B41J 11/0005
Curl smoothing, i.e. smoothing down corrugated printing material
Official title: {Curl smoothing, i.e. smoothing down corrugated printing material, e.g. by pressing means acting on wrinkled printing material}
B41J11/0005 (Curl smoothing, i.e. smoothing down corrugated printing material) appears on 645 US grants and 643 published applications in this corpus.
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