B65H 20/00
Advancing webs
B65H20/00 (Advancing webs) appears on 1,889 US grants and 1,390 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in B65H- Granted patents
- 1,889
- Published applications
- 1,390
- Assignees
- 936
- Inventors
- 3,560
- Latest grant
- 6 Oct 2026
Filings by year
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| 2002 | 36 | 27 |
| 2003 | 32 | 32 |
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| 2005 | 21 | 30 |
| 2006 | 15 | 36 |
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| 2022 | 64 | 61 |
| 2023 | 50 | 74 |
| 2024 | 73 | 71 |
| 2025 | 52 | 53 |
| 2026 | 40 | 44 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
- B65H 20/02Advancing webs: by friction roller681
- B65H 20/20Advancing webs: by web-penetrating means283
- B65H 20/30Arrangements for accumulating surplus web221
- B65H 20/16Advancing webs: by web-gripping means176
- B65H 20/06Advancing webs: by friction band171
- B65H 20/24Advancing webs: by looping or like devices140
- B65H 20/12Advancing webs: by suction roller84
- B65H 20/14Advancing webs: by direct action on web of moving fluid82
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- B65H 20/10Advancing webs: by a feed band against which web is held by68
- B65H 20/005Electrical drive motor control devices therefor51
- B65H 20/26Mechanisms for advancing webs to or from the inside of web rolls42
- B65H 20/36Advancing webs: having means to optionally advance the web either in one25
- B65H 20/28Mechanisms for delivering webs in superposed folds and refeeding them from the11
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