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Class 280
LAND VEHICLES
Class Definition:
This class includes vehicles, adapted to travel on land and
not elsewhere classified. The term "vehicle" includes some
form of running gear as an essential element, which running
gear usually supports a load carrier, but may support a load
directly, and adapts the vehicle to move over a surface. The
basic purpose of those devices commonly called vehicles is
the carrying of a load, either freight or passengers, from
one place to another. The idea of towing a load, as by
locomotives, traction engines, or tractors, has also long
been associated with the term "vehicle."
(1) Note. The term "vehicle" also includes devices that are
for special purposes identical with those in which a form of
running gear is an essential element, and further includes
such attachments for vehicles as are not limited in their
position to any particular part of the vehicle.
(2) Note. This class includes the combination between
running gear and load carriers not otherwise classified.
(3) Note. The running gear of various portable machines is
also included when the machine is not claimed or is claimed
by name only and the running gear is capable of general use.
However, when the claimed running gear is solely disclosed
for an agricultural, earth working, or harvesting implement,
proper classification is in the appropriate agricultural,
earth working, or harvesting implement class, even without
specific claimed limitations of such agricultural, earth
working, or harvesting implement. See the class definition
(Class 280), EARTH OR TRAVELED SURFACE, TRAVERSING AND
WORKING OR TREATING DEVICES, and also subclass 400 herein,
the (1) Note, directed to an articulated vehicle or plural
interconnected vehicles (i.e., a vehicle train).
(4) Note. The relationship of vehicles which are primarily
intended for transportation purposes to working devices of
various types, which may or may not travel while performing
their primary function, and to various related arts is
discussed in the following search notes presented in the
sequence of the following "OUTLINE OF NOTES".
LINES WITH OTHER CLASSES AND WITHIN THIS CLASS
Where the articulated vehicle is solely disclosed for use in
an earth working or harvesting environment, the proper
classification is in Class 172, Earth Working,. No specific
recitation in the claims of an earth working implement or
harvester is necessary to cause an assignment in Class 172.
Thus, where the articulative feature is disclosed solely in
the performance of an earth working or harvesting operation,
the body of art is not collected in Class 280. See (3) Note
in the Class Definition above
See References To Other Classes, below, for classes related
to the following art areas:
A. COMBINED WITH EXTERNAL MEANS OR DEVICES:
1. Remote control;
2. With external loading or unloading means;
3. With rails or tracks
B. CONVERTIBLE:
1. To nonvehicular devices: (a. To work platforms; b.
Miscellaneous);
2. To different types of vehicle
This class (Class 280) provides for general utility land
vehicles having both wheels and runners; for velocipedes
convertible to or from plural occupant forms; for velocipedes
convertible to or from occupant propulsion; for miscellaneous
convertible velocipedes; for general utility wheeled land
vehicles convertible to nonvehicular devices; for vehicles
convertible to work platforms including means interposed
between the vehicle body, chassis, or frame and running gear
thereof for altering height or levelness or including
vertical adjustment of a wheel upon the running gear; for
tiltable, handle-propelled wheeled vehicles convertible to
devices having no load transporting function; or
miscellaneous convertible articulated vehicles. See Subclass
References to the Class, below, for references to these
areas.
C. EARTH OR TRAVELED SURFACE TRAVERSING AND WORKING OR
TREATING DEVICES:
These devices commonly perform their main function of
physically treating or affecting the surface while traveling
and are equipped with running gear generally equivalent to
the vehicular type. Portable or transportable machines having
proximate function unrelated to transporting, supporting, or
handling material or distributing material during traverse
are seldom included in this class (Class 280), but will be
found in the class appropriate to the type of work performed,
e.g., agitating, ironing, comminuting, etc. However,
subcombinations pertaining to the running gear of various art
devices may be classified in Class 280 if of general
utility.
D. SELF LOADING AND/OR UNLOADING VEHICLES AND PORTABLE
MATERIAL HANDLING DEVICES
1. Traversing type. The load is usually distributed over or
gathered from the area traversed by the vehicle;
2. Miscellaneous. These devices include vehicles which are
loaded or unloaded while stationary also handling mechanisms
which are ordinarily used to perform their chief function
while stationary, running gear being provided for convenience
in moving the device from place to place.
E. VEHICLE TYPES OTHERWISE CLASSIFIED
1. Water;
2. Rail;
3. Motor;
4. Receptacle and support types. The distinction between
receptacles and supports provided with wheels and land
vehicles has not been clearly established, and many warehouse
and factory type trucks and work supports will be found in
Class 280, Land Vehicles, and in the classes in References To
Other Classes, below, that reference this section, without
any stated line or perceptible distinction;
F. VEHICLE PARTS, INSTALLATIONS, ATTACHMENTS AND FURNISHINGS
1. Bodies;
2. Wheels;
3. Miscellaneous
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
1.188 and 7.1+ for miscellaneous convertible velocipedes.
7.12 and 8+ for vehicles having both wheels and runners.
7.16 for those vehicles convertible to or from plural
occupant forms.
7.17 for those vehicles convertible to or from occupant
propulsion.
30 for miscellaneous convertible to nonvehicular forms.
43 for vehicles convertible to work platforms by vertical
adjustment of the running gear.
47.18 for handle-propelled vehicles convertible to wheeled
devices having no load transporting function.
400 see the search notes for vehicle-related classes.
415.1 for miscellaneous convertible articulated vehicles.
840 for vehicles convertible to work platforms by body
leveling.
REFERENCES TO OTHER CLASSES
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
5, Beds, 625 for field stretchers. (Vehicle Types Otherwise
Classified, Miscellaneous)
5, Beds, subclass 9 for berths and bunks; 94, for automobile
cribs; and 118+, for vehicle attached beds. (Vehicle Parts,
Installations, Attachments and Furnishings; Bodies)
14, Bridges, subclass 72 for unattached gang-ways.
15, Brushing, Scrubbing, and General Cleaning, 78 for street
sweepers; and 340, for vacuum sweepers having vehicular
features. (Earth or Traveled Surface, Traversing and Working
or Treating Devices)
15, Brushing, Scrubbing, and General Cleaning, subclass 312
for ambulant air draft cleaners with fixed guide. (Vehicle
Types Otherwise Classified, Rail Vehicles)
15, Brushing, Scrubbing, and General Cleaning, subclass 340
for self propelled vacuum cleaners. (Vehicle Types Otherwise
Classified, Motor vehicles)
16, Miscellaneous Hardware, 97 for wheel mounts for panel
hangers, travellers and/or tracks; and 107, for wheels
therefor. (Combined With External Means or Devices, With
rails or tracks)
16, Miscellaneous Hardware, 97 and 107 for wheel mounts and
wheels for panel hangers, travelers or tracks. (Vehicle
Types Otherwise Classified, Rail vehicles)
16, Miscellaneous Hardware, 18 for casters and 107, for
wheels for traveling panels. (Vehicle Parts, Installations,
Attachments and Furnishings; Wheels)
27, Undertaking, subclass 27 for casket carriers. (Vehicle
Types Otherwise Classified, Miscellaneous)
37, Excavating, appropriate subclasses, especially 4+ for
self-loading vehicles, 196+ for automobile mounted roadway
snow excavators and 124+ for wheeled scoops. (Earth or
Traveled Surface, Traversing and Working or Treating
Devices)
52, Static Structures (e.g., Buildings), 111 for mechanism
operated transportable towers. (Convertible, To nonvehicular
devices, To work platforms)
52, Static Structures (e.g., Buildings), 111 for extensible
or movable portable towers, and subclass 143 for a building
with a transportation feature, and see the reference to Class
105 in the class definition of that class. (Vehicle Types
Otherwise Classified, Receptacle and support type)
56, Harvesters, 10.1 for a harvester driven by a motor or
tractor; 253+, 258+, 269+, and 272+, for wheeled cutters; and
380+, 384+, and 396+, for wheeled horse rakes, subclasses 6+
for multiple trailing or ganged machines. (Earth or Traveled
Surface, Traversing and Working or Treating Devices)
56, Harvesters, 10.1 for a harvester driven by a motor or
tractor. (Vehicle Types Otherwise Classified, Motor
vehicles)
56, Harvesters, subclass 322 for grain wheels and casters
for harvesters. (Vehicle Parts, Installations, Attachments
and Furnishings; Wheels)
56, Harvesters, 208 for a platform adjustments.
60, Power Plants, and see search notes in main class
definition for other motors and engines. (Vehicle Types
Otherwise Classified, Motor vehicles)
60, Power Plants, see main class definition for search notes
on motors and engines. (Vehicle Parts, Installations,
Attachments and Furnishings; Miscellaneous)
70, Locks, 259 for locks for spare wheels.
89, Ordinance, subclass 40 for field ordinance mounts.
(Convertible, To nonvehicular devices, To work platforms)
102, Ammunition and Explosives, subclass 384 for drop bombs
with direction controlling means. (Combined With External
Means or Devices, Remote control)
104, Railways, for combined tracks and railway rolling stock.
(Combined With External Means or Devices, With rails or
tracks)
104, Railways, for rail vehicles combined with tracks.
(Vehicle Types Otherwise Classified, Rail vehicles)
104, Railways, subclass 44 for automobile turntables; and
subclass 45, for portable turntables.
105, Railway Rolling Stock, subclass 27, 28, 161 and 455 for
handling devices mounted on railway rolling stock.
(Convertible, To nonvehicular devices, To work platforms)
105, Railway Rolling Stock, subclass 27 for self propelled
power tools; 28, for locomotive type turntable carried power
plant; 161, for mining machine trucks; 239+, for railway cars
with dumping bodies; and 455 for railway cars with rotary
turntable. (Self Loading and/or Unloading Vehicles and
Portable Material Handling Devices, Miscellaneous)
105, Railway Rolling Stock. (Vehicle Types Otherwise
Classified, Rail vehicles)
105, Railway Rolling Stock, 26.1 for railway vehicle having
a power plant for propulsion thereof. (Vehicle Types
Otherwise Classified, Motor vehicles)
105, Railway Rolling Stock, 239 for railway car dumping
bodies; 314+, for railway sleeping cars; 327, for railway
dining cars; 328, for merchandizing car bodies; 329.1+, for
passenger car bodies; and 355+, for freight car bodies.
(Vehicle Parts, Installations, Attachments and Furnishings;
Bodies)
108, Horizontally Supported Planar Surfaces, 44 for a
horizontal planar supporting surface supported on a vehicle.
(Vehicle Parts, Installations, Attachments and Furnishings;
Miscellaneous)
111, Planting, appropriate subclasses for planters. (Earth
or Traveled Surface, Traversing and Working or Treating
Devices)
114, Ships, subclass 312 for external control of submarines;
21.1 for external control of torpedoes; and 144, for external
control of ships. (Combined With External Means or Devices,
Remote control)
114, Ships, 27 for dumping and unloading scows. (Self
Loading and/or Unloading Vehicles and Portable Material
Handling Devices, Miscellaneous)
114, Ships, for boats. (Vehicle Types Otherwise Classified,
Water)
123, Internal-Combustion Engines, see reference to Class 60,
Power Plants, above. (Vehicle Parts, Installations,
Attachments and Furnishings; Miscellaneous)
137, Fluid Handling, 899 for fluid handling apparatus having
a vehicle or part thereof as a support or casing.
152, Resilient Tires, and Wheels, especially 450 for
pneumatic tires. (Vehicle Parts, Installations, Attachments
and Furnishings; Wheels)
152, Resilient Tires and Wheels, 208 for antiskid devices;
and 416+, for tire inflating devices with vehicle carried
supply. (Vehicle Parts, Installations, Attachments and
Furnishings; Miscellaneous)
165, Heat Exchange, 44 for a heat exchanger installed on a
vehicle, and appropriate subclasses for a heat exchanger, per
se. (Vehicle Parts, Installations, Attachments and
Furnishings; Miscellaneous)
169, Fire Extinguishers, 24 for fire engines. (Self Loading
and/or Unloading Vehicles and Portable Material Handling
Devices, Miscellaneous)
169, Fire Extinguishers, subclass 25 for wheeled water
towers. (Vehicle Types Otherwise Classified, Receptacle and
support type)
169, Fire Extinguishers, subclass 24 for fire engines; and
25 for wheeled water towers. (Vehicle Types Otherwise
Classified, Miscellaneous)
172, Earth Working, 669 and the subclasses there noted for
earth working apparatus with a wheel or supported on a
wheeled frame. (Earth or Traveled Surface, Traversing and
Working or Treating Devices)
172, Earth Working, subclass 292 and the subclasses there
noted for earth working apparatus with some specific
propulsion means. (Vehicle Types Otherwise Classified, Motor
vehicles)
180, Motor Vehicles, subclass 2.7 for a motor vehicle having
its motor supplied from an external source; subclasses 167+
for a motor vehicle provided with means for controlling its
operation which is responsive to electromagnetic radiation,
magnetic force, or sound waves received from a source, or
reflected from an object or surface, which is located apart
from the vehicle; and subclass 401 for a motor vehicle having
steering gear of the power assisted type and wherein the
operation of the power steering is controlled by a
terrestrial guide. (Combined With External Means or Devices,
Remote control)
180, Motor Vehicles, appropriate subclasses for a land
vehicle which is provided with a motor for propelling it.
(Vehicle Types Otherwise Classified, Motor vehicles)
182, Fire Escape, Ladder, or Scaffold, 10 for a fire escape
car carrier with a stationary strand and subclasses 36+ for a
track mounted device of that class. (Combined With External
Means or Devices, With rails or tracks)
182, Fire Escape, Ladder, or Scaffold, 205 for a fire escape
car carrier with a stationary strand, subclasses 36+ for a
track mounted device of that class. (Vehicle Types Otherwise
Classified, Rail vehicles)
182, Fire Escape, Ladder, or Scaffold, appropriate subclasses
for wheeled supports of that class. (Vehicle Types Otherwise
Classified, Receptacle and support type)
182, Fire Escape, Ladder, or Scaffold, 63 for a wheeled
ladder, scaffold or escape with erection means. (Vehicle
Types Otherwise Classified, Miscellaneous)
186, Merchandising, 27 and 45+ for wheeled carriers for
store and dining room service, respectively. (Combined With
External Means or Devices, With rails or tracks)
186, Merchandising, 27 and 45+ for wheeled carriers for
store and dining room service, respectively. (Vehicle Types
Otherwise Classified, Rail vehicles)
187, Elevator, Industrial Lift Truck, or Stationary Lift for
Vehicle, 222 for industrial fork lift trucks. (Self Loading
and/or Unloading Vehicles and Portable Material Handling
Devices, Miscellaneous)
188, Brakes, 2 for vehicle brakes. (Vehicle Parts,
Installations, Attachments and Furnishings; Miscellaneous)
190, Trunks and Hand-Carried Luggage, subclass 18, for
articles of baggage provided with wheels where specific
structure of the baggage item is claimed. (Vehicle Types
Otherwise Classified, Receptacle and support type)
191, Electricity: Transmission to Vehicles. (Combined With
External Means or Devices, With rails or tracks)
191, Electricity: Transmission to Vehicles. (Vehicle Types
Otherwise Classified, Motor vehicles)
192, Clutches and Power-Stop Control, 30 for clutches.
(Vehicle Parts, Installations, Attachments and Furnishings;
Miscellaneous)
198, Conveyors: Power Driven, 300 and 506+ for a conveyor
mounted on a vehicle. (Convertible, To nonvehicular devices,
To work platforms)
198, Conveyors: Power-Driven, 300 and 506+ for loading
machine type conveyors. (Self Loading and/or Unloading
Vehicles and Portable Material Handling Devices, Traversing
type)
198, Conveyors: Power Driven, 300 and 506+ for a conveyor
mounted on a vehicle. (Self Loading and/or Unloading
Vehicles and Portable Material Handling Devices,
Miscellaneous)
206, Special Receptacle or Package, subclass 19.5 for
vehicle attached special receptacles and packages. (Vehicle
Parts, Installations, Attachments and Furnishings;
Miscellaneous)
211, Supports: Racks, appropriate subclasses, for wheeled
racks. (Vehicle Types Otherwise Classified, Receptacle and
support type)
212, Traversing Hoists, subclass 312 for traveling bridge
cranes and subclasses 71+ for over-head traversing hoists.
(Combined With External Means or Devices, With rails or
tracks)
212, Traversing Hoists, 301 for auxiliary supports for
traversing hoists. (Convertible, To nonvehicular devices, To
work platforms)
212, Traversing Hoists, 180 for hoists removably mounted on
a vehicle; subclass 901, a collection of cross-referenced
patents, for portable, dolley-type hoists or cranes;
subclasses 328+ for a self-propelled carrier for an overhead
hoist; and subclasses 343+ for surface type an overhead
traversing hoists. (Self Loading and/or Unloading Vehicles
and Portable Material Handling Devices, Miscellaneous)
212, Traversing Hoists, 316 for traveling cranes and
subclasses 71+ for overhead traversing hoists. (Vehicle
Types Otherwise Classified, Rail vehicles)
212, Traversing Hoists, 180 for a traversing hoist removably
mounted on a vehicle; subclass 901, a collection of cross
referenced patents, for ambulant dolley-type hoists or
cranes; subclass 328 for self-propelled cable-trolley hoist;
and subclasses 344+ for surface self-propelled traversing
hoists. (Vehicle Types Otherwise Classified, Motor
vehicles)
213, Railway Draft Appliances. (Vehicle Parts,
Installations, Attachments and Furnishings; Miscellaneous)
221, Article Dispensing, subclass 185 for ambulant article
dispensing devices. (Self Loading and/or Unloading Vehicles
and Portable Material Handling Devices, Traversing type)
222, Dispensing, 608 for ambulant dispensers. (Self Loading
and/or Unloading Vehicles and Portable Material Handling
Devices, Traversing type)
224, Package and Article Carriers, 539 for package and
article carriers with complementary body parts. (Vehicle
Parts, Installations, Attachments and Furnishings; Bodies)
224, Package and Article Carriers, 400 for vehicle attached
package and article carriers. (Vehicle Parts, Installations,
Attachments and Furnishings; Miscellaneous)
237, Heating Systems, 12.1 for combined heat and power
plants for fire engines, vehicles, cars, etc. (Vehicle Types
Otherwise Classified, Motor vehicles)
237, Heating Systems, subclass 12.3 for combined heat and
power plants for vehicles; and 28+, for vehicle heating
systems. (Vehicle Parts, Installations, Attachments and
Furnishings; Miscellaneous)
239, Fluid Sprinkling, Spraying, and Diffusing, 130 and 146+
for sprayers with ambulant discharge and supply; subclasses
722+ for sprayers with stationary supply and ambulant
discharge; subclasses 650+ for a container for nonfluid
material and means for scattering or strewing the material,
in which the container may be ambulant. (Self Loading and/or
Unloading Vehicles and Portable Material Handling Devices,
Traversing type)
242, Winding, Tensioning, or Guiding, subclass 390.7, 391+,
and 403+ for a reeling device mounted on a vehicle. (Self
Loading and/or Unloading Vehicles and Portable Material
Handling Devices, Miscellaneous)
242, Winding, Tensioning, or Guiding, subclass 390.7, 391+,
and 403+ for a reeling device mounted on a vehicle. (Vehicle
Types Otherwise Classified, Receptacle and support type)
242, Winding, Tensioning, or Guiding, 391 for a trundle
reel. (Vehicle Parts, Installations, Attachments and
Furnishings; Wheels)
244, Aeronautics, 75 and the classes specified in the Notes
thereto for apparatus and devices for controlling aircraft
and other mobile craft. See subclasses 175+ and the classes
specified in the Notes thereto for the classes which provide
for the remote control by electrical means of aircraft and
other vehicles and for a statement as to the lines between
the classes. (Combined With External Means or Devices, Remote
control)
244, Aeronautics, subclass 50 for aircraft propulsion and
steering on land or water. (Convertible, To different types
of vehicles)
244, Aeronautics, subclass 50 for aircraft propulsion and
steering on water; 101, for amphibious landing gear; and
105+, for water landing gear. (Vehicle Types Otherwise
Classified, Water)
244, Aeronautics, for aircraft. (Vehicle Types Otherwise
Classified, Miscellaneous)
244, Aeronautics, 103 for aircraft landing gear. (Vehicle
Parts, Installations, Attachments and Furnishings; Wheels)
248, Supports, appropriate subclasses, for wheeled supports,
especially subclass 98, for wheeled golf bag stands; and 129
for wheeled receptacle stands. (Vehicle Types Otherwise
Classified, Receptacle and support type)
248, Supports, 560 for resilient supports; and subclasses
637+ for machinery supports. (Vehicle Parts, Installations,
Attachments and Furnishings; Miscellaneous)
254, Implements or Apparatus for Applying Pushing or Pulling
Force, 2 for hoisting trucks; and subclasses 279+ and 323+
for vehicles supporting a load hauling or hoisting cable
drum. (Self Loading and/or Unloading Vehicles and Portable
Material Handling Devices, Miscellaneous)
254, Implements or Apparatus for Applying Pushing or Pulling
Force, 418 for attached vehicle jacks, including retractable
ground supports and props. (Vehicle Parts, Installations,
Attachments and Furnishings; Miscellaneous)
258, Railway Mail Delivery, for delivery to or from moving
vehicles. (Combined With External Means or Devices, With
external loading or unloading means)
258, Railway Mail Delivery, for material delivery to and from
moving vehicles. (Self Loading and/or Unloading Vehicles and
Portable Material Handling Devices, Traversing type)
261, Gas and Liquid Contact Apparatus, appropriate subclasses
for carburetors. (Vehicle Parts, Installations, Attachments
and Furnishings; Miscellaneous)
267, Spring Devices, 2 for vehicle springs. (Vehicle Parts,
Installations, Attachments and Furnishings; Miscellaneous)
267, Spring Devices, 2 for resilient mountings for wheels.
(Vehicle Parts, Installations, Attachments and Furnishings;
Wheels)
278, Land Vehicles: Animal Draft Appliances. (Vehicle
Parts, Installations, Attachments and Furnishings;
Miscellaneous)
291, Track Sanders. (Combined With External Means or Devices,
With rails or tracks)
291, Track Sanders. (Earth or Traveled Surface, Traversing
and Working or Treating Devices)
291, Track Sanders. (Self Loading and/or Unloading Vehicles
and Portable Material Handling Devices, Traversing type)
291, Track Sanders. (Vehicle Types Otherwise Classified,
Rail vehicles)
293, Vehicle Fenders, 102 for vehicle bumpers. (Vehicle
Parts, Installations, Attachments and Furnishings;
Miscellaneous)
294, Handling: Hand and Hoist-Line Implements, 15 for hand
bars and hand barrows. (Vehicle Parts, Installations,
Attachments and Furnishings; Bodies)
295, Railway Wheels and Axles. (Vehicle Parts,
Installations, Attachments and Furnishings; Wheels)
296, Land Vehicles: Bodies and Tops, subclass 20 for
wheeled stretchers for ambulances. (Combined With External
Means or Devices, With external loading or unloading means)
296, Land Vehicles: Bodies and Tops, subclass 20 for
wheeled ambulance stretchers. (Vehicle Types Otherwise
Classified, Miscellaneous)
296, Land Vehicles: Bodies and Tops. (Vehicle Parts,
Installations, Attachments and Furnishings; Bodies)
297, Chairs and Seats, 1 for a chair or seat convertible
from wheel mounted to nonwheel mounted device by reorienting
the chair or seat and subclasses 130+ for a chair or seat
having alternately usable supporting devices, as wheels,
rockers, suspending hangers and the like. (Convertible, To
nonvehicular devices, Miscellaneous)
297, Chairs and Seats, 5 for occupant propelled walker or
skater frames having a seat, usable by the occupant
intermediate periods of walking or skating. (Vehicle Types
Otherwise Classified, Miscellaneous)
297, Chairs and Seats, appropriate subclasses for seat of
general utility. This class (280) takes the combination of
one or more seats and a vehicle. See the search notes in the
class definition of Class 297 for the line. (Vehicle Parts,
Installations, Attachments and Furnishings; Bodies)
298, Land Vehicles: Dumping, for dumping vehicles of the
land type. (Self Loading and/or Unloading Vehicles and
Portable Material Handling Devices, Miscellaneous)
298, Land Vehicles: Dumping. (Vehicle Parts,
Installations, Attachments and Furnishings; Bodies)
301, Land Vehicles: Wheels and Axles. (Vehicle Parts,
Installations, Attachments and Furnishings; Wheels)
305, Wheel Substitutes for Land Vehicles, for wheel
substitutes, per se. Class 305 takes patents claiming a
vehicle and wheel substitute combination, where the vehicle
is only nominally recited in the claims. (Vehicle Parts,
Installations, Attachments and Furnishings; Wheels)
318, Electricity: Motive Power Systems, subclass 16 for
electric motors for steering where a rudder or steering means
is claimed broadly, with or without radio control of said
motor. (Combined With External Means or Devices, Remote
control)
362, Illumination, 459 for vehicle lighting. (Vehicle
Parts, Installations, Attachments and Furnishings;
Miscellaneous)
368, Horology: Time Measuring Systems or Devices, 6 for a
vehicle responsive parking meter and subclasses 1+ for an
horological device acted upon by a disparate device.
(Combined With External Means or Devices, Remote control)
384, Bearings, appropriate subclasses for wheel bearings and
journal boxes. (Vehicle Parts, Installations, Attachments
and Furnishings; Wheels)
404, Road Structure, Process, or Apparatus, 101 for road
material distributors with treatment means. (Self Loading
and/or Unloading Vehicles and Portable Material Handling
Devices, Traversing type)
406, Conveyors: Fluid Current, subclass 185 for a wheeled
article carrier adapted to be propelled through a tube by a
fluid current. (Vehicle Types Otherwise Classified,
Miscellaneous)
414, Material or Article Handling, subclasses 333-402 for
the combination of a vehicle of the load transporting type
and means external of the vehicle for loading or unloading
the vehicle. (Combined With External Means or Devices, With
external loading or unloading means)
414, Material or Article Handling, 595 for an elevator or
hoist and loading or unloading means therefor and wherein the
elevator or hoist is on an inclined tracks. (Combined With
External Means or Devices, With rails or tracks)
414, Material or Article Handling, 467 for a self-loading or
unloading vehicle. (Self Loading and/or Unloading Vehicles
and Portable Material Handling Devices, Miscellaneous)
414, Material or Article Handling, 227 for apparatus
particularly adapted for charging or discharging a facility
comprising one or more sites for the parking of wheeled
vehicles. (Vehicle Parts, Installations, Attachments and
Furnishings; Miscellaneous)
417, Pumps, 231 for pumps attached to vehicles and actuated
thereby. (Vehicle Parts, Installations, Attachments and
Furnishings; Miscellaneous)
440, Marine Propulsion, for boats and ships combined with
power plants for propulsion. (Vehicle Types Otherwise
Classified, Motor vehicles)
441, Buoys, Rafts, and Aquatic Devices, 65 for skimming and
walking devices for use on water. (Vehicle Types Otherwise
Classified, Water)
446, Amusement Devices: Toys, appropriate subclasses for
wheeled toys. (Vehicle Types Otherwise Classified,
Miscellaneous)
446, Amusement Devices: Toys, subclasses 97-99, 111-114 and
201+ for wheeled toys.
454, Ventilation, 69 for vehicle ventilation. (Vehicle
Parts, Installations, Attachments and Furnishings;
Miscellaneous)
472, Amusement Devices, 1 for a skater support or walker
vehicle restricted to a circuitous path, i.e., a roundabout,
particularly subclasses 14+ for an occupant propelled
roundabout. (Vehicle Types Otherwise Classified,
Miscellaneous)
482, Exercise Devices, particularly 66 for an occupant
propelled support frame having movement facilitating feature,
e.g., wheels, runners, etc., for foot travel. (Vehicle Types
Otherwise Classified, Miscellaneous)
701, Data Processing: Vehicles, Navigation, and Relative
Location, 1 for vehicle indication, operation, or guidance
which includes a computation. Note, where significant
vehicle structure is recited, classification is in the
appropriate vehicle class. (Combined With External Means or
Devices, Remote control)
SUBCLASSES
Subclass:
1
This subclass is indented under the class definition.
Vehicles not provided for in the subclasses hereunder.
Subclass:
1.12
This subclass is indented under subclass 828. Vehicles in
which the object simulated is an aircraft.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
827 for aircraft simulations which are pushed by the
occupant.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
446, Amusement Devices: Toys, 230 for a toy aircraft having
wheels.
Subclass:
1.13
This subclass is indented under subclass 827. Vehicles in
which the object simulated is a living figure.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
1.22 for figure simulating velocipedes which are adapted to
be pushed along by the occupant.
200 for occupant propelled vehicles in which the simulation
is not claimed, and see the definition of subclass 827 for
the line.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
104, Railways, subclass 61 for simulated horses which
progress along a track.
446, Amusement Devices: Toys, 269 for a wheeled figure
toy.
Subclass:
1.14
This subclass is indented under subclass 1.13. Vehicles in
which means is provided for making a sound, usually
simulating the cry of the creature represented.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
446, Amusement Devices: Toys, 270 for a wheeled figure toy
having sounder; subclass 297 for a figure toy having a
sounder; subclasses 188+ for air operated sounders; and
subclasses 397+ for other sounding toys.
472, Amusement Devices, particularly subclass 98 for a
rockable, nonprogressing, animal simulation amusement device
having rider seat means and including animal sound
simulation.
Subclass:
1.16
This subclass is indented under subclass 1.13. Vehicles in
which the simulation is that of the figure drawing a
carriage.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
446, Amusement Devices: Toys, 275 for a toy representing a
vehicle and an external figure.
Subclass:
1.165
This subclass is indented under subclass 1.16. Vehicles in
which the figure as a whole or parts of the figure are so
connected with the remainder of the structure as to have
relative movement.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
1.201 for figures having moving parts where no carriage is
provided and where the rider's body does not move.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
472, Amusement Devices, particularly subclass 99 for a
rockable, nonprogressing, animal simulation amusement device
having rider seat means and a relatively movable animal
part.
Subclass:
1.167
This subclass is indented under subclass 1.165. Vehicles in
which the legs of the figure move relative to the trunk of
the figure.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
1.204 for figure simulating velocipedes having moving legs
but no carriage, the movement of the legs not being necessary
to the movement of the vehicle.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
446, Amusement Devices: Toys, subclass 276 for a toy
representing a vehicle and an external walking figure.
Subclass:
1.173
This subclass is indented under subclass 1.13. Vehicles
having either or both (1) more than one simulated figure, or
(2) more than one occupant support.
