This class includes railway rolling stock and track, each of
which is modified for interrelation and cooperation with each other,
as in the case of traction and propulsion systems not otherwise
classified; railway track other than normal surface track; car-stopping
devices of abutting type associated with the track; amusement railway apparatus,
such as used in recreation parks; track layers, shifters, and repairers;
railway fixtures, such as turntables, transfer tables, and terminal
features; appliances for use with railway track, such as hose bridges,
car replacers, and car derailers, and miscellaneous features relating
to railway track not elsewhere classified.
Amusement Devices: Toys,
subclasses 444 through 447for a toy railway wherein the energy for moving
the rolling stock is supplied by the child, such as a wind-up toy,
or where a feature peculiar to Class 446 is claimed.
This subclass is indented under the class definition. Apparatus and tools for distributing track material along
the grade, for placing the rails and ties and assembling the track,
and for adjusting the track and tamping the same into final position.
This subclass is indented under subclass 2. Apparatus and tools in which the rails and ties are spiked
or fastened together in completed sections before they are positioned
on the roadbed.
This subclass is indented under subclass 2. Apparatus in which the detachable track sections are continuously
shifted from the rear of the moving vehicle to the front thereof.
This subclass is indented under subclass 2. Apparatus comprising one or more cars or a train with means
for distributing the rails and ties to the roadbed in advance of
the train.
This subclass is indented under subclass 2. Apparatus comprising a track-supported vehicle which includes
means to raise connected rails and ties to a higher position as
it passes slowly over the track.
This subclass is indented under subclass 7.1. Apparatus wherein the thack-supported vehicle further includes
means to shift the completed track laterally to a new position as
it passes along the track.
This subclass is indented under subclass 7.1. Apparatus wherein the track-supported vehicle includes means
inserted between the roadbed and connected rails and ties for raising
the track from the roadbed as it passes along underneath the track;
the track raising means further functioning to either (1) evenly
distribute, level, or smooth the roadbed material supporting the
track befor allowing the levelled or smoothed roadbed, or (2) scrape
away a portion of the roadbed material supporting the track before
allowing the raised track to settle back onto the remaining roadbed
or sub-grade.
This subclass is indented under subclass 2. Track cars which slue or shift the completed track laterally
to a new position as they pass along the track.
This subclass is indented under subclass 2. Apparatus comprising a track rail supported vehicle or carriage
specially adapted to secure the track rails to the ties by means
of forcing large elongated nail-like fasteners into the ties.
This subclass is indented under subclass 2. Apparatus comprising a track-supported vehicle or carriage
having means to attach spring clip members (which are intended to
span and resiliently grip a trach rail base) to a trach rail base
and abut them against a side of the ties or tie plates, whereby
the attached spring clip members prevent longitudinal movement of
a track rail relative to the ties.
This subclass is indented under subclass 18. Apparatus for enabling a train-man in case of danger to
land safely from a rapidly moving train or locomotive.
This subclass is indented under subclass 20. Apparatus comprising a terminal having a large turntable
which travels with the train as the latter runs around the periphery
of the turntable.
This subclass is indented under the class definition. Railway under the class difinition either (1) wherein a
vehicle travels along a guideway and is supported entirely or in
part by a fluid medium while still being contstrained to move along
the guideway; or (2) wherein a vehicle travels along a rail or cable
way and represents an air vehicle, but is incapable of being, at
least in part, aerodynamically supported.
This subclass is indented under subclass 23.1. Railway wherein the vehicle is supported above the guideway
by a current of fluid moving between a surface of the vehicle and
a supportting surface, the movement of the fluid forcing the two
surfaces away from one another so as to sustain the vehicle out
of contact with, but in close proximity to the supporting surface.
(1)
Note. The "supporting surface" may either
constitute the guideway or be located on or near the guideway.
This subclass is indented under the class definition. Apparatus comprising an arrangement of a plurality of railway
tracks, means to facilitate the making-up of a train of railway
cars, means to facilitate the sorting of railway cars, or the general
arrangement of a railway yard designed to receive, distribute, or
classify railway cars.
This subclass is indented under subclass 26.1. Apparatus comprising car retarding means located on or in
the vicinity of a railway track of a car yard for reducing the speed
of a railway car moving along the track, not on the vehicle.
This subclass is indented under the class definition. Apparatus for removing and replacing trucks or wheels and
axles on railway rolling stock or yard fixtures for removing car
or locomotive bodies from their trucks.
