CPC Definition - Subclass B25B
This place covers:
- Vices
- Hand vices; Pin vices
- Clamps
- Pliers; gripping tools with jaws on pivoted limbs
- Hand-held gripping tools other than of the pliers type
- Work holders, e.g. magnetic work holders, vacuum work holders
- Spanners; Wrenches
- Screwdrivers
- Hand-driven gear-operated wrenches or screwdrivers
- Impact wrenches or screwdrivers
- Portable power-driven screw or nut setting or loosening tools
- Attachments for drilling apparatus for screw or nut setting or loosening
- Details of, or accessories for, spanners, wrenches, screwdrivers
- Implements for fastening, connecting or tensioning of wire or strip
- Hand tools, specially adapted for fitting together or separating parts or objects
- whether or not involving some deformation
- Portable power-driven joining or separation tools
- Hand tools for applying fasteners other than screws, bolts, nuts or nails
This subclass is to be understood as covering those hand tools for fastening, connecting, disengaging, or holding which are not provided for in another subclass such as B25C (nailing or stapling tools), B25D (percussive tools like hammers) or in an application class such as B65B (packaging) or B21F (working of wire)
In B25B 5/00 are also classified clamps for mechanically clamping work-pieces on machine tool tables, even though they are not hand tools. B25B 5/00 takes precedence before B23Q 3/06 (Work-clamping means).
In B25B 11/00 also tables, like magnetic tables and vacuum tables are classified, even though they are not hand tools.
For more detailed information about the main groups of B25B check the sheets of these main groups.
This place covers:
- Vices with sliding jaws
- Vices with pivoted jaws
- Arrangements for positively actuating jaws
- Arrangements for turning or tilting vices
- Details of the vices, e.g. jaws of special shape, slideways
B25B 1/00 deals with vices per se and details of vices. The function and functioning of vices in the context of machine tools as part of the machine tools is classified in B23Q 3/066.
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:
Vices for tying flies for angling | |
Rope or cable splicing vices |
Vices for machine tool tables are classified in B25B 1/00 as far as the vice itself or details thereof are concerned. In that case B25B 1/00 takes precedence over B23Q 3/066.
The function and functioning of vices for machine tools in the context of the machine tool as part of the machine tool is classified in B23Q 3/066.
This place does not cover:
Jaw being pivotable around an axis to put one of the jaw faces in a position opposite to a second jaw |
This place does not cover:
Jaw being pivotable around an axis to put one of the jaw faces in a position opposite to a second jaw |
This place covers:
Thisgroup covers:
- Combination of clamps
- Supporting devices for clamps
- Clamps with sliding jaws
- Clamps with pivoted jaws
- Arrangements for positively actuating jaws
- Clamps for work of special profile
- Details of the clamps, e.g. jaws, jaw attachments
This place does not cover:
Chucks | |
Clamps for holding or positioning work for welding, soldering, or cutting by applying heat locally | |
Clamps for turbine blades | |
Clamping by using adhesive means | |
Clamping by using a solidifying liquid, e.g. with freezing, setting or hardening means | |
Gripping heads in robots |
Attention is drawn to the following places, which may be of interest for search:
Chucks | |
Chucks where the gripping means is a deformable sleeve | |
Means for securing sliding members using a hydraulically controlled membrane in machine tools |
In B25B 5/00 are also classified clamps for mechanically clamping work-pieces on machine tool tables as far as the clamps themselves or details thereof are concerned, even though these clamps are not hand tools. In this case B25B 5/00 takes precedence over B23Q 3/06 (Work-clamping means).
The function and functioning of clamps in the context of the machine tool as part of the machine tool is classified in B23Q.