(1) Note. A composite figure having two sides each
comprising a separate cut-out is regarded as a single figure
if the sides are rigidly secured to each other or the same
seat or framework.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
203 for nonsimulating occupant propelled vehicles with side
car.
222 for nonsimulating occupant propelled vehicles having
plural movable occupant supports.
231 for nonsimulating vehicles propelled by plural
occupants.
273 for nonsimulating occupant-propelled vehicles having
one-wheel controlled steering and providing for plural
occupants.
Subclass:
1.175
This subclass is indented under subclass 1.13. Vehicles
which are mounted upon rockers so as to cause the vehicle to
travel on a supporting surface, either by reason of plural
rockers which may be extended or retracted relative to one
another or by reason of brakes, rollers or swing arms applied
to or cooperating with the rockers.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
1.193 for platform rocker type, rider-body-actuated
velocipede type simulations.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
472, Amusement Devices, particularly 95 for a rockable,
nonprogressing, animal simulation amusement device having
rider seat means and which may travel backward and forward on
a platform.
Subclass:
1.177
This subclass is indented under subclass 1.175. Vehicles
having longitudinally spaced rockers constructed to move
relative to each other so as to cause the vehicle to move
along a supporting surface.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
1.181 for figures which progress by transferring the weight
from one swinging leg or support to another, the legs or
supports not having rocker bottoms.
Subclass:
1.181
This subclass is indented under subclass 1.13. Vehicles
which progress by advancing supporting means alternately
either at opposite sides, as in walking (this subclass) or at
opposite ends, as in galloping (indented subclasses), or
which have an alternately advanced and retracted pusher.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
1 for nonsimulating, nonwheeled, stepper type vehicles.
1.177 for similar figures which have rocker bottoms on the
swinging supports, on which they rock forward and back as the
supports swing.
218 for nonsimulation type wheeled vehicles having walking
or galloping progression.
219 for nonsimulation type vehicles having an alternately
advanced and retracted pusher.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
180, Motor Vehicles, subclass 187 for a motor vehicle which
includes one or more ski-like or runner members and wherein
the vehicle is provided with at least one surface-engaging
propulsion element and further wherein the element has a
shuffling movement along the surface which supports it; and
subclasses 8.1+ for a motor vehicle having a special driving
device in the nature of a stepper.
446, Amusement Devices: Toys, subclass 316, 317, and 377 for
a walking figure toy, and see the Search Notes under subclass
377 for other related loci.
Subclass:
1.182
This subclass is indented under subclass 1.181. Vehicles
having supports attached to the occupant supporting portion
at longitudinally spaced points and arranged to swing
alternately. If the supports are provided with wheels, they
have means to prevent retrograde movement, or they are driven
positively by the relative movement of the supports.
Subclass:
1.183
This subclass is indented under subclass 1.182. Vehicles in
which the relative spreading apart from and approach toward
each other of the supports is brought about by the action of
the rider's weight upon the saddle or the stirrups, the
saddle or stirrups having relatively movable connection with
the parts to be moved.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
218 for similarly driven wheeled vehicles which claim no
simulation features.
Subclass:
1.184
This subclass is indented under subclass 1.182. Vehicles in
which there is present some means, in addition to the two
relatively approaching and separating supports to engage the
ground or surface over which the vehicle moves, either to
stabilize the figure, assist in propelling it, or impart a
different type of motion.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
1.175 for progressing rocker type simulations having a
similar ground engaging means.
1.188 for other velocipede type simulations convertible to
have more than one kind of motion.
219 for nonsimulation vehicles propelled by means
intermittently engaging the ground or floor.
Subclass:
1.186
This subclass is indented under subclass 1.13. Velocipede
simulations in which the occupant is not seated on the figure
in the manner in which a horse is ordinarily ridden.
(1) Note. Arrangements in which the occupant is supported
within the figure, stands on it or is seated in a chair which
does not take the place of the back of the figure or serve as
a mere substitute for a saddle are included.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
1.16 for velocipede simulations in which the occupant is
seated in a vehicle purporting to be drawn by the figure.
Subclass:
1.188
This subclass is indented under subclass 1.13. Vehicles in
which the vehicle may be converted to a vehicle of the
nonsimulating type because of the removability of the figure,
or changed to a nonprogressive type, or in which the manner
for causing progression may be changed or the vehicle or
parts thereof may be made larger or smaller to suit occupants
of different sizes.
(1) Note. Mere change in the adjustment of relatively
movable linkages or springs to control the force necessary to
be supplied is not included unless the point at which the
rider's effort is applied is also changed.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
7.15 for convertible nonsimulating velocipede type vehicles
which are occupant propelled.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
472, Amusement Devices, particularly 95 for a rockable,
nonprogressing, animal simulation amusement device having
rider seat means and which may be convertible to another type
of device.
Subclass:
1.189
This subclass is indented under subclass 1.13. Vehicles
claimed in combination with auxiliary features such as
brakes, rider mounting steps, velocipede pushing handles,
props, fixed guides, etc., not essential to the primary
function of the velocipedes.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
1.14 for simulation type velocipedes combined with noise
makers.
1.16 for figure and carriage simulating velocipedes.
1.181 for brakes designed to prevent retrograde motion of
velocipedes which advance by alternately advancing and
drawing together independently moving ground engaging means.
1.188 for simulation type vehicles having means for
converting them to other forms or modes of operation.
264 for nonsimulating type occupant propelled vehicles
having combined brakes and steering means.
288.4 for attachments, for occupant propelled vehicles,
especially subclass 291 for steps.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
472, Amusement Devices, particularly subclass 101 for a
rockable, nonprogressing, animal simulation amusement device
having rider seat means and combined with a disparate
device.
Subclass:
1.191
This subclass is indented under subclass 1.13. Vehicles in
which the advance of the vehicle along the ground is or may
be accompanied by movement of the rider's body. The movement
usually actuates the propelling mechanism or assists in
actuating it, but it may be merely a bouncing movement on
spring mounted saddles or figure parts which are unrelated to
the propelling means of the velocipede.
(1) Note. Motion of merely the feet or arms of the rider is
not included.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
1.175 for rocker type progression caused by body motion.
1.181 for stepping or galloping type progression caused by
body movement.
1.201 for movable figure devices in which the occupant's
body is not shifted.
226.1 for nonsimulating vehicles whose propulsion is
actuated by the occupant's movable seat.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
472, Amusement Devices, particularly 95 for a rockable,
nonprogressing, animal simulation amusement device having
rider seat means.
Subclass:
1.192
This subclass is indented under subclass 1.191. Vehicles in
which there is also movement of simulating portions of the
vehicle.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
1.181 for figure movement involving alternately advancing
supports for causing progression.
1.201 for figure movement without rider body movement.
Subclass:
1.193
This subclass is indented under subclass 1.192. Vehicles in
which the movement of a rocker supported figure relative to a
supporting platform is transmitted to progressing means for
the platform.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
1.175 for progressing rocker-mounted figure-simulating
vehicles in which the rockers engage the ground or floor
directly.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
472, Amusement Devices, particularly 95 for a rockable,
nonprogressing, animal simulation amusement device having
rider seat means and which may travel on a platform.
Subclass:
1.194
This subclass is indented under subclass 1.192. Vehicles
having means which produce progression of the figure actuated
by either the feet or the hands of the rider, through parts
relatively movably connected to the propulsion system either
as the primary actuating means or as an aid to rider
body-actuation. In the former case, the figure must be
interconnected to the propulsion mechanism.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
221 for nonsimulating velocipedes having a movable occupant
support and additional propulsion means.
Subclass:
1.195
This subclass is indented under subclass 1.192. Velocipedes
in which steering means comprising a single rigid member or a
plurality of rigid members linked together passes through the
moving figure body in such a way as to allow vertical
movement of the body relative to the point at which the
steering impulse is transmitted to the running gear of the
velocipede.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
263 for steering for occupant propelled vehicles generally.
771 for occupant steered vehicles generally.
Subclass:
1.196
This subclass is indented under subclass 1.192. Vehicles in
which the figure pivots about a horizontal axis extending
through the chassis and through a fixed point in the central
portion of the trunk of the figure, the motion of the rider's
body being transmitted to a drive for the vehicle through the
figure motion.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
1.175 for rocking velocipedes which progress with the
rockers in contact with the supporting surface.
1.193 for platform rocker type velocipedes.
Subclass:
1.201
This subclass is indented under subclass 1.13. Vehicles
having the entire figure or body parts thereof, such as ears,
tails, heads, legs, mounted so as to be movable relative to
the base, running gear or other parts, usually for simulating
their natural movement on the living animal. Movement to
provide access openings is included.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
1.165 for carriage combined animal figures with movable body
parts.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
472, Amusement Devices, particularly subclass 99 for a
rockable, nonprogressing, animal simulation amusement device
having rider seat means and a relatively movable animal
part.
Subclass:
1.202
This subclass is indented under subclass 1.201. Vehicles in
which the foreparts of the figure are movably mounted for
steering, being directly or indirectly connected to the
turning portion of the running gear.
(1) Note. Either the head or feet, or both, may turn for
steering (this subclass) or the entire forepart of the animal
may be hinged to the body along a vertical line (indented
subclass).
(2) Note. If the head is nonrigidly connected to the
steering running gear, it must transmit the steering
impulse.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
1.201 for heads relatively movably connected to independent
steering mechanism. See (2) Note.
1.206 for rein steered figure velocipedes.
263 for steering means for nonsimulating occupant propelled
vehicles.
771 for occupant steered vehicles generally.
Subclass:
1.203
This subclass is indented under subclass 1.202. Vehicles in
which the steering body foreparts are hinged to the figure's
body hindparts along a generally vertical line falling
between the front and rear legs or supports of the figure.
Subclass:
1.204
This subclass is indented under subclass 1.201. Vehicles in
which the legs move relatively to the trunk of the figure.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
1 for nonsimulating vehicles having walking supports without
wheels.
1.167 for carriage-combined animal figures with relatively
movable legs.
1.181 for figures in which the legs support the figure on
the ground or floor and have relative movement to cause the
figure to progress as by walking or galloping.
1.192 for leg movement which is part of the drive mechanism
in rider body motion types or which serves to accommodate
figure body motion to a running gear which has no
corresponding motion.
218 for nonsimulating vehicles of the occupant-propelled
type having alternately advancing wheeled supports.
Subclass:
1.206
This subclass is indented under subclass 1.13. Vehicles in
which the propulsion of the vehicle or the turning of the
wheels or supports for steering is caused by the rider's
pulling on the reins.
(1) Note. In this subclass, the head does not turn relative
to the body, but patents from subclasses 1.201+ are
cross-referenced herein when the reins are relatively movably
connected to the steering point, even though the head also
turns.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
1.202 for figures in which the head or fore-parts turn
relatively to the body, the steered ground engaging means
usually being rigid with the head or forefeet. The head may
be turned by pulling on the reins. See (1) Note.
Subclass:
1.207
This subclass is indented under subclass 1.13. Vehicles
which are propelled or steered by movement of the rider's
feet in stirrups attached to the figure.
(1) Note. The stirrups must be equivalent to the stirrups
of a horse saddle to the extent of being movably suspended
from the saddle or seat portion of the simulated figure.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
1.183 for foot or saddle actuated galloping type
velocipedes.
Subclass:
1.208
This subclass is indented under subclass 1.13. Velocipedes
in which the figure is constructed as a shell or in which a
solid body has been provided with one or more openings or
cavities, usually to accommodate operating parts of the
progressing mechanism.
(1) Note. Bodies having apertures to receive nonmoving
parts which fit more or less closely therein are not
considered to be hollow within the meaning of this
definition.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
1.195 for bodies having slots to permit rocking movement of
the body relative to rigid or rigid link steering means
passing therethrough.
Subclass:
1.21
This subclass is indented under subclass 1.1. Vehicles which
simulate aircraft.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
1.12 for aircraft simulating velocipedes having occupant
operated means for propulsion.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
446, Amusement Devices: Toys, 230 for a toy aircraft having
wheels.
Subclass:
1.22
This subclass is indented under subclass 827. Vehicles in
which the simulation is that of a living figure.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
1.13 for velocipedes of this type having means operated by
the occupant for propelling them.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
446, Amusement Devices: Toys, 97 and 115+ for figure toys.
Subclass:
1.23
Attendant propelled:
This subclass is indented under subclass 827. Vehicles which
additionally include devices particularly adapted for the
pushing or pulling of the vehicle by a nonoccupant.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
446, Amusement Devices: Toys, for hand pushed toys.
Subclass:
1.5
This subclass is indented under the class definition. A
vehicle having a means adapted to engage the body of a
walking attendant other than means adapted to be engaged by
the hands or feet, the body engaging means being for the
purpose of propelling the vehicle or sustaining some of the
load carried by the vehicle.
(1) Note. An agricultural implement claimed by name only is
considered a vehicle for purposes of this definition.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
47.11 for a vehicle wheel steered by a walking attendant.
47.17 for handle propelled tiltable vehicles.
47.34 for handle propelled stable vehicles.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
54, Harness, for animal harness, per se.
172, Earth Working, subclass 353 for an earth working
implement having a draft means or ground support and guided
or propelled by a walking attendant and also having body
engaging means.
Subclass:
2
This subclass is indented under subclass 29. Vehicles having
a portion of the body or load supporting framework depending
between the axles to form a portion of the running gear
connections.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
43.11 for a vehicle having a vertically adjustable wheel the
axis of which may be moved to a position above the load
carrying surface of the vehicle.
47.23 for handle-propelled vehicles with similarly disposed
body or load supporting framework.
6.151 for a vehicle including means, interposed between the
vehicle body, chassis, or frame and running gear thereof, for
altering height or levelness of the vehicle body, chassis, or
frame for the proximate utility of facilitating cargo
movement which may entail lowering the cargo support surface
below the usual running gear level.
Subclass:
3
This subclass is indented under the class definition.
Vehicles provided with means for rotating a wheel or wheels
and operable from without the vehicle for propelling it.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
151 for auxiliary load starting attachments.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
105, Railway Rolling Stock, 96 for railway rolling stock
with wheel or axle drive, and especially subclass 129 for
flange or axle grip tools.
Subclass:
4
This subclass is indented under the class definition.
Vehicles specially adapted to carry ladders and fire-hose,
commonly fire-fighting vehicles.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
182, Fire Escape, Ladder, or Scaffold, 63.1 for a vehicle
mounted ladder with erection means and subclass 127 for a
ladder with a land vehicle.
Subclass:
5.2
This subclass is indented under the class definition.
Vehicles (1) constructed to permit its parts to be arranged
for, or (2) having means combined therewith for ascending or
descending steps or similar obstructions.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
30 for miscellaneous convertible land vehicles.
Subclass:
5.22
This subclass is indented under subclass 5.2. Vehicles
having endless traction elements (1) shiftably mounted from a
normal tractive position to a second position angularly
disposed on the vehicle to contact the edge portion of a step
or abutment to propel the vehicle while in upright position
at an incline to the horizontal, or (2) which are designed to
have one portion active while traveling horizontally and a
second portion active while ascending or descending a step or
abutment, or (3) which are auxiliary to the normal running
gear to provide a secondary traction means operative only
when ascending or descending steps or the like.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
180, Motor Vehicles, 9.1 for a motor vehicle including a
special driving device of endless track configuration.
305, Wheel Substitutes for Land Vehicles, appropriate
subclasses for endless flexible track type wheel
substitutes.
Subclass:
5.24
This subclass is indented under subclass 5.2. Vehicles
having a plate-like surface or rollerway positioned on the
vehicle and designed to engage the edge portion of the step
or abutment to facilitate movement of the vehicle
thereacross.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
5.32 for roller attachments providing a fulcrum support for
a vehicle.
7.12 for wheeled velocipedes convertible to or from runner
type.
8 for miscellaneous vehicles provided with wheeled and
runner type running gear.
Subclass:
5.26
This subclass is indented under subclass 5.2. Vehicles
comprising a spider-like means pivotally mounted on a vehicle
in position to permit the legs of the spider to engage the
tread portions of successive steps or levels of a path.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
305, Wheel Substitutes for Land Vehicles, 1 for steppers.
Subclass:
5.28
This subclass is indented under subclass 5.2. Vehicles in
which the running gear comprises spaced ground engaging
portions, which portions are mounted for relative movement to
permit variations in the relative vertical or horizontal
distances between said portions to facilitate movement over a
step or abutment.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
6.15 for a land vehicle including means, interposed between
the vehicle body, chassis, or frame and running gear thereof,
for altering height or levelness of the vehicle body,
chassis, or frame.
43 for a wheeled land vehicle including vertically
adjustable wheels for altering a dimension of the vehicle or
a part thereof.
Subclass:
5.3
This subclass is indented under subclass 5.2. Vehicles
having attached thereto mechanism adapted to react upon a
tread surface to lift or lower the vehicle to or from the
step or abutment.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
254, Implements or Apparatus for Applying Pushing or Pulling
force, 418 for miscellaneous vehicles having jacks attached
thereto.
Subclass:
5.32
This subclass is indented under subclass 5.2. Vehicles
having attached thereto a fulcrum means about which the
vehicle may be tilted.
(1) Note. The fulcrum is usually provided with wheel means
at its outer end to permit translatory movement of the
vehicle on its attached fulcrum.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
47.12 for vehicles having rocker or fulcrum supports
auxiliary to the wheels.
47.2 for auxiliary wheel attachments for two wheeled hand
trucks or barrows.
Subclass:
5.5
SUSPENSION MODIFICATION ENACTED DURING TRAVEL (I.E., ACTIVE
SUSPENSION CONTROL):
This subclass is indented under the class definition.
Vehicle comprising a regulatable elastic means intermediate a
vehicle body, chassis, or frame and ground engaging means
thereof for supporting the weight of the vehicle body,
chassis, or frame (i.e., sprung mass) upon the ground
engaging means (e.g., axle, runner, ski, skid, sled, tire,
unsprung mass, wheel, wheel assembly, wheel carrier) wherein
the regulatable elastic means is caused to alter its
elasticity property responsive to a force encountered while
the vehicle is in surface traversing motion to control a
handling or ride posture characteristic of the vehicle.
(1) Note. A named "vehicle suspension system or unit"
responsive to a limitation, either expressly or inferentially
claimed, representing a force associated with a traveling
vehicle is properly classifiable herein whether or not
mechanical parts (e.g., axle, control arm, linkage, pivot,
runner, shock absorber, ski, skid, sled, spring, tire, wheel,
wheel assembly, wheel carrier) constituting the regulatable
elastic means or the ground engaging means are claimed.
(2) Note. A named "vehicle suspension system or unit", per
se, lacking the limitation of responsiveness to a force
associated with a vehicle in traveling motion is not properly
classifiable herein. Thus, the feature of a "vehicle
suspension system or unit" responding to a "load or loading
condition", lacking a specific vehicular traversing motion
limitation by either sole disclosure of dynamic loading
experienced by the regulatable elastic means or explicit
claim language, is not proper for classification in this or
the indented subclasses but is provided for later in the
class schedule.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
6.15 for a general utility land vehicle including means
interposed between the vehicle body, chassis, or frame and
running gear thereof, for altering height or levelness of the
vehicle body, chassis, or frame without vehicular traversing
motion.
8 for a vehicle having both wheel and runner support.
80.1 for specific running gear associated with a general
utility wheeled land vehicle, especially subclass 86.5 for an
auxiliary axle assembly, subclasses 86.75+ for running gear
provided with geometric or spatial alignment adjustment, or
subclasses 124.1+ for a particular running gear suspension
arrangement.
200 for wheeled occupant-propelled-type land vehicle running
gear, especially subclasses 274+ or 281.1+. Additionally, in
accordance with the (2) Note of subclass 200, motorcycle
frames and running gear, without features causing
classification in Class 180, Motor Vehicles, are included in
these subclasses.
400 for running gear of an articulated vehicle or plural
interconnected vehicles (i.e., vehicle train).
830 wherein a vehicle frame is specially adapted to carry a
tank or boiler, especially subclass 7 for means for leveling
the tank or boiler portion responsive to an actual or
incipient nonlevel condition.
845 for a vehicle having a sliding engagement with the
travel surface, especially subclass 25 which includes a
spring support.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
180, Motor Vehicles, appropriate subclasses, for a general
utility self-propelled land vehicle including a feature as
specified in Class 180 definition. Class 180 is superior to
Class 280 in the class hierarchy.
188, Brakes, 2 for a retarding or stopping mechanism
employed upon a vehicle; or subclasses 266+ for a retarding
or stopping mechanism employing an internal resistance
medium.
267, Spring Devices, 2 for a spring device employed upon a
vehicle.
301, Land Vehicles: Wheels and Axles, appropriate subclasses,
for specific wheel or axle construction. Class 301 is
subordinate to Class 280 in the class hierarchy.
701, Data Processing: Vehicles, Navigation, and Relative
Location, 37 for computer controlled auxiliary automotive
vehicle systems including active suspension control.
Subclass:
5.501
Including fail-safe override of hazardous condition:
This subclass is indented under subclass 5.5. Subject matter
comprising means for detecting a perceived abnormal handling
or ride posture characteristic presenting a potentially life
threatening situation during surface traversing motion
whereby the regulatable elastic means is caused to alter its
elasticity property so as to assume a predefined state.
(1) Note. Fail-safe override requires a positive action by
the regulatable elastic means upon the detection of a
perceived abnormal handling or ride posture characteristic.
The positive action may entail control elimination or
attainment of a preordained position of the regulatable
elastic means.
(2) Note. A suspension having regulatable elastic means
that is merely preferentially operated while the vehicle is
experiencing normal handling or ride posture characteristics
is not proper for classification in this subclass and the
subclass indented hereunder but rather belongs in an
appropriate subclass provided later in the class schedule.
Subclass:
5.502
Of lateral vehicle attitude (e.g., antiroll, antisway):
This subclass is indented under subclass 5.501. Subject
matter wherein the regulatable elastic means is caused to
alter its elasticity property so as to govern transverse or
sideways vehicle body, chassis, or frame posture in relation
to the vehicle body, chassis, or frame centerline.
(1) Note. The regulatable elastic means acts to change the
transverse or sideways angulation of the vehicle body,
chassis, or frame in relation to the travel direction.
Subclass:
5.503
Priority assignment between diverse control criterion:
This subclass is indented under subclass 5.5. Subject matter
wherein the regulatable elastic means is caused to alter its
elasticity property responsive to multiple, individual
handling or ride posture characteristics encountered while
the vehicle is in normal surface traversing motion and one of
the encountered handling or ride posture characteristics
dominates the response of the regulatable elastic means.
(1) Note. The phrase "normal surface traversing motion" is
employed to distinguish from a perceived abnormal handling or
ride posture condition which is provided for earlier in the
class schedule.
(2) Note. Representative of multiple, individual handling
or ride posture characteristics are lateral vehicle attitude,
longitudinal vehicle attitude, riding or suspension height,
suspension stiffness for ride comfort, etc.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
5.501 for a land vehicle active suspension having a
regulatable elastic means which is caused to alter its
elasticity property in response to a perceived abnormal
handling or ride posture condition.
Subclass:
5.504
Including condition or parameter adjustment occurring at
longitudinally spaced vehicle axles:
This subclass is indented under subclass 5.5. Subject matter
comprising (a) supporting shafts or members for the ground
engaging means positioned at front and rear ends of the
vehicle body, chassis, or frame; (b) regulatable elastic
means being disposed at each end of the vehicle; and (c) the
regulatable elastic means are cooperatively regulated.
(1) Note. Regulatable elastic means positioned at front and
rear ends of the vehicle body, chassis, or frame without the
inclusion of the supporting shafts or members are not proper
for classification in this subclass or those indented
hereunder.
Subclass:
5.505
Applied between diagonally opposed suspension units:
This subclass is indented under subclass 5.504. Subject
matter wherein (a) the regulatable elastic means are
additionally located upon opposite sides of the vehicle body,
chassis, or frame centerline and (b) the cooperative
regulation of the elastic means occurs upon opposite ends and
opposite sides of the vehicle body, chassis, or frame.
Subclass:
5.506
Controlling lateral vehicle attitude (e.g., antiroll,
antisway):
This subclass is indented under subclass 5.504. Subject
matter wherein the cooperative regulation of the
longitudinally spaced regulatable elastic means governs
transverse or sideways vehicle body, chassis, or frame
posture in relation to the vehicle body, chassis, or frame
centerline.
(1) Note. Adjustment occurs upon each longitudinally spaced
vehicle axle. Control of lateral vehicle attitude by
regulatable elastic means upon a single vehicle axle is not
proper for classification in this subclass but is provided
for later in the class schedule.
(2) Note. The regulatable elastic means acts to change the
transverse or sideways angulation of the vehicle body,
chassis, or frame in relation to the travel direction.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
5.508 for an active land vehicle suspension including
control of lateral vehicle attitude by regulatable elastic
means upon a single vehicle axle.
Subclass:
5.507
Lateral and longitudinal vehicle attitude control (e.g.,
combinations of antidive, antipitch, antiroll, antisquat,
antisway, antiyaw, riding, or suspension height):
This subclass is indented under subclass 5.5. Subject matter
wherein the regulatable elastic means is caused to alter its
elasticity property so as to govern both transverse or
sideways and front-to-rear or fore-and-aft posture of the
vehicle body, chassis, or frame in relation to the vehicle
body, chassis, or frame centerline.
(1) Note. A suspension system providing lateral and
longitudinal attitude control including longitudinally spaced
front and rear vehicle axles is not proper for classification
in this subclass.
(2) Note. A suspension system separately providing, as
claimed, for either lateral or longitudinal attitude control
is not proper for classification in this subclass. Such a
suspension system belongs in a subclass provided later in the
class schedule for the respective lateral or longitudinal
attitude control being claimed.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
5.504 for an active land vehicle suspension system providing
lateral and longitudinal attitude control including
elasticity adjustment occurring at longitudinally spaced
vehicle axles.
Subclass:
5.508
Lateral vehicle disposition:
This subclass is indented under subclass 5.5. Subject matter
wherein the regulatable elastic means is caused to alter its
elasticity property so as to govern sideways or transverse
posture of the vehicle body, chassis, or frame in relation to
the vehicle body, chassis, or frame centerline.
(1) Note. The regulatable elastic means acts to change the
transverse or sideways angulation of the vehicle body,
chassis, or frame in relation to the direction of travel.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
5.502 for a suspension controlling lateral vehicle attitude
including fail-safe override of a hazardous condition.
5.504 for a suspension controlling lateral vehicle attitude
including longitudinally spaced vehicle axles.
Subclass:
5.509
Body banking:
This subclass is indented under subclass 5.508. Subject
matter wherein the regulatable elastic means inclines or
tilts the vehicle body, chassis, or frame toward a center of
curvature about which the vehicle is executing arcuate travel
to overcompensate for resultant centrifugal force experienced
by the vehicle executing.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
124.103 for a mechanical hardware or structural assembly
suspension arrangement causing body banking on turning.
Subclass:
5.51
Steering element responsive (e.g., steering angle, steering
rate):
This subclass is indented under subclass 5.508. Subject
matter wherein the regulatable elastic means responds to
operation of a mechanism causing the vehicle to execute
arcuate travel.
(1) Note. The mere inclusion of terminology associated with
arcuate travel of a vehicle, such as steered, turned, or
turning, without a limitation indicative of operation of
means for executing such arcuate travel of the vehicle does
not render classification proper for this or the indented
subclasses.
Subclass:
5.511
Applied to sway or torsion bar:
This subclass is indented under subclass 5.51. Subject
matter wherein the regulatable elastic means includes an
elongated rod, shaft, or tube having a long axis and
providing a springing action through twisting about the long
axis (torque deformation) upon which the regulative action is
administered.
(1) Note. The mere inclusion of a sway or torsion bar does
not cause assignment to this subclass unless a regulative
action is applied to such sway or torsion bar.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
124.106 for a mechanical hardware or structural assembly
suspension arrangement for preventing sideways or transverse
tilt of a vehicle body, chassis, or frame including a sway or
torsion bar interconnecting laterally opposed wheel
suspension units.
124.125 for a suspension arrangement of a wheel separately
supported upon an individual skein or spindle axle;
especially subclass 124.13 wherein a longitudinally extending
swinging arm includes stabilizing means within the connection
housing of the swinging arm pivot to the vehicle body,
chassis, or frame; subclass 124.137 wherein an upper and
lower lateral control arm suspension includes a torsion bar;
subclass 124.149 wherein a lateral control arm and vertical
strut suspension includes a torsion stabilizer; or subclass
124.152 wherein a lateral control arm suspension includes a
stabilizer bar.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
267, Spring Devices, 183 for a spring device having a
stabilizer bar for causing a uniform displacement along a
substantially horizontal line contained in the vehicle body
or chassis.
Subclass:
5.512
Including suspension stiffness for ride comfort (e.g.,
damping coefficient, spring rate):
This subclass is indented under subclass 5.51. Subject
matter wherein the regulatable elastic means additionally
governs the extent of vibrational force experienced by a
vehicle occupant.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
5.503 for an active suspension responsive to plural, diverse
control criterion and one of the control characteristics is
given regulative priority.
Subclass:
5.513
Longitudinal vehicle disposition (e.g., antidive, antipitch,
antisquat):
This subclass is indented under subclass 5.5. Subject matter
wherein the regulatable elastic means is caused to alter its
elasticity property so as to govern front-to-rear or
fore-and-aft posture of the vehicle body, chassis or frame
along the vehicle body, chassis, or frame centerline.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
5.504 for an active suspension including longitudinally
spaced front and rear vehicle axles or wheel support means.
Subclass:
5.514
Riding or suspension height (e.g., ground-clearance, "trim
height"):
This subclass is indented under subclass 5.5. Subject matter
wherein the regulatable elastic means is caused to alter its
elasticity property so as to govern distance from various
points of a vehicle body, chassis, or frame to the travel
surface or vertical separation from running gear components.
(1) Note. This subclass provides for adjusting or
maintaining a physically dimensioned separation gap (e.g.,
"trim height", etc.) between a vehicle body, chassis or frame
and land or running gear components, as contrasted with the
lateral or longitudinal vehicle attitude or disposition
subclasses provided earlier in the class schedule whose
proximate utility is regulation of the posture of the vehicle
body, chassis, or frame, although the vehicle attitude or
disposition subclasses may inherently alter riding or
suspension height.
(2) Note. Fluid suspension systems including a "level
control valve" provided with means for adjustment of the trip
point thereof responding to changes of static loading are not
proper for this subclass but are provided for later in the
class schedule.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
5.501 for a riding or suspension height adjustable
suspension including fail-safe override.
