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CLASS 294, | HANDLING: HAND AND HOIST-LINE IMPLEMENTS |
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SECTION I - CLASS DEFINITION
This class comprises all devices combined with handles, terminal elements, or attachments peculiarly adapted for engaging supporting articles or materials for handling or manipulating purposes and not structurally limited to any classified art and such combinations thereof and accessories therefor as not elsewhere classifiable.
| (1) Note. This class includes power applying element which relate to the engaging of the load and not to its movement thereafter, except that a means for applying a straight line force or push to the load after the load has been released from the engaging means to move the load away from the engaging means is classified in this class. |
| (2) Note. The addition of wheels to any type of handlers included in this class, except where such addition is merely incidental, (such as adding casters to hoisting buckets), is held to involve transportation combinations. |
SECTION II - LINES WITH OTHER CLASSES AND WITHIN THIS CLASS
| (1) Note. This class does not include hoisting machines, which are provided for in Class 414, Material or Article Handling. |
| (2) Note. For hand and hoist-line terminal implements and attachments, classifiable on their necessary function in more elemental classes, see particularly, Classes 24, Buckles, Buttons, Clasps, etc., 279, Chucks or Sockets, and 403, Joints and Connections. |
| (3) Note. For hand and hoist-line terminal implements and attachments so specialized as to be of only limited application as handling devices see particularly lasses 30, Cutlery, 43, Fishing, Trapping, and Vermin Destroying, 56, Harvesters, 81, Tools, 111, Planting, 119, Animal Husbandry and 258, Railway Mail Delivery. |
| (4) Note. For hand and hoist-line terminal implements and attachments involving features additional to mere handling, such as changing the shape or condition of the matter engaged, see particularly Classes 37, Excavating, and 100, Presses. |
| (5) Note. For power applying elements that relate to the movement of the load see Classes 198, Conveyors: Power-Driven, 212, Traversing Hoists, 414, Material or Article Handling, 254, Implements or Apparatus for Applying Pushing or Pulling Force, and 280, Land Vehicles. |
SECTION III - REFERENCES TO OTHER CLASSES
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| 2, | Apparel, subclasses 16+ , for miscellaneous shields for the hands not specialized as handling devices. |
| 5, | Beds, subclasses 861+ , for invalid lifts and transfer devices. |
| 7, | Compound Tools, for compound tools involving some features outside of this class. |
| 15, | Brushing, Scrubbing, and General Cleaning, subclasses 104.03+ , 146, 147.1+, 173, 177+, and 220.1+, for holders for cleaning implements. |
| 16, | Miscellaneous Hardware (e.g., Bushing, Carpet Fastener, Caster, Door Closer, Panel Hanger, Attachable or Adjunct Handle, Hinge, Window Sash Balance, etc.), subclasses 110+ for handles. |
| 24, | Buckles, Buttons, Clasps, etc., appropriate subclasses, for nonforce transmitting or driving, holding devices and gripping elements, per se, handling-implement combinations not being present. (See specific search notes below and 2 Note). |
| 29, | Metal Working, subclasses 700+ , for assembling-frames, valve-lifters, piston-ring removers and the like devices. |
| 30, | Cutlery, subclasses 322+ , for table forks. (Also see 3 Note). |
| 37, | Excavating, subclasses 182 , 411+, and 461, for scoops and orange peel and clamshell buckets. (See 4 Note). |
| 43, | Fishing, Trapping, and Vermin Destroying, subclass 6 , for fishing harpoons and spears. |
| 47, | Plant Husbandry, subclass 1.01 , for tong-like devices for treating tobacco-plants, etc. |
| 53, | Package Making, subclasses 147+ for machines to form packages combined with means to group the contents thereof prior to completion of the packaging operation. |
| 56, | Harvesters, subclasses 328.1+ , for fruit gatherers. (Also see Note 3). |
| 76, | Metal Tools and Implements, Making, subclasses 101.1+ , 111 and 113, for processes for making implements such as rakes, shovels, pitchforks, etc. |
| 81, | Tools, for a hand held tool specifically adapted to permit manipulation of a part, (e.g. fastener, valve) rather than merely transporting or moving an article from one location to another. Class 81 is the generic locus for pliers ( subclasses 300+ ) and wrendus (subclasses 53+). See also subclass 487 for hand held holder (e.g., welding rod, holder) and miscellaneous hand tools having a clamp. |
| 100, | Presses, subclass 234 for plier type presses not elsewhere provided for. |
| 111, | Planting, (See 3 Note). |
| 114, | Ships, subclasses 51 and 221, for tools for use in ships and ship making, repairing, etc.; and subclasses 378+ for releasing devices claiming modified boat structure, separable fastenings on hoist-line and boat, and those showing boat fixtures of releasing hook type. |
| 119, | Animal Husbandry, subclasses 712+ for a device for controlling or handling an animal, especially subclasses 801+ for catching or holding animals. (Also see 3 Note). |
| 140, | Wireworking, subclasses 123+ for tools for wireworking. |
