US PATENT SUBCLASS 83 / 78
WITH PRODUCT HANDLING MEANS

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83 /   HD   CUTTING

78WITH PRODUCT HANDLING MEANS {9}
79  DF  .~> Initiated by means responsive to product or work {1}
81  DF  .~> Initiated by means directly responsive to tool movement {1}
83  DF  .~> Including means to drape the product
84  DF  .~> Including means to form or hold pile of product pieces {2}
98  DF  .~> By fluid current {2}
101  DF  .~> By brush means
102  DF  .~> Including means to divert one portion of product from another {5}
108  DF  .~> Including means to replace product in base material after cutting
109  DF  .~> Means to move, guide, or permit free fall or flight of product {13}

DEFINITION

Classification: 83/78

(under the class definition) Apparatus including means to move, guide, or otherwise affect the motion of, the product of a cutting operation - other than by the mere provision of a receptacle or support into or onto which product may descend at random (i.e., without necessarily assuming any regular arrangement).

(1) Note. A cutting machine including such receptacle or support for receiving product in random arrangement constitutes subject matter of subclass 167, below.

(2) Note. The handling given recognition by this and indented subclasses is additional to that which inherently is accomplished by the tool(s) in the cutting operation. A tool, qua tool, is therefore not to be considered a product handling means. But a specific element fixed to, or a portion integral with, a tool will be recognized as a product handling means if there is a clear teaching, in the disclosure of the device, that the element or portion performs a product handling function.

(3) Note. Inasmuch as many work moving means of the cutting arts also function to carry away the product of the cutting operation, a patent whose only claimed means capable of product handling is a device for moving, guiding, supporting, or stopping motion of, work will not be placed originally in this subclass unless such work handling device is claimed in

terms of its specific product handling function. (Of course, a patent claiming work handling means in combination with additional means to give the work handling means a product handling effect - such as means to tilt a work table to effect product sliding - will be placed originally in this or an indented subclass).

(4) Note. For the purpose of original placement in this classification, a means to handle the product of one of a claimed series of tool stations, while proceeding from such one station to a succeeding station, will be considered a work handling means for the succeeding station rather than a product handling means for the earlier station. (Disclosures of such means may be placed as cross-reference copies in this or indented subclasses, where deemed pertinent).

SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS: 23+, for method of cutting and subsequently handling the product.

77, for a device under the class definition combined with means to weigh the cut product.

167, for a device under the class definition combined with a receptacle or support for the cut product; and see (1) Note, above.

404+, for a device including means to move work between successive tool stations.

SEE OR SEARCH CLASS

198, Conveyors: Power-Driven,

339.1, for a conveyor arranged to facilitate working on the conveyed load at a work station, and subclasses 373+ for a conveyor having means for changing the attitude of the conveyed load relative to the conveying direction.

242, Winding, Tensioning, or Guiding,

487.1+, and particularly subclasses 522+ and 911 for cutting a product which is subsequently wound classified along this line: Patents which claim a device for cutting material and for winding are placed in Class 242 whereas patents which claim a device for cutting material supplied from a wound source, or in which disclosed structure for winding a cut product is not significantly claimed are placed in Class 83 or related Class 225 (Severing by Tearing or Breaking).

271, Sheet Feeding or Delivering,

278+, for a device for removing individual sheets to some determined position (where no means to treat the sheet is claimed specifically). 414, Material or Article Handling, appropriate subclasses, for an instrument or mechanism for placing or displacing articles in a particular manner, as in stacks or piles; also for a carrier or forwarding mechanism of general type combined with special means for placing the load on the carrier or removing it therefrom (where no means to treat the material is claimed specifically).