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Class Number: 493 Class Title: MANUFACTURING CONTAINER OR TUBE FROM PAPER; OR OTHER MANUFACTURING FROM A SHEET OR WEB Subclass Subclass Number Title 1 CONTROL OF OPERATION BY USE OF TEMPLET, TAPE CARD, OR OTHER REPLACEABLE INFORMATION SUPPLY 2 .With sensing of numerical information and regulation with mechanical connection between sensing means and regulated means (i.e., Numerical Control) 3 CONTROL MEANS ENERGIZED IN RESPONSE TO ACTIVATOR STIMULATED BY CONDITION SENSOR 4 .Cigarette filter making 5 .Responsive to temperature 6 .Responsive to assembling or coating operation 7 ..Responsive to flowable material (e.g., glue, ink for printer, etc.) 8 .Responsive to work material, the product or means engaging the work material or the product 9 ..By use of pneumatic sensor 10 ..By use of photocell condition sensor 11 ...Responsive to mark or indicia on work 12 ...Responsive to defective or missing work 13 ...Plural sensors 14 ....Plural interrelated sensors 15 .....Photocell and diverse-type sensor 16 ..To eject defective work material or product 17 ..By use of plural sensors 18 ...Plural interrelated sensors 19 ....Sensing opposite edges of planar work 20 .....Opposite side edges 21 ..To actuate timer 22 ..To actuate cutting, breaking, tearing, or abrading means 23 ..To actuate folder 24 ..Sensing indeterminate length work supply 25 ..Responsive to size of work or product 26 ..Responsive to weight of work or product 27 ..To stop machine 28 ..Responsive to count 29 ..To actuate material advancing means 30 .Responsive to machine element 31 ..Malfunctioning machine element 32 ...Responsive to stress of machine element 33 ....To stop machine 34 ..To adjust machine element to preselected position 35 ..Responsive to count of machine element 36 ..Responsive to timer 37 WITH MEASURING OR TESTING 38 SAFETY 39 CIGARETTE FILTER MAKING 40 .Filter having indicator or inspection means 41 .With application of heat to secure wrapper 42 .With shaping or compacting of filter material 43 ..Including heating 44 ..Including fluid contact for forming 45 ..Cutting continuous length rod into determinate lengthss 46 ..Prior to assembly with other cigarette filter material 47 .By assembling dissimilar filter materials (e.g., fiber and powdered charcoal, etc.) 48 ..With application of forced air, vacuum or vibration to assist handling 49 ..Including plasticizer, adhesive, coating, or impregnant 50 .Filter of fibrous material 51 CONTAINER MAKING 52 .Rigid container (e.g., box, carton, cap, cup, etc.) 53 ..With printing or photographic reproduction 54 ...On material prior to assembly with container 55 ...On material to be erected to become container 56 ..With cutting, breaking, tearing, or abrading 57 ...By randomly manipulated implement 58 ...And embossing 59 ...And form-scoring 60 ....Rotary cutting, breaking, tearing, abrading, or form-scoring tool 61 ....Reciprocatory cutting, breaking, tearing, abrading, or form-scoring tool 62 .....Severing of web into blanks 63 ...Perforating 64 ...By rotary tool 65 ....On travelling carrier 66 ....Flexibly mounted rotary tool 67 ....Including assembling of distinct members 68 .....And folding 69 ....Including folding 70 .....Of flap 71 .....With means to advance work or product 72 ......Continuous advance 73 ...By reciprocatory tool 74 ....Severing of web into blanks 75 ....Including assembling of distinct members 76 .....Comprising bringing two members together 77 ......Indeterminate length member 78 .......Member comprising adhesive backed tape 79 ....Including folding 80 .....Of flap 81 .....With means to advance work or product 82 ...With scrap material separation or removal 83 ..With scrap material separation or removal 84 ..Assembling of distinct members 85 ...With extruding, drawing, or attenuating 86 ...Including cutting or tearing edge to container 87 ...Including discharge assist means (e.g., valve, pour spout, etc.) 88 ...Including handle or suspension means 89 ...Including structural reinforcement 90 ...Including internal partition 91 ....Intersecting partitions 92 ....Single shaped partition adapted to touch packaged material on three sides 93 ...Liner 94 ....Partial liner (e.g., fly liner, bottom gasket, etc.) 