SECTION I - CLASS DEFINITION
Class 83 is the residual locus of patents directed to methods
and machines for penetrating material, without substantial reshaping
flow of such material, by means of (1) a solid tool, or fluid current,
either of which applies mechanical deforming force to the material
by direct physical contact therewith, the fluid current forcing
the material against a solid tool whose edge defines the line of
cut; (2) a heated solid tool which directly engages the material
(to effect penetration thereof by melting, or by transmission of
mechanical energy, or both); or (3) opposed, controlled fluid currents.
(A) Specifically (as well as implicitly) excluded, is a patent
to apparatus or process for cutting by the transmission of heat
to the work material from a hot gas, such as flame cutting (for
the location of which, see Lines With Other Classes, subsection
A, Relationship to Other Classes Including, per se, Cutting, Severing,
or Incising, paragraph 8, Classes related to flame or other heat-cutting).
(B) While a disclosure of the production of a reshaping flow,
in the operation of its apparatus or accomplishment of its method,
will preclude original placement of a patent in this class, a disclosure
of a flow of the material which is inherent in, or purely incidental
to, the act of cutting will not operate as such a bar. The following types
of factual situations illustrate the rule:
(1) A disclosure that the work material flows, due to melting,
will not preclude placement herein of the patent so disclosing;
but the further teach-that the flow accomplishes a significant or
definable reshaping of the work beyond that inherent in the penetration
there-of will bar such placement. Exemplary of such reshaping is
the formation of a rim or bead around a hole coincident with the
penetration which forms the hole.
(2) A patent to a cutting machine or process employing a tool
which, as disclosed, creates a flow of the material while penetrating
the material only partially (that is, it fails to reach the surface
opposite the surface of entry) will be excluded from this class
only if there is a teaching from which it can be fairly inferred
that there is no severance of the surface fibres of the work, but
rather that the material is compacted, creased, forged or otherwise
plastic worked, thus indicating that the reshaping is not an incident
of a cutting operation. A disclosure that a "cutting" tool
penetrates only partially through tacky, flowable, or green, plastic
work material (such as soft synthetic "plastics",
food dough, etc.) will be considered to supply such a teaching,
unless (by the same disclosure) the work attains its flowable or
soft condition by the action of the cutting tool (e.g., a hot tool).
If such tool is disclosed as softening or plasticizing the work,
a patent directed to same would be proper for this class (83).
SECTION II - LINES WITH OTHER CLASSES AND WITHIN THIS CLASS
SCOPE OF CLASS 83
Class 83 is an elemental or basic class. That is, its subject
matter is restricted (so far as possible) to means for, or steps
of, accomplishing the following functions: cutting something (the "work");
or cutting, and handling the work to be cut; or cutting, and handling
the product of the cutting operation. As a result, the great preponderance
of patents directed to cutting combined with some other work treatment
will be found in the respective class of the other treatment or
in some more general class of combined operations, such as Class
156 or Class 29 (particularly subclasses 33+ and 566+).
The few exceptions to this general statement are set forth explicitly
in section II, Lines With Other Classes, subsection B, Relationship
to Other Treating Classes (which appears later in this class definition).
The class does not act as the sole repository for patents directed
to cutting machines or even to cutting machines of the functional
types signalized in the subclasses of the class. Based upon past
development of the system of patent classification, such patents
are to be found in many classes, their disposition depending mainly
upon the nature of the material disclosed as constituting work for
the cutting operation. A listing of such classes is included in
Lines With Other Classes, subsection A, Relationship to Other Classes
Including, per se, Cutting, Severing, or Incising (which appears
later in this class definition). With respect to such classes,
Class 83 is residual.
As an incident of such residual nature, this class will not receive
for original placement a patent disclosing alternative embodiments
(claimed generically, or with a specific claim to each), one of
a type proper for this class and one of a type related to another
cutting class or subclass. Nor will it so receive a patent disclosing
two purposes for a claimed cutting machine, one general or related
to the art of this class (as shearing metal) and another specific
to another cutting class or subclass (as, for instance, cutting
plastic block or earthenware; or nail making). In both such cases,
the original patent will be placed in the other cutting class or
subclass.
A. RELATIONSHIP TO OTHER CLASSES INCLUDING, PER SE, CUTTING,
SEVERING, OR INCISING
The following enumeration and discussion of such classes,
although including the loci of patents relating to many and varied
types of cutting, does not purport to be exhaustive:
1. The class of cutting implements, Class 30.
Other than as governed by the exception set forth immediately
following description 4 below, a patent is deemed to be directed
to a cutting implement, and thus to be placeable originally in Class
30, if its claimed subject matter fits any one of following descriptions:
a. A cutting device which as an entirety is disclosed to be
supported or held against the force of gravity by the operator during
cutting.
b. A cutting device which as an entirety is disclosed as deriving
from the work a substantial amount of its support against gravity
(i.e., work-supported) during cutting, including a cutting device
which is disclosed as being guided and supported during cutting
by a member which is itself supported on the work (i) a cutting device
which is disclosed as having a loose, work supported tool and powered
means for driving the tool into the work, will be placed in Class
83; (ii) a cutting device which includes means to affix, hold, or
positively locate a portion of the device relative to the work,
for support of the device against gravity, and means to guide movement
of the cutter relative to the work-affixed or work-located portion,
will be placed in Class 83; (iii) a cutting device which includes
(1) means to position or positively locate a portion of the device
relative to the work in such a manner that said portion remains
in said relative position during cutting and (2) means to guide
the cutter in predetermined path with respect to said portion, will
be placed in Class 83.
c. A cutting device which is disclosed as being capable of
movement in a random path instantaneously under the control of the
operator during cutting, including a cutter suspended or supported
near the work; e.g., a cutter mounted at one end of a flexible shaft
whose other end is anchored to a table, or a cutter suspended from
a trolley, or a cutter mounted on a steerable vehicle.
d. A cutting device of the type referred to in the preceding
paragraph in combination with a work support or work holder wherein
neither the cutting tool itself nor the tool support is modified
or constructed to either constrain the motion of the cutter or to
guide it in a predetermined path with respect to the work support
or work holder.
However, a patent drawn to a device including a cutting tool
and means to support a reserve stock of the work in which the work
supply is in the form of a web or strand wrapped upon itself and
the supply is supported for rotation upon an axis will be placed
originally in this class (83) even though it fits one or more of
the above listed descriptions.
A patent for the combination of a cutting device meeting any
of the criteria set forth above and a work holder provided for in
Class 269 will be placed originally in Class 30, although a patent
for the work holder, per se, will be placed in Class 269.
A patent which only claims a cutting tool nominally, that
is, in which the claimed structure does not sufficiently define
a cutting tool substantially in its ultimate use form, or elements,
adjuncts, or materials structurally limited to such use, is regarded
as proper subject matter for original placement in Class 428, Stock
Material or Miscellaneous Articles.
2. The class of severing by tearing or breaking.
Class 225 includes patents for process or apparatus for severing
determinate portions of work material by causing failure of the
work under tension at the point or line of separation, effected
by moving one part of the work relative to another part. In such
devices or processes, the tension is applied by stretching, bending,
twisting, manually or mechanically grasping the work on one side of
a fixed edge and forcing it against the edge, or moving a breaking
or tearing tool and supported work material relative to each other.
Also included in the reference class are tearing or breaking devices
combined with any other type of severing means.
For a detailed statement of the distinction between Classes
83 and 225, see the (1) Note and (2) Note under section I, Class
Definition, subsection B, Breaking or Tearing, of Class 225.
3. The class of comminuting.
Class 241, Solid Material Comminution or Disintegration, includes
original patents for process or apparatus directed to the cutting
or severing of solid material into a number of smaller solid masses,
which smaller masses do not have imparted to them any desired or
significant shape. As between Classes 83 and 241, the provision
of means for (or steps of) retaining an original dimension of the
work in the cut up product will exclude a patent for the apparatus
(or process) from Class 241.
4. The class of selective cutting.
The art of selective cutting is collected in Class 234, Selective
Cutting (e.g., Punching). The distinction between a selective cutting
device or a method of selective cutting (either of which is proper
for Class 234) and a cutting means or method of this class (83)
is set forth in the following statement:
Class 234 is superior to Class 83, and takes or contains original
patents directed to cutting devices as defined in Class 83 which
are further distinguished by the claimed inclusion of a plurality
of cutting tool pairs and an actuating power train for each pair
(one power train may be common to all), so that power may be delivered
to any or all pairs for any cutting cycle, and wherein each and all
of the tool pairs assembled in the machine are constantly available
to be chosen for cutting or noncutting (in any desired number, from
one to the total number available) by (a) a pattern (b) combinational
coding means [defined in section III, Glossary, of the
class definition of Class 234, Selective Cutting (e.g., Punching)], or
(c) means not a part of the tool actuating power train and which
does not partake of all the movements of either tool or the pair;
which pattern or means conditions which pair so chosen to (a) enable,
or (b) prevent, a cutting operation thereby when its driving power
train is actuated.
The distinction expressed above is intended to exclude from
Class 234 patents for devices wherein, for example, (a) there is
no distinct conditioning means [see U.S. Patent No. 682,197
(subclass 225 of Class 83) to Hollerith: each punch is selected
and actuated by its individual key-connected linkage];
or (b) less than the whole number of tools is constantly available [see
U.S. Patent No. 878,775 (subclass 552 of Class 83) to Colbert:
a turret of tools]; or (c) the tool conditioning means
move bodily with their associated tools [see U.S. Patent
No. 746,625 (subclass 559 of Class 83) to Allen: manipulable locking
pins are fixed to the tools]; and is intended to include,
for example, devices wherein a tool-actuating power train common
to all tools is tripped, manually or automatically, after operation
of selected conditioning means [see U.S. Patent No. 1,110,261
(234/111) to Hollerith: initial depression of a key conditions
one punch for actuation, and further depression of the key trips
a common punch hammer or actuator], and devices wherein
a plurality of combinations of less than the total number of tools
are actuated or conditioned for actuation, by coding means (see
U.S. Patent No. 422,728 to Clark: a turret of coded interposers
is positionable to select groups of tools from an array thereof).
5. The class of mechanical manufacturing (metal working).
The class of reference (29, Metal Working) includes patents
for machines for bias cutting of tubular stock (subclasses 2.1+);
shredding metal; e.g., metal wool making (subclasses 4.51+);
spiral cutting of flat stock (subclass 20.1); and filing (subclass
76.1). Patents for files and rasps are found in subclasses 78+.
6. The class of presses.
The class of reference, (100, Presses) includes patents for
reciprocating press structures, which (as both claimed and disclosed)
may perform, alternatively, a cutting operation or some other forming
operation (such as forging, drawing, bending), as well as patents
containing such equivocal disclosures of forming devices that the
type of forming operation such devices are intended to perform cannot
be ascertained accurately.
7. The class of abrading.
With few exceptions (such as those found in Class 132, Toilet),
patents claiming a cutting means, or a step involving the use of
a cutting means, which (as disclosed) is composed of crystalline
material-removing particles, are placed originally in Class 451,
Abrading.
8. Classes related to flame or other heat-cutting.
In addition to the classes enumerated below, it will be noted
that subclasses 18.1+ of Class 33, Geometrical Instruments,
contained original patents for flame-cutting scribers, and that
Class 65, Glass Manufacturing, subclass 113, provides for glass
preform treating including flame severing, and subclasses 269+ provides
for glassworking means including flame severing means.
a. The class of metal treatment.
Subclasses 194+ of Class 148, Metal Treatment, includes
original patents for methods of flame-cutting metals.
b. The class of metallurgical apparatus.
Original patents for flame-cutting apparatus are collected
in subclasses 48+ of Class 266, Metallurgical Apparatus.
In addition, subclass 271 of Class 266 contains original patents
for devices used for drilling or cutting taphole plugs of metallurgical
furnaces.
c. The class of combustion.
Class 431, Combustion, contains original patents for a torch
comprising a fluid fuel distributor and a feature which specializes
it for producing a flame; e.g., pilot burner etc., or which depends
on the heat generated by the flame to perform its function; e.g.,
vaporize fuel.
d. The class of electric heating.
Class 219, Electric Heating, includes original patents directed
to methods or apparatus effective to sever, part, or burn or melt
away, a portion of a workpiece without using a solid tool which
engages and penetrates the work. Examples will be found in subclasses
68+.
e. The class of fluid sprinkling, spraying, and diffusing.
Class 239, Fluid Sprinkling, Spraying, and Diffusing, includes
original patents for fluid distributing nozzles or tips, per se,
even though disclosed as burners.
9. Classes related to the cutting of metal.
In addition to the classes enumerated herein, attention is invited
to the discussion of patents directed to improvements in the flame-
or heat-cutting arts, contained in paragraph H, above.
a. The class of nail making.
Patents directed to apparatus for cutting nails to shape are
found as originals in subclasses 157+ and 192+ of Class
470, Threaded, Headed Fastener, or Washer Making: Process and Apparatus.
b. The class of chain, staple, and horseshoe making.
Cutting machines disclosed as being useful in making such
products are the subject of patents in subclass 29 of Class 59,
Chain, Staple, and Horseshoe Making.
c. The class of tool making.
A patent for a cutting machine or process employed in the
manufacture of a tool will be found, as an original copy, in Class
76, Metal Tools and Implements, Making, (e.g., in subclasses 12+,
28, 29, 30, 31+, 37+, 82+).
d. The class of wireworking.
Patents for methods of, or means for, cutting wire will be
found, as original copies, in many subclasses of Class 140, Wireworking,
particularly subclasses 58+, 66, and 67.
e. The class of type casting.
Original copies of patents for machines or processes for cutting
cast type are included in subclass 59 of Class 199, Type Casting.
f. A patent directed to cutting metal (or other hard substance
whose cutting is not the subject of a subclass is some other class)
will be placed originally in one of the following classes, if not
earlier placed on the basis of product (e.g., nails) according to
the criteria expressed:
i. Class 408, Cutting by Use of Rotating Axially Moving Tool,
will take original patents to machines for making a hole, reducing
the outside of a round workpiece, trepanning, screw threading either
the outside or the inside of a tubular workpiece, as well as any
other cutting operation by use of a tool turning about an axis and
moving along that axis toward a workpiece; provided, there is no
additional motion of the operating tool. Class 408 is intended
to ultimately include all cutting in the manner provided in the
definition of that class; however, not all classes have now been
screened for art proper for Class 408. Included among the classes
likely to include patents proper for Class 408 that have not been
screened are Classes 82, 142, and 451.
ii. Class 82, Turning. Original patents for devices or processes
for severing or cutting off work, wherein the cutting movements
of tool and work relative to each other include (1) rotation of
either or both about an axis passing through the work (except as
provided for in Class 408) and (2) relative translation substantially
normal to said axis, are in Class 82 as meeting the general concepts
of "turning".
iii. Class 409, Gear Cutting, Milling, or Planing, includes
original patents for a process and apparatus for shaping material,
usually metal, by means of (1) a toothed rotary cutter to produce
an article of desired configuration or (2) a nonrotary tool for
making a series of comparatively light cuts or a series of such
tools, between which tool(s) and the workpiece there is a relative
reciprocatory movement in substantially a straight line. Generally,
Class 409 is broad enough to take any patent for shaping by means
of a toothed rotary cutter not provided for in Class 77 or Class
82. Included in Class 409, subclasses 288+, is a patent
for a single edge cutter device which shapes work (e.g., grooving,
shaving, slotting, or flash trimming) by means of relative movement
between tool and work in one or more passes. See (1) Note under
Class 409, subclass 288.
10. Classes related to the cutting of wood.
a. The class of coopering.
Patents for machines adapted to cut barrels, or staves therefor,
will be found as original copies in many subclasses of Class 147.
b. Other patents whose claimed method or apparatus is disclosed
as being directed to the cutting of wood will be placed originally
in the proper woodworking class; Class 142, Wood Turning; Class
144, Woodworking (including pencil sharpening in subclasses 28.1+);
or Class 30, Cutlery (including pencil sharpening implements in
subclasses 451+); except for patents directed to veneer-web
or -sheet clippers (including those intended to cut a layer to be
laminated) which are placed in this class (83).
11. Classes related (in whole or in part) to cutting the earth
or the fruits thereof in situ, or well tubing imbedded in the earth.
A patent directed to a machine or process for accomplishing
any one of the above enumerated purposes will be placed in the appropriate
earth exploring or exploiting, or agricultural, class. A list (not
intended as exhaustive) of such classes follows: 37, Excavating;
47, Plant Husbandry; 56, Harvesters; 111, Planting; 166, Wells;
171, Unearthing Plants or Buried Objects; 172, Earth Working (e.g.,
subclasses 13-22); 175, Boring or Penetrating the Earth; 299, Mining
or In Situ Disintegration of Hard Material.
12. Classes related to the cutting of plastic material, stone,
or hard glass.
A patent directed to apparatus for cutting plastic, green ceramic
or cementitious preformed material will be found as an original
in Class 83 unless shaping other than by cutting is involved. See
Class 65, Glass Manufacturing, appropriate subclasses for a process
of, or apparatus for, cutting or scoring glass combined with glassworking
or treating, and subclass 133 for a process of severing a stream
of molten glass and also see the collection of search notes under
subclasses 112 and 133; Class 125, Stone Working, for stone cutting;
Class 264, Plastic and Nonmetallic Article Shaping or Treating:
Processes, particularly subclasses 138+ for a process
of plastic shaping by or with cutting; and Class 425, Plastic Article
or Earthenware Shaping or Treating: Apparatus, for means shaping
or reshaping of plastic material combined with cutting means.
13. Classes related to the treatment, care, or handling of living
animal (including human) bodies.
a. The class of surgery.
A patent directed to the cutting of a live animal body will
be placed as an original copy in Class 128, Surgery.
b. The class of dentistry.
Original patents for devices for trimming plaster bases of
dental models will be found in subclass 38 of Class 433, Dentistry.
c. The class of toilet.
Patents for cutting, scraping, or filing devices, disclosed as
useful in manicure or pedicure operations, are placed originally
in subclasses 75.4+ and 75.8 of Class 132.
d. The class of farriery.
The reference class (168), in subclass 48.1+, contains original
patents to apparatus for sawing, milling, scraping, filing, or otherwise
cutting animal hooves.
e. The class of fishing, trapping, and vermin destroying.
In addition to the typical fish hook and tackle therefor, the
class of reference (43) contains patents for such cutting devices
as spears and harpoons subclass 6 and impaling traps subclasses
77+.
14. Classes related to the preparation of food.
a. The class of butchery.
A patent directed to the cutting of the dead body of a previously
living creature, preparatory to its use as food, will be found in
Class 452, Butchering. For instance, patents relating to fowl beheading,
carcass splitting, or fish cutting are found, respectively, in subclasses
12, 23, or 53+ thereof.
b. Bakery and confectionery type foods.
A manipulative process of shaping edibles combined with preform
severing is provided for in Class 99, Foods and Beverages: Apparatus,
subclasses 450.1+ and 537+, whereas comparable
apparatus is provided for in Class 425, Plastic Article or Earthenware
Shaping or Treating: Apparatus, appropriate subclasses. Cutting
of edible preforms, per se, is provided for by Class 83 whereas severing
of same by tearing or breaking is provided for by Class 225.
c. Other classes of food cutting.
A patent directed to one of the following types of food cutting
will be placed originally in the appropriate food preparation class:
Class 99, Foods and Beverages: Apparatus, for a cutting device
which is adapted to a peculiar characteristic of the food, or wherein
the cutting device separates distinguishable portions of the food,
(e.g., leafy top portion, seeds, core, skin portion, eyes, etc.).
15. Classes related to the working of leather, skins, or hides.
a. The class of leather working.
Class 69, Leather Manufactures, includes patents directed
to means and processes for splitting, skiving, defleshing, whitening,
or buffing of hides or leather, and for cutting, (per se), in the
production of certain articles typical of the class (e.g., leather
straps, the subject of patents in subclass 17 of Class 69).
b. The class of boot and shoe making.
Patents for cutting means or methods specialized or peculiarly
adapted to operation upon footgear are placed originally in Class
12, Boot and Shoe Making, particularly subclasses 27, 28, 40, 41.05,
41.7, 46, 47, 47.1, 57.5+, 62, and 85+.
16. Textile classes.
a. The class of cloth finishing.
Subclasses 7+ of Class 26, Textiles: Cloth Finishing, constitutes
the locus of original patents limited to apparatus or process for
severing threads or fibers projecting from textile fabrics. Such
patents may relate, for instance, to shearing or to the cutting
of float threads, pile loops, or weft ends.
b. The class of fiber preparation.
Patents for "tow-to-top" staplizing machines
or methods are placed originally in Class 19, Textiles: Fiber Preparation.
The type of severance therein involved is that in which a bundle
of filaments of indefinite length (termed "tow")
is subjected to a treatment which reduces the individual filaments
to staple length fibers without disrupting the continuity or integrity
of the bundle (which, when emerging from the machine or processes,
is known as "top"). In Class 83, on the other
hand, are found patents for machines or processes for the reduction
of isolated individual filaments to staple length fibers (for instance,
Beria-type cutters) or for the disruptive reduction of filament
bundles to such fibers, in both cases without further textile treatment.
c. The class of weaving.
Original copies of patents for cutting devices mounted on
loom parts (e.g., temple mounted cutters) are found in subclasses
302+ of Class 139.
d. The class of sewing machines.
Patents for cutting devices disclosed as attached to sewing
machines will be found, as original copies, in subclasses 45 and
285-301 of Class 112.
e. The class of apparel apparatus.
Means for trimming the bottoms of dresses or skirts, for trimming
hat brims, or for cutting (e.g., clipping) the nap of hats comprise
subject matter of patents in subclasses 1.1, 16, and 19 of Class
223.
f. The general class of textiles.
Subclass 144 of the class of reference (28, Textiles) contains
original patents for machines for making chenille yarn by cutting
a woven fabric.
17. Classes pertaining to the communications and information
arts.
a. The class of typewriters.
Subclasses 127+ and 135+ of Class 400, Typewriting Machines,
includes original copies of patents drawn to keyboard operated means
for cutting intelligence-bearing indicia, as, for instance, stencil
cutting, and to processes utilizing such means.
b. The class of printing.
Generally speaking, the recording of intelligence by cutting
is proper subject matter for Class 101, Printing. More particularly,
individual cases of cutting machines or method may be tested for
aptness to Class 101 by reference to the following statements:
i. A patent for a machine or process for cutting on or adjacent
the printed or written matter on a document to prevent unauthorized
or fraudulent alteration of such matter due to the proximity of
the cut surfaces to the printed or written matter (e.g., check protecting)
will be placed originally in Class 101, subclasses 3.1+.
ii. A patent for a machine or process for cutting work in the
form of a character, a design, or a pattern which will impart information
to an observer is proper for Class 101, subclasses 3.1+,
if a cut is disclosed as extending only part way through the thickness
of the work (e.g., embossing). If all of the cuts forming such character, design,
or pattern are disclosed as extending all the way through the thickness
of the work, the patent will be found in Class 83.
iii. If in addition to a cutting machine or process of this class
(83) there is claimed a means or step peculiar to Class 101, (e.g.,
the application of ink to the cutting tool to additionally outline
or mark an aperture made by the punch), such addition has been considered
sufficient to place a patent directed to such combination in Class 101,
subclasses 3.1+. This is in accordance with the general
rule that a patent for a combination of cutting with another treatment
of the work will be placed in the class of the other treatment.
(See subsection B, Relationship to Other Treating Classes, below).
iv. An original patent claiming both the process and apparatus
for the manufacture of stencils by cutting, or only such process,
will be found in Class 101, subclass 128.4.
c. The class of recorders.
A process or apparatus which would be otherwise proper for
Class 346, Recorders, will not be removed from the scope of that
class merely by virtue of the fact that the recordation, as claimed,
is accomplished by an incising or penetrating means or method step.
d. The class of registers.
Original patents directed to means for cutting or punching
a record medium, in response to the results of the operation of
a calculating machine or register, will be found in Class 235, Registers,
particularly subclasses 58+ and 60.27+ (especially
subclass 60.29).
e. The class of railway signaling.
Patents for apparatus which cuts or punches a record medium,
in response to the operation of a block-signal system or of a cab
signal or train control device, are placed originally in subclasses
107 and 185 (respectively) of Class 246, Railway Switches and Signals.
f. The class of telegraphy.
A patent for a cutting device which is actuated by means responsive
to a telegraphically transmitted signal will be placed originally
in Class 178, Telegraphy, those in subclass 92 being typical.
g. The class of binder devices releasably engaging aperture
or notch of sheet.
A sheet binder device of that class (402) (i) in combination
with a discrete sheet aperture forming device, which device perforates
a sheet prior to placing the same on the retainer, (ii) including
means to force a sheet upon the sheet retainer and (iii) including
a sheet retainer which penetrates and inserts a pliant strand through
a sheet will be found in subclasses 1, 7, and 25, respectively,
of Class 402.
18. Receptacle classes.
a. The class of deposit and collection receptacles.
Patents claiming a ticket receiving and collection receptacle,
with means to punch or cut tickets introduced into the receptacle,
will be found placed originally in Class 232, Deposit and Collection
Receptacles.
b. The class of special receptacles.
Patents for cigar- or tobacco-containing receptacles having
an attached cutter are placed originally in Class 206, Special Receptacle
or Package, subclasses 238+.
c. The class of paper receptacles.
Original patents for paper receptacles with attached means
for opening a receptacle by cutting, tearing, or ripping will be
found in subclasses 87.05, 200+, and 307 of Class 229,
Envelopes, Wrappers, and Paperboard Boxes.
d. The class of metallic receptacles.
Subclasses 265+ of Class 220, Receptacles, includes original
patents for general-utility receptacles with attached openers which
function to open the receptacle by cutting part thereof.
19. Certain other classes distinguished by the nature or identity
of work or product.
a. The class of tobacco.
Patents for machines which are disclosed as being specially
adapted to the cutting of tobacco or cigars will be found, as original
copies, in subclasses 248+ and 281 of Class 131. (Patents
for tobacco cutting machines of more general utility are placed
originally in appropriate subclasses of Classes 30 and 83).
b. The class of button making.
Patented machines or processes for cutting button blanks are
disclosed in subclasses 15 and 16 of Class 79.
c. The class of brush, broom, and mop making.
The class of reference (300) includes a subclass (17) restricted
to the, per se, trimming of articles of the class. Most of the
devices represented by patents therein operate to accomplish such
trimming by cutting.
d. The class of wheelwright machines.
Patents directed to machines and processes for lacerating
or buffing the exterior surface of vehicle tires are collected in
subclass 13 of Class 157, Wheelwright Machines, except those claiming
an abrading means or step, which latter are to be found in Class
451, Abrading.
e. The class of ships.
Patents for ships carrying means to cut or break ice are placed
originally in subclasses 40-42 of Class 114.
f. The class of chemical manufacture and adhesive bonding
of articles.
Class, 156, Adhesive Bonding and Miscellaneous Chemical Manufacture,
provides in subclasses 625+ for severing a workpiece by
the action of a reactive or solvent fluid. It also provides for
the combination of laminating and cutting in subclasses 250+ and
510+.
20. The class of geometrical instruments.
Subclasses 18.1+ of Class 33, Geometrical Instruments, include
original patents for means for scoring or indenting a reference
point, respectively.
B. RELATIONSHIP TO OTHER TREATING CLASSES
1. This class is an elementary class and generally does not
include patents claiming the combination of a cutting method or
means with a process or apparatus for other treatment(s). Certain
specific exceptions to this general rule exist, as follows:
a. Heating or cooling work and cutting same.
Subject matter of subclasses 15+ and 170.
b. Cleaning work and cutting same;
subject matter of subclass 168.
2. Means for, or steps of, performing certain other operations
whose character as treating or nontreating operations, it is recognized,
will vary with individual judgement also are included in patents
of this class in claimed combination with cutting instrumentalities
or steps, as follows:
a. Weighing the cut product in subclass 77.
b. Separating or assorting product in subclasses 102+
c. Applying a transient, nonpropellant fluid (e.g., lubricant
or coolant) to work in subclasses 22 and 169.
d. Temporarily deforming work; in subclasses 17+,
175, and 176.
e. Unwinding material from, or supporting material on, a spool,
beam, bobbin, or the like, for presentation to a cutting device
for operation thereon; note particularly subclasses 649+.
(The combination of a cutting machine and significantly claimed
means for winding the product thereof is subject matter for Class
242, Winding, Tensioning, or Guiding, as is the Combination of a
winding machine and a means to cut the tail, extending from a package
wound by such machine, from the source of material to be wound.
See Class 242, subclasses 487.1+, 521, and 522+.
3. As to methods, the claimed recitation of a step of performing
a treatment other than cutting will exclude a patent from original
placement in this class, regardless of whether such treating step
is claimed in detail.
4. In interpreting a claimed combination of cutting and noncutting
treating means, a purely nominal recitation of the other (noncutting)
treating means will not exclude an original patent from this class
if all of the following conditions are met:
a. No means or instrumentality is claimed as being synchronized
with the other treating means.
b. A single material handling means presents work to both
such treating means; or, the means which presents material (as work)
to a second treating means in line is the means which removes it
(as product) from a first treating means in line.
c. No support or guide means is claimed as orienting or redirecting
the material (work or product) between treating means.
