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CLASS 165, | HEAT EXCHANGE |
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SECTION I - CLASS DEFINITION
This class includes apparatus or process not provided for in other classes for transferring heat, or apparatus or process not provided for in other classes relating to an auxiliary device particularly adapted to be used with such heat transfer apparatus.
| (1) Note. A patent including a claim having nominal recitation of structure external to this class in combination with significantly claimed heat transfer apparatus of this class is included in this class. A patent including a claim having significant recitation of structure external to this class is excluded from this class unless specifically provided for in this class. See Subclass References to the Current Class, below, for a subclass reference for a combination of a vehicle structure and significantly claimed heat transfer apparatus, and for a combination of a building structure and significantly claimed heat transfer apparatus. |
| (2) Note. Method of repairing, making, or assembling a heat exchanger is not provided in this class but is classified in an appropriate manufacturing class. |
| (3) Note. Any process claim appropriate for this class are classified in the subclass providing for structure used in the process. |
SECTION II - SUBCLASS REFERENCES TO THE CURRENT CLASS
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| 3, | for heating and cooling including addition or removal of water vapor from air. |
| 41+, | for a combination of a vehicle structure and significantly claimed heat transfer apparatus. |
| 47+, | for a combination of a building structure and significantly claimed heat transfer apparatus. |
| 58, | and 200, see note for the line between Classes 62 and 165. |
| 58+, | for a heating and cooling system with an ancillary separator. |
| 200, | see "note" for the line between Class 165 and related art. |
SECTION III - REFERENCES TO OTHER CLASSES
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| 34, | Drying and Gas or Vapor Contact With Solids, appropriate subclasses. See Lines With Other Classes and Within This Class in the class definition of Class 34 for the line. |
| 62, | Refrigeration, appropriate subclasses, for processes limited to refrigeration and apparatus having features specialized to refrigeration. In general if the heat exchanging means is such that it is adapted for interchangeably or convertibly heating or cooling it is not specialized to refrigeration. For example, features such as ice supports, material phase changing means (refrigeration producers), atmospheric condensate handling or an article handler with means peculiar to refrigerating the article would be considered specialized to refrigeration. As to structure adapted to both heat and cool, see Subclass References to the Current Class in this class (165). See Subclass References to the Current Class for a subclass reference to the the line between Classes 62 and 165. |
| 65, | Glass Manufacturing, subclasses 512+ for specialized cooling of newly formed glass fibers or filaments; subclasses 509+ for specialized heating of newly formed glass fibers or filaments; subclasses 348+ for means specialized to the cooling of manufactured glass products; subclasses 484+ for means specialized to exchange heat in a fiber or filament forming operation and appropriate subclasses for processes or means specialized to the application of or removal of heat in glass manufacturing. |
| 95, | Gas Separation: Processes, for processes of gas separation including heat exchange. Cold wall-hot wall thermal diffusion processes will be found in Class 95, subclass 289 . Class 165 will take processes where only indirect heat exchange is involved, whether or not gas separation is said to occur. See Subclass References to the Current Class in this class (165) for a subclass reference for heating and cooling including addition or removal of water vapor from air. |
| 96, | Gas Separation: Apparatus, for apparatus for gas separation including a heat exchanger. Cold wall-hot wall thermal diffusion apparatus will be found in Class 96, subclass 221 . Class 165 will take apparatus where only indirect heat exchange is involved, whether or not gas separation is said to occur. See Subclass References to the Current Class in this class (165) for a heating and cooling system with an ancillary separator. |
| 99, | Foods and Beverages: Apparatus, appropriate subclasses for food treating apparatus having heating or cooling means combined with additional apparatus specialized to food. |
| 100, | Presses, subclasses 92+ for presses means to heat, cool or dry the material. |
| 122, | Liquid Heaters and Vaporizers, subclasses 32+ for an indirectly heated closed liquid container with an internal vapor separator, and appropriate subclasses for a closed liquid heating vessel with a heat generator and for an accessory or element that of necessity must form a part of the liquid heating combination. |
| 126, | Stoves and Furnaces, subclass 33 for a stove with a steam table; subclasses 204+ for a body warmer: subclasses 226+ for a tool heater; subclass 247 for a frictional heater; subclasses 263.01+ for a chemical reaction type heater; subclasses 561+, 569+ and 714 for a solar heater; subclass 343.5 for a melting furnace; and appropriate subclasses, for open liquid heating structures not equally adapted for cooling, for heating stoves, for means for the application of heat for house warming and cooking purposes, and for specialized accessories and elements of such means. |
| 137, | Fluid Handling, subclasses 334+ particularly subclass 340 for fluid handling apparatus combined with means to heat or cool a part of the system or its contents by a heat exchange. |