This place does not cover:
Fluid-driven clamps using cams | |
Fluid-driven clamps using toggle levers |
This place covers:
- Pliers construction in general
- Jaws
- Joints
- Pliers involving special transmission means between the handles and the jaws
- Locking means for pliers
- Adjusting means for the operating arms
- Pliers for sealing
- Pliers provided with auxiliary tool elements, e.g. cutting edges, nail extractors
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:
Implements for fastening, connecting, or tentioning wire or strip | |
Pliers for assambling or disassembling purposes | |
Pliers for marking animals | |
Surgical forceps | |
Dentist forceps | |
Pliers for bending wire eyes | |
Hand-held metal-shearing or metal-cutting devices | |
Hand-held cutting tools | |
Pliers for punching or perforating | |
Pliers for securing ends of binding material | |
Pliers specially designed for watch-making or comparable work | |
Pliers for removing insulation or armouring from electrical cables |
This place does not cover:
Self-locking toggle lever pliers |
This place covers:
- Gripping tools with sliding or pivotal connections
- Gripping tools without sliding or pivotal connections, e.g. tweezers
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:
Surgical forceps | |
Dentist forceps | |
Gripping heads in robots | |
Load carriers | |
Hand-held implements for removing litter | |
Hand-held implements picking up excrements | |
Gripping tools specially adapted for watchmakers | |
Gripping tools for fluorescent lamps | |
Gripping tools for light bulbs |
This place covers:
- Work holders
- Magnetic work holders
- Vacuum work holders
Magnetic means for holding work-pieces on tables of tool machines are partially classified as well in B23Q 3/154, B23Q 3/1546, B23Q 3/1546 as in B25B 11/005
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:
Holding or positioning work for welding, soldering, or cutting by applying heat locally | |
Holding work-pieces on machine tool tables by magnetic means | |
Robot vacuum gripping head | |
Holding work-pieces by suction in cutting machines | |
Vacuum material handling devices associated with conveyors | |
Suction grippers for separating articles from a pile | |
Load-engaging elements for lifting by magnetic means | |
Load-engaging elements for lifting by electro-magnetic means | |
Implements for mounting doors | |
Portble devices for holding doors | |
Electromagnets for lifting handling or transport | |
Holding semiconductors by vacuum |
Attention is drawn to the following places, which may be of interest for search:
Signs, plates, panels or boards being secured to a surface by magnetic means |
In B25B 11/00 also tables, like magnetic tables and vacuum tables are classified, even though they are not hand tools.
This place covers:
- Cross wrenches
- Wrenches with rigid jaws
- Wrenches with adjustable jaws
- Wrenches of the chuck type
- Wrenches of the ratchet type, for providing a free return stroke of the handle
- Wrenches for special purposes
- Wrenches for operating on work of special profile, e.g. pipes
- Chain or strap wrenches
- Spanner sets
- Jaw attachments
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:
Wrenches or spanners specially adapted for osteosynthesis | |
Spanners and wrenches for mounting and dismounting wheels | |
Devices for removing threaded caps of containers | |
Tools for removing threaded caps from containers by use of a flexible loop gripping the cap | |
Wrenches in earth drilling |
This place does not cover:
Ratchet wrenches | |
Wrenches or sockets for special purposes |
This place does not cover:
Ratchet wrenches | |
Spanners or wrenches for special purposes | |
Wrenches for pipes with adjustable jaws |
This place does not cover:
Chain or strap wrenches |
This place does not cover:
Spanners and wrenches for internally gripping pipes |
This place covers:
- Screwdrivers characterised by material or shape of the tool bit
- Screwdrivers operated by rotating the handle
- Screwdrivers operated by axial movement of the handle
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:
Screwdrivers specially adapted for osteosynthesis | |
Screwdrivers specially adapted for watchmakers |
This place covers:
- Hand-driven gear-operated wrenches or screwdrivers
- Hand-driven gear-operated wrenches or screwdrivers providing for torque amplification
Gear-operated ratchet wrenches | |
Ratchet screwdrivers |
This place does not cover:
Wrenches with torque amplification for mounting or dismounting wheels |
This place covers:
Impact wrenches and screwdrivers that are not power-driven
This place covers:
- Portable power-driven screw or nut setting or loosening tools
- Power-driven screw or nut setting or loosening tools for combined nut setting and crimping
- Power-driven screw or nut setting or loosening tools for special purposes
- power-driven screw or nut setting or loosening tools of the ratchet type
- Attachments for drilling apparatus for screw or nut setting or loosening
- Power-driven screw or nut setting or loosening tools with automatic change-over from high speed-low torque mode to low speed-high torque mode
- Power-driven screw or nut setting or loosening tools with means for imparting impact to screwdriver blade or nut socket
Details or components, e.g. casings, bodies, of portable power-driven tools not particularly related to the operation performed are classified in B25F 5/00
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:
Multi-spindle power-driven screw or nut setting or loosening | |
Power-operated devices for mounting or dismounting wheels | |
Power-operated devices for removing threaded caps of containers | |
Powered wrenches in earth drilling |
Attention is drawn to the following places, which may be of interest for search:
Screw or nut setting or loosening machines | |