C. RELATIONSHIP TO MATERIAL HANDLING CLASSES
1. Product handling means.
a. This class (83) receives original patents claiming significantly
both a cutting tool of the class and means to separate or assort
portions of the product resulting from the cutting operation. An
original patent claiming such separating or assorting means in structural
terms, and the cutting tool in nominal terms only, will be placed
in Class 209, Classifying, Separating, and Assorting Solids.
b. Original patents drawn to the combination of cutting means
of this class and product weighing means which does not govern the
operation of the cutting means will be placed in this class (83)
without regard to the degree of specificity with which the cutting
means is claimed therein. If the weighing means is claimed as controlling a
cutting device, which cutting device terminates feed or flow of
material to the weighing means, a patent thereto is placed originally
in Class 177, Weighing Scales.
c. As to other product handling devices (i.e., instrumentalities
which effect or affect motion of the product of a cutting machine),
the claimed combination of such device with a cutting machine constitutes
subject matter for this class (83), regardless of the degree of
specificity with which the cutting means is claimed.
2. Work handling means.
a. As between this class (83) and Classes 193, Conveyors,
Chutes, Skids, Guides, and Ways; 198, Conveyors: Power-Driven;
212, Traversing Hoists; 414, Material or Article Handling; 226,
Advancing Material of Indeterminate Length; 406, Conveyors: Fluid
Current; and 271, Sheet Feeding or Delivering; the claimed recitation in
purely nominal terms, of a cutting instrumentality with respect
to which a work handling means may move or feed work will not of
itself exclude placement of an original patent for such work handling
means in the respective material handling class listed above. However,
when such instrumentality is set forth with structural specificity,
the claimed congregation of elements is properly placed with the
work modifying instrumentality (class 83). For example: A claim
reciting a structurally defined work handling means (not claimed
as synchronized with a work modifying means), and a "work
station" (or "tool station", or "work
modifying means", or "tool", or "cutter",
or "punch", or "knife", etc.)
in so many words, is properly placed on the basis of the work handling
means. A claim reciting a work handling means and, for instance,
a work station including a "reciprocating tool element",
or a "tapered tool", or a "round cutter",
or a "rotary punch", is properly placed in the
class of the specific tool set forth. The true test for proper
placement in this class (83) is whether or not the combination of
a tool and work-feed means is a significant tool-to-work-relationship.
For further notes on this relationship see (2) Note, under subclass
703 of this class (83) referring to Class 414.
c. Further, this class (83) receives original patents claiming
a cutting tool (of the type provided for in the class) synchronized
with or in power-transmitting driving relation with, a work handling
means, regardless of whether such tool is claimed significantly
or merely nominally.
3. Tool handling means.
Class 483 provides for a Class 83 cutting process or apparatus
combined with tool changing.
D. RELATIONSHIP TO CLASS OF TOOL DRIVING OR IMPACTING
Class 173, Tool Driving or Impacting, provides for subject
matter directed to driving or impacting a tool, when such subject
matter includes combined features peculiar to tool driving, but
which does not include features limiting the subject matter to a
specific tool art such as specific shape of the work contacting
portion of a tool, related tools, or an opposed work support. Class
83 has not been cleared as to subject matter in conflict with this line.
E. RELATIONSHIP TO THE CLASS OF WORK HOLDERS
This relationship is set forth in section II, Lines With Other
Classes, of the class definition for Class 269.
F. STRUCTURE OF THE CLASS
1. A perusal of the first line or skeleton schedule of the class
will reveal that the class is composed of a relatively small number
of major subclass groups. Generally, in order of superiority, these
major subclass groups provide search fields for:
a. a method including a step of cutting (subclasses 13-56).
b. noncyclic means to halt or prevent motion of a part or all
of a cutting machine (subclasses 58-68).
c. means to monitor and control operation of a cutting machine
(subclasses 72-76).
d. means to handle the product of a cutting operation (subclasses
78-166).
e. means to cut hollow work from the inside (subclasses 178-195).
f. means to cut work while cyclically halted (subclasses 202-283).
g. a flying cutter (subclasses 284-349).
h. a cutter (of a type other than those previously enumerated)
synchronized with work moving means (subclasses 350-357).
i. a cutting machine with an appurtenance such as a clamp,
work stop or gauge, work guide; firstly, synchronized with the tool
cycle (subclasses 373-398), and secondly, not so synchronized (subclasses
438-468).
j. means to control the operation of a part (at least) of
the machine in response to means to sense the work, product, or
another part of the machine (subclasses 358-372, 399, 400).
k. a cutting machine having work moving means not claimed
as synchronized with the tool cycle; providing for tool-station-type
work moving means (subclasses 401 through 437.7).
l. a rotatable disc type cutting machine (subclasses 469-508).
m. means to produce or facilitate the cutting motion of a tool
or tools (subclasses 513-519; 523-647).
n. a cutting tool, per se, or combined with its support (subclasses
651-699.61).
o. a method of, or means for, cutting other than all the way
through the work thickness-wise, providing for scoring, skiving,
and related operations (subclasses 6-12).
2. In addition, a limited number of groupings have been established
on secondary bases of classification, to facilitate state-of-the-art
searches. These subclasses, which contain no original patents are
numbered from 901.
The following index is provided for convenience in locating
certain elements or types of cutting machines according to keywords
generally of art terminology. This index is not intended to be exhaustive.
SECTION III - SUBCLASS REFERENCES TO THE CURRENT CLASS
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
| 72+, | for automation. |
| 278, | 391+, 401+, 467.1, for back gage. |
| 788+, | for band saw. |
| 562, | 640, for beam dinker. |
| 531+, | 561, 658+, for bed block. |
| 403, | for beria-type cutter. |
| 788+, | for chain saw. |
| 182, | 206, 262, 282, 294, 319, 325, 375+, 409,
422, 452+, for clamp. |
| 531+, | 652+, for clicker die. |
| 32, | 42+, 50, for core lamination making. |
| 288, | for crop cut. |
| 638, | 643, 644, for draw cut. |
| 425.2+, | for edge-cutter. |
| 111+, | for ejector. |
| 284+, | for flying cutter. |
| 218, | 278, for four-motion feed. |
| 572, | 573, for gag. |
| , | See back gage for gage |
| 598, | 620+, for gang punch. |
| 450, | (also see clamp and stripper), for holddown. |
| 915.3, | for ice cutting. |
| 102.1, | for kerf spreading. |
| 637, | for leader pin. |
| 305, | for miscut. |
| 746+, | for miter box. |
| 237, | 916, 917, for nibble. |
| 169, | for oiler. |
| 333, | 918, for pinkin. |
| , | See clamp and holddown for presser foot. |
| 213, | 214, 255, 256, 519, 611, 622, 636, for progressive
cutting. |
| 616, | for punch hammer. |
| 703+, | for saw-mill dog. |
| 401+, | for saw-mill feed. |
| 830+, | 835+, for saw-teeth. |
| 923, | for scrap cutter. |
| 174+, | for sharpener (tool). |
| 223+, | 582+, for spring storage (cutter, punch). |
| 111+, | for stripper. |
| 637, | for sub-press unit. |
| 477+, | 483+, for table saw. |
| 353, | 483+, 614, for traveling cutter. |
SECTION IV - GLOSSARY
ANVIL
A tool comprising a smooth-faced, imperforate member, the
smooth face having the purpose of contacting the work and providing
a reaction surface against which a relatively movable tool may abut
in its work penetrating movement.
DETECTOR
A mechanism for sensing a physical property or characteristic
of, or the presence or absence or passage of, the work or the product
or a movable element of a machine; which mechanism effects a signal
or impulse as a result of such sensing. The signal or impulse is
sent through a transmitter, (see definition of "transmitter" below)
and effects or initiates the functioning of a machine part or assembly
controlled by the detector.
FLYING
Moving with the work material. The term "flying" means
that the part so described has, at the time of cutting, a motion
component in the direction of the work as it moves to and through
the cutting station.
GUIDE
Passive means to direct the movement of something (e.g.,
work, product, machine part) in a desired path. (Note: although
a guide may be movable for the purpose of adjustment, yet it accomplishes
its directing function by presenting an obstacle to movement in
an undesired direction, rather than by causing the directed thing
or part to move with it).
NOTCHING
The cutting of a discrete product from a workpiece through
the thickness of the workpiece with the line of cut starting at
an edge of the workpiece and returning to the same edge. The edge
of the workpiece may be either an exterior edge or an interior edge.
A cut which extends solely along a single straight line is not
considered to be a notching cut.
PRODUCT
Material which has been treated by the cutting tool;
the result of a cutting operation. (Note: material which is "product" for
one cutting operation may be "work" for an ensuing
operation).
PUNCHING
The cutting of a discrete product out of the confines
of a workpiece through the thickness of the workpiece so that the
cut does not intersect any edge (exterior or interior) of the workpiece.
SHEARING
Cutting effected by the relative motion of two cutting tools
having edges which are initially on opposite sides of the work with
the cutting taking place by one tool moving towards the other tool
and the edge on the moving tool moving past and in close and overlapping
relationship to the edge of the other tool.
TOOL
The instrumentality that contacts the work for effecting directly
the operation of the class either by itself or by cooperation with
another tool.
TOOL CYCLE
The elapsed time between, and all of the motion traced by
the tool between, the time the tool leaves any particular datum
point in its approach to (or recession from) the work until it again
leaves that point in its next succeeding approach to (or recession
from) the work, the location of such datum point for a series of
recurring cycles being determined without giving significance to
mere positioning movements of the tool with respect to the work
(Note: positioning movements of the tool are considered to be part
of the cycle of motions constituting the tool cycle, and the time
they occupy is part of the span of the cycle. They are disregarded
only for the purpose of establishing the datum point of one cycle
with respect to that of a preceding or succeeding cycle).
TOOL PAIR
A plurality of tools, each having a work contacting portion,
said portions being initially separated from each other and cooperating
to effect cutting of the work when they have relative movement toward
each other.
TOOL STROKE
The motion of the tool toward and into the work to effect
a cut, and the motion of retraction of the tool from the product
to its base position.
TOOL SUPPORT
An element connected to the tool for supporting it against
gravity and that partakes of all of the movement of the tool and
has no relative movement with respect to the tool except for purposes
of adjustment.
TRANSMITTER
A system for sending the signal or impulse which has been
effected by a detector (see definition of "detector" above)
to a means for establishing (in response to receipt of such signal
or impulse) a driving connection between a source of power and a
machine part or assembly; or sending such signal or impulse to a
mart or assembly directly (as by a linkage).
WORK
Article, material, or stuff to be treated (cut). (Compare "product").
WORK-FEED MEANS
An instrumentality for advancing work to the treating (cutting)
zone.
WORK THICKNESS
In general, the least dimension along a substantially
planar outer surface of work. As to hollow workpieces, the thickness
dimension at an annular section is taken as the wall thickness;
at a solid section, it is the thickness of the entire workpiece
as though it were not hollow. The thickness dimension of a strand
is defined as follows: (a) as to those of circular, triangular
or elliptical cross-section, by any line passing through the strand
from surface point to surface point, (b) as to those of other polygonal
cross-section, by any line passing through the strand from one outer
surface to a nonintersecting outer surface. As to spheres a line
extending through the sphere from one point on the surface to another
is deemed to define the thickness dimension. As to all other shapes
of work pieces, thickness is not considered significant for the
purpose of this classification.
Throughout the definitions of subclasses herein below, the
appearance of an asterisk (*) will indicate a word or term
which has been defined in this section. However, the words "product", "tool",
and "work", defined in this section, occur so
frequently in the subclass definitions, that the use of the asterisk
in reference thereto has been omitted.
SUBCLASSES
![[List of Patents for class 83 subclass 13]](../ps.gif) 13 | PROCESSES: |
| | This subclass is indented under the class definition. Method which includes a step of cutting.
| | (1)
Note. A step of cutting, as herein applied, consists in moving
a tool and work into contact with and relative to each other such
that the tool moves entirely through the thickness of the work.
Once the cut through the wall thickness has been achieved, then,
an interruption of said relative movement, or of cutting contact
extending throughout said wall thickness, shall be construed as
a termination of said "step". |
| | (2)
Note. A special exception to the limitations expressed in
these definitions (i.e., the limitations which require a moving tool
and/or an edge backup member) exists in the case of wherein
sound waves (e.g., supersonic sound) cause work to be cut through
its thickness. Such a step will be proper for this class and this
subclass as a process of cutting. |
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
| 701, | for the corresponding apparatus. |
| 861, | and 866 through 880, for methods of cutting but
generally not completely through work thickness. |
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
| 29, | Metal Working,
subclass 557 for process of shaping a one piece blank which
includes a step of severing. |
| 234, | Selective Cutting (e.g., Punching),
subclasses 1+ for a method of selective cutting. |
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| 14 | With preparatory or simultaneous ancillary treatment of
work: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 13. Process which includes a step, either before or during the
cutting step, of performing an operation (other than a cutting operation)
which changes the shape or state of the work, which change of shape
or state facilitates the cutting.
| | (1)
Note. The operation may either facilitate the operation of
the tool upon the work or effect a necessary or desired change of
shape of the work with respect to the tool. |
| | (2)
Note. Included in this subclass (14) are processes which
recite a step of placing the work under tension or compression; however,
applying such force for the purpose of merely immobilizing the work,
as by clamping, has not been considered a treatment step to admit
the patent to this subclass. Such patents are classified below
on other steps of their method. |
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
| 451, | Abrading,
subclasses 35 and 54+ for a process of abrading including
ancillary treatment of work. |
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| 15 | By heating or cooling: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 14. Process which includes a step of increasing or decreasing
the temperature of the work.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
| 170+, | for apparatus for modifying or controlling the temperature
of the tool or work. |
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
| 264, | Plastic and Nonmetallic Article Shaping or Treating:
Processes,
subclasses 138+ for molding or shaping processes within the class
definition when combined with a cutting or severing step. |
| 451, | Abrading,
subclasses 33 and 53 for a process of abrading including temperature
modification or control of work or abradant. |
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| 16 | At localized area (e.g., line of separation): |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 15. Process in which the treatment is confined to a specific
portion of the work, as by applying a heated tool on the line on
which the separation is effected.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
| 219, | Electric Heating,
subclasses 260+ for a process of burning a hole by means of electrically
generated heat, and subclasses 69.1+ for a process of cutting
by means of an electric arc. |
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| 17 | By distorting within elastic limit: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 14. Process which includes a step of temporarily altering the
shape or dimension of the work within the cutting zone and concurrently
with the cutting operation.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
| 175, | and 176, for corresponding apparatus. |
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| 18 | By stretching: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 17. Process which includes a step of subjecting the work to
forces which are directed away from each other (i.e., tensile forces)
to elongate the work.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
| 175, | for corresponding apparatus. |
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| 19 | By compressing: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 17. Process which includes a step of subjecting the work to
forces directed toward each other, which forces density, reduces
the volume, or reduces a dimension of the work. |
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| 20 | By flexing around or by tool: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 17. Process which includes a step of bending the work by engaging
the work with a tool so as to thereby distort or deform the work.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
| 18, | for a process of both stretching and flexing the
work by contacting the work with a tool. |
| 19, | for a process of both compressing and flexing the
work by contacting the work with a tool. |
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| 21 | To conform to shape of tool: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 20. Process which includes a step of subjecting the work to
bending forces which direct the work toward a tool so as to compel
the work to assume the shape of the tool. |
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| 22 | By fluid application: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 14. Process in which the treatment includes contacting the work
with a fluid or gas.
| | (1)
Note. This subclass includes methods of applying a lubricant
to the tool or work. |
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
| 15+, | for process of heating or cooling by a fluid application. |
| 17+, | for process of distorting the work by fluid pressure
before or during the cutting step. |
| 24, | for process of subsequently handling the produce
by fluid application. |
| 53, | for process of cutting by the direct application
of fluid pressure to the work. |
| 169, | for corresponding apparatus. |
| 402, | for apparatus to move work by fluid current. |
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| 23 | With subsequent handling (i.e., of product): |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 13. Process which includes a step of manipulating a product
resulting from the severing step.
| | (1)
Note. Moving cut work between claimed cutting steps has been
considered work-feeding rather than subsequent handling of a product;
and patents thereto have been placed below on the basis of other
steps. |
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
| 39+, | for a method including the feeding of work from
one tool station to another; and see the Notes thereto. |
| 78+, | for corresponding apparatus. |
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| 24 | By fluid application: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 23. Process in which the manipulation of the product is effected
by contacting the product with a gas or liquid.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
| 98+, | for corresponding apparatus. |
| 402, | for apparatus to move work by fluid current. |
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
| 226, | Advancing Material of Indeterminate Length, may include a nominal recitation of a supply or take-up
coil (e.g., less than a support for such a coil or a cooperative
relationship between a tension or exhaust detector* and
reel driving or reel stopping means, etc.),
subclass 7 for a process of or subclasses 97.1+ for
apparatus using fluid current to advance the material. |
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| 25 | By retaining or reinserting product in workpiece: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 23. Process which includes a step of holding or replacing the
product in the workpiece from which it was separated.
| | (1)
Note. The retention or reinsertion is usually for the purpose
of conveying the product away from the cutting station by means
of the workpiece. |
| | (2)
Note. This subclass has been designated a collecting place
for disclosures of methods of, and means for, retaining a product
in position in a workpiece. |
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
| 103, | for apparatus for removing a reinserted product
from cut work. |
| 108, | for apparatus for replacing a product in the workpiece
from which it has been cut. |
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| 26 | By accelerating travel: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 23. Process wherein the speed of product being delivered is
increased with respect to that of the work being fed or with respect
to the speed of an adjacent product piece.
| | (1)
Note. Such process usually accomplishes the purpose of conveying
the product away from the following work, or out of the path of
a tool, or moving one product with respect to another product while
both are moving away from the cutting zone. | |
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| 27 | By separating products from each other: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 23. Process which includes a step of moving one of a plurality
of products with respect to the other.
| | (1)
Note. The piece remaining in the cutting zone and unmoved
after cutting has not been considered a product for purposes of
this subclass. |
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
| 102+, | for corresponding apparatus. |
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| 28 | By moving work support to which a tacky product is adhered: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 23. Process in which the work has an adhesive on one surface,
which surface is adhered to a work holder to which the product remains
adhered subsequent to the cutting step, and which includes a step
of manipulating the support with the product adhered thereto.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
| 225, | Severing by Tearing or Breaking,
subclasses 23+ , for means to move tacky work to a tool station. |
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| 30 | Puncturing: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 13. Process which includes a step of shaping an opening in the
work, as by a sharp, pointed tool, so that no substantial amount
of material is removed from the work; i.e., there is only one product.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
| 660, | for a pointed perforating tool. |
| 866+, | for a perforating device, or method, which does
not produce, or result in, complete penetration of work. |
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
| 137, | Fluid Handling,
subclass 15.14 for a process of tapping a pipe or tank (e.g., gas
main, water main, keg, etc.) having an aperture forming cutter or
cutting tool. |
| 428, | Stock Material or Miscellaneous Articles,
subclasses 596+ for metallic stock material having apertures; e.g., resulting
from a puncturing operation. |
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| 32 | Cutting of interdigitating products: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 13. Process which includes a step of severing a plurality of
products from a workpiece, each of which products has an interfitting
portion which lies within a recess of the other product, the product
portions which define the cooperating interfitting portions constituting
the parts of the whole of a common area of the workpiece, and at
least part of the separation being effected along the lines of the
interfitting portions.
| | (1)
Note. The mere longitudinal separation of a web of indefinite
length into two or more ribbonlike products by means of an undulant
cut, or the mere transverse separation of a product from a web of
indefinite length by means of an undulant cut, is not considered
sufficient to bring the patent within this subclass but will be found
below in subclasses 48 and 56. |
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
| 48, | for process of transversely separating products
from the leading edge of the work by means of an undulant cut, and
see (1) Note above. |
| 56, | for process of separating the work longitudinally
by means of an undulant line of cut, and see (1) Note above. |
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| 33 | Making and using a registration cut: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 13. Process which includes the steps of effecting a cut upon
the work and then utilizing that cut (as by engaging the edges thereof)
or orient, locate, or feed the work with respect to a tool, for
a subsequent cut. |
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| 34 | With reorientation of tool between cuts: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 13. Process which includes a step of shifting the tool intermediate
successive cutting steps to rearrange or readjust the tool with
respect to the work.
| | (1)
Note. The mere movement of the tool toward and from the work
in its normal cutting cycle has not been considered reorienting.
The reorientation is superimposed upon the tool stroke, resulting in
such additional movements as a change from the previously normal
path of the tool during the tool feeding cycle, and inversion of
the tool, or an indexing of the tool. |
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
| 35+, | for process which includes reorienting the work
between cuts. |
| 215+, | for apparatus for imparting a plurality of motions
to a tool during its cutting cycle. |
| 556+, | for tool positioning means synchronized with the
cutting stroke. |
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| 35 | With reorientation of work between cuts: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 13. Process which includes a step of shifting the work intermediate
successive cutting steps to rearrange or readjust the work with
respect to a tool or a cutting station.
| | (1)
Note. The mere advancement of the work into the cutting zone
has been considered feeding rather than reorienting. The reorientation
is superimposed upon the work-feeding motion, resulting in such
additional movements as: a change in the path of an established
direction of feed, an inversion of the work, or a turning end-for-end
of the work. |
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
| 34, | for process which includes reorienting the tool
between cuts. |
| 219+, | for apparatus for feeding the work in a plurality
of directions. |
| 249, | for apparatus to facilitate a manual repositioning
of the work between cuts. |
| 256, | for apparatus for changing the direction of work-feed
between work stations. |
| 404+, | for means to move work from one tool station to
another. |
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| 36 | Relative to same tool: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 35. Process wherein the reorientation is effected with respect
to the tool which has accomplished the earlier of the successive
cutting steps. |
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| 37 | During movement of work past flying cutter: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 13. Process which includes a step of cutting while the work
is moving through a cutting zone, which step includes moving the
tool, at the time of cutting, in the direction the work is moving.
| | (1)
Note. A method of slitting the work longitudinally of the
direction of work movement by means of a rotatable disc tool has
been excluded. Patents thereto will be found in subclass 56 below; whereas
patents for slitting apparatus will be found in subclasses 426+. |
| | (2)
Note. Apparatus used to practice this process is usually
called a flying cutter, patents to which will be found in subclasses
284+. |
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
| 42+, | for process of sequentially separating products
from the leading edge of the work. |
| 56, | and see (1) Note above. |
| 284+, | for corresponding apparatus. |
| 426+, | and see (1) Note above. |
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| 38 | Cyclically varying rate of tool or work movement: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 37. Process which includes a step of changing either the speed
of the tool during a portion of its cyclic travel, (i.e., toward,
from, or concurrent with, the moving work) or the speed of the work
as it traverses the cutting zone.
| | (1)
Note. Oscillating and reciprocating tools of necessity have
a period of nonuniform rate of travel due to the reversals of direction.
Since such tools inherently operate in this manner, patents for
methods of operating them have not been included in this subclass
and will be found in other subclasses indented under subclass 13.
However, all patents for methods of operating unidirectionally moving
rotary tools which start their cycle of movement from a position
of rest have been placed here because of the difficulty distinguishing
between rotary tools which stop and those which merely slow down. |
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
| 238+, | for means to feed work unequally in recurring series. |
| 313, | for a flying cutter with means for cyclically varying
the work-feed speed. |
| 324, | for a flying cutter with means for cyclically varying
the tool speed of an orbitally moving tool. |
| 617, | for a tool having means to vary the force or speed
of the tool stroke. |
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| 39 | Plural cutting steps: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 13. Process which includes more than one cutting step as defined
in (1) Note to subclass 13.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
| 34, | for process of reorienting a tool between cutting
steps. |
| 35+, | for process of reorienting the work between cutting
steps. |
| 213+, | for plural tools successively actuated at the same
cutting station. |
| 255+, | for plural tool stations of a subclass 202 type. |
| 404+, | for means to move work between plural tool stations. |
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| 40 | Blanking and cutting: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 39. Process which includes a step of blanking, as defined in
(1) Note to subclass 55, below; and further includes a step of making
some other kind of cut.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
| 49, | for process of making a progressive cut by a series
of blanking operations. |
| 50, | for process of repetitive blanking. |
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| 42 | Repetitive transverse severing from leading edge of work: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 39. Process which includes the steps of feeding the work to
and through a cutting station and making serial cuts each of which
separates a product(s) from the advancing edge of the work.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
| 37+, | for a process of repetitive transverse severing
from the leading edge of the work while the work is moving through
the cutting station. |
| 202+, | for an apparatus for cutting the work during a dwell
in the work-feed. |
| 284+, | for a flying cutter which may sever work transversely. |
| 350+, | for a cutter synchronized with moving work, which
may sever work transversely. |
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| 44 | With longitudinal severing: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 42. Process which includes a step of cutting the work along
a line generally parallel to the direction of work-feed.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
| 408, | for apparatus to accomplish the same purpose. |
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| 46 | Along zigzag or undulant line or cut: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 44. Process in which the longitudinal severing is along a side-to-side
or wavy line of separation.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
| 32, | for process of cutting transversely of the work
combined with longitudinal severing along a zigzag or wavy line where
the cuts make interdigitating products. |
| 45, | for the combination of transverse and longitudinal
severing in which a zigzag or wavy line of longitudinal separation
is effected by plural cuts. |
| 48, | for process of nonrectilinear transverse cutting
to sever a product from the leading edge of the work. |
| 56, | for process of making a zigzag or wavy line of separation. |
| 333, | for a rotatable tool having an undulant cutting
edge. |
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| 47 | Prior to transverse severing: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 44. Process wherein the step of longitudinal cutting is made
before that of transverse cutting in the severance of each product
piece from the advancing edge of the work. |
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| 48 | Nonrectilinear cutting: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 42. Process wherein the line of cutting produced by the serial
cuts does not define a straight line path.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
| 32, | for process of cutting interdigitating products. |
| 46, | for process of making a nonrectilinear longitudinal
cut and a transverse cut. |
| 56, | for process of making a continuing line of cut which
may be undulant. |
| 410+, | for a work carrier guided in a nonrectilinear path,
thus effecting a nonrectilinear cut. |
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| 49 | Plural cutting steps effect progressive cut: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 39. Process which includes making a continuing line of cut by
a series of cutting steps.
| | (1)
Note. The successive cuts may be effected by a single tool
or by a plurality of tools mounted on a single carrier. |
| | (2)
Note. A cutting step is defined in (1) Note to subclass 13. |
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
| 52, | for process of effecting a progressive cut in increments
during a single cutting step. |
| 56, | for process of making a continuing line of cut by
a single step. |
| 332, | for apparatus including a segmented disc slitting
or slotting tool effecting a progressive cut on moving work. |
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| 50 | Repetitive blanking: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 39. Process which includes a plurality of blanking steps as
defined in (1) Note to the definition of subclass 55.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
| 32, | for process of cutting interdigitating products
by repetitive blanking steps. |
| 34, | for process of repetitive blanking wherein the tool
is reoriented between cuts. |
| 35+, | for process of repetitive blanking wherein the work
is reoriented between cuts. |
| 40+, | for process of blanking and cutting. |
| 41, | for process of blanking out a plurality of holes
in a workpiece and cutting to join the holes. |
| 45, | for process of progressive slotting which comprises
a series of blanking operations. |
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| 51 | Cutting part way through from opposite sides of work: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 13. Process in which plural cutting tools penetrate work disposed
between them and meet in cutting engagement interiorly of the work.
| | (1)
Note. Included are patents for process of "nipping". |
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
| 566+, | 600, and 623, for structure wherein each of two
tools of a tool pair moves toward the other |
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| 52 | Effecting diverse or sequential cuts in same cutting step: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 13. Process which includes a step of making in a single cutting
step, either (a) two or more cuts differing in kind (e.g., cut,
slit, punch) or (b) similar cuts effected serially and overlapping
in time.
| | (1)
Note. See (1) Note to subclass 13 for the definition of a
cutting step. |
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
| 40+, | for process of blanking and cutting in two or more
steps. |
| 49, | for process of making a single continuous cut progressively
through the work by a plurality of cutting steps. |
| 56, | for process of making a continuous cut by a single
cutting step. |
| 513+, | for plural tools with individually actuated tool
supports, and particularly subclass 519 for successively acting tools,
and subclass 518 for diverse tools. |
| 554+, | for means driving a tool through plural steps in
cutting strokes. |
| 688, | for a punch having spaced, successively operating,
portions. |
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| 53 | Cutting by direct application of fluent pressure to work: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 13. Process which includes the step of cutting solely by contacting
the work with a pressure medium which conforms to the configuration of
a passive supporting tool, on or against which the work is supported.
