| 16, | Miscellaneous Hardware, appropriate subclasses for subject matter of that
class adapted for use with battery structure. (See "Lines
And Search Notes To Article Or Product Classes" above) |
| 29, | Metal Working,
subclass 2 for apparatus and process for making metallic battery
grids; subclasses 730+ for apparatus, and subclasses 623.1+ for
process of making a battery not including the use of the same.
(Process And Apparatus Class) |
| 34, | Drying and Gas or Vapor Contact With Solids, appropriate subclasses for processes and apparatus
for treating a battery or part thereof by drying or gas/vapor
contact with the same. (Process And Apparatus Class) |
| 49, | Movable or Removable Closures, appropriate subclasses for closures of that class.
(See "Lines And Search Notes To Article Or Product Classes" above) |
| 53, | Package Making, appropriate subclasses for methods of and apparatus
for encompassing or encasing goods or materials with a separate cover
or band which serves as means for identifying, protecting, or unit
handling the goods or materials. (Process And Apparatus Class) |
| 60, | Power Plants, for power plants combined with battery or fuel cell
structure. (See "Lines And Search Notes To Article Or Product
Classes" above) |
| 65, | Glass Manufacturing, appropriate subclasses for process or apparatus
for making a battery part of glass by a glass working operation(s).
(Process And Apparatus Class) |
| 73, | Measuring and Testing, appropriate subclasses for apparatus adapted for
use with a battery for making a measurement or test of any kind.
The combination of such apparatus and a battery is proper subject
matter for Class 429. (See "Lines And Search Notes To Article
Or Product Classes" above) |
| 73, | Measuring and Testing, appropriate subclasses for testing processes and
apparatus in general. (Process And Apparatus Class) |
| 75, | Specialized Metallurgical Processes, Compositions
for Use Therein, Consolidated Metal Powder Compositions, etc.,
subclasses 228+ for a consolidated metal particle composition.
(See above, "Lines With And Search Notes To Compound,
Composition, And Material Classes, 2") |
| 102, | Ammunition and Explosives Devices, appropriate subclasses, especially
subclasses 200+ for fuses, primers, and igniting devices utilizing
electrical energy. (See "Lines And Search Notes To Article
Or Product Classes" above) |
| 105, | Railway Rolling Stock,
subclass 51 for battery holders for electric locomotives. (See "Lines And
Search Notes To Article Or Product Classes" above) |
| 106, | Compositions: Coating or Plastic, appropriate subclasses for a composition which is
in fluent or solid noncoherent form and which is adapted for coating
or impregnating and for change to a less fluent, or a solid coherent,
form by setting (e.g., concrete, plastic, etc.), chemical reaction, removal
or solvent, solidification from a molten state, etc. In a patent
directed to a filler or pigment for a coating composition, the recitation
of size or structure of the constituent particle or fibers is not
sufficient to exclude said patent from Class 106. (See above, "Lines With
And Search Notes To Compound, Composition, And Material Classes,
2") |
| 106, | Compositions: Coating or Plastic, appropriate subclasses for articles of general utility
defined by compositions for Class 106 and see (1) Note of Class
106 for a listing of classes having articles defined by the composition.
(See "Lines And Search Notes To Article Or Product Classes.") |
| 106, | Compositions, Coating or Plastic, for processes of making subject matter of that class.
(Process And Apparatus Class) |
| 114, | Ships,
subclass 20.1 for the combination of torpedo and battery structure.
