CLASS 100, | PRESSES |
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SECTION I - CLASS DEFINITION
This is the generic class for apparatus for subjecting material to compressive force by (a) causing solid surfaces to approach one another while the material is between them, (b) compelling the material to move through a constriction, or (c) by rendering a flexible member taut around the material. [For specific subclass references, see Subclass References to the Current Class, below.]
This class is the generic class for methods and apparatus for binding material with a flexible filament, strand or band.
This class includes methods in which material is pressed to compact it to a smaller volume.
This class includes methods and apparatus for pressing a lid against a receptacle.
This class includes silos combined with means to compact ensilage within them. (See subclasses 65-69).
This class includes presses with a duct or collector for liquid flowing from the material as a result of the pressing.
This class includes devices for removing from the material a cloth in which the material has been compacted.
This class (100) includes methods and apparatus for crushing hollow metal bodies such as tin cans, automobile bodies, etc. Disclosure of additional utility for bottle breaking is also included here (Class 100) while bottle breaking, per se, is in the class for solid Material Comminution or Disintegration. See the Search Class Notes below.
This class includes devices for subjecting previously associated articles to compressive force to cause them to be bonded together where no associating means is claimed.
EXPLANATORY NOTE ON SCOPE OF CLASS
Presses are employed in many arts and are classified generally according to the art to which they pertain. For the locus of various arts, reference may be made to the Index to the Manual of Classification. In Lines With Other Classes, Combined Pressing Elsewhere Classified and Binding and Pressing Elsewhere Classified, hereof, are listed arts in which pressing is common or in which subclasses have been established relating to it.
Class 100 has heretofore gathered presses relating to such arts as baling, bundling, copying, expressing liquids from solids, and packing. The art so gathered has been employed to establish this generic classification of presses.
Since it is not desirable to withhold from use those portions of the reclassification which can be completed and handled as a unit, the reclassification is established even though many inventions relating to the subject matter are represented herein only by search notes to other classifications.
SECTION II - LINES WITH OTHER CLASSES AND WITHIN THIS CLASS
Class 100 is the generic class for apparatus for pressing particulate material. Class 264 is the generic class for corresponding methods; for the line between these classes see paragraphs under Lines With Other Classes and Within This Class of the class definition of Class 264.
COMBINED PRESSING ELSEWHERE CLASSIFIED
This class provides, in subclass 102, and in the various subclasses preceding it for pressing in combination with other features. Nearly all pressing elsewhere classified includes not only pressing, per se, but in combination with other devices or steps. Where other classes set out subclasses directed to combinations of pressing with other features, which combinations relate to those appearing in the Class 100 schedule, suitable cross search notes to the subclasses concerned have been made.
See References to Other Classes, below, referencing this section for classes that each include pressing and have a subclass directed to combined features generally, one of which may be pressing, or a specific combination of pressing with other features and not appearing in the Class 100 schedule or of special note.
BINDING AND PRESSING ELSEWHERE CLASSIFIED
Methods and apparatus are intermixed in the art as elsewhere classified and they are included together in References to Other Classes, referencing this section.
Plastic shaping. The shaping of material by molecular flow under pressure is generically in Class 264, Plastic and Nonmetallic Article Shaping or Treating: Processes, and divided among other classes according to the nature of the material worked. Of these, Class 99, Foods and Beverages: Apparatus, and Class 426, Food or Edible Material: Processes, Compositions, and Products, are generic to food material, and Class 72, Metal Deforming, as to metal. Class 419, Powder Metallurgy Processes, for making articles from particulate material including metal particles. See the definitions of these classes for the distribution of related art.
The compaction of particulate material into a definite shape wherein at least some of the particles maintain their identity in the product is classified in Class 100 and Class 264. For the line, see the definitions to Class 264, particularly subclasses 109-128.
PRODUCTS
See References to Other Classes, below, referencing this section.
PRESS SUBCOMBINATIONS
See References to Other Classes, below, referencing this section, for classes including subcombinations of special utility in presses. Class 100 includes press subcombinations not elsewhere provided for.
SECTION III - SUBCLASS REFERENCES TO THE CURRENT CLASS
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
1 | through 34, for methods and apparatus for binding material with a flexible filament, strand or band. |
35 | through 42, for methods in which material is pressed to compact it to a smaller volume. |
54 | through 64, for methods and apparatus for pressing a lid against a receptacle. |
65 | through 69, for silos combined with means to compact ensilage within them. |
104 | through 136, for presses with a duct or collector for liquid flowing from the material as a result of the pressing. |
298, | for devices for removing from the material a cloth in which the material has been compacted. |
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SECTION IV - REFERENCES TO OTHER CLASSES
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
8, | Bleaching and Dyeing; Fluid Treatment and Chemical Modification of Textiles and Fibers, subclasses 137 through 142,for methods of cleaning combined with pressing of textiles. (See Combined Pressing Elsewhere Classified, above). |
12, | Boot and Shoe Making, appropriate subclasses, for presses having a pressure surface conformed to fit or shape shoe parts such as sole blanks ( subclass 21 ) sole laying and leveling (subclasses 33-38), heels (subclass 48) and toe and heel stiffeners (subclasses 64-66). Class 100 includes, in appropriate subclasses, presses compacting a stack of shoe soles together for binding. (See Binding And Pressing Elsewhere Classified, above.) |
15, | Brushing, Scrubbing, and General Cleaning, subclasses 260 through 263,for mop wringers. (See Binding And Pressing Elsewhere Classified,above.) |
15, | Brushing, Scrubbing, and General Cleaning, subclasses 256.5 through 256.6,for cleaning attachments to be applied to a device to remove material from a moving surface thereof in the normal operation of the device. (See Press Subcombinations, above.) |
19, | Textiles: Fiber Preparation, subclass 144.5 , for apparatus or processes for manufacturing articles, other then bales or packages, comprising compressing, compacting or shaping fibers into a wad or plug. Class 100 includes, appropriate subclasses, the compacting of cotton, hay, etc., into bales. (See Binding And Pressing Elsewhere Classified, above.) |
24, | Buckles, Buttons, Clasps, etc., subclasses 16 through 30, for binder chains, cords or wires, per se, or in combination with an attached binder tightener. See Class 100, subclass 1, (2) Note, for the line. (See Binding And Pressing Elsewhere Classified, above.) |
28, | Textiles: Manufacturing, appropriate subclasses, as the generic class for the production of structures by the mechanical interengagement of fibers and strands. Class 100 includes, appropriate subclasses, the compacting of cotton, hay, etc., into bales. (See Binding And Pressing Elsewhere Classified, above). |
29, | Metal Working, subclasses 33 through 65for combined machines employed in metal working, and subclasses 400.1+, for manufacturing processes generically. (See Combined Pressing Elsewhere Classified, above). |
29, | Metal Working, subclasses 4.51 through 4.46, for devices for shaping metal wool packages, subclasses 33-65, for combined operation metal working apparatus, one of which operations may be pressing, subclasses 90.01-90.7, as generic for machines and processes of condensing, smoothing, compacting, or polishing the surface of metallic or nonmetallic articles usually by rubbing with a smooth surface of greater hardness than that of the article being operated upon, subclasses 400.1+, as the generic locus for processes of manufacturing, and subclasses 700-283.5, as the generic locus for apparatus for assembling and disassembling. (See Binding And Pressing Elsewhere Classified, above.) |
34, | Drying and Gas or Vapor Contact With Solids, subclass 90 , for drying apparatus with additional features. See the Class Definition of Class 34 for the line where heating and pressing are employed. (See Combined Pressing Elsewhere Classified, above). |
34, | Drying and Gas or Vapor Contact With Solids, appropriate subclasses, for devices for expressing liquids from solids for drying, particularly subclasses 143 through 146,for the stationary press type. Class 34 includes also expressing of liquids from solids for other purposes than drying where there is drying of the solids other than by heating necessary for expressing. Class 34 includes also the denuding of fluent solids. (See Binding And Pressing Elsewhere Classified, above.) |
37, | Excavating, subclasses 225 through ,for devices for excavating snow and compressing it. (See Binding And Pressing Elsewhere Classified,above.) |
38, | Textiles: Ironing or Smoothing, subclasses 1 through 68,for smoothing machines, subclasses 69-102.91, for smoothing machines, subclasses 69-102.91, for smoothing implements, and subclass 144, for textile pressing or smoothing processes. (See Binding And Pressing Elsewhere Classified, above.) |
38, | Textiles: Ironing or Smoothing, subclasses 2 through 3,for ironing machines with combined features, subclasses 75-79, for flat irons with combined features. (See Combined Pressing Elsewhere Classified, above). |
44, | Fuel and Related Compositions, subclass 635 for artificial fuel briquetting apparatus including plural operations, and subclass 631 for peat briquetting apparatus including plural operations. (See Combined Pressing Elsewhere Classified, above). |
44, | Fuel and Related Compositions, subclasses 634 through 636for apparatus for briquetting fuels, and subclasses 630-633 for apparatus for briquetting peat. (See Binding And Pressing Elsewhere Classified,above.) |
51, | Abrasive Tool Making Process, Material, or Composition, appropriate subclasses,for a process of making an abrasive tool which may involve pressing the material. (See Binding And Pressing Elsewhere Classified, above.) |
53, | Package Making, subclasses 436 through 439and 523-530, for methods of and apparatus for, respectively, compacting material combined with a packaging operation including the application of a cover to a bale, and subclass 138.1, for the application of a cover combined with applying a binding. An exception is that Class 100, in subclasses 54-64, takes devices for pressing lids on mercantile containers and in which the contents may be compacted by such compression. In general, where pressing only is involved, classification is in appropriate subclasses of Class 100 even if the press box is a portable receptacle. (See Lines With Other Classes, Combined Pressing Elsewhere Classified, for additional information.) |
53, | Package Making, subclasses 396 through 492,for methods of banding material to make a package, subclasses 436-439, for methods involving compacting material and packaging it, subclasses 523-530, for apparatus for compressing material into bales and covering the compressed material, subclasses 582-593, for apparatus for forming band type packages, and subclasses 387.1-387.4, for package flap or seam holders for adhesive setting. See the Class Definition of Class 53 and the notes thereto for the locus of art on packaging and binding. Class 100 includes in subclasses 1-34 compressing material and binding it in a flexible filament strand or band while Class 53 includes in subclasses 124+ compressing material and covering it with flexible sheet material with or without additionally binding of the covered material. (See Binding And Pressing Elsewhere Classified, above.) |
56, | Harvesters, appropriate subclasses, particularly subclass 341 , for devices which gather material from the ground and then compact and bind the material gathered, subclasses 401-431, for shockers, and subclasses 432465, for compressing and binding devices. (See Binding And Pressing Elsewhere Classified, above.) |
56, | Harvesters, appropriate subclasses, particularly subclasses 341+ for presses in combination with means to gather from the ground the material to be pressed. (See Combined Pressing Elsewhere Classified, above). |
59, | Chain, Staple, and Horseshoe Making, appropriate subclasses, for forging or welding presses for making the articles indicated in the class title. (See Binding And Pressing Elsewhere Classified, above.) |
59, | Chain, Staple, and Horseshoe Making, subclasses 16+ , for combined machines for chain making, and subclasses 37+, for combined machines for horseshoe making. (See Combined Pressing Elsewhere Classified, above). |
60, | Power Plants, appropriate subclasses, for power plants as defined in definitions of that class and including nominally recited press elements as the loads thereof. Combinations of such power plants with significant press structure or press relationships are classified in appropriate subclasses of Class 100. (See Press Subcombinations, above.) |
62, | Refrigeration, subclasses 66 , 322, 601+, and 604, for processes and apparatus for manufacturing a solidified gas or liquid and shaping it. (See Binding And Pressing Elsewhere Classified,above.) |
65, | Glass Manufacturing, appropriate subclasses for a process of, or apparatus for manufacturing glass stock including a pressing step or means, especially subclasses 305+ , for a press molding machine; see the "Search Notes" thereunder. (See Combined Pressing Elsewhere Classified, above). |
65, | Glass Manufacturing, appropriate subclasses, for molding of glass by pressing. (See Binding And Pressing Elsewhere Classified, above.) |
68, | Textiles: Fluid Treating Apparatus, subclasses 94+ , for apparatus for squeezing textiles while subjected to a liquid, and subclasses 241+, for wringers for removing the liquid from textiles. (See Binding And Pressing Elsewhere Classified,above.) |
68, | Textiles: Fluid Treating Apparatus, subclasses 28+ , for combined operations machines. (See Combined Pressing Elsewhere Classified, above). |
69, | Leather Manufactures, subclass 1 , for leather hammering devices subclass 7, for seam pressers, subclass 8, for devices for forming and pressing leather articles, subclasses 21+, for processes of working leather involving pressure, and, subclass 48 for presses for working leather. (See Binding And Pressing Elsewhere Classified,above.) |
71, | Chemistry: Fertilizers, appropriate subclasses, for methods of producing and manufacturing fertilizers which may include pressing as a part of manufacturing. (See Binding And Pressing Elsewhere Classified, above.) |
72, | Metal Deforming, appropriate subclasses, for a means or a method for shaping plastic metal, e.g., by forging, rolling, bending, drawing or extruding it. See the definition of Class 72 for what constitutes "plastic metal". Shaping combined with cutting and/or heating or cooling to working or ambient temperature is included. (See Binding And Pressing Elsewhere Classified, above.) |
72, | Metal Deforming, appropriate subclasses, for a press combined with shaped dies (i.e., other than planar) for plastically die-shaping metal. (see Combined Pressing Elsewhere Classified, above.) |
74, | Machine Element or Mechanism, appropriate subclasses, for power transmitting devices of general utility. (See Press Subcombinations, above.) |
73, | Measuring and Testing, subclass 78 , for presses for hardness testing materials, and, subclasses 788+, particularly subclasses 818+, for presses for compression testing material. (See Binding And Pressing Elsewhere Classified,above.) |
76, | Metal Tools and Implements, Making, subclass 4 , for test presses for use in die making, and, appropriate subclasses, for presses and dies for forging tools. (See Binding And Pressing Elsewhere Classified,above.) |
81, | Tools, subclasses 3.09+ , for the combination of a press and receptacle closure remover. (See Binding And Pressing Elsewhere Classified,above.) |
81, | Tools, subclasses 3.09+ , for combined press and receptacle closure remover. (See Combined Pressing Elsewhere Classified, above). |
83, | Cutting, subclasses 14+ , for process of cutting combined with ancillary treatment of work; and appropriate subclasses relating to apparatus for clamping work in a cutting machine, e.g., subclasses 176, 282, 375+, and 452+. (See Combined Pressing Elsewhere Classified, above). |
83, | Cutting, appropriate subclasses for means relating to the clamping of work in a cutting machine, e.g., subclasses 176 , 282, 375+, and 452+. (See Binding And Pressing Elsewhere Classified,above.) |