| 138, | Pipes and Tubular Conduits, subclasses 37+ for general utility pipe having flow regulator or baffle. |
| 159, | Concentrating Evaporators, appropriate subclasses, for means for the generation and transfer of heat of the specific purpose of concentration by evaporation. |
| 196, | Mineral Oils: Apparatus, subclasses 104+ for a still designed for mineral oil distillation and subclasses 138+ for condensing peculiarly adapted and limited to the mineral oil art. |
| 202, | Distillation: Apparatus, subclasses 163+ and 232+ for apparatus for volatilizing a substance for the purpose of recovering material from the vapor by condensation or absorption. |
| 203, | Distillation: Processes, Separatory, subclasses 41 and 42, for a process of volatilizing a substance and recovering material from the vapor by some type of sorption. |
| 210, | Liquid Purification or Separation, subclasses 175+ , 612+, 664, 737, 742, 766, and 774 for processes and apparatus of that class with heat or heat exchange. |
| 219, | Electric Heating, appropriate subclasses for an electric heater or an electrically heated tool. |
| 221, | Article Dispensing, subclass 150 for subject matter of that class with cooling or heating. |
| 222, | Dispensing, subclass 146 for dispensers with heating or cooling means. |
| 236, | Automatic Temperature and Humidity Regulation, subclass 44 for automatic humidity controlling mechanism; subclass 46 for temperature or a humidity controlling mechanism including a timing means; and appropriate subclasses for a temperature or humidity control mechanism for a control of general utility. The line between Class 165 and 236 is: Class 165 takes: (a) Nominal recitation of a means for heating and cooling, and a means for automatically controlling the means for heating and cooling. (b) Specific heat exchanger structure in combination with a means for automatically controlling a heat exchanger. (c) Specific heat exchange structure in combination with a means for automatically controlling a heating and a cooling means. Class 236 takes: A patent with nominal recitation of a heat exchanger in combination with a means for automatically controlling a heating or cooling means. |
| 237, | Heating Systems, subclasses 70+ for a heat distributing means peculiarly adapted for heating, and appropriate subclasses for (1) a heat producer combined with means for distributing a fluid heated thereby and (2) apparatus including systems for heating a room, chamber, house or other inclosing structure when such apparatus is not equally adapted for cooling. See Subclass References to the Current Class for a subclass reference to the line between Classes 237 and 165. |
| 239, | Fluid Sprinkling, Spraying, and Diffusing, subclasses 13 and 128+ for processes and apparatus of that class with heating or cooling. |
| 241, | Solid Material Comminution or Disintegration, subclasses 23 and 65+ for processes and apparatus of that class with heating or cooling. |
| 252, | Compositions, particularly subclasses 67+ and 71+. Patents are placed in Class 252 (1) claiming admixtures of ingredients, or claims to an old compound limited to use as a heat exchange agent, (2) processes of heat exchange comprising known heat exchange steps broadly recited and distinguished solely by the composition or compound used, and (3) apparatus with the composition or compound therein, where characteristics of apparatus structure are not claimed. The preceding are placed in Class 252 even though freezing or boiling points or temperatures of use are specified. |
| 261, | Gas and Liquid Contact Apparatus, appropriate subclasses for apparatus specially adapted to produce an intimate contact between gases and liquids to exchange properties or mutually modify conditions; particularly, subclasses 127+ for a gas liquid contact device with an immediately associated means for externally supplying heat to or removing it from a contact fluid before, after or during contact to perfect the contact operation; and subclasses 158+ for a contact device in which heat is interchanged between contact fluids out of contact before, after or during contact. |
| 291, | Track Sanders, subclasses 19+ for subject matter of that class with a heater. |
| 312, | Supports: Cabinet Structure, subclass 236 for the combination of a cabinet and a heater or heat exchanger, having no feature relating to the promotion or control of the flow of the fluid in the cabinet relative to the heat exchanger. |
| 366, | Agitating, appropriate subclasses for agitating process or apparatus
of general utility;
subclasses 144+ for an agitator in combination with a heating or
cooling means. The line between Classes 165 and 366 on combined
agitator and heat exchanger is:
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| 373, | Industrial Electric Heating Furnaces, appropriate subclasses for electrical furnaces. |
| 376, | Induced Nuclear Reactions: Processes, Systems, and Elements, subclasses 210+ , 298+, 322, 378+, and 402+, for heat exchange devices used in combination with nuclear reaction systems. |
| 383, | Flexible Bags, for hot water and ice bags, per se. |
| 422, | Chemical Apparatus and Process Disinfecting, Deodorizing, Preserving, or Sterilizing, subclass 305 for fume generators. |
| 426, | Food or Edible Material: Processes, Compositions, and Products, appropriate subclasses. |
| 432, | Heating, appropriate subclass, for a residual material heating apparatus or method. |
| 454, | Ventilation, appropriate subclasses for apparatus for supplying air to, removing it from, or distributing in an enclosure with or without heating and without a specific heat exchange means. |
SUBCLASSES
4 | REGENERATOR: | ||||||||||
| This subclass is indented under the class definition. Apparatus comprising a non-fluent heat storing mass that
in alternation has heat added to it by one fluid stream and removed
from it by another.
