B24B 31/02
Involving rotary barrels
Official title: involving rotary barrels
B24B31/02 (Involving rotary barrels) appears on 159 US grants and 111 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in B24B- Granted patents
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- Published applications
- 111
- Assignees
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- Inventors
- 313
- Latest grant
- 18 Aug 2026
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| 2026 | 4 | 3 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
- B24B 31/0212The barrels being submitted to a composite rotary movement31
- B24B 31/033Having several rotating or tumbling drums with parallel axes30
- B24B 31/0224The workpieces being fitted on a support25
- B24B 31/023With tiltable axis12
- B24B 31/03The workpieces being continuously-travelling10
- B24B 31/027With additional oscillating movement5
- B24B 31/0206For descaling wires travelling through the rotating drum3
- B24B 31/037Having several rotating or tumbling drums with non-parallel axes1
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