B65H 2405/55
Rail guided gripping means running in closed loop
Official title: Rail guided gripping means running in closed loop, e.g. without permanent interconnecting means
B65H2405/55 (Rail guided gripping means running in closed loop) appears on 108 US grants and 84 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in B65H- Granted patents
- 108
- Published applications
- 84
- Assignees
- 51
- Inventors
- 153
- Latest grant
- 22 Sep 2026
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| 2022 | 3 | 1 |
| 2023 | 2 | 2 |
| 2024 | 1 | 4 |
| 2025 | 3 | 0 |
| 2026 | 2 | 3 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
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Most cited
By later US patents
- Apparatus for the individual conveying of printed products arriving in an imbricated product stream79US 4,201,286 AFerag AG · 1980
- Custodial book transfer system46US 5,261,520 AAM International, Inc. · 1993
- Flexible conveying system36US 5,660,382 AFerag AG · 1997
- Device for equalizing the spacing of successive stream-fed printed products26US 4,007,824 AFerag AG · 1977
- Apparatus for transferring piece goods, especially printed products, arriving in succession from a first individual conveyor to a second individual conveyor26US 4,039,182 AFerag AG · 1977