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B41L APPARATUS OR DEVICES FOR MANIFOLDING, DUPLICATING, OR PRINTING FOR OFFICE OR OTHER COMMERCIAL PURPOSES; ADDRESSING MACHINES OR LIKE SERIES-PRINTING MACHINES (printing presses or machines for industrial purposes B41F; stamps, stamping or numbering devices B41K)

  NOTE - This subclass does not cover constituent parts common to manifolding by means of pressure-sensitive layers or intermediaries, to apparatus or machines for duplicating or printing for office or other commercial purposes, or to addressing machines or like series-printing machines, which are covered by subclass B41F.

  In this subclass, as indicated by the references, groups B41L 15/00 and B41L 17/00 are intended to cover letterpress and lithographic printing apparatus only in so far as it is specially adapted for office or other commercial purposes; the general constructions or features of apparatus of these types are classified in subclass B41F.

  Constructions or features determining classification in these groups are, for example:
ease of operation by clerical staff, cleanliness of
operation
in non-industrial environments, the use of printing
surfaces
constructed for the production of a limited number of
copies.

  In this subclass, the following terms are used with the meanings indicated:
  - "manifolding" means the obtaining of several copies simultaneously by means of pressure-sensitive layers when making an original;
  - "duplicating" means the obtaining of successive copies from a master, e.g. a hectographic image;
  - "stencilling" involves the use of a printing surface which is perforated to form the image, the ink flowing through the perforations on the copy material.

  Manifolding by means of pressure-sensitive layers or intermediaries

B41L 1/00 Devices for performing operations in connection with manifolding by means of pressure-sensitive layers or intermediaries, e.g. carbons; Accessories for manifolding purposes

B41L 1/02 ・Devices for preparatory operations, e.g. for bringing together sheets or webs and interposed carbons; Devices combined with devices for printing, for coating with carbon, for folding

B41L 1/04 ・Devices for performing operations subsequent to manifolding, e.g. for separating single sheets or webs from single form sets, continuous manifold assemblies from carbons

B41L 1/06 ・・on single form sets

B41L 1/08 ・・on continuous manifold assemblies

B41L 1/10 ・・・Separate folding or disposition of single webs

B41L 1/12 ・・・Severing webs to obtain single sheets or forms, e.g. by cutting, by bursting

B41L 1/14 ・・・Severing edge perforations from webs

B41L 1/16 ・Carriers or supply devices for pressure-sensitive material, e.g. for carbon sheets; Carbon gloves

B41L 1/18 ・・for carbon webs; Continuous carbon supply mechanisms

B41L 1/20 ・Manifolding assemblies, e.g. book-like assemblies [(N: Multi-copy labels G09F 3/0288)]

B41L 1/22 ・・made up of single sheets or forms

B41L 1/24 ・・・Pads or books

B41L 1/26 ・・Continuous assemblies made up of webs

B41L 1/28 ・・・in rolled or wound form

B41L 1/30 ・・・folded longitudinally

B41L 1/32 ・・・folded transversely

B41L 1/321 ・・・・{Stacks of sheets attached to a carrier strip or web}

B41L 1/323 ・・・・{Uniting several webs, e.g. transversely}

B41L 1/325 ・・・・・{longitudinally}

B41L 1/326 ・・・・{Severance lines; Perforations}

B41L 1/328 ・・・・{Removing carbon sheets}

B41L 1/34 ・・for making masters for hectographic duplicators

B41L 1/36 ・・with pressure-sensitive layers or coating other than carbon (sheet materials B41M 5/00)

B41L 3/00 Platens or like sheet supports for manifolding using pressure-sensitive layers or intermediaries, e.g. for book-keeping purposes

B41L 3/02 ・with stationary clamping means for holding the manifolding assembly in registered position, e.g. resilient clamps for holding non-perforated sheets {clamps for platens B41F 1/36}

B41L 3/04 ・・Bars provided with pins engaging perforations in the elements

B41L 3/06 ・with movable clamping or guiding means for the elements of the manifolding assembly

B41L 3/08 ・with non-mechanical means for holding the elements in registered position, e.g. magnetic means

B41L 3/10 ・with means for moving assembled elements step by step relative to platen or support, e.g. for column or line selection; Means for locating assembled elements when stationary

B41L 3/12 ・Auxiliary devices

B41L 3/14 ・・Magazines or storage compartments, e.g. for slips

B41L 3/16 ・・Web-feeding arrangements

B41L 3/18 ・・Displaceable covers, e.g. with windows

B41L 3/20 ・・for facilitating manifolding in books

B41L 3/22 ・・Applications of ink ribbons; Holding, feeding, or guiding means therefor

