CPC Definition - Subclass D21B
This place covers:
Preparation of fibrous raw materials (like wood, rags, waste paper, pulp bales) and their mechanical treatment to obtain mechanical pulp, particular for papermaking purposes and production of fibre board, cutting raw materials into small particles, pretreatment of raw materials before pulp preparation, pulp preparation by mechanical defibration (for example by grinding), pulpers and mixers for pulps, de-inking devices.
Even if the focus is clearly on the mechanical side of pulp preparation, also processes including chemical aspects are classified herein, as long as the nature of the process is to be considered as mainly mechanical. Otherwise, D21C is the appropriate subclass.
This place does not cover:
Removal of bark | |
Obtaining fibres from plant material (mechanical separation) | |
Hackling or heckling machines | |
Pretreatment of the finely-divided materials before digesting | |
Methods of beating or refining pulp | |
Purification of the pulp suspension by mechanical means |
Attention is drawn to the following places, which may be of interest for search:
Disintegration in mills; Milling devices in general | |
Flotation in general | |
Dry sorting of waste | |
Disposal of solid waste | |
Manufacture of articles made from particles or fibres consisting of wood or like organic material by dry processes | |
Obtaining silk fibres or filaments | |
Working-up waste paper (chemical part) | |
Flotation of white water, recovering fibres from suspensions |
Subgroups and main group
If a document concerns embodiments which are covered by several subgroups dependent on a higher hierarchy group, the following rules apply:
- the specific technical information relevant for some of the subgroups is classified in all said subgroups;
- if relevant, the structural association (e.g. the combination) of the elements covered by the subgroups is classified in the head group;
- analogously, if generic technical information common to all of the subgroups is disclosed and only schematic embodiments of the specific subgroup embodiments are represented, the documents is classified in the head group only.
This place covers:
Impregnation of wood chips with chemical or biological (enzymatic) substances.
Attention is drawn to the following places, which may be of interest for search:
Chemical aspects of pulp preparation |
This place covers:
Defibrating by means not explicitly defined before, for example between cooperating rotating screw members in drums.
This place covers:
Defibrating by the use of microwaves, for example by ultrasound treatments.