95 ....Liner permanently secured to wall 96 .....Prior to erecting of container 97 ......With indeterminate length work supplyy 98 .....Assembling by wrapping container about premade liner 99 .....Secured at container seam 100 ....Premade liner and premade container 101 .....With venting or vacuumizing of container to allow assembly with liner 102 ...Including application of distinct closure 103 ....Closure having metallic portion 104 ....Nonrectangular cross section container 105 .....By use of turret mandrel carrier 106 ......And frustoconical form 107 .......Rotary form 108 .....Circular cross section container 109 ......With bending to secure closure 110 ...Including laminating or coating of container blank 111 ...Including wrapping of container 112 ....Including use of rotary container support 113 ....Including use of reciprocatory container support 114 ...Securing 115 ....By application of distinct securing member 116 .....Tape 117 ......Applied to moving work 118 .....Material penetrating member 119 ......Bifurcated member 120 ...Including use of work supply hopper 121 ..Securing 122 ...Including use of work blank supply hopper 123 ....And use of vacuum to handle work 124 .....To place blank onto folder 125 .....With conveyor for advance to folder 126 ....And means to transfer blank to folder 127 .....Comprising folder 128 ...With application of adhesive 129 ....And heat sealing 130 ....With work advance between application of adhesive and securing 131 .....Application of adhesive to moving work 132 ......By applicator having surface engaging and moving with work 133 ...Including heat sealing 134 ....By direct application of fluid 135 ....Of moving work 136 ...By interfitting of container portions 137 ....Interlocking tab and slot 138 .....Including integral internal partition 139 .....Integral interlocking closure 140 ....Inwardly folded flange 141 ...Including means to press work while adhesive sets or dries 142 ....Work advancing during pressing 143 .....Plunger- and die-type press 144 .....Roller-type press 145 ....Manually actuated press 146 .....Manually driven 147 ...With means to advance work or product 148 ..With coating 149 ...On nonrectangular cross section container 150 ...Adhesive 151 ....And folding 152 ..Nonrectangular cross section containerr 153 ...Noncircular cross section 154 ...By use of conical former (e.g., pleating, etc.) 155 ....Rotary former 156 ...End closing 157 ....By folding over end of tube 158 ...Edge crimping or curling 159 ....By relative rotation of work and tool about work axis 160 ..Including form-scoring 161 ...Continuous advance with form-scoring tool moving with work 162 ..Folding 163 ...By mandrel on endless carrier 164 ....Assembly of plural mandrels turning about fixed axis 165 .....To form gable top on container 166 .....Folder driven by stationary cam 167 ...By plunger 168 ....Forming hollow wall or 270 degree folded edge 169 ....Plural interrelated plungers (e.g., making separate cover and container) 170 ....Flowable plunger or reaction member 171 ....Expandable or contractable plunger or reaction member 172 ....Orbitally moving plunger or reaction member 173 .....Continuously orbiting 174 ....And reciprocatory reaction member 175 ...By mandrel 176 ....And reciprocatory arm like tool 177 ...Work moving transversely to fold line during folding 178 ...Work moving parallel to fold line during folding 179 ....On endless conveyor belt or chain 180 ...With means to advance work or product 181 ....Of flattened tubular blank 182 ....By endless conveyor belt or chain 183 ...End flap folding 184 ....Forming gable top 185 ..Including crushing or crumpling 186 .Pliable container (e.g., bag, envelope, etc.) 187 ..With printing or photographic reproduction 188 ...On work material 189 ..Including heat sealing 190 ...And cooling 191 ....Heating or cooling by direct application of fluid 192 ...By direct application of fluid 193 ...Including supplying indeterminate length work 194 ....And cutting, breaking, tearing, or abrading 195 .....At separate station from heat sealing 196 ......With means to advance work or product 197 .......Including work advance during heat sealing 198 ....With means to receive interconnected products 199 ...And