B41L 5/00 Autographic registers or like manifolding apparatus using movable strips or webs (movable strip writing or reading apparatus B42D 19/00)

B41L 5/02 ・with means for limiting movements of webs fed by hand

B41L 5/04 ・with mechanisms for feeding webs or for arranging web feed; with web storage arrangements {(in genral B65H)}

B41L 5/06 ・・by means of rollers, wheels, or chains, {e.g. with pins} transversely

B41L 5/08 ・・by reciprocating mechanisms

B41L 5/10 ・with mechanisms for feeding the pressure-sensitive web or webs separately from the other webs, e.g. transversely

B41L 5/12 ・with means for indicating exhaustion of web supply

B41L 5/14 ・with auxiliary means for printing, perforating, or severing the web

B41L 5/16 ・Accessories, e.g. drawers for storing forms, for money (cash registers G07G)

  Apparatus or machines for duplicating or printing for office or other commercial purposes

B41L 7/00 Apparatus for directly duplicating from hectographic originals, i.e. for obtaining copies in mirror image

B41L 7/02 ・by passing original and copy-sheet or -web between rollers

B41L 7/04 ・・with means for guiding original or copy-sheet or -web

B41L 7/06 ・・with means for severing copy-sheet or -web

B41L 7/08 ・・with means for moistening or drying

B41L 9/00 Apparatus for indirectly duplicating from hectographic originals by means of hectographic intermediaries or transfer surfaces, i.e. "dry duplicators"

B41L 9/02 ・Containers for clay or gelatin

B41L 9/04 ・with flat supports over which gelatin-paper is stretched

B41L 9/06 ・・and with carriages for feeding the sheets

B41L 9/08 ・・and with devices for rolling-in and securing hectographic gelatin-paper webs

B41L 9/10 ・with rotary cylinders carrying sheets of hectographic gelatin-paper

B41L 11/00 Apparatus for directly duplicating from hectographic masters in mirror image, i.e.

  "wet duplicators" for producing positive copies

B41L 11/02 ・with a flat support carrying the masters

B41L 11/04 ・・and with carriages for feeding the sheets

B41L 11/06 ・・for stack duplicating with pressure rollers

B41L 11/08 ・with rotary cylinders carrying the masters

B41L 11/10 ・with two rollers between which master is stretched

B41L 11/12 ・Driving gear; Control thereof

B41L 11/14 ・Constructional features of masters (chemical aspects B41M)

B41L 13/00 Stencilling apparatus for office or other commercial use (screen printing B41F 15/00; stencils, stencil materials, carriers therefor B41N 1/24)

B41L 13/02 ・with flat stencil carriers

B41L 13/04 ・with curved or rotary stencil carriers

B41L 13/06 ・・with a single cylinder carrying the stencil

B41L 13/08 ・・with stencil carried by two or more cylinders, e.g. through the intermediary of endless bands

B41L 13/10 ・・・Clips or clamps for securing stencils to stencil carriers

B41L 13/12 ・for special purposes, e.g. for reproducing Braille characters {(typewriters for Braille B41J 3/32)}

B41L 13/14 ・Attachments, e.g. for punching, cutting, severing

B41L 13/16 ・Driving gear; Control thereof

B41L 13/18 ・Inking units

B41L 15/00 Letterpress printing apparatus specially adapted for office or other commercial purposes (in general B41F; printing plates or foils, materials theref or B41N 1/00)

B41L 15/02 ・with flat printing surfaces, e.g. with flat type-beds, surfaces made of thin sheet material or moulded from plastics or rubber

B41L 15/04 ・・of composed type locked in chases

B41L 15/06 ・with curved printing surfaces, e.g. cylinders

B41L 15/08 ・・with stereotypes

B41L 15/10 ・for multicolour printing; for perfecting

B41L 15/12 ・Driving gear; Control thereof

B41L 15/14 ・Attachments, e.g. for punching, cutting, severing

B41L 17/00 Lithographic printing apparatus for office or other commercial purposes (in general B41F; printing plates or foils, materials therefor B41N 1/00)

B41L 17/02 ・for direct impression printing

B41L 17/04 ・・with flat printing surfaces

B41L 17/06 ・・with curved printing surfaces, e.g. cylinders

B41L 17/08 ・for offset printing

B41L 17/10 ・・with flat printing surfaces, e.g. co-operating with travelling offset cylinders

B41L 17/12 ・・with curved printing surfaces, e.g. forme cylinders

B41L 17/14 ・of two-cylinder type, e.g. co-operating forme and impression cylinders