This subclass is indented under subclass 36. Turntable operators comprising electric motors and control
therefor and electric controlling systems for other motors.
This subclass is indented under subclass 40. Turntables in which the vehicle traction drive wheels operate
friction drive wheels on the turntable to effect the operation of
the latter.
This subclass is indented under subclass 36. Turntables in which rotation is effected by power driven
traction wheels, which may also act as the end carriers of the turntable.
This subclass is indented under subclass 35. Portable turntables carried by or separate from the vehicles,
designed for temporary use wherever desired.
This subclass is indented under subclass 35. Center bearings and end supports for turntables which involve
a substantial modification of the turntable structure to accomodate
them.
This subclass is indented under subclass 35. Locking devices for holding turntables in fixed positions.
These locks are usually associated with the aligning rail ends.
This subclass is indented under the class definition. Trucks carrying tracks to receive vehicles and carry them
laterally or longitudinally to fixed tracks adapted to register
with the tracks on the trucks.
This subclass is indented under subclass 48. Transfer tables pivoted at one end, adapted to receive and
carry a vehicle during the swinging of the transfer table.
This subclass is indented under subclass 51. Smoke removers for use in roundhouses and train sheds over
locomotive smoke stacks. They may or may not be provided with means for
producing an artificial draft.
This subclass is indented under subclass 53. Apparatus comprising special forms of track and vehicles
in which the moving vehicle jumps across gaps between sections of
the track.
This subclass is indented under subclass 53. Apparatus comprising a track provided with substantially
vertical loops, around which the vehicles travel.
This subclass is indented under subclass 53. Apparatus comprising a track in helical form, which may
vary to substantially spiral form with substantially vertical axes.
This subclass is indented under subclass 56. Apparatus in which a helical track rotates, and thus causes
the car to move by gravity, similar to the action of the Archimedean
screw.
This subclass is indented under subclass 53. Apparatus comprising a track made of flexible sheet metal
in which waves or undulations are produced to cause the movement
of the cars located on the track.
This subclass is indented under subclass 53. Apparatus in which passenger carrying tubs usually provided
with roller bottoms, coast by gravity down inclined track surfaces
provided with surface variations or obstacles.
This subclass is indented under subclass 53. Devices which include parallel track arrangements, speed
controlling devices, electric circuit control, and other features
designed particularly for producing racing effects. The vehicle
may or may not carry passengers.
This subclass is indented under subclass 53. Appartus having railway tracks distorted in alinement in
all directions for producing surprising and pleasing shocks during
travel.
This subclass is indented under subclass 64. Apparatus in which the vehicles are moved in arcuate paths
by interrelated wheels, each of which carries the vehicle through
a certain arc and then passes it to another wheel.
This subclass is indented under subclass 53. Apparatus in which the cars have a back-and-forth movement
over track sections connected at their ends by switches, where the
car movement is reversed.
This subclass is indented under subclass 53. Apparatus having boats and cars designed to run entirely
submerged and having guideways for determining their path of movement.
This subclass is indented under subclass 53. Apparatus having cars with boatlike bottoms and a path of
travel an intermediate portion of which causes the car to trail
over the surface of a body of water.
This subclass is indented under subclass 53. Apparatus comprising canal walls and moving currents of
water to guide and carry the boat or car throughout its course of
travel.
This subclass is indented under subclass 53. Apparatus in which the teeter or seesaw track is mounted
upon a wheeled truck and the oscillating track is connected in driving
relation to the wheeled truck to propel it along a track.
This subclass is indented under subclass 53. Apparatus in which the oscillations of a swing suspended
from a wheeled truck cause the truck to move along a track.
This subclass is indented under subclass 53. Devices for giving a passenger a vertical jolt or movement
on a vehicle for the purpose of simulating horseback riding or giving
a thrilling effect.
This subclass is indented under subclass 53. Scenic illusion effects other than static scenery, associated
with traveling vehicles for giving the passenger a false impression
as to his traveling conditions and surroundings.
This subclass is indented under the class definition. Subject matter for predetermined delivery of rolling stock
at selected locations on a plurality of tracks.
This subclass is indented under subclass 88.01. Subject matter wherein the delivery of the rolling stock
is regulated by a device which is electrically powered.
(1)
Note. The device for this subclass may include a control
means comprising an electrically operated mechanical mechanism such
as an electrically operated fluid-pressure control means.
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