterally into header |
| | 313 | Closure selected by moving receptacle |
| | 317 | Screw or lug closure applying means |
| | 319 | Closure inserting means |
| | 320 | With vent means |
| | 321 | Closure flexing means (straightening or buckling) |
| | 322 | With closure guide withdrawal means |
| | 324 | Closure compressing means |
| | 328 | Plunger structure |
| | 329 | Closure securing means |
| | 329.2 | Heated securing means |
| | 330 | Internal |
| | 331 | Thread and crimp |
| | 331.5 | Screw or lug type |
| | 332 | Reverse closure flexing or turn-back means |
| | 333 | Repeated on different portions of same closure |
| | 334 | Rotary tool or die |
| | 341 | Die |
| | 342 |  With closure support |
| | 344 | Sectional |
| | 345 |  With resilient faces |
| | 348 | Fluid pressure actuated |
| | 349 | Rotary cam |
| | 350 | Toggle |
| | 351 | Axial cam |
| | 354 | Bell crank |
| | 355 | Biased for deformation |
| | 356 | Split or spring collet type |
| | 357 | Resilient annulus |
| | 359 | Filler or forcer |
| | 360 | Reverse flex of resilient element |
| | 361 | Fluid pressure or resilient element |
| | 362 | Confined elastomer block |
| | 363 | With handle |
| | 364 | Second class lever mounted |
| | 365 | Toggle mounted |
| | 366 | By crimping of receptacle |
| | 367 | Orienting or aligning means |
| | 368 | With height compensating means and/or package ejection means |
| | 370 | Twisters |
| | 370.2 | Including provision for pleat of cover overhang |