5.503 for an active suspension responsive to diverse control
criterion, one of which may be riding or suspension height.
6.157 for body elevation or tilt adjustment of a vehicle due
to a static load imposed upon the suspension including
adjustment of a trip point of a "level control valve" within
a fluid suspension system. See the (2) Note supra.
43 for an extensible vehicle including vertically adjustable
wheels for altering a dimension of the vehicle or part
thereof.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
267, Spring Devices, subclass 64.16 for a fluid spring
device including means for maintaining an effective working
range of the fluid spring device.
Subclass:
5.515
Suspension stiffness for ride comfort (e.g., damping
coefficient, spring rate):
This subclass is indented under subclass 5.5. Subject matter
wherein the regulatable elastic means is caused to alter its
elasticity property so as to govern the extent of travel
surface induced vibrational force experienced by a vehicle
occupant.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
5.512 for an active suspension controlling lateral vehicle
disposition and including suspension stiffness for ride
comfort regulation.
6.157 for a suspension arrangement including control means
which establish riding or trim height of the vehicle
suspension arrangement due to a static load for enabling
proper running gear operation, which may or may not involve
adjustment of suspension stiffness.
124.101 for a mechanical hardware or structural assembly
suspension arrangement including control means for
preparatory adjustment of the extent of resilient, shock
absorbing support provided.
124.108 for a mechanical hardware or structural assembly
suspension arrangement specifically abating mechanically
induced vibration.
Subclass:
5.516
Bushing compliance:
This subclass is indented under subclass 5.515. Subject
matter comprising an accommodative resilient coupling member
whose elasticity property is altered.
Subclass:
5.517
Look ahead:
This subclass is indented under subclass 5.515. Subject
matter comprising (a) means upon the vehicle for detecting
land surface irregularities spatially positioned from the
regulated elastic means and (b) the regulatable elastic means
is caused to alter its elasticity property responsive
thereto.
(1) Note. Included herein are "road surface detectors"
relying upon a transient signal from an element of another
regulatable elastic means to signify the road surface
condition.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
5.504 for an active suspension including longitudinally
spaced vehicle axles or wheel support means.
5.518 for an active suspension including "road surface
detectors" which actually observe land surface irregularities
and contour.
Subclass:
5.518
Traveling surface inspection:
This subclass is indented under subclass 5.517. Subject
matter wherein the means upon the vehicle for detecting land
surface irregularities actually examines or observes the land
contour.
(1) Note. Included herein are sonic, ultrasonic, or other
road surface examining systems.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
5.515 for an active suspension which relies upon a transient
signal from an element of a regulatable elastic means to
signify the road surface condition.
Subclass:
5.519
Plural distinct modes (i.e., HARD-SOFT):
This subclass is indented under subclass 5.515. Subject
matter comprising selection of an elasticity or resiliency
value from among discrete, multiple relative elasticity or
resiliency values, with each elasticity or resiliency value
representing a defined ride firmness.
(1) Note. Included herein are suspension systems providing
"HARD-SOFT" ride firmness.
(2) Note. Continuous adjustment or variable suspension
systems are not included herein because they do not invoke
selection of defined parameters.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
5.515 for a continuous adjustment or variable active
suspension.
Subclass:
5.52
Suspension geometry (e.g., camber, caster, toe-in/toe-out,
wheel track, road contact):
This subclass is indented under subclass 5.5. Subject matter
wherein the regulatable elastic means governs a spatial
relationship between structural elements of the running
gear.
(1) Note. Running gear is defined as the structural
assembly connecting ground-engaging means (e.g., runner,
skid, sled, wheel) to a vehicle body, chassis, or frame,
inclusive of axle, control arm, link, shock absorber, spring,
strut, etc.
(2) Note. The spatial relationship herein provides for
other than vertical separation of the vehicle body, chassis,
or frame from running gear components which is specifically
provided in subclass 5.514 earlier in the class schedule.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
5.514 for a suspension including riding or suspension height
alteration of the vehicle body, chassis, or frame relative to
land or components of the running gear.
43 for an extensible vehicle including vertically adjustable
wheels relative to the running gear for altering a dimension
of the vehicle or part thereof.
86.75 for a wheeled vehicle running gear provided with means
upon the vehicle enabling static adjustment of a spatial
relationship.
Subclass:
5.521
Camber or caster:
This subclass is indented under subclass 5.52. Subject
matter wherein the spatial relationship governs an
inclination or tilt of (a) a wheel relative to the ground
surface as measured in degrees from true vertical (i.e.,
camber) or (b) a steering axis relative to the center line of
the wheel as measured in degrees from true vertical (i.e.,
caster).
(1) Note. Camber is the tilting inward (negative camber) or
outward (positive camber) of the top of the wheel as viewed
from the front of the vehicle.
(2) Note. Caster is the tilting forward (negative caster)
or backward (positive caster) of a line extending through
upper and lower ball joints or a kingpin as viewed from the
side of the vehicle.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
86.751 for general utility wheeled land vehicle running gear
provided with means enabling static camber or caster
adjustment.
Subclass:
5.522
Toe:
This subclass is indented under subclass 5.52. Subject
matter wherein the spatial relationship governs a difference
in distance between extreme front and rear edges of laterally
opposed wheels relative to the longitudinal centerline of the
vehicle.
(1) Note. "Toe-in" results when the distance difference for
the extreme front edges is smaller than for the extreme rear
edges. "Toe-out" results when the distance difference for
the extreme front edges is greater than for the extreme rear
edges.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
86.75 for general utility wheeled land vehicle running gear
provided with means for enabling static toe adjustment,
particularly subclass 86.758 for toe adjustment of a
steerable wheel.
Subclass:
5.523
Bushing compliance:
This subclass is indented under subclass 5.522. Subject
matter comprising an accommodative resilient coupling member
whose elasticity property is altered.
Subclass:
5.524
Nonsteered wheel (e.g., independent rear suspension):
This subclass is indented under subclass 5.523. Subject
matter wherein the accommodative resilient coupling member is
utilized in supporting an unsteerable, rolling ground
engaging member.
Subclass:
6.15
BODY ELEVATION OR TILT:
This subclass is indented under the class definition.
Vehicle comprising means disposed between that portion of a
land vehicle which operates as a load, load carrier, or
receptacle and running gear for vertically predisposing the
load, load carrier, or receptacle at a distance from either
the land surface or from the running gear to achieve change
in height or level.
(1) Note. Running gear is defined as the structural
assembly connecting ground-engaging means (e.g., runner,
skid, sled, wheel) to a vehicle body, chassis, or frame,
inclusive of axle, control arm, link, shock absorber, spring,
strut, etc.
(2) Note. Means for vertically positioning a wheel relative
to running gear for the purpose of altering a dimension of
the vehicle or a part thereof is not proper for
classification in this subclass or subclasses indented
hereunder. Such subject matter is provided for later in the
class schedule.
(3) Note. The means changes height or levelness for other
than transient excursions. Adjustment or establishment of
riding or suspension height of a vehicle body, chassis, or
frame in response to a force encountered while the vehicle is
executing surface travel is provided for earlier in this
class (Class 280).
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
5.503 for an active suspension involving plural diverse
control criterion one of which may be riding or suspension
height adjustment.
5.514 for riding or suspension height adjustment occurring
during vehicle travel.
7 for a vehicle wherein the receptacle, load, or load
carrier comprises a tank or boiler with leveling means
extending between running gear and the tank or boiler.
30 for a vehicle which is convertible from a wheeled vehicle
to a nonvehicular structure.
43 for a vehicle comprising a running gear and a wheel
means, and means whereby the wheel means may be vertically
adjusted relative to the running gear for the purpose of
altering a dimension of the vehicle or a part thereof.
293 for a velocipede which is provided with a prop or
steadying device.
763.1 for a vehicle which is provided with a retractable
prop or stand which may be extended to stabilize the vehicle
when not in motion.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
56, Harvesters, 206 for platform adjustments for
harvesters.
105, Railway Rolling Stock, subclass 164 for railroad trucks
with levelers.
172, Earth Working, appropriate subclasses, especially 395
for earth working apparatus comprising vertically adjustable
wheels; subclasses 400+ for means interconnecting the wheels
of an earth working implement whereby they may be moved,
simultaneously, vertically with respect to the frame;
subclass 406 for an earth working apparatus with an actuator
for adjusting wheels on different axles and an additional
actuator for changing the relative position of the wheels;
subclasses 446+ for laterally adjustable earth working tools
which may involve a leveling feature; subclasses 459+ for an
earth working element which is swingable about an axis which
extends substantially in the direction of movement of the
apparatus over the ground; or subclass 466 for an earth
working tool which is lifted and held raised for transport by
a means other than the lifting means.
180, Motor Vehicles, subclass 39 and 41 for motor vehicles
of that class (Class 180) with leveling means and subclasses
89.1+ for attaching bodies of motor vehicles of that class
(Class 180) to the running gear thereof.
296, Land Vehicles: Bodies and Tops, appropriate subclasses
for vehicle body construction in general, especially 35.1
for devices securing the vehicle body to the running chassis
frame including nominal recitation of running gear.
298, Land Vehicles: Dumping, appropriate subclasses for
vehicles other than track or rail vehicles adapted to carry a
load with means to manipulate the vehicle so that a
considerable part of the load will move by gravity to unload
the vehicle.
Subclass:
6.151
Loading position:
This subclass is indented under subclass 6.15. Subject
matter comprising predisposing the load, load carrier, or
receptacle portion to accommodate cargo movement.
(1) Note. Included herein are means for positioning the
load, load carrier, or receptacle portion of a land vehicle
at a height compatible to that of a loading dock.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
2 for a vehicle wherein a portion of the body or load
supporting framework depends between axles and functions as
part of the running gear connection.
43.11 for a vehicle having a vertically adjustable wheel for
altering a dimension of the vehicle or a part thereof wherein
the wheel axis may be moved to a position above the load
carrying surface of the vehicle.
47.21 for a handle propelled, tiltable vehicle having an
adjustable or shiftable axle to varying the position thereof
relative to the body to facilitate loading.
47.23 for a handle propelled, tiltable vehicle having a load
carrying surface below a wheel axis with no means to elevate
the wheel.
425.1 for articulated vehicles including a semitrailer
provided with power or manually actuated lift means on the
tractor or reacting between the tractor and trailer to
vertically position the connecting members (a) for coupling
or (b) to raise the trailer after coupling.
446.1 for articulated vehicles wherein the position of a
connection is automatically changed in response to load or
draft connections.
477 for articulated vehicles including a coupling
facilitating device wherein the articulated vehicles are
other than the semitrailer type.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
298, Land Vehicles: Dumping, appropriate subclasses for
vehicles other than track or rail vehicles adapted to carry a
load with means to manipulate the vehicle so that a
considerable part of the load will move by gravity to unload
the vehicle.
414, Material or Article Handling, subclass 584 for external
means used to position the load, load carrier, or receptacle
portion of a vehicle for accommodating cargo movement.
Subclass:
6.152
Occupant ingress or egress:
This subclass is indented under subclass 6.151. Subject
matter wherein the accommodated cargo movement is user entry
or exit from the vehicle.
(1) Note. Included herein are "kneeling" bus suspensions.
Subclass:
6.153
Static site leveling (e.g., camper, mobile home, recreational
vehicle, work vehicle):
This subclass is indented under subclass 6.15. Subject
matter comprising predisposing of the load, load carrier, or
receptacle portion in a level attitude, irrespective of the
surface contour beneath the vehicle, at a singular,
stationary location.
(1) Note. Included herein are leveling means employing
elements of the running gear. Leveling means involving
attachments or auxiliary devices are not proper for
classification in this subclass unless they are interrelated
with an element of the running gear.
(2) Note. Level attitude for the purpose of this subclass
is intended to be absolute level (i.e., parallel to a flat
horizontal plane).
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
47.33 for a wheeled tiltable vehicle provided with leg
structure to stabilize the vehicle in a rest position.
293 for a velocipede which is provided with a prop or
steadying device.
427 for articulated vehicles including a semitrailer having
landing gear with interrelated coupling or brake operation.
475 for articulated vehicles provided with ground engaging
support means to partially support one of the vehicles when
uncoupled from the other vehicle, wherein the support means
is in a retracted or inoperative position when the vehicles
are coupled.
763.1 for a vehicle which is provided with a retractable
prop or stand which may be extended to stabilize the vehicle
when not in motion.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
254, Implements or Apparatus for Applying Pushing or Pulling
Force, 418 for attached vehicle jacks, including retractable
ground supports and props.
Subclass:
6.154
Terrain slope compensation:
This subclass is indented under subclass 6.15. Subject
matter comprising predisposing the load, load carrier, or
receptacle portion to accommodate sustained travel upon an
expansive inclined surface.
(1) Note. The presence of a gravity induced alteration
control is included in this and the indented subclasses.
(2) Note. This and the indented subclasses are intended to
position the load, load carrier, or receptacle portion in an
appropriate attitude for prolonged travel upon a hillside or
other protracted, nonlevel land configuration. Accordingly,
load, load carrier, or receptacle vertical positioning
occurring from encountering rough or uneven terrain is not
proper for this or the indented subclasses. Such rough or
uneven terrain adjustment is a normal function of a
suspension system and is provided for earlier in the class
schedule if suspension adjustment is caused to occur in
response to a force encountered while the vehicle is in
surface traversing motion or in an appropriate subclass
elsewhere.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
5.508 for an active suspension responding to a force
encountered while the vehicle is in surface traversing motion
to regulate lateral disposition of the vehicle body, chassis,
or frame.
5.514 for an active suspension responding to a force
encountered while the vehicle is in surface traversing motion
to regulate ground clearance or "trim height".
Subclass:
6.155
Individual ground engaging means vertically movable:
This subclass is indented under subclass 6.154. Subject
matter comprising (a) separately mounted running gear
positioned upon each side of the vehicle body, chassis, or
frame; and (b) means to create vertical movement of at least
one of the running gear.
(1) Note. Running gear is defined as the structural
assembly connecting ground-engaging means (e.g., runner,
skid, sled, wheel) to a vehicle body, chassis, or frame,
inclusive of axle, control arm, link, shock absorber, spring,
strut, etc.
(2) Note. Running gear comprising a single transverse axle
either pivotally mounted or having a crank axle on each end
is not to be considered separately mounted running gear
proper for classification in this or the indented subclass
but is provided for earlier in the class schedule.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
6.154 for a vehicle including body elevation or tilting by
means of running gear comprising a single transverse axle
either pivotally mounted or having a crank axle on each end.
43 for means for vertically positioning a wheel relative to
running gear for the purpose of altering a dimension of the
vehicle or a part thereof.
Subclass:
6.156
Longitudinally extending support arm:
This subclass is indented under subclass 6.155. Subject
matter wherein at least one vertically movable laterally
positioned running gear is supported upon an elongate member
pivotally mounted about a laterally directed axis.
Subclass:
6.157
Establishing riding or trim height:
This subclass is indented under subclass 6.15. Subject
matter comprising predisposing the load, load carrier, or
receptacle portion for attaining an appropriate location for
proper running gear operation.
(1) Note. Riding or trim height is an art term recognized
to define a normal operative disposition of structural
components of the running gear design.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
5.503 for an active suspension involving plural diverse
control criterion, one of which may be riding or suspension
height adjustment. See the (3) Note under subclass 6.15 of
this class.
5.514 for an active suspension having riding or suspension
height adjustment responding while the vehicle is in motion.
See the (2) Note under subclass 5.514 of this class.
86.5 for a vehicle including a selectively employed
auxiliary axle which may or may not be deployed into ground
engaging position for establishing riding or trim height.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
267, Spring Devices, subclass 64.16 for a fluid spring
device including means for maintaining an effective working
range of the fluid spring device.
Subclass:
6.158
Including dwell period (e.g., delay, inactive, suppression):
This subclass is indented under subclass 6.157. Subject
matter including means deferring incipient operation.
(1) Note. Included herein are riding or trim height
establishing suspensions provided with delay means inhibiting
or precluding a response to excursions of the vehicle body,
chassis, or frame while the vehicle is in motion.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
5.503 for a riding or trim height establishing suspension
including means responding while the vehicle is in motion for
superseding riding or trim height control. See the (3) Note
under subclass 6.15 of this class.
Subclass:
6.159
Load responsive:
This subclass is indented under subclass 6.157. Subject
matter wherein the riding or trim height is established by
the distribution or quantity of payload placed in or upon the
vehicle.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
6.158 for a riding or trim height establishing suspension,
which may or may not be responsive to a distribution or
quantity of payload placed in or upon the vehicle, including
means deferring incipient operation.
Subclass:
6.16
Lateral vehicle attitude:
This subclass is indented under subclass 6.159. Subject
matter wherein the riding or trim height adjustment controls
the sideways or transverse disposition of the vehicle
relative to the vehicle body, chassis, or frame centerline.
(1) Note. Either a specific limitation directed to
controlling lateral disposition or sole disclosure of
controlling the running gear at lateral sides of a single
vehicle axle are required for placement in this subclass.
Subclass:
7
This subclass is indented under subclass 830. Vehicle
comprising (1) means for keeping the tank or boiler portion
of a vehicle level responsive to a means sensing an actual or
incipient nonlevel condition, or (2) an adjustable means
extending between the running gear and the tank or boiler of
the vehicle which is operative to level the tank or boiler.
Subclass:
7.1
This subclass is indented under the class definition.
Velocipedes in which the parts may be manipulated to convert
the vehicle into some other device or some other type of
vehicle.
(1) Note. Velocipedes are those vehicles including skates,
adapted to be propelled by the occupant including those
pushed by the occupant by contact of the hands or feet with
the surface over which the vehicle moves.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
1.188 for convertible figure type velocipedes.
9 for wheel and runner vehicles with retractable wheels or
runners.
13 for runners applied to the wheels of wheeled vehicles.
30 for a general utility wheeled land vehicle which is
convertible to a nonvehicular structure.
87.01 for coasters.
200 for occupant propelled-type land vehicles.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
105, Railway Rolling Stock, subclass 95 for trackman's car
convertible to bicycle.
297, Chairs and Seats, 1 for chair or seat convertible from
wheel mounted to nonwheel mounted by reorienting the entire
device, and subclasses 130+ for a chair or seat having
alternately usable supporting devices, as wheels, rockers,
suspending hangers and the like.
Subclass:
7.11
This subclass is indented under subclass 7.1. Velocipedes in
which the conversion is from an ordinary frame to a drop
frame, i.e., one which is commonly known as a ladies'
bicycle.
Subclass:
7.12
This subclass is indented under subclass 7.1. Velocipedes in
which the conversion is from a wheeled velocipede to a runner
type or vice versa.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
8 for wheel and runner vehicles.
13 for wheel runner type vehicles.
Subclass:
7.13
This subclass is indented under subclass 7.12. Velocipedes
which have means adapting them to be attached to the feet of
the occupant.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
841 for skates not convertible.
Subclass:
7.14
This subclass is indented under subclass 7.12. Vehicles in
which a wheel is substituted for a runner or vice versa.
Subclass:
7.15
This subclass is indented under subclass 7.1. Vehicles which
have means adapting them to be propelled by the occupant.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
7.12 for vehicles convertible to the runner type and having
occupant propelling means.
200 for nonconvertible vehicles with occupant propelling
means.
Subclass:
7.16
This subclass is indented under subclass 7.15. Vehicles in
which the conversion is to or from a plural occupant
propelled vehicle.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
209 222, 231+, and 273, for occupant propelled vehicles
having provision for plural occupants.
Subclass:
7.17
This subclass is indented under subclass 7.15. Vehicles in
which the conversion is from an occupant propelled vehicle to
a nonoccupant propelled vehicle or vice versa.
Subclass:
8
This subclass is indented under the class definition.
Vehicles provided with both supporting-wheels and runners.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
7.12 for convertible velocipedes of the wheel and runner
type.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
180, Motor Vehicles, subclass 196 for a motor vehicle which
includes one or more ski-like or runner members and wherein
the vehicle is provided with at least one surface-engaging
propulsion element and further wherein the element comprises
a traction wheel.
Subclass:
9
This subclass is indented under subclass 8. Vehicles in
which either the wheel or the runner gear may be moved to an
inoperative position, leaving the other in position for use.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
86.5 for a general utility wheeled land vehicle including an
auxiliary axle assembly which is selectively disposable
between a use and a nonuse position.
638 for a vehicle constructed in such manner that the
physical dimension of the vehicle or a part thereof may
change or vary, particularly subclasses 639+ wherein the
vehicle is foldable to a collapsed or more compact form or
subclasses 43+ wherein the vehicle is provided with
vertically adjustable wheels.
Subclass:
10
This subclass is indented under subclass 9. Vehicles in
which the runner gear in its operative position engages the
wheels of the wheeled gear.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
13 for wheel runner type sleds.
Subclass:
11
This subclass is indented under subclass 9. Vehicles in
which the adjustable running-gear is pivoted to swing about
an axis laterally of the vehicle.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
641 for folding vehicles having pivoted wheel carriers with
transverse axis.
Subclass:
11.115
With propulsion means driven by occupant:
This subclass is indented under subclass 841. Skates
provided with means to cause them to move relative to the
surface on which they are supported, which means is driven by
the manual effort of the person utilizing the skates.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
200 for a vehicle of the wheeled type which is provided with
means whereby it may be propelled by the occupant thereof.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
180, Motor Vehicles, subclass 181 for a motor vehicle of the
ski- or skate-type for imparting movement to a person
standing thereon and wherein the power means or a portion
thereof is affixed to or built into the ski or skate.
Subclass:
11.12
This subclass is indented under subclass 841. Skates which
are supported by runners.
Subclass:
11.14
This subclass is indented under subclass 11.12. Skates in
which the foot plates are resiliently supported on the
runner.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
11.15 for jointed runners and foot supports.
Subclass:
11.15
This subclass is indented under subclass 11.12. Skates in
which the skate is made up of two or more runner supported
sections pivotally connected, or in which the foot supports
are movably jointed to the runners.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
11.14 for resilient connections between the foot plates and
runners.
Subclass:
11.16
This subclass is indented under subclass 11.12. Skates in
which the foot supports are extensible to fit different size
shoes.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
11.26 for extensible wheeled skates.
Subclass:
11.17
This subclass is indented under subclass 11.12. Skates in
which a runner is secured in a frame including hollow foot
posts.
Subclass:
11.18
This subclass is indented under subclass 11.12. Devices in
which only the runner structure is claimed.
Subclass:
11.19
This subclass is indented under subclass 841. Skates which
are provided with wheels.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
16, Miscellaneous Hardware, 18 for casters generally and 97+
for wheel mounts for panel hangers.
301, Land Vehicles: Wheels and Axles, 5.3 for skate
wheels.
Subclass:
11.201
With retrogression prevention:
This subclass is indented under subclass 11.19. Subject
matter having means to prevent motion of the skate except in
a forward direction.
Subclass:
11.202
Including skate ventilation:
This subclass is indented under subclass 11.19. Subject
matter wherein a skate boot includes a device for air
circulation to and from the skate boot.
Subclass:
11.203
Including lighting means:
This subclass is indented under subclass 11.19. Subject
matter having a device which illuminates the skate or area
around the skate or area around the skate.
Subclass:
11.204
With brake:
This subclass is indented under subclass 11.19. Subject
matter including a skate wheel motion reducing or retarding
member (i.e., a brake member).
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
188, Motor Vehicles, 2 for vehicle brakes.
Subclass:
11.205
Continuously applied brake:
This subclass is indented under subclass 11.204. Subject
matter wherein the brake member is in constant engagement
with the wheels or the skating surface.
Subclass:
11.206
Brake includes roller engagable with skating surface:
This subclass is indented under subclass 11.204. Subject
matter wherein the brake member includes a rotational element
which when actuated by a rider contacts the skating surface.
Subclass:
11.207
Brake element rigidly attached to skate frame:
This subclass is indented under subclass 11.204. Subject
matter wherein the brake member is firmly and non-movably
secured to the skate.
Subclass:
11.208
Brake element engagable with skating surface:
This subclass is indented under subclass 11.207. Subject
matter wherein the brake member contacts a surface upon which
skate wheels are rolling.
Subclass:
11.209
Element attached to front end of skate:
This subclass is indented under subclass 11.208. Subject
matter wherein the brake member is mounted at or near the bow
of the skate.
Subclass:
11.211
Brake element movably mounted to skate frame:
This subclass is indented under subclass 11.204. Subject
matter wherein the brake member moves relative to the skate
upon braking.
Subclass:
11.212
Hand actuated brake controller:
This subclass is indented under subclass 11.211. Subject
matter including a hand operated means mounted on the skate
to regulate the movement of the brake member.
Subclass:
11.213
Wireless brake controller:
This subclass is indented under subclass 11.212. Subject
matter wherein the movement of the brake member is regulated
by an electromagnetic or sonic device.
Subclass:
11.214
Leg operated brake controller:
This subclass is indented under subclass 11.211. Subject
matter wherein the brake member is regulated by a pivotal
movement of skater s leg relative to the skater s foot.
Subclass:
11.215
Brake element pivotally mounted:
This subclass is indented under subclass 11.211. Subject
matter wherein the brake member is hingedly secured to the
skate for permitting the movement of the brake member during
braking.
Subclass:
11.216
Brake element engagable with skating surface:
This subclass is indented under subclass 11.215. Subject
matter wherein the brake member contacts a surface upon which
the skate wheels are rolling.
Subclass:
11.217
Brake element engaging skating surface and wheel:
This subclass is indented under subclass 11.211. Subject
matter wherein the brake member contacts the skating surface
and a skating wheel during braking.
Subclass:
11.221
In-line wheels (e.g., in-line skates):
This subclass is indented under subclass 11.19. Subject
matter wherein all the wheels supporting the skate are
aligned so as to share a common rolling path.
Subclass:
11.222
Different size wheels:
This subclass is indented under subclass 11.221. Subject
matter having one wheel larger or smaller than another
wheel.
Subclass:
11.223
Axle mounting arrangement:
This subclass is indented under subclass 11.221. Subject
matter includes specific structure for rotatably securing the
wheels to skates.
Subclass:
11.224
Including pivotally mounted boot:
This subclass is indented under subclass 11.221. Subject
matter wherein a under surface of a boot is hingedly secured
to the skate.
Subclass:
11.225
Including shock absorbing means:
This subclass is indented under subclass 11.221. Subject
matter includes a device between the wheels and the skate
frame for dampening uneven or abrupt forces on the skate.
Subclass:
11.226
Spherical wheels:
This subclass is indented under subclass 11.221. Subject
matter wherein the wheels are generally spherically shaped.
Subclass:
11.227
Cylindrical wheels:
This subclass is indented under subclass 11.221. Subject
matter wherein the wheels are generally cylindrical shaped.
(1) Note. The axial length of the wheel is larger than the
diameter of the wheel.
Subclass:
11.231
Three or four wheels:
This subclass is indented under subclass 11.221. Subject
matter wherein the skate has three or four wheels.
Subclass:
11.232
A wheel raised above skating surface:
This subclass is indented under subclass 11.231. Subject
matter wherein a wheel is positioned out of contact with a
surface upon which the wheels are rolling.
Subclass:
11.233
Two wheels:
This subclass is indented under subclass 11.221. Subject
matter wherein the skate has two wheels.
Subclass:
11.24
This subclass is indented under subclass 11.19. Skates
having a single supporting wheel.
Subclass:
11.25
This subclass is indented under subclass 11.19. Skates
having two supporting wheels.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
11.233 for skates with two wheels arranged in tandem.
Subclass:
11.26
This subclass is indented under subclass 11.19. Skates in
which the foot supports are extensible to fit different sized
shoes.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
11.16 for extensible runner type skates.
Subclass:
11.27
This subclass is indented under subclass 11.19. Devices in
which the wheeled trucks and/or the truck mounting are
claimed, per se.
Subclass:
11.28
This subclass is indented under subclass 11.27. Devices in
which the trucks are resiliently yieldable relative to their
supports.
Subclass:
11.3
This subclass is indented under subclass 841. Devices in
which the means to attach or secure a skate to a rider's shoe
are claimed. The mere inclusion of the runner or wheels
broadly will not keep the patent out of this subclass.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
36, Boots, Shoes, and Leggings, 62 for detachable
antislipping devices for shoes.
Subclass:
11.31
This subclass is indented under subclass 11.3. Devices in
which the securing means comprises clamps engaging the toe
and/or heel of the shoe.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
36, Boots, Shoes, and Leggings, 64, for clamping means for
attaching antislipping devices to shoes.
Subclass:
11.32
This subclass is indented under subclass 11.31. Devices in
which the clamping means is actuated by a screw device.
Subclass:
11.33
This subclass is indented under subclass 11.31. Devices in
which the clamping means is actuated by a lever mechanism.
Subclass:
11.34
This subclass is indented under subclass 11.33. Devices
having a screw adjustment.
Subclass:
11.36
This subclass is indented under subclass 11.3. Devices in
which means is provided to support or brace the ankle of a
skater.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
602, Surgery: Splint, Brace, or Bandage, subclass 27 and 65
for ankle braces, per se.
Subclass:
12.1
This subclass is indented under subclass 845. Vehicles which
have means adapting them to be propelled by the occupant, not
merely pushed by the hands or feet of the occupant.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
14.27 for the push type sled vehicle, which is pushed by a
standing occupant.
Subclass:
12.11
This subclass is indented under subclass 12.1. Vehicles in
which the propelling means pushes the vehicle by intermittent
contact with the surface over which the vehicle travels.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
219 for wheeled vehicles similarly propelled.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
180, Motor Vehicles, subclass 187 for a motor vehicle which
includes one or more ski-like or runner members and wherein
the vehicle is provided with at least one surface-engaging
propulsion element and further wherein the element has a
shuffling movement along the surface which supports it.
Subclass:
12.12
This subclass is indented under subclass 12.11. Vehicles in
which the propelling means is specially designed to be
operated by the feet of the occupant.
Subclass:
12.13
This subclass is indented under subclass 12.1. Vehicles in
which the propelling means is a traction wheel contacting the
surface over which the vehicle moves.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
180, Motor Vehicles, subclass 196 for a motor vehicle which
includes one or more ski-like or runner members and wherein
the vehicle is provided with at least one surface-engaging
propulsion element and further wherein the element comprises
a traction wheel.
Subclass:
12.14
This subclass is indented under subclass 12.13. Vehicles in
which the propelling means is specially designed to be
operated by the feet of the occupant.
Subclass:
13
This subclass is indented under subclass 845. Vehicles in
which the runners are applied to the wheels of wheeled
vehicles.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
10 for vehicles having both wheels and runners.