86, | Ammunition and Explosive-Charge Making, appropriate subclasses, for ammunition and explosive charge-making including pressing. (See Binding And Pressing Elsewhere Classified, above.) |
91, | Motors: Expansible Chamber Type, appropriate subclasses, for expansible-chamber type motors or fluid motors of the type provided for in that class and including nominally recited press elements as the loads thereof. Combinations of such motors with significant press structure or press relationships are classified in appropriate subclasses of Class 100, and especially in subclasses 269+ . (See Press Subcombinations, above.) |
96, | Gas Separation: Apparatus, for apparatus for gas separation with means to compact the separating media. See particularly subclass 137 and 149 for solid sorbent apparatus with means to compress or compact a solid sorbent bed. (See Binding And Pressing Elsewhere Classified,above.) |
99, | Foods and Beverages: Apparatus, for methods and apparatus for treating food which may include pressing, particularly subclasses 349+ , for cooking devices with material pressing means, subclasses, 495+ for removing a fluid from food, and, subclasses 568+, for shell crackers. (See Binding And Pressing Elsewhere Classified,above.) |
101, | Printing, appropriate subclasses, for presses having means to produce characters or designs on surfaces by impression or by applying coating material. (See Binding And Pressing Elsewhere Classified, above.) |
108, | Horizontally Supported Planar Surfaces, subclasses 50.01+ , for a horizontal planar surface member with combined features. (See Combined Pressing Elsewhere Classified, above). |
117, | Single-Crystal, Oriented-Crystal, and Epitaxy Growth Processes; Non-Coating Apparatus Therefor, subclass 65 , for processes wherein a coating is subjected to a pressure treatment such as, for example, calendering. (See Combined Pressing Elsewhere Classified, above). |
118, | Coating Apparatus, subclasses 100+ , for coating apparatus having a solid member or material acting on the coating after application. (See Combined Pressing Elsewhere Classified, above). |
127, | Sugar, Starch, and Carbohydrates, subclasses 18+ , for the purging and molding of sugars. (See Combined Pressing Elsewhere Classified, above). |
131, | Tobacco, subclasses 28+ and 78+, for cigar and cigarette machines with combined features. (See Combined Pressing Elsewhere Classified, above). |
131, | Tobacco, subclasses 77+ , for cigarette and cigar making machines including tobacco molding or forming devices, and, subclasses 111+, for apparatus for making plugs or compressed shapes of tobacco. (See Binding And Pressing Elsewhere Classified,above.) |
141, | Fluent Material Handling, With Receiver or Receiver Coacting Means, appropriate subclasses, for combinations involving means for filling receivers with fluent material including means to compact the material charge either prior to or after placement thereof into the receiver. In general, where pressing only is involved, classification is in appropriate subclasses of Class 100 even if the press box is a portable receptacle See also the discussion of Class 141 in (4) Note and (5) Note of subclass 229 of this class (100) and the Search Note of that subclass to Class 141. (See Binding And Pressing Elsewhere Classified,above.) |
144, | Woodworking, subclass 256.1 for woodworking bending presses, subclass 284 for a cork or bung press, and subclasses 329+ for processes or methods of working wood including compression, particularly subclasses 381+ for a Woodworking process. (See Binding And Pressing Elsewhere Classified,above.) |
147, | Coopering, subclass 4 , for barrel compressors, subclass 6, for barrel headers for heading barrels during manufacture, and, subclasses 7-12, for barrel hoop drivers. (See Binding And Pressing Elsewhere Classified,above.) |
148, | Metal Treatment, subclass 131 , for processes of heat treating metal combined with the application of a nondeforming pressure. (See Combined Pressing Elsewhere Classified, above). |
148, | Metal Treatment, appropriate subclasses, for processes which press metal and also heat-treat it. See particularly subclass 131 for processes of treating solid material involving a nonreshaping pressing operation. (See Binding And Pressing Elsewhere Classified,above.) |
156, | Adhesive Bonding and Miscellaneous Chemical Manufacture, appropriate subclasses, for press structures peculiarly adapted to laminating functions and, especially subclasses 580+ , for presses, per se, peculiar to laminating. Heating or cooling a press structure is provided for in Class 100 (subclasses 92+); also vacuum means to facilitate the pressing operation is provided for in Class 100 (subclass 90). (See Binding And Pressing Elsewhere Classified,above.) |
156, | Adhesive Bonding and Miscellaneous Chemical Manufacture, appropriate subclasses, for laminating apparatus which may include a press. The patents in Class 156 recite some step or mechanism peculiar to laminating, such as adhesive applying, assembly or association of parts, shaping of at least one of the parts, etc. See also the note to 156 related to Binding And Pressing Elsewhere Classified that appears later in this section. (See Combined Pressing Elsewhere Classified, above). |
162, | Paper Making and Fiber Liberation, appropriate subclasses, for paper making operations that may involve a pressing step, and, especially subclass 56 , for chemical processes involving squeezing or compression, subclasses 205+, for the subsequent pressure treatment of a formed web, subclasses 224+, for processes of treating an article by pressure, subclass 305, for the combination of molds for forming a paper article combined with pressing means, and subclasses 358+, for press and felt combinations. This class (100) provides for calenders, per se, when not combined with a felt for conveying the moist web. (See Binding And Pressing Elsewhere Classified,above.) |
164, | Metal Founding, subclasses 37+ , for processes of compacting sand to form a metal casting mold and, subclasses 169+, for corresponding apparatus. (See Binding And Pressing Elsewhere Classified,above.) |
165, | Heat Exchange, subclasses 168+ , for a heat exchange platen, per se. (See Press Subcombinations, above.) |
173, | Tool Driving or Impacting, appropriate subclass,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. (See Press Subcombinations, above.) |
192, | Clutches and Power-Stop Control, subclasses 116.5+ , for mechanisms usually automatic in operation for stopping a machine when a predetermined result is reached, when some part of the machine fails to function, or the material fails or is disarranged, when an operator"s position renders him liable to injury. This subclass takes the subcombinations, per se. (See Press Subcombinations, above.) |
19, | Conveyors, Chutes, Skids, Guides, and Ways, appropriate subclasses, for chutes, per se, for carrying material as to a press box or between stages of a plural stage roll type press. (See Press Subcombinations, above.) |
196, | Mineral Oils: Apparatus, subclass 14.5 , for apparatus for separating paraffin from oil by a filter press. (See Binding And Pressing Elsewhere Classified,above.) |
198, | Conveyors: Power-Driven, appropriate subclasses,as residual for power type conveyors or elements thereof, such as belts, per se. (See Press Subcombinations, above.) |
206, | Special Receptacle or Package, subclass 83.5 , for bales and see the Notes thereto for compacted or bound articles elsewhere classified. (See Lines With Other Classes, Products, above.) |
209, | Classifying, Separating, and Assorting Solids, subclasses 599 and 699, for devices which assort articles by determining their compressibility. (See Combined Pressing Elsewhere Classified, above). |
209, | Classifying, Separating, and Assorting Solids, appropriate subclasses, for separating devices such as separator belts, per se. (See Press Subcombinations, above.) |
210, | Liquid Purification or Separation, appropriate subclasses,for filters or devices in which material is pressed against a perforated surface by the pressure of fluid contacting the material. (See Binding And Pressing Elsewhere Classified, above.) |
210, | Liquid Purification or Separation, subclasses 400+ , for belt type filters. (See Press Subcombinations, above.) |
219, | Electric Heating, subclasses 50+ for metal heating (e.g., resistance heating, etc.), especially subclasses 149+ for forging or shaping of the workpiece, subclasses 443.1+ for an exposed horizontal planar support surface for material to be heated (e.g., hot plate, etc.), subclasses 600+ for inductive heating, subclasses 678+ for microwave heating, or subclasses 764+ for capacitive dielectric heating. |
220, | Receptacles, subclasses 578+ for an internal closure-like member which rests on the unused contents of a container. (See Binding And Pressing Elsewhere Classified,above.) |
221, | Article Dispensing, appropriate subclassesfor article dispensers (feeders) not otherwise provided for, and see the class definition of Class 221 for a statement of the class lines and for the disposition of related disclosures of articles and strip feeding processes and apparatus. (See Press Subcombinations, above.) |
221, | Article Dispensing, appropriate subclasses,for article dispensing (feeding) devices which may be disclosed as feeding to press structure. (See Binding And Pressing Elsewhere Classified, above.) |
222, | Dispensing, for devices which operate to separate a quantity of material from a larger receptacle-enclosed mass of such material by the application of pressure upon the walls of the receptacle, as in subclasses 95+ and 214, in which the walls of collapsible and resilient wall containers, respectively, are pressed together by press-like structures in order to expel the contents of such containers. See Class 222 also for combinations involving devices so related to a source of material as to assist the discharge of such materials from the source. Where such discharge assistants serve only to forward the material through a discharge opening, classification is in Class 222 but where the further function of pressing a compressible material is accomplished as by forcing the compressible material through a restricted opening, or between pressing rolls, classification is in Class 100, subclasses 144+. See Class 222 also for dispensers, per se, disclosed as delivering material to or from a press. Where the press is claimed as an element of the combination other than as of a nominal source of supply for the dispenser, classification is in Class 100. (See Binding And Pressing Elsewhere Classified,above.) |
223, | Apparel Apparatus, subclasses 12+ for hat shaping presses, subclasses 28+ for apparel fluting presses, and subclasses 52+ for devices for pressing garments. (See Binding And Pressing Elsewhere Classified,above.) |
227, | Elongated-Member-Driving Apparatus, subclass 152 , for apparatus for holding a lid on a receptacle combined with applying a member, e.g., nail, thereto. Class 100 includes, in subclasses 54+, presses for applying a lid to a receptacle combined with means to apply a member thereto. (See Binding And Pressing Elsewhere Classified,above.) |
239, | Fluid Sprinkling, Spraying, and Diffusing, appropriate subclasses,for apparatus for liquid distributors or discharges. (See Press Subcombinations, above.) |
241, | Solid Material Comminution or Disintegration, subclass 99 for bottle breaking, per se; appropriate subclasses for apparatus for disintegrating a solid mass into a number of smaller masses. See the Class 241 class definition, References to Other Classes, the Search Note to Class 100, for the line between Classes 100 and 241. (See Binding And Pressing Elsewhere Classified,above.) |
249, | Static Molds, appropriate subclasses,for molds intended for use with a press member for shaping a fluent material. (See Press Subcombinations, above.) |
254, | Implements or Apparatus for Applying Pushing or Pulling Force, subclasses 199+ , for portable implements or apparatus for tensioning flexible material (e.g., tightening cord around a box) from which the implement or apparatus is detached after tensioning. (See Press Subcombinations, above.) |
264, | Plastic and Nonmetallic Article Shaping or Treating: Processes, appropriate subclasses, for molding and shaping processes within the class definition, particularly subclasses 109+ , for processes of forming articles by uniting of bulk assembled discrete particles. (See Binding And Pressing Elsewhere Classified,above.) |
267, | Spring Devices, subclass 119 for a fluid spring press cushion; and subclass 130, for press cushion structure using a spring other than a fluid spring. (See Press Subcombinations, above.) |
269, | Work Holders, appropriate subclasses.Class 269 is the residual locus for patents to a device for clamping, supporting and/or holding an article (or articles) in position to be operated on or treated. See notes thereunder for other related loci. Particularly, see the class definition of Class 269, Lines With Other Classes, "Relationship to Press Means", for the line with respect to Class 100. (See Binding And Pressing Elsewhere Classified, above.) |
289, | Knots and Knot Tying, appropriate subclasses,for apparatus for and methods of intertwining portions of cords, ropes, or strips for the purpose of fastening them together. (See Press Subcombinations, above.) |
292, | Closure Fasteners, appropriate subclasses,for bolt elements and latching devices, not combined with lock structure for securing any closure element in closed or adjusted position. (See Press Subcombinations, above.) |
297, | Chairs and Seats, subclass 188.03 , for trouser pressing attachment with a chair. (See Combined Pressing Elsewhere Classified, above). |
324, | Electricity: Measuring and Testing, appropriate subclasses,for apparatus for determining the electrical properties of material while under pressure including means to apply the pressure. (See Combined Pressing Elsewhere Classified, above). |
366, | Agitating, appropriate subclasses,for compacting material by merely shaking it. (See Binding And Pressing Elsewhere Classified, above.) |
384, | Bearings, appropriate subclassesfor linear bearings. (See Press Subcombinations, above.) |
396, | Photography, subclasses 658+ for apparatus for burnishing or polishing a photographic image by applying to it heat and pressure or friction. (See Binding And Pressing Elsewhere Classified,above.) |
399, | Electrophotography, subclasses 222+ for development, particularly subclasses 279+ for a roller-type application member; subclass 318 for transfer by pressure; subclasses 320+ for fixing, particularly subclass 331 for pressure roller; subclass 357 for cleaning roller; and subclasses 361+ for document handling. (See Binding And Pressing Elsewhere Classified,above.) |
400, | Typewriting Machines, appropriate subclasses, for key operated machines for the production at will of printed matter generally, particularly, subclasses 127+ , for machines for producing characters in relief or intaglio or entirely through the material. (See Binding And Pressing Elsewhere Classified,above.) |
408, | Cutting by Use of Rotating Axially Moving Tool, appropriate subclasses,for cutting by a tool that turns about an axis and moves along that axis toward a workpiece with no additional motion during operation. (See Combined Pressing Elsewhere Classified, above). |
408, | Cutting by Use of Rotating Axially Moving Tool, subclasses 72+ , for drilling of that class type utilizing a drill press. (See Binding And Pressing Elsewhere Classified,above.) |
412, | Bookbinding: Process and Apparatus, appropriate subclasses, for presses combined with other book manufacturing apparatus. (See Combined Pressing Elsewhere Classified, above). |
414, | Material or Article Handling, subclass 467 (especially subclasses 501+ and 508+) and also subclass 679, in both of which areas a means for compressing material within a vehicle body may be included, in which the means for compressing the load functions (1) to fill or load the vehicle body, (2) move the material within the body for increasing the load capacity thereof, or (3) unload the vehicle body. However, compressing the material for the purpose of baling or forming a solid, compact, self-contained bundle is considered treatment of matter to change its shape or condition and so would go beyond Class 414 subject matter and cause classification in Class 100 even if associated with a vehicle. (See Binding And Pressing Elsewhere Classified,above.) |
418, | Rotary Expansible Chamber Devices, appropriate subclassesfor rotary expansible chamber devices particularly adapted to compress elastic or compressible fluids. (See Binding And Pressing Elsewhere Classified, above.) |
418, | Rotary Expansible Chamber Devices, appropriate subclasses for rotary expansible chamber motors, per se, or with nominally recited press elements as the loads thereof. Combination of such motors with significant press structure or press relationships are classified in appropriate subclasses of Class 100 and especially subclasses 269+ . (See Press Subcombinations, above.) |
425, | Plastic Article or Earthenware Shaping or Treating: Apparatus, appropriate subclasses for a reshaping means for nonmetallic materials, see subclasses 394+ , for a preform reshaping apparatus, and subclasses 406+, for a press for shaping fluent material: see the search notes thereunder. (See Binding And Pressing Elsewhere Classified,above.) |
