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Class 104
RAILWAYS
Class Definition:
This class includes railway rolling stock and track, each of
which is modified for interrelation and cooperation with each
other, as in the case of traction and propulsion systems not
otherwise classified; railway track other than normal surface
track; car-stopping devices of abutting type associated with
the track; amusement railway apparatus, such as used in
recreation parks; track layers, shifters, and repairers;
railway fixtures, such as turntables, transfer tables, and
terminal features; appliances for use with railway track,
such as hose bridges, car replacers, and car derailers, and
miscellaneous features relating to railway track not
elsewhere classified.
REFERENCES TO OTHER CLASSES
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
404, Road Structure, Process, or Apparatus, subclass 1, for a
road system.
446, Amusement Devices: Toys, subclasses 444+ for a toy
railway wherein the energy for moving the rolling stock is
supplied by the child, such as a wind-up toy, or where a
feature peculiar to Class 446 is claimed.
SUBCLASSES
Subclass:
2
This subclass is indented under the class definition.
Apparatus and tools for distributing track material along the
grade, for placing the rails and ties and assembling the
track, and for adjusting the track and tamping the same into
final position.
Subclass:
3
This subclass is indented under subclass 2. Apparatus and
tools in which the rails and ties are spiked or fastened
together in completed sections before they are positioned on
the roadbed.
Subclass:
4
This subclass is indented under subclass 2. Apparatus in
which the detachable track sections are continuously shifted
from the rear of the moving vehicle to the front thereof.
Subclass:
5
This subclass is indented under subclass 2. Apparatus
comprising one or more cars or a train with means for
distributing the rails and ties to the roadbed in advance of
the train.
Subclass:
6
This subclass is indented under subclass 5. Distributor which
delivers the ties transversely of and upon the roadbed
substantially in final position.
Subclass:
7.1
Track raising car:
This subclass is indented under subclass 2. Apparatus
comprising a track-supported vehicle which includes means to
raise connected rails and ties to a higher position as it
passes slowly over the track.
Subclass:
7.2
With means to tranversely shift track (i.e., aligning):
This subclass is indented under subclass 7.1. Apparatus
wherein the thack-supported vehicle further includes means to
shift the completed track laterally to a new position as it
passes along the track.
Subclass:
7.3
Under-track ballast sled or plow:
This subclass is indented under subclass 7.1. Apparatus
wherein the track-supported vehicle includes means inserted
between the roadbed and connected rails and ties for raising
the track from the roadbed as it passes along underneath the
track; the track raising means further functioning to either
(1) evenly distribute, level, or smooth the roadbed material
supporting the track befor allowing the levelled or smoothed
roadbed, or (2) scrape away a portion of the roadbed material
supporting the track before allowing the raised track to
settle back onto the remaining roadbed or sub-grade.
Subclass:
8
This subclass is indented under subclass 2. Track cars which
slue or shift the completed track laterally to a new position
as they pass along the track.
Subclass:
9
This subclass is indented under subclass 2. Devices mounted
upon track trucks for removing and replacing ties in track
repair.
Subclass:
10
This subclass is indented under subclass 2. Apparatus and
tools for tamping the ballast, cement, or earth around ties.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
81, Tools, subclass 463 for impact tools of general
application and see the Notes thereto for other impact
tools.
173, Tool Driving or Impacting, subclasses 90+ and see the
search notes therein for a means to impact a tool or the
like.
Subclass:
11
This subclass is indented under subclass 10. Pneumatic
injection apparatus for forcing cement or concrete beneath
and around ties.
Subclass:
12
This subclass is indented under subclass 10. Tampers mounted
on cars which are adapted to run on the track rails.
Subclass:
13
This subclass is indented under subclass 10. Hand implements
for tamping ballast in place.
Subclass:
14
This subclass is indented under subclass 13. Hand tools of
the pneumatic-hammer type for placing ballast around the
ties.
Subclass:
15
This subclass is indented under subclass 2. Electric welding
apparatus for operation on a completed track, such as making
welded rail joints.
Subclass:
16
This subclass is indented under subclass 2. Apparatus for
permanently seating tie plates in position on the ties.
Subclass:
17.1
Track rail mounted spike driver:
This subclass is indented under subclass 2. Apparatus
comprising a track rail supported vehicle or carriage
specially adapted to secure the track rails to the ties by
means of forcing large elongated nail-like fasteners into the
ties.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
173, Tool Driving or Impacting, subclasses 90+ and see the
search notes therein for a means to impact a tool or the
like.
227, Elongated-Member-Driving Apparatus, appropriate
subclasses, for apparatus for applying a member, e.g., spike,
not mounted on a track.
Subclass:
17.2
Track rail mounted rail anchor applicator:
This subclass is indented under subclass 2. Apparatus
comprising a track-supported vehicle or carriage having means
to attach spring clip members (which are intended to span and
resiliently grip a trach rail base) to a trach rail base and
abut them against a side of the ties or tie plates, whereby
the attached spring clip members prevent longitudinal
movement of a track rail relative to the ties.
Subclass:
18
This subclass is indented under the class definition. Load
transfer to and from moving trains.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
258, Railway Mail Delivery, for mailbag and train order
transfer, and also for loading or unloading aircraft in
flight.
Subclass:
19
This subclass is indented under subclass 18. Apparatus for
enabling a train-man in case of danger to land safely from a
rapidly moving train or locomotive.
Subclass:
20
This subclass is indented under subclass 18. Apparatus for
the transfer of passengers to and from a continuously moving
train.
Subclass:
21
This subclass is indented under subclass 20. Apparatus
comprising a terminal having a large turntable which travels
with the train as the latter runs around the periphery of the
turntable.
Subclass:
22
This subclass is indented under the class definition.
Balloons connected with cars or trucks which are designed to
travel along defined tracks.
Subclass:
23.1
FLUID SUPPORTED CAR OR SIMULATED AERIAL VEHICLE:
Railway under the class difinition either (1) wherein a
vehicle travels along a guideway and is supported entirely or
in part by a fluid medium while still being contstrained to
move along the guideway; or (2) wherein a vehicle travels
along a rail or cable way and represents an air vehicle, but
is incapable of being, at least in part, aerodynamically
supported.
Subclass:
23.2
Car supported by fluid current pushing against surface:
This subclass is indented under subclass 23.1. Railway
wherein the vehicle is supported above the guideway by a
current of fluid moving between a surface of the vehicle and
a supportting surface, the movement of the fluid forcing the
two surfaces away from one another so as to sustain the
vehicle out of contact with, but in close proximity to the
supporting surface.
(1) Note. The "supporting surface" may either constitute
the guideway or be located on or near the guideway.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
114, Ships, appropriate subclasses, for a surface effect
marine vehicle utilizing water as a supporting surface.
180, Motor Vehicles, subclasses 116+ for a surface effect
vehicle which is not track guided.
Subclass:
24
This subclass is indented under the class definition. Rail
vehicles provided with sails for effecting the movement of
such vehicles.
Subclass:
25
This subclass is indented under the class definition.
Passenger cars or carriers connected in endless horizontal
trains.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
198, Conveyors: Power-Driven, subclasses 321+ for endless
carriers of the escalator type.
Subclass:
26.1
CAR YARD:
This subclass is indented under the class definition.
Apparatus comprising an arrangement of a plurality of railway
tracks, means to facilitate the making-up of a train of
railway cars, means to facilitate the sorting of railway
cars, or the general arrangement of a railway yard designed
to receive, distribute, or classify railway cars.
Subclass:
26.2
Track brake:
This subclass is indented under subclass 26.1. Apparatus
comprising car retarding means located on or in the vicinity
of a railway track of a car yard for reducing the speed of a
railway car moving along the track, not on the vehicle.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
188, Brakes, subclasses 62+, for brakes for track guided
vehicles, the brakes being mounted solely on the track, not
on the vehicle.
Subclass:
27
This subclass is indented under the class definition. Railway
stopping places for the receipt or discharge of passengers or
freight.
Subclass:
28
This subclass is indented under subclass 27. Arrangements of
stations for the handling of passenger traffic.
Subclass:
29
This subclass is indented under subclass 27. Arrangements of
stations for the handling of freight traffic.
Subclass:
30
This subclass is indented under subclass 27. Platforms and
fixtures thereon for railway stations.
Subclass:
31
This subclass is indented under subclass 30. Station
platforms having portions shiftable to facilitate passenger
movement or the handling of freight.
Subclass:
32.1
This subclass is indented under the class definition.
Apparatus for removing and replacing trucks or wheels and
axles on railway rolling stock or yard fixtures for removing
car or locomotive bodies from their trucks.
Subclass:
33
This subclass is indented under subclass 32.1. Gauge frogs or
other track fixtures for effecting the change of the wheel
gauge on trucks.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
105, Railway Rolling Stock, subclass 178 for changeable
gauge trucks.
