B65G 47/26
Arranging the articles
Official title: arranging the articles, e.g. varying spacing between individual articles
B65G47/26 (Arranging the articles) appears on 1,680 US grants and 1,178 published applications in this corpus.
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- 6 Oct 2026
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| 1982 | 35 | 0 |
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| 2002 | 27 | 23 |
| 2003 | 42 | 48 |
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| 2023 | 61 | 75 |
| 2024 | 54 | 66 |
| 2025 | 49 | 48 |
| 2026 | 46 | 46 |
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