B41L 17/16 ・of three-cylinder type

B41L 17/18 ・for multicolour printing, e.g. tandem machines; for perfecting

B41L 17/20 ・without damping means, e.g. using heat-activatable inks, refrigerated printing surfaces

B41L 17/22 ・Driving gear; Control thereof

B41L 17/24 ・Attachments, e.g. for punching, cutting, severing

B41L 19/00 Duplicating or printing apparatus or machines for office or other commercial purposes, of special types or for particular purposes and not otherwise provided for (addressographs B41L 45/00)

B41L 19/003 ・{using heat, e.g. wax transfer}

B41L 19/006 ・{Auxiliary numbering devices}

B41L 19/02 ・having forme cylinders carrying a plurality of printing surface, or for performing letterpress and lithographic processes selectively or in combination (in general B41F 11/00)

B41L 19/04 ・for printing from selected parts of one or more printing surface in one cycle, e.g. line printing (by inking selected areas B41L 27/20)

B41L 19/06 ・・with co-operating forme and impression cylinders

B41L 19/08 ・・・by effecting relative movement of forme and impression cylinders during printing cycle

B41L 19/10 ・・・by projecting and retracting parts of the surfaces of the forme cylinders

B41L 19/12 ・・・by masking parts of the printing surfaces on the forme cylinders

B41L 19/14 ・・・by selective damping of the copy material

B41L 19/16 ・・・by selective tripping of impression cylinders

  Common details of, or accessories for, apparatus or machines for manifolding, duplicating, or printing for office or other commercial purposes

B41L 21/00 Devices for conveying sheets or webs of copy material through the apparatus or machines for manifolding, duplicating, or printing (mechanisms for conveying copy material through addressographs or like series-printing machines B41L 47/24; {feeding sheets or webs to or from printing apparatus or machines B65H; in printing presses in general B41F 21/00})

B41L 21/02 ・for conveying sheets

B41L 21/04 ・・Pins

B41L 21/06 ・・Grippers

B41L 21/08 ・・・Suction-operated grippers

B41L 21/10 ・・Combinations of endless conveyors and grippers

B41L 21/12 ・for conveying webs

B41L 23/00 Devices for treating the surfaces of sheets, webs, or other articles in connection with printing (as a final step in the manufacture of such articles, see the relevant places, e.g. B29C 71/00, D21H 23/00 or D21H 25/00; after-treatment of prints B41M 7/00)

B41L 23/02 ・by damping, e.g. by moistening copy sheets in connection with hectographic printing

B41L 23/04 ・・using friction rollers

B41L 23/06 ・・using brushes

B41L 23/08 ・・using spray elements

B41L 23/10 ・・using endless bands

B41L 23/12 ・・using absorbent pads

B41L 23/14 ・・Ducts, containers, or like supply devices for liquids

B41L 23/16 ・・Devices for tripping or lifting damping rollers; Supporting, adjusting, or removing arrangements therefor

B41L 23/18 ・・Construction of damping rollers

B41L 23/20 ・by heat drying, by cooling, by applying powders

B41L 23/22 ・・Powdering devices, e.g. for preventing set-off

B41L 23/24 ・Print-finishing devices, e.g. for glossing prints

B41L 25/00 Devices for damping printing surfaces, e.g. moistening printing surfaces in connection with lithograpic printing (applying liquids or other fluent materials to surfaces in general B05)

B41L 25/005 ・{Pre-damping etching devices}

B41L 25/02 ・using friction rollers

B41L 25/04 ・using brushes

B41L 25/06 ・using spraying elements

B41L 25/08 ・using endless bands

B41L 25/10 ・using absorbent pads

B41L 25/12 ・Ducts, containers, or like supply devices for liquids

B41L 25/14 ・Inking rollers serving also to apply ink repellent {in rotary lithographic machines B41F 7/36}

B41L 25/16 ・Devices for tripping or lifting damping rollers; Supporting, adjusting, or removing arrangements therefor {in rotary lithographic machines B41F 7/40}

B41L 25/18 ・Construction of damping rollers

B41L 27/00 Inking arrangements or devices (inking units for stencilling apparatus B41L 13/18; applying liquids or other fluent materials to surfaces, in general B05)

B41L 27/02 ・adapted for inking by hand

B41L 27/04 ・Ducts, containers, or supply devices or ink-level control devices (level control in general G05D 9/00)

B41L 27/06 ・・Duct blades or like supply devices

B41L 27/08 ・・Troughs or like reservoirs with immersed, or partly immersed rollers