Subclass:
34
This subclass is indented under the class definition. Station
apparatus for effecting battery interchange and supply on
electric vehicles.
Subclass:
35
This subclass is indented under the class definition.
Intermediately pivoted rotary track sections for shifting
vehicles angularly.
Subclass:
36
This subclass is indented under subclass 35. Operating
mechanism for rotating turntables not otherwise classified
below.
Subclass:
37
This subclass is indented under subclass 36. Mechanism
comprising compressed air or steam motor devices for rotating
turntables.
Subclass:
38
This subclass is indented under subclass 36. Turntable
operators comprising electric motors and control therefor and
electric controlling systems for other motors.
Subclass:
39
This subclass is indented under subclass 36. Turntables
actuated directly or indirectly by traction cables such as
are used for car propulsion.
Subclass:
40
This subclass is indented under subclass 36. Turntables in
which the vehicle which is to be shifted furnishes the power
for operating the turntable.
Subclass:
41
This subclass is indented under subclass 40. Turntables in
which the vehicle traction drive wheels operate friction
drive wheels on the turntable to effect the operation of the
latter.
Subclass:
42
This subclass is indented under subclass 40. Turntables in
which the weight of the vehicle is used to operate the
turntable.
Subclass:
43
This subclass is indented under subclass 36. Turntables in
which rotation is effected by power driven traction wheels,
which may also act as the end carriers of the turntable.
Subclass:
44
This subclass is indented under subclass 35. Turntables
designed for handling automobiles.
Subclass:
45
This subclass is indented under subclass 35. Portable
turntables carried by or separate from the vehicles, designed
for temporary use wherever desired.
Subclass:
46
This subclass is indented under subclass 35. Center bearings
and end supports for turntables which involve a substantial
modification of the turntable structure to accomodate them.
Subclass:
47
This subclass is indented under subclass 35. Locking devices
for holding turntables in fixed positions. These locks are
usually associated with the aligning rail ends.
Subclass:
48
This subclass is indented under the class definition. Trucks
carrying tracks to receive vehicles and carry them laterally
or longitudinally to fixed tracks adapted to register with
the tracks on the trucks.
Subclass:
49
This subclass is indented under subclass 48. Transfer tables
pivoted at one end, adapted to receive and carry a vehicle
during the swinging of the transfer table.
Subclass:
50
This subclass is indented under subclass 48. Mechanism for
effecting the movement of transfer tables.
Subclass:
51
This subclass is indented under the class definition. Fixed
apparatus in locomotive sheds or roundhouses for use with
locomotives.
Subclass:
52
This subclass is indented under subclass 51. Smoke removers
for use in roundhouses and train sheds over locomotive smoke
stacks. They may or may not be provided with means for
producing an artificial draft.
Subclass:
53
This subclass is indented under the class definition. Railway
and analogous devices for use in amusement parks.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
472, Amusement Devices, particularly subclasses 1+ for an
amusement roundabout.
Subclass:
54
This subclass is indented under subclass 53. Apparatus
comprising special forms of track and vehicles in which the
moving vehicle jumps across gaps between sections of the
track.
Subclass:
55
This subclass is indented under subclass 53. Apparatus
comprising a track provided with substantially vertical
loops, around which the vehicles travel.
Subclass:
56
This subclass is indented under subclass 53. Apparatus
comprising a track in helical form, which may vary to
substantially spiral form with substantially vertical axes.
Subclass:
57
This subclass is indented under subclass 56. Apparatus in
which a helical track rotates, and thus causes the car to
move by gravity, similar to the action of the Archimedean
screw.
Subclass:
58
This subclass is indented under subclass 53. Apparatus
comprising a track made of flexible sheet metal in which
waves or undulations are produced to cause the movement of
the cars located on the track.
Subclass:
59
This subclass is indented under subclass 53. Apparatus in
which passenger carrying tubs usually provided with roller
bottoms, coast by gravity down inclined track surfaces
provided with surface variations or obstacles.
Subclass:
60
This subclass is indented under subclass 53. Devices which
include parallel track arrangements, speed controlling
devices, electric circuit control, and other features
designed particularly for producing racing effects. The
vehicle may or may not carry passengers.
Subclass:
61
This subclass is indented under subclass 53. Vehicles and
tracks for simulating horseback riding.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
60 for devices particularly designed to produce racing
effects.
Subclass:
62
This subclass is indented under subclass 53. Apparatus
comprising vehicles traveling along fixed ways for use in
physical training.
Subclass:
63
This subclass is indented under subclass 53. Appartus having
railway tracks distorted in alignement in all directions for
producing surprising and pleasing shocks during travel.
Subclass:
64
This subclass is indented under subclass 63. Railway tracks
arranged in a generally horizontal zigzag layout when viewed
in plan.
Subclass:
65
This subclass is indented under subclass 64. Apparatus in
which the vehicles are moved in arcuate paths by interrelated
wheels, each of which carries the vehicle through a certain
arc and then passes it to another wheel.
Subclass:
66
This subclass is indented under subclass 64. Apparatus in
which the vehicles are connected for endless chain drive
through a horizontal zigzag path.
Subclass:
67
This subclass is indented under subclass 53. Apparatus in
which the cars have a back-and-forth movement over track
sections connected at their ends by switches, where the car
movement is reversed.
Subclass:
68
This subclass is indented under subclass 53. Special circular
tracks for bicycles and motor vehicles for exhibition
purposes.
Subclass:
69
This subclass is indented under subclass 53. Inclined
slideways and tracks for coasting.
Subclass:
70
This subclass is indented under subclass 69. Apparatus, with
the track terminal ending in a body of water.
Subclass:
71
This subclass is indented under subclass 53. Apparatus having
boats and cars designed to run entirely submerged and having
guideways for determining their path of movement.
Subclass:
72
This subclass is indented under subclass 53. Apparatus having
cars with boatlike bottoms and a path of travel an
intermediate portion of which causes the car to trail over
the surface of a body of water.
Subclass:
73
This subclass is indented under subclass 53. Apparatus
comprising canal walls and moving currents of water to guide
and carry the boat or car throughout its course of travel.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
472, Amusement Devices, particularly subclass 13 for a
marine amusement roundabout.
Subclass:
74
This subclass is indented under subclass 53. Apparatus in
which the car body is designed to rotate relatively to the
truck on which it is carried.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
472, Amusement Devices, particularly subclass 3 for an
amusement roundabout having a feature for facilitating
transport by a vehicle.
Subclass:
75
This subclass is indented under subclass 74. The car body
rotates about a vertical axis on the truck.
Subclass:
76
This subclass is indented under subclass 74. The car body
rotates about a horizontal axis on the truck.
Subclass:
77
This subclass is indented under subclass 53. Apparatus in
which the car travels on a track inside a wheel.
Subclass:
78
This subclass is indented under subclass 77. Apparatus in
which the wheel in which the car travels is itself adapted to
travel along a track.
Subclass:
79
This subclass is indented under subclass 53. Apparatus in
which the cars are designed to travel back and forth along a
teetering track.
Subclass:
80
This subclass is indented under subclass 53. Apparatus in
which the teeter or seesaw track is mounted upon a wheeled
truck and the oscillating track is connected in driving
relation to the wheeled truck to propel it along a track.
Subclass:
81
This subclass is indented under subclass 53. Apparatus in
which the oscillations of a swing suspended from a wheeled
truck cause the truck to move along a track.
Subclass:
82
This subclass is indented under subclass 53. Devices for
giving a passenger a vertical jolt or movement on a vehicle
for the purpose of simulating horseback riding or giving a
thrilling effect.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
61 for horse simulation devices.
Subclass:
83
This subclass is indented under subclass 53. Imitation cars
or boats which simulate rapid movement.
Subclass:
84
This subclass is indented under subclass 53. Scenic illusion
effects other than static scenery, associated with traveling
vehicles for giving the passenger a false impression as to
his traveling conditions and surroundings.
Subclass:
85
This subclass is indented under subclass 53. Means associated
with traveling vehicles for producing unexpected physical
effects.
Subclass:
86
This subclass is indented under subclass 53. Apparatus having
water movement display operatively associated with moving
vehicles.
Subclass:
87
This subclass is indented under the class definition.
Apparatus in which a rigid rail track merges into a cable
rail track, or vice-versa.
(1) Note. This subclass includes rigid curved rail sections
for cable rail.
Subclass:
88.01
SELECTIVE DELIVERY:
This subclass is indented under the class definition. Subject
matter for predetermined delivery of rolling stock at
selected locations on a plurality of tracks.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
subclasses 170+ for traction truck-freight handling
systems.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
406, Conveyors: Fluid Current, subclasses 1+ for fluid
current conveyors having selective delivery.