Subclass:
14
This subclass is indented under subclass 845. Vehicles in
which the runners are constructed to replace the wheels of a
wheeled vehicle and fit over the wheel-axles, usually on the
axle-spindles.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
26 for rocker runner type vehicles.
Subclass:
14.1
Skis converted to sled:
This subclass is indented under subclass 845. Vehicles using
standard snow skis, normally attached to individual feet of a
standing occupant, as the slidable surface attached to some
occupant or load supporting structure.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
818 for skis interconnected for training.
Subclass:
14.21
Standing occupant:
This subclass is indented under subclass 845. Subject
matter wherein a floor (i.e., platform) of the vehicle is
adapted to support both feet of an occupant in standing
position and intended primarily to coast down a snow slope or
ice (i.e., supporting surface).
(1) Note: These vehicles are analogous to skateboards or
surfboards but may be used on snow or ice.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
14.28 for a standing occupant sled with steering handles.
23.1 for runner vehicles intended to be pushed using some
upwardly extending superstructure, by an attendant who does
not ride on the sled.
Subclass:
14.22
With two bindings mounted on single platform:
This subclass is indented under subclass 14.21. Subject
matter wherein the vehicle includes two foot securing and
fastening devices mounted on a single gliding member.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
11.3 for means to attach a shoe to the skate.
Subclass:
14.23
Bindings interconnected for simultaneous release:
This subclass is indented under subclass 14.22. Subject
matter wherein the feet securing and devices fastenings are
connected by a linkage mechanism which allows both feet to be
simultaneously detached from the feet securing and fastening
devices.
Subclass:
14.24
Bindings pivot about vertical axis:
This subclass is indented under subclass 14.22. Subject
matter includes a pivot connection of each binding to the
platform which allows the bindings to move to selected
positions about an passing perpendicular through the
platform.
Subclass:
14.25
Platform supported by tandem runners:
This subclass is indented under subclass 14.21. Subject
matter wherein surfaces of the platform in contact with the
supporting surface are aligned so as to share a common
gliding path.
Subclass:
14.26
Platform supported by side by side runners:
This subclass is indented under subclass 14.21. Subject
matter wherein surfaces of the platform in contact with the
supporting surface are laterally spaced.
Subclass:
14.27
With handle:
This subclass is indented under subclass 14.21. Subject
matter including an upwardly extending hand graspable member
(i.e., a handle) which is fixedly secured to the skate.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
14.28 for a runner vehicle with steering handle.
Subclass:
14.28
Steerable handle:
This subclass is indented under subclass 14.27. Subject
matter wherein the handle is manipulated to direct the
vehicle.
(1) Note. The device may simply be a lever for flexing the
runner.
(2) Note. This subclass includes scooter type vehicles with
runners.
Subclass:
15
Multiple sled:
This subclass is indented under subclass 845. Vehicle in
which the sliding surface comprises a plurality of
longitudinally spaced sliding running gear units.
Subclass:
16
This subclass is indented under subclass 15. Sleds arranged
to be steered by the vehicle occupant.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
771 for occupant steered wheeled vehicles.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
188, Brakes, subclass 8 for means for steering by altering
the speed of one side of the vehicle as by a brake.
Subclass:
17
This subclass is indented under subclass 15. Sleds in which
one sliding unit is mounted to swivel on a vertical axis, and
may also rock about a lateral axis relative to the other
sliding unit.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
124.114 for a wheeled vehicle having running gear including
a rocking and swinging axle.
Subclass:
18
Toboggan:
This subclass is indented under subclass 845. Vehicles where
the sliding surface is provided by a large flat bottom
surface of the load support.
(1) Note. In these sleds the sliding running gear is the
bottom of the load support.
Subclass:
18.1
Bowl or saucer type:
This subclass is indented under subclass 18. Vehicles
wherein the entire vehicle serves as the sliding surface and
is in the shape of a saucer or bowl.
Subclass:
19
This subclass is indented under subclass 18. Sleds having
contact with intended to be pulled the supporting surface
along substantially their entire width.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
18 for toboggans.
Subclass:
19.1
Shelter sled:
This subclass is indented under subclass 845. Runner
vehicles provided with means to convert the vehicle to an
occupant shelter for ice fishing or the like.
(1) Note. The sliding surface, in the form of runners, may
remain in place or the entire device may be reorganized.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
28.12 for situations in which the vehicle is used to shelter
ice fishing equipment only, in which case it is considered to
be a container.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
52, Static Structures (e.g. Buildings), for portable
buildings.
135, Tent, Canopy, Umbrella, or Cane, for tent shelters.
Subclass:
20
This subclass is indented under subclass 845. Sleds which
are foldable from their condition of use into a more compact
form, as for storage or shipment.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
9 for vehicles having wheels and runners, one or both being
retractable.
639 for folding wheeled vehicles.
Subclass:
21.1
Occupant steered:
This subclass is indented under subclass 845. Vehicles
having a single running gear unit arranged to be steered by
the occupant of the vehicle.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
16 for occupant steered sleds with multiple sliding running
gear units.
771 for occupant steered wheeled vehicles.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
188, Brakes, 8 for means for steering by altering the speed
of one side of the vehicle, as by a brake.
Subclass:
22
This subclass is indented under subclass 21.1. Sleds in
which the runners are hinged sections or of flexible
construction, so that they can be bent out of straight lines
to steer the vehicle.
Subclass:
22.1
Tiltable runner type:
This subclass is indented under subclass 21.1. Vehicles in
which a steering effect results from the rotation of the
runners about their longitudinal axes relative to the load or
occupant support platform.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
21.1 for runners which tilt as a result of a compound
rotation about an angular upright axis.
Subclass:
23.1
Push:
This subclass is indented under subclass 845. Vehicles
designed to be propelled by being pushed by a rear
attendant.
(1) Note. The sled may include a front load or occupant
seating platform and the rear attendant may ride on the rear
of the sled as it coasts.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
47.13 and 47.34+, for hand propelled wheeled vehicles.
87.021 for wheeled push vehicles.
Subclass:
24
This subclass is indented under subclass 845. Sleds provided
with means for attaching poles, shafts, or the like for draft
purposes.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
63 for a wheeled land vehicle normally traveling on two
wheels including a draft connection.
124.114 for running gear of a general utility wheeled land
vehicle including a rocking and swinging axle which may or
may not involve a draft connection.
124.12 for running gear of a general utility wheeled land
vehicle including a resilient, shock absorbing mounted
swinging axle having a draft connection.
137.501 for running gear of a general utility wheeled land
vehicle including a turnable axle having a draft connection,
noting the search notes provided therein for additional
relevant subclasses.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
278, Land Vehicles: Animal Draft Appliances, 52 for thrill
couplings for vehicles.
Subclass:
25
This subclass is indented under subclass 845. Sleds having
springs supporting the load-carrier.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
79 and see the search notes thereunder.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
267, Spring Devices, 2 for vehicle springs.
Subclass:
26
This subclass is indented under subclass 845. Sleds in which
the individual runners are mounted to rock longitudinally of
the vehicle.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
14 for hub mounted runners.
15 for multiple sleds.
Subclass:
27
This subclass is indented under subclass 845. Devices
comprising connecting members between the runner-base and the
load support.
Subclass:
28
This subclass is indented under subclass 845. Devices in
which the sliding portion of the runner is claimed.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
428, Stock Material or Miscellaneous Articles, 544 for a web
or sheet-stock material, e.g., of indefinite length, which is
all metal or has adjacent metal components.
Subclass:
28.11
With brake:
This subclass is indented under subclass 845. Vehicle
including a device to stop or retard the motion of the
vehicle.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
188, Brakes, appropriate subclasses for brakes, per se, with
no significant vehicle structure, and especially subclass 8
for ground engaging brakes.
Subclass:
28.12
Container type:
This subclass is indented under subclass 845. Vehicle where
the sliding surface or surfaces support a receptacle
container for nonoccupant loads.
Subclass:
28.13
Logging type sled:
This subclass is indented under subclass 845. Vehicles in
which a sliding running gear unit is attached to one end only
of the load to be transported.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
19 for drags having no particular sliding running gear
unit.
Subclass:
28.14
Central runner:
This subclass is indented under subclass 845. Vehicles
equipped with a central primary load carrying runner.
Subclass:
28.15
With auxiliary outrigger runner:
This subclass is indented under subclass 28.14. Vehicles
equipped with laterally mounted runners, in addition to the
central runner, for limiting tilting or assisting in
steering.
(1) Note. The laterally mounted runners are normally out of
engagement with the running surface.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
47.131 for a tiltable wheeled vehicle which is stabilized by
an article or an attendant.
Subclass:
28.16
Auxiliary top, bottom or side runners:
This subclass is indented under subclass 845. Vehicles
equipped with auxiliary runners in addition to the primary
running surface.
(1) Note. The vehicle is stable on its primary sliding
surface, the auxiliary runners being normally out of
engagement with the ground. The auxiliary runners may be
located laterally to prevent overturn, on the bottom to
provide additional support in loose snow or on top to enable
the vehicle to be inverted for use.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
28.14 for nonstable runner vehicles with a single central
runner.
755 for an attachment preventing rolling or tilting of a
general utility wheeled land vehicle past a given point.
Subclass:
28.17
Machinery sled:
This subclass is indented under subclass 845. Vehicle having
particular runner structure to support a machine or machine
parts collectively.
Subclass:
28.18
Tank or vacuum cleaner:
This subclass is indented under subclass 28.17. Vehicle
specifically for supporting vacuum cleaners or other
cylindrical container type devices.
Subclass:
28.5
This subclass is indented under the class definition.
Vehicles provided with supporting wheel substitutes to engage
the surface over which the vehicle moves.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
5.22 for a step or abutment ascending type vehicle provided
with an endless track.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
180, Motor Vehicles, subclass 164 for a motor vehicle
provided with means for creating a fluid force to attract the
vehicle to the surface upon which it travels; subclasses 116+
for a motor vehicle of the surface effect type; subclasses
180+ for a ski- or skate- type vehicle for imparting movement
to a person standing thereon; subclasses 182+ for a motor
vehicle which includes one or more ski-like or runner
members; and subclasses 7.1+ for a motor vehicle having a
special driving device. Class 180 takes all wheel substitute
vehicles, unless (1) a claim is drawn to a vehicle other than
a motor vehicle, or (2) the claimed vehicle is identified as
only a nonmotor vehicle in the specific disclosure, noting
(1) and (2) do not apply to the special suction and surface
effect vehicles.
305, Wheel Substitutes for Land Vehicles, for wheel
substitutes, per se. Class 305 takes patents claiming the
combination of a wheel substitute and a vehicle, if the
vehicle is only nominally recited in the claims. Expressions
such as a vehicle frame, an axle, a pivotal connection
between the vehicle frame and the wheel substitute are
considered mere nominal recitations of vehicle structure and
would be classified in Class 305 if the claim is otherwise
directed to a wheel substitute apparatus.
Subclass:
29
This subclass is indented under the class definition.
Vehicles provided with supporting-wheels to engage the
surface over which the vehicle moves.
(1) Note. See search notes under the class definition.
Subclass:
30
This subclass is indented under subclass 29. Vehicles which
are convertible from wheeled vehicles to nonvehicular
structures.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
5.2 for vehicles convertible into stair climbing devices.
6.15 for a general utility land vehicle including means,
interposed between the vehicle body, chassis, or frame and
running gear thereof, for altering height or levelness of the
vehicle body, chassis, or frame.
9 for a land vehicle provided with ground engaging means of
both wheel and runner construction wherein either the wheel
or the runner may be moved to an inoperative position,
leaving the other in position for use.
43 for a general utility wheeled land vehicle having
vertically adjustable wheels for the purpose of altering a
dimension of the vehicle or a part thereof.
Subclass:
31
This subclass is indented under subclass 30. Vehicles
convertible from wheeled vehicles to cradles or cribs where
the structure accomplishing the result is a part of or
attached to the vehicle.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
5, Beds, subclass 107 for rocking frames or rockers adapted
for attachment to the wheels of a child's carriage for this
purpose.
Subclass:
32
This subclass is indented under subclass 30. Vehicles
designed to be used as vehicles or to be inverted and used as
roller-skids.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
28.16 for a runner vehicle provided with auxiliary runner
structure which may be provided for an inverted usage of the
vehicle.
47.131 for article supports or dollies.
Subclass:
32.5
This subclass is indented under subclass 29. Vehicles
comprising (1) a support means such as a seat, body rest or
platform, for a person engaged in manual labor on or adjacent
the ground, or (2) a shade for such a person combined with a
load carrying means.
(1) Note. The person may drive or steer the vehicle in
addition to laboring adjacent the ground, but merely driving,
steering or riding on the vehicle is not within the subclass
definition.
(2) Note. The vehicles in the subclass are usually for
supporting or shading persons engaged in planting,
cultivating, harvesting, corn detasseling or the like. If a
tool is used it is one that is held in the hand.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
32.7 for a wheeled vehicle comprising a seat for attachment
to another vehicle.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
56, Harvesters, appropriate subclasses for harvesters
combined with worker's supports or shades.
111, Planting, 100 for plant setting machines having ground
working, plant handling or watering means with worker
supports.
135, Tent, Canopy, Umbrella, or Cane, 88.01 for wheeled
shades or canopies where neither the worker or any other load
is supported by the vehicle, and subclass 900 for worker
shelters.
172, Earth Working, 431 for an earth working apparatus with
a seat or attendant's station.
182, Fire Escape, Ladder, or Scaffold, subclass 129 for
nonwheeled workmen's supports (e.g., kneeling base type)
combined with receptacles (as for soap, brush, etc.), and
subclass 230 for the workman's support, per se. See the
search note in subclass 230 for the line with similar devices
used by nonworkers.
296, Land Vehicles: Bodies and Tops, 63 for land vehicle
bodies with seats where the body is modified to cooperate
with the seat.
297, Chairs and Seats, 184.1 for a chair or seat with a
canopy and subclasses 423.1+ for a chair or seat with a
kneeling stool.
414, Material or Article Handling, subclass 508 for a
self-loading or unloading vehicle having a conveyor for
loading or unloading it and a support for carrying a person
in working relation to the conveyor.
Subclass:
32.6
This subclass is indented under subclass 32.5. Vehicles
comprising low bed-like trucks adapted to support a repairman
while working under a device such as a vehicle.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
62 and 79.11, for platform type vehicles generally.
639 for folding vehicles generally, some of which are of the
platform type.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
5, Beds, 636 for head rest attachments for beds and also for
repairman's creepers when the body is claimed merely as a
support for the rest; subclass 417 for ground mats.
254, Implements of Apparatus for Applying Pushing or Pulling
Force, 2 for hoisting trucks.
Subclass:
32.7
This subclass is indented under subclass 29. Apparatus
comprising a wheeled vehicle having a seat or station adapted
to carry an operator or attendant and also adapted for
attachment to another vehicle (e.g., an agricultural
implement).
(1) Note. The wheeled vehicle must not carry any load other
than the operator and must not support any of the weight of
the implement when in operation.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
32.5 for a wheeled vehicle having a seat or station for a
workman engaged in manual labor on or adjacent to the
ground.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
172, Earth Working, subclass 433 for a significantly
claimed agricultural implement having a riding attachment.
Subclass:
33.991
Nesting vehicles:
This subclass is indented under subclass 29. Vehicles which
are constructed so that they will interfit with one another
to permit parts of one to be received partially within the
boundaries of another to produce a nesting relation.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
401 for an articulated vehicle wherein one section is
movable from a trailing position to a completely supported
position upon another section of the vehicle.
402 for a vehicle train wherein the trailing vehicle is
suspended upon the leading vehicle.
639 for vehicles which are adapted to be folded and stacked
in abutting relation without nesting.
Subclass:
33.992
Attachments or accessories:
This subclass is indented under subclass 33.991. Vehicles
provided with attachments or accessories such as special
handles, signs, load indicators, means to prevent theft,
writing pads or calculator holders, etc.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
40, Card, Picture, or Sign Exhibiting, subclass 308 for
basket carried indicia.
224, Package and Article Carriers, subclass 411 for an
article carrier attached to a shopping cart, where the
organization of the shopping cart is not changed.
Subclass:
33.993
Children's seat:
This subclass is indented under subclass 33.992. Vehicles
having attachments in the form of occupant supports.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
47.35 for stable vehicles with plural load supports, one of
which may be a seat.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
297, Chair and Seats, for seats, per se.
Subclass:
33.994
Brake or antitheft device:
This subclass is indented under subclass 33.992. Vehicles
having attachments which prevent theft of either the vehicle
or its contents, or to hold the vehicle stationary.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
16, Miscellaneous Hardware, appropriate subclasses for caster
locks.
70, Locks, appropriate subclasses for locks, per se.
188, Brakes, appropriate subclasses for brake structure, per
se, and braked casters.
Subclass:
33.995
With means facilitating unloading:
This subclass is indented under subclass 33.991. Vehicles
providing with perfecting features to facilitate the
unloading or removal of a basket or otherwise assist in
transferring purchased items to a checkout counter.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
186, Merchandizing, 62 for car accommodation or handling,
per se.
Subclass:
33.996
Pivoted load support:
This subclass is indented under subclass 33.991. Vehicles
provided with pivotally movable baskets or load supporting
structures useful to facilitate nesting.
(1) Note. This subclass is not intended to receive mere
pivoted walls.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
47.18 and 47.35, for other moveable load supports.
Subclass:
33.997
Load supporting frame:
This subclass is indented under subclass 33.991. Vehicles
having particular base structure between the running gear and
the load support.
(1) Note. Patents contained within this subclass are
restricted to those claiming novel base structure.
Subclass:
33.998
Vertically nestable or confined:
This subclass is indented under subclass 33.991. Vehicles in
which the nesting takes place in a vertical direction, or
where vehicles are arranged within, and supported by a lower
supporting vehicle.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
108, Horizontally Supported Planar Surfaces, subclass 91 for
vertically nesting horizontal supports.
206, Special Receptacle or Package, subclass 499 for nesting
containers.
Subclass:
35
This subclass is indented under subclass 638. Vehicles which
are adapted to support special articles and usually propelled
by pushing on the article itself.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
43.1 for a vehicle which is unstable when in transporting
position and has vertically adjustable ground engaging means
and which is stabilized by an attendant or an article to
which the vehicle is attached.
47.131 for article supports and dollies which are not
extensible.
Subclass:
37
This subclass is indented under subclass 639. Vehicles which
are foldable into the form of a traveling bag or case, the
wheels and other parts being inclosed therein.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
206, Special Receptacle or Package, subclass 335 for a
vehicle container.
Subclass:
38
This subclass is indented under subclass 639. Vehicles in
which the wheel-carriers swing on pivots when folding and
unfolding.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
9 for retracting wheels and runners for vehicles.
Subclass:
39
This subclass is indented under subclass 38. Vehicles in
which the axis of each wheel-carrier pivot is arranged
longitudinally of the vehicle.
Subclass:
40
This subclass is indented under subclass 39. Vehicles
normally traveling on two wheels.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
47.24 and 63+, for other two wheeled vehicles.
Subclass:
42
This subclass is indented under subclass 639. Vehicles which
in folding decrease their width, the wheels remaining in
vertical position.
Subclass:
43
This subclass is indented under subclass 638. Vehicle
comprising a running gear and wheel means, and means whereby
the wheel means may be selectively held in different
positions vertically relative to the running gear.
(1) Note. Running gear is defined as the structural
assembly connecting a wheel to a vehicle body, chassis, or
frame comprising an axle, control arm, link, shock absorber,
spring, strut, etc.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
5.5 for a vehicle including suspension modification enacted
as a result of a force encountered during travel, especially
subclass 5.514 where the modification provides a regulation
of riding or suspension height.
5.28 for adjustable running gear adapted to render a vehicle
capable of ascending a step or abutment.
6.15 for a vehicle including means, interposed between the
vehicle body, chassis or frame and running gear thereof, for
altering height or levelness of the vehicle body, chassis, or
frame, especially subclasses 6.157+ wherein the height or
levelness regulation is for the proximate utility of
positioning the vehicle body, chassis, or frame in a posture
to enable proper operation of the suspension mechanism.
83 for vertically adjustable tongue trucks.
86.5 for a general utility wheeled land vehicle including an
auxiliary axle assembly which is selectively deployed in
either a use or nonuse position so as to assist the primary
running gear when in the use position.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
15, Brushing, Scrubbing, and General Cleaning, 354 for a
vertically adjustable work contacting nozzle supporting
carriage for vacuum cleaners.
16, Miscellaneous Hardware, subclass 19 for vertically
adjustable casters used to support furniture or the like on a
floor.
56, Harvesters, 208 for platform adjustments for harvesters
involving vertically adjustable wheels.
111, Planting, 52 for vertically adjustable ground supports
for frames of drilling machines for planting operations.
171, Unearthing Plants or Buried Objects, subclass 139 for
unearthing apparatus having a frame and vertically adjustable
wheels.
172, Earth Working, 395 for devices comprising an earth
working element, a mounting frame therefor, and a vertically
adjustable ground support for said frame. The earth working
element must be separately mentioned in the body of the claim
for classification in Class 172. A claim merely to a frame
and relatively adjustable vertical wheels is classified in
Class 280 even if the device is identified as an earth
working implement in the claim preamble.
180, Motor Vehicles, subclass 24.02 for a motor vehicle
having a wheel arrangement comprising five or more wheels and
wherein one of the wheels is adjustably, or otherwise,
mounted to move vertically for the purpose of modifying the
proportion of the load imposed upon at least one other wheel
of the vehicle; and subclass 209 for a motor vehicle having a
special wheel base and provided with means which may comprise
means for changing the number of wheels utilized to support
the vehicle, which change may involve moving at least one of
the wheels vertically.
254, Implements or Apparatus for Applying Pushing or Pulling
Force, 2 for hoisting trucks. The devices comprise wheeled
hoists comprising a running gear and a load support and means
for vertically adjusting said load support other than a means
for vertically adjusting said load support by vertical
adjustment of the wheels relative to the running gear.
472, Amusement Devices, particularly subclass 15 for an
occupant propelled roundabout used as a trainer for foot
travel.
482, Exercise Devices, particularly 66 for an occupant
support frame having a movement facilitating feature for foot
travel.
Subclass:
43.1
This subclass is indented under subclass 43. Vehicle which
the vehicle directly or contacting (1) is inherently unstable
when in transport position but is stabilized by an attendant
who propels and balances the vehicle by contacting a handle
or harness attached to the vehicle, (2) is inherently
unstable when in transport position, is adapted to be
temporarily attached to articles to transport them and is
stabilized by some outside force (such as an attendant or
other vehicle) contacting the article, or (3) is inherently
unstable when in transport position but adapted to be
stabilized by temporary attachment to articles for
transporting them either because more than one of the
unstable vehicles of this subclass are temporarily attached
to the article or because the article has other wheels.
(1) Note. An attendant is a person who is not an occupant
of the vehicle under consideration.
(2) Note. A receptacle which is intended to be loaded or to
have portions of the load removed therefrom while associated
with the wheels of the unstable vehicle is considered to be a
part of the vehicle, i.e., a removable vehicle body, rather
than an article. An example, of such a receptacle is a golf
bag.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
35 for extensible article supports.
43.14 and 43.24, for nonwheel means engageable with the
ground when the wheels are raised vertically.
47.131 for tiltable vehicles not having vertically
adjustable wheels.
63 and 78, for other vehicles normally traveling on two
wheels and one wheel, respectively, and not stabilized by an
article or attendant.
107 for running gear provided with means for retaining a
vehicle body or load in position thereon.
179 for load binders as attachments to vehicles.
200 for occupant propelled vehicles stabilized by the
occupant, e.g., bicycles.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
190, Trunks and Hand-Carried Luggage, subclass 18 for the
combination of an article of baggage with transporting wheels
where more baggage structure is claimed than necessary to
mount or house the wheels.
Subclass:
43.11
This subclass is indented under subclass 43. Vehicle
comprising a load carrying surface and in which the highest
position of vertical adjustment of the wheel relative to the
vehicle is such that the wheel axis is above the carrying
surface.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
2 for a vehicle having a portion of its body or load
supporting framework depending between the vehicle axles to
form a part of the running gear.
6.151 for a vehicle including means, interposed between the
vehicle body, chassis, or frame and running gear thereof, for
altering height or levelness of the vehicle body, chassis, or
frame for the proximate utility of facilitating cargo
movement which may entail lowering the cargo support surface
below the usual running gear level.
47.23 for a handle propelled vehicle having its load base
below the wheel axis with no means to elevate the wheels.
414 for articulated vehicles constructed to accommodate a
boat.
Subclass:
43.12
This subclass is indented under subclass 43. Vehicle
comprising a load carrying surface and in which the highest
position of vertical adjustment of the wheel relative to the
vehicle is one in which the upper peripheral portion of the
wheel is substantially tangential to and is always below the
load carrying surface.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
108, Horizontally Supported Planar Surfaces, 51.11 for an
industrial platform.
Subclass:
43.13
This subclass is indented under subclass 43. Vehicle in
which a plurality of wheels are independently mounted on
different axles and there are additional means
interconnecting the wheels whereby they may be moved
simultaneously vertically with respect to the running gear or
so that the movement of one influences movement of the other,
and there is an actuator for moving a wheel.
(1) Note. A structure comprising a single axle having a
crank axle on each end with a wheel mounted on each crank
axle is not considered to be a structure having wheels
independently mounted on different axles.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
6.15 for a land vehicle including means, interposed between
the vehicle body, chassis, or frame and running gear thereof,
for altering height or levelness of the vehicle body,
chassis, or frame.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
172, Earth Working, 400 for interconnected vertically
movable ground supports for earth working element frames.
Subclass:
43.14
This subclass is indented under subclass 43.13. Vehicle
wherein the vertically adjustable wheels are replaced as a
support for the vehicle running gear by leg or skid means
when the wheels are vertically adjusted to a given position.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
43.1 for an unstable vehicle stabilized by an attendant or
an article.
43.24 for vehicles having vertically adjustable wheels and
nonwheel means for engaging the supporting surface when the
wheels are adjusted to a given position.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
16, Miscellaneous Hardware, 32 for casters for supporting
furniture or other like objects wherein the caster is
vertically adjustable to a position above the floor.
Subclass:
43.15
This subclass is indented under subclass 43.14. Vehicle
wherein the distance between any two vertically adjustable
wheels is varied as they are vertically adjusted.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
43.16 for wheeled vehicles having means for adjusting wheels
on different axles and having means to vary the distance
between the wheels as they are vertically adjusted.
Subclass:
43.16
This subclass is indented under subclass 43.13. Vehicle
wherein the distance between any two vertically adjustable
wheels is varied as they are vertically adjusted.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
43.15 for wheeled vehicles having means for adjusting wheels
on different axles and having nonwheel means for engaging the
vehicle supporting surface and means to vary the distance
between the wheels as they are vertically adjusted.
Subclass:
43.17
This subclass is indented under subclass 43. Vehicle
comprising actuating means to vertically move the wheel means
relative to the running gear.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
414.5 for an articulated vehicle wherein the trailing
vehicle has a ground engaging wheel which is vertically
movable with respect to the trailing vehicle frame.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
105, Railway Rolling Stock, 215.1 for a railway truck having
primary wheels and supplemental wheels to be moved to
operative position at will.
172, Earth Working, subclass 399, 400+, 407+, 414, 418+, and
423+ for an earth working element frame having a ground
support which is vertically movable relative to the frame by
an actuator.
254, Implements or Apparatus for Applying Pushing or Pulling
Force, 418 for raising and lowering landing gears on
semi-trailers and for lifting vehicles off the ground and/or
turning the vehicle about a given point.
Subclass:
43.18
This subclass is indented under subclass 43.17. Vehicle
comprising spring means to support a vehicle body on the
running gear.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
79 for a general utility wheeled land vehicle provided with
springs between the wheel or wheels and the load-support,
noting the search notes provided therein.
124.1 for a general utility wheeled land vehicle running
gear providing resilient, shock absorbing support for the
vehicle body, chassis, or frame.
275 for a wheeled land vehicle of occupant propelled type
including steering having a yielding frame and running gear
(it is noted that in accordance with the (2) Note of Class
280, subclass 200, motorcycle frames and running gear without
features causing classification in Class 180, Motor Vehicles,
are included in these subclasses).
283 for a wheeled land vehicle of occupant propelled type
including a yielding frame and running gear lacking
steering.
Subclass:
43.19
This subclass is indented under subclass 43.17. Vehicle in
which the actuating means includes a flexible member.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
172, Earth Working, subclass 414 for an earth working
element frame connected ground support which is vertically
adjustable relative to said frame by an actuator connected
thereto which allows free movement between the two in at
least one direction.
Subclass:
43.2
This subclass is indented under subclass 43.17. Vehicle
wherein the means causing actuation comprises a threaded stud
member whose threads engage the threads of a threaded nut
member.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
172, Earth Working, subclass 419 for an earth working
implement and frame having a ground engaging support which
may be caused to translate vertically relative to the frame
by means of a screw jack type actuator, and subclass 427 for
a screw jack type actuator to move the ground engaging
support of an earth working element frame vertically relative
to the frame.
Subclass:
43.21
This subclass is indented under subclass 43.17. Vehicle
wherein the actuating means comprises a rack member meshing
with a gear or engageable by a ratchet member.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
172, Earth Working, subclass 420 for rack and pinion or
ratchet type actuators for ground support members adapted to
move with a translating motion relative to the earth working
frame supported, and subclass 428 for rack and pinion or
ratchet actuators to move a ground support for an earth
working implement vertically relative to the implement
frame.
Subclass:
43.22
This subclass is indented under subclass 43.17. Vehicle in
which the motion caused by the actuator is such that all
points of the wheel means have at any instant the same
velocity and direction of motion.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
172, Earth Working, 415 for an earth working element frame
having a ground support which has a translating motion
relative to the frame when moving from one vertical position
to another.
Subclass:
43.23
This subclass is indented under subclass 43.17. Vehicle
wherein the actuating means is operated by a motor.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
172, Earth Working, 407 for an earth working element frame
connected ground support which is vertically adjustable by
power means.
Subclass:
43.24
This subclass is indented under subclass 43. Vehicle wherein
the vertically adjustable wheels are replaced as a support
for the vehicle running gear by leg or skid means when the
wheels are vertically adjusted to a given position.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
43.14 for vehicles having means interconnecting wheels on
different axles whereby the interconnected wheels are
vertically movable to a position where they are replaced as
the vehicle supporting means by a nonwheel means.
Subclass:
46
This subclass is indented under subclass 43. Vehicles in
which the elevating mechanism is operated by manipulation of
the vehicle-tongue.