425, | Plastic Article or Earthenware Shaping or Treating: Apparatus, for apparatus to shape or reshape non-metallic preform or powdered metal combined with perfecting features or operations not elsewhere provided for; see subclass 77 for an ultra high pressure generating device disclosed for use in changing or controlling chemical or physical properties of material (e.g., diamond maker, etc.). (See Combined Pressing Elsewhere Classified, above). |
426, | Food or Edible Material: Processes, Compositions, and Products, appropriate subclasses, especially 479+ for food working operations which may involve a pressing operation. (See Lines With Other Classes, Binding And Pressing Elsewhere Classified, for additional information.) |
428, | Stock Material or Miscellaneous Articles, subclass 546 , for metallic stock material having metal particles. (See Combined Pressing Elsewhere Classified, above). |
449, | Bee Culture, subclasses 57+ for a press for setting honey comb foundation into a honey frame. Class 100 includes, in appropriate subclasses, a press for expressing honey from honey comb. (See Lines With Other Classes, Binding And Pressing Elsewhere Classified, for additional information.) |
452, | Butchering, subclasses 35+ for sausage stuffers, subclasses 46+ for sausage linkers, and subclasses 141+ for meat tenderizers. (See Lines With Other Classes, Binding And Pressing Elsewhere Classified, for additional information.) |
452, | Butchering, subclasses 35+ for sausage stuffers and subclasses 46+ for sausage linkers. (See Combined Pressing Elsewhere Classified, above). |
470, | Threaded, Headed Fastener, or Washer Making: Process and Apparatus, appropriate subclasses for metal forging presses for making the articles indicated in the class title. (See Lines With Other Classes, Binding And Pressing Elsewhere Classified, for additional information.) |
470, | Threaded, Headed Fastener, or Washer Making: Process and Apparatus, appropriate subclasses processes and apparatus in which pressing combined with other operations to produce the articles indicated in the class title except as provided for in Class 408. (See Combined Pressing Elsewhere Classified, above). |
492, | Roll or Roller, appropriate subclassesfor a roll per se, not elsewhere provided for, and see the search notes thereunder. (See Lines With Other Classes, Binding And Pressing Elsewhere Classified, for additional information.) |
493, | Manufacturing Container or Tube From Paper; or Other Manufacturing From a Sheet or Web, subclasses 162+ for a paper box making press. (See Lines With Other Classes, Binding And Pressing Elsewhere Classified, for additional information.) |
504, | Plant Protecting and Regulating Compositions, appropriate subclasses for methods of producing and manufacturing substances regulating the action on plant growth which may include pressing as a part of manufacturing. (See Lines With Other Classes, Binding And Pressing Elsewhere Classified, for additional information.) |
554, | Organic Compounds, subclasses 8+ for processes which include the recovery or extraction of fats from vegetable or animal substances or waste materials where there may be a broad inclusion of pressing or filtering; processes directed to a significant pressing or filtering may be in Class 100 or in Class 210 Liquid Separation or Purification. (See Lines With Other Classes, Binding And Pressing Elsewhere Classified, for additional information.) |
SECTION V - GLOSSARY
BINDING
The disposing of a flexible filament, strand, or band taut and circumferentially closed about material.
MATERIAL
The solid substance subjected to compressive force or about which a binder is applied.
SUBCLASSES
1 | BINDING: | ||||||||||||||||
This subclass is indented under the class definition. Methods and apparatus for use in disposing a flexible binder
tightly and circumferentially closed around the material.
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2 | Methods: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 1. Methods. | |
3 | Compacting and binding: | ||
This subclass is indented under subclass 2. Methods which include subjecting the material to compression
other than and in addition to that due to the tightness of the flexible
binder around the material.
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4 | With automatic or material-triggered control: | ||||||
This subclass is indented under subclass 1. Apparatus having (1) means to detect a condition or change
of condition and to cause, in response to the detected condition
a control operation modifying the action of the apparatus or (2)
means which when contacted by the material causes operation of means
controlling performance of the apparatus or some part thereof.
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5 | With material winding or folding: | ||
This subclass is indented under subclass 1. Apparatus having, in addition to binding means, some means
to bend the material into a coil or into layers.
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6 | With material severing: | ||||||
This subclass is indented under subclass 1. Apparatus having in addition to binding means, some means
to cut or rupture the material into parts.
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7 | With material depositing or discharging: | ||||||||
This subclass is indented under subclass 1. Apparatus having means for placing the material on or removing
it from the means which supports the material for binding.
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8 | Binder applying: | ||
This subclass is indented under subclass 1. Apparatus having means for placing a binder in position
encircling the material.
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9 | Preformed continuous annular binder: | ||||
This subclass is indented under subclass 8. Apparatus which places about the material a binder which
is circumferentially closed and ringlike prior to such placement.
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10 | With precutting of binder to length: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 8. Apparatus having means by which a portion of binder of the necessary or a desired length is severed from another binder portion and the cut off piece is subsequently bent around the material. | |
11 | Plural flexible section binder: | ||
This subclass is indented under subclass 8. Apparatus in which the encircling binder member as completed
on the material is made up of more than one flexible member with
the ends of the several members joined together.
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12 | Through annular material: | ||||||||
This subclass is indented under subclass 8. Apparatus for placing a binder passing through the opening
in ringlike material.
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13 | Helically along material: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 8. Apparatus by which the binder is coiled about the material in a series of spaced convolutions. | |
14 | Indexing material between successive placements: | ||||
This subclass is indented under subclass 8. Apparatus by which binding is placed a plurality of times
around the material and the material is relocated relative to the
binder applier between placements, so that the several turns are
spaced along the material and/or extend in plural directions
about the material.
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15 | By rotation of material: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 8. Apparatus in which the surface of the material is moved past a source of binder supply by rotating the material with the binder being laid on the material as it rotates. | |
16 | By swing of material gripping jaw: | ||||||
This subclass is indented under subclass 8. Apparatus in which there is a pivoted or oscillating jaw
which forces the material toward another jaw and in so doing carries
the binder with it around the material.
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17 | Binder supported across passageway for material: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 8. Apparatus in which the binder is applied to the material by moving the material along a path which intersects a line between two points between which points the binder is stretched. | |
18 | With material conveyer: | ||
This subclass is indented under subclass 17. Apparatus having means by which the material is moved along
the path across which the binder is stretched.
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19 | With threader crossing material path: | ||||
This subclass is indented under subclass 18. Apparatus having a needle which carries the binder across
the path of the material.
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20 | Delivering binder to end gripper: | ||
This subclass is indented under subclass 19. Apparatus in which the needle, in its movement across the
path of movement of the material, carries the binder into the range
of means which grips the end of the binder during the subsequent
forwarding of the material for application of the binder.
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21 | Concurrently delivering to joiner: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 20. Apparatus in which the movement of the needle to place the binder in the end gripper also places the binder in means which connects the ends of the binder to each other. | |
22 | Indexing gripper: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 21. Apparatus in which the gripper rotates or pivots between positions in order to grip successive binder ends delivered to it. | |
23 | Shifting gripper delivers binder to joiner: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 20. Apparatus in which the needle delivers to a gripper and the gripper in turn shifts to carry the delivered end to means to connect the ends of the binder to each other. | |
24 | Threaders: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 19. Apparatus directed to needles, per se, for carrying the binder across the path along which the material is conveyed. | |
25 | Curved guide channel for pushed binder: | ||
This subclass is indented under subclass 8. Apparatus in which there is a guideway curving relative
to the material and the curve is such that the leading end of a
binder thrust along the guideway is directed around the material.
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26 | Material receiving loop channel: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 25. Apparatus into which the guideway is of annular formation so that the material to which the binder is to be applied may be received within the opening of the annulus. | |
27 | Orbit traveling binder placer: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 8. Apparatus in which the means for placing the binder includes an abutment over which the binder passes or to which the binder is secured, which abutment moves in a closed path circumferentially around the material to place the binder. | |
28 | Reversing for successive placements: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 27. Apparatus in which the abutment, during successive circumferential travels about the material, goes in opposite directions. | |
29 | Binder tighteners and joiners: | ||||||||
This subclass is indented under subclass 1. Apparatus in which a binder encircling the material is tensioned
to increase its tightness about the material and while so tensioned
has spaced portions secured together.
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30 | Sleeve or clamp joining: | ||||||
This subclass is indented under subclass 29. Apparatus in which the means to secure together the spaced
portions of the binder includes means to deform a sleeve, or a U-shaped
clamp member within which the portions are received.
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31 | Twisters: | ||||||
This subclass is indented under subclass 29. Apparatus in which the tensioning of the binder about the
material involves the intertwisting of the local spaced portions
of the binder, such twisting being employed for joining the binder portions
together.
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32 | Binder tighteners: | ||||||
This subclass is indented under subclass 1. Apparatus by which a binder encircling the material is tensioned
to increase its tightness about the material.
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33 | Joiners: | ||
This subclass is indented under subclass 1. Apparatus for securing to one another spaced portions of
a binder encircling the material.
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34 | Binder retaining material holders: | ||||||
This subclass is indented under subclass 1. Apparatus having means to support or grip the material and
means to affix a binder detachably to such support or grip.
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This subclass is indented under the class definition. Methods.
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36 | With pre-enclosing in textile: | ||||
This subclass is indented under subclass 35. Methods in which the material is surrounded on all sides
by a woven or knitted member and the material subsequently subjected
to compressive force while so surrounded.
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37 | With separation from material of liquid expressed: | ||
This subclass is indented under subclass 35. Methods involving subjecting material to compression to
cause the flow of liquid therefrom and the isolation of such liquid
from the compressed mass.
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38 | With heating or cooling: | ||||||||||
This subclass is indented under subclass 35. Methods involving subjecting the material to a change in
temperature.
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39 | With cutting or comminuting: | ||||||||
This subclass is indented under subclass 35. Methods involving severing or breaking the material.
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40 | With winding or folding: | ||||||
This subclass is indented under subclass 35. Methods including bending the material into successive coils
or layers.
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41 | Forcing through constricted passage: | ||
This subclass is indented under subclass 35. Methods in which the material is compressed by compelling
it to pass through an opening of cross-section smaller than that
of the uncompressed material.
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42 | Successive compressions from different directions: | ||
This subclass is indented under subclass 35. Methods in which there are plural compression steps performed
one after another and the direction of compression in one step is
transverse to that of another step.
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43 | AUTOMATIC OR MATERIAL TRIGGERED CONTROL: | ||||||||||||||||||||
This subclass is indented under the class definition. Apparatus having (1) means to detect a condition or change
of condition and to cause, in response to the detected condition
or change of condition, a control operation modifying the action
of the apparatus, or (2) means which when contacted or moved by
the material causes such a control operation.
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44 | Of insertion of separator between successive material charges: | ||
This subclass is indented under subclass 43. Apparatus in which the control is of means inserting a divider
block between portions of material placed in the press one after
another.
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45 | Of material addition, deposition, or discharging: | ||||||||||
This subclass is indented under subclass 43. Apparatus in which the control is of the placing of material
into the press, the addition of treating solids or fluids to the
material, or the removal of material from the press.
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46 | Of parallelism of platens: | ||
This subclass is indented under subclass 43. Apparatus having means to detect differences in the travel
of spaced portions of a movable platen and means to control the
platen movement in response to detected differences so as to assure
equal travel of all portions of the platen.
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47 | Of roll separation or speed: | ||||||
This subclass is indented under subclass 43. Apparatus in which the control is of the spacing apart of
opposed pressing rolls or of the rate of rotation of such rolls.
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48 | Of actuating means: | ||
This subclass is indented under subclass 43. Apparatus in which the control is of means which causes
the platens or pressure surfaces to move relative to one another.
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49 | Material presence or position starting: | ||
This subclass is indented under subclass 48. Apparatus in which means sensitive to the location of the
material causes the actuating means to begin operation to cause
movement of the platen or pressure surface.
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50 | By pressure applied to material: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 48. Apparatus in which means sensitive to the pressure condition of the material as compacted controls the operation of the actuating means. | |
51 | With dwell time control: | ||
This subclass is indented under subclass 50. Apparatus in which the pressure upon the material causes
the movement of the platen in the compacting direction to cease
and hold position and there is means to maintain the platen in such
compression position for a predetermined length of time.
