CPC Definition - Subclass E01F
This place covers:
Additional equipment for roads or railways, including platforms, refuge islands, drainage means of the sub-base of roads or ballastway of railways, arrangements protecting against snow or landslides, arrangements against traffic noise.
Landing stages for helicopters.
Arrangements for facilitating the use of roads, including road signs, traffic signals, arrangement for enforcing caution, arrangements for obstructing or restricting traffic, safety arrangements for errant vehicles or against vehicular impact.
The structure and construction of railways and roads as such is covered by the respective subclasses E01B and E01C.
Ground installations for aircraft in general are covered by the subclass B64F.
Systems for traffic control or monitoring are covered by the subclass G08G.
Displaying and advertising signs are covered by the subclass G09F.
This place covers:
Platforms for e.g. railway or bus stations.
Refuge islands in traffic areas and kerbs specially adapted for such islands.
Filling station islands.
Portable or retractable platforms for traffic officers.
This place does not cover:
Kerbs informing road users | |
Traffic lane delineators | |
General arrangement of filling stations | |
General arrangement of railway stations and platforms | |
Horizontal loading or unloading platforms | |
Traffic islands in roads | |
Waiting shelters for bus stops |
This place covers:
Landing stages for helicopters located on the ground, over the water surface or above buildings
This place does not cover:
Layout of airfields | |
Paving of take-off areas for vertically starting aircraft | |
Buildings for storing aircraft |
This place covers:
Draining of the road foundation, which includes the road sub-base and subgrade or ground work (e.g. embankment), and draining of the ballastway of railways by using trenches, culverts, conduits or other specially adapted means.
Culverts, head structures for culverts or for drainage conduit outlets in slopes.
This place does not cover:
Drainage of the ballastway of railways in general | |
Surface drainage of roads | |
Drainage of soil | |
Underground drainage | |
Underground siphons | |
Conduits for sewerage | |
Tunnels or galleries | |
Pipes in general |
This place covers:
Snow fences, sand fences.
Devices specially adapted for protecting against wind, e.g. screens, deflectors or attenuators at tunnel or lock entrances.
Devices affording protection against snowslides, avalanches or falling rocks, e.g. avalanche preventing structures, galleries, nets, rock traps.
This place does not cover:
Securing signs to safety barriers | |
Crash barriers with nets | |
Protecting plants | |
Securing of slopes or inclines | |
Snow traps for roofs | |
Screens for beach use | |
Fences in general |
This place covers:
Wall type noise barriers.
Arrangements including constructions for generation of phase shifting.
Noise barriers specially adapted for sustaining vegetation or for accommodating plants.
Embankment-type or crib-type noise barriers.
Retaining walls specially adapted to absorb or reflect noise.
This place does not cover:
Receptacles for cultivation of plants | |
Ground installations for reducing aircraft noise | |
Securing slopes or inclines | |
Retaining or protecting walls | |
General building constructions for absorbing or reflecting noise, noise absorption or reflection for buildings | |
Building elements for planting walls | |
Solar cells specially adapted to be used in motorway sound barriers |
This place covers:
Traffic guidance, warning or control posts or bollards, delineator posts, milestones.
Supports for signs or signals, e.g. posts, frames, gantries.
Free-standing signs or signals, e.g. traffic cones, foldable or inflatable devices.
Devices intended to be readily removable, e.g. for insertion into road-stud sockets.
Storing, transporting, placing or retrieving portable devices.
Arrangements for fastening signs or signals to safety barriers or the like.
Road surface markings, also including methods of forming, installing or applying markings in, on or to paving.
Kerbs or road edgings specially adapted for informing road users, e.g. illuminated.
Arrangements specially adapted for audible or vibrational signalling, e.g. rumble strips, or for enforcing reduced speed, e.g. speed bumps.
Traffic studs, marking blocks, also including methods of forming or installing same in or on the road surface.
Traffic lines, lane delineators for discouraging but not preventing crossing, movable traffic lines for repeated use at different locations.
This place does not cover:
Barrier bollards | |
Buffer bollards | |
Markings specially adapted for playing grounds | |
Portable emergency signal devices on board vehicles, e.g. warning triangles | |
Reflecting or signal paints | |
Devices for applying prefabricated markings on finished paving | |
Posts or poles in general | |
Post holders to be placed on the ground in general | |
Boundary markers in general | |
Portable traffic signalling devices | |
Means for attaching signs to a supporting structure in general | |
Adjustably mounting of signs in general | |
Rotatably or swingably mounting of signs in general |
Attention is drawn to the following places, which may be of interest for search:
Foundations in general |
This place covers:
Road engineering aspects of embedding pads or other sensitive devices in paving or other road surfaces, e.g. traffic detectors, vehicle-operated pressure-sensitive actuators, devices for monitoring atmospheric or road conditions.
This place covers:
Portable barriers, pedestrian barriers, barriers for channelling or controlling crowds
Removable barriers with permanently installed base members.
Barriers with flexible members, e.g. cords
Devices movable to allow or prevent passage, with obstructing members situated on, flush with, or below the traffic surface, e.g. with inflatable members on the surface
Devices with obstructing members moving in translatory motion, e.g. telescopic barriers posts, or with members moving by swinging them into a given position, e.g. swinging gates, tiltable sections of the road surface, tiltable posts.
Vehicle barriers adapted for allowing passage in one direction only
Arrangements for forcibly arresting or disabling vehicles, e.g. spiked mats.
This place does not cover:
Retractable speed humps | |
Portable signs co-operating with permanent base | |
Safety means for railroad crossing traffic, e.g. gates for level crossings | |
Corrals | |
Gates or doors for allowing passage through fences, barriers or the like |
This place covers:
Individual devices arranged in spaced relationship, e.g. buffer bollards.
Continuous barriers extending along roads or between traffic lanes, including barriers essentially made of longitudinal beams or rigid strips, essentially made of cables, nettings or the like, essentially made of walls or wall-like elements.
Movable lane separating barriers, e.g. shiftable barriers.
Arrangements specially adapted for local protection, e.g. for bridge piers, for traffic islands.
This place does not cover:
Arrangements for forcibly arresting vehicles | |
Guard barriers on road-bridges | |
Fencing in general |