Subclass:
88.02
Electrical control:
This subclass is indented under subclass 88.01. Subject
matter wherein the delivery of the rolling stock is regulated
by a device which is electrically powered.
(1) Note. The device for this subclass may include a
control means comprising an electrically operated mechanical
mechanism such as an electrically operated fluid-pressure
control means.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
246, Railway Switches and Signals, subclass 28 for automatic
electric control for signals.
Subclass:
88.03
Centralized:
This subclass is indented under subclass 88.02. Subject
matter wherein the device is a single dominant source for
controlling the delivery.
Subclass:
88.04
Including local control:
This subclass is indented under subclass 88.03. Subject
matter wherein the device, in conjunction with a secondary
control means, performs a function of the delivery.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
117.1 for automatic stopping or reversing means for cable
rails.
Subclass:
88.05
Including override feature:
This subclass is indented under subclass 88.02. Subject
matter wherein the device includes a control means which upon
actuation nullifies the action directed by the device.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
246, Railway Switches and Signals, subclasses 25+ for
signal clearing operation.
Subclass:
88.06
Including pre-established manual setting:
This subclass is indented under subclass 88.02. Subject
matter wherein the device is secured in a calibrated position
by a human operator before actuation.
Subclass:
89
This subclass is indented under the class definition.
Railways having overhead track for rolling stock in which the
load carrying parts are suspended below the trucks and rails
upon which they run.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
16, Miscellaneous Hardware, subclasses 94-96, inclusive, for
tracks for panel hangers and travelers.
Subclass:
90
This subclass is indented under subclass 89. Railways
comprising suspended cars having a load carrying platform or
track designed to travel between and in alignment with two
stationary track sections or platforms, like a ferry boat.
Subclass:
91
This subclass is indented under subclass 89. Trolley or
overhead track systems involving special arrangements and
relative track location.
Subclass:
92
This subclass is indented under subclass 89. Overhead track
terminating in a laterally swinging boom track.
Subclass:
93
This subclass is indented under subclass 89. Overhead or
trolley track structure having a single rail.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
16, Miscellaneous Hardware, subclasses 87+, for panel hangers
and travelers.
Subclass:
94
This subclass is indented under subclass 89. Overhead or
trolley track structure having two rails, with a clear space
between them for passage of car suspenders.
Subclass:
95
This subclass is indented under subclass 89. Track structure
for carrying outwardly-projecting rails or a single rail with
two oppositely-extending rail tread-surfaces. In either case
the truck-wheels for use on such tracks have opposite
inwardly-extending track-wheels.
Subclass:
96
This subclass is indented under the class definition.
Apparatus for the shifting and transfer of trolley and
suspended cars on their track systems.
Subclass:
97
This subclass is indented under subclass 96. A shifting
device for bodily lifting a trolley from one track and
placing it on another track.
Subclass:
98
This subclass is indented under subclass 96. Apparatus having
the traveling-bridge trolley-track of an overhead crane is
designed to register with a series of fixed track sections,
so that the trolley may pass from the bridge to any
registering track-section, or vice versa.
Subclass:
99
This subclass is indented under subclass 96. Devices
comprising frog-pieces and switches of turntable type having
intermediate vertical axes.
Subclass:
100
This subclass is indented under subclass 96. Devices
comprising switch or frog pieces having transverse horizontal
end pivots, so that the pieces may swing upwardly in the
vertical plane of the track.
Subclass:
101
This subclass is indented under subclass 96. Devices
comprising switch or frog pieces having horizontal axes
running longitudinally of the track, so that the pieces may
swing in vertical planes transversally to the track.
Subclass:
102
This subclass is indented under subclass 96. Devices
comprising switch or frog pieces having transverse sliding
movement.
Subclass:
103
This subclass is indented under subclass 96. Stub-switches
pivoted at one end and swinging in horizontal planes.
Subclass:
104
This subclass is indented under subclass 96. Devices
comprising switch and frog pieces of the split-point type.
Subclass:
105
This subclass is indented under subclass 96. Devices
comprising fixed frogs having no movable parts.
Subclass:
106
This subclass is indented under the class definition.
Rail-forms for suspended or trolley tracks.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
16, Miscellaneous Hardware, subclasses 94-96, for tracks for
panel hangers and travelers.
248, Supports, subclasses 49+ for pipe and cable supports
which are closely related in structure to rail supports.
Subclass:
107
This subclass is indented under subclass 106. Trolley-rails
provided with a plurality of tread-surfaces.
Subclass:
108
This subclass is indented under subclass 107. Trolley-rails
of slotted-tube form, in which the interior surfaces of the
opposed slot edges form the tread-surfaces.
Subclass:
109
This subclass is indented under subclass 107. Trolley-rails
which are integral and have tread-surfaces on their opposite
sides.
Subclass:
110
This subclass is indented under subclass 106. Trolley-rails
each having a single tread-surface.
Subclass:
111
This subclass is indented under subclass 106. Devices
comprising hangers and suspension means for trolley-rails.
Subclass:
112
This subclass is indented under the class definition.
Elevated or suspended railways in which the tracks are formed
of cables.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
254, Implements or Apparatus for Applying Pushing or Pulling
Force, subclasses 264+ for apparatus for hauling or
hoisting a load including a driven device which contacts and
either (a) pulls a cable attached to the load, or (b) travels
with the load along a cable.
Subclass:
113
This subclass is indented under subclass 112. Inclined or
inclinable cable-tracks upon which the cars or trolleys
travel by gravity.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
164 for tilting, track railway propulsion systems.
Subclass:
114
This subclass is indented under subclass 112. Cable-railways
of marine type in which the track length is continually
changing, as, for example, in coaling vessels at sea.
Subclass:
115
This subclass is indented under subclass 112. Devices
comprising hangers, suspension devices, and saddles for
cable-rails.
Subclass:
116
This subclass is indented under subclass 115. Cable rail
suspension devices which permit of vertical movement of the
cable ends.
Subclass:
117
Devices under subclasses 112 comprising cable-rail tension
regulators and anchoring devices for the ends of
cable-rails.
Subclass:
117.1
With automatic stopping or reversing:
This subclass is indented under subclass 112. Apparatus
including means for bringing a vehicle riding on the cable to
a halt or reversing its direction of movement at a
predetermined location or time, without manual intervention.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
303 for other electric railways having means externally to
the vehicle for reversing the direction of travel of the
vehicle.
Subclass:
118
This subclass is indented under the class definition.
Apparatus comprising monorail track structure for cars in
which the load-carrying body is above the rail, in
contradistinction to a suspended-car system.
Subclass:
119
This subclass is indented under subclass 118. Monorail track
structure having side guides or tracks to prevent the cars
tipping over.
Subclass:
120
This subclass is indented under subclass 118. Apparatus, in
which the truck or car bottom is of saddle form seated over a
raised center rail.
Subclass:
121
This subclass is indented under subclass 118. Apparatus
comprising track structure having a bottom rail and an upper
suspended rail, between which the rolling-stock, with wheels
at the top and bottom thereof, is adapted to be supported and
vertically maintained in its travel.
Subclass:
122
This subclass is indented under the class definition. Devices
adapted to be lowered from an overhead car for picking up
passengers or freight.
Subclass:
123
This subclass is indented under the class definition.
Railways comprising catenary cable or chain suspension of
suspension-bridge type and towers or posts with inclined
tie-rods or cables for track suspension.
Subclass:
124
This subclass is indented under the class definition.
Railways comprising the horizontal portion of elevated track
structure and horizontal trussing therefor.
Subclass:
125
This subclass is indented under the class definition.
Railways comprising the vertical main supports, such as
towers or posts, for elevated track structure.
Subclass:
126
This subclass is indented under the class definition.
Portable elevated tracks as for use with trenchwork, or
shiftable tower-tracks, as used in handling coal or ore.
Subclass:
127
This subclass is indented under the class definition.
Apparatus comprising passenger and freight elevators
interconnected in operation with elevated railways.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
187, Elevator, Industrial Lift Truck, or Stationary Lift for
Vehicle, subclass 403 for elevator car structure having
means for engaging the wheels of a carried vehicle.
Subclass:
128
This subclass is indented under subclass 127. Elevators for
handling railway rolling-stock.
Subclass:
129
This subclass is indented under subclass 127. Elevators,
interconnected in operation with adjacent rail or track
structure.
Subclass:
130.01
SWITCHES:
This subclass is indented under the class definition. Subject
matter comprising a device having a plurality of track
sections of a railway track which, in conjunction with a
control means, is used for guiding the rolling stock from one
railway track to an adjacent or intersecting railway track.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
96 for suspended trolley transfer devices.
195 for cable conduit slot switches.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
246, Railway Switches and Signals, for railway switches of
general utility, especially subclass 419 for switches more
or less modified in construction by the presence of the
conduits, third rails, and cables and conducting wires of
cable and electric railways.