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52 | Reversing: | ||||||||||
This subclass is indented under subclass 50. Apparatus in which the means sensitive to the pressure on
the material causes the actuating means to reverse the direction
of movement of the movable platen upon the achievement of a predetermined
pressure in the material.
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54 | PORTABLE RECEPTACLE LID APPLYING: | ||||||||||||
This subclass is indented under the class definition. Apparatus in which the material pressed includes a mercantile
container and a lid for the container and the compressive force
urges the lid either against the container or against the contents
of the container.
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55 | With receptacle transfer means: | ||||
This subclass is indented under subclass 54. Apparatus having means by which the container is transported
to or from the support on which it rests during the pressing operation.
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56 | With lid fastening: | ||
This subclass is indented under subclass 54. Apparatus having means which apply or manipulate means for
securing the lid to the container while the compressive force continues.
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57 | With gathering of contents: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 54. Apparatus having means for pushing contents of the container within the locus of the movement of the lid during the pressing operation so that the compression forces the material into the container. | |
58 | With lid locating means: | ||
This subclass is indented under subclass 54. Apparatus having means positioning or holding the lid against
movement transversely of the press during the compression operation.
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59 | Receptacle mountable: | ||
This subclass is indented under subclass 54. Apparatus in which the movable platen and its actuating
means may be secured to the container to which the lid is to be
applied in such manner that the movable platen and its actuating
means are carried by or supported by the container.
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60 | Upwardly displaced receptacle: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 54. Apparatus in which the application of compressive force includes lifting the container bodily upward. | |
61 | Concurrently pressing spaced areas of lid: | ||||
This subclass is indented under subclass 54. Apparatus in which there are several platen areas each contacting
the lid which are located at a distance from one another and which
press against the lid at the same time.
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62 | Loops or bails receiving receptacle: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 61. Apparatus in which the several pressing areas are bridge portions connecting the sides of U-shaped members while the container is between such sides. | |
63 | Approaching arms embracing receptacle: | ||
This subclass is indented under subclass 61. Apparatus in which the spaced platen areas are on members
which move toward one another prior to or during the pressing of
the lid toward the receptacle support.
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64 | Translating projecting arms: | ||
This subclass is indented under subclass 61. Apparatus in which the platen areas are on cantilever members
which during the compressing operation move rectilinearly toward
the support for the container.
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65 | COMPACTING ENSILAGE WITHIN SILO: | ||||||||||
This subclass is indented under the class definition. Apparatus acting within a storage chamber building to compact
fodder material confined by the floor and walls of the building.
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66 | With depositing or distributing: | ||
This subclass is indented under subclass 65. Apparatus having means for placing material within the silo
or means for relocating the material within the silo after it has
been so placed.
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67 | Silo wall guide rollers: | ||||
This subclass is indented under subclass 65. Apparatus in which the compacting pressure surface has rolling
motion relative to the material and its movement over the material
is directed by the silo wall.
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68 | Vertical center post guided rollers: | ||
This subclass is indented under subclass 65. Apparatus in which the compacting pressure surface has rolling
motion relative to the material and its movements are directed by
a vertical post extending centrally of the silo.
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69 | Tamper suspended within silo: | ||
This subclass is indented under subclass 65. Apparatus in which the compacting member is a reciprocating
element hanging on a flexible member supported from a point above
the storage compartment of the silo.
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70 | WITH ADDITIONAL TREATMENT OF MATERIAL: | ||||||||||||||||
This subclass is indented under the class definition. Apparatus including means to subject the solid material
before, after, or during pressing to some treatment other than and
in addition to pressing which other treatment causes a change of
a physical or chemical characteristic of the solid material.
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71 | Adding materials: | ||||||||||
This subclass is indented under subclass 70. Apparatus in which the means to subject the material to
additional treatment includes means for placing another substance
with material compacted.
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72 | Recycling: | ||
This subclass is indented under subclass 71. Apparatus in which the means for placing another substance
with material compacted includes means for reintroducing into the
press material which has already been compacted therein.
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73 | Liquid and/or steam: | ||||||||||||
This subclass is indented under subclass 71. Apparatus in which the means for placing another substance
with material compacted includes means for introducing liquid and/or steam
into contact with such material.
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74 | To material being fed or conveyed: | ||
This subclass is indented under subclass 73. Apparatus in which the means for introducing liquid and/or
steam into contact with material compacted is so arranged that the
liquid and/or steam is added to such material while it
is moving either to or through the press.
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75 | Interstage: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 74. Apparatus in which the means for introducing liquid and/or steam into contact with material compacted is so arranged that the liquid and/or steam is added to such material while it is moving from one of a plurality of pressing stages to another pressing stage. | |
76 | Winding or folding sheet, web or strand: | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
This subclass is indented under subclass 70. Apparatus in which the means to subject the material to
additional treatment includes means for bending the material into
layers, or spirally or helically disposing it in convolutions.
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77 | With subsequent transfer to repressing press: | ||
This subclass is indented under subclass 76. Apparatus having means effective, after folding or winding
of the material to move the material into the zone of action of
pressure surfaces by which the material is pressed into a more compact
state.
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78 | With shape retaining means: | ||
This subclass is indented under subclass 76. Apparatus having means to maintain the material in its folded
or wound shape after release of the forces for bending the material
into such shape.
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79 | With winding mandrel stripper: | ||
This subclass is indented under subclass 76. Apparatus having means to pull or push a centrally located
mandrel upon which the material has been wound from within the roll
of material.
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80 | Folding zigzag: | ||
This subclass is indented under subclass 76. Apparatus having means by which successive bends are made
in a single sheet of material so as to form a series of layers alternatively
connected at their ends.
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81 | Pivoted receiver: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 80. Apparatus having means for successively setting the layers down in a receiver which swings between end positions which determine the location of the fold or folds in the material. | |
82 | Circularly deposited through eccentric opening: | ||
This subclass is indented under subclass 76. Apparatus in which the means for bending the material has
a member with an opening, offset from an axis of rotation, through
which the material moves as the member rotates about such axis.
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83 | With presser roll along opening: | ||||
This subclass is indented under subclass 82. Apparatus in which there is a pressure surface having rolling
motion relative to the material acting on the material at the opening.
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84 | With pusher moving to opening: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 82. Apparatus in which there is a mean associated with the opening which means forces material to pass through the opening by reciprocation to and from the opening. | |
85 | Receding receiver: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 82. Apparatus having means to receive the material as it is deposited through the eccentric opening, said means having a receiving surface which moves away from the orbit of the opening as the material is received. | |
86 | Mandrel and opposed presser roll: | ||||||||||
This subclass is indented under subclass 76. Apparatus in which the means for bending the material includes
an inner central core and a presser roll and the material is disposed
circumferentially of the core and compressed thereon by the presser
roll.
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87 | Apron type (embracing belt loop): | ||||||||
This subclass is indented under subclass 76. Apparatus in which the means for bending the material includes
a flexible member and the material is wound within a loop formed
in the flexible member.
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88 | Between opposed belts: | ||
This subclass is indented under subclass 76. Apparatus in which the means for bending the material includes
opposed flexible members and the material is wound or rotated into
a roll by movement of such opposed flexible members relative to
the material.
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89 | Within group of three or more rolls: | ||||||||
This subclass is indented under subclass 76. Apparatus in which the means for bending the material is
a group of positively driven circumferentially spaced rolls and
the material is wound into a bale within the space between the rolls,
the wound bale being contained in said space.
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90 | Separating materials (vacuumizing here): | ||||||||||||||
This subclass is indented under subclass 70. Apparatus in which the means to subject the material compacted
to additional treatment includes means for removing one substance from
another.
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91 | Plural solids: | ||||
This subclass is indented under subclass 90. Apparatus in which the means for removing one substance
from another is apparatus for the separation of one solid from another.
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92 | Heating, cooling, or drying: | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
This subclass is indented under subclass 70. Apparatus in which the means to subject the material compacted
to additional treatment includes means for changing the temperature
or reducing the moisture content of the material compacted.
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94 | Cutting, breaking, piercing, or comminuting: | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
This subclass is indented under subclass 70. Apparatus in which the means to subject the material to
additional treatment includes means to sever or rupture the material
into parts.
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95 | In press material handling train: | ||||||||
This subclass is indented under subclass 94. Apparatus in which the material severing or rupturing means
is so arranged as to act on the material during its movement to
or from the means for subjecting the material to compressive force.
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96 | In feed train: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 95. Apparatus in which the material severing or rupturing means is so arranged as to act on the material moving to the press. | |
97 | Cutter: | ||
This subclass is indented under subclass 96. Apparatus in which the material severing or rupturing means
has a sharp edge which severs the material.
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98 | In press: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 94. Apparatus in which the severing or rupturing means is so arranged as to act on the material during the compacting operation. | |
99 | WITH ALARM, SIGNAL, INDICATOR, OR TEST MEANS: | ||||||||||||||||||
This subclass is indented under the class definition. Apparatus having means (1) to detect some condition in the
operation of the machine, the detecting means operating a visual
and/or audible indication of the condition, (2) or to indicate
or test a physical or chemical condition of the material under treatment.
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100 | WITH GROUND-TRAVERSING WHEELS OR GUIDES: | ||||||
This subclass is indented under the class definition. Apparatus having wheels or skids for supporting the weight
of the apparatus for rendering its movement bodily from one place
to another expeditious.
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101 | WITH CLOTH ABOUT CAKE ENFOLDER: | ||||||||
This subclass is indented under the class definition. Apparatus including means to bend a woven or knitted fabric
to enclose in it the material compacted.
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102 | COMBINED: | ||||||||
This subclass is indented under the class definition. Apparatus claimed in combination with features other than
and in addition to solid pressing surfaces, means to actuate them
relative to one another so as to subject the material to pressure,
means for mounting or supporting such pressing and actuating means
and means to handle or guide the material treated.
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103 | CONVERTIBLE: | ||
This subclass is indented under the class definition. Apparatus having means by which an adjustment, addition,
removal or reassembly of one or more of the parts of the apparatus
causes the apparatus to be capable of performing some function other
than pressing.
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104 | WITH DRAIN MEANS FOR EXPRESSED LIQUID: | ||||||||||||||
This subclass is indented under the class definition. Apparatus including means for collecting or a duct for transferring
liquid coming from the material pressed as a result of the application
of the compressing force.
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105 | Plural liquids (peel oil): | ||
This subclass is indented under subclass 104. Apparatus in which there are ducts or collecting means in
which different liquids are conducted or gathered.
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106 | Liquid impelling means: | ||||
This subclass is indented under subclass 104. Apparatus in which there are means other than the pressing
surfaces of a press for causing forced flow of the liquid from the
press.
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107 | Drain tube inbedded in material: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 104. Apparatus in which the collecting means or duct for transferring the expressed liquid is surrounded by the compacted material. | |
108 | With piercing point or edge: | ||
This subclass is indented under subclass 107. Apparatus in which the collecting means or duct has a tapered
or sharpened end so that it may be pushed into the material so as
to be surrounded thereby.
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109 | Stacked boxes or plates: | ||||
This subclass is indented under subclass 107. Apparatus in which the collecting means or duct which is
surrounded by the material extends through a plurality of pairs
of superposed pressing surfaces which support or contain the material
compacted.
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110 | Drainage through or along pressure surface: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 104. Apparatus in which a collecting means or duct for transferring the expressed liquid extends through or along one of the opposing surfaces which contact the material during the pressing operation to exert pressure on the material by movement relative to one another. | |
111 | With valve or adjustable flow regulator: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 110. Apparatus in which the collecting means or duct is equipped with a means having a variable opening so that the flow of liquid therethrough may be altered or stopped. | |
112 | With clearer or cleaner: | ||||||||||
This subclass is indented under subclass 110. Apparatus in which means is provided for removing from the
collecting means or duct solid material which would impede the progress
of the expressed liquid therethrough.
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113 | Stacked boxes or plates: | ||||
This subclass is indented under subclass 110. Apparatus in which there are a plurality of pairs of approaching
surfaces, all parallel to one another and either superposed one
on the other or side by side in a row, and the collecting means
or duct is through or along at least one of the surfaces of each
pair.
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114 | Flexibly connected: | ||
This subclass is indented under subclass 113. Apparatus in which the pressure surfaces or plates comprising
each pair are joined together by flexible means connected to both
of them.
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115 | Boxes or plates: | ||||
This subclass is indented under subclass 113. Apparatus directed solely to the specific structure of the
pairs of approaching surfaces, per se.
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116 | Movable surface: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 110. Apparatus in which the surface through or along which the collecting means or duct extends is one which has motion relative to the stationary parts or frame of the apparatus during the pressing operation. | |
117 | Helix: | ||
This subclass is indented under subclass 116. Apparatus in which the surface through or along which the
collecting means or duct extends is a helical member which is rotated
to exert the pressing force.
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118 | Endless conveyer: | ||||
This subclass is indented under subclass 116. Apparatus in which the surface through or along which the
collecting means or duct extends is an endless conveyor or a web
or belt against which the material is pressed during the movement
of the material by the belt from one position to another.
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119 | Trough forming: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 118. Apparatus in which the traveling endless conveyor, web or belt is concave transversely to form a channel holding the material. | |
120 | Material enclosing: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 119. Apparatus having means extending across the mouth or opening of the concavity so that the material is surrounded. | |
121 | Roll: | ||||
This subclass is indented under subclass 116. Apparatus in which the surface through or along which the
collecting means or duct extends is one which has a continuous pressure surface
which rotates circularly about an axis and has rolling contact with
the material.
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122 | Textile containing pressure surface: | ||
This subclass is indented under subclass 110. Apparatus in which the surface contacting the material during
the pressing operation includes a woven or knitted member.
