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Package making
SECTION I - CLASS DEFINITION
This class is the generic class of apparatus for and methods
of encompassing, encasing or completely surrounding goods or materials
with a cover made from sheet material stock.
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Note. This class does not provide for methods of permanently
encompassing, encasing, or immobilizing hazardous or toxic waste.
Methods of packaging binding and immobilization of hazardous or
toxic waste for the sole intent of permanently containing the waste
are found elsewhere. Methods of packaging to move potentially hazardous or
potentially toxic materials through commerce where the materials
are removed from the container for subsequent use or treatment are
proper for this class (53).
This class is also the generic class of apparatus for and
methods of partially encasing or surrounding goods and materials
by a partial cover made from sheet material stock, which completely
encircles and is in frictional contact with the goods or materials
so as to be retained thereon.
This class is also the generic class of apparatus for and
methods of assembling and/or securing a separate closure
(hood, cap, capsule, crown, seal, cork, disk, cot, etc.,) to the
aperture of preformed receptacle so as to complete the encasement
of contents. Assembling includes any manipulation or handling of
the receptacle resulting in the sealing of a filling orifice by
the closure.
This class is also the generic class of apparatus for and
methods of depositing articles and arranging fluent materials in
preformed receptacles. See subclasses 235+.
This class is the residual class of apparatus for and methods
of subjecting the contents to a treatment before, during or after
packaging combined with the packaging operation not otherwise provided
for. Treatment includes plural diverse manufacturing provided for
elsewhere (see References to Other Classes below)
This class is also the generic class for apparatus for, and
processes of, making match books.
This class also includes apparatus for exposing the contents
of a package by opening one or more folds of the cover.
The apparatus and processes in this class include the shaping
of the cover about the article, the partial or complete shaping
of the cover followed by a filling operation, the filling of a preformed
receptacle with articles and the filling of a preformed receptacle
followed by a closing operation.
The apparatus and processes in this class include the application
of wrappers and encircling bands and labels, and the application
of partial covers encircling the contents.
The apparatus and processes in this class may include the
making of the cover prior to packaging and/or the treatment
of cover before, during or after packaging..
The apparatus and processes in this class include the printing
and/or embossing of the contents and/or the cover,
the coating of the package, the making and/or applying
of cover opening adjuncts such as tear strips, and the application
of a strand, handle, strip, stamp, and/or label to the
package.
The apparatus and processes in this class include the association
of articles into groups for packaging, and also include the packaging
of individual units followed by a grouping of such units for further
packaging, whether or not the further packaging is claimed.
The apparatus and processes in this class encase or encompass
goods and materials with a cover, which serves for identifying, protecting
or unit handling the goods or materials. The cover is usually removable from
the contents when the latter is used. However, some exceptions are
found to this removal including, e.g., match books, capsules and
tea bags.
EXPLANATORY NOTE ON SCOPE OF CLASS
Class 53 was designed with the purpose of recognizing that
the packaging of manufactured products so that they may pass through
the channels of trade in a safe, convenient and attractive condition,
is an art deserving of a separate status in the system of classifying
inventions.
Heretofore, for the most part, the packaging operation was
treated either as an appendage to the manufacture of the product
to be packaged or as a special instance of container manufacture.
Neither was in accord with the activities of those who devise packaging
machinery or processes, who are neither the manufacturers of the
product nor of the packaging materials.
Where patent claims include subject matter limiting the process
or apparatus to use in manufacturing a particular article other than
as specifically provided for in the definition below such patent
is excluded from this class and will be found in the class best providing
for making said article. If the claims merely recite, by name, the
article being manufactured but the process or apparatus is of general
utility, such recitation alone will not exclude the patent from this
class.
Since it is not desirable to withhold from use those portions
of the reclassification which can be completed and handled as a unit,
Class 53 was established even though numerous inventions pertaining
to the art of packaging are as yet represented therein only by search
notes to other classifications.
The art relating to filling and closing and closing, per se,
of preformed receptacles, and depositing articles in preformed receptacles,
formerly classified in Class 226, Filling and Closing Portable Receptacles,
is now classified in appropriate subclasses of this class (53) unless
otherwise excluded by the notes to the various subclasses herein. |
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