cutting, breaking, tearing, or abrading 200 ....At separate station from heat sealing 201 .....With means to advance work or product 202 ......Including work advance during heat sealing 203 ....Composite heat sealing and severing 204 .....With vertical stacking of product 205 ...Heat sealing by means moving with work 206 ...By oppositely moving work gripping means 207 ...By yieldable, heated means 208 ...By rotary heat sealer 209 ...By reciprocatory heat sealerr 210 ..Assembling of distinct members 211 ...With extruding, drawing, or attenuating 212 ...Means to facilitate opening of container 213 ....Reclosable means (e.g., valve) 214 ...Closure securing element 215 ....Plastically deformable 216 ...Return envelope or message card and main envelope 217 ...Liner 218 ...Bottom to square-bottom-folded bag 219 ...Bottom to satchel-bottom-folded bag 220 ...With coating 221 ....Application of adhesive to secure handle or suspension means 222 ...Means to permit visual inspection of content (e.g., window, etc.) 223 ...With cutting, breaking, tearing, or abrading 224 ....Subdividing web of material 225 ...Drawstring to close container 226 ...Handle or suspension means 227 ..With cutting, breaking, tearing, or abrading 228 ...Including form-scoring 229 ....Notching of work edge 230 ....Partial severance to form interconnected products 231 ...Including folding 232 ....Notching of work edge 233 ....Partial severance to form interconnected products 234 .....With application of tension to tear container from web 235 ....Severing of container or container blank from web 236 .....By severing means moving with work 237 ...Notching on work edge 238 ...Partial severance to form interconnected products 239 ...Severing of container or container blank from web 240 ..Including form-scoring 241 ...By rotary tool 242 ...By reciprocatory tool 243 ..Including folding 244 ...Of previously folded material (e.g., refolding, etc.) 245 ....Flap 246 ...Plural folding stations folding noncontinuously advancing work 247 ....With work turret 248 ...By infeeding work to passive folder 249 ...By buckling 250 ...By mandrel or plunger 251 ....Three point, continuous 180 degree folding 252 ....Mandrel having rectangular surface 253 ....Forming triangularly folded container surface 254 ...Central fold 255 ...Tube opening and closing 256 ....Including application of fluid pressure or vacuum to work 257 ....By roller having gripper engaging end edge of tube 258 .....And having side fold gripper 259 ....By means engaging end edge of tube 260 ...Closing of flap 261 ....Multiple flaps 262 .....Container moving transersely to fold 263 ......And parallel to another fold 264 ..With application of adhesive or securing by adhesivee 265 ...And drying 266 ...Application by work contacting applicator (e.g., roller, brush, etc.) 267 ..Method 268 ..Means to assist manual manipulation 269 TUBE MAKING 270 .With printing or photographic reproduction 271 .With minute size change of formed tube 272 .With coating 273 ..Applied externally of formed tube 274 ..And heating or drying 275 ..By immersion 276 ..Adhesive 277 ...By work engaging applicator 278 ....Rotary applicator 279 .....Having adhesive transferring roller 280 ......Nondriven roller 281 ......And having scraper 282 .....Coacting with opposed work engaging roller 283 ......Nondriven roller 284 .....Brush 285 .....Plural applicators 286 ......And plural sources of adhesive 287 .With cutting, breaking, tearing, or abrading 288 ..Severing of formed tube to length 289 ...By severing means moving with work 290 ...During relative rotation between work and severing means about work axis 291 .With surface treatment (e.g., polishing, burnishing, etc.) 292 .Tube including metal component 293 .With extruding, drawing, or attenuating 294 .With lining of tube 295 .Polygonal cross section tube 296 .Frustoconical tube 297 .Assembling of distinct members 298 ..With plural, orbiting work supply reels 299 .Spiral winding 300 ..Orbiting work supply reels 301 ..And advancing by wrapping belt 302 .With advancing of tube axially 303 .Convolute winding 304 ..By use of external guide member 305 ..By use of plural mandrels 306 ...On turret 307 ..By manually driven or manipulated means 308 .Including closing end of tube 