Details or components, e.g. casings, bodies, of portable power-driven tools not particularly related to the operation performed |
This place covers:
- Connections or joints between tool parts
- Screw guiding means
- Socket or nut ejector means
- Means for adjusting screwing depth
- Abutment for screws or nuts
- Reaction arms
- Counter holding devices
- Tools for placing nut or screw lock wires
- Arrangements for handling screws or nuts
- Arrangement of torque limiters or torque indicators in wrenches or screwdrivers
- Handles
- Devices for illuminating the head of the screw or the nut
Details or components, e.g. casings, bodies, of portable power-driven tools not particularly related to the operation performed are classified in B25F 5/00. Even though there is a group B25B 23/16 for handles, details of handles for hand-driven screwdrivers and wrenches are classified in B25G 1/00 and details of handles for power-driven screwdrivers and wrenches are classified in B25F 5/02. Angular adjustment means between tool head and handle of a hand-driven fastening tool are classified in B25B 23/0028 as well as in B25G 1/063
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:
Attention is drawn to the following places, which may be of interest for search:
Feeding or holding elements like screws or nuts in machines | |
Screw or nut setting or loosening machines | |
Torque limiting in screw or nut setting or loosening machines | |
Arrangements in machine tools for improving direct observation of the working space, e.g. using mirrors or lamps | |
Nail feeding devices for belts of nails | |
Details or components, e.g. casings, bodies, of portable power-driven tools not particularly related to the operation performed | |
Torque reaction bars for portable rotary tools other than fastening tools | |
Nails formed in integral series using disposable strips or discs per se | F16B17/08 |
Bolts, screws, or nuts formed in integral series using disposable strips or discs per se | |
Breaking-bolts per se | |
Lightening devices for hand tools in general |
This place does not cover:
Feeding screws or nuts using disposable strips or discs carrying the screws or nuts |
This place does not cover:
Gripping device for the fastening element, where the gripping device is an integral part of the driving element |
This place covers:
Tightening of fasteners, wherein the torque is measured electrically, e.g. using ultrasound or strain gauge.
This place covers:
- Implements for tensioning of wire or strip
- Implements for applying wire clasps to hose couplings
This place does not cover:
Tools for placing nut or screw lock wires | |
Turnbuckles and the like |
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 articles |
This place covers:
- Hand tools adapted for fitting together or separating parts or objects
- Tools for fixing internally screw-threaded tubular fasteners
- Tools for bonding or debonding brake linings
- Tools for removing or installing seals
- Hand tools specially adapted for fitting together or separating parts of motor-vehicles
- Hand tools specially adapted for fitting together or separating parts of bicycles
- Tools for wheel weights
- Explosive-powered hand tools
- Tools moving along strips, e.g. decorating or sealing strips, to insert them in, or remove them from, grooves or profiles
- Tools for connecting objects by press fit or detaching same
- Tools for assembling objects other than by press fit or detaching same
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:
Tools or implements for repairing chains using metal-working operations | |
Wrenches for mounting or dismounting wheels | |
Mounting or dismounting tyre valves | |
Spring positioning or withdrawing for watchmakers or watch-repairers |
Attention is drawn to the following places, which may be of interest for search:
Machines for assembling or disassembling | |
Machines moving along strips, e.g. decorating or sealing strips, to insert them in, or remove them from, grooves or profiles | |
Machines for installing or removing seals, e.g. O-rings | |
Hammers having the impacting head in the form of a sleeve slidable on a shaft | |
Coil spring compressors | |
Assembling sealing arrangements with vehicle parts | |
Assembly, disassembly, repair or servicing of endless-track systems | |
Hand-held apparatus for delivering pressure-sensitive adhesive tape | |
Implements for finishing work on buildings, e.g. devices for fitting sealing strips or other finishing strips | |
Equipment for mounting belts, ropes or chains | |
Accessories for bringing two tubular members closer to each other | |
Auxiliary devices for flanged joints | |
Hand tools for crimping electric connectors |
This place does not cover:
Tools moving along strips, e.g. decorating or sealing strips, to insert them in, or remove them from, grooves or profiles |
This place covers:
- Accessories
- Bolt tensioners
Attention is drawn to the following places, which may be of interest for search:
Bolt tensioners in machines | |
Screwed prestressed connection by means of liquid, grease, rubber, where the tensile strength is produced in the connection itself and not by a tool |
This place covers:
- Hand tools for applying fasteners other than screws, bolts, nuts or nails
- Hand tools for applying dowels
- Hand tools for temporarily connecting sheets before or during assembly operations
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:
Attachments or adapters for portable power-driven percussive tools for placing dowels |
Attention is drawn to the following places, which may be of interest for search:
Attachments or adapters for portable power-driven percussive tools for placing dowels | |
Devices for applying fasteners, e.g. clips, to bundles of sheets |
This place covers:
Hand tools not covered by any other group
Chuck keys