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123 | Pendant bag type: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 122. Apparatus in which the woven or knitted member is in the form of a receptacle having sidewalls and a closed bottom and such receptacle is suspended by its mouth. | |
124 | Textile sustaining hoops: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 122. Apparatus in which a hoop or ring has means for clamping the edge of the woven or knitted member to sustain the material within it, or to support the woven or knitted member in assembled position in a press. | |
125 | Fixed abutment or end wall surface: | ||
This subclass is indented under subclass 110. Apparatus in which the surface through or along which the
collecting means or duct extends is an abutment which is fixed or
stationary relative to the stationary parts or frame of the apparatus
during the pressing operation.
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126 | Drainage through or along surface spanning pressure surfaces: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 104. Apparatus in which the collecting means or duct for transferring the expressed liquid is through or along a material retaining surface which extends along the direction of motion of relatively approaching pressing surfaces and is of a length such as to extend at least from one of the pressing surfaces to the other. | |
127 | Box, frame, cage, or annular wall: | ||
This subclass is indented under subclass 126. Apparatus in which the material retaining surface is in
the form of a box, frame, cage or annular wall.
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128 | Assembled rings or hoops: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 127. Apparatus in which the wall is made up of stacked rings, annuli, or hoops. | |
129 | Assembled slats or staves: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 127. Apparatus in which the wall is made up of longitudinally extending slats or staves, extending into the direction of the motion of the relatively approaching pressing surfaces. | |
130 | External strainer: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 104. Apparatus having means associated with the collecting means or duct and outside of the pressing zone for separating retained solids from the expressed material by allowing liquid to pass and retaining such solids. | |
131 | Expressed liquid collector or receptor: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 104. Apparatus in which the collecting means for the expressed liquid is a trough or receptacle. | |
132 | Demountably supporting press: | ||
This subclass is indented under subclass 131. Apparatus in which the trough or receptacle carries the
weight of the means for applying compressive force and causing expressing
and said means is secured demountably or releasably to the trough
or receptacle.
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133 | Drinking receptacle type: | ||
This subclass is indented under subclass 132. Apparatus in which the receptacle is one from which the
expressed liquid may be imbibed.
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134 | With dispenser: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 131. Apparatus in which the trough or receptacle is a reservoir for the expressed liquid and includes means to separate a portion of the liquid collected therein from the balance of said liquid. | |
135 | Pouring spout: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 134. Apparatus in which the separating means includes a channel along which the expressed liquid may flow as the receptacle or trough is tilted or overflows. | |
136 | Guards or shields: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 104. Apparatus having a surface against which the expressed material may impinge for the purpose of reducing the area of spread of the expressed liquid and deflecting or guiding it. | |
137 | PLURAL DIVERSE PRESSES: | ||
This subclass is indented under the class definition. Apparatus having several means for subjecting material to
compressive force, in at least one of which the pressing surfaces
differ in kind from those of at least one other.
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138 | With subsequent press conveying while pressing: | ||||||||||||||||
This subclass is indented under subclass 137. Apparatus in which at least one of the means for subjecting
the material to compressive force is of the kind that carries the
material bodily from a loading or inlet location to an unloading
or outlet location while the compressive force upon the material
is increasing and such means follows another means for subjecting
the same material to compressive force.
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139 | Successive diverse presses each conveying: | ||
This subclass is indented under subclass 138. Apparatus in which there are two means for subjecting material
to compressive force, each of which carries the material bodily
from one location to another and the pressing surfaces of one of
these means differ in kind from those of the other.
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140 | Loaded from other type press by transfer: | ||
This subclass is indented under subclass 138. Apparatus in which the material is bodily removed from between
the pressing surfaces of one means for subjecting the material to
compressive force and placed into the means for subjecting the material
to compressive force which is of the kind that carries the material bodily
from one location to another while the compressive force upon the
material is increasing.
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141 | Loaded by transversely moving platen or packer: | ||
This subclass is indented under subclass 138. Apparatus in which the material to be compressed by the
means which carries the material from one location to another while
the compressive force is increasing is first compacted within such
means by a pressure surface moving in some direction other than
that in which the material is to be carried by said means.
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142 | Moving through inlet: | ||
This subclass is indented under subclass 141. Apparatus in which the pressure surface moves through an
inlet of the means which carries the material from one location
to another while the compressing force is increasing to compress the
material against a side wall of said means.
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143 | Plural transversely moving platens: | ||
This subclass is indented under subclass 141. Apparatus in which the material is loaded into the means
which carries the material from one location to another while the
compressive force is increasing by several pressure surfaces which
move in a direction across the compacting and conveying direction
of said means.
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144 | CONCURRENT PRESSING AND CONVEYING: | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
This subclass is indented under the class definition. Apparatus in which the material while the compressive force
upon it is increasing is carried bodily from an inlet or loading
zone to an outlet or discharge zone.
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145 | Helix-type compressor: | ||||||||||||||
This subclass is indented under subclass 144. Apparatus in which the material is forwarded by a rotating
member having a fin or fins extending spirally about and along the
axis of rotation and the material is compressed by being forced
by the forwarding movement through a constricted passage of cross
section smaller than that of the uncompressed material.
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146 | Right and left helices: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 145. Apparatus in which the material is forwarded by plural parallel rotating finned members turning oppositely. | |
147 | Overload release (yieldable choke): | ||||
This subclass is indented under subclass 145. Apparatus in which the walls of the constricted passage
are held in place by a limited but continuing force so that the
size of the constriction may vary with the amount of material forced therethrough.
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148 | With valve or choke adjustment: | ||
This subclass is indented under subclass 145. Apparatus in which there are means by which the size of
the constricted passage may be changed by changing the position
of the walls of the constriction relative to one another.
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149 | Detachable choke: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 145. Apparatus in which at least a portion of the wall of the constricted passage is removable. | |
150 | Helix interengaging abutment: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 145. Apparatus in which the material as it is carried forward by the rotating finned member comes against an abutment blocking the space between successive turns of the spiral. | |
151 | Endless conveyer type: | ||||||||||||||||
This subclass is indented under subclass 144. Apparatus in which the material during pressing is carried
forward by continuous traveling web like member which is a pressure
surface.
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152 | With conveyer charging or discharging means: | ||||||
This subclass is indented under subclass 151. Apparatus having means to place solid material on or remove
it from the endless belt type pressing member.
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153 | Co-acting presser roll: | ||||||||||||||
This subclass is indented under subclass 151. Apparatus in which the material is pressed between the traveling
web and a coacting body which rotates about an axis while rolling
upon the material during pressing.
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154 | With intermediate backup device: | ||
This subclass is indented under subclass 151. Apparatus in which the portion of the endless belt against
which the material is being pressed is supported on the side opposite
from that receiving the pressure by a means separate from the belt
located between loops or bends in the belt.
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155 | Roll type: | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
This subclass is indented under subclass 144. Apparatus in which the material is compressed between bodies
having pressure surfaces and at least one of bodies has a continuous
pressure surface which rotates circularly about an axis with respect
to the material and successive portions of the surface engage the
material in rolling contact therewith.
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156 | Non-rotary co-acting press element: | ||||||||||||||||
This subclass is indented under subclass 155. Apparatus in which the material is pressed between the rotating
pressure surface and another surface which does not rotate with respect
to the work but across or on which the work is transported during
the pressing operation.
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157 | External and internal rolls: | ||||
This subclass is indented under subclass 155. Apparatus under, ... , in which the material is compressed
between at least two rotating bodies having continuous pressure
surfaces and in which one of the rotating bodies is annular and the
working surface is on the inner surface of the annulus and the opposing
working surface is on the exterior of a rotating body within the annulus.
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158 | Intersecting or inclined roll axes: | ||||||||
This subclass is indented under subclass 155. Apparatus in which the material is compressed between at
least two continuous rotating bodies having pressure surfaces and
in which the axis about which one of the bodies rotates is at an angle
to the axis about which another of the bodies rotates.
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159 | Vertical roll axes: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 155. Apparatus in which the axis of the rotating pressure surface is upright. | |
160 | With backing roll: | ||||||
This subclass is indented under subclass 155. Apparatus in which at least one of the bodies the rotary
surface of which acts to press upon the material is supported on
the side of the body opposite that on which such pressing surface
contacts the work by an auxiliary rotary body located at a place
where the support is in opposition to the material passing the pressing body.
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161 | Plural stage or pass: | ||||||
This subclass is indented under subclass 155. Apparatus in which material is compressed between more than
one pair of bodies with surfaces having rolling contact with the
material.
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162 | Common roll: | ||||
This subclass is indented under subclass 161. Apparatus in which the same rotating surface of a single
body opposes at least two other rotary surfaced bodies to form with
them pairs of rolling surfaces of plural passes.
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163 | Yieldable: | ||
This subclass is indented under subclass 162. Apparatus in which the rotary body common to the two passes
is urged under a limited but continuing force toward at least one
of rotary surfaced bodies with which it forms a rolling pass so
that the surfaces of the bodies may spread apart or approach one
another as the amount of material passing between them changes.
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164 | Adjustable line of force: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 163. Apparatus in which the direction of application the force which urges the rotary bodies together may be shifted. | |
165 | Differentially: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 163. Apparatus in which the path of movement of the common rotary body is such that as the common roll moves the spacing of one pass may vary in size differentially from the other roll pass. | |
166 | With turn plate or roll: | ||
This subclass is indented under subclass 162. Apparatus having a guide surface which directs the material
coming from one roll pass into the bight of another roll pass.
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167 | Chute or conveyer between stages: | ||||||||
This subclass is indented under subclass 161. Apparatus in which the plural pairs of bodies have between
them a means to conduct the material coming from one pair of rotary
bodies to another pair of rotary bodies.
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168 | Roll adjustment: | ||||||||
This subclass is indented under subclass 155. Apparatus having means such that the distance between the
axis of the rotary body and the opposed pressing body may be altered.
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169 | Yieldable: | ||||||||||||||
This subclass is indented under subclass 168. Apparatus in which the rotary bodies are urged toward one
another under limited but continuing force so that the axes of the
rolls may spread apart or approach one another as the amount of
material between them changes.
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170 | Fluid pressure: | ||||
This subclass is indented under subclass 169. Apparatus in which the urging force is transmitted through
a liquid or a gas.
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171 | Spring: | ||
This subclass is indented under subclass 169. Apparatus in which a solid resilient member exerts the force
urging the rotary bodies together.
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172 | Roll drive: | ||
This subclass is indented under subclass 155. Apparatus including means to cause the rotary bodies to
rotate relative to one another.
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173 | With material handling or guiding: | ||||||||||||||||||||
This subclass is indented under subclass 155. Apparatus which include, in addition to the pressing structure,
means for manipulating or directing the movement of the material.
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174 | Roll strippers: | ||||||||||||||
This subclass is indented under subclass 173. Devices including a deflector adjacent the outgoing side
of the rotary body which deflector is so mounted as to direct the
pressed material away from the surface of the rotary body.
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175 | Roll bearing guards: | ||
This subclass is indented under subclass 173. Devices in which the guide is so mounted as to protect a
bearing on which the rotary body turns by bending material away
from it.
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176 | Roll pairs: | ||||||
This subclass is indented under subclass 155. Apparatus comprising at least two coacting rotary bodies
between which material is compacted.
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177 | Moving compression chamber: | ||
This subclass is indented under subclass 144. Apparatus having a cavity in which the material is compacted
and means to change the position of the cavity from one location
to another during the compacting operation.
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178 | Platen or piston type: | ||||||||||||||||||
This subclass is indented under subclass 177. Apparatus in which the press has pressure surface which
reciprocates within the compression chamber to compact the material
in the chamber.
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179 | Plunger and casing type: | ||||||||
This subclass is indented under subclass 144. Apparatus in which a reciprocatory pressure surface forwards
the material through a tubular casing while compressing the material.
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180 | With successive charge separating means: | ||||
This subclass is indented under subclass 179. Apparatus having divider members interposed between material
placed in successive amounts intermittently into the tubular casing.
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181 | Plunger carried separator supply: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 180. Apparatus in which the reciprocating pressure platen carries more than one divider for separating the intermittently placed quantities of material. | |
182 | Separator series on endless belt: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 180. Apparatus in which a plurality of dividers is connected to an endless belt which carries them as they travel through the casing and returns them to charging position. | |
183 | Pusher inserted: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 180. Apparatus in which the casing carries a means for transversely propelling the divider block into the casing. | |
184 | Separator structure: | ||
This subclass is indented under subclass 180. Apparatus in which divider or separator blocks, per se,
are claimed.
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185 | Plural compression chambers: | ||
This subclass is indented under subclass 179. Apparatus in which there is more than one tubular casing
through which the material is forwarded while being compressed.
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186 | Aligned oppositely conveying: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 185. Apparatus in which there are either (1) plural casings having a common axis but extending in opposite directions, or (2) a single straight casing open at both ends through which ends the material is conveyed in opposite directions. | |
187 | With material rebound restrainer or tucker: | ||||
This subclass is indented under subclass 179. Apparatus in which the casing supports (1) means which prevents
the compacted material from expanding in the direction toward the pressing
platen after the material has been compressed, or (2) means adjacent
the filling opening and above the path of movement of the pressing
platen such that, as the plunger retracts from the compressing position,
the material above the top of the pressing platen not compressed
thereby will be forced downwardly into the path which the pressing
platen would pursue in the succeeding stroke.
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188 | With feeding or discharge handling: | ||||||||||||
This subclass is indented under subclass 179. Apparatus in which there is means to place material on a
support which carries the material during the compacting operation
or means to handle the compressed material as it is conveyed from
the press.
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189 | Conveying to or through inlet: | ||
This subclass is indented under subclass 188. Apparatus in which the feeding or discharging means carries
the material up to or forces it through the feed opening in the
side wall of the casing through which the material is forwarded for
compaction.
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190 | With inlet closure: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 179. Apparatus having means by which the movement of material through the loading opening of the press is prevented. | |
191 | Adjustable choke: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 179. Apparatus in which there are means by which the size of the outlet end of the tubular casing may be changed by changing the position of the walls relative to one another. | |
192 | Overload relieving (yieldable): | ||||
This subclass is indented under subclass 191. Apparatus in which the walls of the casing are held in place
by a limited but continuing force so that the size of the outlet
opening may vary with the amount of material forced therethrough.