Subclass:
47
This subclass is indented under subclass 43. Vehicles in
which power derived from the rolling motion of a ground wheel
as the vehicle is propelled over the ground is used to vary
the elevation of the wheel relative to the body.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
172, Earth working, subclass 402, 404 and 408+ for earth
working tools carried by frames which have wheels which are
vertically adjusted by power derived from the adjusted
wheels. The recitation of an earth working implement by name
only having a wheel which is vertically adjusted by its own
power is classifiable in Class 280, Land Vehicles.
Subclass:
47.1
This subclass is indented under subclass 29. Vehicles in
which the body, generally intended for occupation by a child,
is connected to its wheel support in such a manner that body
rocking will occur as the wheels rotate during travel.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
47.38 for other vehicles of the "Baby Carriage" type.
827 for simulating type velocipedes providing body rocking
during travel.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
446, Amusement Devices: Toys, 269 for a wheeled figure toy
having means to move a figure portion.
Subclass:
47.11
This subclass is indented under subclass 29. Vehicles
adapted to be propelled (pushed or pulled) by an attendant
who is not an occupant of the vehicle, generally by handle
means, provided with steerable wheel means and operating
mechanism therefor under control of the attendant to effect
positive steering movement of the wheel means relative to the
vehicle body, the controlling action by the attendant to
actuate said mechanism involving either (1) exertion of a
lateral thrust on the vehicle directly or by way of the
handle means when guiding the vehicle to make a turn, or (2)
manipulation of the handle or other means operatively
connected to said wheel operating mechanism.
(1) Note. Vehicles which are propelled and steered by
tongues or shafts connected to the running gear, not
disclosed or claimed for hand propulsion, are placed in the
subclass providing for the running gear structure involved.
(2) Note. Vehicles which are propelled and steered by
tongue or shaft means connected to the running gear, even if
disclosed for propulsion by a walking attendant, are not here
classified if the portion of the running gear to which said
means is connected comprises a wheel carrying frame or shaft
pivotally connected to the said body, so that upon lateral
swinging of the tongue or shaft means by the attendant the
wheel frame or wheel shaft will merely swing as a unit with
the tongue or shaft means about the pivotal connection, and
will not effect relative steering movements of any additional
wheel frame or shaft. In cases where the aforesaid wheel
carrying frame or shaft is operatively coupled to any of the
other wheel means of the running gear so as to cause the
latter to have steering movement relative to the body as
well, classification is in this subclass.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
79.11 for wheeled vehicles having separate unconnected
castering wheels to facilitate steering in response to a side
thrust.
87.01 for coaster vehicles having steering means.
98 for running gear of a general utility wheeled land
vehicle specially constructed so as to enable execution of
arcuate travel within a short radius of curvature (i.e.,
short turn).
124.12 for running gear of a general utility wheeled land
vehicle including a resilient, shock absorbing mounted
swinging axle having a draft connection neither disclosed or
claimed as a handle nor claimed in a combination of plural
interconnected vehicles (i.e., a vehicle train).
137.501 for running gear of a general utility wheeled land
vehicle including a turnable axle having a draft connection,
noting the search notes provided therein for additional
relevant subclasses.
442 for vehicle train draft devices adapted to effect
positive wheel steering.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
56, Harvesters, subclass 14.7 for a motor-driven harvester
steered by a walking attendant.
172, Earth Working, 256 for an earth working apparatus
comprising a propulsion unit guided by a walking attendant.
180, Motor Vehicles, 19 for motor vehicles steered by a
walking attendant.
Subclass:
47.12
This subclass is indented under subclass 29. Vehicles
provided with ground or ledge engaging rocker or fulcrum
means additional to the fulcrum formed by the traction wheels
on which the vehicle customarily travels about whose axis the
load body may normally be tilted.
(1) Note. Generally, rocking about the added fulcrum
results in the traction wheels being lifted from the ground
to place the vehicle in a load receiving or removing
position. Legs or other supports on which tiltable type
vehicles are rested when not propelled are not considered
fulcrums.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
5.32 for vehicles having fulcrums with wheel means to
facilitate movement on steps or similar obstructions.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
248, Supports, subclass 129 for wheeled receptacle stands
having special provisions for supporting and holding a
receptacle in position for use, storage, display or for
manipulating the same, in which wheels are provided to make
it more readily movable.
414, Material or Article Handling, 444 for similar vehicles
having self-loading features.
Subclass:
47.131
Tiltable vehicles, stabilized by attendant or article:
This subclass is indented under subclass 29. Vehicles which
(a) are inherently unstable when in transport position but
are stabilized by an attendant who propels and balances the
vehicle by contacting the vehicle directly or contacting a
handle or harness attached to the vehicle, (b) are inherently
unstable when in transport position, are adapted to be
temporarily attached to articles to transport them and are
stabilized by some outside force (such as an attendant or
other vehicle) contacting the article, or (c) are inherently
unstable when in transport position but adapted to be
stabilized by temporary attachment to articles for
transporting them either because the articles has other
wheels or because more than one of the unstable vehicles of
this subclass are temporarily attached to the article.
(1) Note. An attendant is a person who is not an occupant
of the vehicle under consideration.
(2) Note. A receptacle which is intended to be loaded or to
have portions of the load removed therefrom while associated
with the wheels of the unstable vehicle is considered to be a
part of the vehicle, i.e., a removable vehicle body, rather
than an article. An example, of such a receptacle is a golf
bag.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
35 for extensible article supports.
43.1 for a vehicle having vertically adjustable ground
engaging means and which is unstable when in transporting
position but which is stabilized by an attendant or an
article to which the vehicle is temporarily attached.
63 and 78, for other vehicles normally traveling on two
wheels and one wheel respectively and not stabilized by an
article or attendant.
107 for running gear provided with means for retaining a
vehicle body or load in position thereon.
200 for occupant propelled vehicles stabilized by the
occupant, e.g. bicycles.
Subclass:
47.15
This subclass is indented under subclass 47.131. Vehicles
which are constructed (1) for attachment to a vehicle axle
and/or to the spring means suspending said axle whereby a
damaged vehicle may be moved to a desired place, or (2) for
temporary attachment to a machine comprising a shaft having
ground working or other tools thereon whereby such machine
may be wheeled from place to place.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
56, Harvesters, subclass 228 for transporting attachments
for harvesters.
254, Implements or Apparatus for Applying Pushing or Pulling
Force, 2 for hoisting trucks, and subclasses 418+ for
continuously attached vehicle jacks.
Subclass:
47.16
This subclass is indented under subclass 47.131. Vehicles
which may be tiltably balanced by an attendant to either side
of an intermediate wheel axis, and provided with wheel means
adjacent each end spaced from the ground while the vehicle is
being balanced which serve as stabilizing wheel means on
which the carrier may rest or travel when the load body is
tilted sufficiently to engage the wheel means at the one end
or the other with the ground.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
47.2 for handle propelled vehicles with auxiliary wheel
means to selectively provide a tiltable or stable type load
body.
Subclass:
47.17
This subclass is indented under subclass 47.131. Vehicles
provided with handle means by which an attendant may apply a
propelling force thereto.
(1) Note. Vehicles which are propelled by tongue or shaft
means connected to running gear or body, if not disclosed or
claimed for hand propulsion, are placed in the subclass
providing for the running gear structure involved.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
47.34 for handle-propelled vehicles which are stable and not
ordinarily balanced against tilting by the attendant during
propulsion.
63 and 78, for tiltable load carriers, some having tongues
or shafts connected to the running gear but not stabilized by
an article or attendant.
124.12 for running gear of a general utility wheeled land
vehicle including a resilient, shock absorbing mounted
swinging axle having a draft connection not disclosed or
claimed as a handle.
137.501 for running gear of a general utility wheeled land
vehicle including a turnable axle having a draft connection,
noting the search notes provided therein for additional
relevant subclasses.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
16, Miscellaneous Hardware, 110.1 and see the Notes
thereunder for vehicle handle structures, per se.
172, Earth Working, 329 for earth working apparatus guided
or propelled by a walking attendant.
Subclass:
47.18
This subclass is indented under subclass 47.17. Vehicles in
which parts thereof (1) are adapted to be manipulated to
convert the same to or from a wheeled device other than one
intended for transporting a load, e.g., the frame of a
lawnmower, (2) in which the body comprises a plurality of
different type load carrying portions each of which may be
moved selectively to an operative transporting position, or
(3) in which parts of the load body may be manipulated or
detached to form load carrying bodies of different characters
for transporting different types of loads.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
1.188 and 7.1+, for convertible velocipede type vehicles.
30 for vehicles convertible to nonvehicular structures.
47.28 for vehicles with selectively usable loading toes or
racks.
638 for vehicles whose over-all dimensions may be varied
substantially.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
296, Land Vehicles: Bodies and Tops, 10 for convertible
load bodies, per se.
Subclass:
47.19
This subclass is indented under subclass 47.17. Vehicles
provided with plural simultaneously usable distinct load
supports which may take the form of plural platforms,
receptacles, compartments or seats, or combinations thereof.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
47.35 for similar plural load supports for stable
handle-propelled vehicles.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
211, Supports: Racks, appropriate subclasses for portable
rack type supports for plural articles.
Subclass:
47.2
This subclass is indented under subclass 47.17. Vehicles
provided with auxiliary wheel means so positioned or mounted
as to be selectively brought into ground engagement to render
the vehicle stable.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
5.32 for stair or other obstruction climbing vehicles having
fulcrums with wheel means about which the vehicle may be
tilted.
47.16 for vehicles tiltable to either side of an
intermediate wheel axis to selectively bring into ground
engagement auxiliary stabilizing wheel means at either end.
767 for other auxiliary wheels for vehicles.
Subclass:
47.21
This subclass is indented under subclass 47.17. Vehicles in
which the axle or axles about which the body is tiltable are
shiftable or adjustable to vary the axle and wheel position
relative to the body or to the center of gravity of its load,
either to facilitate loading or transporting the load.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
6.151 for a vehicle including means, interposed between the
vehicle body, chassis, or frame and running gear thereof, for
altering height or levelness of the vehicle body, chassis, or
frame for the proximate utility of facilitating cargo
movement.
43 for wheels adjustable to vary the elevation of the load
frame.
47.16 and 47.2, for vehicles with auxiliary wheels shiftable
to and from a ground engaging position to provide alternate
wheel bases.
Subclass:
47.22
This subclass is indented under subclass 47.21. Vehicles in
which relative shifting of the axle or axles occurs because
of the presence of a spring.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
65 79 and 87.03, for similar springing between wheel or
wheels and the load-support.
Subclass:
47.23
This subclass is indented under subclass 47.17. Vehicles in
which a portion or all of the load supporting base of the
frame or vehicle body is either suspended from the axle means
or otherwise disposed below the wheel axis, as for example by
support in the bight of a "U-shaped" or "drop" axle. The
load base or body portion must be positioned below a
horizontal plane including the wheel axis at all times in
normal use of the carrier, both when the carrier is at rest
and in transporting position.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
2 for similar body and wheel axis relations in vehicles
which are not article or attendant stabilized or handle
propelled.
6.151 for a vehicle including means, interposed between the
vehicle body, chassis, or frame and running gear thereof, for
altering height or levelness of the vehicle body, chassis, or
frame for the proximate utility of facilitating cargo
movement which may entail lowering the cargo support surface
below the usual running gear level.
43.11 for a vehicle having a vertically adjustable wheel the
axis of which may be moved to a position above the load
carrying surface of the vehicle.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
296, Land Vehicles: Bodies and Tops, subclass 25 for bodies
with dropped bottoms.
Subclass:
47.24
This subclass is indented under subclass 47.17. Vehicles
which have wheels spaced apart in a direction laterally of
the direction of movement of the vehicle.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
63 for other vehicles normally traveling on two wheels and
not stabilized by an article or attendant.
Subclass:
47.25
This subclass is indented under subclass 47.24. Vehicles
with a single seat for an occupant.
(1) Note. Most of the patents in this subclass comprise
children's carts.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
32.5 for vehicles supporting workers adjacent to the
ground.
47.19 for tiltable vehicles with plural seats.
47.35 for stable hand propelled vehicles with plural seats.
47.38 for stable hand propelled vehicles with a single
seat.
Subclass:
47.26
This subclass is indented under subclass 47.24. Vehicles
comprising a container which acts as a body for the vehicle.
(1) Note. The container of this subclass is intended to be
loaded while associated with the wheels to form a vehicle.
(2) Note. A golf bag attached to a wheeled frame is
considered to be a receptacle body type vehicle.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
79.2 for platform type trucks with receptacle-type bodies.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
248, Supports, subclass 96 for supports adapted to be
secured to and/or support a golf bag, and subclass 98 for bag
supports having wheels.
298, Land Vehicles: Dumping, 2 and 5+ for this type vehicle
provided with receptacle bodies movable relative to the
vehicle frame to facilitate dumping or for vehicles provided
with bodies having a gate or cover adapted to be actuated in
connection with the dumping operation.
Subclass:
47.27
This subclass is indented under subclass 47.24. Vehicles
having means usually referred to as a toe, extending from the
lower part of the vehicle frame at an angle relative thereto
to form a projecting load engaging or load stop part which is
adapted, when the vehicle frame is tilted to a loading
position, to engage or be brought closely to the surface on
which the vehicle travels so as to enable said part to be
pushed beneath a load to facilitate manual lifting and
tilting of the load about the axis of the wheels.
(1) Note. Most of the patents in this and the indented
subclasses comprise vehicles of the well known "Warehouse
Truck" type.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
414, Material or Article Handling, 444 for similar devices
having additional load engaging means, as a clamp or tie, as
distinguished from a mere load supporting toe in the form of
a platform, spade or the like, for taking hold of the load to
facilitate the picking up and transporting of the load
Subclass:
47.28
This subclass is indented under subclass 47.27. Vehicles
which are provided with an auxiliary toe, shelf or rack means
which is positioned adjacent to the main toe and movably
related thereto.
Subclass:
47.29
This subclass is indented under subclass 47.27. Vehicles in
which the toe means is adjustable or otherwise movable
relative to the frame on which it is mounted.
Subclass:
47.3
This subclass is indented under subclass 47.17. Vehicles
which are disclosed as having only a single wheel or roller.
(1) Note. A plurality of single wheel vehicles secured to
an article may be classified in this subclass, provided at
least one vehicle has a propelling handle.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
47.32 and 78, for other one wheeled vehicles of this class.
Subclass:
47.31
This subclass is indented under subclass 47.3. Vehicles
providing a receptacle body.
(1) Note. Most of the vehicles in this subclass are
wheelbarrows.
(2) Note. A golf bag attached to a vehicle is considered a
receptacle body.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
47.23 for vehicles of this type with a portion or all of the
receptacle body below the level of the wheel axis at all
times in the normal use of the vehicle.
47.26 for handle propelled receptacle body vehicles with
laterally spaced wheels.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
298, Land Vehicles: Dumping, subclass 3 for dumping
vehicles having one wheel.
Subclass:
47.315
Adjustable handle:
This subclass is indented under subclass 47.17. Vehicles
where the handle may be moved selectively between different
use positions.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
655.1 for an extensible vehicle wherein only a handle member
thereof is collapsible.
Subclass:
47.32
This subclass is indented under subclass 47.131. Vehicles
which are provided with only a single wheel or roller.
(1) Note. A plurality of the vehicles of this subclass may
be used to transport an article.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
78 for one wheel vehicles not stabilized by an article or
attendant.
Subclass:
47.33
This subclass is indented under subclass 47.131. Vehicles
having leg structures for supporting them in rest position.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
293 for attachments to an occupant propelled-type wheeled
land vehicle (it is noted that in accordance with the (2)
Note of Class 280, subclass 200, motorcycle frames and
running gear, without features causing classification in
Class 180, Motor Vehicles, are included in these
subclasses).
763.1 for attachments to a general utility wheeled land
vehicle providing auxiliary ground support when the vehicle
is in a rest condition.
Subclass:
47.331
Boat carrier:
This subclass is indented under subclass 47.131. Vehicles in
the form of an attachment to a boat to facilitate its
transportation over land.
(1) Note. Attachments with mere nominal recitation of boat
structure, necessary only to associate the attachment to the
boat should be classified here. If significant boat
structure is claimed and necessary, as where the wheel will
remain with the boat after launching, then proper
classification is in Class 114.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
414.2 where the attached devices include means to form an
articulated vehicle, such as by the inclusion of a trailer
tongue.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
114, Ships, subclass 344 for wheeled attachment which remain
with the boat and in which the attachment pierces or
otherwise cooperates with specifically formed boat structure,
and where the attachment includes flotation devices to
facilitate handling in the water.
244, Aeronautics, subclass 101 for landing gear attached to
seaplanes where significant plane structure is claimed.
Subclass:
47.34
This subclass is indented under subclass 29. Vehicles which
are stable when travelling and specially characterized as
being provided with a handle means whereby the vehicle may be
propelled by an attendant.
(1) Note. Vehicles with tongues or shafts not disclosed or
claimed for hand propulsion are placed in the subclass
providing for the running gear structure involved.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
33.991 for interfitting or nesting vehicles which may or may
not include a handle.
47.11 for a general utility wheeled land vehicle including
wheel steering by an attendant wherein the wheel steering
affects other than a mere swinging axle.
47.17 for handle propelled unstable vehicles stabilized by
an article or attendant.
124.12 for running gear of a general utility wheeled land
vehicle including a resilient, shock absorbing mounted
swinging axle having a draft connection neither disclosed or
claimed as a handle nor claimed in a combination of plural
interconnected vehicles (i.e., a vehicle train).
137.501 for running gear of a general utility wheeled land
vehicle including a turnable axle having a draft connection,
noting the search notes provided therein for additional
relevant subclasses.
400 for an articulated vehicle or plural interconnected
vehicles (i.e., vehicle train) which may or may not include a
handle.
655.1 for an extensible vehicle wherein only a handle member
thereof is collapsible.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
16, Miscellaneous Hardware, 110.1, and see the Notes
thereunder for vehicle handles, per se.
172, Earth Working, 329 for earth working apparatus guided
or propelled by a walking attendant.
Subclass:
47.35
This subclass is indented under subclass 47.34. Vehicles
provided with plural simultaneously usable distinct load
supports which may be in the form of plural platforms,
receptacles, compartments or seats, or combinations thereof.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
47.19 for plural load supports on handle propelled vehicles
stabilized by an article or attendant.
79.2 for plural load supports on vehicles having bracketed
type or nonsuspended axles.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
211, Supports: Racks, appropriate subclasses for portable
rack type supports for plural articles.
Subclass:
47.36
This subclass is indented under subclass 47.34. Vehicles in
which the handle is specially adapted to be shiftable to a
position at either end.
Subclass:
47.371
Adjustable handle:
This subclass is indented under subclass 47.34. Vehicles
where the handle may be moved selectively to different use
positions.
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47.36 for reversible handles on stable vehicles for use at
either end of the vehicle.
47.315 for adjustable handles on tilting vehicles.
655.1 for handles folded out of the way so as to change the
vehicle to a nonuse configuration.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
16, Miscellaneous Hardware, subclass 429 for adjustable
handles, per se.
56, Harvesters, Digest 18 for adjustable handles in
combination with a harvester device such as a lawn mower.
Subclass:
47.38
This subclass is indented under subclass 47.34. Vehicles
provided with means for seating occupants, the vehicles in
this and the indented subclasses being usually of the "Baby
Carriage" type.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
32.5 for vehicles seating workers near the ground.
47.19 for tiltable vehicles with plural seats or a single
seat and a load support.
47.25 for tiltable vehicles with a single seat.
47.35 for stable, handle propelled vehicles with plural
seats or a single seat and a load support.
62 63+ and 79, for occupant carrying vehicles having running
gear as specified in the respective subclasses in which
either no handle is provided or tongues and shafts for other
than hand propulsions are disclosed.
87.01 for coasters.
639 for extensible vehicles including baby carriages of the
folding type.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
180, Motor Vehicles, subclass 166 for a vehicle in the
nature of a wheeled infant carriage or crib having motor
means for moving it back and forth in the direction of its
longitudinal axis (e.g., for inducing the infant
to sleep); if used alternatively to transport the infant from
one place to another, the vehicle ordinarily is propelled by
an attendant.
296, Land Vehicles: Bodies and Tops, appropriate subclasses
for vehicle bodies where no running gear is claimed or where
the running gear is claimed by name only and where no
propulsion handle is claimed.
Subclass:
47.39
This subclass is indented under subclass 47.38. Vehicles in
which the body is mounted to be reversible end for end.
Subclass:
47.4
This subclass is indented under subclass 47.38. Vehicles in
which a back or foot rest or both are specially modified in
connection with the seating means, and generally provide for
relative adjustment whereby the occupant may be selectively
accommodated in either a lying or sitting position.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
31 for vehicles convertible to cribs or cradles.
Subclass:
47.41
This subclass is indented under subclass 47.38. Vehicles in
which the body is supported by means, generally springs,
either directly connected to the wheel axle means or
connected to members attached thereto, whereby the body may
have movement relative to the wheels.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
79 and see the search notes thereunder, for vehicles with
springs.
Subclass:
62
This subclass is indented under subclass 29. Vehicles
normally traveling on three wheels.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
47.34 for stable hand propelled vehicles which may be
provided with three wheels.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
180, Motor Vehicles, 210 for a motor vehicle having a wheel
arrangement comprising three wheels.
Subclass:
63
This subclass is indented under subclass 29. Vehicles
normally traveling on two wheels.
(1) Note. "Sulkies" and "gigs" are included in this group.
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40 and 47.131+, for other two wheeled vehicles.
43.1 for a vehicle having vertically adjustable ground
engaging means and which is unstable when in transporting
position but which is stabilized by an attendant or an
article to which the vehicle is temporarily attached.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
180, Motor Vehicles, 218 for a motor vehicle having a wheel
arrangement comprising two wheels.
Subclass:
64
This subclass is indented under subclass 63. Vehicles in
which the wheels are adjustable during the vehicle travel,
usually to turn or to "bank" them on curves.
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5.52 for a land vehicle including a suspension responsive to
a force encountered while the vehicle is in surface
traversing motion for altering a spatial relationship between
structural elements of the running gear which may or may not
involve wheel banking.
98 for vehicles running gear especially constructed for
short turning.
200 for an occupant propelled-type wheeled land vehicle
which may or may not involve wheel banking (it is noted that
in accordance with the (2) Note of Class 280, subclass 200,
motorcycle frames and running gear, without features causing
classification in Class 180, Motor Vehicles, are included in
these subclasses).
771 for occupant steered vehicles.
Subclass:
65
This subclass is indented under subclass 63. Vehicles
provided with springs between the wheels and the
load-carrier.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
79 and see search notes thereto.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
267, Spring Devices, appropriate subclasses, for vehicle
spring devices, per se.
Subclass:
66
This subclass is indented under subclass 65. Vehicles in
which the thills are connected to the axle.
Subclass:
67
This subclass is indented under subclass 66. Vehicles in
which the spring is interposed between the axle and thill.
Subclass:
68
This subclass is indented under subclass 67. Vehicles in
which the vehicle load-carrier is supported solely by the
thills.
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70 for vehicles with thill mounted body but no interposed
spring.
Subclass:
69
This subclass is indented under subclass 67. Vehicles in
which the vehicle load-carrier is supported solely by the
axle.
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72 for vehicles with axle mounted body but no interposed
spring.
Subclass:
70
This subclass is indented under subclass 66. Vehicles in
which the vehicle load-carrier is supported solely by the
thills.
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68 for similar vehicles having a spring interposed between
the thill and axle.
Subclass:
71
This subclass is indented under subclass 70. Vehicles
provided with adjustments to accommodate various loads or
draft-animals.
Subclass:
72
This subclass is indented under subclass 66. Vehicles in
which the vehicle load-carrier is supported solely by the
axle.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
69 for similar vehicles having a spring interposed between
the thill and axle.
Subclass:
73
This subclass is indented under subclass 72. Vehicles
provided with adjustments to accommodate various loads or
draft-animals.
Subclass:
74
This subclass is indented under subclass 66. Vehicles
provided with adjustments to accommodate various loads or
draft-animals.
Subclass:
75
This subclass is indented under subclass 65. Vehicles in
which the thills are attached to and the draft is exerted
through the vehicle-body.
Subclass:
76
This subclass is indented under subclass 75. Vehicles
provided with adjustments to accommodate various loads or
draft-animals.
Subclass:
77
This subclass is indented under subclass 65. Vehicles
provided with adjustments to accommodate various loads or
draft-animals.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
71 73, 74, and 76, for other vehicle adjustments for various
loads or draft animals.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
278, Land Vehicles: Animal Draft Appliances, subclass 1 for
vehicles where the adjustment is solely in the thills or
their attachment to the vehicle.
Subclass:
78
This subclass is indented under subclass 29. Vehicles
normally traveling on one wheel.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
43.1 for a vehicle having vertically adjustable ground
engaging means and which is unstable when in transporting
position but which is stabilized by an attendant or an
article to which the vehicle is temporarily attached.
47.3 47.32 and 205+, for other one wheel vehicles.
84 for one wheel tongue trucks.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
180, Motor Vehicles, subclass 13 for one wheel motor
carrying attachments for vehicles.
Subclass:
79
This subclass is indented under subclass 29. Vehicles
provided with springs between the wheel or wheels and the
load-support.
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11.14 for skates with resilient foot supports.
11.28 for skates with resilient trucks and mountings.
25 for sleds with springs.
47.22 for tiltable handle propelled vehicles with spring
suspension.
47.41 for stable handle propelled occupant seating type with
springs.
65 for two wheel vehicles having springs.
80.1 for particular wheeled land vehicle running gear
construction. Attention is directed to subclass 86.1 for a
swivel truck resiliently supported upon the vehicle;
subclasses 124.1+ for resilient, shock absorbing suspension
arrangements in general; subclasses 676+ for tandem axle
suspensions; or subclasses 781+ for a wheeled land vehicle
including specific frame construction and its running gear.
87.03 for yieldable occupant pushed coasters.
184 for spring clamp rein holders.
275 for a wheeled land vehicle of occupant propelled type
including steering having a yielding frame and running gear
(it is noted that in accordance with the (2) Note of Class
280, subclass 200, motorcycle frames and running gear,
without features causing classification in Class 180, Motor
Vehicles, are included in these subclasses).
283 for a wheeled land vehicle of occupant propelled type
including a yielding frame and running gear lacking
steering.
483 for resilient draft devices for vehicle trains.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
267, Spring Devices, appropriate subclasses, for vehicle
spring devices, per se.
Subclass:
79.11
Body with bracketed-type or nonsuspended axles (e.g.,
platform type):
This subclass is indented under subclass 29. Vehicles in
which (a) each wheel axle is attached to a platform or other
type body solely by means of a bracket type support, or in
which (b) each axle or axle bearing is secured directly to
the body itself, without the interposition of shock
absorbers.
(1) Note. Vehicles having platform type bodies and
generally known as "Baggage" trucks are found in this
subclass.
(2) Note. Patents in this subclass must have some positive
inclusion of specialized body structure so as to receive and
transport a load as a vehicle. The primary function of the
claimed device must be transporting as opposed to merely
supporting.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
32.6 for repairmen's creepers.
47.11 for an attendant steered wheeled land vehicle for
other than a mere swinging axle.
47.34 for stable load supporting vehicles which are handle
propelled.
47.131 for unstable bodies, which when supporting a load
become stable.
62 63+ and 78, for similar vehicles restricted to the running
gear respectively specified.
80.1 for particular wheeled land vehicle construction
directed to that portion immediately concerned with enabling
the wheeled land vehicle to move along the surface.
Attention is directed to subclass 86.1 for a swivel truck
resiliently supported upon the vehicle; subclasses 124.1+ for
resilient, shock absorbing suspension arrangements in
general; subclasses 676+ for tandem axle suspensions; or
subclasses 781+ for a wheeled land vehicle including specific
frame construction and its running gear.
87.01 for "coaster" vehicles with similar running gear
attachments, most of which have tongues or shafts.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
16, Miscellaneous Hardware, 18 for casters, per se.
108, Horizontally Supported Planar Surfaces, 51.11 for
pallets.
211, Supports: Racks, 134 for shelved racks.
Subclass:
79.2
This subclass is indented under subclass 79.11. Vehicles in
which the body is in the form of a container or for occupant
seating.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
47.38 for handle propelled occupant seating vehicles, and
see the search notes thereto.
Subclass:
79.3
This subclass is indented under subclass 79.11. Vehicles in
which the body is of the open upright frame type, usually
providing a load support in the form of brackets, racks,
shelves or trays.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
47.19 and 47.35, for plural load support handle propelled
vehicles.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
108, Horizontally Supported Planar Surfaces, appropriate
subclasses for a horizontal planar support having plural or
single surfaces which may be provided with wheels or casters
to render it incidentally movable.
211, Supports: Racks, appropriate subclasses for open or
rack type structures per se, which may have wheels to render
them incidentally movable.
296, Land Vehicles: Bodies and Tops, 3 for rack type
vehicle bodies for special loads.
Subclass:
79.4
Wheel or tire support body:
This subclass is indented under subclass 79.11. Vehicles
with attachments or particular body structure configured to
support the tire or wheel of another vehicle.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
402 for a vehicle train wherein a trailing vehicle is
supported upon the leading vehicle including structure
configured to support the tire or wheel of the supported,
trailing vehicle.
476.1 for a wheeled draft connection interconnecting plural
wheeled land vehicles.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
254, Implements or Apparatus for Applying Pushing or Pulling
Force, subclass 28 for wheel lifters.
414, Material or Article Handling, 426 for wheel handlers
which include some manipulation of the wheel in addition to
mere transport.
Subclass:
79.5
Bucket or can support body:
This subclass is indented under subclass 79.11. Vehicles
which include attachments or specifically shaped body
structure for carrying cylindrical objects with their axis
extending vertically.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
248, Supports, 95 for can supports and bag holders.
Subclass:
79.6
Cylindrical objects with elongated horizontal axis support
body:
This subclass is indented under subclass 79.11. Vehicles
which include attachments or specifically shaped body
structure for receiving cylindrical objects with their axis
horizontally.
(1) Note. This subclass includes wheeled cradles for rugs
and other roll goods.
Subclass:
79.7
Vertically elongated rectangular object support body:
This subclass is indented under subclass 79.11. Vehicles
which include attachments or specifically shaped body
structure for receiving panels and other sheet goods, or
other rectangular objects of little thickness, on their
sides.