309 CONTAINER OR TUBE ERECTING, OPENING, OR COLLAPSING 310 .Including overfolding or reverse bending 311 .Collapsing 312 .Cellular container 313 .By direct application of vacuum or fluid pressure 314 ..Internal fluid pressure to erect container or tube 315 ..Orbital movement of work contacting vacuum applying means 316 ..Oscillating movement of work contacting vacuum means 317 ...Compound movement 318 .By orbital means 319 ..Endless belt or chain 320 WITH PRINTING OR PHOTOGRAPHIC REPRODUCTIONN 321 .By rotary printer 322 .By bed and travelling cylinder printer 323 .Selective type printer 324 .And cutting, breaking, tearing, or abrading 325 ..With securing 326 WITH OR INCLUDING SURFACE PREPARATION FOR COATING 327 .Removal of previously applied coating 328 WITH COATING 329 .By immersion 330 .Plural diverse materials 331 .Adhesive 332 ..With heating or drying 333 ..Applied in a repeating pattern 334 ..With assembling of distinct members 335 ...Indeterminate length work 336 ..By work contacting applicator 337 ...Comprising roller 338 WITH EXTRUDING, DRAWING, OR ATTENUATING 339 .Method 340 WITH CUTTING, BREAKING, TEARING, OR ABRADING 341 .Including application of heat 342 .With scrap material separation or removal 343 .Including assembling or disassembling of distinct members 344 ..Comprising bringing two members together 345 ...Indeterminate length member 346 ....Plural indeterminate length members 347 ....Member comprising adhesive backed tape 348 ....Including use of work supply hopper 349 ...Wrapping one member about another member 350 ...And securing by interfitting 351 ....Work penetrating member 352 .And with bending 353 ..By use of composite cutting, breaking, tearing, or abrading tool and folding tool 354 ..By use of composite cutting, breaking, tearing, or abrading tool and form scoring or crushing tool 355 ..Form-scoring 356 ..Folding 357 ...With means to advance work or product 358 ....Continuous advance with endless belt folder surface moving with work 359 ....Continuous advance with rotary folder surface moving with work 360 ....Folding by roller 361 .Plural cutting, breaking, tearing, or abrading stations 362 ..With advancing work from first to second station 363 .Making plural, separate cuts by distinct cutting edges 364 ..Engaging work on opposite sides 365 ...Rotary cutter 366 ..By relatively adjustable cutting edges or cutting and scoring edges 367 ...On rotary tool support 368 ....Adjustable circumferentially 369 .Of moving work 370 .By rotary tool 371 ..With flexibly mounter cutter 372 .By reciprocatory tool 373 WITH SCRAP MATERIAL SEPARATION OR REMOVALL 374 ASSEMBLING OR DISASSEMBLING OF DISTINCT MEMBERS 375 .Of tag or label to tether or to article 376 ..By passing tether through tag or label and article in single stroke 377 .Including tear strip 378 .Including cutting or tearing edge 379 .Comprising bringing two members together 380 ..Indeterminate length member 381 ...Plural indeterminate length members 382 ...Member comprising adhesive backed tape 383 ..Including distinct securing member 384 ...Work penetrating member 385 ....Bifurcated securing member 386 ..Wrapping one member about another member 387 ...Including convex or recessed surface (e.g., eyeglass case) 388 ...By use of rotary work support 389 ...By use of reciprocatory work support 390 ..And securing by interfitting 391 ...Assembling container partitions 392 ...Work penetrating member 393 .Securing 394 SECURING 395 BENDING 396 .Form-scoring 397 ..With folding 398 ...Plural work stations 399 ....Folding along score line 400 ..With means to advance or position work or product 401 ...Continuous advance 402 ....By rotary tool having surface moving with work 403 .....Roller 404 ..Form-scoring along intersecting lines 405 .Folding 406 ..And tautening or smoothing 407 ..With crushing or crumpling 408 ..Overfolding 409 ..Refolding or unfolding 410 ...Of indeterminate length work 411 ....Including use of swinging work guiding means (e.g., zigzag folding, etc.) 412 ....With elevating work support 413 ..Folding of indeterminate length work by swinging work guiding means (e.g., zigzag folding, etc.) 414 ...Swinging passage 415 ....Defined by feed roll pair 416 ..With means to advance work or product 417 ...And provision