US PATENT SUBCLASS 53 / 147
GROUP FORMING OF CONTENTS UNIT AND SUBSEQUENT OR FURTHER PACKAGING

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53 /   HD   PACKAGE MAKING

147GROUP FORMING OF CONTENTS UNIT AND SUBSEQUENT OR FURTHER PACKAGING {5}
148  DF  .~> Long slender articles (e.g., cigarettes) {3}
152  DF  .~> Formed in vertically spaced ways and simultaneously removed {1}
154  DF  .~> From plural or different supply sources {1}
158  DF  .~> Joined receptacle or pockets
531  DF  .~> Layer, stack, or column {10}

DEFINITION

Classification: 53/147

(under the class definition) Apparatus including means for accumulating and/or associating a plurality of contents portions of a package, by means of a plurality of feeding operations prior to completion of a package unit, and for subsequently packaging the collected portions as a unit.

(1) Note. Feeding of similar articles from a single hopper having its discharge end divided into a plurality of separate or segregated channels has been considered to constitute a plurality of feeding operations within the terms of this and the subclasses indented hereunder.

(1.5) Note. Packaging apparatus which feeds a plurality of contents portions from plural sources or a multiple channeled hopper directly into a receiver by the same feeding operation and in which no further packaging is performed (e.g., wrapping, closing) is not considered to involve subsequent packaging for this or indented subclasses.

(1.7) Note. The plurality of feeding operations for this and indented subclasses must place the contents portions in the same relationship that they are to assume in the final package.

(2) Note. The contents portions which comprise the group may be identical, dissimilar in physical and/or chemical properties, or of similar size and shape but differing in some property, such as color or taste.

(3) Note. Packaging apparatus in which a plurality of contents portions are segregated as a unit from a single mass or magazine of such portions, are classified as if the contents were comprised of but a single portion.

(4) Note. Apparatus to assemble paper articles in bunches, and bunching of paper articles plus the application to the bunch of a string, cord or other securing means adapted to be knotted, will be found in 493, Manufacturing Container or Tube From Paper; or Other Manufacturing From a Sheet or Web, subclasses 374+, unless the securing means forms and adjunct to a cover, for which see this class (53), subclass 134.1, or the securing means is a band, for which see this class, subclasses 198+. For other apparatus to apply a knotted binding member, see Packaging and Binding Elsewhere Classified and the search notes associated therewith, and for other apparatus to apply a band, see the Class Definition of this class (53). (5) Note. The inner cover or covers of plural cover members do not constitute contents portions within the scope of this

or of the subclasses indented hereunder, but have had separate provision made therefor for which see subclasses 169, 170+, 286, 449, and 558.

SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:

54, for automatic or triggered control apparatus including means to cause separate delivery of an incomplete or defective contents portion or contents group.

60, for apparatus including automatic or triggered control of contents feed effected by absences of part of group contents.

61+, for apparatus to control the feed of a contents group, triggered by completion of the group.

134.1, and see (4) Note above.

142+, for forming a group of tapered or headed articles and subsequently packaging same.

168, for apparatus providing for separate or alternate supply of plural contents, packaged singly.

169, 170+, 558, and see (5) Note above.

237, for depositing contents from a plurality of different contents sources into a single receiver or receptacle.

244+, for successively depositing articles in a receiver or receptacle. 247, for simultaneously depositing a plurality of articles in a receiver or receptacle.

286, and see (5) Note above.

443, for corresponding methods of packaging.

449, and see (5) Note above.

513, for packaging apparatus in which a plurality of similar contents portions are produced by cutting or severing them from a larger amount of the contents material.

582, and see (4) Note above.

SEE OR SEARCH CLASS

28, Textiles: Manufacturing,

289+, for devices to form skeins of filamentary stock, such as yarn, and to secure the so gathered stock into a package by means of a strand.

86, Ammunition and Explosive-Charge Making,

23+, for apparatus to load ammunition. 131, Tobacco,

25, for cigar and cigarette making combined with collecting, arranging, packing or packaging, subclass 107 for processes and apparatus for tying cigars and cigarettes in bundles, and subclasses 112+ for processes and apparatus for packing plugs or shapes in groups or bundles.

198, Conveyors: Power-Driven,

418+, for a system of plural conveyors having means for establishing and moving a group of items, and subclasses 434+ for a system of plural conveyors having means arranging or rearranging a stream or streams of items.

209, Classifying, Separating, and Assorting Solids, appropriate subclasses for methods of and apparatus for classifying, separating and/or assorting solids.

221, Article Dispensing,

92+, for article dispensers not otherwise classified having a plurality of separate sources stacks or compartments, at least one having article dispensing means.

222, Dispensing,

129+, for fluent material dispensing containers having a plurality of separate compartments, at least one having dispensing means.

294, Handling: Hand and Hoist-Line Implements, appropriate subclasses for hand manipulated devices for gathering units into a group.

493, Manufacturing Container or Tube From Paper; or Other Manufacturing From a Sheet or Web, and see (4) Note above.