(See "Lines And Search Notes To Article Or Product Classes".) |
| 116, | Signals and Indicators, appropriate subclasses for mechanical indicators
adapted for use with batteries. (See "Lines And Search
Notes To Article Or Product Classes" above.) |
| 136, | Batteries: Thermoelectric and Photoelectric,
subclasses 200+ for thermoelectric batteries, subclasses 243+ for
photoelectric batteries. (See Lines With Other Classes and Within
This Class, Lines And Search Notes To Article Or Product Classes.) |
| 137, | Fluid Handling, for process and apparatus for handling a fluid usually
of general utility; and especially
subclasses 260+ for structure for battery or electrolytic cell
replenishment. (See "Lines And Search Notes To Article
Or Product Classes".) |
| 137, | Fluid Handling,
subclass 43 for nonspill vents for batteries, subclasses 260+ for
battery replenishment apparatus and subclasses 386+ for
automatic liquid level control devices of general application even
though disclosed for batteries. (Process And Apparatus Class) |
| 141, | Fluent Material Handling, With Receiver or Receiver
Coacting Means,
subclasses 32+ for apparatus and subclass 111 for process for pasting
(filling) battery grids. Other appropriate subclasses for the filling
of a battery with fluent material, i.e., electrolyte. (See "Lines And
Search Notes To Article Or Product Classes".) |
| 141, | Fluent Material Handling, With Receiver or Receiver
Coacting Means, appropriate subclasses for processes and apparatus for
filling batteries, particularly
subclasses 1.1+ for grid pasting process and subclasses 32+ for
grid pasting apparatus. (Process And Apparatus Class) |
| 148, | Metal Treatment,
subclasses 400+ for metal stock material which is (a) produced
by a process of that class (148); or (b) distinguished by (a) internal
structure (e.g., crystalline, etc.), or (b) characteristics (e.g.,
semiconductor, etc.) of the metal. (See above, "Lines
With And Search Notes To Compound, Composition, And Material Classes,
2") |
| 156, | Adhesive Bonding and Miscellaneous Chemical Manufacture, appropriate subclasses for processes of apparatus
for making batteries by operations of that class. (Process And
Apparatus Class) |
| 162, | Paper Making and Fiber Liberation, appropriate subclasses for a nonstructural (a) single-layer
waterlaid fibrous product, (b) plural-layer product including a
layer of fibers applied to a second layer by a process provided
for in that class (162), or (c) paper homogeneously impregnated
throughout. Note particularly
subclasses 141 through 181.1+ which include any nonstructural fiber.
(See above, "Lines With And Search Notes To Compound,
Composition, And Material Classes, 2") |
| 162, | Paper Making and Fiber Liberation,
subclasses 100+ for paper stock material of general utility.
(See "Lines And Search Notes To Article Or Product Classes" above) |
| 162, | Paper Making and Fiber Liberation, appropriate subclass for process and apparatus for making
battery part; especially
subclass 138 for process of making paper product having specified
electrical products. (Process And Apparatus Class) |
| 164, | Metal Founding, appropriate subclasses for apparatus for metal casting
and processes of casting metal grids, and
subclass 109 for uniting battery plates by casting. (Process
And Apparatus Class) |
| 166, | Wells,
subclass 248 for process of applying electrical current through
the earth for treating a well. (Process And Apparatus Class) |
| 174, | Electricity: Conductors and Insulators, appropriate subclasses for subject matter of that
class not limited to battery structure, per se. (See "Lines
And Search Notes To Article Or Product Classes" above) |
| 180, | Motor Vehicles, appropriate subclasses for subject matter of that class
combined with battery structure and especially
subclass 68.5 for battery mountings or holders combined with significant
motor vehicle structure. (See "Lines And Search Notes
To Article Or Product Classes" above) |
| 200, | Electricity: Circuit Makers and Breakers, appropriate subclass for circuit makers-breakers
(e.g., switch, etc.) adapted for use with batteries. The combination
of a battery or significant battery structure and a circuit maker or
breaker integral with the battery is subject matter for class (429).