| | (1)
Note. The pressure medium may be liquid, gaseous or of a
readily yieldable material such as rubber. |
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
| 177, | for corresponding apparatus. |
| 431, | for means (which may be fluent means) to force
work upon tool. |
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
| 451, | Abrading,
subclasses 28+ for a process of severing by abrading. |
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| 54 | Cutting wall of hollow work: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 13. Process which includes a step of severing a cup, tube or
the like.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
| 178+, | for cutting apparatus which includes a tool within
hollow work. |
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
| 82, | Turning,
subclass 47 for process of cutting hollow work while effecting relative
rotary movement about an axis passing through the work, and subclass
82 for corresponding apparatus. |
| 137, | Fluid Handling,
subclass 15.14 for a process of tapping a pipe or tank (e.g., gas
main, water main, keg, etc.) having an aperture forming cutter or
cutting tool. |
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| 55 | Blanking: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 13. Process which includes a step of blanking.
| | (1)
Note. Blanking is defined as separating a product from within
the confines of the work so that not more than one of the edges
of the product is an edge of the workpiece, or so that less than
1/2 of the circumference of a curved product is a part
of the circumference of initially curved work. Mere serration does
not in itself comprise more than "one edge" of the
workpiece. |
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
| 40+, | for the combination of blanking and cutting steps. |
| 49, | for process of progressive slotting which comprises
a series of blanking operations. |
| 50, | for process of repetitive blanking. |
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
| 428, | Stock Material or Miscellaneous Articles,
subclasses 577+ for metallic blanks not elsewhere provided for. |
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| 56 | Cut advances across work surface: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 13. Process which includes a step of making a continuous cut
which extends through the work thickness wise and which proceeds
in a direction toward or from one edge of the work, which may be
a leading or trailing edge.
| | (1)
Note. Included are processes of "drawcutting" and "slitting". |
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
| 44+, | for process of progressively cutting longitudinally
of the work combined with transverse severing from the leading edge
of the work. |
| 49, | for process of making a progressive cut by a plurality
of cutting steps. |
| 52, | for process of progressive cutting effected in increments
during a single cutting step. |
| 341+, | for progressive transverse "flying" cutter. |
| 425+, | for means to move work past a fixed-type slitting
cutter. |
| 483+, | for means to carry a rotatable disc-type tool across
work. |
| 611, | for a progressively cutting oscillating cutter. |
| 614, | and 636, for a progressively cutting reciprocating
cutter. |
| 642+, | for "draw-cut" mechanism. |
| 689, | for a progressively cutting punch. |
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
| 225, | Severing by Tearing or Breaking,
subclass 3 for process of breaking or tearing longitudinally
of the direction of work-feed. |
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| 57 | WITH MANUALLY ACTUATED MEANS TO DISTURB CYCLIC OPERATION: |
| | This subclass is indented under the class definition. Device which comprises means, actuatable by force applied
by and at the will of an operative, to override the normal cyclic
functioning of a part(s) of the device, which part(s) returns to
normal functioning when the application of the intervening force
ceases.
| | (1)
Note. The disturbance referred to is temporary and exists
only during the application of force by an operative. (Example:
A machine, set to cut products of a given size, is controlled by
a pushbutton to cut small pieces for sampling purposes). |
| | (2)
Note. The disturbance herein contemplated does not embrace
stopping. For disclosures, of noncyclic stopping means, see subclasses
58+; and, for cyclic stopping means, see other appropriate
subclasses whose titles include the work "stopping" or
equivalent term (e.g., subclasses 202+). |
| | (3)
Note. Adjustment of a device establishes a new condition
which persists indefinitely, and is thus distinguishable from a "disturbance" which
permits the disturbed part to return to the previous condition upon
withdrawal of the intervening force. |
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
| 68, | for manually caused stopping of a machine or a part
thereof. |
| 232+, | for tool actuating means adapted to be struck by
a mechanical part, which means might be urged manually to cause
tool operation at will. |
| 252, | for supplemental manual work-feed means. |
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| 58 | WITH RANDOMLY ACTUATED STOPPING MEANS: |
| | This subclass is indented under the class definition. Device provided with means capable of bringing any or all
of the moving parts of the device to a halt, such means acting to
accomplish its halting effect in response to a signal or impulse
which cannot be predicted to occur during any particular one of
a number of recurring cycles of operation (either of the machine as
a whole, of the tool, or of any part of the machine which has a
cyclic law of operation).
| | (1)
Note. Such means may comprise, for example, a device effective
to disrupt the flow of power to a part or all of the machine, as
by effecting the disconnection of the parts of a clutch. |
| | (2)
Note. It is not a bar to original placement of a patent in
this subclass, that the claimed power train disrupting, braking or
other "stopping" means may be activated at a time
when the part to be halted is, purely adventitiously, at a standstill due
to its normal cyclic operation. |
| | (3)
Note. If, however, the normal and intended operation of power
disrupting, friction gripping, or other motion preventing means,
is to forestall the impending start of movement or activation of
a part of the device, then the motion preventing means is regarded
as an interlock and its claimed combination with an instrumentality
of a cutting machine is found in subclasses 399+, below. |
| | (4)
Note. If the normal and intended operation of power disrupting
means is to forestall or prevent future movement of a tool or tool
support by disrupting its power-transmitting connection to an uninterruptedly
moving tool-actuating mechanism, the claimed combination of the
power-disrupting means with the tool support and tool actuating
mechanism is found in subclasses 572+, indented under subclass
571 in this schedule. |
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
| 57, | for manually caused disturbance (i.e., temporary
change) of cyclic operation. |
| 69, | for stopping means effective on completion of a
predetermined number of cutting cycles. |
| 70, | for delayed stopping after cessation of cyclic operation. |
| 571+, | for devices which disables a tool without bringing
to a halt any moving part other than the tool or its support; see (4)
Note above. |
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
| 72, | Metal Deforming,
subclasses 1+ , for a stopping feature in a metal-deforming machine. |
| 100, | Presses,
subclasses 341 through 352for a press having a safety control. |
| 192, | Clutches and Power-Stop Control, appropriate subclasses, for stopping means in general;
and
subclass 134 for a device applicable to a punch press which
is peculiarly designed to stop machine operation in response to detection
of the unauthorized presence of a part of an operative"s
body. |
| 234, | Selective Cutting (e.g., Punching),
subclasses 30+ for a selective cutting device provided with randomly
actuated stopping means. |
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| 61 | With sensing of product or product handling means: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 58. Device wherein the signal or impulse is generated by a detector* for
either (a) a product of the cutting operation, or (b) means to accomplish
direct, or otherwise affect movement of such product.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
| 73, | for means to otherwise control a machine by monitoring
a product. |
| 78+, | for a product handling feature in a cutting machine
environment. |
| 358+, | for the control of an operation by means responsive
to product. |
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
| 198, | Conveyors: Power-Driven, appropriate subclasses for different types of conveyors
or systems of plural conveyors having operation control means responsive
to a condition of a conveyor or to a condition of the conveyed load. |
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| 62 | Responsive to tool detector or work-feed-means detector: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 58. Device in which the signal or impulse is generated by a
detector* which directly or indirectly senses a condition
or location of the tool or of the work-moving means.
| | (1)
Note. The direct contact of the detector with the tool or
work-moving means may be that which occurs in the normal, uninterrupted
operation of the device, in which case the signal for stopping is generated
by failure of the detector to make such direct contact. | |
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| 63 | Responsive to work sensing means: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 58. Device in which the signal or impulse is generated by a
detector* for the work.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
| 80, | for product handling means initiated by means responsive
to work. |
| 209+, | 211+, 286+, for operation controlled by
means responsive to work in cyclically operated cutting machines. |
| 360+, | for operation controlled by means responsive to
work, in cutting machines in general. |
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
| 226, | Advancing Material of Indeterminate Length,
subclass 43 for material responsive control means for stopping the
operation of feeding means. |
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| 64 | Of buckled work: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 63. Device in which the detector contacts a portion of the work
moving in a bent or arcuate path. |
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| 65 | Running loop: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 64. Device in which a portion of the work normally moves in
a predetermined bent or arcuate path, or in any one of a number
of possible bent or arcuate paths in a zone whose limits are defined
by two such paths, and the signal is generated upon departure of
the work from the predetermined path or zone. |
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| 66 | Detector supported on or urged against work: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 63. Device in which the detector is under the influence of gravity
or any other force which tends to keep it constantly in contact
with the work.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
| 64+, | for a device in which the detector is supported
on or urged into contact with buckled work. |
| 360+, | for specific types of work responsive means; and
see the Notes thereto. |
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| 68 | Manually operated: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 58. Device wherein the impulse or signal which brings about
or initiates the stoppage is entirely a product of the will of an
operative.
| | (1)
Note. This subclass excludes means for halting a machine
part solely by the application of braking force, or the interposition
of blocking means, in a yieldable drive train. Examples of such excluded
subject matter may be found in the patents of subclass 593. |
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
| 57, | for manually actuated device which disturbs cyclic
operation, rather than starts of stop a cyclic cutting operation. |
| 571, | for disconnecting means between tool and tool actuator,
as for changing a machine set-up, and subclasses 572+, indented
thereunder, for means capable of connecting or disconnecting a tool,
or tool and its support, to or from an actuating element while the
latter is in motion (i.e., "gag" or "gag
block"), and see (4) Note under subclass 58, above. |
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| 69 | WITH STOPPING MEANS EFFECTIVE ON COMPLETION OF PREDETERMINED
NUMBER OF TOOL CYCLES: |
| | This subclass is indented under the class definition. Device including means to bring one or more parts to a halt
after a tool has carried out a fixed (but not necessarily unalterable)
plurality of tool cycles*.
| | (1)
Note. Where the part stopped is a cutter, the tool cycle
of reference is the cycle of such cutter itself, not that of another
cutter operating on a different cycle. |
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
| 61, | for a device which includes means for stopping upon
completion of formation of a stack of products of predetermined
size. |
| 203+, | for a cutting machine in which the operative relationship
between the work-feed means and tool actuating means thereof is
interrupted, once for every cutting cycle, by the stoppage of a
part or parts, so that the intervention of human will is necessary
to restore such interrelationship and bring about another cutting
cycle. |
| 524+, | for unicyclic cutting machines (other than subclass-203
type). |
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
| 234, | Selective Cutting (e.g., Punching),
subclass 21 for means to stop a selective cutting machine after
a given number of operations. |
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| 70 | WITH MEANS TO ACCOMPLISH DELAYED STOPPING AFTER CESSATION
OF CYCLIC OPERATION: |
| | This subclass is indented under the class definition. Device which includes means effective to bring a part or
all of the device to a halt upon the lapse of a certain limited
period of time subsequent to the termination of feeding and cutting
operations.
| | (1)
Note. Examples are the tape "run-out" devices
on message-handling tape punches. |
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
| 234, | Selective Cutting (e.g., Punching),
subclasses 59+ for a pattern-controlled selective cutting machine. |
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| 72 | WITH MEANS TO MONITOR AND CONTROL OPERATION (E.G., SELF-REGULATING
MEANS): |
| | This subclass is indented under the class definition. Apparatus, each of whose parts has a desired operating condition
according to a law of operation; such apparatus being provided with
a detector for sensing a deviation of a part(s) (or all of the apparatus)
from its or their desired operating condition; and including means
to modify - in response to a signal or impulse transmitted by said
detector - (a) the cyclical operation of such part(s) (or the entire apparatus)
to correct the deviated operating condition; and/or, (b)
the normal cyclical operation of another part(s) to compensate for
the deviated condition; whereby, in either event, the maintenance
of a normal cyclical desired operating condition of the apparatus
as a whole is achieved.
| | (1)
Note. The sensing or detecting may be direct; i.e., by determining
the operation of a component of the device (as, for example, in
U.S. Patent No. 2,175,828, wherein a driven feed roller is coupled
to a roller-speed detector); or may be indirect, i.e., by determining
the result of the operation of a component of the device (as, for
example, in U.S. Patent No. 1,961,538, wherein work is moved by feed
rollers, indicia on the work are scanned stroboscopically to detect
any variations in work speed imparted by the feed rollers, and such
speed variations are eliminated by correcting the feed roller speed). |
| | (2)
Note. Merely stopping or starting a cyclic component of the
device to effect the functioning thereof is not considered to be
modifying the operation of a component. However, a regulating means, which
accomplishes such modification of a cyclic operation, may itself
be started or stopped (to effect the cyclic operation), in response
to the detection of a deviation in the desired condition. (See,
for example, U.S. Patent No. 2,023,243, wherein the leading edge
of the work initiates the actuation of a regulating means, which
means compares the position and speed of the entering work relative
to the angular position and speed of a flying cutter and modifies
the angular position of the cutter to compensate for the entrance
timing of the work). |
| | (3)
Note. The imposition of a change upon a component by an operator
(e.g., physical relocation of a component) is not considered a deviation
within the meaning of the definition above. Thus, patents claiming
means for detecting operator-imposed changes, and means to vary
the operation of the device in response to detection of such changes,
will be found in other subclasses; e.g., subclasses 399+,
below. |
| | (4)
Note. Detection of an irregularity in the work, which irregularity
is not the result of a deviation in the desired operation, but is
a part of the work, is not considered a deviation detection within
the meaning of the definition above. Thus, devices claiming means
to detect such irregularities and means to vary the operation of
a cutting device in response to the detecting means, will be found
in other subclasses; e.g., subclasses 360+, below. |
| | (5)
Note. For Search Note relating to other Control Functions,
see the Notes in subclass 399, below. |
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
| 226, | Advancing Material of Indeterminate Length,
subclasses 10+ for means to sense material and control the operation
of material feeding means. |
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| 75 | And modify another operation: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 74. Device in which the means to vary the cyclic operation also
effects a revision in the operating condition of a component different
from the component whose deviation is detected or sensed. |
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| 76 | Including means to compensate tool speed for work-feed
variations: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 72. Device in which the detecting means senses the speed or
position of the work and in which the means to vary the cyclic operation
effects a revision in the speed of a cutting tool in response to
the detected speed or position of the work.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
| 198, | Conveyors: Power-Driven, appropriate subclasses for different types of conveyors
or systems of plural conveyors having operation control means responsive
to a condition of a conveyor or to a condition of the conveyed load. |
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| 76.1 | WITH CONTROL MEANS RESPONSIVE TO REPLACEABLE OR SELECTABLE INFORMATION
PROGRAM: |
| | This subclass is indented under the class definition. Device provided with memory means, i.e., a member in which
digital or analog data can be impressed for subsequent recall, and including
means to detect the data on the memory means and accordingly regulate
the operation of the device.
| | (1)
Note. The "memory" means of this subclass
may comprise permanently installed structure of the device or it
may comprise a removable tape or card. |
| | (2)
Note. A templet, per se, is not considered to be a replaceable
information supply; however, a device including a templet from which
information is retrieved and stored in the device is included in
this subclass. |
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
| 399, | for a cutting machine with a portion thereof controlled
by a remote member and see the Search Notes thereunder for a comprehensive
listing of subclasses in this class including "control" features. |
| 565, | for a cutting machine of this class type including
means to drive or guide the tool with a templet surface following tool. |
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
| 72, | Metal Deforming,
subclass 7 for analogous "pattern" sensing
means which controls a metal deforming device. |
| 234, | Selective Cutting (e.g., Punching),
subclasses 59+ for a pattern controlled selective cutting machine. |
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| 76.2 | For cutting component of animal; e.g., hair clipper: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 76.1. Device particularly adapted to severing a portion of an
animal, either living or dead.
| | (1)
Note. Included herein is a hair clipping (or wool shearing)
machine on which an animal is placed, having a control means responsive
to replaceable or selectable information program which guides the cutter. |
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
| 13+, | for the method of cutting hair, or for the method
of shearing a sheep. |
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
| 30, | Cutlery,
subclasses 196+ for randomly manipulated hair clippers, generally. |
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| 76.4 | Indeterminate length, web or strand: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 76.3. Device wherein the removable member on which replaceable
data is stored is generally elongated and wherein the device either engages
no end of the removable member or engages only the leading or trailing
end thereof.
| | (1)
Note. The replaceable member may be endless, or it may be
wound on a spool. | |
| | |
| 76.5 | Magnetic: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 76.4. Device wherein the magnetic characteristics of the removable
member are utilized in storing data thereon. |
| | |
| 76.7 | With condition sensor: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 76.6. Device including means to detect a characteristic other
than that of the "memory".
| | (1)
Note. The condition sensor of this subclass may respond to
work, product, a component of the device, or to the environment. | |
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| 76.9 | With operator input means: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 76.6. Device also having means to alter the operation thereof
(without changing the program) at the control of the person operating
the device. |
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| 77 | WITH MEANS TO WEIGH PRODUCT: |
| | This subclass is indented under the class definition. Device having means to determine the weight of a piece or
portion of the cut product.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
| 177, | Weighing Scales, appropriate subclasses for the combination of a cutting
machine and a weighing scale which received material cut or to be cut
by the cutting machine, characterized by means for actuating, or
modifying the operation of, the cutting machine in response to determination of
the weight of material accumulated on the weighing scale; and
subclasses 60+ for weigh chamber responsive material control. |
| 198, | Conveyors: Power-Driven,
subclasses 504+ for a conveyor having load weighing means. |
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| 78 | WITH PRODUCT HANDLING MEANS: |
| | This subclass is indented under the class definition. Apparatus including means to move, guide, or otherwise affect
the motion of, the product of a cutting operation - other than by the
mere provision of a receptacle or support into or onto which product
may descend at random (i.e., without necessarily assuming any regular
arrangement).
| | (1)
Note. A cutting machine including such receptacle or support
for receiving product in random arrangement constitutes subject
matter of subclass 167, below. |
| | (2)
Note. The handling given recognition by this and indented
subclasses is additional to that which inherently is accomplished by
the tool(s) in the cutting operation. A tool, qua tool, is therefore
not to be considered a product handling means. But a specific element
fixed to, or a portion integral with, a tool will be recognized
as a product handling means if there is a clear teaching, in the
disclosure of the device, that the element or portion performs a
product handling function. |
| | (3)
Note. Inasmuch as many work moving means of the cutting arts
also function to carry away the product of the cutting operation,
a patent whose only claimed means capable of product handling is
a device for moving, guiding, supporting, or stopping motion of,
work will not be placed originally in this subclass unless such
work handling device is claimed in terms of its specific product
handling function. (Of course, a patent claiming work handling means
in combination with additional means to give the work handling means
a product handling effect - such as means to tilt a work table to
effect product sliding - will be placed originally in this or an
indented subclass). |
| | (4)
Note. For the purpose of original placement in this classification,
a means to handle the product of one of a claimed series of tool
stations, while proceeding from such one station to a succeeding station,
will be considered a work handling means for the succeeding station rather
than a product handling means for the earlier station. (Disclosures
of such means may be placed as cross-reference copies in this or
indented subclasses, where deemed pertinent). |
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
| 23+, | for method of cutting and subsequently handling
the product. |
| 77, | for a device under the class definition combined
with means to weigh the cut product. |
| 167, | for a device under the class definition combined
with a receptacle or support for the cut product; and see (1) Note, above. |
| 404+, | for a device including means to move work between
successive tool stations. |
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
| 198, | Conveyors: Power-Driven,
subclass 339.1 for a conveyor arranged to facilitate working on
the conveyed load at a work station, and subclasses 373+ for
a conveyor having means for changing the attitude of the conveyed load
relative to the conveying direction. |
| 242, | Winding, Tensioning, or Guiding,
subclasses 487.1+ and particularly subclasses 522+ and 911
for cutting a product which is subsequently wound classified along
this line: Patents which claim a device for cutting material and
for winding are placed in Class 242 whereas patents which claim
a device for cutting material supplied from a wound source, or in which
disclosed structure for winding a cut product is not significantly claimed
are placed in Class 83 or related Class 225 (Severing by Tearing
or Breaking). |
| 271, | Sheet Feeding or Delivering,
subclasses 278+ for a device for removing individual sheets to
some determined position (where no means to treat the sheet is claimed
specifically). |
| 414, | Material or Article Handling, appropriate subclasses, for an instrument or mechanism
for placing or displacing articles in a particular manner, as in stacks
or piles; also for a carrier or forwarding mechanism of general type
combined with special means for placing the load on the carrier
or removing it therefrom (where no means to treat the material is
claimed specifically). |
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| 79 | Initiated by means responsive to product or work: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 78. Device including a detector* for sensing product
or work, a transmitter*, and means to effect or initiate
product handling or delivery as a direct or indirect result of the
receipt by said means of a detected and transmitted signal or impulse.
| | (1)
Note. As between Classes 83 and 209, patents claiming significant
assorting of the work for, or the product of, a disclosed cutting
device will be placed as an original copy in Class 209 unless the cutting
device also is claimed significantly, in which latter case the original copy
will be placed in this class (class 83). |
| | (2)
Note. Included in this subclass are patents disclosing the
sensing of product and the initiation of product handling responsive
thereto, whereas subclass 80 (indented hereunder) is the repository
for patents disclosing product handling responsive to work sensing. |
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
| 360+, | for means to initiate an operation, other than product
handling, controlled by product sensing or work-sensing means. |
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
| 198, | Conveyors: Power-Driven, appropriate subclasses for different types of conveyors
or systems of plural conveyors having operation control means responsive
to a condition of a conveyor or to a condition of the conveyed load. |
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| 81 | Initiated by means directly responsive to tool movement: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 78. Device including a detector* for sensing the presence
of a moving tool, or of an element partaking of all tool motions,
at a predetermined point in the path of motion of said tool or element;
and including a transmitter* and means to effect or initiate
product handling or delivery as a direct or indirect result of the receipt
by said means of a detected and transmitted signal or impulse. |
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| 83 | Including means to drape the product: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 78. Device which comprises, as part at least of the product
handling means, or is additionally provided with, means adapted
to receive and support the cut product with the ends of the product
depending downwardly on opposite sides of the support means. |
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| 84 | Including means to form or hold pile of product pieces: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 78. Device which includes structure for placing or retaining
product pieces in some regular order relative to, and in contact
with, one another.
| | (1)
Note. Included in this group of subclasses are patents which
disclose that elongated product pieces are arranged in substantial
parallelism or that flat product pieces are arranged sequentially
in face-to-face contact. |
| | (2)
Note. As indicated by the subclass definition, a patent claiming
a receptacle or support which is disclosed as serving to receive
and retain the product pieces in an orderly arrangement will be
included in this group of subclasses. However, where there is no
teaching that the product pieces are placed or held in the receptacle
or on the support in some regular order the patent will be placed
in subclass 167, below. |
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
| 414, | Material or Article Handling,
subclasses 6+ for a device adapted to arrange articles in special
relation to each other in a pile or stack. |
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| 85 | In nested relation: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 84. Device which has means to place together, or retain, a plurality
of similar nonplanar cut pieces in sequential interfitting order,
with at least a portion of one piece located within, and in contact
with, a mating hollow portion of the next adjacent piece. |
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| 86 | In stacked or packed relation: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 84. Device which has means to place together, or to receive
and retain, a multiplicity of substantially planar-faced cut pieces
in sequential face-contacting relation, supported one on another
or edgewise on a common base.
| | (1)
Note. A stack or pack is formed by superposition or juxtaposition
of the pieces thicknesswise. Herein, and in the indented subclasses,
the term "stack" will be used to designate the
concepts generally included in both the terms "stack" and "pack". |
| | (2)
Note. Such stack need not be static but may be in motion,
such as one which is continually diminished at one end and replenished
at the other end. |
| | (3)
Note. A patent disclosing a device which includes a mere
product-conforming cavity in a hollow tool or in the tool and its
support, though it inherently holds the pieces in stack formation,
is not included in this group of subclasses (86+) but is
placed on the basis of other features. However, a stack holding means
which communicates with such tool or its support, or which is incorporated
as an added element within the tool or its support, its proper subject
matter for this group. |
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
| 164, | for a hollow tool having a product diverting conduit
within it or extending therefrom which does not include a stack
holding means within the definition of subclass 86. |
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
| 271, | Sheet Feeding or Delivering,
subclasses 207+ for a sheet delivery device having means for receiving and
retaining the sheets in stacked or packed relation. |
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| 87 | Stacker sweeps along product support: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 86. Device including means to support product pieces, individually
or in stacks, in spaced relationship in substantially parallel planes
so that an edge of one such piece or stack is above the adjacent
edge of the next or adjacent piece or stack, and including stacking
means which moves along the support means for engaging the pieces
or stacks sequentially and moving them into superposed stacked relation
with each other. |
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| 88 | Including cut pieces overlapped on delivery means: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 86. Device including means to arrange a series of cut pieces
on a product-moving support so that each piece of the series rests
partly in contact with the support and partly on an adjacent piece.
| | (1)
Note. Included in this subclass are patents disclosing apparatus
as above defined and further including means to place additional
cut pieces on the overlapped series. | |
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| 89 | And means to separate product portions: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 86. Device including means to move one or more product pieces
from a stack, or to cause product pieces to proceed, or be directed
to, a stack, and other product pieces to proceed or be guided in
another direction (as, for instance, but not necessarily, to another
stack).