B41L 27/10 ・・with ink-ejecting means, e.g. pumps

B41L 27/12 ・・Feed or duct rollers (messenger or moving transfer rollers B41L 27/16)

B41L 27/14 ・・・adjustable for regulating supply

B41L 27/16 ・・Messenger or other moving transfer rollers

B41L 27/18 ・Continuous, e.g. endless-band apparatus

B41L 27/20 ・for inking selected parts of printing formes

B41L 27/22 ・Ink removing or collecting devices

B41L 27/24 ・for inking from interior of cylinder

B41L 27/26 ・Absorbent pads

B41L 27/28 ・Construction of inking rollers

B41L 27/30 ・Spray apparatus

B41L 27/32 ・Arrangements for tripping, lifting, adjusting, or removing inking rollers; Supports, bearings or forks therefor

B41L 27/34 ・・Lifting or adjusting devices

B41L 27/36 ・・・Cam, eccentric, wedge, or the like devices

B41L 27/38 ・・・fluid-pressure operated

B41L 27/40 ・・・magnetically operated

B41L 29/00 Devices for attaching printing elements or formes to supports {in printing presses in general B41F 27/00}

B41L 29/02 ・magnetic

B41L 29/04 ・for attaching printing elements to flat type-beds

B41L 29/06 ・for attaching elements to forme cylinders

B41L 29/08 ・for attaching print formes to flat type-beds

B41L 29/10 ・for attaching non-deformable curved printing formes to forme cylinders

B41L 29/12 ・for attaching flexible printing formes

B41L 29/14 ・・Clamping devices

B41L 29/16 ・・・operating automatically during operation of rotary machines to attach the printing formes to the forme cylinders

B41L 29/18 ・・・・electromagnetic, pneumatic, or hydraulic

B41L 29/20 ・・・for adjusting position of leading edges of flexible printing formes circumferentially of forme cylinders

B41L 29/22 ・for attaching printing formes to intermediate supports, e.g. adapter members

B41L 31/00 Devices for removing flexible printing formes from forme cylinders

B41L 33/00 Pressing flexible printing formes or sheets or webs of copy material against cylinders, e.g. for smoothing purposes {in printing presses in general B41F 25/00}

B41L 35/00 Cylinders for apparatus or machines for manifolding, duplicating, or printing for office or other commercial purposes {in printing presses in general B41F 13/08}

B41L 35/02 ・Forme cylinders

B41L 35/04 ・・Registering devices

B41L 35/06 ・・・with means for displacing the cylinders

B41L 35/08 ・・・with means for displacing the printing formes on the cylinders

B41L 35/10 ・Impression cylinders

B41L 35/12 ・Bearings or supports for forme, offset, or transfer or impression cylinders

B41L 35/14 ・Means for heating or cooling forme or impression cylinders

B41L 35/16 ・Cylinder-tripping devices; Cylinder impression adjustments

B41L 35/18 ・・Arrangements or dispositions of cylinder bearings, forks, or supports

B41L 35/20 ・・・Eccentric bearings

B41L 35/22 ・・・Sliding bearings

B41L 35/24 ・・・Swinging bearings

B41L 35/26 ・・Cylinder lifting or adjusting devices

B41L 35/28 ・・・Cams, eccentrics, wedges, or the like

B41L 35/30 ・・・electrically or magnetically operated

B41L 35/32 ・・・fluid-pressure operated

B41L 35/34 ・Guards or covers, e.g. for safety purposes, for preventing egress or ingress of foreign matter

B41L 38/00 Devices for attaching coverings or make-ready devices; Guiding devices for coverings (make-ready devices B41N 6/00; blankets or like coverings B41N 10/00)

B41L 38/02 ・attaching to impression cylinders

B41L 38/04 ・attaching of endless or like continuously-fed coverings

B41L 39/00 Indicating, counting, warning, control, or safety devices (ink-level control devices B41L 27/04; such devices in general, see relevant subclasses, e.g. counting in general G06M)

B41L 39/02 ・Indicating devices, e.g. counters

B41L 39/04 ・Tripping devices or stop motions

B41L 39/06 ・・for starting or stopping operation of sheet or web feed

B41L 39/08 ・・for starting or stopping operation of cylinders {B41L 19/16 takes precedence}

B41L 39/10 ・・for starting or stopping operation of damping or inking units

B41L 39/12 ・・for starting or stopping the machine as a whole

B41L 39/14 ・・Automatic control of tripping devices by feelers, photoelectric devices, pneumatic devices, or other detectors

