This class includes implements or apparatus for applying a
pushing or pulling force directly to either (a) an object to be
moved, or (b) a generally stationary object upon which pressure
or tension is to be exerted. It comprises jacks (including lifting
jacks, floor jacks, and analogous implements), extracting apparatus
(including stump pullers and nail extractors), tensioning apparatus (including
belt, carpet and wire stretchers), hoist trucks, and cable-type
load hauling or hoisting apparatus. Also included in this class
is the subcombination of a cable guide which (1) is a component
of, or used in combination with, an implement or an apparatus of
this class, and (2) is intended to guide a cable which is directly connected
to either the object or an object-supporting or -engaging member.
This class does not include the power-applying elements of
machines, such as pump or presses, nor the adjusting elements of
articles such as tables and chairs. It may, however, include supports
of general application not elsewhere classifiable when they comprise
means for hoisting the load-carrying portion of the support.
Implements for performing compressing operations upon material,
e.g., clamps and bundling devices, are excluded, also devices for
merely grasping or engaging with something to be moved.
SECTION II - LINES WITH OTHER CLASSES AND WITHIN THIS CLASS
Pushing or pulling implements of the jack or crowbar type,
including those having special engaging features which engage between
spring elements only, will be classified in Class 254. Those implements
which engage between a spring and other structure to move or guide the
spring into assembled or disassembled position will be classified
in Class 29, subclasses 700+.
Patents that disclose a general use and state the implement
can be used on an engine valve spring whether they coact with other
structure for assembly or disassembly will be grouped as an art
collection in Class 29, subclasses 215+.
Patents to an implement for spreading elements of a leaf spring
are classified in Class 81, subclass 3.7.
Card, Picture, or Sign Exhibiting,
subclasses 349+ for a copyholder including means to elevate a platen
to move copy supported by the platen relative to a line guide.
Tools, appropriate subclasses for a hand manipulatable tool for
exerting a push or pull, but having no force multiplier or energy
transducer to develop the pushing or pulling force. See particularly
subclass 9.4 for a tool having means for pulling an insulating
sheath from a wire, subclasses 300+ for pliers, subclass
485 for spreaders, subclass 486 for a resilient article tensioner
or compressor, and subclass 487 for a tool having clamping jaws
for gripping an article to be pulled.
Tool Driving or Impacting,
subclasses 141+ and see the search notes therein for an advance causing
or controlling means for a tool driving or impacting means.
Elevator, Industrial Lift Truck, or Stationary Lift
for Vehicle,
subclasses 203+ for a stationary lift for a roadway vehicle which
elevates the entire vehicle to a significantly higher level where
it is inspected or repaired and appropriate subclasses for an elevator
for lifting a load from a charging level to a significantly higher discharge
level.
This subclass is indented under the class definition. Wheeled hoists comprising a truck platform or equivalent
load support and mechanism for raising and lowering the load support.
Those in which the load support is raised or lowered by mere adjustment
of the wheels, as by the movement of legs or levers on which the wheels
are mounted, are excluded, also those having means for elevating
one part of the vehicle body relative to another for the purpose of
dumping or leveling.
(1)
Note. Vehicles for transporting the load while it is suspended
from a hoisting means are classified, according to the hoisting
structure, either in appropriate structural subclasses elsewhere
in this class or in Class 212, Traversing Hoists.
(2)
Note. Wheeled hoists classifiable in this class and falling
in this group on disclosure have been placed here whether the wheels
are claimed or not.
(3)
Note. See search notes below for wheeled structures in which
a raising or lowering is obtained by mere adjustment of the wheels
relative to the vehicle frame or other supported structure.
Miscellaneous Hardware (e.g., Bushing, Carpet Fastener, Caster, Door Closer, Panel Hanger, Attachable or Adjunct Handle, Hinge, Window Sash Balance, etc.),
subclass 32 for wheeled structures in which a raising or lowering
is obtained by mere adjustment of the wheels relative to the vehicle
frame or other supported structure.