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
| 102+, | for a device under the class definition which includes
means to divert one portion of product from another, but without
means to stack the product pieces. |
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| 90 | Including means to move stack bodily: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 86. Device which is effective in itself to move, or is provided
with additional means for moving, a formed stack of product pieces
as a unit.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
| 89, | for a device including means to move a portion of
a stack of product pieces from the stack. |
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| 91 | By movement of stack holder: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 90. Device in which the bodily movement of the stack is accomplished
by moving the support on which the pieces are received to form the stack. |
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| 92 | By timed relocation of holder along path of stack growth: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 91. Device in which means is provided to move the support progressively
broadside away from the source of product pieces as product pieces
are added to the stack.
| | (1)
Note. A typical device of this kind operates to keep the
product receiving end of the stack at all times in the same position with
respect to the source of pieces for the stack. | |
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| 92.1 | Interrelated adjustment of holder movement and work-feeder: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 92. Device including means to vary the progressive broadside
movement of the product, which means is operatively linked to the
mechanism which adjusts the extent that a work-feeding device moves
between each cutting cycle.
| | (1)
Note. Included in this subclass are devices having means
to vary the thickness of product pieces being cut, which means effects
the adjustment of the movement of the product holder to compensate
for such variance in thickness. | |
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| 93 | And means to resist stack movement: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 86. Device which includes means to oppose broadside movement
of the stick away from the source of product pieces as product pieces
are added to the stack.
| | (1)
Note. Devices including a receptacle telescoped over a stack
holder or guide in which the receptacle is moved by the growing
stack are typical of the art of this subclass. | |
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| 95 | With spindle to enter a hole or to make hole in product: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 94. Device in which the stack holder is provided with a rod-like
projection which is introduced into an aperture in each product
piece so as to hold the pieces in stacked relation, the aperture being
either preformed or formed by the projection upon placement of the
piece thereon.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
| 402, | Binder Device Releasably Engaging Aperture or
Notch of Sheet,
subclass 1 , for a sheet binder device of that class which
includes in combination, an impaling type sheet retainer and a discrete
sheet aperture forming device, which device perforates a sheet prior
to placing the same on the retainer; subclass 7 for such device including
an impaling type sheet retainer which penetrates and inserts a pliant
strand through a sheet surface, and subclass 25, for a sheet binder device
including an impaling type sheet retainer including means to force
a sheet upon the sheet retainer. |
| 414, | Material or Article Handling,
subclasses 1+ for a device having a projection engaged in the
apertures of a series of articles for holding the articles in stacked
relation. |
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| 96 | By face-engaging means to push product broadside into stacked
relation: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 94. Device which functions to engage a piece of cut work on
its surface of greatest area and move it in a direction perpendicular
to that surface into face-contacting relation with a previously
cut piece.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
| 97+, | for means to hold a stack of product pieces which
may be discharged broadside from within a hollow cutter but not
by means to deliver individual pieces. |
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
| 271, | Sheet Feeding or Delivering,
subclass 83 for oscillatory fly means to deliver a sheet to
a stack. |
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| 97 | Upon emergence from hollow cutter: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 86. Device in which the stack is formed by means which receives
pieces, formed by a tool having a cavity or aperture and a continuous
cutting edge bounding the open end of said cavity or aperture, after
the pieces have left the confines of the tool.
| | (1)
Note. The stack former may be claimed in some general term
such as "a chute"; but if, as disclosed, it actually
forms a stack, a patent therefor is placed here regardless of the
breadth commonly assigned to the name applied to such stack former. |
| | (2)
Note. For the distinction between this subclass and subclass
164, below, see (3) Note under the definition of subclass 86 above. | |
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| 98 | By fluid current: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 78. Device which effects movement of product directly by means
of one or more jets or streams of liquid or gaseous material.
| | (1)
Note. The pressure of the fluid current may be superatmospheric
or subatmospheric. |
| | (2)
Note. Fluid pressure means (blast or vacuum) which function
merely to push or pull product into contact with a mechanical product-moving
or product-braking means do not constitute subject matter for this
subclass. Original patents claiming such fluid blast devices will
be placed in the subclass based on the nature either of the mechanical
product-moving means or the mechanical product-braking means. |
| | (3)
Note. The Notes under the definition of subclass 402, below,
include a comprehensive listing of subclasses in this class and
in other classes which deal with material handling by fluid current. |
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
| 152, | for a product-moving means with suction means for
pressing product to the moving means. |
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
| 198, | Conveyors: Power-Driven,
subclasses 428 , 438, and 493 for a power-driven conveyor combined
with means for impinging fluid on the conveyed load. |
| 226, | Advancing Material of Indeterminate Length,
subclasses 97.1+ for means to advance material by fluid current. |
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| 100 | By suction means: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 98. Device including means to produce a zone of subatmospheric
pressure so related spatially to the cutting zone or product path
that the product will move under the influence of atmospheric pressure
toward or through said zone of subatmospheric pressure.
| | (1)
Note. See (2) Note and the search subclass note under the
definition of subclass 98 above. | |
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| 101 | By brush means: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 78. Device in which movement of the product is effected by frictional
engagement with bristles mounted on a backing having relative motion with
respect to the product. |
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| 102 | Including means to divert one portion of product from another: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 78. Device including means for accomplishing one of the following
functions:
- causing contiguous (either touching or
adjacent) products which have been traveling along parallel paths
to now travel in diverging directions; or preventing their paths
from merging or overlapping;
- (b) causing, or permitting, product pieces which have been proceeding
seriatim along a common path to now follow respective discrete and
individual paths;
- (c) causing, or permitting, one or more product pieces to follow
a path away from the zone of separation while restraining one or
more pieces from proceeding away from the zone of separation (i.e.,
holding one piece back while another moves away);
- (d) dividing a moving group of products into smaller groups (or
units) traveling in the same direction of general path as that before
division; or
- (e) positively moving products from the zone of separation in
different directions.
| | (1)
Note. Such separation must be additional to that inherently
accomplished by the tool(s) in the act of cutting. |
| | (2)
Note. The removal (or facilitation of removal) of one product
portion from the as-cut position, while leaving the portion from
which it has been cut in the cutting zone to serve as work for a
succeeding cut by the same tool, is not considered to be separation. |
| | (3)
Note. The separation signalized by this subclass is distinct
from that brought about by means for moving a product from contacting
engagement with a tool (such as stripping or ejecting means). So,
the movement of product out of contact with a tool, even though
it may involve a motion away from another product portion, is not
considered a separation for the purpose of patent placement in this
and indented subclasses. |
| | (4)
Note. On the other hand, a product portion which has been
subjected to the action of a stripper- or ejector-type means (as
defined in subclass 111) is not considered (for the purpose of this
classification) to be closely adjacent to other product portions
from which the stripper or ejector has moved it apart, so that a further
movement of the portions in different directions will not be deemed
to be a separation. (A positive teaching that a stripper or ejector
places a product portion in actual contact with another portion,
however, will not be ignored). For patents claiming means to strip
or eject a product portion and thereafter convey it away, see subclass
112. |
| | (5)
Note. The combination with cutting, of separation accomplished
in response to a sensing of a physical characteristic of the pieces
to be separated (such as quality separation), is provided for in
subclass 79. |
| | (6)
Note. Merely allowing pieces to fall freely from a common
height or place of departure is not considered to permit them to
travel in substantially different directions. But diverting guides
which cause certain of the so dropped pieces to travel in one path
and others to follow a different path constitute separating means. |
| | (7)
Note. Since this subclass is specific to that of produce,
(i.e., cut work) handling, which requires the operation of motion-affecting
means additional to the work-feeding means, at least one of the
separated product portions must be directed to its destination by
means other than the work moving means. |
| | (8)
Note. Although separation inherent in a cutting operation
(e.g., the removal of certain product pieces through a hollow cutter)
is not sufficient to place here a patent disclosing such, a patent
directed to product separating means carried by a cutter is proper
for this and indented subclasses. |
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
| 27, | for a method of cutting including a step of product
separation. |
| 79+, | for means to separate product portions responsive
to detection of a product characteristic; and see (5) Note above. |
| 89, | for a cutter combined with means to divide a stack
of pieces resulting from the cutting operation. |
| 98+, | for product separating means employing a fluid current. |
| 101, | for product separating means including a product-engaging
brush. |
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
| 198, | Conveyors: Power-Driven,
subclasses 348+ for a system of plural conveyors having selectable
plural sources or destinations for the conveyed load, subclasses
418+ for a system of plural conveyors having means for
establishing and moving a group of items, and subclasses 434+ for
a system of plural conveyors having means for arranging or rearranging
a stream, or streams, of items. |
| 209, | Classifying, Separating, and Assorting Solids, appropriate subclasses, for a product separating means,
per se; and see (1) Note to
subclass 79 above. |
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| 102.1 | By kerf entering guide: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 102. Device in which a kerf* entering means engages
the contiguous sides of the work to prevent their paths from merging
or overlapping. |
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| 103 | Remaining or re-inserted product portion from base material: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 102. Device wherein means are provided to dislodge a severed
product from the surrounding material from which it has been cut
but with which it is still in contact; or to dislodge from such material
a severed product which has been cut, removed, and reinserted into
its original position.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
| 108, | for means to reinsert product in base material after
severance therefrom. |
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| 104 | Gravity type: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 102. Device in which means are provided to permit the earth"s
gravitational field to act selectively on a plurality of product
portions; with the result that one portion or piece will move along a
path have a downward component, under the gravitational impetus,
while another portion or piece will move along some other path or
will be restrained from moving away from the zone of separation.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
| 157, | for means for tilting or withdrawing a product support
so that the product is left without support against gravity, such
means not having a product separating function. |
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
| 198, | Conveyors: Power-Driven,
subclasses 311 , 359+, and 523+ for a power-driven
conveyor combined with a gravity conveyor. |
| 209, | Classifying, Separating, and Assorting Solids, appropriate subclasses, for a gravity type separator,
per se. |
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| 105 | Deflecting guide: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 102. Device provided with passive means for guiding a product
into a path diverging from that followed by another product.
| | (1)
Note. The deflecting guide of this subclass is effective
to direct a moving product portion into a desired path, not to hold
it from further movement. Stationary means (catchers) which prevent
a product portion from moving, while another portion continues in
motion, will be found in subclass 102 and in subclass 104 indented
thereunder. |
| | (2)
Note. The divergence effected by a guide of this type may
be either simultaneous with the passage of another product portion
through the zone of separation or may be temporarily spaced therefrom.
That is, the guide may operate on one or more product portions
traveling along parallel paths or moving seriatim along the same
path. |
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
| 102, | for means to hold back one product portion positively
while another portion proceeds to travel past the area of such holding
back, and indented subclass 104 for such means wherein the product
portion not held back escapes from the zone of separation under
the impetus of gravity; and see (1) Note, above. |
| 373, | for a work guide whose positioning movement is synchronized
with tool actuation. |
| 438+, | for a guide for directing the travel of moving work,
rather than product. |
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
| 198, | Conveyors: Power-Driven,
subclasses 351+ , 367, 442, 525+, 599, and 633+ for
passive means for guiding a load from one conveying path to another
conveying path diverging therefrom. |
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| 106 | Positionable gate in product flow path: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 105. Device, provided with passive means for guiding a product
portion into any one of a number of different paths, which means
may be reoriented (either at will or cyclically) with respect to
oncoming product so as to effect such selective guidance.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
| 104, | for a gravity type product separator, including
a tiltable or with drawable product support which functions to separate
product portions. |
| 157, | for a product deflecting means in the form of a
tiltable or with drawable support for the product, which means does
not have a separating function. |
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| 107 | Diverging product movers: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 102. Device which includes plural dynamic product moving means
which function to effect separation by directly and positively moving
one product from the zone of separation in a direction or path different
from that in which another product is directly and positively moved.
| | (1)
Note. One of the product moving means may be a work moving
means, which may be claimed as such. |
| | (2)
Note. Means which move a product portion out of contact with
a tool (e.g., stripper or ejector) are not considered product moving
means for the purpose of this subclass, in accordance with (3) Note
to subclass 102. |
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
| 198, | Conveyors: Power-Driven,
subclasses 370.07 through 370.09,370.1, 370.11 through 370.13, 426+, 432, 433,
434+, 597+, and 601 for power-driven conveyor
means for moving a load from one conveying path to another conveying
path diverging therefrom. |
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| 108 | Including means to replace product in base material after
cutting: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 78. Device wherein means is provided to re-engage the product
piece with the surrounding material, from which it was severed,
by inserting the piece into the aperture formed when the piece was
produced.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
| 25, | for a corresponding method. |
| 103, | for means to remove such reinserted piece from the
base material. |
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| 109 | Means to move, guide, or permit free fall or flight of
product: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 78. Device having active means to propel the product or passive
means in the form of a guide* to define, limit or change
(without terminating) the path of moving product; or means which allows
or facilitates motion of unsupported product; or means, other than
the cutter or work-feed means, to cause relative motion between
the product and a member of the cutting pair.
| | (1)
Note. A mere support for product is not a guide. |
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
| 78, | for a brake or abutment stop for product. |
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
| 198, | Conveyors: Power-Driven, appropriate subclasses for a power-driven conveyor
or for such a conveyor combined with a gravity conveyor. |
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| 110 | Means to move product at speed different from work speed: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 109. Device including means to move the product away from the
cutting zone at a speed which is greater or less than the speed
of the work as it moves toward the cutting zone.
| | (1)
Note. For a device which includes a brake or abutment for
stopping the product completely, see subclass 78, above. |
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
| 78+, | and see (1) Note above. |
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
| 198, | Conveyors: Power-Driven,
subclasses 460.1+ and 579 for a conveyor feeding the conveyed load
to another conveyor having a greater conveying speed. |
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| 111 | Means to move product out of contact with tool: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 109. Device, provided with means for causing or assuring relative
motion between a product piece or portion and a cutter which has
produced for penetrated it so as to remove from contact with such
cutter a product piece or portion which tends to cling thereto.
| | (1)
Note. A device of this type may be termed a "stripper" or "ejector". |
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
| 72, | Metal Deforming,
subclasses 257 , 328, 344+, and 427 for a press-type metal
deforming device including a means to eject or strip a product from a
forming die. |
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| 112 | With means to effect subsequent conveying or guiding: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 111. Device in which the means for removing the product from
the cutter delivers the product to means for thereafter transporting
such product away from the first product moving means, or to means
for supporting the cut product as it continues to move under the
influence of gravity. |
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| 113 | Out of contact with a rotary tool: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 111. Device which cooperates with a tool having a cutting edge
located on the outer or arcuate periphery of a circular disc or
cylinder turning unidirectionally about an internal axis. |
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| 115 | Mover mounted on rotary tool: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 113. Device in which the relative-motion-producing means is physically
attached to, or otherwise supported by, the stripped tool or cooperating revolving
tool.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
| 136+, | for a stripper mounted on a moving tool (other than
rotary) or tool support; and see the Notes thereto. |
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| 117 | Resiliently mounted: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 116. Device including elastic or springlike means deformable
to urge or move the relative-motion-producing means from one position
to another.
| | (1)
Note. Springlike means may function to move a "stripper" or "ejector" to
its normal position after movement to its operative position by
a cam means, etc. |
| | (2)
Note. A typical device of this type is a coil spring, which
may directly contact the product or urge another device which directly
contacts the product. | |
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| 118 | Mover is resiliently mounted: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 113. Device including elastic or springlike means deformable
to urge or move the relative-motion-producing means from one position
to another.
| | (1)
Note. The springlike means may be integral with the stripping
or ejecting means. | |
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| 119 | Pivoted mover: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 113. Device including relative-motion-producing means which is
mounted to permit limited oscillatory movement thereof about an
axis while it is exerting force on the product. |
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| 120 | And plural rotating tools: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 119. Device including means which functions to move product relative
to at least one of two cooperating tools which revolve about spaced parallel
axes. |
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| 121 | Stationary mover: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 113. Device including a relative-motion-producing means located
in a fixed position relative to immovable parts of the machine.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
| 145, | and 146, for a stationary stripper in combination
with an oscillating or reciprocating tool. |
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| 122 | And plural rotating tools: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 121. Device including means which functions to move product relative
to at least one of two cooperating tools which revolve about spaced parallel
axes. |
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| 123 | By ejector within a hollow cutter: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 111. Device wherein the product lies within, and in contact with
the walls of, a cavity in a tool which has produced it, said tool
having a continuous cutting edge bounding said cavity, and in which
the relative-motion-producing means removes the product from the
cavity.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
| 97+, | for means to form a pack or stack of cut pieces
delivered from a hollow cutter. |
| 98+, | for means to accomplish ejection from a hollow cutter
by fluid blast or suction. |
| 116+, | for a device of this type mounted on a rotary tool
support. |
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
| 72, | Metal Deforming,
subclasses 344+ for means to eject a formed article from a female
die. |
| 408, | Cutting by Use of Rotating Axially Moving Tool,
subclass 68 , for a hollow drill combined with means to eject
the product therefrom. |
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| 125 | Ejector operated with return stroke of cutter: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 123. Device wherein the actuation of the product-moving means
is synchronized with movement of the hollow tool in its retraction
from the work and cooperating cutter after said tool has made its
cut.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
| 82, | for product-moving means initiated by means directly
responsive to return movement of the tool. |
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| 127 | By cam-operated ejector: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 123. Device wherein the ejector slides back and forth within
the tool cavity under the influence of a smooth surface, irregularly
shaped member rotatable or slidable operating against the ejector
or against a motion-transmitting means between said member and the
ejector.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
| 115+, | for a device of this type wherein the hollow cutter
is mounted on the periphery of a rotary member. |
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| 128 | By resiliently biased ejector: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 123. Device wherein the ejector slides back and forth within
the tool cavity and includes, or is provided with, compressible
or extensible elastic means for urging it in one of said directions when
compressed or extended.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
| 115+, | for a device of this type wherein the hollow cutter
is mounted on the periphery of a rotary member. |
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| 129 | Moving stripper timed with tool stroke: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 111. Means including an instrumentality for moving the means
(a stripper) which causes relative motion between the cutter and
product, such instrumentality moving stripper in a definite temporal
relationship with respect to the cutter"s movement into
and out of cutting engagement with the work.
| | (1)
Note. This and indented subclasses do not include patents
for strippers or ejectors operating upon the product of circumferentially
edged revolving tools, for which see subclasses 113+. |
| | (2)
Note. For a holddown clamp (or other form of clamp) timed
with tool stroke, see subclasses 375+. |
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
| 113+, | for a stripper or ejector for removing a product
from a revolving cutter in timed relation with the tool"s
motion; and see (1) Note, above. |
| 123+, | for an ejector for removing a product from within
a hollow cutter, and moved in time relation to a tool stroke. |
| 375+, | and see (2) Note, above. |
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| 131 | Latched stripper released by tool return: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 129. Device in which means are provided to lock the stripper
in product contacting position, and the movement of the tool out
of cutting engagement with the work actuates a mechanism to release
the lock after the tool is withdrawn from the product, so as to
permit the stripper to withdraw.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
| 125, | for a similar device operative with a hollow cutter. |
| 399, | for other interlock means in a cutting machine. |
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| 134 | Spring arm stripper: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 129. Device in which the part of the stripper which contacts
the product comprises, or is mounted on one end of, a thin flexible
resilient element; and the other end of the element is fixedly attached
to some part of the machine. |
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| 135 | Linkage actuated: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 129. Device wherein the stripper-moving instrumentality comprises
one or more levers which are pivoted to a part of the machine or
to each other.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
| 127, | for an ejector-actuating linkage which is actuated
by a cam. |
| 131, | for a linkage which latches a stripper in position
and which is released by the return movement of the tool. |
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| 136 | Carried by moving tool element or its support: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 129. Device in which the stripper is mounted on a moving tool
or its support* and moves with respect to, and in timed
relation with, said tool and support.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
| 115+, | for a stripper or ejector mounted on a rotary tool. |
| 126, | for an ejector carried by a cutter which cooperates
with a hollow tool. |
| 218, | for a pilot or locating pin carried by a moving
tool or tool support. |
| 294, | 319, and 382, for a work gripper or clamp mounted
on a moving tool or tool support. |
| 395, | for a work-stop abutment mounted on a moving tool
or tool support. |
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| 137 | Fluid pressure actuated stripper: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 136. Device in which the stripper is actuated by means applying
a force to a gas or liquid, which gas or liquid applies a moving
force (directly or indirectly) to the stripper.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
| 390, | and 461, for a cutting machine having a fluid pressure
actuated clamp. |
| 639, | for fluid pressure tool actuating means. |
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| 138 | Stripper biased against product: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 136. Device in which (a) the stripper or its mounting includes
an elastic, resilient and/or flexible element, which element
is compressed or extended during the cycle of operation, and whose
tendency to return to its normal state urges the product away from
the tool; or in which (b) the stripper is mounted on the tool or tool
support by means of a lost-motion connection (in which gravity acts
on the stripper to urge the stripper into contact with the product as
the tool is withdrawn).
| | (1)
Note. An original patent for an elastic, rubberlike, resilient
mounting for a nonelastomeric stripper will be found in this subclass
(138). |
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
| 128, | for a resiliently biased stripper which ejects a
product from within a hollow cutter. |
| 134, | for a tool-synchronized stripper which is carried
on an end of a spring arm. |
| 142+, | for a tool-synchronized stripper not carried by
the moving tool or its support and which is biased against the product. |
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| 139 | Elastomeric stripper contacting product: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 138. Device in which that portion of the stripper which engages
the product is made of an elastic, rubberlike, resilient material.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
| 138+, | for an elastic, rubberlike mounting for a nonelastomeric
stripper. |
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| 140 | By spring means: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 138. Device in which the compressed or extended element is an
elongated or coiled flexible and resilient metallic member (e.g.,
coil spring).
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
| 128, | for a spring-urged means to eject product from a
hollow cutter. |
| 134, | for a device in which a tool-synchronized stripper
is carried on an end of a spring arm. |
| 143, | for a similar device which is not carried by the
moving tool or its support. |
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| 141 | By free weight of stripper: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 138. Device in which the mounting of the stripper on the tool
or tool support* permits relative motion of the stripper
with respect to such tool or support, and in which the force of
gravity acts to urge the stripper against the product to separate
the product from the tool. |
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| 142 | Stripper biased against product: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 129. Device in which (a) the stripper or its mounting includes
an elastic resilient and/or flexible element, which element
is compressed or extended during the cycle of operation, and whose
tendency to return to its normal state urges the product away from
the tool; or in which (b) the stripper is mounted on its support by
means of a lost-motion connection in which gravity acts on the stripper
to urge the product away from the tool.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
| 128, | for a resiliently biased means which ejects a product
from within a hollow cutter. |
| 134, | for a tool-synchronized stripper which is carried
on an end of a spring arm. |
| 138+, | for a stripper biased against the product, which
stripper is carried by the moving cutting element or its support. |
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| 143 | Spring biased stripper: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 142. Device in which the compressed or extended element is an
elongated or coiled flexible and resilient metallic member (e.g.,
coil spring). |
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| 144 | Manually operated stripper: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 111. Device wherein movement of the means (stripper) for causing
relative motion between the cutter and product is effected by hand
manipulation of the stripper itself or of a device which controls
its movement. |
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| 145 | Stationary stripper: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 111. Device in which the means (stripper) for causing relative
motion between the cutter and product is fixed with respect to machine
parts which do not have a cyclic motion. |
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| 147 | Blockable exit port: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 109. Device which includes a housing having a product delivery
opening, which opening is adapted to be selectively obstructed so
as to prevent egress of the product (thus also preventing entry
of undesired objects) therethrough.
| | (1)
Note. The instrumentality which effects the blocking may
be a cutting tool. | |
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| 148 | Tool conforming member interposed between tool and work: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 109. Device in which a flexible element is located between the
tool and the work such that, in cutting, the flexible member will
take the shape of the tool, transmit the cutting force of the tool
to the work, and then urge the product away from the tool which
has produced it.
| | (1)
Note. The subject matter of this subclass is distinguished
from that of subclasses 111+, in that a tool provided with
a flexible element of the type of this subclass does not directly
engage the work or product. | |
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| 149 | Including means to move, or resist movement of, cut pieces
along delivery chute: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 109. Device comprising a guideway, inclined to the horizontal
and vertical planes and so disposed as to receive cut pieces for
movement therealong, provided with means for engaging a cut piece
to urge it along the guideway, or to brake it, while it is disposed
on or within the confines of the guideway.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
| 198, | Conveyors: Power-Driven,
subclass 534 for a power-driven conveyor combined with a chute
having means to retard movement of the conveyed load. |
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| 151 | Product mover including gripper means: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 109. Device in which the means for propelling the product includes
means to engage and firmly secure the product against movement relative to
the propelling means at least during movement of the product away
from the cutting zone.
| | (1)
Note. Included within the scope of the term "gripper
means" are devices which engage and grasp two opposed surfaces of
the product as well as devices which engage one surface and retain
it against the propelling means (e.g., a magnet, clamp jaw, perforating
pin, suction gripper, etc.). |
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
| 198, | Conveyors: Power-Driven,
subclasses 468.2+ and 470.1+ for a conveyor having load
gripping members, subclasses 679 and 690 for a conveyor having magnetic
load holders, and subclasses 692+ for a conveyor having
load impalers. |
| 271, | Sheet Feeding or Delivering,
subclasses 204+ for sheet delivery apparatus including means to
grip the sheet. |
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| 152 | Suction gripper: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 151. Device in which the securing means includes a perforated
surface and means to draw air through the surface so as to cause
the product to adhere to said surface under the influence of atmospheric
pressure.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
| 198, | Conveyors: Power-Driven,
subclasses 428 , 438, 449+, and 689.1 for a conveyor having
means for applying suction to the conveyed load. |
| 271, | Sheet Feeding or Delivering,
subclasses 194+ for sheet delivery apparatus including pneumatic
means. |
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| 153 | Reciprocating product handler: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 151. Device in which the propelling means moves to and from the
cutting zone in a straight line.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
| 198, | Conveyors: Power-Driven,
subclasses 468.2+ and 470.1+ for a reciprocating conveyor
having load-gripping members. |
| 271, | Sheet Feeding or Delivering,
subclass 85 for sheet delivery apparatus including reciprocating
sheet gripping means. |
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| 154 | Rotating or oscillating product handler: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 151. Device in which the propelling means moves in an arc of
a circle, either in the same direction or to and from the cutting
zone.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
| 198, | Conveyors: Power-Driven,
subclasses 468.2+ and 470.1+ for an oscillating conveyor
having load-gripping members. |
| 271, | Sheet Feeding or Delivering,
subclass 82 for rotary sheet delivery apparatus having gripper
means. |
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| 155 | Endless conveyor: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 109. Device which comprises a continuous web- or strand-like
member (e.g., a belt or chain) which moves the product while the
product is supported thereby.
| | (1)
Note. In the case wherein the product conveyor also is effective
to move the work into cutting position, a patent directed to such
device will be placed originally in this subclass only if the conveyor
is claimed in terms of its specific product handling function. |
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
| 88, | and 91+, for a conveyor operative to move
a stack of product pieces. |
| 94+, | for a conveyor which functions to deliver product
pieces to a stack holder. |
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
| 198, | Conveyors: Power-Driven,
subclasses 804+ for an endless belt conveyor. |
| 271, | Sheet Feeding or Delivering,
subclasses 67 , 69 and 198+ for sheet delivery apparatus
including endless conveyor means. |
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| 155.1 | And means to remove product therefrom: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 155. Device including means to remove the product from the endless
conveyor.
| | (1)
Note. In many of the devices in this subclass, the same conveyor
moves both work and product. |
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
| 418+, | for a work conveyor means and additional means to
engage the work and orient it relative to a tool station. |
| 732, | for means to position work transversely on a moving
conveyor. |
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
| 198, | Conveyors: Power-Driven,
subclasses 367+ , 370.07 through 370.09, 370.1, 370.11 through 370.13,
426+, 463.1+, 497, 597+, 599, 637, and
others for means for moving an article or material off a conveyor. |
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| 156 | Roller(s): |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 109. Device which includes one or more cylindrical or spherical
members, each rotatable about an axis transverse to the path of
the product and supporting, guiding or moving the product in said
path.
| | (1)
Note. Patents disclosing either idling or powered rollers,
in train or in opposed pairs, are included in this subclass. |
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
| 193, | Conveyors, Chutes, Skids, Guides, and Ways,
subclasses 35+ for rollerways. |
| 198, | Conveyors: Power-Driven,
subclasses 385+ , 387, 501, 604, 608, 611+, 624, 779, and
780+ for rollers carrying a load, subclass 840 for rollers
guiding a load supported on an endless belt conveyor, and subclasses 359+ and
539 for a nonpowered roller conveyor combined with a power-driven
conveyor. |
| 271, | Sheet Feeding or Delivering,
subclasses 71 , 72 and 314+, for sheet delivery apparatus
including rotary conveyor means. |
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| 157 | Tiltable or withdrawable support: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 109. Device which permits downward movement of the product by
either pivotal movement of a means holding the product against gravity, thereby
to provide an inclined surface down which the product may slide;
or by complete removal of such means from beneath the product, thereby
to permit free fall.
| | (1)
Note. The platform of this subclass must be moved after,
or simultaneously with, the cutting stroke which produces the product
to be handled by the platform. If a platform is, for instance,
tilted to an inclined position prior to the cutting stroke (so that
the product, instead of being supported on a platform which may
tilt to urge the product to slide, is allowed to drop onto an inclined
plane), such platform is considered an adjustable or movable chute
or plane, the search for which is in subclass 165. |
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
| 165, | for a chute or inclined plane down which product
may slide; and see (1) Note, above. |
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
| 198, | Conveyors: Power-Driven,
subclasses 535+ for a chute swingable between horizontal and inclined
positions. |
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| 158 | Means to move product laterally: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 109. Device provided with means to engage a product piece and
move it bodily in a straight line path in a direction which is opposite
or transverse to the direction in which (a) the piece is moving
as it leaves the tool or (b) the work is moving as it enters the
cutting zone.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
| 198, | Conveyors: Power-Driven,
subclass 598 for an endless belt conveyor that shifts a load
laterally of another conveyor. |
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| 159 | Oscillating means: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 158. Device in which the product moving means is pivoted and
has a to-and-fro motion about said pivot.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
| 198, | Conveyors: Power-Driven,
subclasses 370.07 through 370.09, 370.1, 370.11 through 370.13, 426+, 468.1+,
598 and others for a swingable conveyor that shifts a load laterally
of another conveyor. |
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| 160 | Reciprocating means: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 158. Device in which the product engaging portion of the product
moving means has a translatory to-and-fro motion in a plane.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
| 198, | Conveyors: Power-Driven,
subclasses 370.07 through 370.09, 370.1, 370.11 through 370.13, 429+, 597+,
and others for a linearly reciprocating conveyor that shifts a load laterally
of another conveyor. |
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| 162 | Guide: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 109. Device including passive means which is operative to define,
limit, or change the path of (without terminating), product movement
(i.e., to direct, wholly or partially, the course of moving product).
