CPC Definition - Subclass B25F
This place covers:
Combination or multi-purpose hand tools with interchangeable or adjustable tool elements;
Associations of tools for different working operations with one portable power-drive means and adapters therefore;
Details or components of portable power-driven tools not particularly related to the operations performed and not otherwise provided for, e.g. construction of casings, bodies or handles.
Note:
B25F covers combination or multi-purpose hand tools and combination or multi-purpose portable power-driven tools. When the tools have a clear primary function they are classified in other relevant places, for instance: subclass B25B covers hand tools having a clear primary function of fastening, connecting, disengaging or holding, e.g. spanners, wrenches or screwdrivers.
Subclass B25F further covers details or components of portable power-driven tools not particularly related to the operations performed and not otherwise provided for. Even if a portable power-driven tool has a clear primary function, its details or components, which are not particularly related to this primary function, are classified in subclass B25F, if not otherwise provided for.
Details or components of hand tools with a clear primary function are classified in the relevant subclass for the hand tool, for instance: subclass B25B covers details of or accessories for spanners, wrenches or screwdrivers; subclass B25C covers tools for driving both nails or staples.
More specifically, B23B 45/00 and B23B 47/00 cover hand-held or like portable drilling machines and constructional features of components specially designed for boring or drilling machines. B67B 7/44 covers combination tools for opening closed containers, e.g. comprising cork-screws, can pierces, crown-cap removers.
B25B 33/00 covers hand tools not covered by any other group in subclass B25B.
This place does not cover:
Combinations or associations of metal-working machines, not directed to a particular result; Details, components or accessories for machine tools |
Examples of places where the subject matter of this place is covered when specially adapted, used for a particular purpose, or incorporated in a larger system:
Cutting implements specially adapted for horticultural purposes; Delimbing standing trees | |
Power-driven cleaning or polishing devices for dentistry | |
Portable grinding machines; Accessories therefor | |
Hand-held nailing tools | |
Manually operated portable stapling tools; Hand-held power-operated stapling tools | |
Hand-held cutting tools, e.g., hand knives, hand shears, scissors and razors | |
Portable power-driven circular saws for manual operations | |
Portable hand-operated wood-milling machines; Routers |
Examples of places in relation to which this place is residual:
Hand-held or like portable drilling machines and constructional features of components specially designed for boring or drilling machines | |
Tools or bench devices not otherwise provided for, for fastening, connecting, disengaging or holding | |
Hand tools not covered by any other group in subclass B25B | |
Hand-held nailing or stapling tools; Manually-operated portable stapling tools | |
Percussive tools | |
Handles of portable power-driven percussive tools | |
Hand- or power-operated combination tools for opening closed containers, e.g. comprising cork-screws, can piercers, crown-cap removers |
Attention is drawn to the following places, which may be of interest for search:
Cutting implements specially adapted for horticultural purposes; Delimbing standing trees | |
Multi-purpose kitchen machines for preparing food | |
Power-driven cleaning or polishing devices for dentistry | |
Machines, devices or processes for planing, slotting, shearing, broaching, sawing, filing, scraping | |
Portable grinding machines; Accessories therefore | |
Picks | |
Portable percussive tools with fluid-pressure drive, electromotor drive or electromagnetic drive | |
Handles for hand implements | |
Hand-held cutting tools, e.g., hand knives, hand shears, scissors and razors | |
Portable power-driven circular saws for manual operations | |
Portable hand-operated wood-milling machines; Routers |
In this place, the following terms or expressions are used with the meaning indicated:
Tool | Any portable instrument of operation for performing, assisting the work or facilitating mechanical operations. Tools can be manually operated or by machine tools, such as millers for milling machines. Machine tools are not considered as tools. |
Hand tool | Device for performing work on a material or a physical system using only muscular strength. |
Power-driven tool | Tool powered by a motor, e.g. electric, hydraulic, pneumatic, fluid-pressure. |
Association of power-driven tools | A power-driven object having two or more tools, which are designed to perform different specific tasks, e.g. a rotary power tool with exchangeable tools for boring, milling, grinding, polishing, etc. |
Portable | Capable of being easily carried or conveyed. |
Multi-purpose tool | Device having or serving several purposes, which may be either manual or power-driven, e.g. a tool with interchangeable tool elements. |
Combination hand tools | Manually operated object involving two, or possibly more than two (but a confined number of), clearly defined purposes (having two or more tools put together for different purposes), e.g. multi-plier tool. |
In patent documents, the following words/expressions are often used as synonyms:
- "power-driven" and "power assisted"
- "hand tool", "hand-held", "hand device", "hand operated" and "hand actuated"
- "portable machine" and "portable equipment"
This place covers:
Associations of tools for different working operations, without a power-drive means.