B41L 39/16 ・Programming systems for automatic control of sequence of operations

B41L 41/00 Cleaning arrangements or devices {for printing presses in general B41F 35/00}

B41L 41/02 ・for forme cylinders

B41L 41/04 ・for inking rollers

B41L 41/06 ・for offset cylinders

B41L 43/00 Auxiliary folding, collecting, or depositing of sheets or webs (in general B65H)

B41L 43/02 ・Folding

B41L 43/04 ・・lengthwise

B41L 43/06 ・・crosswise

B41L 43/08 ・・Folding-cylinders or drums

B41L 43/10 ・Collecting

B41L 43/12 ・・and stapling

B41L 43/14 ・Adding inserts

B41L 43/16 ・Depositing

  Addressing machines or like series-printing machines

B41L 45/00 Kinds or types of addressing machines or of like series-printing machines

B41L 45/02 ・using printing plates

B41L 45/04 ・・composed on type-setting machines

B41L 45/06 ・・for addressing combined with other operations, e.g. franking, collating documents

B41L 45/08 ・with printing surfaces in the form of belts, or carried by chains

B41L 45/10 ・・for addressing combined with other operations, e.g. franking, collating documents

B41L 45/12 ・with separate devices for printing additional text or images, e.g. for printing receipts on blank sheets or webs

B41L 47/00 Details of addressographs or like series-printing machines (common details of printing machines B41F 21/00 to B41F 35/00)

B41L 47/02 ・Applications of printing surfaces in addressing machines or like series-printing machines (printing surfaces in general B41N)

B41L 47/04 ・・of flat or curved plates for relief printing

B41L 47/06 ・・of flat or curved stencils

B41L 47/08 ・・of flat or curved plates for hectographic printing

B41L 47/10 ・・or printing surfaces in the form of belts or chains

B41L 47/12 ・Auxiliary devices, e.g. for flattening plates, for assembling plates in predetermined order, for wetting stencils

B41L 47/14 ・Devices or arrangements for storing or handling plates

B41L 47/16 ・・Magazines

B41L 47/18 ・・Devices for feeding the plates in their plane

B41L 47/20 ・・Devices for feeding the plates otherwise than in their plane, e.g. transversely thereto

B41L 47/22 ・・with means for presenting plates for repeated printing operations

B41L 47/24 ・Mechanisms for conveying copy material through addressographs or like series-printing machines (in general B65;)

B41L 47/26 ・・for conveying or positioning single sheetlike articles, e.g. envelopes

B41L 47/28 ・・with gauging-rulers or the like, e.g. for facilitating hand-printing of copy material fed from stacks

B41L 47/30 ・・for conveying webs

B41L 47/32 ・・・combined with devices for other purposes, e.g. for cutting, servering, gluing

B41L 47/34 ・・・specially adapted for conveying chains of forms

B41L 47/36 ・・for conveying sheets or webs for tabulating purposes; Tabulating mechanisms combined with sheet or web conveyers

B41L 47/38 ・・・with clamping means for head or margin

B41L 47/40 ・・・with means for automatically reciprocating sheet or web transversely to enable addresses to be printed in columns side by side

B41L 47/42 ・Printing mechanisms

B41L 47/44 ・・using flat platens

B41L 47/46 ・・using line-contact members, e.g. rollers, cylinders

B41L 47/48 ・・with inking or ink-ribbon devices

B41L 47/50 ・・using multiple impression-members or -surfaces, e.g. for printing series of addresses with standing context, for printing from selected parts of printing surfaces (applications of counting, numbering, or dating apparatus B41L 49/02)

B41L 47/52 ・・with movable counter-pressure plates for printing from selected areas of printing surfaces

B41L 47/54 ・・with means for automatically reciprocating printing plate transversely to enable addresses to be printed in columns side by side

B41L 47/56 ・Indicating, warning, control, or safety devices (B41L 47/58 takes precedence)

B41L 47/58 ・Arrangements or devices for selecting, or for facilitating selection of, text or image to be printed

B41L 47/60 ・・Markings applied to printing plates, e.g. code marks, colours, clips, perforations, edge notches, projections

B41L 47/62 ・・Selecting devices, e.g. cams, windows, positions indicators

B41L 47/64 ・・・Automatic selecting devices with or without overriding manual control, e.g. with scanning-fingers, with pre-setting controls operable by push-buttons, with programme control by punched tapes

B41L 49/00 Accessories or attachments for addressographs or like series-printing machines

B41L 49/02 ・Counting, numbering, or dating devices

B41L 49/04 ・Devices for applying selection markings to printing plates

--- Edited by Muguruma Professional Engineer Office(C), 2013 ---