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193 | PLURAL PRESSES: | ||||||||||||||||||
This subclass is indented under the class definition. Apparatus including more than one pair of opposing pressure
surfaces such pairs (1) not concurrently co-compressing the same
material and/or (2) being either separately actuated or compressing
during movement in different directions if having a single actuator.
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194 | Stacked boxes or plates: | ||||||
This subclass is indented under subclass 193. Apparatus in which the pressure surfaces of the plural pairs
are all parallel to one another and either superposed one on the
other or side by side in a row.
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195 | Plural stacks: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 194. Apparatus in which there is more than one row or super-posed pile of plural pairs of pressing surfaces. | |
196 | With charging and/or discharging: | ||||||||||
This subclass is indented under subclass 194. Apparatus having means for placing the material to be compressed
on or removing it from the means which supports the material during the
compressing operation.
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197 | Fluent supply: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 196. Apparatus in which the material to be compacted is granular or flowing in nature. | |
198 | Cake loosening or ejecting: | ||
This subclass is indented under subclass 196. Apparatus having means for freeing the compressed mass from
the pressure surface or for removing it from the support on which
it was carried during the compression.
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199 | With positioning or supporting means: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 194. Apparatus having means by which the several pressure surfaces of the stack are located relative to one another or individually supported. | |
200 | Link: | ||
This subclass is indented under subclass 199. Apparatus in which the plates are connected by pivotally
mounted elements.
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202 | Hinged plates: | ||
This subclass is indented under subclass 194. Apparatus in which the pressure surfaces are pivotally connected
together.
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203 | Box or pot type: | ||
This subclass is indented under subclass 194. Apparatus in which in each pair of pressure surfaces there
are material retaining side walls around one of the pressure surfaces
so as to constitute a chamber and the other pressure surface moves
between the sidewalls as the pressure surfaces are brought together.
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204 | With compression lock: | ||
This subclass is indented under subclass 203. Apparatus in which the pairs of pressing surfaces have means
to secure them in fixed relation with the material under compression
after the relief of the compression actuating force.
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205 | With openings (e.g., for removing or loosening cake): | ||||
This subclass is indented under subclass 203. Apparatus in which the chamber has openings through the
bottom or a sidewall through which access may be had to the interior
of the box.
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206 | Separable sections: | ||
This subclass is indented under subclass 203. Apparatus in which the compression chamber is made up of
sections which may be taken apart from one another.
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207 | With material transfer from press to press: | ||||||||||||
This subclass is indented under subclass 193. Apparatus having means for bodily removing material from
one of the pairs of opposed pressure surfaces and causing it to
be moved to another of the pairs of opposed pressure surfaces.
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208 | Concurrently actuated: | ||
This subclass is indented under subclass 193. Apparatus in which the movable pressure surfaces of at least
two pairs of compressing surfaces are actuated or forced to move
at the same time.
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209 | Alternately compressing: | ||
This subclass is indented under subclass 208. Apparatus in which the actuation of one movable pressure
surface of one pair in compaction would necessarily involve the
removal or return from the compaction of the movable pressing surface
of the other pair of compressing surfaces.
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210 | ROLL AND PLATEN: | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
This subclass is indented under the class definition. Apparatus in which material is compacted between a solid
surface and a body of continuous periphery having rolling motion relative
thereto.
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211 | WITH FLEXIBLE OR DEFORMABLE PRESSURE SURFACE: | ||||||||||||||||||
This subclass is indented under the class definition. Apparatus in which one of the pressure surfaces is bendable.
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212 | Circumferentially tightened loop: | ||||||
This subclass is indented under subclass 211. Apparatus in which material is compressed within a bendable
filament, strand or band by contracting it around the material by
endwise pulling.
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213 | INTERFITTING CUPS - FRUIT JUICER TYPE: | ||
This subclass is indented under the class definition. Apparatus in which one of the pressure surfaces has a projection
on it which is received within a cavity in the other pressure surface,
the material compacted being contained within and lining the cavity
and surrounding the projection.
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214 | RECIPROCATING PRESS CONSTRUCTION: | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
This subclass is indented under the class definition. Means including opposed pressure surfaces and means moving
at least one of the surfaces to cause it to approach the opposing surface
to compress material therebetween.
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215 | With material depositing means: | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
This subclass is indented under subclass 214. Apparatus having means to convey or conduct material to
be compacted to place the material on a surface which supports the
material during the compacting operation.
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216 | Feeder controlled plunger actuation: | ||
This subclass is indented under subclass 215. Apparatus having means interrelating the pressure surface
moving means and the placement means such that on termination of
the placement movement the moving means becomes effective to move
the pressure surface.
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217 | Box traversing spreader: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 215. Apparatus having a walled receptacle for receiving the material to be compressed and a means which moves across the open end of such receptacle to distribute the material within the receptacle as it brings the material into position over the receptacle. | |
218 | With material displacing means (e.g., ejector): | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
This subclass is indented under subclass 214. Apparatus having means to remove the compressed material
bodily from a means supporting the material during pressing.
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219 | With platen position or compression lock: | ||||||||
This subclass is indented under subclass 214. Apparatus having means in addition to the pressure surface
actuating means for securing the pressure surface against motion
relative to the opposed pressure surface either in a position where
the press is empty or in a position in which the material compressed
is held in compacted condition between the pressure surfaces.
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220 | With material rebound restrainer: | ||||||
This subclass is indented under subclass 214. Apparatus having means contacted by the material as compacted
and separate from the pressure surfaces, which means holds the material
in its compacted condition against expansion upon withdrawal of
the movable pressure surface.
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221 | Plural or indexing material supports or receptacles: | ||||||||||||||||||
This subclass is indented under subclass 214. Apparatus having either (1) multiple supports or supporting
areas each bearing discrete portions of material to be compressed
by a single opposing pressure surface or, (2) a support having plural
areas for a single mass of material and means whereby the support
and an opposed single pressure surface may be relatively shifted
laterally for compressing different portions of the single mass
of material at successive or alternative offset locations.
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222 | Belt: | ||||||
This subclass is indented under subclass 221. Apparatus in which the supporting areas are on an endless
flexible web member which carries them successively to position
opposing the single pressure surface.
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223 | Rotary: | ||||||||||||||
This subclass is indented under subclass 221. Apparatus in which the supports or support areas are carried
by a member which moves them in a circular or swinging orbit to
carry them successively to position opposing the single pressure
surface.
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224 | Slidable: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 221. Apparatus in which the multiple supports or support areas are translated to move successively to position opposing the single pressure surface. | |
225 | Partitioned or compartmented box: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 221. Apparatus in which the multiple supporting areas are formed by walls extending across between the side walls of a chamber so as to separate various charges of material within the chamber. | |
226 | With transversely displaceable piston or movable platen: | ||||||||||
This subclass is indented under subclass 214. Apparatus in which the movable pressure surface can be additionally
moved transversely of the compressing direction.
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227 | Portable receptacle mountable: | ||||
This subclass is indented under subclass 226. Apparatus in which the movable pressure surface has means
for mounting it upon a box, barrel or other means for holding the
material during later transportation.
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228 | Pivoted or detachable beam: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 226. Apparatus having means for mounting the movable pressure surface so that a cross member carries it and such cross member may be swung or disconnected from the stationary pressure surface. | |
229 | With transversely displaceable box, receptacle, or stationary platen: | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
This subclass is indented under subclass 214. Apparatus in which a material receiving pressure surface
having side walls to form a chamber or a pressure surface which
does not move during the compacting operation are movable to a nonuse
position transversely of the direction of application of the compacting
force or of the line of approach movement of the compressing surfaces.
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230 | Central strain rod type: | ||
This subclass is indented under subclass 214. Apparatus in which the movable pressure surface surrounds
and is moved along a tension rod which is located medially of the
movable pressure surface, the tension rod taking the reactive force
of the compression operation.
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231 | C-frame type: | ||
This subclass is indented under subclass 214. Apparatus having a frame supporting a pressure surface and
an opposed cantilever portion of the frame supporting a pressure
surface, the reaction force of the compression operation being a
thrust against the cantilever support and the opposed frame portion.
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232 | Plural movable platens on intersecting paths: | ||||||||||||
This subclass is indented under subclass 214. Apparatus having three or more pressure surfaces at least
two of which are movable along paths in different directions and
which act either simultaneously to co-compress the same material
or sequentially so that one moving platen recompresses material
compressed and held compressed by another moving platen.
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233 | Oscillatory or hinged platen or piston | ||||||||||||
This subclass is indented under subclass 214. Apparatus in which the movement of one pressure surface
to approach the other is an arcuate or swinging motion.
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234 | Plier type: | ||||||
This subclass is indented under subclass 233. Apparatus in which each of the pressure surfaces has a handle
and the pressure surfaces are caused to move relative to one another
by the pivotal motion of the handles.
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235 | With impaling support for material: | ||
This subclass is indented under subclass 234. Apparatus having a sharp penetrating spit like member for
piercing the material and holding it in position to be compressed.
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236 | Parallel spaced pairs: | ||
This subclass is indented under subclass 233. Apparatus in which the platens are divided along the pivot
axis into several pressing areas which crimp the material at spaced
points and move parallel to one another when actuated.
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237 | Plural movable platens on side-by-side paths: | ||||||||||||||
This subclass is indented under subclass 214. Apparatus in which a single mass of material is compressed
by plural movable pressure surfaces moving in parallel paths toward
a single opposing pressure surface.
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238 | Combined reciprocating and rotating piston or platen: | ||||
This subclass is indented under subclass 214. Apparatus in which one pressure surface approaches the other
with a straight line movement and also turns about an axis along
the line of such movement.
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239 | Piston advanced by box rotation: | ||
This subclass is indented under subclass 238. Apparatus having a chamber, a pressure surface advancing
within the chamber to exert compressing force within the chamber,
means to rotate the chamber and means interconnecting the chamber
and pressure surface so that the rotation of the chamber causes
the pressure surface to advance within the chamber.
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240 | Box and piston type: | ||||||||||||
This subclass is indented under subclass 214. Apparatus in which there are material retaining side walls
around one of the pressure surfaces so as to constitute a chamber
and the other pressure surface moves between the sidewalls as the
pressure surfaces are brought toward one another to apply compressive
force to the material.
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241 | Piston carried box frame scrapers: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 240. Apparatus in which the pressure surface which moves between the side walls of the material retaining chamber has mounted circumferentially upon it edged devices which move along said side wall as said pressure surface advances into the chamber. | |
242 | Adjustable size: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 240. Apparatus in which the area of the cross-section of the chamber at right angles to the direction of approach of the pressure surfaces may be varied. | |
243 | Plier type (i.e., plural handles): | ||||
This subclass is indented under subclass 240. Apparatus in which the chamber and the pressure surface
which enters the chamber are each equipped with a handle and these
handles are movable relative to one another to cause the said pressure
surface to move between the side walls of the chamber and rectilinearly
approach an opposing pressure surface.
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244 | Plural opposing pistons: | ||||||||||||||
This subclass is indented under subclass 240. Apparatus in which the opposing pressure surfaces both enter
the side walls of the chamber and both are actuated for movement
between the side walls of said chamber and in the direction of said
side walls.
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245 | Box guided piston: | ||||
This subclass is indented under subclass 240. Apparatus in which a pressure surface is so supported as
to be free to move laterally if unrestrained, but is restrained
in its direction of motion by the side walls of the chamber or by guiding
structure associated with the chamber.
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246 | Movable or removable box section: | ||||||||||
This subclass is indented under subclass 240. Apparatus in which any of the elements of the chamber, as
the side walls or portions thereof, or a pressure surface which
is stationary relative thereto during the application of compressive
force to the material are movable relative to one another for purposes
other than the application of compressive force to the material.
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247 | Separable box head and box frame: | ||
This subclass is indented under subclass 246. Apparatus in which the pressure surface which is stationary
relative to the chamber during the application of compressive force
to the material and the side walls of the chamber are relatively
movable for purposes other than the application of compressive force.
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248 | Insert of false head: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 247. Apparatus in which the chamber contains a movable or removable pressure surface supported by another surface which may act as a surface for compression is not supplemented by the removable pressure surface. | |
249 | With guided motion: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 247. Apparatus in which the pressure surface which is stationary during the application of compressive force and the side walls of the chamber are relatively movable and have associated therewith surfaces which direct such relative movement during the separation of said surface from the side walls of the chamber. | |
250 | Pivoted: | ||
This subclass is indented under subclass 249. Apparatus in which the surfaces which direct the relative
motion of the pressure surface and the side walls of the chamber
include means mounting them for relative swinging motion.
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251 | Axially slidable: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 249. Apparatus in which the surfaces which direct the relative motion of the pressure surface and the side walls of the chamber include means to direct relative movement in the direction of the compressive force. | |
252 | Separable box frame sections: | ||||||
This subclass is indented under subclass 246. Apparatus in which the side walls forming the chamber, or
portions thereof, may be separated from each other.
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253 | Piston operator actuated frame section: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 252. Apparatus in which the means which causes the pressure surfaces to reciprocate relative to one another also causes separation of the chamber side wall parts from each other. | |
254 | Counterbalanced: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 252. Apparatus in which there is a continuing biasing force restraining movement of the chamber side wall portions relative to one another. | |
255 | Hinged: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 252. Apparatus in which the chamber side wall portions are movable relative to each other in a swing or pivotal movement. | |
256 | Platen tripped stop or reverse: | ||||||||||
This subclass is indented under subclass 214. Apparatus in which a pressure surface, as it moves to a
predetermined position, triggers the control of the pressure surface
moving means to cause the said means to stop moving the surface
or to cause movement of the surface in the opposite direction.
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257 | Range of movement adjustment: | ||||||
This subclass is indented under subclass 214. Apparatus in which there is means other than a force multiplier
by which the locus through which the moving means actuates a pressure surface
may be relocated.