Subclass:
80.1
Running gear:
This subclass is indented under subclass 29. Vehicles with
special reference to that portion of the vehicle which is
immediately concerned in enabling it to be moved along the
surface.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
93.512 for a kingpin, steering knuckle, steering arm, or
wheel carrier construction for an occupant controlled
steerable road wheel comprising a stub axle.
124.1 for resilient, shock absorbing suspension arrangements
in general.
274 for a wheeled land vehicle of occupant propelled type
including steering having a frame and running gear (it is
noted that in accordance with the (2) Note of Class 280,
subclass 200, motorcycle frames and running gear, without
features causing classification in Class 180, Motor Vehicles,
are included in these subclasses).
281.1 for a wheeled land vehicle of occupant propelled type
including a frame and running gear lacking steering.
419 for a vehicle train wherein each of the interconnected
vehicles includes steerable wheels and a steering means
connection is provided therebetween for simultaneous movement
of the relative steerable wheels.
426 for an articulated vehicle of semitrailer construction
wherein the trailer includes steerable wheels which are
controlled through the articulative movement between the
tractor and the semitrailer.
442 for a vehicle train including steerable wheels of other
than a mere swinging axle.
676 for tandem axle suspensions.
781 for a wheeled land vehicle including specific frame
construction and its running gear.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
152, Resilient Tires and Wheels, 1 for resilient wheels.
172, Earth Working, 669 and the subclasses there cited, for
earth working apparatus with a wheel frame.
180, Motor Vehicles, 21 for motor vehicles with special
wheel base.
301, Land Vehicles: Wheels and Axles, for wheeled and
nonwheeled implement frames.
305, Wheel Substitutes for Land Vehicles, for wheel
substitutes.
Subclass:
81.1
Multiple truck:
This subclass is indented under subclass 80.1. Vehicles
having running gear composed of a plurality of sets of
supporting wheels, the wheels of each set being so mounted as
to constitute a substantially complete running gear unit.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
180, Motor Vehicles, 22 for motor vehicles which have wheel
bases comprising five or more wheels.
Subclass:
81.5
This subclass is indented under subclass 81.1. Vehicles
provided with means for steering the vehicle by the
occupant.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
771 for occupant steered vehicles.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
180, Motor Vehicles, 400 for motor vehicle steering
devices.
Subclass:
81.6
Self-steered trucks:
This subclass is indented under subclass 81.1. Vehicles in
which the steering occurs in response to a deviation of the
body from movement in a straight line to permit the trucks to
turn for proper tracking.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
442 for devices wherein the steering is due to an
articulative linkage.
Subclass:
82
This subclass is indented under subclass 80.1. Devices
specially adapted to support and guide the tongue of a
vehicle.
(1) Note. These trucks are usually used for the tongue of
such agricultural machinery as harvesters to eliminate "side
draft."
Subclass:
83
This subclass is indented under subclass 82. Devices which
are adjustable to vary the height of the tongue.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
43 and see the notes thereto.
Subclass:
84
This subclass is indented under subclass 82. Devices
normally traveling on one wheel.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
78 and see the notes thereto.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
16, Miscellaneous Hardware, 18 for casters.
384, Bearings, 428 for bearing mounting, or supports.
Subclass:
85
This subclass is indented under subclass 82. Devices in
which the axle is mounted for pivotal swinging movement about
a vertical axis and rocking movement about a horizontal axis
normal to its length.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
124.114 for a general utility wheeled land vehicle having a
pivotally mounted axle or axle assembly having horizontal
rocking and vertical swinging motion.
Subclass:
86
This subclass is indented under subclass 80.1. Vehicle in
which a wheel or plural wheels are rotatably mounted upon an
axle supported at both ends by a bracket or framing which is
attached to the vehicle body, chassis, or frame about a
vertical pivot axis for free pivotal motion.
(1) Note. An apparatus including means for creating pivotal
motion for steering purposes is excluded from this subclass
and the subclasses indented hereunder.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
81.1 for running gear comprising multiple trucks.
82 for a swivel truck specifically provided to support and
guide a draft connection or tongue of a vehicle.
93.504 for a general utility wheeled land vehicle including
occupant controlled steering of a swinging axle.
124.117 for a general utility wheeled land vehicle including
a vertical pivot axis mounted axle or axle assembly having
resilient, shock absorbing means.
137.5 for a general utility wheeled land vehicle including a
turnable axle lacking resilient, shock absorbing means.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
16, Miscellaneous Hardware, 18 for casters.
Subclass:
86.1
Including resilient mounting:
This subclass is indented under subclass 86. Subject matter
wherein the swivel truck is resiliently supported to the
vehicle body, chassis, or frame.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
79 for a vehicle including a spring interposed between the
wheel or wheels and the load-support, noting the search notes
provided thereunder for other relevant subclasses.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
16, Miscellaneous Hardware, subclass 44 for spring supported
casters.
Subclass:
86.5
Auxiliary axle assembly (e.g., lift or tag axle):
This subclass is indented under subclass 80.1. Subject
matter wherein the vehicle includes a selectively employed
supplemental running gear unit to assist primary running gear
units when transporting an extra heavy or oversize load.
(1) Note. The supplemental running gear unit must be
movable between a use and nonuse position upon the vehicle,
not merely an additional running gear unit such as commonly
known tandem axles or wheels.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
6.157 for a vehicle suspension provided with means for
establishing riding or trim height which may or may not
involve the deployment of an auxiliary axle.
9 for a vehicle having both a wheel and runner provided with
means for moving either the wheel or runner to an inoperative
position.
28.16 for a runner equipped vehicle provided with an
auxiliary runner structure.
104 for a vehicle provided with means for transmitting
weight from the running gear to the wheels on different axles
in substantially equal proportion regardless of inequalities
of the travelled surface. Conventionally known tandem axle
and wheel arrangements are included in these subclasses.
149.2 for a vehicle having longitudinally shiftable running
gear.
405.1 for an articulated vehicle or vehicle train including
means for selectively adjusting the proportion or the
longitudinal placement of load application between the
vehicle sections or the interconnected vehicles.
638 for a vehicle constructed in such manner so as to allow
the physical dimension of the vehicle, or a part thereof, to
vary or change, especially subclasses 43+ for vertically
adjustable wheels.
767 for a vehicle provided with an auxiliary or substitute
wheel for assuming the weight of the vehicle when either the
tires, wheels, or axles thereof are disabled for any reason.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
180, Motor Vehicles, subclass 24.02 for a vehicle of that
class (Class 180) having five or more wheels and provided
with movable running gear for shifting or proportioning load;
or subclass 209 for a vehicle having a special wheel base as
defined in Class 180, subclass 21, which further includes
means for changing the number or position of supporting
wheels.
Subclass:
86.75
Alignment adjustment:
This subclass is indented under subclass 80.1. Subject
matter wherein the vehicle running gear includes means
enabling static alteration of a spatial relationship of the
running gear upon the vehicle.
(1) Note. Included herein are means enabling alteration of
the spatial relationship of either an axle or a wheel.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
5.52 for alteration of running gear geometry which is caused
to occur in response to a force encountered while the vehicle
is in surface traversing motion.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
33, Geometrical Instruments, 203 for a wheel alignment
gauge, subclasses 335+ for a vehicle running gear inclination
gauge, or subclass 608 for a frame alignment gauge.
Subclass:
86.751
Camber or caster:
This subclass is indented under subclass 86.75. Subject
matter wherein the spatial alteration comprises an
inclination or tilt of (a) a wheel relative to the ground
surface as measured in degrees from true vertical (i.e.,
camber) or (b) a steering axis relative to the center line of
the wheel as measured in degrees from true vertical (i.e.,
caster).
(1) Note. Camber is the tilting inward (negative camber) or
outward (positive camber) of the top of the wheel as viewed
from the front of the vehicle.
(2) Note. Caster is the tilting forward (negative caster)
or backward (positive caster) of a line extending through
upper and lower ball joints or a kingpin as viewed from the
side of the vehicle.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
5.521 for a suspension wherein camber or caster adjustment
is caused to occur in response to a force encountered while
the vehicle is in surface traversing motion.
Subclass:
86.752
Vertical strut to tower:
This subclass is indented under subclass 86.751. Subject
matter wherein the camber or caster alteration is achieved
through an adjustable attachment at the vehicle body,
chassis, or frame of an upper end of an erect member
extending between the wheel or wheel carrier and the vehicle
body, chassis, or frame.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
267, Spring Devices, 217 for upper strut mount constructions
of that class (Class 267), especially subclass 220 for
elastomeric coupling means.
Subclass:
86.753
Shim (e.g., cam):
This subclass is indented under subclass 86.751. Subject
matter wherein the camber or caster alteration is achieved
through an interposed, replaceable, or shiftable wedge
element of the running gear.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
384, Bearings, subclass 626 for a bearing shim, per se.
Subclass:
86.754
Eccentric coupling:
This subclass is indented under subclass 86.751. Subject
matter wherein the camber or caster alteration is achieved
through an asymmetric union within the running gear.
(1) Note. Only true asymmetric unions will be found in this
and the indented subclasses. An asymmetric union achieved or
assisted through the use of an interposed, replaceable, or
shiftable wedge element is not proper for this and the
indented subclasses.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
86.753 for camber or caster alteration which is achieved or
assisted through the use of an interposed, replaceable, or
shiftable wedge element.
Subclass:
86.755
Including tool means:
This subclass is indented under subclass 86.754. Subject
matter wherein an applied instrument is employed to influence
the alteration of the asymmetric union.
Subclass:
86.756
Ball joint or bushing:
This subclass is indented under subclass 86.754. Subject
matter wherein a spherical coupling member (i.e., ball joint)
or a resilient coupling member (i.e., bushing) is employed in
the asymmetric union.
Subclass:
86.757
Adjustable control rod:
This subclass is indented under subclass 86.751. Subject
matter comprising an alterable elongate link or member
between the wheel or wheel carrier and the vehicle body,
chassis, or frame to achieve camber or caster adjustment.
(1) Note. The alteration of the elongate link or member may
be an extension or a repositioning of the link or member to
achieve the camber or caster adjustment.
Subclass:
86.758
Steerable wheel toe:
This subclass is indented under subclass 86.75. Subject
matter comprising an adjustment in a difference in distance
between extreme front and rear edges of laterally opposed,
pivotally navigatable wheels relative to the longitudinal
axis of the vehicle.
(1) Note. "Toe-in" results when the distance difference for
the extreme front edges is smaller than for the extreme rear
edges. "Toe-out" results when the distance difference for
the extreme front edges is greater than for the extreme rear
edges.
(2) Note. Toe adjustment for a nonsteerable wheel is not
included within this subclass.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
5.522 for a suspension wherein toe adjustment is caused to
occur in response to a force encountered while the vehicle is
in surface traversing motion.
86.75 for toe adjustment for a nonsteerable wheel.
Subclass:
87.01
This subclass is indented under subclass 29. Vehicles
comprising small vehicles for children's use, intended as
wheeled coasters. Includes patents showing the type of
vehicle known as "scooter-wagons".
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
12 for coaster sleds.
7.1 and 827, for simulations of this type and such vehicles
convertible to other types.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
297, Chairs and Seats, 5 for a wheeled skater support or
walker pushed ahead of the walker or skater and provided with
a seat used by the occupant for resting between periods of
walking or skating.
482, Exercise Devices, 51 for an exercise device involving
user translation or a physical simulation thereof,
particularly subclasses 66+ for an occupant support frame
having a movement facilitating feature for foot travel.
Subclass:
87.021
Occupant-pushed:
This subclass is indented under subclass 87.01. Vehicles
which are specially designed to be pushed along by contact of
the occupant's hands or feet with the surface over which the
vehicle travels.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
23.1 for push type sleds.
32.6 for repairman's creepers.
Subclass:
87.03
This subclass is indented under subclass 87.021. Vehicles in
which the vehicle is made to yield under the weight of the
occupant.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
79 and see the search notes thereto.
Subclass:
87.041
Standing occupant:
This subclass is indented under subclass 87.021. Vehicles
which are designed to be pushed along by a standing occupant
(i.e., scooters).
Subclass:
87.042
Steered by tiltable platform (e.g., skateboard):
This subclass is indented under subclass 87.041. Vehicles
where steering is achieved by inclining the occupant
supporting platform.
(1) Note. These devices may be scooters with a post, but
without rotation of the wheels by manipulation of the post.
More typically vehicles in this subclass are skateboards.
Subclass:
87.043
Rear steering platform on coaster wagon:
This subclass is indented under subclass 87.041. Vehicles
where wheel steering is accomplished by manual manipulation
of a steering device accessible to a standing occupant at the
trailing end of the vehicle.
(1) Note. The rear steering station may be in addition to a
front steering device manipulated by a first, usually
sitting, occupant.
Subclass:
87.05
This subclass is indented under subclass 87.021. Vehicles
which are extensible or knockdown.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
278 287, and 638+, for other extensible or knockdown
vehicles.
Subclass:
87.051
Baby walker:
This subclass is indented under subclass 87.021. Vehicles
for supporting an infant or toddler who propels the vehicle.
(1) Note. The vehicle has no steering mechanism but is
merely pushed in a desired direction.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
87.03 for a baby walker with a spring suspension enabling
bouncing.
827 for simulations.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
297, Chairs and Seats, appropriate subclasses for specific
seats, per se.
472, Amusement Devices, particularly subclass 15 for an
occupant propelled roundabout used as a trainer for foot
travel.
482, Exercise Devices, particularly 66 for an occupant
support frame having a movement facilitating feature for foot
travel.
D12, Transportation, subclass 130 for baby walker designs.
Subclass:
87.1
This subclass is indented under subclass 771. Devices
operated by the foot of the occupant.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
265 for foot steered occupant propelled vehicles.
Subclass:
87.2
This subclass is indented under subclass 771. Devices in
which the steering gear controls a wheel which is offset from
the main running gear of the vehicle and which does not
support any appreciable weight of the vehicle.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
442 for articulated vehicles with wheel steering by
articulative movement.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
104, Railways, subclass 244.1 for vehicles with furrow
followers which may be connected to the steering gear of a
vehicle and which are usually outrigged from the vehicle. In
the devices classified in Class 104 the follower (usually a
wheel) running in the furrow guides the vehicle, and to do
this may be connected to the steering gear of the vehicle,
with the result that the steering gear of the vehicle may
control the wheel running in the furrow. In these devices
the steering gear has a branch running to the main steered
wheels of the vehicle and a branch running to the furrow
following wheel so that this wheel and the main vehicle wheel
are steered together. In the type of device classifiable in
Class 280 the steering gear runs to the outrigged wheel
(which may be a furrow following wheel) to control that wheel
which by its turning movement caused the main vehicle wheels
to follow without any interconnection with the steering
gear.
172, Earth Working, subclass 26 for an earth working device
guided by a wheel running in a furrow, and subclasses 278+
for an earth working device with wheel steering means.
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:
88
This subclass is indented under subclass 771. Vehicles in
which the steering-gear is associated with brake mechanism.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
264 for occupant propelled vehicles having similar steering
and braking means.
Subclass:
89
This subclass is indented under subclass 771. Vehicle
including means for inhibiting or prohibiting unintended
variant operation due to road surface irregularity.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
108 for tongue antivibrators.
268 for an occupant propelled-type wheeled land vehicle
including means for holding or returning two steered wheels
to a centered or straight line travel orientation (it is
noted that in accordance with the (2) Note of Class 280,
subclass 200, motorcycle frames and running gear, without
features causing classification in Class 180, Motor Vehicles,
are included in these subclasses).
271 for an occupant propelled-type wheeled land vehicle
including means for holding or returning a single steered
wheel to a centered or straight line travel orientation.
Subclass:
89.1
Stub axle supported wheels:
This subclass is indented under subclass 89. Subject matter
including mechanism inhibiting or prohibiting unintended
variant operation of laterally opposed steerable road wheels
mounted upon a limited length shaft (i.e., stub axle) due to
road surface irregularities encountered during travel.
(1) Note. Included herein are shimmy or wobble inhibiting
or prohibiting mechanisms.
Subclass:
89.11
Center or neutral angulation:
This subclass is indented under subclass 89.1. Subject
matter wherein the steerable road wheels are (a) restrained
in or (b) returned to a straight-line travel position.
(1) Note. Patents properly classified herein require
sufficient resistive or restorative force to preclude
unintended variant excursion of the steerable road wheels
from straight-line travel position.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
268 for an occupant-propelled-type wheeled land vehicle
including means for holding or returning two steered wheels
to a centered or straight line travel orientation. Further,
in accordance with the (2) Note of Class 280, subclass 200,
motorcycle frames and running gear, without features causing
classification in Class 180, Motor Vehicles, are included in
theses subclasses.
Subclass:
89.12
Linkage member or attachment:
This subclass is indented under subclass 89.1. Subject
matter wherein the inhibiting or prohibiting mechanism is (a)
included within or (b) connected to a mechanical link element
interconnecting a steering knuckle of a steerable road wheel
to a drag link, an idler arm, a pitman arm, or a steering
knuckle of a laterally opposed steerable road wheel.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
89.1 for inhibiting or prohibiting mechanism interconnecting
a steering knuckle of a steerable road wheel to stationary
vehicle structure or other movable vehicle structure neither
performing nor providing a steering feature.
89.11 for inhibiting or prohibiting mechanism intended to
restrain or return the steerable road wheels to center or
neutral angulation which may or may not involve a mechanical
link element or attachment.
Subclass:
89.13
Fluid:
This subclass is indented under subclass 89.12. Subject
matter comprising either a gaseous or liquid flowable medium
providing the resistive force.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
90 for a fluid check device not included within or connected
to a mechanical link element within a stub axle supported
occupant controlled steering gear arrangement.
Subclass:
90
This subclass is indented under subclass 89. Devices in
which the checking means comprises a fluid mechanism.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
188, Brakes, 266 for a fluid-resistance brake or dashpot of
general utility.
Subclass:
91.1
Four-wheel controlled:
This subclass is indented under subclass 771. Subject matter
wherein the steering means controls four supporting wheels.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
99 for four-wheel controlled short turning vehicles.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
180, Motor Vehicles, 234 for a motor vehicle having four
wheels driven and provided with means for steering all of the
driven wheels, and subclasses 409+ for a motor vehicle
wherein all of the power for steering the wheels is provided
by the occupant.
Subclass:
92
This subclass is indented under subclass 771. Vehicles in
which the steering gear controls but one supporting wheel.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
270 for occupant propelled vehicles controlled by one
wheel.
Subclass:
93.5
Monitoring or indicating means:
This subclass is indented under subclass 771. Subject matter
including means for registering or signaling operation or a
position of the steering means or the steerable road wheels.
Subclass:
93.501
Neutral position:
This subclass is indented under subclass 93.5. Subject
matter wherein the monitoring or indicating means registers
or signals normal straight-line travel of the vehicle.
Subclass:
93.502
Linkage:
This subclass is indented under subclass 771. Subject matter
wherein the running gear provided with steering means
operable by the occupant of the vehicle includes mechanical
interconnecting elements for translating motion of a steering
control manipulated by the occupant of the vehicle into
pivoting movement of steerable road wheels for executing
arcuate travel.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
47.11 for a vehicle steered by an attendant located external
to the vehicle rather than an occupant of the vehicle for
other than a mere swinging axle.
47.34 for a stable, handle-propelled vehicle which may or
may not include steering means.
81.5 for a vehicle having multiple trucks including one
which is occupant steered.
86.75 for wheeled vehicle running gear provided with means
enabling static adjustment of a spatial relationship of an
axle or wheel upon the vehicle.
87.01 for a coaster vehicle which may or may not include
steering means.
87.1 for an occupant steered vehicle having steering means
operable by the foot of an occupant.
89 for checked steering means within an occupant steered
vehicle.
91.1 for an occupant steered vehicle wherein four supporting
wheels are each steered.
92 for an occupant steered vehicle wherein a single wheel is
controlled.
98 for a vehicle having running gear specially constructed
to provide a small turning radius.
124.1 for a suspension arrangement for resiliently, shock
absorbingly supporting a vehicle body, chassis, or frame upon
an axle or wheel, which axle or wheel may or may not be
steerable. The superiority given to placement of the
suspension arrangement subclasses prior to the occupant
steered subclasses is due to the fact that the suspension
arrangement provides for attaching and controlling movement
of the axle or wheel relative to the vehicle body, chassis,
or frame whereas the occupant steered feature is limited to
pivotal motion about a single axis.
137.5 for a vehicle having an articulated axle (i.e.,
swinging axle) lacking resilient, shock absorbing support
that is controlled by a shaft or tongue which is neither
disclosed or claimed as being a handle nor claimed in a
combination defining an articulated vehicle train.
263 for an occupant-propelled-type vehicle including
steering means, noting the search notes appearing therein for
additional relevant subclasses. Further, in accordance with
the (2) Note of Class 280, subclass 200, motorcycle frames
and running gear, without features causing classification in
Class 180, Motor Vehicles, are included in these subclasses.
419 for articulated vehicles including interconnected
steering of plural vehicles.
426 for an articulated semitrailer vehicle including
steering by articulative movement therebetween.
442 for articulated vehicles, not of semitrailer
construction, including steering by articulative movement
therebetween.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
180, Motor Vehicles, 79 for a land vehicle either (a) proper
for that class (Class 180) including guiding or steering
means or (b) having power assisted guiding or steering means.
Note also the search notes appearing therein for additional
relevant subclasses. Class 180 is superior to Class 280 in
the class hierarchy.
Subclass:
93.503
Auxiliary or redundant:
This subclass is indented under subclass 93.502. Subject
matter comprising alternate or repetitive means for creating
pivoting movement of the steerable road wheels for executing
arcuate travel of the vehicle.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
774 for an occupant controlled steering arrangement
including plural spaced operator's positions.
Subclass:
93.504
Swinging axle or half-axle:
This subclass is indented under subclass 93.502. Subject
matter wherein the mechanical interconnecting elements are
provided to pivot an axle or axle assembly mounted about a
vertical pivot axis to execute arcuate travel of the
vehicle.
(1) Note. Excluded from this subclass and the indented
subclass are plural, laterally disposed, steered swivel
trucks, which have been deemed analogous to stub axle
structure and thus the control linkage therefore equivalent.
(2) Note. An axle or half axle within this subclass and the
indented subclass provides the rotational axis for the
wheel.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
124.117 for a vehicle having a vertical pivot axis mounted
axle or axle assembly including resilient, shock absorbing
interconnection to the vehicle body, chassis, or frame, which
may or may not include occupant controlled steering means.
137.5 for a vehicle having a vertical pivot axis mounted
axle or axle assembly lacking a resilient, shock absorbing
interconnection to the vehicle body, chassis, or frame, which
vertical pivot axis mounted axle or axle assembly enables
steering through horizontal swinging by other than an
occupant controlled steering means of the vehicle.
Subclass:
93.505
Narrow track (e.g., tricycle-type tractor):
This subclass is indented under subclass 93.504. Subject
matter wherein the steerable road wheels attached to the axle
or axle assembly are disposed in close proximity to the
vertical pivot axis.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
92 for a vehicle having occupant controlled steering of a
single wheel.
Subclass:
93.506
Differential steering:
This subclass is indented under subclass 93.502. Subject
matter wherein the mechanical interconnecting elements cause
unequal angular pivoting of laterally opposed steerable road
wheels.
(1) Note. This is also known as "Ackerman steering".
(2) Note. The unequal angular pivoting must be claimed for
proper classification in this subclass.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
103 for a general utility wheeled land vehicle running gear
specially constructed for enabling arcuate travel within a
reduced radius of curvature (i.e., short turn) including stub
axles which may or may not involve differential steering.
Typically, a draft or tongue attachment for pivoting the
steerable road wheels is included.
Subclass:
93.507
Idler arm:
This subclass is indented under subclass 93.502. Subject
matter comprising an intermediary link member pivotally
attached to both (a) the vehicle body, chassis, or frame; and
(b) the mechanical interconnecting elements.
Subclass:
93.508
Articulated joint structure:
This subclass is indented under subclass 93.507. Subject
matter wherein significance is attributed to a pivotal union
of the idler arm to either (a) the vehicle body, chassis, or
frame; or (b) the mechanical interconnecting elements.
Subclass:
93.509
Motion modifier (e.g., lash, play):
Subject matter under subclass 93.508 including means for
modifying the pivotal union.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
384, Bearings, subclass 626 for a bearing shim, per se.
403, Joints and Connections, appropriate subclasses for
pivotal unions of general utility.
Subclass:
93.51
Link member details (e.g., configuration, construction):
This subclass is indented under subclass 93.502. Subject
matter wherein significance is attributed to linkage
interconnecting a steering knuckle of a steerable road wheel
to (a) a drag link, (b) an idler arm, (c) a pitman arm, or
(4) a laterally opposed steering knuckle.
(1) Note. For this subclass, the inclusion of an idler arm
is by nominal recitation only whereby the idler arm is merely
referenced as a connection point for a connecting rod (i.e.,
tie rod). More than a nominal recitation of the idler arm in
combination with a connecting rod configuration or
construction is provided for earlier in the class schedule.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
5.52 for an active suspension including means for governing
a geometric or spatial relationship in response to a force
encountered while the vehicle is in surface traversing motion
which may or may not involve a connection rod.
86.75 for a wheeled vehicle running gear provided with means
enabling static adjustment of a spatial relationship upon the
vehicle which may or may not involve a connection rod.
89.11 for an occupant steered wheeled vehicle running gear
including means inhibiting or prohibiting unintended variant
pivotal operation of laterally opposed steerable road
wheels.
93.507 for a steering linkage combination requiring an idler
arm.
Subclass:
93.511
Terminal attachment detail (e.g., ball joint):
This subclass is indented under subclass 93.51. Subject
matter wherein significance is attributed to an end
attachment of the link member.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
184, Lubrication, 6 for lubrication systems of general
utility, especially subclass 6.19 for lubrication of linkage
mechanisms.
384, Bearings, appropriate subclasses for bearings of general
utility.
403, Joints and Connections, 52 for unions of general
utility, especially subclasses 122+ for ball and socket
pivotal unions.
Subclass:
93.512
Kingpin, steering knuckle, steering arm, or wheel carrier
construction:
This subclass is indented under subclass 93.502. Subject
matter comprising an assemblage or fabrication providing a
pivotal bearing support for the steerable road wheel.
Subclass:
93.513
Gearing arrangement:
This subclass is indented under subclass 93.502. Subject
matter comprising an intermeshing drive mechanism for
manipulating the direction or extent of translation motion
required to generate the desired pivoting movement of the
steerable road wheels.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
93.502 for drive means of other than intermeshing relation,
such as cables, chains, or ropes, etc.
Subclass:
93.514
Rack and pinion:
This subclass is indented under subclass 93.513. Subject
matter wherein the gearing arrangement includes a rotating
cog drive gear (i.e., pinion gear) and a reciprocating
toothed driven gear of determinate length (i.e., rack gear).
Subclass:
93.515
Housing attachment detail:
This subclass is indented under subclass 93.514. Subject
matter wherein significance is attributed to a mounting of a
protective enclosure for the rack and pinion gearing
arrangement.
Subclass:
98
This subclass is indented under subclass 80.1. Vehicle
running gear specially constructed to make a short turn.
(1) Note. Merely a swing-axle on a single pivot directly
controlled by shafts or tongue is not included.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
47.11 for an attendant steered wheeled land vehicle
including plural interconnected controllable steerable wheel
sets. See the (2) Note within subclass 47.11 definition.
82 for vehicle tongue trucks.
93.504 for a general utility wheeled land vehicle including
occupant controlled steering of a swinging axle.
93.506 for a general utility wheeled land vehicle including
occupant controlled steering wherein laterally opposed
steerable road wheels are turned at different angles to
effect arcuate travel about a common turning axis.
124.117 for a general utility wheeled land vehicle including
a vertical pivot axis mounted axle or axle assembly having
resilient, shock absorbing means.
137.5 for a general utility wheeled land vehicle including a
turnable axle lacking resilient, shock absorbing means.
400 for articulated vehicles.
Subclass:
99
This subclass is indented under subclass 98. Vehicles in
which four supporting-wheels are controlled to turn the
vehicle.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
91 for four wheel controlled occupant steered vehicles.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
180, Motor Vehicles, 234 for a motor vehicle having four
driven wheels and means for steering all of the driven
wheels.
Subclass:
100
This subclass is indented under subclass 99. Vehicles in
which two axles carrying the four supporting-wheels swing in
opposite directions when turning the vehicle.
Subclass:
101
This subclass is indented under subclass 100. Vehicles
having a pair of members, one connected to swing with each
axle, pivotally and slidably connected together.
Subclass:
102
This subclass is indented under subclass 100. Vehicles
having a pair of members crossing each other and connecting
opposite ends of the two axles together.
Subclass:
103
This subclass is indented under subclass 98. Vehicles in
which each controlled supporting-wheel has its individual
axle.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
47.11 for a general utility wheeled land vehicle including
wheel steering by an attendant wherein the wheel steering
affects other than a mere swinging axle.
91.1 for a general utility wheeled land vehicle including
occupant controlled steering of four stub axle mounted
wheels.
93.502 for a general utility wheeled land vehicle including
occupant control of steerable road wheels.
137.5 for a general utility wheel land vehicle including a
turnable axle (i.e., fifth wheel or swinging axle).
443 for articulated vehicles having wheels mounted on stub
axles and controlled by articulative movement between the
vehicles.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
180, Motor Vehicles, 408 for a motor vehicle provided with
means for steering each wheel of the motor vehicle.
Subclass:
104
This subclass is indented under subclass 80.1. Vehicles
provided with means for transmitting weight from the
running-gear to the wheels on different axles in
substantially equal proportions regardless of inequalities of
the level of the travelled surface.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
79 for a general utility wheeled land vehicle provided with
springs between the wheel or wheels and the load-support,
noting the search notes provided therein.
124.1 for particular running gear construction of a general
utility wheeled land vehicle including a resilient, shock
absorbing suspension arrangement.
781 for a general utility wheeled land vehicle including
specific frame construction.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
267, Spring Devices, 183 for parallel depression type
springs.
Subclass:
105
This subclass is indented under subclass 80.1. Vehicles in
which the running gear is modified for roller-bearings to
carry the frame on the supporting-wheels or rotating axles.
The presence of mere roller or ball bearing wheels does not
bring a patent into this subclass.
Subclass:
107
This subclass is indented under subclass 80.1. Vehicles
provided with means for retaining a vehicle body or load in
position on the running-gear.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
35 and 47.131+, for article supporting vehicles.
43.1 for a vehicle having vertically adjustable ground
engaging means and which is unstable when in transporting
position but which is stabilized by an attendant or an
article to which the vehicle is temporarily attached.
