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CLASS 126, | STOVES AND FURNACES |
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SECTION I - CLASS DEFINITION
This class includes, generally, apparatus for the application of heat. It comprises cooking and heating stoves, hot-air furnaces, and accessories; hot-air radiators and heating drums; open liquid heaters, steaming apparatus, dampers, fireplaces, and stovepipes. It includes the fuel burner when combined with the stove or furnace structure; combinations of a particular stove or furnace structure of the type classified in this class (126) with a closed liquid heater or steam generator; liquid heaters of only the nonpressure type unless they are structurally tied to the stove or furnace or form a necessary part thereof, and grates of general use in stoves, hot-air furnaces, or boiler furnaces.
SECTION II - REFERENCES TO OTHER CLASSES
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| 44, | Fuel and Related Compositions, subclass 540 for a fuel composition combined with an incombustible carrier, e.g., a torch, etc. |
| 49, | Movable or Removable Closures, appropriate subclasses for closures of the type provided for and see the search notes thereto in section IV of Class 49 for the loci of closures in other classes. |
| 68, | Textiles: Fluid Treating Apparatus, having significant structure for fluid treatment of a textile, subclass 15 for a textile fluid treating machine combined with a tank heater or subclass 222 for an implement to apply steam to a textile. |
| 99, | Foods and Beverages: Apparatus, takes food support means, peculiar to a food, shape, or condition, (e.g., can, jar, bottle, or slice holders, spits, griddles, waffle irons, sandwich grills, article confining or conforming supports), including a mechanism for manipulating food during cooking, other than mere agitation or stirring (e.g., conveying or bodily moving), or including a mechanism for treating food (e.g., basting, compressing, molding, drip, or gravy segregating), and, in any case, irrespective of whether or not a heat, steam, or vapor generator or enclosure is claimed; subclasses 293+ for a steamer or condenser type of beverage infuser, subclass 311 for a gravity feed beverage infuser with force feed fountain type recycling or repercolating supply having an overflow, subclasses 324+ for food cooking apparatus, or subclasses 467+ for apparatus subjecting food to an enclosed modified atmosphere. |
| 110, | Furnaces, for the broad art of combustion of solid or combined solid and fluid fuel. |
| 122, | Liquid Heaters and Vaporizers, for a closed or pressurized liquid heater or vaporizer for other than a stove or furnace. |
| 160, | Flexible or Portable Closure, Partition, or Panel, for devices (1) in the form of panels in which flexible fabrics or other flexible sheet material forms the panel portion, (2) in the form of panel units formed of plural strips, slats or panels interconnected for relative motion (excluding those connected only by a common operator or mounted on a common support), (3) panels in the form of portable partitions or (4) parts (1)-(3) combined with each other or with rigid closures or other rigid panels, even though combined with only those features of the fire place, stove or furnace which pertain to the mounting and for operating of the flexible or portable panels. |
| 219, | Electric Heating, for the generation of heat by electricity, and the utilization of the heat similarly to this class (126) as in fluid, oven, tool, etc., heating wherein there is involved electrical characteristics or structure. |
| 236, | Automatic Temperature and Humidity Regulation, for means to accomplish the function of the class wherein there is not involved structure which forms the basis of classification in this class (126). |
| 237, | Heating Systems, for an apparatus or process of heating an enclosure, subclass 7 for a combined radiator and boiler having automatic control, or subclasses 16-18 for a combined boiler and radiator. |
| 264, | Plastic and Nonmetallic Article Shaping or Treating: Processes, subclass 30 for furnace lining formation or repair and see the notes thereto. |
| 431, | Combustion, appropriate subclass for a residual combustion apparatus or process, per se. |
| 432, | Heating, appropriate subclass for the apparatus or method for the application of heat to materials not specifically provided for in the subclasses of Class 126, or elsewhere. |
| 588, | Hazardous or Toxic Waste Destruction or Containment, subclasses 313 through 320for processes wherein toxic or hazardous waste is burned in a stove or furnace. See cross-reference art collection, subclass 900, for apparatus useful in the destruction of hazardous or toxic waste. |
SUBCLASSES
1 | Cooking: | ||||||||||||||
| This subclass is indented under the unnumbered
subclass, STOVES. Subject matter generally of cast or sheet metal, wire, or
rod construction, adapted to culinary heating purposes.