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
| 105+, | for a guide which serves to separate moving product
portions. |
| 438+, | for means to guide moving work; and see the Notes
thereto. |
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
| 198, | Conveyors: Power-Driven,
subclasses 351+ , 367, 442, 525, 599, and 633+ for passive
means for changing the direction of movement of a conveyed load. |
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| 163 | Abutment in path of product being moved by work feeder: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 162. Means in which the product is moved by the work or by means
that moves work to the tool station, and in which the passive means
is so disposed as to present an obstacle or obstruction to the unimpeded
passage of product being so moved; the result being initiation of,
or a change in, relative directions of motion of the product and
the work or work moving means. |
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| 164 | Product-diverting conduit in or from hollow tool: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 162. Device in which the guide is a tubular cavity within a hollow
tool or its support, or in a member rigid with the tool or its support,
said tool having an aperture and a continuous cutting edge bounding
the open end of said aperture and together with said tubular cavity forming
a path for the product pieces, away from the cutting zone, which
does not follow only a single straight line.
| | (1)
Note. A mere passage coextensive with the cutting edge opening
and extending rectilinearly within the hollow tool is not considered
a guide for this subclass. |
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
| 97, | for a device including means to form or hold product
pieces in stacked relation upon emergence from a hollow cutter. |
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| 165 | Inclined conduit, chute or plane: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 162. Means including a supporting surface or tubular body, disclosed
as extending generally from an upper location at one end to a lower
at the other (but not extending solely straight up and down vertically)
and so positioned that product may travel therealong or therethrough.
| | (1)
Note. The traveling product on or in the chute, plane, or
conduit may be moving under the influence of gravity. If, however,
it is moved by claimed mechanical moving means, a patent claiming
such guide and moving means will be placed originally in subclass
149 or another subclass devoted to product moving means, and may
be cross-referenced in this subclass; if no product moving means
is claimed, a patent disclosing such combination (and claiming only
the cutter and guide) will be placed originally in this subclass. |
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
| 149, | for means which moves cut pieces along a chute or
inclined plane. |
| 157, | for a device having a tiltable product support down
which the product may slide. |
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
| 193, | Conveyors, Chutes, Skids, Guides, and Ways, appropriate subclass for a gravity type conveyor. |
| 198, | Conveyors: Power-Driven,
subclasses 311 , 359+, 523+, and others for a
chute or other gravity conveyor combined with a power-driven conveyor. |
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| 166 | Abutment interposed in path of free fall or flight of product: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 162. Means comprising an obstacle so placed as to be struck by
a product piece as the latter travels through space while unsupported
against the force of gravity.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
| 165, | for devices in which the abutment is an inclined
chute, plane or conduit. |
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
| 198, | Conveyors: Power-Driven,
subclass 599 for a guide that deflects a load after it moves
off a conveyor. |
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| 167 | WITH RECEPTACLE OR SUPPORT FOR CUT PRODUCT: |
| | This subclass is indented under the class definition. Device provided with a container or platform to receive
and retain the product piece.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
| 78+, | for a device having a receptacle or support provided
with a clamp to stop and hold the product in the receptacle or on
the support. |
| 84+, | for a receptacle or support which is taught as holding
a pile (including stack) of product pieces; and see the Notes thereto. |
| 102+, | for means to direct product pieces selectively into
any one of a plurality of receptacle. |
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
| 232, | Deposit and Collection Receptacles,
subclass 8 for a fare box which receives a ticket and punches
it as it is introduced into the device. |
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| 168 | WITH MEANS TO CLEAN WORK OR TOOL: |
| | This subclass is indented under the class definition. Device wherein means are provided to remove undesired foreign
matter from the work or the tool.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
| 15+, | 22, and 24, for a method of handling work, or product,
including application of fluid to same. |
| 98+, | for product handling device including fluid current
application means which means may also be utilized to remove waste
products of the cutting operation. |
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
| 15, | Brushing, Scrubbing, and General Cleaning, appropriate subclasses, for cleaning means broadly;
and see search Notes thereto. |
| 173, | Tool Driving or Impacting,
subclasses 197+ for a tool driving or impacting means having a
work cleansing feature. |
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| 169 | WITH MEANS TO APPLY TRANSIENT NONPROPELLANT FLUENT MATERIAL
TO TOOL OR WORK: |
| | This subclass is indented under the class definition. Device that includes means to direct upon or to the tool
or work a quantity of liquid, gaseous, or pulverulent material;
which material is not intended to form a permanent coating on, and
does not effect movement of, such tool or work.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
| 15+, | 17, 22, and 24, for method of handling work, or
product, including application of fluid to same. |
| 53, | and 177, for means and process, respectively, for
cutting by direct application of fluent pressure. |
| 98+, | for product handling by fluid current means. |
| 168, | for means to clean work by fluid application. |
| 407, | for apparatus to move work by fluid current. |
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
| 30, | Cutlery,
subclasses 123.3+ , for cutting implements having means to direct
a fluid upon the tool or a guide in contact therewith. |
| 118, | Coating Apparatus,
subclass 15 and 35+ for cutter combined with means to
apply a substantially permanent coating. |
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| 170 | WITH MEANS TO CONTROL OR MODIFY TEMPERATURE OF APPARATUS OR
WORK: |
| | This subclass is indented under the class definition. Device which includes means to maintain or alter the temperature
of the device or work.
| | (1)
Note. Heating or cooling of the work to the extent of changing
its state (e.g., from solid to liquid), other than for the purpose
of effecting a cut by means of a solid tool, has been considered
a shaping or treating operation beyond the scope of this class (83).
Patents for such treating or shaping means combined with cutting means
have been placed elsewhere; for example, on the basis of the type
of material so shaped or treated. |
| | (2)
Note. The patents of this and the indented subclass primarily
differ from related devices in Class 219, Electric Heating, in that
the tool herein disclosed maintains physical contact with, and bodily
penetrates the workpiece during the cutting operation; even though
melting of the workpiece is achieved during such tool penetration. |
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
| 15+, | for corresponding process. |
| 169, | for apparatus for applying a transient, nonpropellant
fluid to the tool or work, which liquid may heat, cool, or maintain
the temperature of, the tool or work. |
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
| 62, | Refrigeration, appropriate subclasses, particularly
subclasses 56+ for methods and subclasses 320+ for apparatus,
for cutting combined with freezing or combined with cooling of the
type classified in that class (62). |
| 219, | Electric Heating,
subclasses 68+ for cutting including electrically heating metallic
work. |
| 264, | Plastic and Nonmetallic Article Shaping or Treating:
Processes,
subclasses 138+ for processes of molding and shaping within the
class definition, when combined with a cutting or severing step
and see (1) Note above. |
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| 171 | Of tool: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 170. Device in which the temperature controlling means maintains
or alters the temperature of the tool.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
| 16, | for corresponding method. |
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
| 30, | Cutlery,
subclass 140 for a heated cutter including significant heating
structure. |
| 101, | Printing,
subclasses 8 , 9+, 21, 25, 27, and 31 for an embossing
or penetrating printer with heating means. |
| 128, | Surgery,
subclasses 303.14+ for a heated surgical cutter. |
| 219, | Electric Heating,
subclass 241 for means to electrically heat a cutter. |
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| 174 | WITH TOOL SHARPENER OR SMOOTHER: |
| | This subclass is indented under the class definition. Apparatus including means to dress the tool.
| | (1)
Note. The means to dress may operate on either the active
or passive cutting element. |
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
| 30, | Cutlery, for a specifically recited tool of that class with
a means to sharpen same. |
| 76, | Metal Tools and Implements, Making, for a specifically recited tool of that class with
a means to sharpen same. |
| 451, | Abrading, for sharpening by abrading, generally. |
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| 174.1 | Spatially fixed tool: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 174. Device wherein the dressing means acts on a tool which is
(a) immovable, or (b) rotatable or oscillatable in one plane about
a single, immovable axis.
| | (1)
Note. A tool sharpener in combination with a tool which is
rotatable about a movable axis or about two or more axes. (e.g.,
band saw) or movable into another plane, will be found in this class,
subclass 174. | |
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| 175 | WITH MEANS TO STRETCH WORK TEMPORARILY: |
| | This subclass is indented under the class definition. Apparatus including means to subject the work within the
cutting zone to tensile forces to effect elongation of same within
its elastic limit.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
| 18, | for a related process. |
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
| 140, | Wireworking,
subclasses 139+ for means to stretch and cut wire. |
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| 176 | WITH MEANS TO DEFORM WORK TEMPORARILY: |
| | This subclass is indented under the class definition. Apparatus including means to impart an impermanent change
of shape (i.e., within the elastic limit) to work material located
in the cutting zone - except apparatus in which such means comprises
a rotatable cylindrical anvil about which work is trained and which
cooperates with another cutter to produce substantially the same
cut that would be produced if the work were presented rectilinearly
to such other cutter.
| | (1)
Note. This subclass includes (but is not limited to) patents
for devices which deform the work material, as above defined, and
in whose operation such deformation is prerequisite to effect a predetermined
line of cut; that is to say, the desired cut could not be effected
in the absence of the deformation while operating the machine in
the intended manner. |
| | (2)
Note. Thus, a patent directed to means for compressing, or
stretching, a resilient workpiece and subsequently cutting same
to impart a dished product surface configuration upon release of
the deforming forces would be properly placed in this subclass. |
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
| 17+, | for a corresponding method. |
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
| 226, | Advancing Material of Indeterminate Length,
subclass 88 for means to deform material of indeterminate length
to facilitate feeding of the material. |
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| 177 | BY FLUID BLAST AND/OR SUCTION: |
| | This subclass is indented under the class definition. Apparatus wherein one tool comprises a fluent pressurized
medium which directly contacts the workpiece to effect a predetermined line
of cut by displacing the portion of work so contacted past the cutting
edge of a cooperating tool element or by coaction with a controlled directly
opposed second fluent pressurized medium.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
| 53, | for a method of cutting by the direct application
of fluent pressure to the work. |
| 402, | for fluid current apparatus for moving work past
a stationary cutter in a continuing movement. |
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| 178 | BY TOOL INSIDE HOLLOW WORK: |
| | This subclass is indented under the class definition. Means in which a tool is disposed within a generally tubular
portion of a workpiece and, either alone or in cooperation with
another tool, operates on the internal surface of the piece.
| | (1)
Note. The "generally tubular portion" comprises
a wall which presents, in transverse cross-section, a substantially closed
perimeter. |
| | (2)
Note. The internal tool must be in position within the hollow
work at initiation of cutting. |
| | (3)
Note. Patents disclosing a tool oscillating about a fixed
center during the cutting stroke and its retraction therefrom will
be found in this subclass. Patents disclosing other tool motions
will be found in subclasses indented hereunder. |
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
| 196+, | for cutting work (which may be hollow) by the misalignment
of aligned apertures. |
| 315+, | and 597+, for an oscillating tool which
does not cut from within a hollow workpiece. |
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
| 82, | Turning,
subclass 82 for a turning device of the severing or cutoff
type wherein the tool, or tools, lies within the work. |
| 166, | Wells,
subclasses 55+ for apparatus for cutting a well conduit in situ
and subclasses 297+ for processes of cutting a well conduit
in situ. |
| 175, | Boring or Penetrating the Earth,
subclasses 2+ for subject matter relating to a device for firing
a bullet or exploding a shaped charge within an inaccessible bore
to penetrate the earth formation or perforate or cut a casing or
other wall member in the bore. |
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| 179 | Work pre-packed with internal tool(s): |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 178. Apparatus wherein a tool (or tools) is inserted within a
workpiece, prior to the introduction of the workpiece into the cutting
zone, in such manner that the tool derives substantially all of its
support either directly or indirectly from the workpiece itself. |
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| 180 | With expanding mandrel: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 178. Apparatus provided with a work support including means to
enlarge a cross-sectional portion thereof, so that such support
will frictionally engage the internal surface of the tubular work.
| | (1)
Note. The expanding mandrel may function to immobilize for
work and/or to position the internal tool for cutting. |
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
| 623, | for means to move a cooperating cutter member. |
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
| 269, | Work Holders,
subclass 52 for an expanding mandrel which is not a chuck or
socket. |
| 279, | Chucks or Sockets,
subclasses 2.01+ for an expanding mandrel in the form of a chuck
or socket. |
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| 181 | Interrelated tool feed means and means to actuate work
immobilizer: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 178. Apparatus wherein means to move, or render active, means
to maintain or retain work, or means to move, or render active means
presenting an obstacle or bar to work movement; is identical with
or cooperates significantly with means to move the tool in its cutting cycle.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
| 374+, | for means as above defined but not related to a
tool inside hollow work; and see search Notes thereto. |
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| 182 | Actuated clamp element and work holder coact to position
work: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 181. Means wherein a work immobilizing element cooperates with
a work support to grip the work frictionally, to move the work into aligned
relation with the tool, and to hold it in such position.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
| 206, | and 465, for related clamp structure. |
| 418+, | with additional means to engage and orient work. |
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| 183 | Synchronized tool and work feeding means: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 178. Apparatus including means to present work to the tool, which
means operates in timed relation with means to impart movement to
the tool during the cutting cycle.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
| 202+, | for tool engaging work during dwell of intermittent
work-feed. |
| 284+, | for a tool whose cutting motion has component in
direction of moving work. |
| 350, | for a tool timed with moving work, in general. |
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| 184 | With means to position tool(s) for cutting: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 178. Apparatus provided with means to adjust and align tools
relative to one another in preparation for cutting.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
| 248, | for means to position datum plane of tool. |
| 549+, | for plural tool selectively engageable. |
| 559+, | for tool pair adjustable as a unit. |
| 561, | for relatively adjustable tool with flat surfaced
cooperating member. |
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| 185 | One tool (either internal or external) having compound
motion: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 178. Apparatus wherein a cutting tool moves in a path which is
neither solely rectilinear nor solely circular during the tool stroke*.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
| 523, | for other forms of compound tool motion. |
| 644+, | for reciprocating tool motion combined with tilting
in plane of tool stroke. |
| 646+, | for uniplanar compound tool motion. |
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| 186 | Annulus and disc-type tool pair: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 185. Apparatus wherein the cutting means comprises at least one
tool pair consisting of an internal edged tool and an external tool
provided with a peripheral cutting edge substantially completely
surrounding the work, each such tool having a surface lying in a
plane common to both tools and along which surface the cutting edge
is disposed, so that shearing of the work occurs in the common plane,
and in which the peripheral cutting edge of the external tool substantially
completely surrounds the tubular work.
| | (1)
Note. One or both of the tools may be active in the cutting
operation and the conformation of either tool to the work surface
may be modified; as, for instance, to provide relieved sections resulting
a tab portions of such surface, or to result in a progressive cutting
operation. |
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
| 179, | for related cutting means wherein the tubular work
is prepacked with an internal tool. |
| 189+, | for an annulus and disc type tool pair having rectilinear
motion. |
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| 187 | One tool having unidirectional rotary motion: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 178. Apparatus wherein a cutting tool follows a closed circular
path, in one direction only thereof, during the cutting stroke.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
| 331+, | for a rotary flying cutter. |
| 469+, | for a rotatable disc tool and carrier therefor,
or a rotatable disc tool pair. |
| 591+, | for revolving tool motion, generally. |
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| 189 | Annulus and disc-type tool pair: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 188. Apparatus wherein the cutting means comprises at least one
tool pair consisting of an internal edged tool and an external tool
provided with a peripheral cutting edge substantially completely
surrounding the work, each such tool having a surface lying in a
plane common to both tools and along which surface the cutting edge
is disposed, so that shearing of the work occurs in the common plane,
and in which the peripheral cutting edge of the external tool substantially
completely surrounds the tubular work.
| | (1)
Note. One or both of the tools may be active in the cutting
operation and the conformation of either element to the work surface
may be modified; as for instance, to provide relieved sections resulting
in table portions of such surface, or to result in a progressive
cutting operation. |
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
| 179, | for related cutting means wherein tubular work is
prepacked with an internal tool. |
| 186, | for annulus and disc type tool pair having compound
motion. |
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| 191 | Internal tool is an active cutter: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 188. Means, wherein the tool inside the hollow work moves in
effecting the cut.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
| 179, | for means including internal tool(s) prepacked in
work. |
| 186, | and 189+, for annulus and disc type tool
pair, of which the internal disc tool may be active. |
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| 192 | Multiple external active tools: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 188. Means wherein a plurality of tools is disposed around the
outer periphery of the tubular work and each moves, in coaction
with one or more internally disposed tools, to effect a cut.
| | (1)
Note. The external tools may be supported on a common carrier,
as in a conventional multiple punch ram means; or on separate carriers,
including structurally independent actuating means, and may each
contribute to a single combined cut line or function to effect separated
cuts on the common work piece. | |
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| 193 | Tools operate in a substantially common transverse plane
of cut: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 192. Means wherein the active external tools move relatively
toward one another during cutting and substantially normal to the
axial extent of the tubular work.
| | (1)
Note. The tools may function either simultaneously or sequentially
to produce a cut or cuts lying in a substantially common plane. | |
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| 194 | With tool actuating cams on a common support: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 193. Apparatus, wherein the means to move the tools to effect
the cut comprises a plurality of cams which are mounted on a single
carrier.
| | (1)
Note. The common support for the multiple cams is generally
a rotary or oscillating member. |
| | (2)
Note. For definition of a cam, see the definition of Class
74, subclasses 567+. | |
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| 195 | With manually actuated means to position or facilitate
positioning of work: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 178. Apparatus, wherein means, responsive to an operative"s
volition, are provided to move the work relative to a tool and preparatory
to initiation of the tool stroke*, or to cooperate with
a significant feature of the work structure to restrain the moving
piece from further movement.
| | (1)
Note. This subclass includes patents for cutting machines
with means to accomplish the necessary locating of work within a
cutting zone, in order that the work may be in proper alignment
with the cutter operating thereon, as distinguished from means to
feed the work to such zone. |
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
| 401+, | for means to move work relative to a tool station. |
| 451+, | for means to immobilize or stabilize work generally. |
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| 196 | BY MEANS TO MISALIGN ALIGNED APERTURED TOOLS: |
| | This subclass is indented under the class definition. Means, in which two adjacent members are provided, each
with an opening, through both of which openings a workpiece extends simultaneously,
each adapted (as disclosed) to enclose a sufficient portion of the
periphery of the workpiece extending therethrough to prevent sidewise
escape of the workpiece therefrom, which device includes means to
move one member relative to the other so that the workpiece caught
between the moving members is severed by virtue of its being forced against
the edge of an opening, or against the edge of a member-carried
tool extending into such opening, or against both.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
| 178+, | particularly subclasses 179, 186, and 189+,
for a device wherein a tool is located inside hollow work and cooperates
with an outer, annular cutter. |
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| 200.1 | BY INCREASED TENSIONING OF WORK-ENCLOSING WIRE: |
| | This subclass is indented under the class definition. Device wherein the cutting member is substantially one-dimensional;
i.e., the dimensions of its cross-section are negligible relative to
its length, and which member surrounds a portion of the work surface
prior to cutting, thus defining a plane; and which device includes
means to apply or increase stress in the cutting member so that
the cutting member moves into the work in the plane initially defined.
| | (1)
Note. The cutting member may or may not completely encircle
the work. In the latter case, reaction to the cutting force will
be provided by a work-stop abutment. |
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
| 651.1+, | for a wire-type tool or a wire-type tool and support
which does not function in a work-inclosing manner. |
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
| 72, | Metal Deforming,
subclass 292 for a device for deforming a metal workpiece by
tightening a flexible chain or band around the work. |
| 100, | Presses,
subclasses 1+ for a process or apparatus for tightening a binder about
material to compress it. |
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| 202 | TOOL ENGAGES WORK DURING DWELL OF INTERMITTENT WORKFEED: |
| | This subclass is indented under the class definition. An apparatus including means to sequentially stop and move,
or stop and permit movement of, the work at the tool zone; and including
tool actuating means which synchronously brings the tool into cutting
contact with the work while the latter is at rest or simultaneously
with the stopping of the work.
| | (1)
Note. The work may be brought to a halt by a device such
as a clamp jaw or an abutment stop effective to halt that portion
of the work in the tool zone while work-feed means continually urges another
portion toward the tool with consequent buckling or slippage, (see
subclass 262 indented hereunder). |
| | (2)
Note. The work may be moved simply by gravity, no work advancing
mechanism being provided, (see subclass 268 indented hereunder). |
| | (3)
Note. A portion of the work remote from the tool zone may
be continuously in motion as, for example, work unwinding from a
continuously rotating supply roll. |
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
| 350+, | for a device wherein the work is fed constantly
to a tool zone where it is intermittently acted on by an actuated tool
having no component of motion in the direction of work-feed, and where
no provision is made for halting the work before it is engaged by the
tool. |
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
| 28, | Textiles: Manufacturing,
subclasses 107+ for needle felting machines having cycle of intermittent
work moving and needing. |
| 112, | Sewing, appropriate subclasses, for machines which advance
work to sewing station and hold it stationary while it is being
pierced by the needle. |
| 198, | Conveyors: Power-Driven,
subclass 339.1 for a conveyor that dwells at a work station, and
subclasses 858+ for a conveyor having indexed or intermittent
drive means. |
| 226, | Advancing Material of Indeterminate Length, appropriate subclasses for methods of, and apparatus for,
feeding material without utilizing the leading or trailing ends
to effect movement of the material, particularly
subclasses 120+ for structure for advancing material intermittently. |
| 234, | Selective Cutting (e.g., Punching), appropriate subclasses, for a selective cutting
device (usually termed a card or tape punch) of the step-by-step type. |
| 408, | Cutting by Use of Rotating Axially Moving Tool,
subclasses 70+ , for means to cut in the manner of that class during
the dwell of intermittent workfeed. |
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| 203 | Unicyclic: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 202. Device in which the synchronous relationship between work
moving and tool moving means is disrupted during or after each tool
cycle in such manner that the reestablishment of such relationship
and initiation or continuation of a succeeding cycle requires the
intervention of an external force or stimulus.
| | (1)
Note. Unicyclic operation is characterized by the requirement
of two inputs: one to supply actuating power and the other to intervene
and supply an unlocking force without which the machine could not
resume operation, as distinguished from the usual machine which operates
whenever power is supplied to it. Some type of "nonrepeat" mechanism is
required as part of the invention. |
| | (2)
Note. Many patents disclosing machines capable of unicyclic
operation are to be found in following subclasses, where the means
which confers such capability is not claimed. See particularly
the stamp or ticket dispensers in subclasses 208, 210, 224, 231+,
242+. |
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
| 69, | for stopping means effective upon completion of
predetermined number of tool cycles. |
| 252, | for supplemental manual feed required to complete
the cutting cycle. |
| 283, | for one-revolution clutch in tool actuating means. |
| 484, | for unicyclically movable carrier for rotatable
disc tool. |
| 524+, | for a device for moving a tool through one cutting
stroke only. |
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| 204 | Convertible to and from unicyclic: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 203. Device which comprises means for changing the type of operation
from unicyclic to continuous operation or from continuous to unicyclic.
| | (1)
Note. Device for changing from one type of operation to another
type for which separate subclasses are provided, neither type being "unicyclic",
will be found in subclasses directed to the specific types of operations
concerned. |
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
| 57, | for a device to alter the cyclic operation of a
cutting machine in some respect, but only as long as an intervening
force is maintained. (Example: a machine operator may hold a pushbutton
depressed to obtain short products for sampling or testing purposes). |
| 240+, | for adjustment of tool position or stroke, work
position, length of work-feed increment, etc. |
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| 205 | Controlled by mechanical means: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 203. Machine wherein the tool cycle is initiated and terminated
solely by mechanical elements (to the exclusion of electrical, electronic,
or chemical means).
| | (1)
Note. The mere presence of an electric driving motor an necessary
manually or mechanically actuated switch does not exclude the combination
thereof, with the mechanical initiating and terminating means, from
this subclass. |
| | (2)
Note. Hydraulic or pneumatic devices are considered "mechanical" for
the purposes of this definition. | |
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| 206 | With work-moving clamp jaw: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 202. Device wherein a portion of a frictional work-gripping device
as claimed exerts a centering, registering, or aligning effect on
the workpiece at a tool station.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
| 182, | for a clamp which aligns hollow work with respect
to a tool. |
| 262, | for a clamp used to cause a dwell in the work motion
by clamping or blocking the moving work. |
| 282, | for a work clamp cyclically actuated in a cutting
machine. |
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
| 198, | Conveyors: Power-Driven,
subclasses 343.1+ for a conveyor combined with means for clamping
the conveyed load in position for working at a work station. |
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| 207 | Work moved solely by movable abutment: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 202. Device wherein the only work-moving means is a work stop
which is cyclically moved against the work which has been presented thereto
(by means not claimed), to position or register the work prior to
the tool stroke.
| | (1)
Note. The "stop" in this subclass serves only
to give the final location or positioning motion to work which has
been presented to the machine, manually or by unclaimed work-moving
means, and the stop is not claimed as a clamping or gripping means. |
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
| 206, | 282+, and 452+, for an actuated
abutment or jaw which cooperates with another abutment to frictionally
grip the work. |
| 250+, | for such device combined with ordinary work-feed
means. |
| 268+, | and 391+, for abutment work stops which
do not move the work. |
| 418+, | for work moving means and an additional work positioning
means. |
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| 208 | Operation initiated by work-driven detector means to measure
work length: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 202. Device including a detector* which is moved by,
and to an extent proportional to movement of the work; further including
means to effect a signal or impulse only when the extent of detector
movement reaches a predetermined amount; and further including a
transmitter* connecting said detector means to a means
to effect or initiate work deceleration, work stoppage and/or
work cutting as a direct or indirect result of the receipt by said
effective means of such detected and transmitted signal or impulse.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
| 369, | for similar structure in which only the work cutting
is claimed. |
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| 209 | Work-sensing means to control work-moving or work-stopping
means: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 202. Device including a detector* for work, a transmitter*,
and means to stop the movement of the work, either directly, (as
by engagement of said means with the work), or indirectly, (as by stoppage
of a work-moving means) as a result of the receipt by said means
of such detected and transmitted signal or impulse.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
| 63, | for means, responsive to work sensing means, to
stop operation of a part or all of the machine in a random manner. |
| 367, | for similar structure for stopping work movement. |
| 370+, | for similar structure to actuate tool feed. |
| 399, | for means, responsive to condition or location of
a machine part, for controlling operation of another part; and see
the Notes thereto. |
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
| 198, | Conveyors: Power-Driven, appropriate subclasses for different types of conveyors
or systems of plural conveyors having operation control means responsive
to a condition of a conveyor or to a condition of the conveyed load. |
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| 211 | Work-sensing means to initiate tool feed: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 202. Device including a detector* for work, a transmitter,
and means to effect actuation of a cutter through a tool cycle,
as a direct or indirect result of the receipt by said means of such detected
and transmitted signal or impulse.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
| 370+, | for similar structure to effect tool movement against
work in which work movement or stoppage is not recited. |
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| 212 | With work-stopping abutment in sensing means: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 211. Device in which the detector includes a projection in the
path of movement of the moving work, which projection halts the
work by engagement of the work with said projection.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
| 262, | and 268+, for other means to effect work
stoppage by an abutment. |
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| 212.1 | Plural tools at same station, one positioned for continuous
engagement with work: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 202. Device wherein at least two tools act at a cutting zone,
one of which tools is stationary and is at all times disposed to
engage the work, and the other of which tools engages the work during
the workfeed dwell and which has a cutting plane perpendicular to
the direction of work movement.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
| 404.1+, | for a device having means to move work from one
tool station to another, which tool stations are disposed at right
angles to one another. |
| 425+, | for a device which includes means to move the work
relative to a tool which engages the work in a continuous manner
(i.e., the cutting plane of the tool is perpendicular to the direction of
the work movement). |
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| 213 | Plural tools successively actuated at same station: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 202. Apparatus in which more than one tool moves to operate on
the work, in the same general cutting zone and including means for
actuating one tool after another.
| | (1)
Note. This subclass excludes patents claiming plural tools
at different tool stations (separated by a distance equal to at least
the length of work-feed increment) for which see subclass 255. |
| | (2)
Note. This subclass includes patents for machines wherein
different tools are actuated in the same general cutting zone in
successive dwell periods of the work. |
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
| 255+, | for a succession of tools operating on the same
workpiece or same general area of a continuous workpiece, during
different dwell periods, and see (1) Note above. |
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| 215 | Tool has motion additional to cutting stroke during tool
cycle: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 202. Device in which the tool, in addition to its advance toward,
and retraction from, the work in each tool cycle*, undergoes
another motion (which may be for the purpose of relocating the tool,
feeding the work, etc.).
| | (1)
Note. The tool may be in noncutting motion while work is
being fed. |
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
| 284+, | for a tool which moves with the work during cutting
(e.g., a flying cutter). |
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| 216 | Tool has additional motion during work dwell: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 215. Device, wherein the tool is given its additional motion
during the period in which the work is stationary.
| | (1)
Note. The tool may merely be shifted to a different position
during one dwell of the work; or may be repeatedly actuated to make
a plurality of cutting strokes each effective on different positions
of the work, patents claiming the latter being found in indented
subclass 217. |
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
| 215+, | for a device wherein some of the tool motions may
occur during movement of the work. |
| 217, | and see (1) Note above. |
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| 217 | Included in plural cutting cycles: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 216. Device including means to cause the tool to perform a number
of cutting strokes while the work is at rest.
| | (1)
Note. Such device is frequently used to make a number of
cuts across a wide strip of work, with only one tool or a relatively
small number of tools. |
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
| 219+, | for a device in which work is moved in different
directions between successive tool strokes, whereby a plurality
of cuts may be made across a strip of work during a dwell in the
forward advance of the work. |
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| 218 | Tool has work-feeding motion: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 215. Device including means to cause a tool to move the work
through all or a part of the work-feed increment, by engagement
of tool and work during the additional motion of the tool.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
| 226+, | where the tool itself does not engage work to feed
it, but a work-feed means is actuated by the tool support during
advancing or retracting movement of the latter. |
| 284+, | for a device wherein the tool may feed the work
while cutting it (i.e., a flying cutter). |
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| 219 | With variable direction of work-feed from cycle to cycle: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 202. Device including means to effect successive increments of
work-feed in different directions, (as when following a contour),
in presenting work for successive operations by the same tool.
| | (1)
Note. This subclass does not include devices where work can
be manually shifted in position between cuts while a machine-driven
work-feed means merely continues to move work in the same direction
(as in an ordinary sewing machine); see subclass 249 for disclosures
of such devices. |
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| 71, | for control of machine functions generally by means
responsive to indicia on tape or card (i.e., pattern control). |
| 249, | for feed means modified to facilitate shifting of
work by external agency, and see (1) Note. |
| 356, | for periodic tool actuation timed with moving work,
with periodic lateral shift of work (or tool). |
| 367, | for movement of work responsive to work-sensing
means. |
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| 220 | In one of certain selected directions: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 219. Device wherein there are means to provide a limited number
of predetermined directions of work-feed and means to choose one
of said number of directions for each advance of the work.