143 for bolsters and standards for vehicle running gear.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
105, Railway Rolling Stock, 199.1 and 200+ for body and
bolster connections for railway cars; subclass 236 for tender
tanks; subclasses 335+ for freight cars; or subclass 453 for
railway car body suspension and springs.
180, Motor Vehicles, 89.1 for body structure of a general
utility self-propelled land vehicle including a feature as
specified in Class 180 definition.
296, Land Vehicles: Bodies and Tops, 35.1 for body securing
devices or subclass 42 for stay irons for vehicle bodies.
Subclass:
108
This subclass is indented under subclass 80.1. Vehicle
running gear having means for locking or tending to hold the
vehicle tongue or shafts from lateral swing.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
89 for steering gear checks.
Subclass:
124.1
Suspension arrangement:
This subclass is indented under subclass 80.1. Subject
matter wherein the vehicle running gear comprises means
intermediate a vehicle body, chassis, or frame and either an
axle or a wheel for providing resilient, shock absorbing
support (i.e., suspension) for the vehicle body, chassis, or
frame upon the axle or wheel.
(1) Note. The intermediate means are inclusive of axles,
half axles, control arms, linkages, shock absorbers, springs,
struts, etc.
(2) Note. These subclasses provide for the mechanical
hardware or structural assembly of various suspension systems
not elsewhere provided. A suspension arrangement including a
regulatable elastic means responsive to a force encountered
while the vehicle is in surface traversing motion is provided
for earlier in the class schedule.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
2 for a vehicle having a portion of the body or load
supporting framework depending between axles forming a
portion of the running gear connections.
5.5 for a suspension arrangement responsive to a force
encountered while the vehicle is in surface traversing
motion.
6.15 for a suspension arrangement used to alter the relative
height or level of the vehicle.
62 for a general utility wheeled land vehicle normally
travelling on three wheels.
63 for a general utility wheeled land vehicle normally
travelling on two wheels.
81.1 for a general utility wheeled land vehicle including
multiple truck running gear.
82 for a draft or tongue truck.
86.1 for a resilient mounting of a swivel truck (i.e.,
caster wheel).
86.5 for a suspension construction of an auxiliary axle
assembly.
104 for an equalized vehicle frame including suspension
means, especially for a tandem wheel arrangement.
200 for running gear of an occupant propelled vehicle;
especially subclasses 274+ or 281.1+. Additionally, in
accordance with the (2) Note of subclass 200, motorcycle
frames and running gear, without features causing
classification in Class 180, Motor Vehicles, are included in
these subclasses.
400 for running gear of an articulated vehicle or plural
interconnected vehicles (i.e., vehicle train).
638 for an extensible vehicle wherein means are provided for
changing a dimension of the vehicle or a part thereof,
especially subclasses 43+ for vertically adjustable wheels.
781 for a specific vehicle frame construction, especially
subclass 788 wherein the specific vehicle frame construction
is combined with resilient suspension means.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
180, Motor Vehicles, appropriate subclasses for motor
vehicles of that class (Class 180), particularly 6.2 for a
motor vehicle including means whereby the vehicle is steered
through a cooperative driving arrangement or control between
laterally disposed ground engaging means; subclasses 9.1+ for
a motor vehicle including endless track ground engaging
means; subclasses 21+ for a motor vehicle including a special
wheel base as defined within the definition of Class 180,
subclass 21; subclasses 89.1+ for attaching bodies of motor
vehicles to the running gear thereof; subclasses 233+ for a
motor vehicle including four driven wheels; subclasses 252+
for a motor vehicle including at least one wheel which is
both driven and steerable; or subclasses 337+ for a motor
vehicle including a transmission mechanism.
296, Land Vehicles: Bodies and Tops, appropriate subclasses
for vehicle body construction in general, especially 35.1
for devices securing the vehicle body to the running chassis
frame including nominal recitation of running gear.
Subclass:
124.101
Including preparatory elasticity parameter selection:
This subclass is indented under subclass 124.1. Subject
matter wherein the suspension includes means for selectively
establishing a mode of operation.
(1) Note. Means appropriate for this subclass include means
responsive to operation of a car door, actuation or insertion
of an ignition switch key, parking brake engagement or
release, closure or opening of a trunk lid, etc.
(2) Note. A suspension arrangement including control means
which establish riding or trim height wherein the suspension
arrangement is adjusted to an appropriate location for proper
running gear operation is not proper for this subclass but is
provided for earlier in the class schedule.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
5.5 for an active suspension responsive to a force
encountered while the vehicle is in surface traversing
motion, especially subclasses 5.501+ for control means
providing fail-safe override upon detection of a perceived
abnormal handling or ride posture characteristic based upon
the superiority given to the avoidance of a potentially life
threatening situation presented by the perceived abnormal
handling or ride posture characteristic; or subclasses 5.515+
wherein the elasticity property of the suspension is
regulated during surface traversing motion of the vehicle.
6.157 for a suspension including means for establishing
riding or trim height.
Subclass:
124.102
Manual actuation:
This subclass is indented under subclass 124.101. Subject
matter wherein the means are activated by a living being.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
188, Brakes, subclass 299.1 for a fluid resistance shock
absorber including remotely operated means for altering the
relative elasticity thereof through regulation of the fluid
movement.
267, Spring Devices, 2 for vehicle springs including
elasticity adjustment means.
Subclass:
124.103
Body banking on turning:
This subclass is indented under subclass 124.1. Subject
matter wherein the suspension creates or enables sideways or
transverse inclination of the vehicle body, chassis, or frame
toward a center of curvature about which the vehicle is
executing arcuate travel to overcompensate for a resultant
centrifugal force experienced by the vehicle.
(1) Note. The mere balancing, cancellation, or compensation
of centrifugal force experienced by a vehicle executing
arcuate travel is not proper for classification in this
subclass.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
5.509 for an active suspension wherein means responsive
while the vehicle is in surface traversing motion are caused
to sideways or transversely incline the vehicle body,
chassis, or frame.
124.106 for a suspension arrangement which balances,
cancels, or compensates for the centrifugal force experienced
by a vehicle executing arcuate travel.
Subclass:
124.104
Antidive or antisquat:
This subclass is indented under subclass 124.1. Subject
matter wherein the suspension restricts the vehicle body,
chassis, or frame from inclining in the front-to-rear or
fore-and-aft direction.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
5.513 for an active suspension wherein means responsive
while the vehicle is in surface traversing motion are caused
to restrict longitudinal inclination of the vehicle body,
chassis, or frame.
Subclass:
124.105
Brake reaction device:
This subclass is indented under subclass 124.104. Subject
matter wherein the inclination restricting suspension
includes linkage means associated with a wheel brake
mechanism.
Subclass:
124.106
Antiroll or antisway:
This subclass is indented under subclass 124.1. Subject
matter wherein the suspension restricts the vehicle body,
chassis, or frame from tilting in the sideways or transverse
direction.
(1) Note. The mere inclusion of an antiroll, sway, or
torsion bar or rod does not render classification in this
subclass. This subclass includes (a) a vehicle stabilizer,
per se; (b) a suspension system specifically claimed as being
for antiroll; or (c) a suspension system involving
interconnected wheel suspension units not elsewhere
classifiable.
(2) Note. The feature of an antiroll, sway, or torsion bar
or rod in a combination for a wheel separately supported upon
an individual spindle axle is not proper for classification
in this or the indented subclass.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
5.508 for an active suspension wherein means responsive
while the vehicle is in surface traversing motion are caused
to restrict lateral tilt of the vehicle body, chassis, or
frame.
124.125 for a suspension arrangement of a wheel separately
supported upon an individual spindle axle, especially
subclass 124.13 wherein a longitudinally extending swinging
arm includes stabilizing means within the connection housing
of the swinging arm pivot to the vehicle body, chassis, or
frame; subclass 124.137 wherein an upper and lower lateral
control arm suspension includes a torsion bar; subclass
124.149 wherein a lateral control arm and vertical strut
suspension includes a torsion stabilizer; and subclass
124.152 wherein a lateral control arm suspension includes a
stabilizer bar.
Subclass:
124.107
Centrifugal force transmission linkage:
This subclass is indented under subclass 124.106. Subject
matter wherein the tilt restricting suspension includes a
mechanical interconnection for transferring the inertial
force moment created by arcuate travel from one side to the
other side of the vehicle body, chassis, or frame.
(1) Note. A transfer of fluid medium is not considered a
mechanical interconnection for classification in this
subclass.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
267, Spring Devices, 183 for a spring device having a
stabilizer bar for causing a uniform displacement along a
substantially horizontal line contained in the vehicle body
or chassis.
Subclass:
124.108
Resonance vibration suppression:
This subclass is indented under subclass 124.1. Subject
matter wherein the suspension specifically abates unwanted
mechanical disturbances.
(1) Note. Since the proximate utility of all suspensions
involve the reduction of resonant vibration for the comfort
of the occupant, at least to some extent, this subclass
includes only those patents which specifically claim the
noise suppression.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
5.515 for an active suspension wherein means responsive
while the vehicle is in surface traversing motion are caused
to govern the extent of travel surface induced vibrational
force experienced by a vehicle occupant.
Subclass:
124.109
Interposed frame structure (i.e., subframe):
This subclass is indented under subclass 124.1. Subject
matter wherein the suspension includes a structural assembly
that maintains its configuration independently of its
location.
(1) Note. The interposed frame structure must itself be
resiliently coupled to the vehicle body, chassis, or frame.
This excludes turntable-type attachments for a swinging axle
or axle assembly which are provided for later in the class
schedule.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
124.11 for a resilient, shock absorbingly mounted swinging
axle or axle assembly.
137.5 for an articulated axle lacking a resilient, shock
absorbing feature.
781 for a vehicle including specific frame construction.
Subclass:
124.11
Pivotally mounted axle or axle assembly:
This subclass is indented under subclass 124.1. Subject
matter wherein the suspension comprises a structurally rigid
bar, beam, shaft, or tube mounted for oscillatory movement
upon the vehicle body, chassis, or frame about a mounting
point which either (a) functions as a direct support for a
single wheel carrier or spindle or (b) supports laterally
opposed wheel carriers or spindles.
(1) Note. The oscillatory movement about the mounting point
may be for other than suspension purposes (e.g., steering)
and other than a defined axis of rotation (e.g., orbital,
universal).
(2) Note. Included herein are half axles.
(3) Note. The mere mounting of an axle or axle assembly
upon a horizontal axis upon the vehicle body, chassis, or
frame for oscillatory movement within a vertical plane is
sufficient to provide the resilient, shock absorbing
support.
(4) Note. Excluded from this and the indented subclasses
are an axle or axle assembly involving a pivotal
interconnection between a coupling pole, perch, or reach,
which interconnects front and rear running gear units so as
to enable independent rocking motion thereof in a vertical
plane, lacking a claimed feature providing resilient, shock
absorbing support for the vehicle body, chassis, or frame
(i.e., a spring). Vehicle running gear including a coupling
pole, perch, or reach interconnecting front and rear running
gear units provided with means enabling relative oscillatory
movement of the front and rear running gear units is provided
for later in the class schedule.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
137.5 for a fifth-wheel or swinging axle lacking a claimed
feature providing resilient, shock absorbing support for the
vehicle body, chassis, or frame, especially subclass 137.503
wherein a spherical union interconnects a coupling pole,
perch, or reach to the axle or axle assembly; or subclass
137.504 wherein bracing of the coupling pole, perch, or reach
interconnection to the axle or axle assembly is claimed.
141 for vehicle running gear including a coupling pole,
perch, or reach interconnecting front and rear running gear
units provided with means enabling relative oscillatory
movement of the front and rear running gear units.
Subclass:
124.111
Longitudinal pivot axis (i.e., rocking axle):
This subclass is indented under subclass 124.11. Subject
matter wherein the structurally rigid bar, beam, shaft, or
tube is mounted upon an axis directed parallel to the
longitudinal centerline of the vehicle body, chassis, or
frame for oscillatory movement in a vertical plane.
(1) Note. Included herein is a pivot axis either coaxial
with or parallel to the longitudinal centerline of the
vehicle body, chassis, or frame.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
6.154 for running gear including means for vertically
predisposing a load, load carrier, or receptacle portion so
as to accommodate travel upon an inclined surface.
Subclass:
124.112
Including fluid actuator:
This subclass is indented under subclass 124.111. Subject
matter comprising a hydraulic drive mechanism for creating or
restricting the oscillatory movement.
Subclass:
124.113
Including steerable terminal wheel spindle:
This subclass is indented under subclass 124.111. Subject
matter wherein the supported wheel carrier or spindle is
additionally pivotally mounted to a terminus of the
structurally rigid bar, beam, shaft, or tube for executing
arcuate travel of the vehicle.
Subclass:
124.114
And vertical pivot axis (i.e., swinging axle):
This subclass is indented under subclass 124.111. Subject
matter wherein the vertically oscillatory axle or axle
assembly is additionally mounted upon an erect perpendicular
axis for oscillatory movement in a horizontal plane.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
124.117 for a structurally rigid bar, beam, shaft, or tube
mounted upon an erect perpendicular axis upon the vehicle
body, chassis, or frame for oscillatory movement in a
horizontal plane not including vertical oscillatory motion.
137.5 for a swinging axle lacking a feature providing
resilient, shock absorbing support for the vehicle body,
chassis, or frame upon the swinging axle. Also included in
these subclasses are a swinging axle combined with a coupling
pole, perch, or reach, which interconnects front and rear
running gear units so as to enable relative independent
rocking motion thereof in a vertical plane.
Subclass:
124.115
Fifth wheel articulated axle:
This subclass is indented under subclass 124.114. Subject
matter comprising a coupling assembly of two coaxially
mounted rotatable disks or disk segments defining the
vertical pivot axis.
Subclass:
124.116
Horizontal and transverse pivot axis:
This subclass is indented under subclass 124.11. Subject
matter wherein the structurally rigid bar, beam, shaft, or
tube is mounted upon an axis directed across the longitudinal
centerline of the vehicle body, chassis, or frame for
oscillatory movement in a vertical plane.
(1) Note. Included herein are leading- or trailing-arm type
suspensions supporting laterally opposed wheels.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
86.5 for an auxiliary axle assembly which may be mounted
upon a horizontal and transverse pivot axis for movement
between a use and a nonuse condition.
676 for a tandem axle assembly.
Subclass:
124.117
Vertical pivot axis (i.e., swinging axle):
This subclass is indented under subclass 124.11. Subject
matter wherein the structurally rigid bar, beam, shaft, or
tube is mounted upon an erect perpendicular axis upon the
vehicle body, chassis, or frame for oscillatory movement in a
horizontal plane.
(1) Note. A mere swinging axle lacking a claimed feature
providing resilient, shock absorbing support for the vehicle
body, chassis, or frame upon the swinging axle is not proper
for classification in this or the indented subclasses but is
provided for later in the class schedule. Accordingly, mere
disclosure or inferential claim language that the vehicle
body, chassis, or frame is resiliently, shock absorbingly
mounted to the running gear element comprising the swinging
axle does not control assignment to this subclass or the
indented subclasses.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
124.114 for a structurally rigid bar, beam, shaft, or tube
mounted upon an axis directed parallel to the longitudinal
centerline of the vehicle body, chassis, or frame for
oscillatory movement in a vertical plane and additionally
mounted upon an erect perpendicular axis upon the vehicle
body, chassis, or frame for oscillatory movement in a
horizontal plane.
137.5 for a swinging axle lacking a feature providing
resilient, shock absorbing support for the vehicle body,
chassis, or frame upon the swinging axle.
Subclass:
124.118
Narrow track:
This subclass is indented under subclass 124.117. Subject
matter wherein the wheel carrier or spindle is located in
close proximity to the vertical pivot axis.
Subclass:
124.119
Differential motion:
This subclass is indented under subclass 124.118. Subject
matter wherein (a) plural wheel carriers or spindles are
located in close proximity to the vertical pivot axis and (b)
each respective wheel carrier or spindle is attached to move
in an opposite direction so as to provide the resilient,
shock absorbing support of the vehicle body, chassis, or
frame.
Subclass:
124.12
With draft attachment:
This subclass is indented under subclass 124.117. Subject
matter comprising means for connecting to a source of pulling
force.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
137.501 for a swinging axle lacking a feature providing
resilient, shock absorbing support for the vehicle body,
chassis, or frame upon the swinging axle including draft
attachment, noting the search notes provided therein for
additional relevant subclasses.
Subclass:
124.121
Resilient connection detail:
This subclass is indented under subclass 124.117. Subject
matter wherein significance is attributed to the mounting
(i.e., resilient support) of the structurally rigid bar,
beam, shaft, or tube to the vehicle body, chassis, or frame.
Subclass:
124.122
Offset pivot:
This subclass is indented under subclass 124.121. Subject
matter wherein the connection includes displacement of the
erect perpendicular axis from the longitudinal axis of the
structurally rigid bar, beam, shaft, or tube.
Subclass:
124.123
Telescopic members:
This subclass is indented under subclass 124.121. Subject
matter wherein the connection includes overlapping concentric
slidably engaged elements.
Subclass:
124.124
Fifth wheel supported upon transverse leaf spring:
This subclass is indented under subclass 124.121. Subject
matter wherein the connection includes one of two coaxially
mounted rotatable disks or disk segments of a coupling
assembly forming the erect perpendicular pivot axis mounted
upon a laterally disposed, elongated flexible strip providing
flexural deflection to a force imposed perpendicular to its
width dimension.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
137.502 for fifth wheel construction lacking resilient,
shock absorbing support for the vehicle body, chassis, or
frame.
433 for a fifth wheel coupling between a tractor and a
semitrailer.
Subclass:
124.125
Wheel separately supported upon individual stub axle (e.g.,
skein, spindle):
This subclass is indented under subclass 124.1. Subject
matter wherein the suspension provides resilient, shock
absorbing interconnection of a relatively short shaft (i.e.,
stub axle) providing the rotational axis for each wheel, to
the vehicle body, chassis, or frame.
(1) Note. The requirement that the stub axle itself be
resiliently mounted upon the vehicle excludes a bifurcated or
yoked axle supporting a kingpin, unless the kingpin is
resiliently mounted to the axle.
Subclass:
124.126
Steering pivot confined within boundary of wheel:
This subclass is indented under subclass 124.125. Subject
matter wherein the suspension interconnects a steerable wheel
to the vehicle body, chassis, or frame such that the
connection points defining a turning axis of the wheel lie
within the area defined by the perimeter and treadwidth of
the wheel.
(1) Note. Excluded from this subclass is a telescopically
mounted steerable or steered swivel truck wherein the pivot
axis is vertically aligned with the wheel center plane but
actually displaced above the rotational axis of the wheel.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
47.11 for an attendant steered vehicle having steering
control means for other than a mere swinging axle.
47.34 for a stable, handle-propelled vehicle which may or
may not include a steerable wheel.
86 for a nonsteerable swivel truck (i.e., caster wheel).
87.01 for a coaster vehicle which may or may not include a
steerable wheel.
124.117 for a telescopically mounted steerable or steered
swivel truck wherein the pivot axis is vertically aligned
with the wheel center plane but actually displaced above the
rotational axis of the wheel.
200 appropriate subclasses for an occupant-propelled-type
wheeled land vehicle including a steerable wheel.
Additionally, in accordance with the (2) Note of subclass
200, motorcycle frames and running gear without features
causing classification in Class 180, Motor Vehicles, are
included in these subclasses.
Subclass:
124.127
Sliding connection (e.g., pillar and sleeve):
This subclass is indented under subclass 124.125. Subject
matter wherein the suspension includes cooperating
interengaged guiding elements restricting the stub axle to
rectilinear reciprocatory movement.
(1) Note. Included herein is a bifurcated or yoked axle
supporting a resiliently mounted kingpin.
(2) Note. The rectilinear reciprocatory movement is usually
vertical; however, the subject matter is not restricted
thereto.
(3) Note. Excluded from this subclass is a telescopically
mounted steerable or steered swivel truck.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
86.1 for a resiliently mounted nonsteerable swivel truck
(i.e., caster wheel).
124.117 for a telescopically mounted steerable or steered
swivel truck.
Subclass:
124.128
Longitudinally extending swinging support arm (i.e., leading
or trailing swing arm):
This subclass is indented under subclass 124.125. Subject
matter wherein the suspension includes an elongated member
pivotally attached to the vehicle body, chassis, or frame
about an axis or axis extension crossing the longitudinal
centerline of the vehicle providing a longitudinally
displaced pivot axis for the stub axle.
(1) Note. This subclass and the subclasses indented
hereunder require that the stub axle move in an arcuate
motion relative to the vehicle body, chassis, or frame
whereby the rotational axis of the wheel is moved both
longitudinally and vertically when undergoing deflection. A
longitudinally extending support member not functioning to
enable this compound motion is not proper for this subclass
or those indented hereunder but rather belongs in subclasses
provided elsewhere.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
124.153 for a suspension arrangement including a
longitudinally extending support member or members. See the
(1) Note supra.
Subclass:
124.129
Road arm:
This subclass is indented under subclass 124.128. Subject
matter wherein the longitudinally extending swinging support
arm encases resilient, shock absorbing means between the
pivot point attachment to the vehicle body, chassis, or frame
and the stub axle.
(1) Note. The stub axle usually supports either a driven or
nondriven wheel engaging a crawler track or an endless track;
however, it is not restricted thereto.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
180, Motor Vehicles, 9 for a motor vehicle of that class
(Class 180) including an endless track. In accordance with
item 9 under Class 180 definition, no power or driving means
needs to be claimed for assignment to that class (Class 180).
Class 180 is superior to Class 280 in the class hierarchy.
305, Wheel Substitutes for Land Vehicles, appropriate
subclasses for flexible endless track wheel substitutes.
Class 305 is subordinate to Class 280 in the class
hierarchy.
Subclass:
124.13
Stabilizer means within connection housing of arm pivot
(e.g., bushing, spring, torsion rod):
This subclass is indented under subclass 124.128. Subject
matter wherein the pivotal attachment of the elongated member
includes a spring member resisting free pivotal movement.
(1) Note. The included resisting or restraining member is
not restricted to any specific construction. Illustrative of
such a member is a coil spring, an elastomeric spring (i.e.,
bushing), a fluid spring, a torsion bar or rod, etc.
Subclass:
124.131
Spring-like arm:
This subclass is indented under subclass 124.128. Subject
matter wherein the support arm is an elastically deformable
or resilient member.
(1) Note. The support arm is usually either a leaf spring
or a torsion bar or rod.
Subclass:
124.132
Intermediate of support arm (e.g., semileading or
semitrailing arm):
This subclass is indented under subclass 124.128. Subject
matter wherein the stub axle is attached at other than a
terminal end of the support arm.
Subclass:
124.133
Arm having plural segments or dissimilar materials:
This subclass is indented under subclass 124.128. Subject
matter wherein the support arm comprises (a) discrete
elements or (b) a nonhomogeneous construction.
(1) Note. Excluded from this subclass is a parallelogram
structure of vertically disposed longitudinally extending
swinging support arms.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
124.153 for a suspension arrangement including plural
vertically disposed longitudinally extending support members.
See the (1) Note supra.
Subclass:
124.134
Lateral control arm (i.e., suspension arm):
This subclass is indented under subclass 124.125. Subject
matter wherein the suspension includes a member (a) extending
transversely to the vehicle body, chassis, or frame; and (b)
having an inboard end coupled to the vehicle body, chassis,
or frame and an outboard end coupled to a kingpin, steering
knuckle, or wheel carrier and the member constrains
horizontal displacement of the stub axle.
Subclass:
124.135
Plural lateral control arms:
This subclass is indented under subclass 124.134. Subject
matter including at least two transversely extending members
constraining horizontal displacement of the stub axle.
Subclass:
124.136
Upper and lower arms having aligned outboard ends:
This subclass is indented under subclass 124.135. Subject
matter wherein the outboard end of one arm terminates at a
position above the stub axle, the outboard end of another arm
terminates at a position below the stub axle, and the
outboard ends of the arms lie along a line passing through
the stub axle.
Subclass:
124.137
With torsion bar:
This subclass is indented under subclass 124.136. Subject
matter wherein the suspension additionally includes an
elongated rod, shaft, or tube providing a springing action
resulting from a twist deformation (torque deformation)
attached to one of the control arms.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
5.511 for an active suspension responsive to a force
encountered while the vehicle is in surface traversing motion
and a sway or torsion bar is regulated.
124.106 for a mechanical hardware or structural assembly
suspension arrangement provided for restricting sideways or
transverse tilting of a vehicle body, chassis, or frame.
124.149 for an individual wheel suspension having a
transversely extending member, a vertically extending strut,
and a longitudinally extending control arm or strut wherein
the longitudinally extending control arm or strut is a
torsion bar or rod.
124.152 for an individual wheel suspension including a
single lateral control or suspension arm and a stabilizer
bar.
Subclass:
124.138
Specific spatial location:
This subclass is indented under subclass 124.136. Subject
matter wherein significance is attributed to a spatial
location of at least one of the control arms to (a) the other
control arm; (b) the vehicle body, chassis, or frame (i.e.,
inboard end); or (c) kingpin, steering knuckle, or wheel
carrier (i.e., outboard end).
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
5.52 for an active suspension responsive to a force
encountered while the vehicle is in surface traversing motion
which alters a spatial relationship of the running gear.
86.75 for wheeled running gear including means for static
alteration of a spatial relationship of the running gear upon
the vehicle.
Subclass:
124.139
Unequal length:
This subclass is indented under subclass 124.136. Subject
matter wherein the control arms differ in elongate
dimension.
(1) Note. The length difference must be claimed for proper
classification in this and the indented subclass.
Subclass:
124.14
Spring-like arm:
This subclass is indented under subclass 124.139. Subject
matter wherein one of the control arms is a mechanical
resilient member.
Subclass:
124.141
Interposed coil spring:
This subclass is indented under subclass 124.136. Subject
matter wherein a helical shaped elastic member is disposed
within a boundary area delimited by the control arms.
(1) Note. The helical shaped elastic member is not required
to engage either of the control arms but merely be placed
within the bounded area defined therebetween.
Subclass:
124.142
Coil spring disposed above upper arm:
This subclass is indented under subclass 124.136. Subject
matter wherein a helical shaped elastic member is positioned
over or upon the upper control arm.
Subclass:
124.143
Longitudinally spaced outboard ends:
This subclass is indented under subclass 124.135. Subject
matter wherein an outboard end of one of the control arms is
coupled forwardly of the stub axle and the outboard end of
another control arm is coupled rearwardly of the stub axle.
Subclass:
124.144
Resilient coupling:
This subclass is indented under subclass 124.143. Subject
matter wherein the coupling of one of the control arms
includes an elastomeric member.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
5.516 for an active suspension responsive while the vehicle
is in surface traversing motion wherein suspension stiffness
for ride comfort is adjusted through bushing compliance
regulation.
5.523 for an active suspension responsive while the vehicle
is in surface traversing motion wherein toe angle of a wheel
is adjusted through bushing regulation.
Subclass:
124.145
Including vertically extending strut:
This subclass is indented under subclass 124.134. Subject
matter wherein the suspension includes an erect member
extending between the vehicle body, chassis, or frame and the
stub axle for constraining vertical displacement of the stub
axle.
Subclass:
124.146
Turnable telescopic strut (i.e., MacPherson strut type):
This subclass is indented under subclass 124.145. Subject
matter wherein the erect member comprises overlapping
concentric slidably engaged and relatively rotatable elements
whereby pivotal motion of the stub axle for steering purposes
is attained.
Subclass:
124.147
Upper strut mount detail:
This subclass is indented under subclass 124.146. Subject
matter wherein significance is attributed to means for
connecting a top end of the erect member to the vehicle body,
chassis, or frame.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
86.752 for vehicle running gear including static alignment
adjustment wherein caster or camber adjustment of a wheel is
affected by the connection of the upper end of a vertically
extending strut to the vehicle body, chassis, or frame.
124.155 for a vehicle running gear including means for
connecting the top end of a vertically extending telescopic
strut to the vehicle body, chassis, or frame lacking a
lateral control or suspension arm.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
267, Spring Devices, 217 for upper strut mount constructions
of that class (Class 267), especially subclass 220 for
elastomeric coupling means.
Subclass:
124.148
Including longitudinally extending control arm or strut:
This subclass is indented under subclass 124.145. Subject
matter including an elongated member extending between the
vehicle body, chassis, or frame and the stub axle in a
longitudinal direction of the vehicle and constraining
longitudinal movement of the stub axle.
Subclass:
124.149
Torsion stabilizer:
This subclass is indented under subclass 124.148. Subject
matter wherein the elongated member is a bar, rod, shaft, or
tube providing a springing action through twist deformation
about a longitudinal axis thereof (torque deformation).
Subclass:
124.15
Specific spatial location:
This subclass is indented under subclass 124.134. Subject
matter wherein significance is attributed to a spatial
location of the control arm.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
124.138 for a suspension including upper and lower lateral
control arms having aligned outboard ends and including a
specific spatial location.
124.143 for a suspension including plural lateral control
arms having longitudinally spaced outboard ends which may
include a specific spatial location.
Subclass:
124.151
Including spring retaining seat:
This subclass is indented under subclass 124.134. Subject
matter wherein the transversely extending member provides a
base support for a resilient energy storing mechanical
element.
(1) Note. The resilient mechanical element is usually a
helical coil spring; however, the subclass is not limited
thereto.
(2) Note. Excluded from this subclass is a connection
between a sway or torsion bar and the transversely extending
member because such connection does not provide a base
support but rather is merely a constraining attachment.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
124.137 for a suspension including upper and lower lateral
control arms having aligned outboard ends and including a
torsion bar.
124.152 for a suspension including a lateral control arm and
a torsion bar attached thereto. See the (2) Note supra.
Subclass:
124.152
Including stabilizer bar (e.g., sway bar):
This subclass is indented under subclass 124.134. Subject
matter including an elongated rod, shaft, or tube attached to
the transversely extending member and wherein the rod, shaft,
or tube provides a springing action resulting from a twist
deformation (torque deformation) for assisting in
constraining displacement of the stub axle.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
5.511 for an active suspension responsive while the vehicle
is in surface traversing motion wherein a sway or torsion bar
is regulated.
124.106 for a mechanical hardware or structural assembly
suspension arrangement provided for restricting sideways or
transverse tilting of a vehicle body, chassis, or frame.
124.137 for a suspension including upper and lower lateral
control arms having aligned outboard ends and including a
torsion bar.
124.149 for a suspension having a transversely extending
member, a vertically extending strut, and a longitudinally
extending control arm or strut wherein the longitudinally
extending control arm or strut is a torsion bar or rod.
