B29C 44/36
Feeding the material to be shaped
Official title: Feeding the material to be shaped {(B29C44/0492 takes precedence)}
B29C44/36 (Feeding the material to be shaped) appears on 1,595 US grants and 1,451 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in B29C- Granted patents
- 1,595
- Published applications
- 1,451
- Assignees
- 876
- Inventors
- 3,517
- Latest grant
- 1 Sep 2026
Filings by year
| Year | Granted patents | Published applications |
|---|---|---|
| 1976 | 47 | 0 |
| 1977 | 33 | 0 |
| 1978 | 39 | 0 |
| 1979 | 22 | 0 |
| 1980 | 32 | 0 |
| 1981 | 43 | 0 |
| 1982 | 22 | 0 |
| 1983 | 28 | 0 |
| 1984 | 44 | 0 |
| 1985 | 33 | 0 |
| 1986 | 34 | 0 |
| 1987 | 22 | 0 |
| 1988 | 26 | 0 |
| 1989 | 35 | 0 |
| 1990 | 22 | 0 |
| 1991 | 18 | 0 |
| 1992 | 25 | 0 |
| 1993 | 23 | 0 |
| 1994 | 25 | 0 |
| 1995 | 17 | 0 |
| 1996 | 19 | 0 |
| 1997 | 28 | 0 |
| 1998 | 28 | 0 |
| 1999 | 18 | 0 |
| 2000 | 25 | 0 |
| 2001 | 23 | 7 |
| 2002 | 19 | 30 |
| 2003 | 24 | 36 |
| 2004 | 13 | 37 |
| 2005 | 19 | 33 |
| 2006 | 13 | 23 |
| 2007 | 15 | 30 |
| 2008 | 9 | 36 |
| 2009 | 10 | 24 |
| 2010 | 7 | 30 |
| 2011 | 15 | 24 |
| 2012 | 19 | 34 |
| 2013 | 22 | 40 |
| 2014 | 28 | 48 |
| 2015 | 27 | 47 |
| 2016 | 33 | 58 |
| 2017 | 31 | 75 |
| 2018 | 31 | 74 |
| 2019 | 62 | 96 |
| 2020 | 48 | 112 |
| 2021 | 57 | 116 |
| 2022 | 67 | 101 |
| 2023 | 80 | 105 |
| 2024 | 83 | 107 |
| 2025 | 78 | 85 |
| 2026 | 54 | 43 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
- B29C 44/38Into a closed space, i.e. to make articles of definite length873
- B29C 44/46Into an open space or onto moving surfaces, i.e. to make articles668
- B29C 44/367Using spray nozzles46
- B29C 44/362Regulating the feed w.r.t. the foam layer thickness7
- B29C 44/365Using elongate feed conduits provided with throttle devices5
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By later US patents
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- Microcellular closed cell foams and their method of manufacture215US 4,473,665 AMassachusetts Institute of Technology · 1984
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