US PATENT SUBCLASS 83 / 86
.~.~ In stacked or packed relation

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83 /   HD   CUTTING

78  DF  WITH PRODUCT HANDLING MEANS {9}
84  DF  .~ Including means to form or hold pile of product pieces {2}
86.~.~ In stacked or packed relation {7}
87  DF  .~.~.~> Stacker sweeps along product support
88  DF  .~.~.~> Including cut pieces overlapped on delivery means
89  DF  .~.~.~> And means to separate product portions
90  DF  .~.~.~> Including means to move stack bodily {1}
93  DF  .~.~.~> And means to resist stack movement
94  DF  .~.~.~> Including means to deliver individual pieces to a stack holder {2}
97  DF  .~.~.~> Upon emergence from hollow cutter

DEFINITION

Classification: 83/86

(under subclass 84) Device which has means to place together, or to receive and retain, a multiplicity of substantially planar-faced cut pieces in sequential face-contacting relation, supported one on another or edgewise on a common base.

(1) Note. A stack or pack is formed by superposition or juxtaposition of the pieces thicknesswise. Herein, and in the indented subclasses, the term "stack" will be used to designate the concepts generally included in both the terms "stack" and "pack".

(2) Note. Such stack need not be static but may be in motion, such as one which is continually diminished at one end and replenished at the other end.

(3) Note. A patent disclosing a device which includes a mere product-conforming cavity in a hollow tool or in the tool and its support, though it inherently holds the pieces in stack formation, is not included in this group of subclasses (86+) but is placed on the basis of other features. However, a stack holding means which communicates with such tool or its support, or which is incorporated as an added element within the tool or its support, its proper subject matter for this group.

SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:

164, for a hollow tool having a product diverting conduit within it or extending therefrom which does not include a stack holding means within the definition of subclass 86. SEE OR SEARCH CLASS

271, Sheet Feeding or Delivering,

207+, for a sheet delivery device having means for receiving and retaining the sheets in stacked or packed relation.