CPC Definition - Subclass E01B
This place covers:
Structure of stationary tracks on which propelled vehicles run for the transportation of passengers or freights;
Tools and machines specially designed for making, maintaining, renewing or taking-up the track.
This place does not cover:
Model railways | |
Wetting or lubricating rails | |
Track brakes fixed to permanent way | |
Devices along the track for guiding or ensuring the safety of railway traffic | |
Foundation for paving | |
Bridges in general | |
Removing undesirable matter from the permanent way (cleaning) | |
Foundations in general | |
Making tunnels | |
Cable through |
Attention is drawn to the following places, which may be of interest for search:
Railway systems including the vehicle |
In patent documents, the following words/expressions are often used with the meaning indicated:
"Permanent way" | " Railway, railroad" |
This place covers:
Continuous load bearing bedding for supporting the sleepers or the track, e.g. ballast or concrete slab;
Drainage of the ballastway or the ballastless bedding
This place does not cover:
Slabs as such for supporting the rails | |
Draining of tramway rails | |
Placing, working or taking-up the ballast | |
Making of concrete parts of the track in situ | |
Means for temporarily supporting the sleeper or the track | |
Fastening railway sleepers to bridges | |
Draining the sub-base of railways by trenches, culverts or conduits |
Attention is drawn to the following places, which may be of interest for search:
Draining of streets | |
Draining of sport grounds | |
Draining arrangements for bridges | |
Drainage of soils in general |
This place covers:
General structure of the track, e.g. on bridges or in tunnels, foundations for the track.
This place does not cover:
Track superstructure adapted for tramways in paved streets | |
Tracks for special kinds of railways | |
General arrangements of stations, e.g. platforms |
This place covers:
Sleepers and other means for supporting rails, e.g. concrete slabs, regardless of the substructure, the sleepers being parallel or orthogonal to the rails.
This place does not cover:
Sleeper shoes for ballastless track | E01B/00C2 |
Sleepers for switches or crossings | |
Sleepers for shiftable tracks for heavy loads | |
Manufacturing of concrete sleepers |
Sleeper | Tie, crosstie |
This place covers:
Rails for carrying vehicles with their centre of gravity above or suspended from the rail; guard rails, guide rails to prevent derailing; distance keeping means.
This place does not cover:
Tie-rods for sleepers | |
Rail parts for switches or crossings | |
Rail anchors preventing shifting of the track | |
Tie-rods for tramway rails | |
Laying, re-building or taking-up the rails | |
Working rails in or on the line | |
Manufacture of rails |
Guard rail | Check rail |
This place covers:
Mechanical installation enabling trains to be guided from one track to another at a railway junction; crossing of tracks.
This place does not cover:
Attention is drawn to the following places, which may be of interest for search:
Switches for easy dismountable tracks | |
Switches for special kinds of railways |
This place covers:
Fastening means and other track components, e.g. tie-plates, sole-plates, pads or the like, used for attaching rails on their support.
This place does not cover:
Fastening switches or crossings on special sleepers | |
Rail anchors | |
Apparatus for fixing or removing fastening means or track components | |
Fastening rails to bridges |
Attention is drawn to the following places, which may be of interest for search:
Fastening means in general |
This place covers:
Means for fastening rails directly on sleepers or foundations, even if the rails rest on sole-plates or pads;
Means for fastening tie plates or chairs directly on sleepers or foundations.
This place covers:
Dismountable or non-dismountable rail joints, e.g. by using fishplates or made by welding.
This place does not cover:
Undetachably joining in or on the track, e.g. welding | |
Electrical connections of the rail |
This place covers:
Arrangements, e.g. rail anchors, preventing shifting such as longitudinal rail movement, which typically occurs during acceleration or deceleration of vehicles, or during expansion and contraction due to temperature change.
This place does not cover:
Machines or devices for shifting tracks |
This place covers:
Arrangements to avoid a person's foot to get stuck in the gap formed along a rail by grooved rails.