Railways,
subclass 263 for wheeled structures in which a raising or lowering
is obtained by mere adjustment of the wheels relative to the vehicle frame
or other supported structure.
Railway Rolling Stock,
subclass 73 for wheeled structures in which a raising or lowering
is obtained by mere adjustment of the wheels relative to the vehicle
frame or other supported structure; subclasses 261.1+ for
tilting body railway cars.
Elevator, Industrial Lift Truck, or Stationary
Lift for Vehicle,
subclasses 222+ for a fork lift truck and subclasses 240+ for
a transportable elevator.
Land Vehicles,
subclasses 43+ for wheeled vehicles in which a raising or lowering
of the vehicle body is obtained by mere vertical adjustment of the
wheels relative to the running gear.
This subclass is indented under subclass 2. Hoisting truck in which the raising movement varies the
inclination of the load-supporting surface, generally bringing it
toward a horizontal position.
Material or Article Handling,
subclasses 469+ for a self-loading or unloading vehicle having
a load-receiving portion which is pivotable relative to the horizontal.
This subclass is indented under subclass 2. Hoisting truck in which the load support is attached to
and hoisted by cables passing over drums or pulleys.
Machine Element or Mechanism,
subclasses 89.2+ for a drum and cable used to reciprocate or oscillate
one component of an apparatus relative to another component of the
apparatus.
This subclass is indented under subclass 2. Hoisting truck in which the load support is raised by rack
and pinion or rack and toothed segment mechanism.
This subclass is indented under subclass 2. Hoisting truck in which the load support is raised directly
by lever mechanism, the movement of the lever or levers being limited
to a single throw.
(1)
Note. Those trucks are excluded in which the truck wheels
are mounted upon swinging legs or levers, by the mere swinging movement
of which, relative to the vehicle frame, the frame or platform is
raised.
This subclass is indented under subclass 8. Hoisting truck in which the load support is raised by the
movement of links or bars arranged in the form of a parallelogram.
METALLIC SPRING STRETCHER AND/OR COMPRESSOR, (E.G.,
LEAF, HELICAL OR COIL SPRINGS):
This subclass is indented under the class definition. Device , the claimed structure of which functions as disclosed
to engage an exert compressive, torsion or tensile forces on articles made
of metal and usually known as "springs".
Metal Working,
subclasses 213.1+ for engine valve spring compressors, and subclasses
225+ for spring appliers and removers; and see the class
definition of this class (254) for a statement of the line between
Classes 29 and 254.
Tools,
subclass 3.7 for a tool for spreading portions of a leaf spring, subclass
485 for other hand manipulated spreading tools, and subclass 486
for a hand manipulative tool for placing a resilient article under
tension or compression.
Work Holders, appropriate subclasses. Class 269 is the residual
locus for patents to a device for clamping, supporting and/or
holding an article (or articles) in position to be operated on or
treated. See notes thereunder for other related loci.
This subclass is indented under subclass 11. Implement of the floor jack type in which the board-forcing
member is provided with a rack with which an actuating pinion or
rack segment is in constant engagement.
This subclass is indented under subclass 11. Implement of the floor jack type in which the board-forcing
member is provided with a screw by means of which it is caused to
travel.
This subclass is indented under subclass 11. Implement of the floor jack type not classifiable in the
preceding subclasses in which the board-forcing member is caused
to travel in a step-by-step movement by reciprocating engaging means.
This subclass is indented under subclass 11. Implement of the floor jack type in which the board-forcing
member is a lever-actuated bar, the entire travel of the bar being
produced by a single throw of the lever.
This subclass is indented under subclass 15. Implement of the floor jack type in which the board-forcing
member is a bar actuated by a single throw lever and sliding on
some supporting portion of the jack.
This subclass is indented under subclass 11. Implement of the floor jack type in which the actuating
lever or a part rigid therewith directly engages the board, the
movement under load being limited to a single throw of the lever.