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2 | Double fire pot: | ||
| This subclass is indented under subclass 1. Cooking stoves that have two or more fire pots related to
a single structure.
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3 | Cooking and heating: |
| This subclass is indented under subclass 2. Devices comprising a combined cooking and heating stove. | |
4 | Combined cooking and heating stove: | ||||||
| This subclass is indented under subclass 1. Cooking stoves adapted to heating for purposes other than
cooking. In this subclass will be found what are generally known
as "parlor cooking stoves".
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5 | Steam or water generators: | ||
| This subclass is indented under subclass 4. Combined cooking and heating stoves provided with steam
or hot water generators for house heating, power, or cooking.
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6 | Air-heating: | ||
| This subclass is indented under subclass 4. Combined cooking and heating stoves which have means for
heating and circulating a current of air.
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7 | Magazine: | ||
| This subclass is indented under subclass 4. Combined cooking and heating stoves which contain a magazine
or self- feeder.
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8 | Brick set: |
| This subclass is indented under subclass 1. Subject matter in a masonry setting, permanent in character. | |
9 | Knockdown or separable: | ||
| This subclass is indented under subclass 1. Devices structurally adapted to be folded or the several
parts separated, so as to allow for its easy transportation from
place to place. The stoves in this class are usually termed "portable furnaces".
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10 | Magazine: | ||||
| This subclass is indented under subclass 1. Devices that are provided with magazines or self-feeding
coal devices.
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11 | Portable: |
| This subclass is indented under subclass 10. Subject matter in which the magazine or coal-receptacle is removably placed in the stove-holes and provided with means for feeding the coal to the fire-pot. | |
12 | Hearths: |
| This subclass is indented under subclass 1. Subject matter relating to hearths and to means for attaching the hearth to the stove. | |
13 | Fire pot: |
| This subclass is indented under subclass 12. Devices that are provided with fire pots for cooking or broiling purposes. | |
14 | Broiling attachments: | ||||||
| This subclass is indented under subclass 1. Subject matter including attachments for broiling purposes
which are inseparable from the stove structure.
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15 | Feeding air: | ||
| This subclass is indented under subclass 1. Subject matter including means for the preliminary heating
of air before its introduction into the combustion chamber or flues.
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16 | Flue cleaners: | ||||
| This subclass is indented under subclass 1. Subject matter with means for cleaning the flues, also combined
scrapers and soot-receptacles applicable to this class of stove.
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17 | Smoke pipe-heated: |
| This subclass is indented under the unnumbered subclass, Elevated ovens. Subject matter that have ovens supported by a stove-pipe above the top plate of the stove and heated thereby. In this subclass will be found warming-ovens that are stovepipe heated. | |
18 | Top plate-supported: |
| This subclass is indented under the unnumbered subclass, Elevated ovens. Subject matter in which an oven is elevated above and supported by the stove-top. | |
19 | Ovens: | ||||||
| This subclass is indented under subclass 1. Subject matter relating to the structure of the chamber
used for baking or roasting.
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19.5 | COMBUSTION ENGINE-HEATED COOKING STOVES, OVEN OR HEATING VESSELS: | ||||||
| This subclass is indented under the class definition. Subject matter consisting of domestic heating vessels and/or
heat exchangers used for heating in the manner of a cooking stove
or oven which are heated by the waste heat of a combustion engine
as contained in its exhaust products or cooling fluid.
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20 | Steam or hot water: | ||||
| This subclass is indented under subclass 19. Subject matter in which the oven is heated by steam or hot
water, either where the steam or hot water surrounds the oven or
where the steam enters the oven.
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20.1 | Plural: |
| This subclass is indented under subclass 20. Devices consisting of two or more compartments each (1) constituting a distinct oven or (2) having separate means of access thereto. | |
20.2 | Selective supply: | ||
| This subclass is indented under subclass 20.1. Devices in which means are provided to control the supply
of heating fluid, at will, to less than all of the ovens.