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5 | Cleaning: |
| This subclass is indented under subclass 4. Apparatus wherein provision is made for the cleaning of the heat storage mass. | |
6 | Movable heat storage mass with enclosure: |
| This subclass is indented under subclass 4. Apparatus wherein the heat storage mass is movable first into one of the fluid streams and then into another of the streams and there is an enclosing support for the mass with inlets and outlets for the exchanging streams. | |
7 | With fluid handling system: |
| This subclass is indented under subclass 6. Apparatus with fluid handling elements additional to the mass and its enclosing support. | |
8 | Rotary heat collector: |
| This subclass is indented under subclass 6. Apparatus in which the two streams pass through circumferentially spaced parts of the mass, which is rotatable. | |
9 | Seals: | ||
| This subclass is indented under subclass 8. Apparatus having provisions for preventing leakage of the
fluid flowing through the rotary mass.
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9.1 | Checker brick structure: | ||||||||
| This subclass is indented under subclass 4. Apparatus comprising a heat storage mass made up of plural,
shaped, modular units of refractory material arranged to form an
openwork structure of interconnected passages; or a module, per
se, if particularly adapted for use in such a mass.
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9.2 | Gradated flow area, heat capacity or heat resistance: |
| This subclass is indented under subclass 9.1. Apparatus in which the modular units are (1) arranged to form a flow passage increasing or decreasing in size along the assembly or (2) are formed of different material along the direction of flow providing progressive resistance to damage by heat or having progressive heat storing characteristics. | |
9.3 | Having gas supply or exhaust manifold structure: |
| This subclass is indented under subclass 9.1. Apparatus with means forming a distinct fluid distributing or collecting chamber at an end of the heat storage mass. | |
9.4 | In casing: |
| This subclass is indented under subclass 9.1. Apparatus in which the modular units are arranged in a gas confining shell. | |
10 | Heat collector: |
| This subclass is indented under subclass 4. Apparatus relating to the structure of the heat storing mass. | |
11.1 | WITH ALARM, INDICATOR, SIGNAL REGISTER, RECORDER, TEST OR INSPECTION MEANS: | ||||
| This subclass is indented under the class definition. Apparatus with an alarm, indicator, register, recorder,
signal or tester; or with means which permits inspection of normally
hidden parts of the apparatus or of the fluid inside the apparatus.
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11.2 | Remotely controlled inspection means: |
| This subclass is indented under subclass 11.1. Apparatus which the inspection means is manipulated from outside the heat exchanger by an operator. | |
41 | WITH VEHICLE FEATURE: | ||||||||||
| This subclass is indented under the class definition. Apparatus having (1) means dependent on vehicle motion,
(2) a defined vehicle traction feature, or (3) a defined vehicle
body feature other than that merely forming the structure enclosing
a space to be heated or cooled or supporting a heating or cooling means.
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42 | Heating and cooling: |
| This subclass is indented under subclass 41. Apparatus having means for both heating and cooling that is more than a mere carrier for heat between a source and a sink. | |
43 | Vehicle contained common power and heat supply: | ||||
| This subclass is indented under subclass 42. Apparatus in which there is on the vehicle a common power
supply for the vehicle and the cooling apparatus.
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44 | Utilizing motion of vehicle: | ||
| This subclass is indented under subclass 41. Apparatus including means which makes use of the motion
of a vehicle to perform some function of heat exchange.
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45 | GEOGRAPHICAL: | ||||||||||||||
| This subclass is indented under the class definition. Apparatus wherein the structure is related to some feature
of the earth.
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46 | FLEXIBLE ENVELOPE OR COVER TYPE: | ||||||||||||||||||
| This subclass is indented under the class definition. Apparatus comprising a nonrigid cover or applicator unit;
e.g., sheet, bag, etc.
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| This subclass is indented under the class definition. Apparatus with means performing an operation external to
the subject matter of this class or with a static construction installation, wherein
there is included only so much structure foreign to Class 165 to
associate it with the apparatus of Class 165.
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48.1 | Heating and cooling: |
| This subclass is indented under subclass 47. Apparatus in which the installed heat exchange apparatus performs both a heating and cooling operation that is more than a mere carrying of heat between a source and a sink. | |
48.2 | Solar: |
| This subclass is indented under subclass 48.1. Apparatus including a solar heater or a solar cooler. | |
49 | Radiant building panel: |
| This subclass is indented under subclass 48.1. Apparatus wherein a heat exchanging element is installed as an area of a room surface. | |
50 | Room heat exchangers with central fluid supply: | ||
| This subclass is indented under subclass 48.1. Apparatus wherein there is a heat exchanger in each of a
plurality of rooms and a fluid from a central heated or cooled supply
communicates with the heat exchangers.
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51 | Engine: | ||||||||||
| This subclass is indented under subclass 47. Apparatus in which the heat exchanger is associated with
an engine.
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