to precisely align for folding 418 ...Folding by direct application of vacuum or fluid 419 ...Folding by buckling 420 ....Buckle chute folding 421 .....Plural folding operations making multiple folds 422 ...Continuous advance with folder moving with work 423 ....Folding by endless belt 424 ....Rotary folder 425 .....Having radial folding blade 426 ......Radially moving folding blade 427 .......Fold off-roll-type folder 428 ........And cooperating, registering cylinderr 429 .........Plural folding blades 430 ..........For zigzag folding 431 ........Planetary blade 432 ......And cooperating, registering cylinder 433 .......For zigzag folding 434 .....Folding by roller 435 ......Roller couple 436 ...Continuous advance past folder 437 ....Reciprocatory folder 438 ....Folding by passive reaction member 439 .....Folding indeterminate length work 440 ......Plural folding actions 441 ...Folding by endless belt 442 ...Folding by roller 443 ....Roller passive reaction member 444 .....With reciprocatory folding knife 445 ......Reaction member comprising roller pair yieldably biased together 446 ...Folding by passive reaction member 447 ....Including multiple reaction members each presenting one or more shaping edges 448 .....And provision to allow one reaction member to move relative to another (e.g., zigzag folding, etc.) 449 ....And cooperating plunger 450 ..By direct application of vacuum or fluid 451 ..By plural relatively movable folding edges approaching work from same side (e.g., zigzag folding, etc.) 452 ..Forming gable top 453 ..Including folding end flap 454 ..By rotary member 455 ..By passive reaction member 456 ...Including multiple shaping edges on reaction member 457 ...And cooperating reciprocatory folder 458 ..Sequential, diverse folds 459 .Pulling over an edge (e.g., curling, etc.) 460 .Deflecting 461 ..Of longitudinally moving work 462 ...To form convolute coil (e.g., paper "log", etc.) 463 .Corrugating 464 .Crushing or crumpling 465 FLEXING 466 .To present part of workpiece for securing to another part 467 SURFACE TREATMENT 468 TOOL OR TOOL SUPPORT 469 .Adapted to be magnetically manipulated 470 .Adapted to be heated or cooled 471 .Rotary 472 .With ejector or stripper 473 .Plural tools or tool supports 474 .Expandable or collapsible 475 .Adjustable 476 ..Folder 477 MACHINE FRAME 478 .Adjustable 479 ..Plural, simultaneous adjustments 480 MISCELLANEOUS * ****************************** * CROSS-REFERENCE ART COLLECTIONSS * ****************************** 901 RIGID CONTAINER 902 .Dished 903 .Insulated thermally 904 .Cushioned 905 .Having window 906 .Having multilayer wall 907 ..Lined 908 ..Covered 909 .Having handle or suspension means 910 .Cigarette container 911 ..Flip-top 912 .Having internal partition 913 ..Egg container 914 .Eyeglass container 915 .Match container 916 PLIABLE CONTAINER 917 .Envelope 918 ..Expandable 919 ..Having window 920 ..Having plural compartments 921 ..Having integrally formed insert 922 ..Having liner 923 ..With opening means (e.g., tear strip, valve, etc.) 924 .Requiring external support during filling 925 .Having mesh or window opening 926 .Having handle or suspension means 927 .Reclosable 928 ..With draw string 929 ..With valve 930 .Having tear strip 931 .Having plural compartments 932 .Having plural openings 933 .Having multilayer wall 934 .Parallelepiped or tetrahedron shape 935 .Covering bag (e.g., garment protector, etc.) 936 .Square bottom 937 TEXTILE 938 .Apparel 939 APPAREL SUPPORT 940 BELLOWS 941 FILTER 942 CLEANING IMPLEMENT (E.G., BRUSH, DUST MOP, ETC.) 943 CANDY STICK 944 APERTURE CARD OR DISPLAY DEVICE WITH WINDOW 945 COIN HOLDER 946 PHONOGRAPH RECORD JACKET 947 FILE FOLDER 948 IGNITING FUSE 949 ELECTRICAL INSULATION 950 LAMP SHADE 951 SEEDLING CONTAINER 952 PHOTO CORNER MOUNT 953 STENCIL OR OUTLINE GUIDE 954 SPOOL 955 DECORATION ARTICLE 956 .Having appearance of living plant (e.g., Christmas tree, etc.) 957 .Festoonn 958 .Garland 959 TOY OR AMUSEMENT ARTICLE 960 TOILET ARTICLE 961 TAG, MARKER, OR LABEL 962 CLOSURE (E.G., TIE STRING, VALVE, ETC.) 963 OPENER (E.G., TEAR STRIP, ETC.) 964 PALLET 965 .Flat or "Boat" (for candy, crakers, etc.) 966 HONEYCOMB STRUCTURE 967 DUNNAGE, WADDING, STUFFING, OR FILLING EXCELSIOR 968 STRUCTURAL SHAPE