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21 | Ventilated: |
| This subclass is indented under subclass 19. Subject matter where means are provided for heating a current of air, circulating it through the oven, and usually feeding it to the combustion chamber or flues. | |
22 | Protector plate: |
| This subclass is indented under subclass 19. Subject matter including devices to be used in the oven for the purpose of protecting articles to be baked therein. Some of these devices are provided with air-moistening means. | |
23 | Reversible: |
| This subclass is indented under subclass 1. Subject matter that are convertible into a right and left hand stove; also, where the smoke-collar is interchangeable from the back to the top plate, or vice versa. | |
24 | Ship’s galley: | ||
| This subclass is indented under subclass 1. Cooking stoves counterbalanced or suspended to maintain
their equilibrium.
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25 | Summer: | ||||
| This subclass is indented under subclass 1. Subject matter that is portable in character, usually employed
in outdoor work, and adapted to burn charcoal or light fuel. These stoves
are frequently called "braziers".
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26 | Detachable fire pot: |
| This subclass is indented under subclass 25. Subject matter comprising fire-pot structures adapted to be supported in and cooperate with the stove-hole of ordinary cooking stoves. | |
27 | Stove top-supported: | ||
| This subclass is indented under subclass 25. Subject matter designed to be supported upon the top plate
of an ordinary kitchen-stove, with the smoke-outlet in communication
with the stove proper through the medium of the stove-lid opening.
These devices are frequently termed "portable furnaces".
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28 | Stove flue-connected: |
| This subclass is indented under subclass 27. Devices in which the smoke-outlet has direct connection with the stove-pipe or smoke-flue of the stove. | |
29 | Field: | ||||
| This subclass is indented under subclass 25. Stoves designed to be employed in the open air and are what
may be termed "bottomless", the fire being built
upon the ground.
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30 | Supporting frame: | ||
| This subclass is indented under subclass 29. Devices in the nature of supports and tripods designed to
suspend or support cooking utensils over the fire.
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31 | Flue extension: | ||
| This subclass is indented under the unnumbered
subclass, Water-heating. Stoves in which a tank containing water to be heated is placed
in an extension-chamber through which the products of combustion
pass. This type of stove is generally known as "reservoir
cooking-stove".
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32 | Spittoon attachments: | ||
| This subclass is indented under subclass 1. Subject matter in the nature of attachments for spittoons.
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33 | Tables, steam-heated: | ||||
| This subclass is indented under subclass 1. Devices that are in the form of shallow chambers provided
with means for causing a circulation of steam or hot water therein,
whereby the top plates or receptacles placed thereon are heated,
e.g., candy-tables, carving-tables, food-warming vessels, and similar
devices.
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34 | Water backs: | ||||||
| This subclass is indented under subclass 1. Stoves provided with generators, steam or hot-water, located
in or adjacent to the combustion-chamber.
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35 | Safety devices: | ||||||
| This subclass is indented under subclass 34. Stoves provided with means for preventing the bursting of
the water-back, due to excessive internal pressure as the result
of overheating or the freezing of the water.
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36 | Combined coal and gas: |
| This subclass is indented under the unnumbered subclass, Liquid or gaseous fuel. Subject matter comprising combined coal and gas stoves where the gas-stove is a permanent part of the cooking stove or range. | |
37 | Cabinet: | ||
| This subclass is indented under the unnumbered
subclass, Liquid or gaseous fuel. Subject matter comprising cabinets or inclosing casings
that are structurally designed to inclose or conceal gas or liquid-fuel
stoves when not in use. The cabinets are usually provided with compartments
wherein articles of food and the like may be placed.
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38 | Folding or nesting kit: |
| This subclass is indented under the unnumbered subclass, Liquid or gaseous fuel. Devices adapted to be folded or slipped together and designed as such to contain the heating element and as a rule, the article acted upon by the heating element. These devices are frequently termed "pocket-stoves". | |
39 | Gas: |
| This subclass is indented under the unnumbered subclass, Liquid or gaseous fuel. Subject matter comprising improvements in the ordinary commercial gas-stove. | |
40 | Burner stands: |
| This subclass is indented under subclass 39. Devices in the nature of combined burner and stand, that are portable in character, and as such are designed to be placed upon a table or similar article of support. These devices are usually of the "single-burner" variety. | |
41 | Broilers: | ||||
| This subclass is indented under subclass 39. Devices comprising gas-stove structures with broiling attachments.