Subclass:
130.02
For levitated vehicle:
This subclass is indented under subclass 130.01. Subject
matter wherein the device is adapted for guiding the rolling
stock which is elevated above the track by a magnetic or
pneumatic source.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
292 for a motor element for a linear motor generating a
magnetic field for a propulsion of a railway rolling stock.
Subclass:
130.03
Having movable track element:
This subclass is indented under subclass 130.02. Subject
matter wherein the device includes at least one moving
component for guiding the rolling stock.
Subclass:
130.04
For vertical guide:
This subclass is indented under subclass 130.01. Subject
matter wherein the device is used for guiding rolling stock
to or from tracks at different heights.
Subclass:
130.05
Having longitudinal pivot axis:
This subclass is indented under subclass 130.01. Subject
matter wherein the device rotates about its horizontal axis
which is longitudinal to the track.
Subclass:
130.06
Having horizontal sliding shift:
This subclass is indented under subclass 130.01. Subject
matter wherein the device is operated by sliding it in the
direction transverse to the track.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
102 for trolley transfer switch or frog pieces having a
transverse sliding movement.
Subclass:
130.07
Having all stationary track elements:
This subclass is indented under subclass 130.01. Subject
matter wherein all track sections of the device are fixed in
place with respect to one another.
(1) Note. In this subclass the device operates in
conjunction with a guiding member located on the body of the
rolling stock.
Subclass:
130.08
For toothed rail:
This subclass is indented under subclass 130.01. Subject
matter wherein the device is adapted for rack or cogged
railways.
Subclass:
130.09
Having movable track element for slot-guided vehicle:
This subclass is indented under subclass 130.01. Subject
matter wherein (a) at least one of the components of the
track sections of the device changes its position for guiding
the rolling stock on the railway track, and (b) the railway
track consists of a narrow and continuous groove wherein
means projecting (e.g., pins, posts) from the body of the
rolling stock are traveling during operation.
Subclass:
130.11
Having flexible element:
This subclass is indented under subclass 130.01. Subject
matter wherein one of the components of the track section of
the device bends when a force is applied and retracts to its
original position when the force is removed.
(1) Note. The component of the track section for this
subclass includes a single bendable member or a plurality of
members jointed at ends by means (e.g., hinges) which allow
the members to move as a unit.
Subclass:
133
This subclass is indented under the class definition. Railway
apparatus comprising drip-pans, nets, etc., for catching
liquids, dirt, or articles that might fall from an elevated
railway.
Subclass:
134
This subclass is indented under the class definition.
Railways in which the vehicles move over a defined track by
sliding contact.
Subclass:
135
This subclass is indented under subclass 134. Sledways having
the track-surface made up of a series of rollers, over which
the nonwheeled vehicles slide.
Subclass:
136
This subclass is indented under subclass 134. Sledways in
which the defined track-surface is formed of ice, along which
the vehicles are adapted to slide.
Subclass:
137
This subclass is indented under the class definition.
Railways in which a traveling track is interposed between a
bottom fixed track and a traveling vehicle.
Subclass:
138.1
TUBULAR WAY:
This subclass is indented under the class definition. Railway
having an enclosed tubular form.
Subclass:
138.2
Internal service device:
This subclass is indented under subclass 138.1. Tubular way
including a means movable therewithin for inspecting,
servicing, treating, cleaning, or performing some other
maintenance function upon the interior of the tubular way.
(1) Note. This subclass contains patents directed to the
motive systems for carrying and moving the actual servicing
tools through the interior of a tubular way. If the specific
servicing tool is more than nominally claimed (even in
combination with the motive carrying device), the patent is
located in the appropriate classes provided for the tool.
Subclass:
139
This subclass is indented under the class definition.
Railways, having a track with a slot opening into an enlarged
conduit, in which a truck travels. The car-body is above the
slot and has connecting-bars passing downwardly through the
lost and fastened to the truck.
Subclass:
140
This subclass is indented under the class definition.
Railways in which the trackway is provided with an
underground slotted conduit for the reception of traction
elements, such as electric conductors or traction-cables.
Subclass:
141
This subclass is indented under subclass 140. Apparatus
comprising crossings for slotted-conduit railway-track. The
conduit-slot rails enter into the structure.
Subclass:
142
This subclass is indented under subclass 140. Apparatus
comprising transverse yoke or U-beam structure for support of
the track-rails and a slotted conduit.
(1) Note. This subclass is largely composed of built-up
rolled and cast sectional yokes.
Subclass:
143
This subclass is indented under subclass 142. Yokes or
slotted conduit structure made of concrete or concrete with
metal structure.
Subclass:
144
This subclass is indented under subclass 142. Yokes or
slotted conduit structure composed of a single piece of
metal.
Subclass:
145
This subclass is indented under subclass 140. Apparatus
comprising conduit enlargements and surface trap-doors for
conduits for facilitating the insertion and removal of
electric plow shoes or cable-grippers and devices for
handling the trap-doors, plows, or grippers.
Subclass:
146
This subclass is indented under subclass 140. Conduit
construction provided with slots, in which means are provided
for laterally adjusting the slot-irons to increase or
diminish the width of the slot.
Subclass:
154
This subclass is indented under subclass 287. Car-propulsion
systems in which the power is hydraulic and propulsion is
effected through the cooperation of the car-carried mechanism
and mechanism, such as nozzles and troughs, located along the
trackway.
Subclass:
155
This subclass is indented under subclass 287. Car-propulsion
systems in which the power is pneumatic and propulsion is
effected through the cooperation of the car-carried mechanism
and mechanism located along the trackway and not otherwise
classified below.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
406, Conveyors: Fluid Current, for propulsion of carriers
through tubes by means of a current of air flowing through
the tube. Class 104 provides for similar subject matter
having tracks on which the carriers ride through the tubes.
Subclass:
156
This subclass is indented under subclass 155. Pneumatic
car-propulsion systems in which a car-carried piston slides
in a slotted tube extending longitudinally along the trackway
and is acted upon by air therein for effecting the propulsion
of the car.
Subclass:
157
This subclass is indented under subclass 155. Mechanism
located along the trackway and adapted to cooperate with
car-carried mechanism for charging the air-cylinders of the
car and not otherwise classified below.
Subclass:
158
This subclass is indented under subclass 157. Mechanism,
allowing the charging of the car while in motion, and not
otherwise classified below.
Subclass:
159
This subclass is indented under subclass 158. Moving-car
pneumatic motor-charging systems in which a longitudinal
air-supply tube is located along the trackway and is adapted
to charge the car by means of a car-carried receiver adapted
to slide in a slot in said tube.
Subclass:
160
This subclass is indented under subclass 159. Moving-car
pneumatic motor-charging systems, the receiver being adapted
to surround the supply-tube and slide on the outer surface
thereof.
Subclass:
161
This subclass is indented under subclass 155. Devices for
closing the receiver slots in longitudinal air-supply or
piston tubes to prevent the escape of air therefrom and
adapted for movement to allow the passage of the receiver or
piston shank therealong.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
194 for slot closers for traction cable conduits.
Subclass:
162
This subclass is indented under subclass 165. Car propelling
means comprising piston-rods or reciprocating plungers or
rachet-bars located on the track for pushing cars.
Subclass:
163
This subclass is indented under subclass 162. Pushers
comprising horizontal rotary arms or armed wheels for pushing
cars around curves and vertical wheel devices for peripheral
engagement with cars to raise them to a higher level.
Subclass:
164
This subclass is indented under the class definition.
Railways having rigid track sections horizontally pivoted,
whereby upon tilting of a track section a car may move on the
same by gravity.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
113 for gravity cable rails.
Subclass:
165
This subclass is indented under the class definition. Track
and rolling stock in which the car-propelling means consists
of a moving element or elements located along the trackway
adapted to engage or be engaged by mechanism on the car for
effecting movement thereof and not otherwise classified
below.
Subclass:
166
This subclass is indented under subclass 165. Car-propelling
means in which the moving element in the road-bed consists of
a longitudinally-extending rotary shaft.
Subclass:
167
This subclass is indented under subclass 165. Car-propelling
means in which rotary shafts along the track are provided
with helical or screw surfaces for propelling the car, on the
principle of the screw or worm gear.
Subclass:
168
This subclass is indented under subclass 165. Car-propelling
means in which the moving element in the road-bed consists of
vertically or transversely extending live-rolls for
engagement with car parts.
Subclass:
169
This subclass is indented under subclass 165. Traction
railways in which field farm tools are adapted to reciprocate
transversely of the field by traction and to move
longitudinally thereof at the same time or adapted for
transverse and longitudinal movement independent of each
other.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
235 for whelp-wheel traction.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
172, Earth Working, subclasses 23+ for earth working
implements driven from or guided by a stationary object. A
patent claiming an earth working implement by name only and
concerned with a drive therefor, as defined in subclass 169,
is classified in Class 104. Claiming some manipulation of
the implement additional to traverse over the field or some
detail concerned with earth working causes classification in
Class 172.