| 166, | Wells, appropriate subclasses for processes including grappling in a well bore, subclass 98 for grapples combined with well anchored lifting means, subclass 99 for well devices with junk retrievers, subclasses 162+ for well receptacles. |
| 171, | Unearthing Plants or Buried Objects, subclasses 50+ for plant and buried object pull-up type extractor devices having a wheel or ground supported frame. |
| 188, | Brakes, subclasses 43 , 44, 63, and 127 for brakes involving gripping and release. |
| 215, | Bottles and Jars, subclasses 396+ for bottle holding and carrying devices of types other than those provided for in subclasses 27.1+ of this class (294). |
| 220, | Receptacles, appropriate subclasses, for receptacles with handles to be manipulated by hand. |
| 221, | Article Dispensing, appropriate subclasses for article dispensers not otherwise provided for, many of which include a supply receptacle containing articles to be dispensed, combined with an implement of the handling, hand and hoist-line implement type of removing articles from said supply receptacle. See particularly subclasses 210+ in which discharge assistants of the article adhering or gripping type are included in combination with a source of supply of articles. |
| 223, | Apparel Apparatus, subclasses 113 through 119for devices specialized for holding footwear. |
| 254, | Implements or Apparatus for Applying Pushing or Pulling Force, appropriate subclasses, for devices wherein handling-terminals are combined with means for obtaining some mechanical advantage in handling the load. (Also see 5 Note). |
| 258, | Railway Mail Delivery, subclass 3 , for handling implements for the delivery of train-orders to persons on moving trains. (Also see 3 Note). |
| 269, | 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. |
| 279, | Chucks and Sockets, (see 2 Note). |
| 280, | Land Vehicles, (see 5 Note). |
| 396, | Photography, subclasses 647+ for photographer"s work handling devices in fluid treating apparatus. |
| 405, | Hydraulic and Earth Engineering, subclass 186 for divers tools; and subclasses 190+ for submarines and diving bells having remotely operated means (e.g., mechanical arms) for performing underwater work. |
| 414, | Material or Article Handling, subclasses 444+ , 618+ and 729+ for portable grapples or grappling mechanism having power means for moving or manipulating the mechanism. |
| 449, | Bee Culture, subclasses 61+ for a handling implement to be used in manipulating the components of a bee hive. |
| 452, | Butchering, subclass 17 for oyster openers and subclasses 189+ for supports for animal carcasses to facilitate their handling during butchering (gambrels). |
| 606, | Surgery, subclasses 205+ , for forceps. 130, Threshing, subclass 4 for corn husking pegs. |
| 901, | Robots, subcollection 31+ for gripping devices useable on robots. |
SUBCLASSES
1.1 | MISCELLANEOUS: |
| This subclass is indented under the class definition. Devices not provided for under more specific titles. | |
1.2 | CONTACT LENS APPLICATOR: | ||
| This subclass is indented under the class definition. Devices especially adapted for the handling of a contact
lens during insertion or removal from the eye.
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1.3 | SANITARY HANDLER FOR PET DROPPINGS: | ||
| This subclass is indented under the class definition. Devices specially adapted to handle waste excreted from
a small domesticated animal.
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1.4 | Pole mounted: |
| This subclass is indented under subclass 1.3. Devices which are mounted on an elongated member so that the handling may be done by a person in a standing position. | |
1.5 | Catcher: |
| This subclass is indented under subclass 1.4. Devices specially adapted to intercept the waste before it is deposited on an underlying surface. | |
2 | MISCELLANEOUS COMPOUND IMPLEMENT | ||||||||||
This subclass is indented under the class definition. Devices including combinations of two or more types of implements
included within the class. Multiple or convertible or combined implements
belonging in the same major subclass group in this class are classified
with such groups.
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3 | Plier or tong type | ||||
| This subclass is indented under subclass 2. Devices having one or more implements of the plier or tong
type.
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3.5 | MORTAR HAWK |
| This subclass is indented under the class definition. Device comprising a hand tray for holding mortar. | |
3.6 | ZIPPER PULLING TOOL: | ||
This subclass is indented under the class definition. Devices including means which releasably engages a zipper
slider and pulls it along the interlocking surfaces of its zipper
to open or close the zipper.
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4 | BARREL-ROLLER TYPE | ||||
| This subclass is indented under the class definition. Devices , usually of the grapple type, peculiarly adapted
for rolling barrels or similar objects.
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5 | EAR-CORN HOLDERS | ||||||||
This subclass is indented under the class definition. Devices peculiarly adapted to facilitate the handling of
ears of hot corn at the dining table.