This place does not cover:
Safety means (in general) for rail/road crossing traffic |
This place covers:
Arrangements connected to the installations of the railroad preventing cattle or cattle-like animals (whether domesticated or not), such as horses, sheep or deer, from straying on or walking along railways, or preventing intrusion in tunnels.
This place does not cover:
Grids in general for preventing for preventing cattle from straying | |
Guards or obstacles for preventing access to the route |
Attention is drawn to the following places, which may be of interest for search:
Means for fixing fences or the like to rails | |
Snow fences |
This place covers:
Protective means of the permanent way against weather influences incorporated in the track;
Means for protecting the underground against spillage;
Means to reduce noise incorporated in the track
This place does not cover:
Snow fences | |
Snow ploughs | |
Control of undesirable vegetation on permanent ways of railways |
Attention is drawn to the following places, which may be of interest for search:
Spillage retaining means for large containers | |
Protection against snow, sand wind or falling rocks in general | |
Noise absorbing or reflecting arrangements for railways | |
Removing snow or ice from roads |
This place covers:
Embedded rail systems, where the traffic area of rail vehicles needs to be shared with road users of private transport, such as cars, trucks or bikes and pedestrians.
This place does not cover:
Attention is drawn to the following places, which may be of interest for search:
Bedding e.g. ballast or concrete | |
Drainage of the track |
This place covers:
Light railways such as field, colliery or mine use, temporary railways, as well as shiftable tracks for heavy loads.
This place does not cover:
Model or toy railways | |
Runway or tracks for trolleys or cranes | |
Rails of supporting structures for mobile scaffolds provided on roofs |
Attention is drawn to the following places, which may be of interest for search:
Propelled stands or trestles, e.g. on tracks, as supports for apparatus placed thereon |
This place covers:
Special kinds such as rack railways, mono rails, cable-drawn, stationary aerial rope, supporting rails for suspended vehicles, tracks for guiding vehicles, magnetic suspension.
This place does not cover:
Slaughterhouse conveying track | |
Overhead rail system for handicapped persons | |
Electric propulsion | |
Suspended load carriers movable by hand or gravity | |
Wheel tracks |
Attention is drawn to the following places, which may be of interest for search:
Rope railway systems using cables as traction means | |
Funicular systems | |
Other railway systems | |
Not vehicle mounted steering control for guiding road vehicles, e.g. in urban networks. |
This place covers:
Placing, redistributing, levelling, loosening the ballast; removing or taking-up ballast; renewing or cleaning the ballast in situ, with or without taking-up or lifting the track; compacting the ballast with or without introducing additional fresh material under the sleepers.
This place does not cover:
In this place, the following terms or expressions are used with the meaning indicated:
Packing sleepers | Locally compacting the ballast in the vicinity of the sleepers |
This place covers:
Transporting, laying, removing or renewing rails, sleepers or lengths of assembled track;
Lifting or levelling of tracks; installing or removing fastening means or other track components, e.g. rail clips, sole-plates;
Undetachably joining or fastening track components in or on the track, e.g. by welding; Sealing rail joints.
Attention is drawn to the following places, which may be of interest for search:
Welding in general | |
Fastening tools in general | |
Hand held nailing or stapling tools | |
Devices for moving or tilting heavy loads | |
Cranes mounted on railway vehicles | |
Lifting devices in general | |
Glueing metal parts in general |
In this place, the following terms or expressions are used with the meaning indicated:
Ribbon rails | Rails assembled into strings |
This place covers:
Working such as reconditioning, repairing or treating track components in or on the line and machines specially designed therefor.
This place does not cover:
Working the ballast | |
Laying, rebuilding or taking up tracks or track components | |
Undetachably joining or fastening track components |
Attention is drawn to the following places, which may be of interest for search:
Machines combined with sleeper packing machines |
This place covers:
Measuring for track building, maintaining or renewing purposes.
This place does not cover: