US PATENT CLASS 101
Class Notes


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101 /   HD   PRINTING



DEFINITION

Classification: 101/

Means not otherwise provided for adapted to produce characters or designs on surfaces by impression of types or dies or by applying coating material thereto through openings of previous portions of a pattern sheet, as in stenciling, or by impression from planos:graphic or intaglio surfaces.

(1) Note. Includes organizations using design or character dies that emboss, burn, or perforate, as well as those that are intended to apply ink.

LINES WITH OTHER CLASSES

For means and methods for making type or other bodies having printing surfaces see Class 76, Metal Tools and Implements, Making; Class 156, Adhesive Bonding and Miscellaneous Chemical Manufacture; Class 164, Metal Founding; Class 178, Telegraphy; Class 199, Type Casting; Class 204, Chemistry: Electrical and Wave Energy; Class 205, Electrolysis: Processes, Compositions Used Therein and Methods of Preparing the Compositions; Class 264, Plastic and Nonmetallic Article Shaping or Treating; Processes; Class 425, Plastic Article or Earthenware Shaping or Treating: Apparatus; and Class 430, Radiation Imagery Chemistry: Process, Composition, or Product Thereof.

Patents containing product claims originally classified in Class 101, Printing, subclasses 128.21 through 129, 450.1 through 473, 211, 295, 401.1 through 401.6 involving significant claimed chemical subject matter and no significant structure or printing steps are being reclassified into the appropriate chemical product or material class. Notes under the pertinent above indicated subclasses indicate the extent and scope of this work as of August 1969.

Where a printing plate of the planos:graphic type or a stencil element, i.e., stencils and blanks, is claimed with no significant printing plate or stencil element structure or printing steps but merely in terms of the composition or material of which at least one of its layers is composed, it will be classified in the appropriate product or composition class, even though there is no claim to the composition, per se.

The line between Class 83, Cutting, and Class 101, Printing, subclasses 3.1+ is as follows:

The mere removal of portions of sheet material interposed between one or more punch and die sets, whether or not the aperture or series of apertures produced form characters or designs which convey intelligence, has been considered punching for Class 83. However, where more than the mere removal of material is involved and additional apparatus or steps add to enhance the character or design produced, (e.g., the application of ink to the punches to additionally mark or outline the apertures), such additions have been considered printing for Class 101, subclass 3.1. Deforming of sheet material into characters or designs with or without the removal of any portion of the material has been considered printing for Class 101, subclasses 3.1+.

REFERENCES TO OTHER CLASSES

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8, Bleaching and Dyeing; Fluid Treatment and Chemical Modification of Textiles and Fibers, particularly

445+, for chemical processes and compositions for printing textiles and other materials there designated with dyes.

53, Package Making,

131.2+, for machines to package articles combined with a device to print indicia or to place a coating on the cover thereof.

76, Metal Tools and Implements, Making, (see (2) Note).

100, Presses, appropriate subclasses for presses not otherwise provided for.

118, Coating Apparatus, for coating apparatus of general application, especially

46, for printing apparatus combined with significant coating, subclasses 211+, 301 and 406 for apparatus for applying coating to restricted areas for special purposes, and subclasses 504+ for masks, per se.

156, Adhesive Bonding and Miscellaneous Chemical Manufacture, 277, and 384+ for the combination of printing and laminating.

164, Metal Founding,

2+, for processes of forming metal printing plates (e.g., stereotypes, etc.) and subclasses 139+ for corresponding apparatus. Also, see (2) Note above.

177, Weighing Scales,

2+, for a recording weighing device.

178, Telegraphy,

4, and 23+ for printing telegraph systems.

199, Type Casting, (see Note 2).

216, Etching a Substrate: Processes,

10, for the manufacturing of a printing roll using etching.

221, Article Dispensing, appropriate subclasses for article dispensing or feeding devices not otherwise provided for, and including sheet and card dispensers. 226, Advancing Material of Indeterminate Length, appropriate subclasses for methods of, and apparatus for, feeding material without utilizing the leading or trailing ends to effect movement of the material.

234, Selective Cutting (e.g., Punching), for a device for selective cutting or punching of a workpiece, usually a paper card or strip, in one cycle of operation, or step-by-step in alternation with work feed movements, wherein the cutting extends entirely through the workpiece and is not restricted to the production of characters or designs (e.g., it may reproduce pattern indicia in original or modified form, or it may cut coded perforations under the control of a keyboard or other data input means).

235, Registers, for printing-registers, calculators, and voting machines.

270, Sheet-Material Associating,

1.1+, for combinations of printing with operations falling in that class.

271, Sheet Feeding or Delivering, appropriate subclasses for means for feeding separate sheets, etc.

346, Recorders,

150.1+, for electric recording of phenomenon.

347, Incremental Printing of Symbolic Information,

112+, for the production of latent electrostatic images by the use of electrically charged character dies onto a record, which latent images are later developed with toner to render them visible, subclasses 159+ and 163+ for printing of symbolic information by electrical discharge and by electrochemical respectively.

380, Cryptography, 51, and 55 for production of printed copy by cryptos:graphic equipment.

399, Electrophotography,

130+, for image formation, subclass 154 for image formation with transfer of latent image, and subclasses 297+ for transfer of toner image, per se.

400, Typewriting Machines, for printing mechanism in which each type is impressed separately, with means to feed the work to position for the next impression.

427, Coating Processes, for processes of coating, per se, and note especially

256+, for a nonuniform coating.

428, Stock Material or Miscellaneous Articles, appropriate subclasses for a single or plural layer stock material useful as a printing plate or stenciling element, but having no significant printing structure or other printing feature, and

908, and 909 (cross-reference art collections) for a printer's matrix or a printer's blanket, respectively.

430, Radiation Imagery Chemistry: Process, Composition, or Product Thereof, see the class definition.

902, Electronic Funds Transfer (a cross-reference art collection), subcollections 18+ for an automated teller machine having a particular printing means.