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5.5 | ROD-TYPE SUPPORTS AND HANGERS | ||||||||||||
This subclass is indented under the class definition. Rods or sticks adapted to support material thereon for the
purpose of facilitating handling, not specially adapted for handling articles
at a distance.
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6 | PLATE TURNERS | ||||
| This subclass is indented under the class definition. Devices peculiarly adapted to grasp objects of platelike
form and turn them in a horizontal plane.
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7 | PANCAKE TURNER TYPE |
| This subclass is indented under the class definition. Devices of flat blade-like type peculiarly adapted to turn pancakes. | |
8 | Special turning element | ||
| This subclass is indented under subclass 7. Devices having positively operating means to bring about
the oscillation of the blade, usually about an axis parallel with
the handle.
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8.5 | CLOTHES TONGS | ||||
| This subclass is indented under the class definition. Devices of the plier or tong type peculiarly adapted to
lift clothes.
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8.6 | CARPET STRETCHER | ||
| This subclass is indented under the class definition. Device provided with prongs or other analogous structure
for use in grasping and forcing a carpet or like covering into place
in laying it.
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9 | STOVE IMPLEMENTS | ||
| This subclass is indented under the class definition. Devices peculiarly adapted for use with domestic stoves
and furnaces.
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10 | Combined | ||||
| This subclass is indented under subclass 9. Devices comprising combined stove implements not otherwise
classifiable, usually lid-lifters and pokers.
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11 | Fire tong | ||||
| This subclass is indented under subclass 9. Devices known as "household" or "kitchen" tongs
and designed to be used in connection with stoves and open grates.
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12 | Lid lifter | ||
| This subclass is indented under subclass 9. Devices including structure or form of stove-lid lifters.
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13 | Pivoted jaw |
| This subclass is indented under subclass 12. Devices having a pivoted grasping, latching, or bearing jaw. | |
14 | Poker | ||
| This subclass is indented under subclass 9. Devices including household pokers.
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15 | HAND BARS AND HAND BARROWS | ||||||||||
| This subclass is indented under the class definition. Load engaging bars or frames provided with one or more handholds
or equivalent means permitting the load to be carried or an article
to be manipulated by one or more persons, usually at the normal
level of the hands.
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16 | Opposing jaws | ||
| This subclass is indented under subclass 15. Devices having pairs of load-engaging elements contracting
or expanding against the object carried.
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17 | Cant hook type | ||||||
| This subclass is indented under subclass 15. Devices having lifting-levers provided intermediate their
length with load-engaging hooks fixed or moveably mounted thereon.
In this subclass are included the second-class levers (cant dogs)
used for handling logs and heavy timbers.
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18 | Railway coupling tools | ||
| This subclass is indented under subclass 15. Devices comprising hand bars to facilitate the coupling
and uncoupling or railway cars from a safe position, usually outside
of the trackway.
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19.1 | POLE MOUNTED IMPLEMENT: | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| This subclass is indented under the class definition. Devices comprising a handling implement mounted on an elongated
handle for the handling of articles at a distance.
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19.2 | Ball retriever: |
| This subclass is indented under subclass 19.1. Devices particularly adapted for retrieving balls used in games (e.g., golf or tennis balls). | |
19.3 | Grappling gaff: | ||||
This subclass is indented under subclass 19.1. Device wherein the handling implement has moveable grasping
elements of a barbed or hook like configuration for the purpose
of capturing an animate object (e.g., fish).
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22 | Store goods |
| This subclass is indented under subclass 19.1. Devices peculiarly adapted for handling goods in the windows or on the shelves of stores. | |
23 | Compound tool | ||
| This subclass is indented under subclass 22. Devices having more than one article-engaging means, usually
to be selectively used.
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23.5 | Laundry sticks |
| This subclass is indented under subclass 19.1. Poles peculiarly adapted for use in handling laundry. | |
24 | Compound tool | ||||||
| This subclass is indented under subclass 19.1. Devices having several article-engaging terminals, usually
to be used selectively.
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25 | HAND AND FINGER ATTACHMENTS | ||||||||||||||||
This subclass is indented under the class definition. Miscellaneous hand and finger attachments designed to facilitate
the handling of articles or material.
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26 | HAND-HOOK TYPE | ||||||||
| This subclass is indented under the class definition. Miscellaneous hand implements having the general configuration
of a hook.
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26.5 | DISCHARGING HAND RECEPTACLES, TRAYS OR CAGES | ||||||||
| This subclass is indented under the class definition. Apparatus in which a hand manipulable material support in
the nature of a container, platform or open frame work is comprised
of relatively displaceable portions facilitating the gravity discharge
of the material from the support.
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27.1 | DETACHABLE PLATE AND RECEPTACLE LIFTER: | ||||||||||||
| This subclass is indented under the class definition. Devices particularly adapted to handle receptacles of any
of the various types, such as jars, cuspidors, plates, pots, etc.,
and which are readily removable therefrom.
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