(under subclass 78) Device including a detector* for sensing product or work, a transmitter*, and means to effect or initiate product handling or delivery as a direct or indirect result of the receipt by said means of a detected and transmitted signal or impulse.
(1) Note. As between Classes 83 and 209, patents claiming significant assorting of the work for, or the product of, a disclosed cutting device will be placed as an original copy in Class 209 unless the cutting device also is claimed significantly, in which latter case the original copy will be placed in this class (class 83).
(2) Note. Included in this subclass are patents disclosing the sensing of product and the initiation of product handling responsive thereto, whereas subclass 80 (indented hereunder) is the repository for patents disclosing product handling responsive to work sensing.
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360+, for means to initiate an operation, other than product handling, controlled by product sensing or work-sensing means.
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198, Conveyors: Power-Driven, appropriate subclasses for different types of conveyors or systems of plural conveyors having operation control means responsive to a condition of a conveyor or to a condition of the conveyed load.