| | (1)
Note. This subclass includes devices having means for effecting
mere reversal of work-feed direction at intervals, as well as machines
with "zigzag" or "staggered" work-feeds. | |
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| 221 | Interlock between tool actuating and work feed means: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 202. Device including means, additional to those means which
establish the cyclically timed relationship between the tool and
work movements, which additional means is effective to block or
otherwise prevent the normal cyclic operation of either tool or
work moving means, unless the latter two means are located in a desired
relationship.
| | (1)
Note. The interlock is an additional feature provided as
a safety precaution rather than part of the work or tool feed drive. |
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| 222, | for a device wherein completion of work-feed motion
serves to trip a tool actuating means into action, and completion
of tool stroke serves to restart the work-feed. |
| 380, | for an interlock which prevents a tool from starting
through its stroke unless a clamp is in actuated position. |
| 399+, | for an interlock between a plurality of elements,
in general and see Notes to subclasses 399+ for other "interlock" subclasses. |
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| 222 | Tool motion initiates work feed and vice versa: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 202. Device having means so associated with tool and work moving
means, that a tool upon reaching a predetermined point in its travel causes
initiation of the work-feed means, which latter at a predetermined
point in its travel will initiate the next tool stroke.
| | (1)
Note. The definition of this subclass requires successive
interactions alternately between tool moving and work moving means
(a chain reaction), as distinguished from subclass 221, which requires
merely unilateral control of one such means by the other. |
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
| 221, | for interlock between tool actuating means and work
moving means. |
| 225+, | for work-feed controlled by means on tool or tool
support. |
| 231+, | for tool actuation effected or initiated by work-feed
element. |
| 399, | for interlock between any two elements of a machine,
and see the Search Notes thereunder, for other pertinent subclasses. |
| 400, | for interlock between two elements plus means to
initiate an operation upon release of interlock. |
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| 223 | Stored energy means for moving work or tool, loaded by
tool or work: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 202. Device in which a mechanism, driven by movement of either
the tool or the work-feed means, is caused to accumulate potential energy
which is later released to actuate the other of the two means.
| | (1)
Note. This arrangement is found in many small hand-actuated
machines, wherein, for example, a tool-retracting spring is stressed
during the tool cutting stroke and part of its stored energy is
utilized, during the return of the tool, to advance the work into
position for the next cut. |
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
| 229, | for work-feed means driven by tool or tool support
on return movement of tool. |
| 582+, | for a constantly urged tool, especially subclasses
588+ for return-stroke-biased tools. |
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| 224 | Work feed means actuates energy storage device for tool: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 223. Device wherein the motion of some portion of the work-feed
means is used to accumulate potential energy which is released later
in the cycle to actuate the tool.
| | (1)
Note. The stored energy for the tool may be released by further
motion of the work-feed means or by some other agency. |
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
| 232+, | (tool actuator struck by an element of a work-feed
means, during nonfeeding motion thereof) for some disclosures of
energy storage. |
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| 225 | Work feed means controlled by means mounted on tool or
tool support: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 202. Device including means mounted on the tool or its support
and effective to initiate the establishment of a driving connection
(a) from a power source to the work moving means, or (b) from work
moving means to the work, and/or the disruption of said
connection.
| | (1)
Note. The tool-mounted means may serve to drive and/or
stop the work-feed means, or to control the transmission of power
to such means from another source. |
| | (2)
Note. This subclass is distinguished from subclass 262 (which
see) by the fact that in the latter subclass, the work is directly
halted by clamping or blocking means (which may be mounted on tool or
tool support) but the work-feed mechanism continues to move, ineffectively. |
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| 226 | Such means drives the work feed means: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 225. Device wherein the tool-mounted means provides the motive
power for actuating the work-feed means.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
| 228, | for an auxiliary work-feed means mounted on a tool
or tool support. |
| 230, | for a device wherein the motion of tool-carried
means merely effects the halting of work-feed means. |
| 262, | for work-feed dwell effected by clamping or blocking
the moving work, without stopping the motion of the feed means proper,
and see (2) Note to subclass 225. |
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| 227 | Work feed means carried by tool or tool support: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 226. Device wherein the work-feeding means is itself mounted
on the tool or tool support.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
| 218, | for a device wherein a tool feeds the work while
still in contact therewith during a cutting stroke. |
| 228, | for supplemental work-feed means carried by a tool
or tool support. |
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| 228 | With supplemental work feed means: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 226. Device which includes a plurality of work moving means acting
in succession, each such means being capable of moving the work through
a portion of the required feed increment, one of said feed means
itself mounted on or integral with the tool or tool support.
| | (1)
Note. Pilot pins which serve to correct the position of slightly
misplaced work are included, if carried by the tool support. |
| | (2)
Note. The supplemental work-feed means may be provided merely
to correct slight misplacements of the work if an when they should
occur. |
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| 218, | for a tool which has work-feeding motion (the tool
feeds the work after engaging it with a cutting stroke). |
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| 229 | On return stroke of tool: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 226. Device wherein the tool-mounted means is brought into operation
during the tool"s motion away from the work.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
| 223, | for work advanced by release of potential energy
accumulated during and as a result of tool movement (such work advance
may occur during return movement of tool). |
| 257, | for the general case of work advance during return
stroke of tool. |
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| 230 | Work feed means halted by means on tool or tool support: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 225. Device in which the means mounted on tool or tool support
is effective at some point in its travel to cause stopping of the
work moving means.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
| 221, | for interlock means to prevent movement of work-feed
means except in certain positions of tool. |
| 262, | for dwell caused by clamping or blocking the work,
where work-feed means is continuously driven. |
| 268+, | for dwell caused by blocking the work by an abutment
(which may be carried on or moved by the tool support). |
| 282, | for (broadly) clamping work during dwell. |
| 391+, | for interrelated actuation of tool and work-stopping
abutment. |
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| 231 | Work-feed mechanism in nonfeed motion effects or initiates
tool actuation: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 202. Device in which the work engaging and moving element, or
a portion of the work-feed means driving train which is not common
to the latter and to the tool driving train, and which moves without
producing any corresponding motion of the work, is itself, or carries
means which is, effective to drive, or to establish a power connection
for driving, the tool feeding mechanism.
| | (1)
Note. Tool feed may be initiated substantially simultaneously
with arrival of the work-feed mechanism at the end of its feed motion,
where it appears that the tool is not intended to engage moving work. |
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
| 221, | for interlock between work-moving and tool-moving
mechanisms. |
| 225+, | for work moving means controlled by means on tool
or tool support. |
| 273+, | for intermittent drive type of gearing for work-feed
means. |
| 399+, | for a device in which an element common to the control
or actuation of work moving and tool actuating means is arranged
to initiate or permit actuation of one means while preventing actuation
of the other means. |
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| 232 | By striking tool actuator: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 231. Device in which the feeding element or driving portion delivers
an impact to an element which causes a cutter to start its cutting
stroke.
| | (1)
Note. Such organizations are common in machines for delivering
tape, which often are used to feed and cut only a single length
or strip of tape at each use, but may be used to deliver as many
lengths at a time as desired. |
| | (2)
Note. For machines having positive stop mechanisms requiring
reinitiation of the mechanism after each cutting cycle, see subclass
203 supra. |
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| 203, | and see (1) Note above. |
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| 233 | Nonfeed motion is reverse to feed motion: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 232. Device in which the nonfeed motion is in a direction opposite
to that in which the feeding element or driving portion moves when
bringing about a feeding movement of the work.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
| 399+, | for interlocking relationship between work and tool
movers, some of these devices permit tool actuation only upon reversal
of position of a work-feed lever. |
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| 234 | With means to vary number of work-feed increments between
tool strokes: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 202. Device having means to permit a change in the number of
stops and starts of the work-feed means between successive actuations
of the tool actuating means, without necessitating the replacement
of any machine part to bring about the change.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
| 57, | for manually actuated means to disturb cyclic operation. |
| 209+, | for work-sensing means to control work-moving or
work-stopping means. |
| 232+, | for a manually operated to feed more than one increment
of work for any one cutting cycle, at the discretion of the operator. |
| 238+, | for unequal work-feed increments in recurring series. |
| 241+, | for means to vary magnitude of work-feed increment. |
| 242+, | for multiple-length feed. |
| 250+, | for means to produce a plurality of work-feed increments
per tool cycle. |
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| 235 | Dwell caused by imposing reverse motion on portion of flexible
moving work: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 202. Device wherein means is provided to bring a portion of the
work adjacent a tool station alternately to a halt and to a condition
of forward motion by imparting to that portion of the work a succession
of alternate backward and forward movements while the remainder
of the work is undergoing continuous forward movement.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
| 236, | for uninterrupted advance of work from supply source. |
| 259+, | for a device wherein constantly moving feed elements
(e.g., rotating feed rolls) are not always in effective engagement
with work. |
| 262, | for a device wherein work dwell is effected by clamping
or blocking the movement of a portion of the work without any provision
being made for halting the movement of other portions thereof. |
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| 236 | With uninterrupted flow of work from supply source: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 202. Device wherein transport means moves work continuously into
or toward the machine, means being provided to cause or permit temporary
halting and/or storage of a portion of the work during
the cutting cycle.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
| 205, | for work-feed dwell caused by clamping or blocking
the work. |
| 235, | for work-feed dwell caused by imposing reverse motion
on portion of flexible moving work. |
| 280, | for means to transport work to work-feed means. |
| 284+, | and 350+, for tool engaging moving work. |
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| 237 | Work feed increment shorter than longitudinal tool field: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 202. Device wherein the tool or an array of tools which are actuated
during one dwell period has such extent in the direction of work-feed
that cuts made during successive dwell periods overlap or intermingle.
| | (1)
Note. Devices in this subclass are frequently used to shred
or cut small pieces from a web by serrated cutters. |
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
| 213+, | for possible overlapping cuts made by successively
actuated tools. |
| 249, | for a machine modified to facilitate manual reorientation
of workpiece, as when cutting or punching along a curved line. |
| 255+, | for possible overlapping cuts made at plural tool
stations. |
| 916, | for a nibbling machine. |
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| 238 | Unequal work feed increments in recurring series: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 202. Apparatus so organized that the amount of work fed differs
from one feeding movement to another, the same amounts being fed
in later feed movements and in the same order.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
| 220+, | for means to feed work in certain different directions
between tool strokes. |
| 250+, | for means to produce a plurality of work-feed increments
per tool cycle (certain of said increments may be of different extent
than others). |
| 393, | for work-stopping abutment made effective in different
positions between successive tool strokes. |
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| 239 | Work carriage carries ratchet means to determine increments: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 238. Device including a movable work support and an associated
series of detents, to be engaged by cooperating means to stop the
travel of the support in accordance with the location of such detents.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
| 241+, | for means to vary magnitude of work-feed increment
generally. |
| 396, | for interrelated tool actuation and means to release
work-mover stop. |
| 414, | for a device comprising indexing means to orient
a work carrier relative to a tool station. |
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| 240 | Means to change tool position, or length or datum position
of work- or tool-feed increment: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 202. Device wherein means is provided for (a) adjusting the work-feed
means to alter the amount fed in each increment, or (b) changing the
position of the work relative to the work-feed means, or (c) changing
the position of tool or work-feed means relative to the device as
a whole, or (d) changing the location of one or both of the limits
of travel of a tool in its cutting or retracting stroke, without
necessitating replacement of any machine part to bring about such
variation.
| | (1)
Note. This does not include pattern-controlled adjustments
of tool or work-feed, for which see subclass 71, supra. |
| | (2)
Note. This does not include temporary disturbance of cycle
by manual intervention, for which see subclass 57, supra. |
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
| 57, | and see (2) Note, above. |
| 71, | and see (1) Note, above. |
| 209+, | and 211+, for work-moving or work-stopping
means controlled by work-sensing means in a machine of subclass
202 type. |
| 234, | for means to vary number of work-feed increments
between cuts. |
| 249, | for means enabling the shift of work relative to
a work-feed means by an operator. |
| 252, | for means capable of producing an additional work-feed
increment by intervention of an operator. |
| 268+, | for work-feed increment limited or determined by
work stop. |
| 657, | 677, 696, 699.51+, for adjustable tool or
tool support. |
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| 241 | With means to vary magnitude of work-feed increment: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 240. Means to vary the length or amount of work fed toward the
tool at each one of the series of stops and starts of the work which
characterize the operation of a device of the type of subclass 202,
without necessitating the replacement of any machine part to bring
about such variation.
| | (1)
Note. This subclass includes adjustment of work-feed by varying
the effective length of a link or shape of a cam, where such link
or cam is not part of the actual drive to the work-feed means, but
is only a control element. |
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
| 69, | for machine which stops after cutting a predetermined
number of products. |
| 203+, | for unicyclic machine. |
| 208, | for work-length-determining means driven by the
work (e.g., measuring wheel). |
| 233, | for devices which inherently permit the selection
of a length of stock to be cut (within a limit) by feeding the amount
desired and then reversing the feed lever to cause cutting to occur. |
| 234, | for means to vary the number of work-feed increments
between tool strokes. |
| 268, | for feed limited by work stop. |
| 399+, | for a work-feed actuator or controller which can
be manipulated in a direction to lock the work-feed means and permit
or cause actuation of a tool. |
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| 242 | Multi-increment type (e.g., ticket issuing): |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 241. Device which functions so to vary the work-feed increments
that all such increments are whole number multiples of a predetermined base
length.
| | (1)
Note. Examples are ticket-issuing machines. |
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
| 234, | for feeding of variable multiple lengths in stepwise
manner between successive tool strokes. |
| 250+, | for means to produce a plurality of work-feed increments
between tool strokes. |
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| 243 | Length selector initiates machine operation: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 242. Device wherein the actuation of a work-feed-length determining
means serves either to drive the cutting device through its cycle
or to establish a connection to power means which so drives the
cutting device.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
| 203+, | for a unicyclic machine of this type. |
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| 244 | By change in length of one member of feed-driving linkage: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 241. Device wherein the length of a work-feed increment may be
varied by altering the effective dimension of a crank, link, or
lever arm in the drive train of the work-feed mechanism.
| | (1)
Note. Included here are adjustable lost-motion drive linkages. |
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
| 241+, | for change of work-feed increment by change in length
of a member of a control (not feed driving) linkage. |
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| 245 | Rotating member: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 244. Device in which the crank, link or lever arm has a motion
of revolution in one direction only.
| | (1)
Note. An oscillatory driving link of this type will be found
in subclass 244. |
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
| 244, | and see (1) Note above. |
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| 246 | By change of effective shape of driving or driven surface
of element of work-feed mechanism: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 241. Device wherein the length of work-feed increment may be
varied by altering the contour of that portion of a moving member
which transmits or receives force to drive the work-feed mechanism.
| | (1)
Note. Typical examples of work-feed adjustments included
in this subclass are (a) changing the number of teeth used in a
mutilated drive gear, (b) removing part of the tooth of a worm gear,
(c) two cam segments in juxtaposition on a shaft may be made angularly
adjustable relative to each other. |
| | (2)
Note. The adjustable cam or gear must be in the work-feed
drive train itself, not merely in a control linkage, for which see
subclass 241, supra. |
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
| 241+, | for changing magnitude of work-feed increment by
altering the effective shape of a cam or the like in a timing or
control mechanism (not transmitting force to drive the work-feed means),
and see (2) Note, above. |
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| 247 | By adjustment of fixed stop: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 241. Device wherein a change in amount of travel of the work-feed
mechanism is effected by altering the position or location of a
normally stationary abutment which cooperates with a movable member
in the work-feed mechanism.
| | (1)
Note. This subclass does not include devices having an adjustable
positioned "stop" located on a moving element. |
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
| 241+, | for an adjustable "stop" carried
by a moving element. |
| 244+, | for work-feed adjustment by shifting the location
of the fulcrum point of a lever in the work-feed drive train. |
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| 248 | With means to vary magnitude or base position of tool stroke: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 240. Device wherein means is provided for varying the location
(in the direction of tool travel) of one or both of the limits of
travel of the tool in its cutting or retracting motion.
| | (1)
Note. Examples are machines which turn out ticket strips
- a number of incompletely severed tickets in each strip. |
| | (2)
Note. The variation may be cyclic or randomly controlled. |
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
| 74+, | for tool adjustment by a monitoring device. |
| 215+, | for tool which has additional motion (e.g., repositioning
motion) during cycle. |
| 368, | for tool adjustment by work-responsive means. |
| 469+, | for adjustment of position or travel of carrier
for rotatable disc tool. |
| 523+, | for tool stroke or positioning adjustments, in general. |
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| 249 | With means to facilitate manual repositioning (shift) of
work: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 202. Device which has certain parts modified especially to enable
an operator to shift, reoriented or reposition the work relative
to the work-feed means.
| | (1)
Note. Such machines may permit the angular repositioning
of the work about the tool cutting stroke as a center, to enable
for example a change in the direction of a row of perforations without introducing
an irregularity in spacing where the change is made. |
| | (2)
Note. Means to facilitate loading work into the work-feed
means may be included (threading means) if it is disclosed as also
usable to readjust the position of work while the machine is in operation. |
| | (3)
Note. Many nibbling machines are found in this subclass. |
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
| 373, | for interrelated tool actuating and work guide moving
means. |
| 415, | for work carrier having additional work-locating
means thereon, which may shift the work on the carrier. |
| 455, | for guide adapted to permit maneuvering of work
at tool zone. |
| 916, | for nibbling machines. |
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| 250 | With means to produce plurality of work-feed increments
per tool cycle: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 202. Device in whose operation the work is caused to undergo
more than one advancement and stoppage for each stroke of tool,
or is advanced successively by different feed means during one tool
cycle.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
| 111+, | for means to clear the freshly-cut edge of product
(cut work) from a tool, by moving it relative to the tool, prior
to the next work-feed increment, thereby in effect affording a plurality
of increments between successive tool strokes. |
| 206, | for a work-moving clamp, which follows and supplements
an approximate work-feed by hand or mechanical means. |
| 207, | for an actuated abutment which can move work to
a final position after a preliminary feed of work against the abutment. |
| 219+, | for a machine wherein the work may be caused to
move in different directions between successive tool strokes. |
| 228, | for supplemental work-feed means mounted on tool
or tool support. |
| 234, | for means to vary the number of work-feed increments
between strokes. |
| 280+, | for means to move work into the effective range
of work-feed means proper, and see (4) Note under subclass 251 for
the distinction between supplemental work-feed means and work transport
means. |
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| 251 | Including supplemental work-feed means: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 250. Device so constructed that work may be moved by more than
one feed means acting at different times.
| | (1)
Note. This subclass includes lateral positioning means, for
instance. |
| | (2)
Note. This subclass includes work-feed means which may not
be effective in every cycle, such as manually actuated means to
correct the registry of the work, either by the provision of additional work-feed
means or by provision of additional actuating means for the existing
work-feed means. |
| | (3)
Note. The search notes under subclass 250 should be reviewed
in relation to this and indented subclasses. |
| | (4)
Note. Supplemental work-feed means, in this and indented
subclasses, is capable of and is normally utilized for the purpose
of presenting work in correct amount and proper timed relation to
the tool station, as distinguished from work transport means which
merely forwards work to a work-feed means proper and which lacks
the requisite timing or range of stroke to position the work for
operation thereon by the tool. |
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
| 228, | for supplemental work-feed means mounted on tool
or tool support. |
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| 252 | Manual: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 251. Device wherein the supplemental feed means is actuated,
or the conventional work-feed means is driven through additional
motion, by the intervention of an operator.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
| 203+, | for a unicyclic machine in which an operator must
intervene to pull the work through a certain distance in order to
initiate a cutting cycle. |
| 249, | for means to facilitate manual repositioning or
realignment of work. |
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| 253 | With stop adapted to engage abutment surface on work: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 251. Device including a supplemental work-feed means which functions
to move the work against a work-stop located for proper placement
of the work.
| | (1)
Note. The supplemental feed increment may be in any direction,
but is limited by engagement of the work by a stop. |
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
| 207, | for work brought into position by an actuated abutment. |
| 239, | for unequally spaced ratchet stops associates with
a work carrier to effect unequal work-feed increments in recurring
series. |
| 268+, | for work-feed against a stop or guide for positioning
thereof. |
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| 254 | Plurality of work stops successively effective: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 253. Device provided with means to cause two or more stops to
become effective in serial relationship to position the work for
successive tool cycles.
| | (1)
Note. The plurality of work stops are so disposed and/or
moved that not all of such stops are brought into work-abutting
and stopping position for any one tool cycle and the identity of
stops in such position varies cyclically. |
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
| 238+, | for means to produce unequal work-feed increments
in recurring series. |
| 278, | for some disclosures of work-moving pusher elements
which are successively effective. |
| 393, | for work stopping abutment(s) with cyclic means
to alter work-stopping position between tool strokes. |
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| 255 | Work fed successively to plural tools: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 202. Device having two or more tools disposed along the path
of feed movement of work at such locations that each tool operates,
in sequence and during different dwell periods, upon the same piece
of work or the same feed-wise segments of indefinite length work.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
| 213+, | for plural tools successively actuated in one general
cutting zone during the same or different dwell periods. |
| 217, | for a tool arranged to engage the work a number
of times during one dwell period. |
| 237, | for a machine whose work-feed increment is less
than the dimension of a tool array indirection of work-feed, to produce
overlapping, continuous, or intermingling cuts by the same tool
or array of tools. |
| 272, | for plural work-feed paths in a cutting machine. |
| 404+, | for means to feed work from one tool station to
another. |
| 620, | for plural tools mounted on and actuated from same
support. |
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| 256 | With change of direction between tools: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 255. Device in which the work is fed in different directions
to the various tools in succession.
| | (1)
Note. A "change in direction" may be a mere
reversal of direction. |
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
| 219+, | for a machine capable of feeding work in different
directions between successive tool actuations. |
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| 257 | Work advance occurs during return stroke of tool: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 202. Device wherein the work-feeding motion is timed to take
place while the tool is being withdrawn from the work after its
cutting function has been performed.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
| 218, | for a tool which has work-feeding motion in addition
to its cutting and retraction motion. |
| 229, | for work-feed means driven by tool or tool support
during return movement of the tool. |
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| 258 | Dwell defined only by "dead-center" of rotating crank: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 202. Device wherein the work-feed means is driven from a constantly
rotating crankshaft through a Scotch yoke or connecting rod with
no provision for work dwell other than the momentary halts that
occur when the yoke or connecting rod passes through its extreme
positions.
| | (1)
Note. The yoke or rod may drive work-feed rolls through a
double pawl-and-ratchet arrangement, whereby the feed is driven
at each forward and each return stroke of the pitman (no half-revolution idle
period as in a single-ratchet drive). |
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
| 235, | for work-feed dwell caused by imposing reverse motion
on a portion of flexible moving work, where all machine parts may
be in motion during the dwell. |
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| 259 | Dwell initiated by disengagement of surface of moving frictional
feed means from work: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 202. Device which functions to move work by gripping engagement
between a surface of the work and a surface of a continuously rotating reciprocating
or oscillating member, the dwell being caused by separation of the
frictionally engaged surfaces.
| | (1)
Note. Subclass 260, indented hereunder, includes patents
disclosing mutilated feed rolls to cause the intermittent feed. |
| | (2)
Note. This subclass includes feed grippers which during their
advancing motion, release the work to effect the dwell as the grippers
continue to reciprocate or oscillate between advanced and retracted
positions. |
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
| 259, | for dwell caused by directly clamping or blocking
the work. |
| 260, | and see (1) Note above. |
| 269, | for slippage of feed means on work, after work has
engaged a stop or abutment. |
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| 260 | Feed means has interrupted frictional surface: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 259. Device wherein the continuously driven feed member has a
frictional work-engaging surface which has been modified, as by
cutting away portions thereof, to cause intermittent drive of the
work by repeated engagement and disengagement of such surface therewith.
| | (1)
Note. The dwell is caused by interruption of frictional driving
engagement between feed element and work surface. |
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
| 246, | for work-feed adjustment by changing the effective
shape of a driving or driven element. |
| 275, | for a work-feed means whose dwell is produced by
intermittent engagement of mutilated gearing. |
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| 261 | Feed means has rotary motion: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 259. Device wherein the frictional work engaging surface moves
continuously in a circular or closed oval path.
| | (1)
Note. This subclass includes patents disclosing opposed continuously
moving feed rollers or feed belts which are alternately moved toward
and away from each other to advance and to release the work. |
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
| 235, | 262, and 269, for other continuously rotating work-feed
means in a machine of the subclass 202 type. |
| 284+, | for continuously driven work-feed means in a machine
of the flying cutter type. |
| 350+, | for continuously driven work-feed means in a machine
wherein no provision is made to stop the work. |
| 436.1+, | for a cutting device with a roller to convey work
wherein the cut is parallel to and during work movement. |
| 436.3+, | for a cutting device with a roller to convey work,
generally. |
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| 262 | Dwell caused by clamping or blocking work during continuous
operation of feed means: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 202. Device wherein feed means continuously advances the work
toward a position where it is acted on by a clamp or an abutment,
which stops the movement of the portion of the work in the region
of the cutting zone, or wherein the movement of such portion is
stopped by the tool itself in its cutting stroke.
| | (1)
Note. The work usually buckles or compresses during the time
the clamp or abutment stop is effective and the tool is actuated. |
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
| 207, | for work-stopping abutment which also moves the
work to its correct position at the tool zone. |
| 212, | for a work-stopping abutment incorporated in a work-sensing
means. |
| 230, | for clamp or work stop on tool or tool support. |
| 236, | for work continuously advanced to an intermittent
work-feed means. |
| 253+, | for work-stopping abutment cooperating with a supplemental
work-feed means. |
| 268, | for work driven against a locating stop, by work-feeding
mechanism or by the action of gravity alone, in a machine of the
subclass 202 type. |
| 269+, | for a work-stopping abutment which is effective
to halt the work while it continues to be biased forwardly by feed
means. |
| 350+, | for tool with stroke transversely of moving work
and timed therewith, no provision being made for stopping the work. |
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
| 198, | Conveyors: Power-Driven,
subclass 343 for a conveyor a portion of which dwells at a work
station while the conveyor continues to move along other portions
of its conveying path. |
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| 263 | With means to control magnitude of work-feed increment
or work acceleration: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 202. Device which incorporates means to assure, in connection
with each starting or stopping of the work, the feeding or advancement
of a predetermined length of work or the confinement of the rate
of change of speed of the work to a desired range.
| | (1)
Note. This subclass does not include adjustment of work-feed
increment, as such, for which see subclasses 241+, supra. |
| | (2)
Note. A work-feed means as defined in this subclass is commonly
used, for example, to prevent undesired, accidental, or unauthorized
advance of the work during a dwell period, or to assure the full
extent of advance of the work at each cycle, or to avoid damage
to or inaccurate advance of the work caused by sudden starts and
stops of the work-feed means. |
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
| 234, | 241+, 250+, for feed adjustments. |
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| 264 | Means to prevent random or excessive work feeds: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 263. Device wherein means is provided to prevent the overrunning
of a work-feed means or its motion during any part of the cycle
other than while it is being driven.
| | (1)
Note. These devices may be utilized to prevent advance of
work by tampering or unauthorized use, as in ticket-issuing machines,
or may be used to handle certain kinds of workpieces with greater precision,
reduce wastage, etc. |
| | (2)
Note. If overrunning is prevented by positive drive trains
(double-acting cams, etc.), search the pertinent types of work-feeds. |
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
| 221, | 399+, for an interlock including control
of work-feed means. |
| 242+, | for a machine characterized by multiple-unit work-feed
increments, which usually include means to prevent overrun or unauthorized
work-feed operation. |
| 274, | for positive stop during dwell. |
| 416, | for a work conveyor and means to stop same. |
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| 265 | Full stroke required of feed means: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 263. Device including means to prevent reversal of direction
of work-feed means before it has completed a predetermined travel.
| | (1)
Note. The full stroke mechanism is frequently interlocked
with the tool actuating means to prevent premature tool actuation;
patents claiming the interlocking feature are originally classified
in subclass 221. |
| | (2)
Note. In addition to its primary function of preventing underfeed
of work, full stroke mechanism also prevents the advance of an excessive
amount of work by repeated actuation of the work-feed means through
partial strokes between successive tool strokes. |
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
| 209+, | 211+, for specific operations similarly controlled
in machines of the subclass 202 type. |
| 221, | for interlock between work-feed and tool actuation,
and see (1) Note above. |
| 222, | for tool actuation tripped by completion of work-feed
and vice versa. |
| 360+, | for operation controlled by means responsive to
work. |
| 416, | for means to stop work-mover. |
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
| 74, | Machine Element or Mechanism,
subclass 17.5 for a full stroke compelling mechanism in general. |
| 81, | Tools,
subclass 313 for a full stroke compelling mechanism in a plier-type tool. |
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| 266 | Work feed functions as tool support: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 202. Device wherein an element of the means which moves the work
to the tool zone also supports a tool (i.e., functions as a tool
support as defined in the Definitions of terms for the class).