254, Implements or Apparatus for Applying Pushing or Pulling
Force, subclasses 264+ for apparatus for hauling or
hoisting a load including a driven device which contacts and
either (a) pulls a cable attached to the load, or (b) travels
with the load along a cable.
Subclass:
170
This subclass is indented under subclass 165.
Freight-handling systems in which the freight is distributed
from one point to another, as from car to warehouse, by means
of small trucks operated by traction system, such as
traveling cables or chains.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
88 for selective delivery features.
Subclass:
171
This subclass is indented under subclass 170.
Freight-handling systems in which trucks of the two-wheel
type are adapted to be engaged by traction cables or chains.
Subclass:
172.1
CHAIN:
This subclass is indented under subclass 165. Car-propelling
means in which the moving element along the trackway
effecting the movement of a car comprises a flexible series
of joined links carrying means for selectively engaging a car
or adapted to be selectively engaged by a car-carried
mechanism.
Subclass:
172.2
Tow pin or mast:
This subclass is indented under subclass 172.1.
Car-propelling means in which the car carries a movably
attached car-propelling pin or member wwhich is movable
through a guide slot into engagement with a traction chain
moving within a channel disposed behind the guide slot; the
weight of the car and its load, if any, is supported on a
floor surface while the car is propelled and guided along the
floor surface by the moving traction chain.
(1) Note. Although the drive chain usually moves along a
level below that of the surface which supports the car (i.e.,
below floor level), also included herein is a drive chain
moving along a level above the car, in which case the car
carries a rather long upwardly extending mast-like member in
order to engage the overhead drive chain.
Subclass:
172.3
Beneath vehicle:
This subclass is indented under subclass 172.1.
Car-propelling means in which the car is always located
directly above the traction chain during the time it is being
propelled thereby.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
172.2 for a chain for propelling a car which is usually
located undeneath the car.
Subclass:
172.4
Suspended:
This subclass is indented under subclass 172.1.
Car-propelling means having an overhead rail or track for
supporting and guiding a movable truck thereon, and further
having an overhead traction chain for propelling the truck
along the rail or track, whereby the load carrying parts are
suspended or hung below the truck and the rail or track upon
which it runs.
(1) Note. An overhead conveyor which merely tows or pulls a
floor-supported car therealong is not included herein. To be
included in this subclass, an overhead conveyor must also
have an overhead rail which supports the weight of the car or
truck and its load.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
subclasses 89+ for an overhead track for rolling stock in
which the load carrying parts are suspended below the truck
and the rail upon which it runs.
Subclass:
172.5
Chain construction:
This subclass is indented under subclass 172.1. Subject
matter pertaining to the structure of the traction chain, per
se.
Subclass:
173.1
Cable:
This subclass is indented under subclass 165. Car-propelling
means in which the moving element along the trackway
effecting the movement of a car comprises a flexible belt or
a thick, heavy, flexible rope or wire which carries means for
selectively engaging a car or adapted to be selectively
engaged by a car-carried mechanism.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
226, Advancing Material of Indeterminate Length, appropriate
subclasses for methods of, and apparatus for feeding material
without utilizing the leading or trailing ends to effect
movement of the material.
254, Implements or Apparatus for Applying Pushing or Pulling
Force, subclasses 264+ for apparatus for hauling or
hoisting a load including a driven device which contacts and
either (a) pulls a cable attached to the load, or (b) travels
with the load along a cable.
Subclass:
173.2
Ski tow:
This subclass is indented under subclass 173.1. Traction
means in which the traction cable is specifically adapted to
pull, haul, or carry skiers particpating in the sport of
skiing from one place to another.
(1) Note. Although most of the traction cables included
herein are directed to the sport of snow skiing, also
included herein are traction cables directed to the sports of
water skiing and surfing.
(2) Note. Subclasses 174-240, also indented under subclass
173.1, were not screened upon the creation of this subclass.
Therefore, patents directed to "Ski tow" traction cables may
still be present in subclasses 174-240.
Subclass:
174
This subclass is indented under subclass 173.1.
Cable-operated car systems in which cars traveling downgrade
under gravity are adapted to move or assist in moving other
cars upgrade, not classified below.
Subclass:
175
This subclass is indented under subclass 174. Cable-operated
car systems in which cars travelling downgrade under gravity
are adapted to lift a weight, which acting under gravity,
moves or assists in moving other cars upgrade.
Subclass:
176
This subclass is indented under subclass 173.1. Car-haul
systems having a pushing car or mule operated by
traction-cables and adapted to engage the railroad cars by
means of a pusher-arm for moving the same. The pusher-arm in
many of these patents is depressible to allow the mule to
pass under the car.
Subclass:
177
This subclass is indented under subclass 173.1.
Traction-cable systems in which a mail-carrying car is
suspended from a trackway and adapted to ply between two
points, as between a farmhouse and the road, and in which the
car is propelled by cables operated by means of hand-cranks.
Subclass:
178
This subclass is indented under subclass 173.1. Apparatus for
driving and braking railway traction cables or chains and
also controlling means for the driving-motors thereof.
Subclass:
179
This subclass is indented under subclass 178. Devices for
signaling to the power-house in case of injury to the
traction-cable.
Subclass:
180
This subclass is indented under subclass 173.1.
Traction-cable systems in which a single cable is utilized
for both propelling and supporting the cable-car.
Subclass:
181
This subclass is indented under subclass 180. Traction-cable
systems in which the car is adapted to carry mail and ply
between two points, as farmhouse and road, the cable being
operated by means of a hand-crank.
Subclass:
182
This subclass is indented under subclass 173.1. Cable
apparatus comprising hangers for load-carrying cables which
are displaceable with respect to the cables to permit the
unobstructed passage of the load-carriers.
Subclass:
183
This subclass is indented under subclass 173.1.
Traction-cable systems in which the car is propelled by means
of a single draft cable having one end attached to the car
and the other end adapted to be wound upon a drum operated by
hand or by power.
Subclass:
184
This subclass is indented under subclass 173.1. Special
arrangements of traction cables at switches and modifications
in the track-way structure for their adaptation.
Subclass:
185
This subclass is indented under subclass 173.1. Special
arrangements of traction cables and cable apparatus at
crossing conduits and modifications in the conduit
construction for their adaptation.
Subclass:
186
This subclass is indented under subclass 185. Cable apparatus
having means for depressing the cable of one line at or near
the point where it is crossed by another in such manner that
the grip on the car of the crossing line shall not come in
contact with the cable of the crossed line.
Subclass:
187
This subclass is indented under subclass 185. Cable apparatus
having means for impelling the cars of one line across the
crossing line by means auxiliary to the cable, in cases where
it is necessary temporarily to let go the cable altogether.
Subclass:
188
This subclass is indented under subclass 173.1. Special
arrangements of traction cables and cable apparatus at
swing-bridges. This subclass shows the method of passing the
cable across the stream and for propelling the car while on
the bridge.
Subclass:
189
This subclass is indented under subclass 173.1. Special
arrangements of traction cables and cable apparatus at
curves.
Subclass:
190
This subclass is indented under subclass 189. Cable apparatus
having means for impelling the car around the curve auxiliary
to the main cable, either to allow a reduction in speed at
the curve or to allow the main cable to continue along the
straight track as the car takes the curve onto a crossing
track.
Subclass:
191
This subclass is indented under subclass 189. Special
arrangements involving the construction and arrangement of
horizontal pulleys for guiding a single traction cable around
the curve.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
474, Endless Belt Power Transmission Systems or Components,
particularly subclasses 152+ for a positive drive pulley or
guide roll; and subclasses 166+ for a friction drive pulley
or guide roll.
Subclass:
192
This subclass is indented under subclass 189. Cable apparatus
having means for conducting the two traction cables of a
double rope-system around a curve without interfering with
each other.
Subclass:
193
This subclass is indented under subclass 173.1. Devices for
detachably coupling the end of a draft cable to a car. This
subclass is largely composed of automatic uncoupling means.
Subclass:
194
This subclass is indented under subclass 173.1. Devices for
closing the grip-slots in longitudinal cable and electric
conduits to prevent the admission of dirt therein and adapted
for movement to allow the passage of the grip-shank
therealong.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
161 for pneumatic conduit-slot closers.
Subclass:
195
This subclass is indented under subclass 173.1. Cable
apparatus comprising switches in conduit-slots and
modifications in the conduit construction for their
adaptation.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
246, Railway Switches and Signals, subclass 419 for switches
having some modification in connection with the conduits,
cables, etc, of cable railways.