Boot and Shoe Making,
subclass 16 for machines for pulling out the lasting tacks
used for temporarily securing the upper of a shoe to the sole or insole.
This subclass is indented under subclass 18. Implement of the nail extractor type including a hammer
device for forcing the jaw or nipper into engagement with the nail
or the like.
This subclass is indented under subclass 18. Implement of the nail extractor type including screw and
nut mechanism for moving the nail-engaging member to extract the
nail.
This subclass is indented under subclass 18. Implement of the nail extractor type including an operating
lever, the entire pulling movement of the implement being produced
by a single throw of the lever.
This subclass is indented under subclass 21. Nail extractor of the single throw lever type adapted to
engage the nail between the pulling lever and a jaw pivoted thereto.
This subclass is indented under subclass 21. Nail extractor of the single throw lever type including
a plurality of nail-gripping jaws movable relative to the lever.
This subclass is indented under subclass 23. Nail extractor of the single throw lever type including
a plurality of nail-gripping jaws movable relative to the lever
and actuated to grip the nail by wedge or cam action.
This subclass is indented under subclass 21. Nail extractor of the single throw lever type in which the
nail-engaging means is merely a claw fixed to or forming part of
the lever.
This subclass is indented under the class definition. Device for forcing thill irons into axle clips against resilient
antirattling devices or for forcing antirattlers into their positions
in thill couplings.
This subclass is indented under the class definition. Jack especially designed for driving or pulling pipes, pump
rods, piles, or the like, other than by impact.
Tool Driving or Impacting,
subclasses 141+ , and see the search notes therein for an advance
causing or controlling means in combination with a tool-driving
or-impacting device.
Static Molds,
subclass 213 for tie rods or wires having a force multiplying component
permanently attached thereto or remaining with the rods or wires
when they are in use with a static mold.
Hydraulic and Earth Engineering,
subclass 184 for methods and apparatus for advancing a length
of pipe through an earth formation; and subclasses 232+ for
impact devices and other means for forcing a pile into the earth
when the structure of the pile is involved.
This subclass is indented under subclass 29. Jack for raising pipes, rods, piles, and the like.
(1)
Note. Jacks of more general application but provided with
grapples for pulling stumps or the like are classified under the
structural subclasses elsewhere in this class.
This subclass is indented under subclass 30. Pipe or rod lifters comprising clutch means for engaging
with the pipe, rod, or the like, and mechanism for reciprocating
said clutch means.
Tool Driving or Impacting,
subclasses 53+ for a tool drive in which a tool is reciprocated
by tool shaft gripping means which release or yield to permit advance.
Brakes, particularly
subclass 67 for a brake mechanically connected to a relatively
stationary structure and which holds a pipe or rod at various locations
along the pipe"s or rod"s length for short, quick
linear assembly or disassembly during a work or manufacturing operation
or preparatory to a working operation done by the pipe, rod or a
pipe supported tool.
This subclass is indented under the class definition. Implement for use in raising vehicle wheels or axles for
the purpose of lubricating the axle and including structure relating
especially to such use, such as oiling devices, wheel rests, wrenches
or means for removing the wheel.
This subclass is indented under the class definition. Lifting implement and support including structure especially
designed for use in lifting journal boxes of cars.
This subclass is indented under subclass 33. Car journal box lifting implement including means for suspending
the load from the wheel or axle; includes some jacks which lift
the journal box by rotation of the car wheel.
This subclass is indented under the class definition. Pushing implement designed especially for moving vehicles
and operating between the vehicle and a rail or other portion of
the road surface.
(1)
Note. This subclass does not include apparatus forming a
permanent part of the vehicle structure, whether serving as the
usual or an auxiliary propelling means, nor propelling devices comprising
traction wheels engaging a road surface.
This subclass is indented under subclass 35. Car pusher for the type commonly known as "pinch
bars", comprising a lever operating between a wheel and
the road surface.
This subclass is indented under subclass 36. Pinch bar type car pushers comprising a pivoted member mounted
upon or actuated by the power lever to engage and move the vehicle wheel.