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258 | Platen level compensating: | ||
This subclass is indented under subclass 214. Apparatus having means to assure parallelism of the approaching
pressure surfaces, either as an adjustment which may be made while
the moving means is not operating, or as plural power paths such
that motion of one portion of a movable pressure surface necessarily involves
a uniform motion of another portion of said movable pressure surface.
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259 | With plunger return cushioning: | ||
This subclass is indented under subclass 214. Apparatus having means resiliently receiving impact from
a reciprocating pressure surface or its moving means during the
movement of return from the compressing stroke.
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260 | With actuation releasing for rebounding or biased return: | ||||||
This subclass is indented under subclass 214. Apparatus having means to move a pressure surface in a material
compressing direction, said means including a force transmitting member
which, after completion of the compressing stroke, continues to
move in the same direction as it did when moving the surface through
the compressing stroke, but has means to discontinue the transmission
of moving force to free the surface to return under the influence
of the compressed material or of the continuing pull of a biasing
spring or weight.
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261 | Over center releasing: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 260. Apparatus in which the force transmitting member acts upon a force receiving abutment which is connected to the pressure surface and the discontinuance of the transmission of the moving force is due to the movement of the force receiving abutment across the line of direction of pressure surface motion. | |
262 | Disengaging rack and pinion: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 260. Apparatus in which the discontinuance of the transmission of the pressure surface moving force is due to the movement out of contact of the teeth of a rack and pinion actuator. | |
263 | Interruption in rotated camming surface: | ||||
This subclass is indented under subclass 260. Apparatus in which the discontinuance of the transmission
of the pressure surface moving force is due to the movement of a
force transmitting abutment from contact with a passing eccentric
surface intercepted by and pushing on such abutment.
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264 | Opposed platens both actuated: | ||||||||||||||
This subclass is indented under subclass 214. Apparatus in which both of the opposed pressure surfaces
are caused to move relative to one another and to stationary elements
of the apparatus by applying moving force to each of the surfaces.
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265 | Spring or weight: | ||||||||
This subclass is indented under subclass 214. Apparatus in which the moving means includes a resilient
member or a weight.
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266 | Return bias: | ||||||
This subclass is indented under subclass 265. Apparatus in which the resilient element or weight exerts
a continuing force against an opposed moving means to return a pressure surface
from the compressive stroke.
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267 | Opposing flexible element actuator: | ||
This subclass is indented under subclass 266. Apparatus in which the resilient element or weight which
urges the pressing surface to return position is opposed by or acts
in opposition to a flexible element which actuates the pressure
surface on the compressive stroke.
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268 | Interposed in actuating mechanism: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 265. Apparatus in which the moving means is a power transmitting means including a spring and other substantially nonresilient elements, and the power acting upon a moving pressure surface to move it on the compression stroke is transmitted through the spring, the spring being in compression. | |
269.01 | Fluid pressure actuation: | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
This subclass is indented under subclass 214. Apparatus in which the means to move an opposed pressure
surface (i.e., platen) includes an expansible working chamber, and
means to admit fluid under pressure into the working chamber to
cause expansion of the working chamber.
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269.02 | Platen moved by elastically deformable pressure member: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 269.01. Apparatus wherein the fluid under pressure acts against a flexible member (e.g., fluid pressure actuated diaphragm) which in turn transfers force to the pressure surface. | |
269.03 | Plural pressure members: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 269.02. Apparatus including more than one flexible member. | |
269.04 | Inflatable bag: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 269.02. Apparatus wherein the flexible member comprises a closed envelope or pouch which expands in response to the pressure fluid. | |
269.05 | Pressure intensifier: | ||
This subclass is indented under subclass 269.01. Apparatus wherein means are provided for pressure multiplication
in a working chamber in order to amplify the total pressure supplied
to the platen (e.g., pressure multiplication sleeve, pressure accumulator).
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269.06 | Multiple or staged driving means: | ||
This subclass is indented under subclass 269.01. Apparatus including plural pressure actuated moving means
which operate either simultaneously or sequentially on the platen
to cause it to compress material.
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269.07 | Displacement additive: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 269.06. Apparatus wherein a driving means transmits movement to another driving means so that the total movement of the platen is dependent on the total movement of the plural driving means. | |
269.08 | Pressure additive: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 269.06. Apparatus wherein more than one driving means transmits force to the platen so that the total force acting on the platen represents the sum of the forces of the plural driving means. | |
269.09 | Axially aligned pistons: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 269.08. Apparatus wherein more than one of the pressure actuated driving means includes a piston, the pistons being aligned along a common direction of movement. | |
269.1 | Independently actuated: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 269.08. Apparatus including separately actuated means to supply pressurized fluid to more than one driving means. | |
269.11 | Pull-down press: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 269.08. Apparatus including a press-supporting surface, and wherein the pressure actuated driving means are positioned below the press-supporting surface and act through connecting tie members to force the platen (located above the supporting surface) down toward the supporting surface. | |
269.12 | Platen positioning means: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 269.01. Apparatus including means to orient a pressure surface as it is moved under the force of its driving means or into operative connection with its driving means. | |
269.13 | Pull-down press: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 269.01. Apparatus including a press-supporting surface, and wherein a pressure actuated driving means is positioned below the press-supporting surface and acts through connecting tie members to force the platen (located above the supporting surface) down toward the supporting surface. | |
269.14 | Fluid supply system detail: | ||
This subclass is indented under subclass 269.01. Apparatus wherein significance is attributed to a pressure
fluid supply system operatively connected to the working chamber.
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269.15 | Manually operable fluid system: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 269.14. Apparatus wherein the pressure fluid supply system is provided with means for an operator of the apparatus to manually control the fluid supply system. | |
269.16 | Particular valve feature: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 269.14. Apparatus wherein significance is attributed to a valve in the fluid supply system. | |
269.17 | Frame assembly detail: | ||
This subclass is indented under subclass 269.01. Apparatus wherein significance is attributed to structure
supporting the working chamber.
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269.18 | Rod, piston, or cylinder detail: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 269.01. Apparatus wherein significance is attributed to the structure of a piston-and-cylinder-type working chamber element (i.e., the piston, piston rod, or pressure cylinder). | |
269.19 | Cylinder position adjustment: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 269.18. Apparatus wherein means are provided to move the pressure cylinder location. | |
269.2 | Platen pivotally connected to piston or rod: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 269.18. Apparatus wherein the piston or piston rod has an articulate connection to a pressure surface. | |
269.21 | Gasket or packing around piston: | ||
This subclass is indented under subclass 269.18. Apparatus including a sealing means surrounding the piston
which is intended to act between the piston and pressure cylinder
wall.
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270 | Combined with mechanical actuation: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 269.01. Apparatus in which there is in addition to the expansible chamber operating means some means for mechanically causing the movable pressure surface to act in the compressing direction. | |
271 | Mechanical force mutiplier: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 270. Apparatus in which the means for mechanically causing movement of the pressure surface includes means for increasing the magnitude of the input force as it is transmitted to the pressing surface. | |
272 | Toggle: | ||
This subclass is indented under subclass 271. Apparatus in which the means for increasing the magnitude
of the input force includes structure in which the input force is
applied to a joint between links.
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273 | Speed or power variable by power path selection: | ||
This subclass is indented under subclass 214. Apparatus in which the moving means includes plural force
transmission lines and the rate of movement of one pressure surface
relative to another or the magnitude of the force applied to move
one surface relative to another may be changed by employing one
force transmission line rather than another.
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274 | Intermittent actuator: | ||||
This subclass is indented under subclass 214. Apparatus in which the moving means includes means reacting
against a fixed abutment to move a pressure surface relative thereto
by which the surface is caused to move in a single direction by
successive force inputs at spaced time intervals.
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275 | Plural: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 274. Apparatus in which there are a plurality of means reacting against fixed abutment means and through each of which a successive timed spaced input of force may be made. | |
276 | Acting at opposite ends of cross bar on movable platen: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 275. Apparatus in which the plurality of means acting to move the pressure surface are spaced by the length of an elongated member extending across the press and moving with the pressure surface and act upon the ends of such member to move it and the pressure surface. | |
277 | Cross connected alternately acting: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 275. Apparatus in which the several reacting means are joined to a common member so that the input of force through one necessarily occurs while there is no input through the other. | |
278 | Flexible element actuator: | ||||||
This subclass is indented under subclass 214. Apparatus in which the moving means includes means reacting
against a fixed abutment to move a pressure surface relative thereto,
which reacting means includes a rope, chain, or filament which is
longitudinally tensioned while moving the platen.
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279 | Varying radius windlass: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 278. Apparatus in which the reacting means is wound up on a cylinder or conical member which changes in radius for successive winds of the reacting means. | |
280 | With mechanical force multiplier: | ||
This subclass is indented under subclass 214. Devices in which the moving means includes some mechanical
device interposed between a fixed abutment and a movable pressure
surface for moving the surface and for increasing the pressure effect
or output applied to the surface as a result of the force put into
the moving means.
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281 | Transversely forced linkage joint (single toggles here): | ||
This subclass is indented under subclass 280. Apparatus in which the mechanical device includes connected
links interposed between the fixed abutment and the movable pressure surface,
movement of the connection between the links in a direction transverse
to the direction of movement of the pressure surface resulting in
an increase of the input force.
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282 | Shaft turned cam or crank and pitman: | ||||||
This subclass is indented under subclass 281. Apparatus in which the connection is between a pitman and/or
connecting rod and a cam or crank, which cam or crank is actuated
in revolution by a shaft to which the cam or crank is attached.
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283 | Lever in linkage: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 281. Apparatus in which the connection is between a lever and a link or pitman, with the leverage on the lever causing the connection to move transversely to the direction of movement of the pressure surface. | |
284 | Lever carried toothed sector: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 283. Apparatus in which the leverage is applied to the lever by a toothed gear sector or through a toothed gear sector which is carried by the lever. | |
285 | Plural: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 283. Apparatus in which there are several lever and link combinations which cooperate to move the same pressure surface. | |
286 | Plural toggle joints: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 281. Apparatus having plural sets of connected links the input force in each case being applied at the point of connection to cause the links to straighten or collapse whereby a compressive action is exerted on a pressure surface. | |
287 | Screw and nut between joints: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 286. Apparatus in which the several connections are simultaneously moved by screw and nut means positioned between and joining the connections. | |
288 | Rack and pinion: | ||
This subclass is indented under subclass 280. Apparatus in which the mechanical device includes a pinion
or toothed segment and a toothed bar, the teeth of which engage
those of the pinion or segment so that the movable pressure surface
may be made to move relative to the fixed abutment by the rotation
of the pinion or toothed segment.
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289 | Screw and nut: | ||||||||||
This subclass is indented under subclass 280. Apparatus in which the mechanical device includes an internally
screw threaded member and an externally screw threaded shaft with
the member extending around the shaft and the screw threads of the
shaft and member interengaging, the pressure surface being made
to move relative to the fixed abutment by the relative rotation
of the shaft and member.
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290 | Plural screws: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 289. Apparatus having plural pairs of internally screw threaded members and externally screw threaded shafts for moving the same movable pressure surface. | |
291 | Cam or tapering wedge: | ||||||
This subclass is indented under subclass 280. Apparatus in which the mechanical device includes either
a body having a continuous surface of gradually increasing radius
or a body of diverging opposed surfaces, movement of the movable
pressure surface being caused by movement of the body transversely
of the direction of compressing motion and between the pressure
surface and a fixed abutment.
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292 | Rotary or swinging: | ||
This subclass is indented under subclass 291. Apparatus in which a member of continuously varying radius
is moved between the pressure surface and a fixed abutment by swinging
or rotating it relative to the abutment.
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293 | Fixed fulcrum lever: | ||||
This subclass is indented under subclass 280. Apparatus in which the mechanical device includes a lever
mounted so the point about which it moves does not change position
relative to the fixed abutment.
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294 | Plural oppositely moving struts: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 280. Apparatus in which the mechanical device includes more than one lever or insertable strut connected to move concurrently in opposite directions to move the same movable pressure surface. | |
295 | PLATENS OR PRESSURE SURFACES: | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
This subclass is indented under the class definition. Apparatus having a pressure surface.
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296 | Flexibly connected opposed: | ||||||||
This subclass is indented under subclass 295. Apparatus in which there are plural pressure surfaces for
acting on opposite sides of material and such surfaces are joined
together by a flexible means.
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297 | Porous mats: | ||||
This subclass is indented under subclass 295. Apparatus in which the pressure surface is an auxiliary
member which is insertable between the material compacted and a
solid pressing surface, the auxiliary member being permeable by
liquids.
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298 | CLOTHS FROM CAKE STRIPPERS: | ||||||
This subclass is indented under the class definition. Apparatus for removing a covering of woven fabric from material
which has been compressed within the covering.
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299 | MISCELLANEOUS: | ||||||
This subclass is indented under the class definition. Apparatus and not provided for in the preceding subclasses.
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300 | Press for a brake lining: | ||||||||||
This subclass is indented under subclass 92. Apparatus specifically designed to apply a compressive force
for the purpose of placing a portion of a member intended to frictionally engage
a relatively moving member to reduce or terminate such relative
movement (i.e., a brake pad) onto the structure intended to support
that member (i.e., onto a brake shoe or brake assembly).
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301 | Electric heater: | ||||
This subclass is indented under subclass 300. Apparatus including means to increase the temperature of
the brake pad, brake shoe, brake assembly, or press and wherein
the means to increase the temperature is provided through the conversion
of electrical energy to thermal energy.
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302 | Plural diverse presses: | ||
This subclass is indented under subclass 92. Apparatus having at least two means for subjecting the material
to compressive force which means are independent of each other,
and at least one of which includes a pressing surface which differs
in kind from those of at least one other.
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303 | In press material handling train: | ||||
This subclass is indented under subclass 92. Apparatus including means to convey the material to the
means for subjecting the material to compressive force, or means
to remove the material from the means for subjecting the material
to compressive force, wherein the heating, cooling, or drying means
is so arranged as to act on the material during its movement to
or from the means for subjecting the material to compressive force.
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304 | In feed train: | ||||
This subclass is indented under subclass 303. Apparatus including means to convey the material to the
means for subjecting the material to compressive force, and wherein
the heating, cooling, or drying means is arranged to act on the
material during its movement to the means for subjecting the material
to compressive force.