Subclass:
196
This subclass is indented under subclass 173.1. Mechanism
adapted to regulate the tension in traction cables during use
to take up slack and compensate the variations in the length
occuring from fluctuations of load or weather conditions or
from shifting track conditions.
Subclass:
197
This subclass is indented under subclass 173.1. Cable
apparatus comprising supporting pulleys for railway traction
cables and modifications in the track or conduit structure
for their adaptation.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
474, Endless Belt Power Transmission Systems or Components,
particularly subclasses 152+ for a positive drive pulley or
guide roll; and subclasses 166+ for a friction drive pulley
or guide roll.
Subclass:
198
This subclass is indented under subclass 173.1. Apparatus for
switching traction cables, adapted to be placed within the
cable conduit and operating to move the cable out if its
normal position into position to be grasped by the grip-jaws
or to move one cable out of gripping position while shifting
another cable into gripping position.
Subclass:
199
This subclass is indented under subclass 173.1. Apparatus for
lifting traction cables adapted to be placed within the cable
conduit and operating to lift the cable from its normal
position up into position to be grasped by the grip-jaws of
the car; also car-carried devices adapted to lift the cable
into gripping position.
Subclass:
200
This subclass is indented under subclass 173.1. Devices in
the nature of clips whereby buckets or suspension-cars may be
secured to the cable of tramways for sustaining and carrying
the buckets or cars and not otherwise classified below.
Subclass:
201
This subclass is indented under subclass 200. Cable clips
provided with head portions adapted to be inserted wholly or
partly between the shanks of the cables.
Subclass:
202
This subclass is indented under subclass 173.1. Cable
apparatus comprising grasping devices on cable-railway cars
by which a car can be attached to the traction cable or
relased therefrom at will.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
24, Buckles, Buttons, Clasps, etc., subclasses 115+ for
cord and rope holders of general application.
182, Fire Escape, Ladder, or Scaffold, subclasses 5+ for
strand-engaging torso harness, and subclasses 10+ for a
carrier supported for movement on an inclined cable.
188, Brakes, subclass 65.1 for strand gripers employed as
brakes.
226, Advancing Material of Indeterminate Length, appropriate
subclasses for methods of, and apparatus for, feeding
material without utilizing the leading or trailing ends to
effect movement of the material.
Subclass:
203
This subclass is indented under subclass 202. Cable apparatus
comprising pneumatic power means and controlling devices
therefor for operation of cable-gripping jaws.
Subclass:
204
This subclass is indented under subclass 202. Devices located
along the trackway for causing an application of car-carried
cable-gripping jaws to the traction cable or the release of
said jaws from said cable.
Subclass:
205
This subclass is indented under subclass 204. Devices having
the gripping-jaws operatively connected to a trip-lever on
the car or trolley. The trip-lever being operated by a stop
or ramp located along the track.
Subclass:
206
This subclass is indented under subclass 205. Devices which
have a pair of toggle-links directly connected to one or both
of the gripping jaws.
Subclass:
207
This subclass is indented under subclass 204. Devices having
pawls locking the grip-control levers to their ratchet
segments and released by the action of track-trips.
Subclass:
208
This subclass is indented under subclass 204. Devices in
which the weight of the trolley load holds the gripping-jaws
to the traction cable and track ramps or trips raise the
trolley-load to release the jaws.
Subclass:
209
This subclass is indented under subclass 204. Devices in
which trip-controlled spring-pressed gripping-jaws either
normally tend to grip the traction cable or normally tend to
release it.
Subclass:
210
This subclass is indented under subclass 204. Devices in
which trip-controlled gripping-jaws are actuated by a screw
or helical cam.
Subclass:
211
This subclass is indented under subclass 204. Devices having
trip-controlled gripping-jaws actuated by a cam.
Subclass:
212
This subclass is indented under subclass 204. Devices in
which the gripping-jaws may be wedge-formed or are operated
by wedges or beveled arms.
Subclass:
213
This subclass is indented under subclass 202. Cable apparatus
having longitudinal buffers for grip-carriers on cars to
dissipate the abruptness of the jerk when the gripper engages
the running cable.
Subclass:
214
This subclass is indented under subclass 202. Grippers in
which each of the jaws is pivotally, flexibly, or slidably
mounted so as to be movable laterally in a horizontal sense
to engage the cable.
Subclass:
215
This subclass is indented under subclass 214. Grippers,
having end guide-rollers adjacent the jaws for sustaining the
cable while disengaged from the gripping-jaws.
Subclass:
216
This subclass is indented under subclass 202. Grippers having
one jaw fixed and the other jaw is pivoted so as to be
movable toward the fixed jaw.
Subclass:
217
This subclass is indented under subclass 202. Grippers having
two pivoted jaws of forceps type with lever-jaws having
intermediate fulcrums.
Subclass:
218
This subclass is indented under subclass 202. Grippers in
which one or both of the jaws slide vertically.
Subclass:
219
This subclass is indented under subclass 218. Grippers, with
links connecting the movable jaw or jaws with the operating
lever and the latter carrying a pawl engaging a ratcher
segment.
Subclass:
220
This subclass is indented under subclass 218. Grippers with
end guide-rollers adjacent the jaws for sustaining the cable
while disengaged from the gripping-jaws.
Subclass:
221
This subclass is indented under subclass 220. Grippers having
pawl lever and link jaw operators.
Subclass:
222
This subclass is indented under subclass 202. Grippers having
wedge devices for operating one or both of the
gripping-jaws.
Subclass:
223
This subclass is indented under subclass 202. Grippers having
screw devices for operating one or both of the
gripping-jaws.
Subclass:
224
This subclass is indented under subclass 202. Grippers having
cam devices for operating one or both of the gripping-jaws.
Subclass:
225
This subclass is indented under subclass 202. Grippers in the
form of forks, clips, or hooks with V-shaped recesses for
engaging the traction-cable.
Subclass:
226
This subclass is indented under subclass 202. Grippers in
which one or both of the gripping-jaw faces are formed of an
endless belt parallel to the running cable, the endless belts
having restricted movement with the traction-cables.
Subclass:
227
This subclass is indented under subclass 202. Cable apparatus
in which the gripper on the car releases from the
traction-cable, raises up, passes over an overlying crossing
cable, and, dropping down again, engages its traction-cable.
Subclass:
228
This subclass is indented under subclass 227. Apparatus
having a recessed wheel associated with the gripper on the
car for passing an overlying cable on a cable-crossing.
Subclass:
229
This subclass is indented under subclass 202. Apparatus in
which the cable-engaging faces of the gripping-jaws are
rollers.
Subclass:
230
This subclass is indented under subclass 229. Apparatus in
which one or more of the rollers is used for transmitting
power for use on the car.
Subclass:
231
This subclass is indented under subclass 229. Grippers having
laterally movable roller-type jaws.
Subclass:
232
This subclass is indented under subclass 229. Grippers having
vertically movable roller-type jaws.
Subclass:
233
This subclass is indented under subclass 232. Grippers in
which the cable-engaging faces are alined opposing pairs of
rollers.
Subclass:
234
This subclass is indented under subclass 232. Grippers in
which the cable-engaging faces are staggered opposing series
of rollers.
Subclass:
235
This subclass is indented under subclass 202. Cable apparatus
in which the cable extending along a trackway has
intermediate its length one or more coils around one or more
drums or pulleys mounted on a vehicle, the vehicle being
caused to move in either direction by relative movement of
the cable and drum or drums.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
169 for farm tools similarly operated.
Subclass:
236
This subclass is indented under subclass 202. Cable apparatus
in which a sprocket-wheel on the car engages a cable, to
which are affixed buttons or stops adapted to engage the
sprocket-wheel.
Subclass:
237
This subclass is indented under subclass 202. Grippers having
one or both faces of the gripping-jaws formed of
sprocket-belts extending parallel to the traction-cable.
Subclass:
238
This subclass is indented under subclass 202. Cable apparatus
comprising car-carried stops and abutments for engagement
with buttons or stops on traction-cables.
Subclass:
239
This subclass is indented under subclass 202. Devices
comprising buttons or stops attached to traction-cables.
Subclass:
240
This subclass is indented under subclass 173.1. Features of
traction cable construction.
Subclass:
241
This subclass is indented under the class definition. Devices
located along the track for controlling the locking of
seat-guards to retain passengers in their seats, as used on
amusement railways.
Subclass:
242
This subclass is indented under the class definition.
Apparatus for preventing cars from becoming derailed and for
safeguarding them after derailment.
(1) Note. Subject matter under this definition includes
track-like guides for steering a nontrack supported vehicle
without the intervention of a power actuated means.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
180, Motor Vehicles, subclass 401 for a motor vehicle
provided with steering gear which includes a land-based
steering datum and means on the vehicle for sensing the
datum, which means cooperates with a steering motor on the
vehicle for the purpose of controlling the course of the
vehicle.
