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CPC Definition - Subclass B60P

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B60P
VEHICLES ADAPTED FOR LOAD TRANSPORTATION OR TO TRANSPORT, TO CARRY, OR TO COMPRISE SPECIAL LOADS OR OBJECTS (vehicles with special provisions for transporting patients or disabled persons, or their personal conveyances A61G 3/00)
Definition statement

This place covers:

  • Transport vehicles mainly for the use on roads
  • Vehicles having special loading/unloading means like a band conveyor or an auger fixed to the vehicle
  • Loading or unloading with a ramp, a lift platform or a crane fixed to the vehicle.
  • Loading or unloading means for ISO containers
  • Vehicles having a special purpose like tank vehicles of dump trucks
  • Transport vehicles specially adapted for long roads
  • Transport vehicles specially adapted for the transport of special goods, e.g. for transport of animals, meat, bottles, glass plate packages, reel units, vehicles or boats.
  • Camper vehicles, Recreation vehicles
  • Securing of load to a vehicle by different means, e.g. with straps, ratchet binders or twist-locks
References
Application-oriented references

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:

Vehicles with special provisions for transporting patients or disabled persons, or their personal conveyances

A61G 3/00

Vehicles predominantly for transporting loads and modified to facilitate loading, consolidating the load, or unloading (vehicles for carrying harvested crops with means for self-loading or self-unloading A01D 90/00; peculiar to refuse collecting-vehicles B65F; loading or unloading vehicles by means not incorporated therein B65G)
Definition statement

This place covers:

  • vehicles with the loading/ unloading means permanently attached to the vehicle using conveyors, using vibratory effects or fluids
  • the groups B60P 1/04 - B60P 1/34 are dealing with dump trucks.
  • loading or unloading means permanently attached to the vehicle which keeps the load supported parallel to the ground, the load will not be tipped
References
Limiting references

This place does not cover:

Chassis aspects

B62D

Walking floor conveyors

B65G 25/065

Loading/ unloading with external means

B65G 67/00

Informative references

Attention is drawn to the following places, which may be of interest for search:

Loading gates

B60P 1/022, B60R 5/04

Carrying harvested crop with means for loading/unloading

A01D 90/00

Trailers

B62D

Large containers

B65D

Loading buckets

B65D 88/123, B62D

Unloading with pusher plates

B65F, B60P 1/365

Loading ramps per se

B65G 69/28

Special rules of classification

B60P 1/649 is not complete, see also B60P 1/6427 - B60P 1/6472 .

The IPC class B60P1/46 is covered in ECLA by the group B60P 1/44.

Vehicles adapted to transport, to carry or to comprise special loads or objects (ambulances or other vehicles with special provisions for transporting patients or disabled persons, or their personal conveyances A61G 3/00; hearses A61G 21/00; fire-fighting land vehicles A62C 27/00; refuse-collecting vehicles B65F 3/00, B65F 7/00; snow-removing vehicles E01H; armoured or armed vehicles F41H 7/00; self-propelled mine-clearing vehicles F41H 11/16)
Definition statement

This place covers:

Vehicles that are adapted for dedicated task, e.g. vehicle transport, transporting glass panes, campers, transporting boats, tank vehicles, vehicles carrying long loads.

Relationships with other classification places

Documents related to the transport of damaged vehicles are often also classified in group B60P 3/12.

References
Limiting references

This place does not cover:

Storing, retrieving, placing of road signs

E01F 9/70

Informative references

Attention is drawn to the following places, which may be of interest for search:

Vehicle retainers

B60P 7/00

Animal transport

A01K 1/0236

Concrete transport vehicle

B28C

Vehicle transport, supporting only part of the vehicle

B60R 9/06

Wind turbines

F03D

Special rules of classification

The IPC groups B60P 3/32 - B60P3/335 are covered in ECLA by the following subgroups: B60P 3/32.

The IPC groups B60P 3/34 - B60P3/355 are covered in ECLA by the following subgroups: B60P 3/34.

The IPC groups B60P 3/36 - B60P3/377 are covered in ECLA by the following subgroups: B60P 3/36.

Securing or covering of load on vehicles ({immobilising the load during lifting a loading platform B60P 1/4457}; for railway vehicles B61D 45/00)
Definition statement

This place covers:

Securing of load to the vehicle.

Covering of load for fixing and securing the load on the vehicle.

References
Limiting references

This place does not cover:

Immobilising the load during lifting of a loading platform

B60P 1/4457

Protective coverings specially adapted for vehicles or part of vehicles

B60J 11/00

Securing of load for railway vehicles

B61D 45/00

Fork-lift trucks adapted to be carried by the vehicle

B66F 9/07563

Informative references

Attention is drawn to the following places, which may be of interest for search:

Nets or elastic pockets tensioned against wall or backrest inside a vehicle

B60R 7/005

Storing of securing straps by reels

B65H 54/585

Special rules of classification

The classes B60P 7/02 and B60P 7/04 are not used; those documents go to B60J when the cover is not in contact with the load. If the cover is in contact with the load, see B60P 7/0876

{twist-locks for containers or frames}
Definition statement

This place covers:

Twistlocks mounted to the vehicle platform and having a mechanism to lock with a standard ISO corner fitting.

References
Limiting references

This place does not cover:

Fixation by twistlocks arranged between two containers

B65D 90/0013

Other vehicles predominantly for carrying loads{, e.g. load carrying vehicles convertible for an intended purpose}
Definition statement

This place covers:

This is a residual group for vehicles carrying loads which can not be classified in other main groups of this subclass.