(See "Lines And Search Notes To Article Or Product Classes" above) |
| 204, | Chemistry: Electrical and Wave Energy, for products solely disclosed as made by a process of Class
204 except for (1) products which comprise two contiguous metallic
layers and (2) products of processes classifiable in
subclasses 157.15+ and 450+. (See "Lines And Search
Notes To Article Or Product Classes" above) |
| 204, | Chemistry: Electrical and Wave Energy,
subclasses 194+ for electrolytic apparatus and other appropriate
subclasses for subject matter involving the use of electrical or
wave energy (e.g., short-circuited battery, internal battery, cathodic
or anodic protector devices, testers which use an electrochemically
produced current only to operate an indicator such as a meter (especially
subclasses 400+), etc.). In cases where the combined subject
matter of both Class 204 and Class 429 is claimed or disclosed,
classification will be based on the proximate function, (e.g., current
production is provided for in Class 429, production of a product
is provided for in Class 204, etc.). Generic claims are properly
classified in Class 204. (Process And Apparatus Class) |
| 205, | Electrolysis: Processes, Compositions Used Therein,
and Methods of Preparing the Compositions,
subclass 50 for a product made by electrolysis involving electrolytic
marking, battery electrode active material forming, electroforming,
or electrolytic coating. (See "Lines And Search Notes
To Article Or Product Classes" above) |
| 205, | Electrolysis: Processes, Compositions Used Therein,
and Methods of Preparing the Compositions, appropriate subclasses for electrolytic processes,
in general. In cases where the combined subject matter of both
Class 205 and Class 429 is claimed or disclosed, classification
will be based on the proximate function (e.g., current production
is provided for in Class 429, electrolytic production of a product is
provided for in Class 205, etc.). Generic claims to electrolysis
are properly classified in Class 205. (Process And Apparatus Class) |
| 206, | Special Receptacle or Package, appropriate subclasses for special receptacles or packages, especially
subclasses 524.1+ for acid-proof receptacles, and subclasses 601+ for
receptacles or packages for an electrical article and subclasses
603+ for battery package. Class 206 takes special receptacles
and packages of general utility. Class 429 takes special receptacle
having battery structure. (See "Lines And Search Notes
To Article Or Product Classes" above) |
| 219, | Electric Heating,
subclasses 200+ for heating device adapted for use with batteries
or heaters combined with batteries. (See "Lines And Search
Notes To Article Or Product Classes" above) |
| 219, | Electric Heating, appropriate subclass for apparatus and process of
making, repairing, etc., batteries by electric heating, e.g., welding, etc.
(Process And Apparatus Class) |
| 220, | Receptacles, appropriate subclasses for metallic receptacles
of general utility or metallic receptacle adapted to hold batteries.
(See "Lines And Search Notes To Article Or Product Classes".) |
| 222, | Dispensing, appropriate subclasses for dispensing apparatus
adapted for use with battery structure. (See "Lines And
Search Notes To Article Or Product Classes" above.) |
| 228, | Metal Fusion Bonding, appropriate subclasses for bonding battery structure, especially
subclass 58 for cross reference art collection on batteries.
(See "Lines With And Search Notes To Process And Apparatus
Classes" above.) |
| 242, | Winding, Tensioning or Guiding,
subclasses 430+ for a method or apparatus for making a composite
article which may include a wound battery component. (Process And
Apparatus Class) |
| 249, | Static Molds, appropriate subclasses for static molds for forming battery
parts, especially
subclass 60 for molding a grid. (Process And Apparatus Class) |
| 252, | Compositions, appropriate subclass for a general utility and
subclass 62.2 for electrolyte compositions for electrical devices.
(See above, "Lines With And Search Notes To Compound,
Composition, And Material Classes, 2") |
| 264, | Plastic and Nonmetallic Article Shaping or Treating:
Processes, appropriate subclasses for shaping and treating plastic
material, especially
subclasses 614+ for composite electrical article involving vitrifying
or sintering of preform to make inorganic natural and subclasses
104+ for process of forming electrical articles by shaping
electroconductive material. (Process And Apparatus Class) |
| 294, | Handling: Hand and Hoist-Line Implements, cross reference art collection 903 for hand-held battery
carriers. (See "Lines And Search Notes To Article Or Product
Classes." above) |
| 307, | Electrical Transmission or Interconnection Systems, appropriate subclasses for electric connections
with batteries. (See "Lines And Search Notes To Article
Or Product Classes" above.) |
| 315, | Electric Lamp and Discharge Devices: Systems,
subclass 55 for combination of load device (electric current
generator) and electrical circuit structure. (See "Lines
And Search Notes To Article Or Product Classes.") |
| 320, | Electricity: Battery and Condenser Charging and
Discharging,
subclass 3 for battery charging or discharging including the
batteries. (See "Lines And Search Notes To Article Or
Product Classes" above.) |
| 320, | Electricity: Battery and Condenser Charging and
Discharging, for electrical systems and the corresponding methods of
battery charging and discharging;
subclass 57 having the structural combination of a battery
and an electrical rectifier, regardless of whether the electrical
interconnections between the battery and rectifier are claimed or
not. (Process And Apparatus Class) |
| 324, | Electricity: Measuring and Testing,
subclasses 425+ for battery testers. (See "Lines And
Search Notes To Article Or Product Classes" above.) |
| 324, | Electricity: Measuring and Testing, for process and apparatus for measuring or testing
batteries including the battery a part of the claimed combination.