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42 | Safety attachments: | ||||||||
| This subclass is indented under subclass 39. Devices that are designed to simultaneously close the valves
in branch pipes when the valve in the main gas supply is closed,
also valve-locking means that will prevent the accidental opening
of the valves.
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43 | Alcohol: |
| This subclass is indented under the unnumbered subclass, Liquid. Subject matter which employ alcohol burners. | |
44 | Vapor: |
| This subclass is indented under the unnumbered subclass, Liquid. Subject matter comprising liquid-fuel cooking-stoves of the well known retort vapor-burner type. | |
45 | Wick: |
| This subclass is indented under the unnumbered subclass, Liquid. Subject matter comprising liquid-fuel cooking-stoves of the wick burner type. | |
46 | Extension top: | ||
| This subclass is indented under subclass 45. Liquid-fuel wick-type stoves where the improvement resides
in the means for giving the top an enlarged or extended cooking-surface.
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47 | Lamp type: |
| This subclass is indented under subclass 45. Devices where the heater is of the ordinary lamp or illuminating type structure. | |
48 | Combined top, chimney and burner: |
| This subclass is indented under subclass 47. Devices having a combined top, chimney, and burner. These devices are frequently termed "drums" in the art. | |
49 | Reservoir supporting top and burner: |
| This subclass is indented under subclass 45. Liquid-fuel wick-stove in which a combined supporting-top and burner are supported in an elevated position from and above the oil-reservoir. | |
50 | Supporting frame: | ||
| This subclass is indented under the unnumbered
subclass, Liquid or gaseous fuel. Subject matter comprising gas, liquid-fuel, and vapor stove
frames, usually of skeleton form, provided with liquid or gaseous
fuel heating-burners and designed to support the ordinary kitchen
utensils.
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51 | Drip pan or receptacle: |
| This subclass is indented under the unnumbered subclass Liquid. Devices that are in the form of pans or receptacles so attached to liquid or vapor stove supporting frames that they will catch the oil dripping or overflowing from a burner or burners. Means are sometimes provided for conducting the accumulated oil from the pans to a receptacle. | |
52 | Valve mechanism, article-controlled: | ||
| This subclass is indented under the unnumbered
subclass, Liquid or gaseous fuel. Subject matter burning fluid fuel and having fuel control
valves that are opened by the weight of the article to be heated
and closed through the medium of a weight or spring.
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53 | Water backs: | ||||||||
| This subclass is indented under the unnumbered
subclass, Liquid or gaseous fuel. Subject matter comprising gas or vapor stove structures
that are provided with water-backs designed to heat water for domestic
purposes.
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54 | Combined burner and water back: |
| This subclass is indented under subclass 53. Subject matter in which the burner structures and water-heating means are integral. | |
55 | Combined base and hot closet: | ||
| This subclass is indented under subclass 1. Subject matter comprising devices that are designed to support
the stove or range from the floor. It is usual to provide the base
with what may be termed a warming or hot closet.
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56 | Car: |
| This subclass is indented under the unnumbered subclass, STOVES. Subject matter comprising stoves that are specially designed for use on railroad-cars and similar structures. | |
57 | Protective casings: | ||
| This subclass is indented under subclass 56. Car-stoves wherein the improvement resides in means to make
it safe in case of derailment, collision, or other accident to the
car. The means may be an inclosing casing, an automatically-operated
closing casing, or automatic means for closing the inlet and outlet
openings of the stove.
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58 | Heating: |
| This subclass is indented under the class definition. Subject matter relating to usually cast or sheet metal, heat generators that are direct-heat radiating. | |
59 | Camp: | ||||
| This subclass is indented under subclass 58. Heating stoves of the knock-down type, specially designed
for tent heating.
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59.5 | Orchard: | ||
| This subclass is indented under subclass 58. Portable devices for generating heat or smoke for protecting
orchards from frost.
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