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
| 218, | for tool having work-feeding motion. |
| 267, | for some patents disclosing a tool mounted on a
rotary work carrier. |
| 322+, | for work-feeder mounted on support for flying cutter. |
| 566+, | for tool which moves work to and against cooperating
tool. |
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| 267 | With rotary work-carrier: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 202. Device provided with means (e.g., an indexing member) to
carry the work through at least a portion of a circular path while
in engagement with holding means, the work being acted upon by a
tool while held on said means.
| | (1)
Note. The presence of work-clamping means on the rotary member
distinguishes it from a feed roll. |
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
| 323, | for work-feed means carried by orbitally moving
tool support, in a flying cutter. |
| 325, | for work gripper on endless belt work carrier in
flying cutter machine. |
| 411+, | for work carrier guided about axis fixed relative
to tool station. |
| 439, | for means to guide work for pivotal motion about
a fixed axis in the vicinity of a tool. |
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| 268 | With abutment to position work being fed with respect to
cutter: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 202. Device provided with passive means which serve as an obstacle
to limit movement of work in a given direction.
| | (1)
Note. This subclass includes machines wherein the feed means
moves the work to an inclined track, where it slides down against
a stop, or wherein the work merely drops against such stop after being
brought into the vicinity by feed means, or wherein the feed means
drives the work against the stop. |
| | (2)
Note. In some cases, the work is caused or permitted to move
back against an abutment which positions it for cutting. |
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
| 207, | for actuated abutment which positions work prior
to tool stroke. |
| 253+, | for work moved against a stop by a supplemental
work moving means. |
| 391+, | for a work-stopping abutment actuated in timed relation
to tool stroke. |
| 396, | for work-mover stop actuated in timed relation to
tool stroke. |
| 414, | for means to stop work-mover, in general. |
| 467+, | for a work-stopping abutment not claimed as functionally
related to a tool. |
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| 269 | With slip between positioned work and feed means: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 268. Device wherein the feed means continues to move (and slips
on the work), upon work contact with a stop element, the frictional
driving engagement of the feed means with the work being overcome
(interrupted) by the halting of the work in the feeding area.
| | (1)
Note. Devices found in this subclass provide for slippage
of the feed means on the blocked work rather than slippage at some
point in the drive train. |
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
| 262, | for continuously driven feed means and work clamp
or stop, with no provision for slippage (work must buckle up or
distort). |
| 350+, | for continuously fed work acted upon by a transversely
moving tool, with no provision for slippage (work must buckle up
or distort) and work movement is checked only momentarily as an
incidental effect of contact therewith of the tool. |
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| 270 | Work guide and feed means have open side: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 202. Device wherein a work guideway and feed means are located
both at one side of the work path, leaving the other side of the
path unobstructed.
| | (1)
Note. Machines thus modified are capable of operating on
a very wide object or strip, also can operate at or near the periphery
of an irregularly shaped object, such as a shoe sole. |
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
| 219+, | for variable direction of work-feed from cycle to
cycle. |
| 249, | for machine modified to facilitate manual shift
or repositioning of work. |
| 373, | for interrelated tool actuation and work guide movement. |
| 445, | for work guide adapted to permit manual shift of
work relative to a tool station. |
| 914, | for flash trimmer. |
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| 271 | Work feed means modified to maintain clearance from tool: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 202. Device wherein provision is made in the work-feed mechanism
to keep it from interfering with or being touched by the moving
tool.
| | (1)
Note. Conveyor belts with openings registering with the tool,
belts with loop at the cutting station, etc., are included in this
subclass. |
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
| 266, | for tool supported on work-feed means. |
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| 272 | Plurality of work feed means in separate paths: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 202. Device including separate feed means for advancing two or
more lines of web or stock material, or successions of workpieces
along different routes to the same tool or to different tools.
| | (1)
Note. This does not include separate rolls or belts or sectionalized
rolls on common shafts, which feed work in the same general plane
or along converging or diverging paths. |
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
| 256, | for work being fed in different directions to and
between a plurality of tools for sequential operations by said tools
on the same general areas of the work. |
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| 273 | Intermittent drive type of gearing for work-feed means: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 202. Device wherein step-by-step work-feed motion is obtained
by means of modified rotary gearing which periodically interrupts
the flow of power to the feed means during continued rotation of
a portion of the gearing.
| | (1)
Note. This subclass includes only those devices wherein a
rotary gear or element rigid therewith drives the work-feed means
intermittently. |
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
| 241+, | for disclosures of work-feed adjustment by altering
an effective number of teeth in intermittent gearing which controls,
but does not drive, a work-feed device. |
| 246, | for an interrupted gear drive wherein the effective
number of driving gear teeth is adjustable to vary the work-feed
increment. |
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| 274 | Gearing modified to lock the work-feed means: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 273. Device in which the gearing has portions which interrupt
the motion of a driven portion thereof and hold it at a standstill
for predetermined intervals during the rotation of the driving gear.
| | (1)
Note. Examples are Geneva stop mechanism, and the "Drunken
Worm". |
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
| 264, | for means in general, to prevent random or excessive
feed movement. |
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| 275 | Mutilated gear in mesh with gear driving work-feed means: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 273. Device in which the increments of work-feed correspond to
toothed portions of the periphery of a rotatable body which cooperates
with another toothed rotatable body in the driving train for the
work contacting feeding means, and the intervals of time during
which the feed means is not driven correspond to untoothed portions
of the first named rotatable body.
| | (1)
Note. In this subclass, the gearing merely periodically interrupts
the flows of power to work-feed means, but is not designed to lock
the latter in position during the dwell intervals, for which see subclass
274. |
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
| 241+, | for adjustable gearing which controls the timing
of work-feed drive means but which does not itself drive said means. |
| 246, | for some disclosures of mutilated gearing in work-feed
drives. |
| 274, | and see (1) Note above. |
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| 276 | Work-feed element contacts and moves with work: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 202. Means including a member which engages and advances bodily
with the work towards the cutter.
| | (1)
Note. The work-feed means may reciprocate; i.e., travel along
the same path on its return stroke as it traveled in its feeding
stroke; or it may return from its feeding stroke along a different
path (such as a "four motion" feed, or an endless
belt conveyor). |
| | (2)
Note. The work engaging member may undergo a return movement
after each feed increment, or after a succession of work-feed increments. |
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
| 267, | for means to move work step-by-step in an arcuate
path said means having no distinct (e.g., reverse) return movement. |
| 409+, | for other rectilinear work-mover means including
a work-constrainer. |
| 435.11+, | for a cutting device having a rectilinearly moving
work carriage and tool adapted to cut parallel to the direction of
and during work movement. |
| 437.1+, | for a cutting device having a rectilinearly moving
work carriage and a tool, generally. |
| 730, | for a cutting device including a rectilinearly moving
work carriage and including means to cause the cutting device to
make plural passes through a diminishing workpiece, including means
to effect incremental movement toward the plane of cut. |
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| 277 | Comprises a work-moving gripper: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 276. Device including opposed solid members arranged to hold
frictionally a portion of the work to draw the work with them and
thus present the work to the tool.
| | (1)
Note. A gripper is a device comprising a plurality of opposed
jaws or surface elements relatively movable to engage opposed surfaces
of a workpiece and thereby apply sufficient force to enable advancement
of the workpiece by said jaws or surfaces through their frictional engagement
with said workpiece, i.e., in a direction substantially parallel
to the surface elements or jaw faces. |
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
| 267, | for rotary work carrier comprising work grippers
or abutments. |
| 276+, | for rectilinear or oscillatory feed device which
holds work by other than frictional gripping or positive abutting
engagement (e.g., suction or magnetic holders. |
| 294, | 319, 323, 325, for work-feeding grippers in flying-cutting
machines. |
| 409+, | for work-constraining means on workmover. |
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
| 198, | Conveyors: Power-Driven,
subclasses 468.2+ and 470.1+ for a conveyor having load-gripping
members. |
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| 278 | Comprises element entering aperture in, or engaging abutment
surface on, work: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 276. Device in which the work-feed means comprises a member which
engages in an opening in the work or which positively pushes the work.
| | (1)
Note. Impaling points or fingers which form their own recesses
or openings in the work are included here. |
| | (2)
Note. Push bars and the like which directly engage and push
the work are included here. The "abutment surface" engaged
by such pusher may be the rear edge of the work as well as any other salient
portion. |
| | (3)
Note. A feed member having a rough toothed, or corrugated
surface to engage work, if opposed by another moving surface so
as to clamp the work, would be classified in subclass 277, but if
opposed only by a stationary work-supporting surface or work guide,
or by the mere weight of the work itself, would generally be regarded
as imbedded in the work or abutting it within the scope of the definition
of subclass 278. |
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
| 277, | and see (1) Note above. |
| 423, | for projections on work mover (e.g., pinwheel). |
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
| 198, | Conveyors: Power-Driven,
subclasses 388 and 854+ for a conveyor having a holder
that contacts the interior of the conveyed load, subclasses 692+ for
a conveyor having load impalers, and subclasses 717+ and others
for a conveyor that pushes a load supported on a separate platform. |
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| 279 | With means to guide, position, or present work to work-feed
means: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 202. Device including active or passive means which move or exert
control on the work (other than by merely supporting it against
gravity) before it reaches the means-to-feed it to the cutting zone.
| | (1)
Note. The first named means (guiding, positioning, or transport)
is not adequate of itself to present the work properly to the tool
zone. |
| | (2)
Note. The first named means may merely orient or "square
up" the work being presented to the work-feed means, or
it may control the timing of work presentation to the latter. |
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
| 236, | for means to effect uninterrupted advance of work
from supply source to work-feed means. |
| 250+, | for means to produce a plurality of work-feed increments
per tool cycle. |
| 255+, | for means to feed work successively to plural tools. |
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
| 198, | Conveyors: Power-Driven, appropriate subclasses relating to plural conveyors
which successively carry a load. |
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| 280 | Means to transport work to work-feed means: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 279. Device which comprises means to carry work from a source
of supply and transfer it to the means effective to present the
work to the cutter.
| | (1)
Note. The transport means serves to advance work to the work-feed
means proper, but is not adequate in itself to move the work in
correct amount and proper timed relationship to the tool station,
and is thus distinguishable from a work-feed means. |
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
| 236, | for continuous advance of work to a feeding and
cutting machine having work-feed dwell. |
| 250+, | for means to produce a plurality of work-feed increments
in a tool cycle. |
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| 281 | Including means to pick articles from pack or stack: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 280. Device which includes mechanism to engage articles, usually
one at a time, withdraw them from position in a magazine or stack
holder, and present them successively to a work advancing means
or to the work-feed means proper.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
| 417, | for such work-picking means associated with other
types of tool and work-feeding means. |
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| 282 | With means to clamp work during dwell: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 202. Device including opposed solid means to contact the halted
work and maintain or retain the work frictionally in a fixed position.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
| 206, | for a machine of the subclass 202 type which employs
a clamp to move the work into position. |
| 259+, | 264, 277, for a disclosure of a device having a
work clamping function in addition to its primary function of feeding
work or controlling the feed of work. |
| 262, | for a machine whose work-feed dwell is caused by
clamping the work. |
| 294, | 319, 323, for a device to grip moving work in a
flying cutter type of machine. |
| 375+, | for a work clamp actuated by or in timed relation
to the motion of a tool or the tool feeding means. |
| 452+, | for a cutting device having a clamp associated therewith,
in general. |
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| 283 | One-revolution clutch in tool drive: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 202. Device wherein the tool is caused to start from rest in
a retracted position and travel through its cutting cycle returning
to its initial position and to stop there, by automatic clutching
and declutching means while other machine parts continue in motion.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
| 58+, | for randomly actuated stopping means, which includes
many disclosures of a clutch in a tool actuating drive train, some
of these disclosures including a clutch of the one-revolution type. |
| 203+, | for unicyclic operation of a cutting machine of
the type wherein a tool engages the work during the dwell period
of an intermittent work-feed. |
| 210, | 211+, 369, 370+, for tool actuation controlled
by work-sensing means. |
| 285+, | for an intermittently initiated flying cutter action. |
| 359, | for tool actuation controlled by means responsive
to product. |
| 380, | for sequencing control of interrelated clamp and
tool means. |
| 484, | and 524+, for unicyclic tool actuation. |
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| 284 | CUTTING MOTION OF TOOL HAS COMPONENT IN DIRECTION OF MOVING
WORK: |
| | This subclass is indented under the class definition. Device which includes means to move one or more tools into
cutting engagement with the work while the work is being moved to
and through a cutting zone to produce (a) spatially unconnected,
or (b) undulant (e.g., zigzag) cuts, and in which the tool"s
movement includes, as a necessary factor, motion in the direction
of such work movement.
| | (1)
Note. These devices are commonly known as "flying
cutters". |
| | (2)
Note. See section IV, Glossary, of the Class 83 Definition
for the definition of "flying". |
| | (3)
Note. The direction of movement of the work, to and through
the cutting zone; i.e., feed direction, is determined by the law
of operation of the disclosed machine, even though the work-feed means
is not claimed. Accordingly, this and the indented subclasses do
not require that means to feed the work be claimed. Thus, patents
for means to cut manually fed work may be included here if the other
requirements of the definition are met. |
| | (4)
Note. This and the indented subclasses are limited to devices
which engage the work so that cuts made by the same tool are spaced
from each other or produce a nonrectilinear slot or slit. Patents
for cutters which continuously engage the work, even though they
have a component of motion in the direction of work-feed which has
no affect on the resultant cut, such as band knives and rotary disc slitters,
will be found in other areas of the schedule. The test is whether
the "flying" motion has any affect on the desired
shape of cut. |
| | (5)
Note. Since indented subclasses 321+ is limited
to patents which disclose a tool having a cutting blade which moves
in an orbital path, this subclass, (284) has been chosen as the
residual repository for those patents which disclose an orbiting
anvil and a cooperating nonorbiting bladed tool, and which do not
disclose a feature set out in the schedule above subclass 321. |
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
| 37+, | for corresponding methods of cutting. |
| 201, | for an endless flexible band knife; and see (4)
Note above. |
| 350+, | for a device in which the tool has a stroke which
is timed with respect to moving work, which stroke does not have
a component in the direction of work-feed at the time of cut. |
| 469+, | for a rotary disc cutter; and see (4) Note above. |
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
| 72, | Metal Deforming,
subclasses 70+ , 129+, 185+, and 203+ for
a "flying cutter" means in a moving work metal deforming
apparatus. |
| 82, | Turning,
subclass 53.1 , for a cut-off means having a motion component
in the direction of work-feed. |
| 101, | Printing, appropriate subclasses, for similar apparatus for
treating moving work, as by printing or embossing rather than by
cutting. |
| 234, | Selective Cutting (e.g., Punching),
subclass 50 , for a selective cutting device having flying cutting
tools. |
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| 286 | Tool moved in response to work-sensing means: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 285. Device provided with a detector* for work, a transmitter*,
and means to initiate or effect a tool action as a direct or indirect
result of the receipt by said means of a detected and transmitted
signal or impulse.
| | (1)
Note. For convenience in terminology, in this and indented
subclasses, the compound movement of a flying tool will be referred
to in terms of two components, one being the tool "flying
movement" (defined in the Glossary for the class), and
the other being the tool "feed movement)" (defined
as that component of motion directed only toward the work, i.e.,
toward the other tool of a tool pair). The distinction between the
named components is not an arbitrary one; in the schedule, and in
the placement of patents, components are significant as to those
patents which disclose separate actuating means to give the tool
its respective flying and feed movements. Thus a patent to a rotary
cutter of the "lawnmower" type (such as is found,
per se, in subclasses 331+ below) and including work-responsive
tool actuating means, will be found in a generic subclass such as
290 rather than in a subclass characterized by the type of feed
or flying movement such as subclasses 291 or 292, respectively. |
| | (2)
Note. Included in this subclass (286) are patents disclosing
tools revolving about a fixed axis (e.g., lawnmower type), which
tools are actuated by a mechanically operating detector and transmitter.
For similar structure wherein the detector is a photocell, see
subclass 289; and wherein it is otherwise part of an electrical
circuit, see subclasses 290+, indented hereunder. |
| | (3)
Note. For other subclasses providing for work-sensing mechanism
and control means responsive thereto, see subclasses 399+ under
the heading "Search This Class, Subclass". |
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
| 308+, | for patents in which the flying component of the
tool"s motion is derived entirely from the engagement of
the tool with the moving work. |
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| 287 | With means to vary "length" of product: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 286. Device provided with means to alter the dimension of the
product in the direction of work movement.
| | (1)
Note. For the purpose of this subclass, the length of a product
is that dimension defined above regardless of the magnitude of that
dimension relative to other dimensions; thus, as to this subclass,
the length of a product may be smaller than the width thereof if
short pieces are cut from relatively wide work. |
| | (2)
Note. Examples of the means defined above are means to effect
(a) variation of the position of the work sensor relative to the
cutter and (b) variation of the time elapsed between the sensing
of work and the initiation of the tool action in response to said
sensing. |
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
| 363, | for other product length changing apparatus responsive
to work-sensing means. |
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| 288 | To vary an end-product "length" (e.g., "crop cut"): |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 287. Device provided with means to alter the longitudinal dimension
of the first product cut from a workpiece with respect to the longitudinal dimension
of the remaining products cut from the same workpiece.
| | (1)
Note. The work "crop" is an art term referring
to that end portion of a workpiece which is so irregular in contour
or composition as to be considered waste material. To produce regular
sheets from a rolled slab, for instance, waste or "crop" may
be trimmed from the leading and/or trailing end of the
slab, the intermediate cuts producing the usable products which
are usually of longer dimension than the crop and of similar dimension
as between successive usable products. |
| | (2)
Note. Included herein are patents also disclosing means to
change the length of intermediate products so that a short trailing "crop" end
may be cut. | |
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| 289 | With photo-electric work-sensing means: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 286. Device in which the detector includes a means responsive
to light to energize an electrical circuit, and the detection of
work is effected by a change in the quantity or quality of the light received
by said means either directly (as by work"s moving between
said means and the source of said light), or indirectly (as by reflection
from the work).
| | (1)
Note. Examples of the means referred to above are vacuum
tubes and other light-sensitive detectors. |
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
| 72+, | for a photoelectric work sensor in a "self-regulating" device. |
| 365, | for other apparatus responsive to photoelectric
work-sensing means and see Notes thereto. |
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
| 250, | Radiant Energy,
subclasses 200+ , for photocell detector and circuit. |
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| 290 | With trip-switch work-sensing means: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 286. Device in which the transmitter includes an electrical circuit
to initiate cutter action, and in which the detector includes a
make-break portion in said circuit.
| | (1)
Note. Contact of the work with the trip switch may be either
direct, or indirect, as by engagement of the work with a lever or
linkage connected to the trip switch. |
| | (2)
Note. Included in this subclass (290) are patents disclosing
rotary flying tools of the type classified in subclasses 331+, which
tools are actuated by a trip switch. |
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
| 372, | for other operating means responsive to trip switch
work-sensing means. |
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
| 200, | Electricity: Circuit Makers and Breakers,
subclasses 61.13+ , 61.19+, 61.41, and 61.42+, for
a detector switch, per se. |
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| 291 | To initiate feed movement of tool: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 290. Device including a cutter having a means for accomplishing
its feed movement, separate and distinct from a means for accomplishing
its flying movement, whose feed movement (at least) is started by
the work-responsive detector and transmitter.
| | (1)
Note. See (1) Note to subclass 286 for definition of the
terms "feed movement" and "flying movement". | |
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| 294 | With flying work-gripper means related to tool carrier: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 293. Device provided with means, connected to and traveling with
the cutter and/or its support, to firmly secure the work
to the support for the period during which the work is moving and the
tool is cutting.
| | (1)
Note. Included herein are patents disclosing devices wherein
a work-responsive flying gripper is actuated to secure the flying
support to the moving work, thus effecting flying movement of the cutter.
Also included herein are patents disclosing work-responsive mechanism to
actuate concurrently a driving means for the flying movement of
the tool and a work gripping means. | |
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| 296 | With means to vary frequency of initiation: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 285. Device provided with means for changing the number of occurrences
of tool-action-starting with respect to either a given duration
of time or to the passage of a given amount of work past the tool.
| | (1)
Note. Patents disclosing the adjustment defined above may
disclose that this adjustment is for the purpose of changing the
length of product cut from the work. |
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
| 287+, | for work-responsive means to vary length of product
of a "flying" cutter. |
| 369, | for work-driven measuring means to cut different
product lengths, in general. |
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| 297 | By orbitally traveling trigger pin(s): |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 296. Device in which the means to vary the frequency of the tool-action-starting
mechanism includes at least two means, one of said means comprising
an element which, when activated, effects the initiation of the
tool action, the other of said means comprising a plurality of pin members
moving in a closed path, one or more of which pin members along
the closed path may be selectively positioned so as to describe a
second closed path (parallel to the first named path) which intersects
the location of such element at the selected position(s) along the
first named path, whereby the positioned pin member(s) will intermittently
or periodically engage and move, or otherwise activate, the element
in the desired frequency of occurrences.
| | (1)
Note. The positionable pins may be mounted on a wheel or
endless chain for movement in the first named closed path, and any
selected pin may be shifted into the second closed path either manually or
by mechanical means. | |
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| 298 | Interrelated control of tool and work-feed drives: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 284. Device in which both the work-feed means and the means to
move the tool through a cutting action or cycle are provided with
independent power trains, each of which trains has a speed changing
means which is adjustable to vary the speed of its driven element
(tool or work respectively), and a common mechanism is provided
to interdependently regulate the several speed changers so that
an adjustment of one will be accompanied by an adjustment of the
other.
| | (1)
Note. A mere common drive does not fall within the meaning
of this subclass, and will be found below; e.g., in subclass 339. |
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
| 311, | for a device to regulate the tool speed of flying
cutters. |
| 312+, | for a device to regulate the work-feed of flying
cutters. |
| 339, | for interconnected work-feed and cutter drives,
and see (1) Note above. |
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| 299 | With means to concurrently adjust flying frequency and
retain flying speed of tool: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 284. Device wherein means is provided to change the lapse of
time between the initiation of one tool cycle and the initiation
of a subsequent tool cycle and which at the same time maintains
the flying speed of the tool the same as it was before the change
was made.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
| 311, | for a device which merely regulates the tool speed
of a flying cutter. |
| 324, | for means to vary the tool speed cyclically. |
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| 300 | Plural diverse flying cutters: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 284. Device wherein more than one flying cutter is provided,
and one of the cutters makes a cut in the work which is different
from the cut made on the same work by the other cutter or cutters.
| | (1)
Note. The difference in tool structures is not merely one
dimensional extent. |
| | (2)
Note. Included herein, for example, are flying cutters which
sequentially punch and cut off the work. |
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
| 303, | for plural separately mounted flying cutters which
may make similar cuts in the work. |
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| 302 | With slitter: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 301. Device wherein the other cutter makes a continuous cut in
the work through its thickness in a direction which is substantially
parallel to the direction of movement of the work.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
| 408, | for means to move the work between a slitting station
and a transverse cutter station. |
| 425+, | for a slitter, per se. |
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
| 242, | Winding, Tensioning, or Guiding,
subclasses 525+ for longitudinal slitting of material being wound. |
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| 303 | Plural separately mounted flying cutters: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 284. Device wherein more than one tool of the type defined in
284 is provided and the tools are independently supported for separate
operation in the device.
| | (1)
Note. Included, for example, are two rotary flying cutters,
each rotated at a different speed, and each operating on a different
portion of a web which has been slit into two portions. |
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
| 300, | for plural diverse flying cutters. |
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| 304 | With means to render cutter pass(es) ineffective: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 284. Device wherein the tool is cyclically operated, and wherein
a means is provided to permit or prohibit cutting during the cycle.
| | (1)
Note. A tool pass (as applied in the title and definition
of this and indented subclass) refers to a sweep of the tool along with
the work and including both its flying motion and whatever feed
motion is present. A pass may be rendered ineffective to cut the
work by a change in tool motion (either in its flying or feed movements),
or by a change of work-feed motion, or both. |
| | (2)
Note. Patents disclosing operator actuated means to render
a tool pass ineffective will be found here. |
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
| 57, | for a device in which the cyclic operation of the
cutter is stopped by an intervening force and is resumed upon release
of the force. |
| 306+, | for a device in which the work is shifted laterally
into the path of the cutter to effect a cut. |
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| 305 | With means to produce "mis-cut": |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 304. Devices wherein means is provided to cause a cutter to make
a plurality of passes at the work in the direction of work-feed,
and the said means causes the work to be cut in certain of the passes
and not to be cut in other passes according to a predetermined pattern.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
| 304+, | for a flying cutter having manually operated means
to render a cutter pass ineffective. |
| 306+, | for a work shifter which deflects the work out of
a noncutting feed path into the path of the tool. |
| 528, | for a device having means to move a tool away from
the cutting plane while the tool continues to cycle. |
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| 306 | Oscillating work shifter adjacent cutter: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 284. Device wherein is provided a means at or near the cutter
which bodily moves the work at an angle to the existing direction
of work-feed, into and out of the path of the cutter.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
| 304, | for a flying cutter combined with means which are
manually operated to render a cutter pass ineffective. |
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| 307 | Work actuated senser initiates shifter: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 306. Device wherein sensing means responsive to advancing work
causes the actuation of the work shifter.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
| 286+, | for a device to initiate the tool action in response
to a sensing of the work. |
| 399+, | and the Notes thereunder for the loci of other patents
disclosing a device actuated by a work sensor. |
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| 307.1 | Wire tool: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 284. Device wherein the flying cutter is an elongated member
having a diameter which is relatively insignificant as compared
to its length, which member enters the work in a direction perpendicular
to the axis of the member and produces a severance of the work without
any appreciable flow of material.
| | (1)
Note. Because of the "planeless" nature of
wire cutters, devices embodying such cutters have structural and
operational features peculiar only to such devices. Such features
(e.g., wire guides, tool infeed means) will be found in this subclass. |
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
| 200.1, | for a cutting device which operates by increasing
the tension on a work-enclosing wire. |
| 651.1+, | for a wire, cutting tool, per se. |
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| 308 | Tool flies by engagement with the work: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 284. Device wherein means is provided to move the tool or a member
connected to the tool into contact with or in the path of the moving
work, so that the tool or member is moved (e.g., dragged or pulled)
along by the work at the same speed as the work, and this contact
is the sole motive force which moves the tool in the direction of
work-feed at the time of cutting.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
| 222, | for a tool of the type there classified in which
the tool motion initiates work-feed and vice versa. |
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| 309 | Tool merely flexes with moving work: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 308. Device wherein the tool is resilient, and wherein the tool
gives or bends in the direction of work-feed when it contacts the
work and springs back to a ready position when disengaged from the
work.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
| 542, | for means to move or permit movement of tool through
cutting cycle by deforming a resilient tool or tool support. |
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| 310 | Flying support or guide for work: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 284. Device wherein there is provided adjacent the cutter a holding
or confining element for the work, and this element moves coincidentally with
the cutter in the direction of work-feed during the cutting cycle
to carry the weight of the work or steady it.
| | (1)
Note. The flying supports classified in this subclass are
often used when delicate or fragile material such as paper straw
tubes are cut. |
| | (2)
Note. The devices in this subclass are distinguished from
the devices in subclasses 319, 322, and 325 below in that the latter
not only guide or support the work against gravity, but also positively move
the work in feed direction. |
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
| 319, | and see (2) Note above. |
| 322, | and see (2) Note above. |
| 325, | and see (2) Note above. |
| 373, | for other types of tools having interrelated tool
feed and work guide moving means. |
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| 311 | With tool speed regulator: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 284. Device including means to vary the flying speed of the cutter.
| | (1)
Note. Devices which increase the flying speed of rotary cutters
by increasing the effective radius of the cutters are not here but
in subclasses 331+ below. |
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
| 38, | for a method of cyclically varying the tool feed. |
| 295, | for means controlling flying speed dependent on
work speed. |
| 298, | for interrelated control of work-feed and tool speed. |
| 312+, | for a device having work-feed speed regulation. |
| 331+, | and see (1) Note above. |
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| 312 | With work feed speed regulator: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 284. Device wherein means is provided to vary the rate at which
the work is advanced to the cutter.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
| 263+, | for means to control the magnitude or acceleration
of work-feed to the type of tool there classified. |
| 298, | for a device having interrelated controls for varying
both cutter and feed speed. |
| 429, | for means to effect difference between rate of work-feed
and speed of a nonflying tool in continuing contact therewith. |
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| 313 | With means to vary cyclically speed of work: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 312. Device wherein means is provided to change the rate at which
the work is advanced during each cycle of the tool.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
| 38, | for a method of cyclically varying the work-feed. |
| 324, | for means to cyclically vary the tool speed of an
orbitally moving tool. |
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| 314 | Spring return of tool in counterfly direction: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 284. Device which includes a resilient or elastic element connected
to the tool or its supporting structure to resist movement in a
work-feed direction, and which element urges the tool back to its
initial position after the work has been cut.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
| 582+, | for a constantly urged (e.g., spring biased) tool
or tool support. |
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| 315 | Tool mounted on oscillating standard |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 284. Device in which the tool or its support is mounted on a
member which is pivoted to swing back and forth, along the path
of work movement about such pivot as an axis.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
| 258+, | for the type of cutter there classified wherein
the feed means has an oscillatory motion. |
| 491+, | for a rotatable disc cutter on an oscillating standard. |
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| 316 | Both tools of couple on single standard: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 315. Device in which two tools cooperate to produce a cut, and
the tools are mounted on the same pivoted flying member so as to
oscillate about the same point.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
| 320, | for plural tools mounted on the same rectilinearly
shuttling carrier. |
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| 317 | One tool swings out of work path on return stroke: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 316. Device in which one of the cooperating tools is pivotally
mounted to move independently on the oscillating flying member on
the backward movement of such member so as not to engage the work
on the backward movement of the flying member. |
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| 318 | Tool carrier shuttles rectilinearly parallel to direction
of work feed: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 284. Device which includes a means on which the tool or its support
is mounted, and which means is caused to travel back and forth in
a straight line path adjacent the path of the work-feed, and wherein
the cutting tool is caused to move cyclically into and out of engagement with
the work during its forward travel to cut the work. |
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| 319 | Including means to secure work to carrier: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 318. Device in which there is means other than the tool to temporarily
fasten the work to the carrier during the movement of the carrier
in the work-feed direction.