Printing,
subclass 394 for quoins, combined with special chase structure;
and subclass 368 for register hooks and similar adjustable clamping devices
for printing surfaces.
This subclass is indented under subclass 43. Rail or tie shifters in which the shifting element consists
of, or is actuated by, a lever having a single throw.
This subclass is indented under the class definition. Apparatus especially designed for lifting hay racks, wagon
boxes, car bodies, and the like, from the running gear or trucks.
Material or Article Handling,
subclasses 383+ for a load-transporting-type vehicle and the external
means which cooperates in the loading or unloading of the vehicle
and wherein the means is one which cooperates with the motion of
the vehicle to reorient the load body, relative to the wheels, into
a load-releasing attitude; and subclass 386 for another such vehicle
and means, but wherein the means comprises a driven device for engaging
and moving a portable load body relative to the remainder of the vehicle.
This subclass is indented under subclass 45. Vehicle body lifters in which the bodies are supported and
hoisted directly by cables passing over drums or pulleys.
Machine Element or Mechanism,
subclasses 89.2+ for a drum and cable used to reciprocate or oscillate
one component of an apparatus relative to another component of the
apparatus.
Advancing Material of Indeterminate Length, appropriate subclasses for methods of, and apparatus
for, feeding material without utilizing the leading or trailing
ends to effect movement of the materials.
This subclass is indented under subclass 47. Cable hoist for vehicle bodies in which the cable-actuating
drum is attached to some part of the vehicle, generally the vehicle
body.
This subclass is indented under subclass 45. Vehicle body lifter comprising pivoted side bars, between
which the running gears move and by which the body is lifted.
This subclass is indented under the class definition. Apparatus comprising means for engaging and applying force
either to spread apart or to press together the beads or side walls
of resilient tire casings.
(1)
Note. The spreading apart of the beads is usually disclosed
as opening the interior of the casing for inspection, while the
pressing together of the side walls is usually disclosed as opening
up surface defects in the tread portion of the casing.
(2)
Note. The "means for engaging and applying force" referred
to in the definition is to be construed as excluding devices which
merely hold the tire casing in deformed position. See Class 81, Tools,
subclass 15.3 for such devices. Tire spread holders which are provided with
means adapting the device to use also as a spreader are provided
for in this or the indented subclasses.
Tools,
subclasses 15.2+ for resilient tire repair tools in general, particularly
subclass 15.3 (see (1) Note), and subclass 485 for hand manipulative tools
for spreading portions of an article apart.
Wheelwright Machines,
subclasses 1.17+ for tire spreaders used in applying tire casings
to wheels, e.g., (a) devices which spread tire casings while the
casing is on a wheel, (b) spreaders combined with means to apply
a casing to, or remove it from, a wheel, or (c) spreaders convertible
to use as tire-casing compressors used in applying the casing to
a wheel.
Plastic Article or Earthenware Shaping or Treating:
Apparatus,
subclass 48 for apparatus for reshaping or vulcanizing a tire
including a curing bag inserter or remover.
This subclass is indented under subclass 50.1. Apparatus in which (a) the spreader is provided with means
to move it, or adapting it for movement, relative to the casing
while the casing is in spread condition, or (b) the spreader and
casing are supported for rotary movement together.
Wheelwright Machines,
subclasses 1.22+ for devices for assembling or disassembling tires
and wheels embodying tire-engaging means adapted to move circumferentially
of the tire.
This subclass is indented under subclass 50.1. Apparatus in which the spreader is provided with means which
support the tire casing against the action of gravity.
This subclass is indented under the class definition. Lifting jack which comprises, in addition to the lifting
means, other means for moving the load or permitting it to be moved
laterally other than by bodily movement of the jack as a whole.
(1)
Note. Some patents for the traversing mechanism alone are
included, the apparatus being designed for use as a base or support
for a lifting jack. Jacks provided merely with a rocking head or
base have not been placed here unless they include mechanism for
positively shifting the load.
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