B21B 41/00
Guiding, conveying, or accumulating easily-flexible work
Official title: Guiding, conveying, or accumulating easily-flexible work, e.g. wire, sheet metal bands, in loops or curves; Loop lifters
B21B41/00 (Guiding, conveying, or accumulating easily-flexible work) appears on 102 US grants and 56 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in B21B- Granted patents
- 102
- Published applications
- 56
- Assignees
- 62
- Inventors
- 206
- Latest grant
- 15 Sep 2026
Filings by year
| Year | Granted patents | Published applications |
|---|---|---|
| 1976 | 2 | 0 |
| 1977 | 3 | 0 |
| 1978 | 2 | 0 |
| 1979 | 3 | 0 |
| 1980 | 0 | 0 |
| 1981 | 1 | 0 |
| 1982 | 1 | 0 |
| 1983 | 4 | 0 |
| 1984 | 3 | 0 |
| 1985 | 3 | 0 |
| 1986 | 2 | 0 |
| 1987 | 1 | 0 |
| 1988 | 2 | 0 |
| 1989 | 1 | 0 |
| 1990 | 1 | 0 |
| 1991 | 1 | 0 |
| 1992 | 1 | 0 |
| 1993 | 2 | 0 |
| 1994 | 1 | 0 |
| 1995 | 1 | 0 |
| 1996 | 3 | 0 |
| 1997 | 0 | 0 |
| 1998 | 3 | 0 |
| 1999 | 4 | 0 |
| 2000 | 1 | 0 |
| 2001 | 2 | 1 |
| 2002 | 7 | 4 |
| 2003 | 5 | 6 |
| 2004 | 2 | 6 |
| 2005 | 4 | 2 |
| 2006 | 4 | 2 |
| 2007 | 2 | 1 |
| 2008 | 2 | 1 |
| 2009 | 0 | 2 |
| 2010 | 3 | 2 |
| 2011 | 2 | 1 |
| 2012 | 1 | 1 |
| 2013 | 1 | 2 |
| 2014 | 2 | 3 |
| 2015 | 2 | 3 |
| 2016 | 4 | 5 |
| 2017 | 3 | 0 |
| 2018 | 3 | 0 |
| 2019 | 2 | 1 |
| 2020 | 1 | 1 |
| 2021 | 1 | 2 |
| 2022 | 0 | 3 |
| 2023 | 2 | 0 |
| 2024 | 0 | 3 |
| 2025 | 0 | 1 |
| 2026 | 1 | 3 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
- B21B 41/08Without overall change in the general direction of movement of the work37
- B21B 41/12Arrangements of interest only with respect to provision for indicating or controlling13
- B21B 41/06In which the direction of movement of the work is turned through5
- B21B 41/02Returning work to repeat the pass or passes within the same stand1
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By later US patents
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- Rolling installation for and rolling method of continuous cast strip19US 4,958,677 AHitachi, Ltd. · 1990
- Means and a method of improving the quality of cold rolled stainless steel strip18US 5,197,179 AT. Sendzimir, Inc. · 1993
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