Subclass:
243
This subclass is indented under subclass 242. Derailment
guards in which the truck or car is provided with normally
inactive wheels, which in case of derailment come into
bearing upon supplemental rails other than the regular
traction-rails.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
119 for side guides for monorail railways.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
105, Railway Rolling Stock, subclass 215.1 for supplemental
wheels without supplemental rails.
Subclass:
244
This subclass is indented under subclass 242. Derailment
guards, comprising inclined traction and supplemental wheels
to guard against derailment.
Subclass:
244.1
This subclass is indented under subclass 242. Devices
comprising a feeler element for a vehicle, said feeler
element being adapted to contact a furrow or channel
previously made in the ground to guide the vehicle on a path
determined by the direction of said furrow or channel.
(1) Note. The feeler element must not be a load supporting
member such as a load supporting wheel of the vehicle; it
must be an added element for the purpose only of guiding the
vehicle. The feeler element may, however, be a part added to
a load supporting wheel to function as a furrow follower.
(2) Note. The previously made furrow must not be freshly
made by an earth working element ahead of the feeler. It
must have been made on a previous pass of the apparatus or
made by some other apparatus.
(3) Note. The vehicle may be an earth working implement
claimed by name only.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
33, Geometrical Instruments, subclass 41.1 for scriber means
for producing a line at an unvarying distance from a guiding
edge or the like.
172, Earth Working, subclass 26 for an earth working
implement guided by a feeler element running in a furrow,
subclasses 278+ for earth working implements with wheel
steering means or means for horizontally angling a wheel
axis, subclass 126 for earth marker apparatus, earth markers
often being mounted on a vehicle in a manner similar to that
of furrow followers, subclasses 383+ for earth working
implements with an angularly adjustable wheel or with means
for locking it against swinging, subclasses 387+ for an earth
working implement with a wheel substitute, subclasses 395+
for an earth working implement with a ground support
vertically adjustable relative to the frame, and subclasses
669+ for an earth working implement with a wheel.
180, Motor Vehicles, subclass 401 as explained in the
reference thereto appearing in subclass 242 above.
280, Land Vehicles, subclass 87.2 for a land vehicle of the
wheeled type provided with means whereby one or more of its
wheels may be steered by an occupant and wherein the steering
means controls also a wheel offset from the principal
supporting wheels of the vehicle, and see the search notes of
that subclass (87.2) for the line with this class (104); and
subclass 776 for a wheeled vehicle of the occupant steered
type wherein bias means is provided for maintaining a
steerable wheel in engagement with an elongate, more or less
vertical surface (e.g., a curb) for a vehicle-steering
purpose.
Subclass:
245
This subclass is indented under subclass 242. Derailment
guards, comprising nonload carrying guide-rollers for
preventing derailment, or the rollers may constitute the sole
guiding means for the vehicle.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
492, Roll or Roller, for a roll, per se, not elsewhere
provided for, and see the notes thereunder.
Subclass:
246
This subclass is indented under subclass 245. Derailment
guards in which the guide-rollers have interlocking
engagement with the rails to prevent upward movement of the
rollers from the rails.
Subclass:
247
This subclass is indented under subclass 245. Derailment
guards, in which the guide-rollers have horizontal thrust
only, without any restraining means against vertical
displacement.
Subclass:
248
This subclass is indented under subclass 242. Derailment
guards comprising car-carried lugs or fingers having
interlocking engagement with the rails.
Subclass:
249
This subclass is indented under the class definition.
Apparatus comprising impact devices on the trackway for
stopping cars.
Subclass:
250
This subclass is indented under subclass 249. Buffers for
tracks other than surface tracks, such as suspended and cable
tracks.
Subclass:
251
This subclass is indented under subclass 250. Buffers and
stops which are adapted to become locked to and retain the
car.
Subclass:
252
This subclass is indented under subclass 249. Apparatus
comprising releasable stops which are removable from the
trackway, so that no obstruction is left for the further
forward movement of the car.
Subclass:
253
This subclass is indented under subclass 252. Car stops in
which there are a plurality of releasable stops arranged in
tandem for feeding out one car at a time.
Subclass:
254
This subclass is indented under subclass 249. Stop-bumpers
for cars on surface tracks.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
267, Spring Devices, subclasses 139+ for a bumper spring
device of the solid material spring element type.
Subclass:
255
This subclass is indented under subclass 254. Car-stop
devices in which the momentum of the car is wholly or in part
taken up by counterweights.
Subclass:
256
This subclass is indented under subclass 254. Car-stops
comprising fluid pressure devices for car stoppage.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
188, Brakes, subclasses 297+ for a fluid-pressure shock
absorber of general utility.
267, Spring Devices, subclass 116, for a fluid spring device
useful in bumper construction.
Subclass:
257
This subclass is indented under subclass 249. Car-stops
comprising wheel-chocks located along the trackway for
engagement with car-wheels and designed to be seated on the
rail or shifted therefrom at will.
Subclass:
258
This subclass is indented under subclass 249. Car-stops
comprising chock-blocks having base flanges or clamps for
securing them to the rail.
Subclass:
259
This subclass is indented under subclass 249. Car-stops
comprising bumpers and chock-blocks adapted to have sliding
engagement with the track when in action.
Subclass:
260
This subclass is indented under subclass 249. Car-stops
comprising chock-blocks adapted to remove the wheel from
contact with the rail and to slide along the same.
Subclass:
261
This subclass is indented under the class definition. Devices
carried by the car and adapted to be dropped to the track
when in operative position to derail the car.
Subclass:
262
This subclass is indented under the class definition. Devices
for replacing car-wheels on the track-rails when they have
been derailed.
Subclass:
263
This subclass is indented under subclass 262. Car-replacing
devices operatively attached to and normally carried by the
car.
Subclass:
264
This subclass is indented under subclass 262. Car-replacing
devices comprising fixed track parts and supplemental rails
designed to restore derailed wheels to the rails.
Subclass:
265
This subclass is indented under subclass 262. Car-replacing
frog-blocks adapted for use at one side of a rail and
operative in either direction of movement of a car-wheel over
the same.
Subclass:
266
This subclass is indented under subclass 265. Car-replacing
frog-blocks, having antifriction-rollers to facilitate the
lateral shifting of the car-wheels.
Subclass:
267
This subclass is indented under subclass 265. Car-replacing
frog-blocks with the car-replacing frogs in duplicate on each
side of each rail.
Subclass:
268
This subclass is indented under subclass 262. Car-replacing
frog-blocks which are operative in only one direction of the
car-wheel relatively to said block.
Subclass:
269
This subclass is indented under subclass 268. Car-replacing
frog-blocks, the frog-blocks being symmetrical
longitudinally, so that they are applicable to either side of
a rail for operation in the same direction, thus obviating
the manufacture of rights and lefts.
Subclass:
270
This subclass is indented under subclass 268. Car-replacing
devices comprising two frog-blocks connected together in
saddle-like form to seat over a rail-head.
Subclass:
271
This subclass is indented under subclass 268. Car-replacing
devices comprising a ramp or bar pivoted to a rail-engaging
block and forming the track for the derailed wheel.
Subclass:
272
This subclass is indented under subclass 262. Car-replacers
provided with pivoted or articulated extensions on the main
car-replacing element.
Subclass:
273
This subclass is indented under subclass 262. Car-replacers
comprising laterally-shifting jacks and wheel-carriers for
wheel-replacing.
Subclass:
274
This subclass is indented under subclass 262. Car-replacing
apparatus comprising rail-attaching devices particularly
adapted for use on car-replacers.
Subclass:
275
This subclass is indented under the class definition. Devices
for the crossing of railway-tracks by fire-hose, so as to
avoid interference with car movement.
Subclass:
276
This subclass is indented under subclass 275. Railway
hose-bridges for elevation of the hose, so that it will be
carried over the car-track above the car-stops.
Subclass:
277
This subclass is indented under subclass 275. Hose-crossings
located beneath the track-rails.
Subclass:
279
This subclass is indented under the class definition. Devices
for cleaning or clearing railway-tracks.
(1) Note. This subclass includes combinations of
railway-track-clearing elements which if claimed separately
would go into different official classes.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
15, Brushing, Scrubbing, and General Cleaning, for apparatus
for cleaning by any of the following operations; brushing,
beating, shaking, shotting, wiping, or the use of a squeegee,
particularly subclasses 54+ for rail sweepers.
37, Excavating, particularly subclasses 198+ for railway
snow excavators.
56, Harvesters, subclasses 230+ for rail- road vehicle
mounted vegetation cutters.
118, Coating Apparatus, subclass 307 for track guided cars
with means to spray a liquid onto the rails.
126, Stoves and Furnaces, subclass 271.1 for surface
heaters.
239, Fluid Sprinkling, Spraying, and Diffusing, particularly
subclass 173 and 174 for railroad sprinklers.