| | (1)
Note. The clamping may be effected by a member which serves
as an anvil in the cutting operation or by a part of a tool other
than the cutting edge. |
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
| 186, | for means to secure hollow work to a movable tool
support. |
| 308+, | for a flying cutter in which the flying motion of
the tool is derived solely by its contact with the work. |
| 310, | for a flying work support or guide. |
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| 321 | Orbital motion of cutting blade: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 284. Device wherein the cutter blade travels in a closed loop.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
| 201, | for an endless flexible band knife which travels
in a closed loop and continuously engages work. |
| 331+, | for a cutter which travels in a circular path. |
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| 322 | Work feeder mounted on tool support: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 321. Device wherein the cutter support, or means mounted on the
cutter support advances the work through the cutting zone or holds
the work while it is being cut.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
| 225+, | for work-feed controlled by means mounted on the
tool or tool support where the tool engages the work during a dwell
on intermittent work-feed. |
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| 323 | Gripper-type feeder: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 322. Device in which thework-feeder includes means to grasp or
hold the work immobile with respect to the feeder. |
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| 324 | Tool speed varied within each orbital cycle: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 321. Device including means to change the peripheral speed of
the cutter during a portion (only) of the tool cycle.
| | (1)
Note. This feature is ordinarily utilized to enable changes
in the length of the workpiece to be cut off, without necessitating
changes in speed of work-feed or other major adjustments. |
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
| 38, | for methods of varying the tool and/or work-feed
cyclically. |
| 313, | for means to vary the work speed cyclically. |
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| 325 | Work feed gripper carried on endless belt: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 321. Device in which a continuous belt includes or has cooperating
therewith a means to grasp the work and advance it.
| | (1)
Note. Included in this subclass are devices having two feed
belts clamping the work between themselves in order to advance the
work. |
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
| 322+, | for a tool carried work-feeding clamp. |
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| 326 | Endless belt or chain tool carrier: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 321. Device in which the tool or its support is mounted on a
flexible, continuous, closed loop structure.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
| 661, | for an endless band or belt-type tool, per se. |
| 788+, | for an endless flexible band knife machine. |
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| 327 | Constantly oriented tool with arcuate cutting path: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 321. Device wherein there is provided a mechanism which moves
the cutting tool in a curved path immediately before, during and
immediately after its work cutting operation and, at all times during
this operation, maintains the tool in planes which are parallel
to each other. |
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| 329 | Rotatable disc-type tool on orbiting axis: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 321. Device wherein the tool is a relatively thin member of generally
circular cross section mounted to rotate about an axis extending thickness-wise
therethrough, and wherein means is provided to move the axis in
an orbital path.
| | (1)
Note. Included in this subclass are tools having saw-toothed
or serrated peripheral edges. |
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
| 425+, | for a rotary disc cutter in combination with means
to move work thereto, and whose axis does not itself have an orbital
motion. |
| 469+, | for a rotatable disc tool pair (or tool and carrier)
whose axes (or axis) do not have an orbital motion during the cutting
operation. |
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| 330 | Idling disc: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 329. Device wherein the disc is journaled to rotate about its
axis, but no power means is provided to effect such rotation; any
rotation which does not take place is due solely to the engagement of
the cutter with the work. |
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| 331 | Rotary tool: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 321. Device in which the cutter blade tool is mounted on an axis
of rotation to travel in a circle about such axis.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
| 315+, | for a cutter which oscillates back and forth in
an arc of a circle. |
| 321+, | for a cutter which travels in a closed loop which
is not a circle and see the Notes thereof for search references. |
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
| 30, | Cutlery, particularly
subclasses 205+ , 240, 276, 292, 307, and 319 for rotary cutters
of the type there classified. |
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| 332 | Segmented disc slitting or slotting tool: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 331. Device in which the tool has an annular cutting edge which
extends around only a portion of the circumference of the tool support,
and which edge extends in a plane parallel to the direction of work-feed.
| | (1)
Note. Rotary punches; i.e., tools having a plurality of punches
mounted around the periphery of the tool support have not been considered
as slitters or slotters for this subclass, but have been classified in
other subclasses under 331 on the structure claimed. |
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
| 425, | for a rotatable disc tool in combination with means
to move work thereto, which tool cuts a continuous slit or slot
in the work as the work is fed past the cutter. |
| 469+, | for a rotatable disc tool pair or tool and carrier. |
| 676, | for a rotatable disc tool, per se. |
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| 333 | With undulant cutting edge (e.g., "pinking" tool): |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 331. Device provided with a cutter including a cutting edge on
the periphery of said cutter, in which a development (in the sense
of the term as used in descriptive geometry) of the cutting edge
from said periphery into a plane forms a zigzag or sinuous line.
| | (1)
Note. Included herein are rotatable circular cutters known
in the art as "pinkers", "pinking wheels" and "pinking machines".
The terms are so well known that the shape of the edge as defined above
is rarely recited precisely; hence mere recitation in the claim
(s) of such art terms or similar terms is considered sufficient
for classification herein. |
| | (2)
Note. Patents in which the cut is of the form known as "scalloped" will
also be found herein. |
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
| 428, | for a device which produces an undulant cut by reciprocating
a slitting blade laterally of the direction of work-feed. |
| 918, | for pinking digest. |
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| 334 | Single tool action drive: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 331. Device in which means is provided to cause a cutter to start
from a position of rest, rotate sufficiently to cause one cutting
operation to take place, and then assume a position of rest.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
| 203+, | for a unicyclic operation where a tool engages work
during a dwell feed. |
| 285+, | for a device to intermittently cause a tool action
of a flying cutter to be initiated. |
| 484, | for a unicyclic operation of a rotary disc slitter. |
| 524+, | for a unicyclic cutting machine in general. |
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| 335 | With one-revolution drive: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 334. Device wherein means is provided to cause the tool to rotate
substantially 360 degrees during the single cutting operation.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
| 69, | for a device for stopping a cutting tool after a
predetermined number of cutting cycles. |
| 283, | for a one revolution clutch drive mechanism in a
device in which the tool engages the work during a feed dwell. |
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| 336 | With loop former preceding tool: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 331. Device wherein means is provided to shift or flex the work
in a direction generally normal to the direction in which it is
fed to the cutter, said means acting on the work intermediate the
supply source of the work and the cutting zone of the machine; e.g.,
so as to vary the amount of work fed to the cutter without changing
the speed of the work-feed means.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
| 236, | for a loop former in the type of cutting apparatus
there classified. |
| 350+, | for incidental buckling of work during cutting. |
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| 337 | Compound movement of tool during tool cycle: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 331. Device including means to effect a supplemental movement
of the tool, other than that of rotation about its axis, during
the cutting cycle.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
| 185+, | for a tool, inside hollow work, which tool or a
second tool coacting therewith has compound motion. |
| 327+, | for a tool having compound motion, which motion
keeps the tool constantly oriented in a plane maintained by the
tool at all other times during the cutting operation. |
| 557, | for cooperating cutters having a cyclic movement
into and out of operating position in addition to their tool stroke. |
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| 339 | Interconnected work feeder and tool driver: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 331. Device wherein means is provided to feed the work to the
cutting means, and said two means are connected to each other by
a power train so that they both may be driven from a single power
source.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
| 231+, | for a device in which the means to feed the tool
during a dwell in the work-feed is controlled by the work-feed mechanism. |
| 298, | for interrelated control of tool and work-feed drives,
and see (1) Note to that subclass (298). |
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| 340 | Side cutting helical blade: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 331. Device in which the cutter is a spiral blade mounted on
an axis of rotation, which axis extends in the direction of work-feed,
so that the cut proceeds inwardly from the side of the work.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
| 342, | for a helically mounted cutter making a progressive
transverse cut in which the axis of the cutter is transverse to the
direction of work-feed. |
| 672, | for a helical cutter, per se. |
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| 341 | With means to cause progressive transverse cutting: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 331. Device wherein means is provided to begin the cut at one
edge or point of the work and thereafter continues along the work
in a straight line, in a direction which is not parallel to the direction
of the work-feed, to a different edge or point.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
| 595, | for means to effect a progressive cut of a revolving
tool moving through a recess in a work holder or in a cooperating
tool. |
| 596, | for means to effect a progressive cut of a revolving
tool. |
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| 342 | With helical cutter blade: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 341. Device in which the cutter is mounted spirally around its
axis of revolution.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
| 340, | for a helically bladed tool whose axis extends in
the direction of work-feed. |
| 672, | for a rotatable helical tool, per se. |
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| 343 | With cooperating rotary cutter or backup: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 331. Device which includes a second edged cutting tool, or other
coacting surface (e.g., anvil), mounted on an axis of rotation to
travel in a circle, which axis is parallel to the axis of rotation
of the first tool, and wherein the first tool and the second tool
or other coacting surface together effect the cutting action.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
| 505+, | for a tool pair comprising a rotatable disc tool
and a cylindrical anvil. |
| 509+, | for a tool pair comprising a rotatable anvil and
a fixed tool. |
| 659, | for a rotatable anvil tool, per se. |
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
| 492, | Roll or Roller, see section III, References to
Other Classes, of the Class 492 definition, for the loci of other roll
pairs with working surfaces. |
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| 344 | Cooperating tool axes adjustable relative to each other: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 343. Device having means to adjust, move or permit movement of
the axes of rotation of the cooperating tools toward or away from
each other in order to vary the distance between the tools.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
| 495+, | for a rotatable disc tool pair including means to
adjust there between. |
| 663+, | particularly subclass 677 for a rotary tool adjustable
with respect to their supports. |
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| 346 | With anvil backup: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 343. Device in which the backup has a smooth faced surface that
is engaged by the cutter.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
| 659, | for a rotatable anvil, per se. |
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| 348 | Resiliently urged cutter or anvil member: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 343. Device in which means is provided to continually urge, as
by a spring, one of the tools which may be a coacting surface with
respect to its mounting, or to continually urge the mounting of
such tool with respect to another tool mounting to effect cutting
cooperation.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
| 345, | for cooperating rotary cutters which overlap each
other during the cutting operation. |
| 506, | for a disc blade and cylindrical anvil cutting couple
resiliently urged together. |
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| 349 | With cooperating stationary tool: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 331. Device wherein the rotary cutter coacts with a cutter fixed
in position to cut the work.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
| 355+, | for similar art where the rotary tool does not have
a component of motion in the direction of work-feed during the cutting
operation. |
| 509+, | for a tool pair comprising a rotary anvil and fixed
type cutter. |
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| 350 | CUTTER WITH TIMED STROKE RELATIVE TO MOVING WORK: |
| | This subclass is indented under the class definition. Device including a tool which is actuated in synchronism
with advancing work, to cut such work while the latter is passing
through the tool station; the tool, during its passage through the
work, following a path which is substantially perpendicular to the
direction in which the work is moving.
| | (1)
Note. The portion of the work near the cutter may be blocked
thereby during and incidental to the cut, causing a buckling or
compression of the work. If, however, a patent contains a definite teaching
that a dwell is caused in the work motion, such patent will be placed in
subclasses 202+, particularly subclasses 262+.
Usually the tool stroke* is rapid, and the work springs
or falls back to its normal condition between tool strokes. |
| | (2)
Note. For a patent to be placed as an original copy in this
and indented subclasses, it is not necessary that a work-feed means
be claimed if it is evident (from the claimed subject matter) that work
is in motion and that a definite timed relationship exists between
the work motion and the tool actuation. |
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
| 202+, | for a device in which a tool engages work during
the dwell period between successive increments of work-feed, and
subclass 262, indented thereunder, for a device wherein work-feed means
is operated continuously, but the work is halted during cutting
by engagement therewith by a clamp, abutment, or the tool itself,
and see (1) Note, above. |
| 284+, | for tool having motion component in direction of
moving work, and in particular subclass 349, indented thereunder
for rotary transverse cutter with axis offset from work-feed path. |
| 401+, | for a device to move work toward a tool station. |
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
| 234, | Selective Cutting (e.g., Punching),
subclass 49 , for a selective cutting device which operates
on moving work; and subclass 50 for such a device with flying cutters. |
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| 351 | Work swings about progressively cutting tool during tool
stroke: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 350. Device in which a work-feed means acts during the tool stroke
upon a portion of the work spaced from the tool and in a direction
not intersecting the cutting zone, whereby the work is caused to
pivot about the portions thereof which are successively engaged
by the tool, to effect a generally curved or irregular line of cut.
| | (1)
Note. The action is similar to that of an operator using
a pair of scissors to cut a curved piece out of tin or cardboard. |
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
| 71, | for a cutting machine controlled by a perforated
record. |
| 215, | for a machine of intermittent work-feed type wherein
a tool has motions additional to its cutting stroke. |
| 353, | for a tool traveling laterally across a moving web. |
| 411, | for means to guide a work carrier about a fixed
axis relative to a tool station. |
| 439, | for a work guide which permits rotation of the work
about a fixed axis. |
| 565, | for tool motion (usually other than rectilinear)
controlled by a templet. |
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| 352 | Tool actuated by movable work support: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 350. Device provided with work-carrying structure which is drivingly
connected to tool-actuating means so that movement of the work-carrying structure
transmits power from itself to a tool to cause the latter to cut
the moving work.
| | (1)
Note. One tool is sometimes fixed to the work support, and
a cooperating tool moved by linkage connected thereto. |
| | (2)
Note. The concept of this subclass is distinguished from
that of a "flying cutter" by the fact that here
the work may be at rest in the cutting zone at the start of the
operation. Thus the actuated tool of this subclass may have a component of
motion in the direction of the moving work. |
| | (3)
Note. The work-carrying structure constitutes or is part
of work-moving means, hence is distinguishable from a "work-responsive" detector
or sensing means, for which see subclasses 360+. |
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
| 284+, | for a tool which has a component of motion during
cutting in the direction in which the work enters the cutting zone. |
| 360+, | for operation controlled by means responsive to
work. |
| 409+, | for other work-carrying structure. |
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| 353 | Traveling cutter: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 350. Device wherein the tool is of small dimension relative to
the dimension of the work in the direction of the tool stroke, and
the tool progresses along the moving work in an edge-to-edge direction
thereof.
| | (1)
Note. This type of movement usually produces a bevel or bias
cut. |
| | (2)
Note. The relatively narrow tool offers little resistance
to feeding movement of the work. |
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
| 483+, | for a rotatable disc type of tool traveling from
edge to edge of work. |
| 614, | for a reciprocating tool which travels from edge
to edge of a sheet or web. |
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| 354 | With means to vary timing of tool feed: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 350. Device provided with means to change the time interval between
any two successive cutting strokes with respect to the length of
work fed during such interval, without the necessity of replacing
any machine parts to effect such change.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
| 240+, | for adjustable tool or work-feed in machines of
the step-by-step intermittent feed type, and subclass 234 for varying
the number of work-feed increments per tool stroke. |
| 287+, | 296, 304, 305, and 313, for adjustment of work or
tool feeding flying-cutting machines. |
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| 355 | Uniform periodic tool actuation: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 350. Device including means which constantly transmits power
to actuate the tool continuously through repeated strokes during
continued movement of the work.
| | (1)
Note. A cam-driven tool would satisfy the limitations of
the definition of this subclass only if no dwell period occurs during
the camming cycle. (A dwell period implies interruption in the
flow of power to the tool). |
| | (2)
Note. Examples of tool actuation to be found in this subclass
are (a) simple rotation, (b) tools driven with sample pendulum motion,
(c) reciprocating tools driven in substantially simple harmonic motion,
as by a Scotch yoke, an eccentric, or a conventional rotary crank
and connecting rod. |
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
| 315+, | 318+, and 321+, for a tool which
is actuated in an oscillatory manner so as to operate on moving
work while periodically moving along with the work (flying cutter). |
| 331+, | for a rotary cutter arranged to travel with moving
work during the cutting operation (flying cutter). |
| 591+, | for a tool having simple rotary motion throughout
its stroke or cutting cycle. |
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| 356 | With periodic lateral feed of tool or work: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 355. Device in which either the tool or the work is shifted between
cutting operations in a regularly recurring manner, and in a direction
transverse both to the tool stroke and the main direction of work-feed.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
| 215+, | for a machine wherein a tool has motion additional
to its tool stroke during a cutting cycle. |
| 220+, | for a machine in which the work may be advanced
in different directions between successive operations of a tool. |
| 249, | for a machine having work-feed means arranged so
as to facilitate manual shifting or reorientation of work between
successive tool strokes. |
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| 356.1 | With plural tool stations: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 355. Device including a plurality of tools, which tools act successively
upon the moving work, and wherein each tool has its own support.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
| 356.3, | for a similar device wherein a plurality of cutting
tools share the same common support. |
| 404+, | for a cutting device which includes a plurality
of tool stations and means to move the work from one station to another. |
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| 356.2 | Reciprocating tool: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 355. Device including means to to rectilinearly move the tool
toward the work on one stroke and away from the work on the other
stroke.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
| 613+, | for rectilinearly reciprocating tool driving means,
per se. |
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| 356.3 | With plural tools on a single tool support: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 355. Device including more than one individual tool on a tool
support.
| | (1)
Note. The individual tools on the tool support may act simultaneously
or successively or some simultaneously and some successively, depending,
for example, on their relative positions on the tool support and
the manner in which the tool support moves them to the cutting zone. |
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
| 356.1, | for a similar device having a plurality of cutting
tools, each tool being mounted upon a separate support. |
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| 357 | With plural tool stations: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 350. Device which incorporates a plurality of actuated tools
operable in succession upon the moving work at locations spaced
longitudinally of the path of work-feed.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
| 39+, | for methods involving a plurality of cutting steps
in general. |
| 255+, | for work fed intermittently to a succession of tools. |
| 301+, | for a flying cutter combined with other type cutter. |
| 404+, | for means to move work from one tool station to
another. |
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| 358 | OPERATION CONTROLLED BY MEANS RESPONSIVE TO PRODUCT: |
| | This subclass is indented under the class definition. Device provided with a detector* for the product,
a transmitter* and means to effect the functioning of at
least a part of the device as direct or indirect result of the receipt
by said means of a detected and transmitted signal or impulse.
| | (1)
Note. In this and the indented subclass, that part of the
device whose functioning is effected in response to the signal or impulse
will be referred to as a "controlled apparatus". |
| | (2)
Note. For patents in which the functioning of a controlled
apparatus is affected (e.g., varying the speed of the work or cutter,
or changing the working conditions of the device) in response to
deviations of an operating condition of the device or a component
thereof, as distinguished from response to product, see subclasses
72+. |
| | (3)
Note. For patents in which the controlled apparatus is a
means to handle the cut product, see subclass 79. |
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
| 61, | for stopping of device responsive to product sensing. |
| 71, | for control means responsive to indicia bearing
tape or card. |
| 72+, | and see (2) Note above. |
| 79+, | and see (3) Note above. |
| 360+, | for similar structure responsive to work. |
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
| 177, | Weighing Scales,
subclasses 60+ for the combination of a cutting machine and a
weighing scale which receives material cut, or to be cut, by the
cutting machine, characterized by means to actuate, or to modify
the operation of, the cutting machine in response to determination
of the weight of material accumulated on the weighting scale. |
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| 359 | Actuation of tool controlled: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 358. Device in which the controlled apparatus includes a tool* and/or
a tool driving train and the function effected is the regulation
of movement of said tool.
| | (1)
Note. Included in this subclass are devices in which the
cutter moves through a cutting cycle, and devices in which the cutter
is shifted or positioned relative to the work or product. |
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
| 368, | for a cutter shifted relative to the work in response
to work, and see (1) Note under subclass 368 for meaning of the word "shifted". |
| 369, | and 370+, for a cutter actuated to cut responsive
to the work. |
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
| 234, | Selective Cutting (e.g., Punching),
subclass 64 , for a punched card reproducer operable as a gang
punch (each newly punched card serves as a pattern to control selection
of tools to punch the following card). |
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| 360 | OPERATION CONTROLLED BY DETECTOR MEANS RESPONSIVE TO WORK: |
| | This subclass is indented under the class definition. Device provided with a detector* for the work,
a transmitter*, and means to effect the functioning of
at least a part of the device as a direct or indirect result of
the receipt by said means of a detected and transmitted signal or impulse.
| | (1)
Note. In this and the indented subclasses, that part of the
device whose functioning is effected in response to the signal or
impulse will be referred to as a "controlled apparatus". |
| | (2)
Note. For patents in which the functioning of a controlled
apparatus is affected (e.g., varying the speed of the work or cutter,
or changing the working conditions of the device) in response to
deviations of an operating condition of the device or a component
thereof, as distinguished from response to work, see subclasses
72+. |
| | (3)
Note. For patents in which the controlled apparatus is a
means to handle the product, see subclass 80. |
| | (4)
Note. For patents in which the controlled apparatus is a
means to stop work movement and a means to initiate a cutting cycle,
see subclasses 208, 209+, and 211+. |
| | (5)
Note. For patents in which the controlled apparatus is a "flying" cutter,
see subclasses 286+ and 307. |
| | (6)
Note. The combination of means to produce a mark on work
and means to detect the mark, in response to which detection, an
operation is effected, will be found in the appropriate mark-producing
class. |
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
| 62, | and 63+, for stopping means responsive
to work. |
| 71, | for control means responsive to indicia-bearing
tape or card. |
| 72+, | and see (2) Note above. |
| 80, | and see (3) Note above. |
| 208, | 209+, and 211+, and see (4) Note above. |
| 286+, | and 307, and see (5) Note above. |
| 358+, | for similar structure responsive to product. |
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
| 173, | Tool Driving or Impacting,
subclasses 2+ for automatic control of a power operated tool
driving or impacting means. |
| 234, | Selective Cutting (e.g., Punching),
subclasses 25+ , for work-responsive means which controls an auxiliary operation
in a selective cutting machine; subclasses 63+ for control of
tool selection by such means. |
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| 362 | To delay response to work-senser: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 361. Device in which the control or regulating means regulates
the duration of time existing between the effectuation of the signal
or impulse and the effectuation of the functioning of the apparatus. |
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| 363 | To change length of product: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 361. Device in which the control means is effective to alter
the extent of the cut product.
| | (1)
Note. The "extent" of a cut product is defined
as that dimension parallel to the direction of work movement regardless of
the size or extent of that dimension relative to other dimensions,
(i.e., for the purpose of this subclass the length or extent of
a product may be smaller than the width thereof if short pieces
are cut from relatively wide work). |
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
| 241+, | for other means to vary the product length in a
subclass 202 type of cutting device. |
| 287+, | for other product-length changing apparatus using
a "flying" cutter. |
| 354, | for means to vary the timing of the tool relative
to moving work, responsive to a work characteristic. |
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| 364 | With plural work-sensing means: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 360. Device provided with more than one detector*.
| | (1)
Note. Included in this subclass are patents to device provided
with plural work-sensors usable one at a time alternately or selectively;
or provided with plural work-sensors usable together, in either
cooperation or opposition, to control the same function or to control
different functions in predetermined sequence. | |
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| 365 | With photo-electric work-sensing means: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 360. Device in which the detector* includes a light-sensitive
means responsive to light impinging on said means to energize an
electrical circuit and the detection of work is effected by a change
in the quantity or quality of the light received by said means either
directly (as by work"s moving between said means and the source
of said light), or indirectly (as by reflection from the work).
| | (1)
Note. Examples of the means referred to above are vacuum
tubes and light-sensitive detectors. |
| | (2)
Note. Included herein are patents in which a beam of light
is reflected from the work or an index mark thereon to the light-sensitive-means,
as well as patents in which the work covers and uncovers the light-sensitive
means. |
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
| 72+, | for a photo-electric work-sensor in a "self-regulating" device. |
| 289, | for a photo-electric work-sensor in a "flying" cutter
device. |
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
| 250, | Radiant Energy,
subclasses 200+ for photocell detector and circuit. |
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| 366 | Release of interlock controlled: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 360. Device in which the controlled apparatus is a mechanism
to prevent movement of a part or element of the device or to prevent
movement of the work, said mechanism being provided with means to
disable the movement-preventing mechanism and in which the function effected
is activation of said disabling means by the work-responsive means,
whereby a subsequent operation is permitted.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
| 399+, | for interlock means controlled by other parts or
elements of the device, and see the "Search This Class,
Subclass" notes under subclasses 399+ for other
interlock subclasses. |
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| 367 | Movement of work controlled: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 360. Device in which the controlled apparatus includes means
to move, guide, decelerate or stop the work, and the function effected
is the actuation or modification of the operation of said means.
| | (1)
Note. Included herein are patents provided with means to
effect final registry of work with respect to its cutting position
after initial work movement but prior to cutting. |
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
| 209+, | for means to control work movement in combination
with means to initiate cutting cycle, both in response to a work-sensing
mechanism. |
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
| 226, | Advancing Material of Indeterminate Length,
subclasses 10+ for means to sense material and means to control the
operation of material advancing means. |
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| 368 | Positioning of tool controlled: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 360. Device in which the controlled apparatus is a cutter movable
in a direction other than in the work-cutting path and the function
effected is the movement of said cutter in said other direction.
| | (1)
Note. The inclusion of the term "other" in
the above definition is not intended to exclude patents having claimed
means to impart a work-cutting movement. Patents claiming such
means (per se, classifiable in other subclasses in this schedule)
and, in addition to such means, claiming means to impart a supplemental movement
(such as for locating the cutter in, or shifting it to, a different
position relative to the work or the machine; e.g., to cut a different
part of the work, or place the cutter out of operative position) responsive
to the work-sensing means, will be placed in this subclass. |
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
| 359, | for similar structure responsive to product. |
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| 369 | Actuation of tool controlled by work-driven means to measure
work length: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 360. Device including a detector* which is moved by,
and to an extent proportional to, movement of the work; further
including means to effect a signal or impulse only when the extent
of such detector* movement reaches a predetermined amount;
and in which the controlled apparatus is a cutter, the controlled
function effected being the initiation of movement of said cutter through
a cutter cycle.
| | (1)
Note. Included in this subclass are patents provided with
means for changing the extent of work movement or detector movement
required to initiate the cutting cycle. |
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
| 208, | for similar structure in which the work movement
is claimed as stopped prior to cutting. |
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| 370 | Actuation of tool controlled in response to work-sensing
means: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 360. Device in which the controlled apparatus is a cutter and/or
a cutter driving train and function effected is the initiation of
movement of said cutter through a cutting cycle.
| | (1)
Note. Included in this subclass are patents in which the
work itself is uniformly electrically conductive, and the work completes
an electrical circuit in the detector*. |
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
| 210, | 211+, 266+, and 369+,
for other work-sensing means to initiate the cutting cycle of a
cutter. |
| 359, | for similar structure responsive to product. |
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| 371 | Sensing means responsive to work indicium or irregularity: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 370. Device in which the detector* is operative to sense
the presence of an index, or a protuberant or re-entrant portion,
in or on the work, to initiate the cutting cycle.
| | (1)
Note. Included in the terms "index", "protuberant
portion" and "re-entrant portion" are
such indicia as a hole or notch in the work, a mark (e.g., printed) on
the work surface, an electrically conductive area on the work which
completes an electrical circuit in the detector and transmitter
system, and bumps or projections on the work. Also included within
the scope of such terminology are articles, or spaces between articles,
in work which comprises spaced articles connected together by a
connected medium (e.g., tape, string, etc.), the connecting medium
of which work is to be severed between adjacent articles. |
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
| 365, | for devices in which a mark on the work is interposed
in a light responsive (e.g., photocell) circuit. |
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| 372 | With trip-switch in work-sensing mechanism: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 370. Device in which the transmitter* includes an electrical
circuit and the detector* includes a make-break portion
in said circuit for completing or interrupting the circuit to initiate
the cutting cycle.
| | (1)
Note. Contact of the work with the trip switch may be direct,
or indirect as by engagement of the work with a lever or linkage
connected to the trip switch. |
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
| 290+, | for other trip switch sensing means in a "flying" cutter. |
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
| 200, | Electricity: Circuit Makers and Breakers,
subclasses 61.13+ , 61.19+, 61.41, and 61.42+, for
other detector switches. |
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