This place does not cover:
Associations of tools for different working operations with one portable power-drive means | |
Combined stapling and punching tools |
Attention is drawn to the following places, which may be of interest for search:
Devices or single parts facilitating escape from buildings or the like (i.e. rescue tools) | |
Hand equipment for mountaineering | |
Hand scraping implements | |
Pliers provided with auxiliary tool elements | |
Wrenches, spanners | |
Screwdrivers | |
Hand hammers | |
Picks | |
Hand knives with adjustable blade | |
Hand knives combined with other implements |
This place covers:
Associations of tools for different working operations, with a common power-drive means.
Different adapters mechanically associated with a core power unit.
Attention is drawn to the following places, which may be of interest for search:
Construction of casings, bodies or handles for power tools | |
Hand-held or like portable drilling machines - attachments | |
Sawing machines or devices not covered - machines for converting any machine for sawing purposes | |
Portable power-driven screw or nut setting tools and attachments therefore | |
Details of, or accessories for spanners, wrenches, screwdrivers |
This place covers:
Details or components of portable power-driven tools, e.g. handles or accessories, and not entire power-driven tools.
Attention is drawn to the following places, which may be of interest for search:
Apparatus to be carried on or by a person, e.g. of knapsack type | |
Casting using a mould or core of cylinders, pistons, bearing shells or like thin-walled objects | |
Hand-held or like portable drilling machines, e.g. drill guns | |
Hand-operated planing devices; Portable planing apparatus | |
Hand-held devices for cutting by a nibbling action | |
Arrangements for cooling or lubricating parts of the machine (e.g. drill) | |
Portable grinding machines, e.g. hand-guided; with rotating grinding tools; Accessories therefore | |
Portable grinding machines, e.g. hand-guided; Accessories therefor - spindle locking device | |
Component parts such as frames, beds, carriages, headstocks. Weight compensation; Temperature compensation; Vibration damping | |
Portable power-driven screw or nut setting or loosening tools | |
Details of, or accessories for, spanners, wrenches, screwdrivers - Mechanical overload release couplings | |
Details of portable power-driven percussive tools | |
Details of, or accessories for, portable power-driven percussive tools - devices for cleaning or cooling tool or work | |
Hand cutting tools involving disc blades, e.g. motor-driven | |
Perforating; Punching; Cutting-out and Stamping-out | |
Power-driven circular saws for manual operation | |
Chain saws - devices for vibration damping | |
Other reciprocating saws with power drive; Fret-saws | |
Hand planes equipped with power-driven cutter blocks | |
Portable hand-operated wood-milling machines; Routers | |
Adaptations of engines for hand-held tools; Portable combinations of engines with engine-driven devices | |
Adaptations of engines for driving pumps, hand-held tools or electric generators; Portable combinations of engines with engine-driven devices | |
Springs | |
Vibration-dampers; Shock-absorbers | |
Safety devices acting in conjunction with the control or operation of a machine; Control arrangements requiring the simultaneous use of two or more parts of the body - using both hands | |
Supporting, suspending, or attaching arrangements for lighting devices | |
Details of switching devices not covered by groups H01H 1/00- H01H 7/00 | |
Casing of switch constituted by a handle serving a purpose other than the actuation of the switch | |
Constructional details or processes of manufacture of the non-active parts for miniature batteries or batteries for portable equipment | |
Details of coupling devices | |
Circuit arrangements for charging or depolarising batteries or for supplying loads from batteries | |
Circuit arrangements for charging or depolarising batteries or for supplying loads from batteries, characterised by the mechanical construction | |
Casings or enclosures characterised by the shape, form or construction thereof (i.e. for electric motors) | |
Casings or enclosures characterised by the shape, form or construction for cooling | |
Arrangements for handling mechanical energy structurally associated with the machine, e.g. structural association with mechanical driving motor or auxiliary dynamo-electric machine | |
Structural association with measuring or protective devices or electric components |