Class 355: PHOTOCOPYING ( Manual of U.S. Patent Classification )

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as of June 30, 2000

Class
355
PHOTOCOPYING

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Subclass		Title
ClassTitle		===> PHOTOCOPYING

1		INCLUDING FIBER OPTICS
2		HOLOGRAM, SEISMOGRAM, GRAPH OR SCALE COPYING
400		USING MICROCAPSULES
401		. Condition responsive control
402		. Exposure
403		. . Using mask original
404		. . Of selected area or border
405		. Heating (e.g., thermal fixing)
406		. Pressure developing
407		. Sheet feeding
408		. . Having document handling detection
18		PROJECTION PRINTING AND COPYING CAMERAS
19		. Combined with or convertible to a contact printer
20		. With cathode ray tube for light source
21		. Collapsible or portable
22		. Stereoscopic
23		. Copying both sides of original
24		. . Duplex
25		. . Book page copying
26		. Photographing on both sides of photo-sensitive paper
27		. With developing
28		. . And film severing
29		. With film severing
30		. With temperature or foreign particle control
31		. Copying sound record
32		. Multicolor picture
33		. . Lenticular film
34		. . . Including detailed diaphragm
35		. . Regulating light intensity or exposure time
36		. . . Including electromagnet
37		. . . Plural lamps
38		. . . Including
39		. Tilting
40		. Identifying, composing, or selecting
41		. . Including photocell
42		. . Including electromagnet
43		. . Including reflector between original and photosensitive paper
44		. With focusing or projection screen
45		. . Reflector in optical path
46		. Plural
47		. Image transferred to or from curved surface
48		. . Original moves continuously
49		. . . Reflector between original and photo-sensitive paper
50		. Original moves continuously
51		. . Reflector between original and photo-sensitive paper
52		. Distortion introducing or rectifying
53		. Step and repeat
54		. Producing plural rows of pictures on photosensitive paper
55		. Focus or magnification control
56		. . Automatic or semiautomatic focusing when varying image size
57		. . . Reflector between original and photo-sensitive paper
58		. . . Including a cam or a screw with nonuniform pitch
59		. . . . And an indicator or scale
60		. . Reflector between original and photo-sensitive paper
61		. . Including indicator or scale
62		. . . Vertical optical path
63		. . Vertical optical path
64		. Image transferred from individual documents to film strip
65		. . Reflector between original and photo-sensitive paper
66		. Reflector between original and photo-sensitive paper
67		. Illumination systems or details
68		. . Including photocell or phototube
69		. . Electricity to lamp controlled
70		. . Plural lamps
71		. . Including shutter, diaphragm, polarizer or filter
72		. Detailed holder for photosensitive paper
73		. . Including vacuum or fluid pressure
74		. . Including adjustable or selective masking frame
75		. Detailed holder for original
76		. . Including vacuum, fluid or spring pressure
77		. Methods
78		CONTACT PRINTING
79		. Superimposed carriers (e.g., montage or combination printing)
80		. Localized contrast modification (e.g., dodging or fading)
81		. . With scanning
82		. Book page copying
83		. Light monitoring exposure control
84		. With scanning
85		. Exposing on sensitized printing press plate or cylinder (e.g., photocomposers)
86		. . Step and repeat
87		. . . Fluid pressure
88		. Multicolor printing
89		. Plural exposure stations or plural machines
90		. . With plural webs of indeterminate length (e.g., motion picture film)
91		. Fluid pressure retention of carrier and receiver in exposure position
92		. . Air-inflated cushion
93		. . Pivoted frame
94		. . With pump
95		. Step and repeat
96		. . Strip receiver
97		. Machine (i.e., having at least partly automatic feed)
98		. . Sound track printing
99		. . With flat exposure station structure
100		. . . With further developing processing
101		. . . With shutters
102		. . . Repeated printing from a carrier
103		. . . Continuous running
104		. . With cylindrical or curved exposure station structure
105		. . . Light lowered into vertical cylinder
106		. . . With further developing processing
107		. . . . With intermediate printing material
108		. . . Continuous running
109		. . . . Repeated printing from a carrier
110		. . . . Rotating exposure station cylinder
111		. . . . Indeterminate-length carrier and receiver
112		. Print counting and marking
113		. Light boxes
114		. . Transfer of plural images
115		. . With exposure timing
116		. . Foot-operated platen or shutter
117		. . Cylindrical or curved exposure station
118		. . Divided or flexible platen
119		. . Indirect illumination
120		. . Platen-controlled illumination circuit
121		. . With shutter
122		. Frames
123		. . Strip film
124		. . With shutters
125		. . With diffusing or masking (e.g., vignetting)
126		. . . Adjustable parameters
127		. . Transfer of plural images
128		. . With platen
129		. . . Divided platen
130		. . . . With closing spring bias
131		. . . Attached platen
132		. Methods
133		MISCELLANEOUS

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Last Modified: 6 October 2000

Manual of U.S. Patent Classification as of June 30, 2000

Class 355 PHOTOCOPYING

Manual of U.S. Patent Classification
as of June 30, 2000

Class
355
PHOTOCOPYING