256, Fences, subclass 12.5 for driftage control fences.
Subclass:
280
This subclass is indented under subclass 279. Devices for
cleaning slotted conduits used in cable and electric railway
tracks.
Subclass:
281
MAGNETICALLY SUSPENDED CAR:
This subclass is indented under the class definition.
Railways wherein a vehicle adapted to travel along a guideway
is suspended above the guideway by a magnetic field.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
130.1 for means to switch a magnetically suspended vehicle
from one guideway to an adjacent or intersecting guideway.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
310, Electrical Generator or Motor Structure, subclass 90.5
for magnetic bearing supports.
Subclass:
282
This subclass is indented under subclass 281. Propulsion
means employed to suspend car: Apparatus wherein the magnetic
field employed to suspend the vehicle above the guideway is
due at least in part to elements employed to move the vehicle
along the guideway.
Subclass:
283
By permanent magnets only:
This subclass is indented under subclass 281. Apparatus
wherein the magnetic field is caused solely by material on
the vehicle or guideway having inherent magnetic
characteristics, rather than by an electric current.
Subclass:
284
Including means to sense or control car position or attitude
with respect to guideway:
This subclass is indented under subclass 281. Apparatus
wherein means are provided which either detects or initiates
vertical, lateral, or rotational displacement of the vehicle
with respect to the guideway.
(1) Note. Suspension systems which display inherent
stability (e.g., repulsive systems) are not proper for this
subclass on that basis alone.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
293 for vehicles propelled by linear motor having means to
regulate the gap between linear elements.
Subclass:
285
With cooling means:
This subclass is indented under subclass 281. Apparatus
wherein means are provided to remove heat from the
apparatus.
Subclass:
286
Construction or composition of suspension elements:
This subclass is indented under subclass 281. Apparatus
relating to particular structure or material of a magnet or
reaction surface on the vehicle or guideway.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
294 for specific structure or material of linear motor
elements used to propel vehicles.
Subclass:
287
CAR-CARRIED PROPULSION SYSTEM:
This subclass is indented under the class definition.
Railways wherein the vehicle is propelled along a guideway by
means carried by a vehicle and cooperating with static
structure provided on a modified guideway.
(1) Note. A stationary conduit along the guideway which
confines a propelling fluid current is considered to be a
"static structure" as defined above.
Subclass:
288
Electric:
This subclass is indented under subclass 287. Apparatus
wherein electric current is supplied to either the vehicle or
guideway to propel the vehicle along the guideway.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
105, Railway Rolling Stock, subclasses 49+ for
electrically-powered locomotion.
191, Electricity: Transmission to Vehicles, appropriate
subclasses for devices for electrically-propelled vehicles
for transmitting electricity from a conductor along the
guideway to the vehicle.
Subclass:
289
With regenerative energy means:
This subclass is indented under subclass 288. Apparatus
wherein kinetic energy of the vehicle is converted for
alternate or later use.
Subclass:
290
Linear motor:
This subclass is indented under subclass 288. Apparatus
wherein either a primary or secondary motor element of a
linear induction motor is carried by the vehicle, and the
other is formed or adjacent on the guideway to mutually
propel the vehicle along the guideway.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
282 for linear motors which, in addition to propelling the
vehicle, are also employed to suspend it above the guideway.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
310, Electrical Generator or Motor Structure, subclasses 12+
for a linear motor, per se. Patents disclosing a linear
motor for use with a railway system and positively claiming
either a vehicle carrying one of the linear motor elements or
track structure in addition to a motor element are properly
classified in Class 104.
318, Electricity: Motive Power Systems, subclass 38, 135 and
687 for linear motors in combination with an electrical
system. Patents disclosing a linear motor and associated
control system for use with a railway system, and claiming in
addition to the combination either a vehicle or track
structure in addition to a motor element are properly
classified in Class 104.
Subclass:
291
This subclass is indented under subclass 290. Suspension
between truck and vehicle body: Apparatus relating to the
particular connection between a portion of the vehicle
carrying the primary or secondary motor element and the
remainder of the vehicle.
Subclass:
292
Propulsion by active guideway; e.g., linear synchronous
motor, etc.:
This subclass is indented under subclass 290. Apparatus
wherein the motor element associated with the guideway
includes a current-carrying conductor for generating a
magnetic field, the current being induced by means other than
the motor element carried by the vehicle.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
310, Electrical Generator or Motor Structure, subclass 13
for a linear motor having fixed and movable wound elements.
Subclass:
293
Including means to control gap:
This subclass is indented under subclass 290. Apparatus
wherein means are provided to regulate that distance between
the primary and secondary linear motor elements carried on
the vehicle and guideway.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
284 for magnetically-suspended railway vehicles having means
to control the position or attitude of the vehicle with
respect to the guideway.
Subclass:
294
Construction or composition of motor elements:
This subclass is indented under subclass 290. Apparatus
relating to specific structure or material of the primary or
secondary element motor of the linear motor.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
286 for specific structure or material of magnet or reaction
surfaces used for magnetically supporting a vehicle.
Subclass:
295
External car control:
This subclass is indented under subclass 288. Apparatus
wherein means causing propulsion of the vehicle is controlled
from a point externally of the vehicle.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
246, Railway Switches and Signals, subclasses 187+ for
external control of propulsion not associated with a peculiar
type of railway.
Subclass:
296
Auxiliary function on car:
This subclass is indented under subclass 295. Apparatus
wherein a vehicle-carried electrical device, other than a
vehicle-propelling motor, is controlled externally of the
vehicle.
Subclass:
297
Superimposed signal on same conductor:
This subclass is indented under subclass 296. Apparatus
comprising a multiplex system for transmitting concurrently
along a common conductor a signal for operating or
controlling means propelling the vehicle and a signal for
operating or controlling the electrical device.
Subclass:
298
By block system:
This subclass is indented under subclass 295. Apparatus
wherein the railway is divided into serially arranged
sections electrically insulated from one another, each
section provided with vehicle-controlling means.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
246, Railway Switches and Signals, subclasses 20+ for
propulsion-controlling railway block systems not associated
with a peculiar type of railway.
Subclass:
299
Of spacing between cars:
This subclass is indented under subclass 295. Apparatus
including means for regulating the speed or dispatch of one
vehicle in response to a sensed condition regarding another
vehicle.
Subclass:
300
Car-carried speed regulator:
This subclass is indented under subclass 295. Apparatus
wherein a device, in addition to the propelling means, is
provided on the vehicle to alter the speed of the vehicle
over the guideway.
Subclass:
301
Of multiple trains on same track:
This subclass is indented under subclass 295. Apparatus
wherein means are provided to independently control
propulsion means of a plurality of vehicles guided on a
common continuous guideway.
Subclass:
302
Reversing of car movement or conductor current:
This subclass is indented under subclass 295. Apparatus
wherein either (a) means externally of the vehicle are
provided for controlling the direction of movement of the
vehicle along the guideway, or (b) means are provided whereby
the polarity of propulsion current at a propulsion motor is
kept constant.
Subclass:
303
By switch responsive to discrete means along guideway:
This subclass is indented under subclass 302. Apparatus
including a polarity-reversing switch activated in response
to a vehicle passing either a device on or adjacent the
guideway or a modified section of the guideway.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
117.1 for automatic stopping or reversing of vehicles riding
on cableways.
Subclass:
304
Of steerable car:
This subclass is indented under subclass 295. Apparatus
wherein the vehicle is movable laterally back and forth
across the guideway and means are provided externally of the
vehicle to control the lateral movement.
(1) Note. Mere pivotal movement of the car as it is
propelled along the guideway is not sufficient to cause
classification in this subclass.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
238, Railways: Surface Track, subclass 10 for portable
track structure having slots to guideway vehicles.
463, Amusement Devices: Games, subclasses 58+ for portable
track structure and steerable cars claimed in combination
with a game feature (e.g., lap counter, clock, plural
simultaneous racing cars, etc.).
Subclass:
305
Of slot-guided car:
This subclass is indented under subclass 295. Apparatus
including a groove along the length of the guideway adapted
to be engaged by a protuberance on the vehicle to maintain
the vehicle on the guideway.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
238, Railways: Surface Track, subclass 10 for portable
track structure having slots to guide vehicles.
463, Amusement Devices: Games, subclasses 58+ for portable
track structure and steerable cars claimed in combination
with a game feature (e.g., lap counter, clock, plural
simultaneous racing cars, etc.).
Subclass:
306
WITH RUNNING GEAR:
This subclass is indented under the class definition. Railway
combined with a railway vehicle support wheel adapted to roll
over a railway rail, the wheel and the rail being modified
for interrelation and cooperation with each other.
Subclass:
307
MISCELLANEOUS:
This subclass is indented under the class definition.
Apparatus not otherwise classified above.
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