B02C 18/00
Disintegrating by knives or other cutting or tearing members which chop material
Official title: Disintegrating by knives or other cutting or tearing members which chop material into fragments {(tree stump comminutors A01G23/067)}
B02C18/00 (Disintegrating by knives or other cutting or tearing members which chop material) appears on 3,099 US grants and 2,648 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in B02C- Granted patents
- 3,099
- Published applications
- 2,648
- Assignees
- 1,445
- Inventors
- 4,634
- Latest grant
- 6 Oct 2026
Filings by year
| Year | Granted patents | Published applications |
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| 1976 | 48 | 0 |
| 1977 | 45 | 0 |
| 1978 | 48 | 0 |
| 1979 | 38 | 0 |
| 1980 | 44 | 0 |
| 1981 | 36 | 0 |
| 1982 | 32 | 0 |
| 1983 | 30 | 0 |
| 1984 | 23 | 0 |
| 1985 | 29 | 0 |
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| 1990 | 47 | 0 |
| 1991 | 50 | 0 |
| 1992 | 44 | 0 |
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| 1996 | 47 | 0 |
| 1997 | 58 | 0 |
| 1998 | 46 | 0 |
| 1999 | 66 | 0 |
| 2000 | 40 | 0 |
| 2001 | 32 | 10 |
| 2002 | 51 | 63 |
| 2003 | 45 | 52 |
| 2004 | 43 | 69 |
| 2005 | 37 | 84 |
| 2006 | 58 | 102 |
| 2007 | 60 | 123 |
| 2008 | 60 | 107 |
| 2009 | 77 | 95 |
| 2010 | 94 | 128 |
| 2011 | 95 | 102 |
| 2012 | 80 | 89 |
| 2013 | 70 | 124 |
| 2014 | 82 | 122 |
| 2015 | 87 | 140 |
| 2016 | 99 | 132 |
| 2017 | 97 | 123 |
| 2018 | 67 | 118 |
| 2019 | 84 | 126 |
| 2020 | 142 | 132 |
| 2021 | 116 | 125 |
| 2022 | 96 | 118 |
| 2023 | 89 | 126 |
| 2024 | 99 | 99 |
| 2025 | 97 | 89 |
| 2026 | 43 | 50 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
- B02C 18/06Disintegrating by knives or other cutting or tearing members which chop material2,431
- B02C 18/0007Disintegrating by knives or other cutting or tearing members which chop material603
- B02C 18/0084Disintegrating by knives or other cutting or tearing members which chop material495
- B02C 18/30Mincing machines with perforated discs and feeding worms199
- B02C 18/02Disintegrating by knives or other cutting or tearing members which chop material55
- B02C 18/28Disintegrating by knives or other cutting or tearing members which chop material29
- B02C 18/0076Disintegrating by knives or other cutting or tearing members which chop material19
- B02C 18/26Disintegrating by knives or other cutting or tearing members which chop material9
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