(Process And Apparatus Class) |
| 340, | Communications: Electrical, appropriate subclasses for systems of imparting communications
(intelligence), a part of which has electrical components (e.g.,
batteries), especially
subclasses 636.1 through 636.21wherein the system is responsive to a battery condition.
(Process and Apparatus Class) |
| 361, | Electricity: Electrical Systems and Devices,
subclasses 500+ for electrolytic devices not elsewhere classified
and especially for capacitors and coulometers. See these subclasses
for combinations and subcombinations of the same. (See "Lines
And Search Notes To Article Or Product Classes" above.) |
| 362, | Illumination, appropriate subclasses for the combination of illumination
means and a battery. (See "Lines And Search Notes To Article Or
Product Classes" above.) |
| 368, | Horology: Time Measuring Systems or Devices,
subclasses 73+ , 107+, and 203+ for battery-operated
time devices. (See "Lines And Search Notes To Article Or
Product Classes" above.) |
| 379, | Telephonic Communications, appropriate subclasses for telephones combined with
batteries. (See "Lines And Search Notes To Article Or Product
Classes" above.) |
| 381, | Electrical Audio Signal Processing Systems and
Devices, appropriate subclasses for hearing aids and the
like combined with a battery. (See "Lines And Search Notes
To Article Or Product Classes" above.) |
| 420, | Alloys or Metallic Compositions, appropriate subclasses for alloys of general utility
and not having structure. (See "Lines And Search Notes
To Article Or Product Classes" above.) |
| 422, | Chemical Apparatus and Process Disinfecting, Deodorizing,
Preserving, or Sterilizing, for apparatus for that class adapted for use with battery
structure. (See "Lines And Search Notes To Article Or Product
Classes" above.) |
| 423, | Chemistry of Inorganic Compounds, appropriate subclasses for inorganic compounds and nonmetallic
elements having a Class 429 utility. (See "Lines With
And Search Notes To Compound, Composition, And Material Classes" above.) |
| 428, | Stock Material or Miscellaneous Articles, appropriate subclasses for stock materials of general
utility and appropriate subclasses for electrodes without any structure.
(See "Lines And Search Notes To Article Or Product Classes" above.) |
| 439, | Electrical Connectors, appropriate subclasses for an electrical connector, per
se; and
subclass 726 and 754+ for a battery post clamp-type
connector. Class 429 takes the combination of clamp with significant
battery structure or the combination is constructed in such a manner
that the connector is inseparable from battery. (Process And Apparatus
Class) |
| 441, | Buoys, Rafts, and Aquatic Devices,
subclass 18 for buoys combined with batteries. (See "Lines
And Search Notes To Article Or Product Classes" above.) |
| 446, | Amusement Devices: Toys,
subclasses 484+ , for electric toys having a self contained voltage source,
and see the Search Notes thereunder. (See "Lines And Search
Notes To Article Or Product Classes" above.) |
| 520, | Synthetic Resins or Natural Rubbers, appropriate subclasses, particularly Class 523,
subclass 134 for a composition specialized for use as a battery
container or battery cover composition. (See above, "Lines
With And Search Notes To Compound, Composition, And Material Classes,
2" above) |
| 607, | Surgery: Light, Thermal, and Electrical Application, appropriate subclasses, especially
subclasses 149+ for battery elements which function by reason of
being contacted by the body. Also, batteries especially constructed
to be implanted in the body. (See "Lines And Search Notes
To Article Or Product Classes" above.) |
| 623, | Prosthesis (i.e., Artificial Body Members), Parts
Thereof, or Aids and Accessories Therefor, appropriate subclasses for battery systems used
with artificial body parts. (See "Lines And Search Notes
To Article Or Product Classes" above.) |
| 423, | Chemistry of Inorganic Compounds, appropriate subclasses for process of making inorganic chemical
compounds useful in batteries. (Process And Apparatus Class) |
| 425, | Plastic Article or Earthenware Shaping or Treating:
Apparatus, for molding apparatus useful in making batteries.
(Process And Apparatus Class) |