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305 | In press: | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
This subclass is indented under subclass 92. Apparatus wherein the means for changing the temperature
or reducing the moisture content is so arranged that the treatment
occurs in the means for subjecting the material to compressive force
or during the compacting operation.
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306 | Endless conveyor-type press: | ||||||
This subclass is indented under subclass 305. Apparatus wherein the means to subject the material to a
compressive force includes a pliable movable web or belt supported
at its extremities by rollerlike members, against which the material
is pressed during the movement of the material by the web or belt
from one position to another.
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307 | Plural endless conveyor presses: | ||
This subclass is indented under subclass 306. Apparatus wherein the means for subjecting the material
to compressive force includes at least two traveling webs arranged
in series or in parallel and acting on the material independently
of each other.
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308 | Means to control temperature: | ||
This subclass is indented under subclass 306. Apparatus including means to modify the temperature at which
the material is treated.
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309 | Multiple temperature treating zones: | ||
This subclass is indented under subclass 306. Apparatus wherein more than one distinct temperature conditioning
area is provided.
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310 | Having cooling: | ||
This subclass is indented under subclass 309. Apparatus wherein at least one of the distinct temperature
conditioning areas is designed to reduce the temperature of the
material being treated.
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311 | Platen in thermal contact with endless conveyor: | ||
This subclass is indented under subclass 306. Apparatus further including a temperature conditioned planar
surface provided adjacent to the continuous web or belt to transfer
heat either to or from the web or belt.
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312 | Having cooling: | ||
This subclass is indented under subclass 311. Apparatus wherein the device includes means to reduce the
thermal level of the web.
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313 | Drum in thermal contact with endless conveyor: | ||
This subclass is indented under subclass 306. Apparatus including a temperature conditioned roller provided
adjacent to the continuous web or belt to transfer heat from or
to the web or belt.
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314 | Having cooling: | ||
This subclass is indented under subclass 313. Apparatus wherein the device includes means to transfer
heat from the web or belt.
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315 | Reciprocating platen-type press: | ||||||||||||||||||
This subclass is indented under subclass 305. Apparatus wherein the means for subjecting the material
to compressive force includes a material contacting rigid planar
surface and means to move the rigid planar surface towards and away
from the material.
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316 | Piston and box type: | ||||
This subclass is indented under subclass 315. Apparatus including a material enclosing housing, wherein
the rigid planar surface is movable within the confines of a housing
to compress the material.
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317 | Heating or cooling element in box wall: | ||||||
This subclass is indented under subclass 316. Apparatus wherein the treating means includes means to heat
or cool the material, wherein the means to heat or cool the material
is located within the confines of the housing wall.
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318 | Electric heater: | ||||
This subclass is indented under subclass 317. Apparatus wherein the treating means includes means to raise
the temperature of the material, wherein the means for increasing
the temperature is provided through the conversion of electrical
energy to thermal energy.
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319 | Means to control temperature: | ||
This subclass is indented under subclass 315. Apparatus including means to modify the temperature at which
the material is treated.
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320 | Electric heater: | ||||||
This subclass is indented under subclass 315. Apparatus wherein the means for changing the temperature
of the material includes means to increase the temperature and wherein
the means for increasing the temperature is provided through the
conversion of electrical energy to thermal energy.
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321 | Platen having particular thermally conductive feature: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 315. Apparatus wherein the planar surface has at least one layer which is particular designed to enhance heat transfer between the material being pressed and the means for subjecting the material to compressive force surface. | |
322 | Temperature modulating insert: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 315. Apparatus wherein heat transfer occurs between a member that is not a pressure surface, but that is within the means for subjecting the material to compressive force apparatus, and the material being pressed (e.g., a separate heated platen from the pressure platen which provides heat transfer between the separate heated platen and either of the means for subjecting the material to compressive force platen or the material being pressed). | |
323 | Press apparatus thermally insulated from heating/cooling means: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 315. Apparatus wherein the means for subjecting the material to compressive force is specifically provided with means (e.g., radiating fins, insulated layer or platen, etc.) which minimizes the effect of the temperature change on the press apparatus. | |
324 | Plural reciprocating platens: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 315. Apparatus wherein more than one planar pressure surface is movable. | |
325 | Heating or cooling element in platen: | ||||
This subclass is indented under subclass 324. Apparatus wherein the means for changing the temperature
is provided within a platen, such that the platen is temperature
conditioned internally.
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326 | Heating or cooling element in platen: | ||||
This subclass is indented under subclass 315. Apparatus wherein the means for changing the temperature
is provided within a platen, such that the platen is temperature
conditioned internally.
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327 | Roll-type press: | ||||||||||||||||||||
This subclass is indented under subclass 305. Apparatus wherein the means for subjecting the material
to compressive force is a rotatable cylinder.
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328 | Electric heater: | ||
This subclass is indented under subclass 327. Apparatus wherein the means for changing the temperature
includes means to raise the temperature of the material and wherein
the means for increasing the temperature is provided through the
conversion of electrical energy to thermal energy.
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329 | Means to independently heat or cool different sections of roll: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 327. Apparatus wherein the means for changing the temperature is provided at multiple locations, such that one section of a pressure roll may be conditioned to a different temperature than another section of the same roll. | |
330 | Roll surface has particular thermally conductive feature: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 327. Apparatus wherein the cylinder surface has a layer or other feature particularly designed to enhance heat transfer between the material being pressed and the means for subjecting the material to compressive force surface. | |
331 | Plural stage or pass: | ||
This subclass is indented under subclass 327. Apparatus wherein more than one cylindrical pressure surface
is temperature conditioned.
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332 | Roll temperature conditioning means is external of roll, but in direct temperature conditioning contact with roll: | ||
This subclass is indented under subclass 327. Apparatus wherein the means for changing the temperature
is placed immediately adjacent to the cylindrical pressure surface.
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333 | Gas (e.g., steam): |
This subclass is indented under subclass 332. Apparatus wherein heat transfer fluid is conveyed to the material in a vapor state. | |
334 | Roll heated or cooled internally: | ||||
This subclass is indented under subclass 327. Apparatus wherein the means for changing the temperature
is provided within a pressure roll.
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335 | Temperature conditioning fluid flow passage in roll surface: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 334. Apparatus wherein the means for changing the temperature includes a heated or cooled gas or liquid which is passed through a conduit in the outer wall of the means for subjecting the material to compressive force roll in order to provide heat transfer between the roll and the material being pressed. | |
336 | Roll core has a temperature conditioning fluid flow passage: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 334. Apparatus wherein the means for changing the temperature includes a heated or cooled gas or liquid which is passed through a conduit within the hollow center of the means for subjecting the material to compressive force roll in order to provide heat transfer between the roll and the material being pressed. | |
337 | Helix-type press: | ||||||||||||
This subclass is indented under subclass 305. Apparatus wherein the means for subjecting the material
to compressive force surface is a rotating member having a fin or
fins extending spirally about and along the axis of rotation and the
material is compressed by being forced by the forwarding movement
through a constricted passage of cross section smaller than that
of the uncompressed material.
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338 | Plural helices: | ||
This subclass is indented under subclass 337. Apparatus including at least two helical-type presses.
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339 | Temperature conditioning means in chamber wall or jacket: | ||
This subclass is indented under subclass 337. Apparatus including an outer housing, wherein the means
for changing the temperature is provided within the outer housing.
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340 | Temperature conditioning means within helix: | ||
This subclass is indented under subclass 337. Apparatus including a hollow center, wherein the means for
changing the temperature is provided within the hollow center.
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341 | SAFETY DEVICE: | ||||||||||||||||||
This subclass is indented under the class definition. Apparatus including means to obstruct, limit or prevent
either access to or the operation of part of the press when such
activity would (A) endanger a person or (B) damage some part of
the press.
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342 | Means to disable or to forestall power to the press: | ||||
This subclass is indented under 341. Apparatus wherein the means to obstruct, limit or prevent
operation of part of the press includes either (A) means to halt
the press at the indication of a hazardous condition or (B) means
to prevent the initial operation of the press at the indication
of a hazardous condition.
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343 | Multiple triggers to start: | ||||||||
This subclass is indented under 342. Apparatus wherein the means to prevent initial operation
of the press includes at least two independent condition input devices.
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344 | Requires the use of both hands: |
This subclass is indented under 343. Apparatus wherein the two condition input devices are located outside of the compressive force region of the press and are spaced apart to such a degree as to require an operator to use both hands to actuate them. | |
345 | Associated with door or cover: | ||
This subclass is indented under 342. Apparatus including a door or cover shielding the compressive
force region of the press and wherein the means to obstruct, limit
or prevent operation of part of the press includes a sensor associated
with a door or cover of the press.
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346 | Overload protection: | ||||||||||||||
This subclass is indented under 342. Apparatus including means to detect an excessive force
on the press and discontinue the pressing operation when the excessive
force is detected.
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347 | Hydraulic or pneumatic safety system: | ||||||
This subclass is indented under 342. Apparatus including a fluid or gaseous pressure system and
wherein the fluid of gaseous pressure system includes means to divert
the fluid or gas to deactivate the press when a hazardous condition
is detected.
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348 | Optical condition sensor: | ||
This subclass is indented under 342. Apparatus wherein the means to obstruct, limit or prevent
operation of the of part of the press includes a light transmitter
and light receiver.
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349 | Barrier type (e.g. guard, shield, screen, hood, etc.): | ||||||||
This subclass is indented under 341. Apparatus wherein the means to obstruct, limit or prevent
either access to or the operation of part of the press includes
an attachment or covering placed on the press for the purpose of
preventing injury to the operator or machine by providing a physical
obstacle which bars movement of the press or movement of the operator
towards the compressive region of the press.
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350 | Blocking mechanism between press surfaces: | ||||
This subclass is indented under 349. Apparatus wherein the attachment or covering which obstructs,
limits or prevents either access to or operation of the press is
an obstruction located in the path of the pressing surface which
is designed to impede, bar or stop the movement of the press.
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351 | Convoluted or elongated feed chute: |
This subclass is indented under 349. Apparatus wherein the attachment or covering which obstructs, limits or prevents either access to or the operation of the press includes a passageway or channel through which the material must pass and wherein the passageway or channel has a serpentine shape or has an extended length which prevents the hand or arm of the operator from reaching the compressive force region of the press. | |
352 | Debris shield attached to moving press member: | ||
This subclass is indented under 349. Apparatus wherein the attachment or covering which obstructs,
limits or prevents either access to or the operation of the press
includes a guard attached to the moving press member to prevent
the escape of debris from the compressive force region of the press.
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353 | INTERRELATED: | ||||||||||||||||
This subclass is indented under the class definition. Apparatus in which two or more portions of the apparatus
having distinct functions each have the regulating elements therefor
so arranged as to require one element to assume a desired position
simultaneously or in proper sequence with the positioning of another
portion, whereby the operation of one portion is directly dependent
upon the correct positioning of the regulating element of another
portion.
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CROSS-REFERENCE ART COLLECTIONS
The following subclasses comprise collections of cross-reference copies of patents pertaining to various specified aspects of the pressing art, the original copies of which are classified in the subclasses above or elsewhere. Nonpatent disclosures may also be found in these subclasses. Disclosures are placed in these subclasses for their value as references and as leads to appropriate main or secondary fields of search without regard to their original classification or their claimed subject matter. The disclosures found in the following subclasses are examples, only, of the indicated subject matter, and in no instance do they represent the entire extent of the prior art.
901 | SCRAP AUTO BODY CRUSHERS: |
Subject matter pertaining to the compressing of scrap automobile bodies to form bales. | |
902 | CAN CRUSHERS: |
Subject matter pertaining to the crushing of empty cans between rollers or reciprocating platens. | |
903 | PELLETERS: |
Subject matter pertaining to the compressing of material into pellet form. | |
904 | Screw: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 903. Subject matter using a screw device to make pellets. | |
905 | Inner roll: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 903. Subject matter using an inner roll within a perforated drum to form pellets. | |
906 | Reciprocating: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 903. Subject matter using a reciprocating ram to form pellets. | |
907 | Rotary: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 903. Subject matter using two rotary bodies to form pellets. | |
908 | Series rolls: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 903. Subject matter using a series of rolls to form pellets. | |
909 | Adjustable die openings: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 903. Subject matter using apparatus having adjustable die openings to form pellets. | |
910 | MEAT: |
Subject matter pertaining to the compressing of meat. | |
911 | JET OR EXPLOSIVE: |
Subject matter pertaining to the use of an explosive or jet device as a power source for reciprocating type presses. | |
912 | BINDER CONTAINERS: |
Subject matter comprising twine binder containers used with hay balers. | |
913 | TRUSS PRESSES: |
Subject matter comprising pressing devices for forming wooden roof trusses. | |
914 | SCRAP PAPER: |
Subject matter pertaining to the compressing of scrap paper to form bales. | |
915 | FIXED UPPER RAM, LOWER MOVABLE RECEPTACLE: |
Subject matter comprising reciprocating presses which have a fixed upper ram and a lower movable receptacle. | |
916 | COIL TIGHTENER AND BINDER: |
Subject matter comprising apparatus for tightening coils of metal and then strapping the coils. | |
917 | MAGNETIC: |
Subject matter pertaining to the use of magnetic devices as a pressure source in roller or reciprocating platen presses. | |
918 | BOLSTER AND DIE: |
Subject matter comprising presses which include bolster and dies and means to removably attach the latter to the former. | |
The foreign patents/nonpatent literature from Class 100, subclass 93, has been transferred directly to the foreign art collection below (subclass FOR 100) which is intended only as a repository for foreign patents/nonpatent literature. The Class 100 reference in parentheses following the subclass title below provides the source of the respective foreign patents/nonpatent literature. The definition below corresponds to the respective Class 100 definition. | |
FOR 100 | In press: (100/93) |
Foreign art collection including apparatus in which the means for changing the temperature or reducing the moisture content is so arranged that the treatment occurs in the press or during the compacting operation. | |