Subclass:
124.153
Longitudinal control arm (i.e., suspension arm):
This subclass is indented under subclass 124.125. Subject
matter including an elongated member extending between the
vehicle body, chassis, or frame and the stub axle in a
longitudinal direction of the vehicle and constraining
longitudinal movement of the stub axle.
(1) Note. Parallel longitudinal control or suspension arms
having terminal attachment above and below a stub axle are
included herein.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
124.128 for a longitudinally extending swinging support arm
suspension.
124.137 for a suspension including upper and lower lateral
control arms having aligned outboard ends and including a
torsion bar which may function to constrain forward and
rearward displacement of the stub axle in addition to
providing a springing action through twist deformation.
124.148 for a suspension having a transversely extending
member, a vertically extending strut, and a longitudinally
extending control arm or strut.
124.152 for a suspension including a lateral control arm and
an attachment to a stabilizer bar wherein the stabilizer bar
may function to constrain forward and rearward displacement
of the stub axle in addition to providing a springing action
through twist deformation.
Subclass:
124.154
Vertically extending telescopic strut:
This subclass is indented under subclass 124.125. Subject
matter wherein the suspension includes an erect member having
overlapping concentric slidably engaged elements extending
between the vehicle body, chassis, or frame and the stub axle
for constraining vertical displacement of the stub axle.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
124.143 for a suspension including at least two lateral
control or suspension arms disposed at longitudinally spaced
terminal attachment points to a kingpin, steering knuckle, or
wheel carrier which may or may not include a vertically
extending telescopic strut.
124.145 for a suspension including a lateral control or
suspension arm and a vertically extending strut.
Subclass:
124.155
Upper strut mount detail:
This subclass is indented under subclass 124.154. Subject
matter wherein significance is attributed to means for
connecting a top end of the erect member to the vehicle body,
chassis, or frame.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
86.752 for vehicle running gear including static alignment
adjustment wherein caster or camber adjustment of a wheel is
affected by the connection of the upper end of a vertically
extending strut to the vehicle body, chassis, or frame.
124.147 for a suspension system having a lateral control or
suspension arm and a vertically extending, turnable
telescopic strut and means for connecting the top end of the
vertically extending, turnable telescopic strut to the
vehicle body, chassis, or frame.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
267, Spring Devices, 217 for upper strut mount constructions
of that class (Class 267), especially subclass 220 for
elastomeric coupling means.
Subclass:
124.156
Including "live" axle feature (e.g., differential):
This subclass is indented under subclass 124.1. Subject
matter wherein the axle comprises means for transferring
drive power to road wheels.
(1) Note. Nominal recitation of a differential or transfer
case is sufficient for classification in this subclass.
However, mere recitation that the axle is driven is not
proper for classification in this subclass.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
180, Motor Vehicles, 348 for a vehicle of that class (Class
180) involving a "live" axle, especially subclasses 359+ for
mounting of a differential or transfer case.
Subclass:
124.157
Fluidic suspension:
This subclass is indented under subclass 124.1. Subject
matter wherein the suspension includes a displaceable,
flowable agent.
(1) Note. A suspension arrangement including a regulatable
elastic means, including a fluid suspension arrangement,
responsive while the vehicle is in surface traversing motion
is provided for earlier in the class schedule. Similarly, a
fluid suspension arrangement for vertically predisposing a
load, load carrier, or receptacle portion is provided for
earlier in the class schedule.
(2) Note. This subclass is the residual subclass for a
fluid suspension not classifiable elsewhere or in an indented
subclass.
(3) Note. In accordance with accepted industry and
mechanical engineering convention, a shock absorber, per se,
is not deemed to be a fluid suspension element for the
purposes of this subclass and the indented subclasses since
it normally does not support any weight but merely retards
the extent of motion provided by a supporting spring device
attempting to distort or return to its undeflected
condition.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
5.5 for an active suspension including a regulatable elastic
means responsive while the vehicle is in surface traversing
motion.
6.15 for a vehicle including means used to alter the
relative height or levelness of the vehicle body, chassis, or
frame which may or may not include a fluidic suspension
element.
86.5 for an auxiliary axle assembly which may or may not
include a fluidic suspension.
86.75 for vehicle running gear including static alignment
adjustment means which may or may not include a fluidic
suspension element.
104 for vehicle running gear including an equalized frame,
especially subclasses 678 or 683 for tandem axles including
fluid spring means.
124.101 for a suspension arrangement including means for
presetting an elasticity parameter.
124.103 for a suspension arrangement intended to sideways or
transversely incline the vehicle body, chassis, or frame
toward a center of curvature about which the vehicle body,
chassis, or frame is executing arcuate travel which may or
may not include a fluidic suspension element. See the (2)
Note supra.
124.104 for a suspension arrangement intended to restrict
front-to-rear or fore-and-aft inclination of the vehicle
body, chassis, or frame which may or may not include a
fluidic suspension element. See the (2) Note supra.
124.106 for a suspension arrangement intended to restrict
sideways or transverse tilt of the vehicle body, chassis, or
frame which may or may not include a fluidic suspension
element. See the (2) Note supra.
124.112 for a suspension arrangement including a rocking
axle having a fluid actuator. See the (2) Note supra.
124.116 for a suspension arrangement wherein an axle or axle
assembly is mounted upon a horizontal and transverse pivot
axis which may or may not include a fluidic suspension
element. See the (2) Note supra.
124.117 for a steerable or steered swivel truck which may or
may not involve a fluidic suspension element. See the (2)
Note supra.
124.125 for a suspension arrangement separately supporting
an individual wheel for interconnecting a stub axle to the
vehicle body, chassis, or frame which may or may not include
a fluidic suspension element. See the (2) Note supra.
200 for running gear of a general utility
occupant-propelled-type wheeled land vehicle, especially
subclasses 274+ or 283+, which may or may not include a
fluidic suspension element. Additionally, in accordance with
the (2) Note of subclass 200, motorcycle frames and running
gear, without features causing classification in Class 180,
Motor Vehicles, are included in these subclasses. See the
(2) Note supra.
400 for an articulated vehicle or plural interconnected
vehicles (i.e., vehicle train) which may or may not include a
fluidic suspension element. See the (2) Note supra.
781 for a vehicle running gear including specific frame
construction, especially subclass 782 wherein the specific
frame construction forms a fluid conduit which may or may not
be a suspension fluid. See the (2) Note supra.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
188, Brakes, 266.1 for a retarding or stopping mechanism
employing the reluctance of a medium to be disturbed. This
class (Class 188) includes a shock absorber, per se.
267, Spring Devices, 2 for vehicle spring devices, per se,
especially subclasses 64.11+ for fluid spring devices or
subclasses 217+ for a mechanical spring device and a fluid
retarder (i.e., shock absorber). Class 267 provides the locus
for the combination of a spring device and a shock absorber.
Subclass:
124.158
Hydraulic and pneumatic:
This subclass is indented under subclass 124.157. Subject
matter wherein the displaceable flowable agent includes a
gaseous medium (e.g., air) and an incompressible liquid
medium (e.g., oil).
(1) Note. This subclass requires either (a) simultaneous
use of gaseous and liquid medium in an element of the running
gear or (b) the existence of both gaseous and liquid medium
handling systems for cooperative employment within the
suspension system.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
5.5 for an active suspension responsive while the vehicle is
in surface traversing motion which may or may not involve a
hydraulic-pneumatic suspension element.
6.15 for a vehicle including means used to alter the
relative height or levelness of the vehicle body, chassis, or
frame which may or may not include a hydraulic-pneumatic
suspension element.
Subclass:
124.159
Fluid handling details:
This subclass is indented under subclass 124.158. Subject
matter wherein significance is attributed to a flow path for
either the gaseous medium or the incompressible liquid
medium.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
137, Fluid Handling, appropriate subclasses for general fluid
handling apparatus and methods.
Subclass:
124.16
Fluid handling details:
This subclass is indented under subclass 124.157. Subject
matter wherein significance is attributed to a flow path for
the displaceable flowable agent.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
124.159 for fluid handling details when the fluidic
suspension includes a gaseous medium and an incompressible
liquid medium.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
137, Fluid Handling, appropriate subclasses for general fluid
handling apparatus and methods.
Subclass:
124.161
Closed system:
This subclass is indented under subclass 124.16. Subject
matter wherein the displaceable flowable agent is contained
at all times.
Subclass:
124.162
Including mechanical spring element:
This subclass is indented under subclass 124.157. Subject
matter wherein the fluidic suspension includes an elastic
potential energy storing device.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
267, Spring Devices, 217 for a vehicle spring device
including a combination of a mechanical spring and a fluid
retarder (i.e., shock absorber).
Subclass:
124.163
Leaf spring:
This subclass is indented under subclass 124.162. Subject
matter wherein the mechanical spring element is an elongated
strip which flexurally deflects in response to a force being
imposed perpendicularly to its width dimension.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
267, Spring Devices, subclass 227 for a vehicle spring
device including a combination of a leaf spring and a fluid
retarder (i.e., shock absorber).
Subclass:
124.164
Mechanical spring element:
This subclass is indented under subclass 124.1. Subject
matter wherein the suspension includes an elastic potential
energy storing device.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
267, Spring Devices, 2 for vehicle spring devices, per se.
Subclass:
124.165
Plural diverse mechanical spring elements:
This subclass is indented under subclass 124.164. Subject
matter wherein the suspension includes several distinct forms
or types of elastic potential energy storing devices.
(1) Note. Mere duplication of a single form or type of
elastic potential energy storing device is not proper for
classification in this subclass. Such duplication would be
properly classified in the subclass providing for that form
or type of elastic potential energy storing device.
(2) Note. A resilient, elastomeric, or rubber element
employed within a mounting arrangement of a mechanical spring
element is not to be considered a "distinct" spring element
for classification in this subclass unless such resilient,
elastomeric, or rubber element acts to provide cushioning
effect upon the axle, vehicle body, chassis, or frame, or
wheel other than through the associated mechanical spring
mounting arrangement.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
124.108 for a suspension arrangement specifically provided
to abate mechanical noise, which may involve the use of a
resilient, elastomeric, or rubber cushioning element.
124.162 for a suspension arrangement including a fluidic
suspension element and a mechanical spring element.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
267, Spring Devices, 2 for vehicle spring devices, per se,
especially subclasses 259+ for plural diverse spring devices,
each of which cushions relative movement between parts of the
vehicle.
Subclass:
124.166
Torsion spring:
This subclass is indented under subclass 124.164. Subject
matter wherein the mechanical spring element has a lengthwise
axis and undergoes a twisting deformation (torque
deformation) about its lengthwise axis in response to an
applied force.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
5.511 for an active suspension responsive while the vehicle
is in surface traversing motion wherein a sway or torsion bar
is regulated.
86.5 for an auxiliary axle assembly which may or may not
include a torsion spring.
104 for vehicle running gear including an equalized frame,
especially subclasses 679 or 684 for tandem axles including
torsion spring means.
124.103 for a suspension arrangement causing body banking on
turning which may or may not include a torsion spring.
124.107 for a suspension arrangement preventing body roll
which may or may not include a torsion spring.
124.116 for a suspension arrangement wherein an axle or axle
assembly is mounted upon a horizontal and transverse pivot
axis which may or may not include a torsion spring.
124.125 for a suspension arrangement for separately
supporting a wheel upon an individual skein or spindle axle,
especially subclasses 124.13, 124.137, 124.149, or 124.152
which include a torsion spring device.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
267, Spring Devices, 273 for a torsion vehicle spring
device.
Subclass:
124.167
Longitudinally extending:
This subclass is indented under subclass 124.166. Subject
matter wherein the lengthwise axis of the torsion spring is
directed substantially along a longitudinal centerline of the
vehicle body, chassis, or frame.
Subclass:
124.168
Helical form:
This subclass is indented under subclass 124.166. Subject
matter wherein the torsion spring is a spiral lying on the
surface of a cylinder and the twisting deformation (torque
deformation) causes winding of the spiral.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
267, Spring Devices, subclass 275 for a vehicle helical form
torsion spring device.
Subclass:
124.169
Elastomeric material:
This subclass is indented under subclass 124.166. Subject
matter wherein the torsion spring is a mass of rubber or
rubber-like resilient material.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
267, Spring Devices, 279 for a vehicle elastomeric torsion
spring device.
Subclass:
124.17
Leaf spring:
This subclass is indented under subclass 124.164. Subject
matter wherein the mechanical spring element is an elongated
strip which flexurally deflects in response to a force being
imposed perpendicularly to its width dimension.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
680 for a tandem axle suspension including a walking beam
and leaf spring means.
686 for a tandem axle suspension including leaf spring
means.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
267, Spring Devices, 36.1 for a vehicle leaf spring device
or subclasses 229+ for a vehicle spring device including a
lever and a leaf spring.
Subclass:
124.171
Transverse:
This subclass is indented under subclass 124.17. Subject
matter wherein the leaf spring is disposed laterally across
the vehicle body, chassis, or frame.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
124.115 for a rocking and swinging axle which may or may not
include a transverse leaf spring.
124.124 for a swinging axle wherein a fifth wheel is
supported upon a transverse leaf spring.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
267, Spring Devices, subclass 246 for a vehicle leaf spring
device wherein the leaf spring is disposed laterally of the
vehicle chassis.
Subclass:
124.172
Reach attached:
This subclass is indented under subclass 124.171. Subject
matter wherein the transverse leaf spring is connected to a
member longitudinally interconnecting front and rear axles
(i.e., reach).
Subclass:
124.173
Sidebar attached:
This subclass is indented under subclass 124.171. Subject
matter including a longitudinally extending member (i.e.,
sidebar) disposed along a side of the vehicle and wherein the
transverse leaf spring is connected to the longitudinally
extending member.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
267, Spring Devices, subclass 39 for a vehicle leaf spring
device wherein the leaf spring is secured to sidebars
disposed longitudinally of the vehicle chassis.
Subclass:
124.174
Plural cooperating leaf springs (e.g., full elliptical
spring, helper springs):
This subclass is indented under subclass 124.17. Subject
matter including multiple leaf springs associated and acting
together within a common support region of the vehicle body,
chassis, or frame.
(1) Note. A single leaf spring constructed of plural
flexible strips is not considered proper for this subclass.
(2) Note. A symmetrical arrangement, providing mere
duplication of a leaf spring suspension upon each lateral
side of the vehicle body, chassis, or frame, is not to be
considered plural cooperating leaf springs located within a
common support region of the vehicle body, chassis, or frame
and is not proper for classification in this subclass.
Subclass:
124.175
Connection detail:
This subclass is indented under subclass 124.17. Subject
matter wherein significance is attributed to an attachment of
the leaf spring to either (a) the vehicle body, chassis, or
frame; (b) the axle; or (c) the wheel.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
267, Spring Devices, 260 for vehicle leaf spring connection
details.
Subclass:
124.176
Lateral force compliance for steering deflection:
This subclass is indented under subclass 124.175. Subject
matter wherein the attachment enables limited alteration
(i.e., compliance) of a spatial alignment between an axle or
wheel carrier and the vehicle body, chassis, or frame when
the vehicle executes arcuate travel (i.e., steering
deflection).
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
5.52 for an active suspension responsive while the vehicle
is in surface traversing motion wherein a spatial
relationship of the running gear is regulated.
86.75 for a wheeled land vehicle including means for
enabling static alignment adjustment of the running gear upon
the vehicle.
Subclass:
124.177
Elastomeric spring:
This subclass is indented under subclass 124.164. Subject
matter wherein the mechanical spring element is a mass of
rubber or rubber-like resilient material.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
86.5 for an auxiliary axle assembly which may or may not
include an elastomeric spring.
124.169 for a torsion spring comprising elastomeric
material.
681 for a tandem axle including a walking beam and an
elastomeric spring.
687 for a tandem axle including an elastomeric spring.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
267, Spring Devices, 257 for a vehicle spring device
including the combination of a lever and an elastomeric
spring or subclasses 292+ for an elastomeric vehicle spring
device.
Subclass:
124.178
Shear force:
This subclass is indented under subclass 124.177. Subject
matter wherein the mass resists deformation from a
transversely applied impetus.
Subclass:
124.179
Coil spring:
This subclass is indented under subclass 124.164. Subject
matter wherein the mechanical spring element is a helical or
spiral wire element subjected to compression or tension.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
86.5 for an auxiliary axle assembly which may or may not
include a coil spring.
124.125 for a suspension arrangement for separately
supporting a wheel upon an individual stub axle which may or
may not include a coil spring.
124.162 for a fluid suspension arrangement including a
mechanical spring wherein the mechanical spring may or may
not be a coil spring.
124.168 for a helical form torsion spring.
685 for a tandem axle including a coil spring.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
267, Spring Devices, 248 for a vehicle spring device
including the combination of a lever and a coil spring or
subclasses 286+ for a vehicle coil spring device.
Subclass:
137.5
Turnable axle (e.g., fifth-wheel or swinging axle):
This subclass is indented under subclass 80.1. Subject
matter wherein a transverse shaft or member supporting
laterally opposed wheels includes (a) a coupling assembly of
two coaxially mounted rotatable disks or disk segments or (b)
a vertical pivot axis to enable arcuate travel.
(1) Note. Included herein is a horizontal swinging axle
lacking resilient, shock absorbing interconnection between
the swinging axle and the vehicle body, chassis, or frame. A
horizontal swinging axle including interposed resilient,
shock absorbing interconnection is not proper for this
subclass but is provided for earlier in the class schedule.
(2) Note. Included herein is a horizontal swinging axle for
a drawn vehicle lacking the recitation of a draft vehicle.
(3) Note. A horizontal swinging axle including occupant
controlled steering means is not proper for classification in
this or the indented subclasses but is provided for earlier
in the class schedule.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
93.504 for a vehicle having a horizontal swinging axle
including occupant controlled steering means.
124.114 for a vertical rocking axle which is additionally
mounted for horizontal swinging movement to execute arcuate
movement of the vehicle.
124.117 for a horizontal swinging axle including interposed
resilient, shock absorbing interconnection between the
swinging axle and the vehicle body, chassis, or frame.
124.172 for a vehicle body, chassis, or frame resiliently,
shock absorbingly mounted upon a transverse, reach mounted
leaf spring wherein one axle is a horizontal swinging axle.
400 for an articulated vehicle or plural interconnected
vehicles (i.e., vehicle train) which may or may not include a
horizontal swinging axle.
Subclass:
137.501
With draft attachment:
This subclass is indented under subclass 137.5. Subject
matter including means for connection to a source of pulling
force.
(1) Note. Shafts or tongues neither claimed nor disclosed
as a handle are included herein.
(2) Note. Shafts or tongues including a nominal recitation
of interconnection with another vehicle are included herein.
(3) Note. Futchel or futchell, one of the pieces of wood or
metal forming a socket for a pole or thill, is included
within the scope of a means for connecting to a source of
pulling force.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
47.11 for an attendant steered vehicle having plural
horizontal swinging axles controlled by a handle draft member
connected to one of the swinging axles.
47.17 for a tiltable, attendant or article stabilized,
handle-propelled vehicle which may or may not include a
horizontal swinging axle.
47.34 for a stable, handle-propelled vehicle which may or
may not include a horizontal swinging axle.
87.01 for a coaster vehicle which may or may not include a
horizontal swinging axle.
98 for a general utility wheeled land vehicle running gear
specially constructed for enabling arcuate travel within a
reduced radius of curvature (i.e., short turn) which involves
other than a mere swinging axle which may involve a draft
attachment, especially subclass 103 which includes stub axle
supported wheels.
108 for draft connection or tongue antivibrators.
124.114 for a vertical rocking and horizontal swinging axle
which may or may not include a draft attachment.
124.12 for a horizontal swinging axle including interposed
resilient, shock absorbing interconnection between the
horizontal swinging axle and the vehicle body, chassis, or
frame provided with a draft attachment.
400 for articulated vehicles including interconnecting draft
attachment means, especially subclasses 408+ wherein draft
attachment means are provided upon both ends of at least one
of the connected vehicles; subclass 416 wherein the draft
attachment means is convertible so that the vehicle may be
drawn by either animals or another vehicle; subclasses 442+
wherein the draft attachment means interconnection serves to
steer the trailing vehicle in response to articulative
movement; subclasses 456.1+ wherein the draft attachment
means between interconnected vehicles is laterally
adjustable; subclasses 478.1+ wherein the draft attachment
means is bodily shiftable to facilitate vehicle coupling;
subclasses 483+ wherein the draft attachment means is
resiliently biased to prevent movement in at least one
direction; or subclasses 491.1+ wherein the draft attachment
means has a use and a nonuse position.
655.1 for an extensible vehicle wherein only a handle draft
member thereof is foldable.
Subclass:
137.502
Fifth-wheel or pivot details:
This subclass is indented under subclass 137.5. Subject
matter wherein significance is attributed to the (a) the
fifth-wheel or (b) the vertical pivot.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
124.115 for a horizontal rocking and vertically swinging
axle including a fifth-wheel coupling creating the vertical
pivot axis.
124.124 for a swinging axle wherein a fifth wheel is
positioned upon a transverse leaf spring.
137.501 for a fifth wheel or swinging axle including means
for connection to a source of pulling force. See the search
notes thereunder for additional relevant subclasses.
433 for a fifth wheel coupling between a tractor and a
semitrailer.
Subclass:
137.503
Spherical union (i.e., ball and socket joint):
This subclass is indented under subclass 137.502. Subject
matter including a bulbous member (i.e., ball) interfitting
within a concave member (i.e., socket) creating the vertical
pivot axis.
Subclass:
137.504
Perch or reach bracing:
This subclass is indented under subclass 137.502. Subject
matter including strengthening means between the turnable
axle and an elongated member which interconnects front and
rear axles of the vehicle.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
139 for a brace, known as a hound, which either (a) extends
between a shaft or tongue and an articulated axle or (b)
between a perch or reach and a rear axle.
140 for specific construction of an elongate member
interconnecting front and rear axles of the vehicle, known as
either a perch or reach.
Subclass:
137.505
Offset pivot:
This subclass is indented under subclass 137.502. Subject
matter wherein the vertical pivot axis is displaced from the
longitudinal axis of the turnable axle.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
124.122 for a swinging axle including resilient, shock
absorbing support having an offset pivot.
Subclass:
137.506
Kingbolt detail:
This subclass is indented under subclass 137.502. Subject
matter wherein significance is attributed to a vertical pin
or rod defining the pivot axis of the turnable axle.
Subclass:
137.507
Antirattler:
This subclass is indented under subclass 137.502. Subject
matter including means for limiting or preventing vibration
induced noise created by movement of cooperating parts.
(1) Note. These are usually resilient means for holding the
two rubbing members of a fifth wheel in close contact.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
124.108 for a suspension construction specifically provided
to abate mechanically generated noise.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
105, Railway Rolling Stock, subclass 452 for sound deadeners
for railway rolling stock.
Subclass:
139
This subclass is indented under subclass 80.1. Devices
comprising braces between the tongue and front axle or
between the reach and rear axle.
Subclass:
140
This subclass is indented under subclass 80.1. Devices
comprising connecting members between the front and rear axle
running-gear.
Subclass:
141
This subclass is indented under subclass 140. Reaches having
a swivel-joint to allow the front and rear axle gears to
oscillate in vertical planes independently of each other.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
124.117 for a general utility wheeled land vehicle including
a swinging axle including resilient, shock absorbing support
for the vehicle body, chassis, or frame which may or may not
involve a perch or reach.
137.5 for a general utility wheeled land vehicle including a
swinging axle lacking resilient, shock absorbing support
which may or may not involve a perch or reach, especially
subclass 137.504 which includes perch or reach bracing.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
74, Machine Element or Mechanism, 579 for pitmans and
connecting rods.
403, Joints and Connections, 52 for swivel joints of general
utility, particularly subclasses 78+.
Subclass:
142
This subclass is indented under subclass 140. Reaches which
are adjustable in length.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
74, Machine Element or Mechanism, subclass 586 for
longitudinally adjustable pitmans and connecting rods.
Subclass:
143
This subclass is indented under subclass 80.1. Devices
comprising transverse bolsters formed with standards at each
end and adapted to support either a load or a load carrier.
(1) Note. The patents in this subclass and those indented
under it show the combination of a bolster with its standard
or either of the elements, per se.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
105, Railway Rolling Stock, 380 for similar devices for rail
vehicles.
296, Land Vehicles: Bodies and Tops, subclass 43 for stakes
and sockets for vehicle bodies.
Subclass:
144
This subclass is indented under subclass 143. Bolsters
having means operative to vary the distance between the
standards to accommodate varying widths of load or
load-carriers.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
638 for extensible vehicles.
Subclass:
145
This subclass is indented under subclass 143. Bolsters
having a pivotal connection between the standards and the
bolster.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
105, Railway Rolling Stock, subclass 381 for side folding
stakes for railway cars.
Subclass:
146
This subclass is indented under subclass 143. Bolsters
having means to adjust the standard vertically to increase or
decrease its length.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
105, Railway Rolling Stock, 389 for telescopic stakes for
railway cars.
Subclass:
147
This subclass is indented under subclass 143. Bolsters
having means securing the standards to the bolsters such that
the standard can be quickly and easily removed from the
bolster.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
105, Railway Rolling Stock, 382 for releasable stakes for
railway cars.
Subclass:
148
This subclass is indented under subclass 143. Devices having
bolsters supplemental to the regular bolsters and either
superposed thereon or in an intermediate position for
supporting the load or load-carrier.
Subclass:
149
This subclass is indented under subclass 80.1. Devices
comprising iron elements of a running-gear, especially
U-shaped devices for securing the various parts of a running
gear together, including also the yokes for connecting the
legs of the U-shaped devices.
Subclass:
149.1
Interchangeable axles:
This subclass is indented under subclass 80.1. Vehicles in
which the axle carrying the running gear may be replaced by a
different axle providing a different running gear
arrangement.
Subclass:
149.2
Longitudinally shiftable running gear:
This subclass is indented under subclass 80.1. Vehicles in
which the running gear units may be moved along a line
extending in the direction of travel as an assembly,
typically to change the wheel base.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
638 for a vehicle including means for altering a dimension
of the vehicle or a part thereof.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
180, Motor Vehicles, subclass 24.02 for vertically moveable
running gear for shifting or proportioning the load, e.g.,
tag axles.
Subclass:
151
This subclass is indented under subclass 727. Mechanical
devices attached to a vehicle other than a motor-vehicle and
operated by the driver of the vehicle to assist in starting a
heavy load.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
254, Implements or Apparatus for Applying Pushing or Pulling
Force, 35 for car pushing implements.
278, Land Vehicles: Animal Draft Appliances, subclass 2 for
load starters, combined with animal draft appliances.
Subclass:
152.05
This subclass is indented under subclass 847. Dust or mud
guards including a wheel or tire carrying means, e.g., a
fender well.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
224, Package and Article Carriers, subclass 42.12 for
vehicle attached wheel or tire carriers when no modification
of the vehicle structure is involved.
296, Land Vehicles: Bodies and Tops, appropriate subclasses
for modifications of a vehicle body to provide a means to
receive and carry a tire or wheel especially subclass 37.2
for auxiliary wheel compartment provided in the vehicle
body.
Subclass:
152.1
This subclass is indented under subclass 847. Dust and mud
guards especially designed for velocipedes.
Subclass:
152.2
This subclass is indented under subclass 152.1. Dust and mud
guards which are combined with wheel guards.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
160.1 for wheel guards, per se.
Subclass:
152.3
This subclass is indented under subclass 152.1. Dust and mud
guards in which the guard is flexible or made in sections.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
160, Flexible or Portable Closure, Partition, or Panel, for
structurally similar devices, not vehicle dust or mud guards,
particularly 45, for awning type; and 130+, for plural strip,
slat or panel type as there defined.
Subclass:
153.5
This subclass is indented under subclass 848. Devices
comprising anti-squeak welts or moldings adapted to be
disposed between a mud-guard and the body or frame of a land
vehicle.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
52, Static Structures (e.g., Buildings), 393 for a structure
having a relatively yieldable preformed member separating
other components.
277, Seal for a Joint or Juncture, for a generic sealing
means or process, 628 for a static contact seal for other
than an internal combustion engine, or a pipe, conduit, or
cable.
Subclass:
154
This subclass is indented under subclass 848. Dust and mud
guards having means for attaching them to the body of a
vehicle.
Subclass:
155
This subclass is indented under subclass 847. Dust and mud
guards secured to the thill or tongue of a vehicle.
Subclass:
156
This subclass is indented under subclass 847. Dust and mud
guards secured to the wheel of the vehicle.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
152, Resilient Tires and Wheels, subclass 154 for mud guards
attached to resilient tires.
Subclass:
157
This subclass is indented under subclass 847. Dust and mud
guards secured to the axle of a vehicle.
Subclass:
158.1
This subclass is indented under subclass 855. Wheel scrapers
and cleaners especially designed for velocipedes.
Subclass:
159
This subclass is indented under subclass 727. Devices for
protecting occupants of a vehicle from road-dust.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
296, Land Vehicles: Bodies and Tops, 77.1 for storm fronts,
shields, aprons, and robes for vehicle bodies.
Subclass:
160
This subclass is indented under subclass 727. Devices for
fending obstacles (not persons) from contact with the wheels
of a vehicle.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
172, Earth Working, 810 for an earth working tool positioned
ahead of a motor vehicle and subclasses 508+ for a guard,
shield or plant diverter for an earth working apparatus.
293, Vehicle Fenders, for fenders for vehicles, especially
subclass 58 for individual wheel guards and 102+ for
automobile bumpers.
Subclass:
160.1
This subclass is indented under subclass 160. Wheel guards
specially designed for velocipedes.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
474, Endless Belt Power Transmission Systems or Components,
144 for a guard or housing for a belt or pulley.
Subclass:
161
This subclass is indented under subclass 727. Devices for
protecting a part of a vehicle from injury by movement of
another part thereagainst.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
105, Railway Rolling Stock, subclass 452 for sound deadeners
for railway rolling stock.
296, Land Vehicles: Bodies and Tops, subclass 41 for wear
strips for vehicle bodies.
Subclass:
162
This subclass is indented under subclass 161. Chafe irons
having a roller as a part.
Subclass:
163
This subclass is indented under subclass 727. Devices
comprising a platform secured to a vehicle to facilitate the
entry or exit of a person.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
291 for steps for occupant propelled vehicles.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
52, Static Structures (e.g., Buildings), 182 for a stepped
structure of more general utility.
105, Railway Rolling Stock, 443 for steps for railway
vehicles.
182, Fire Escape, Ladder, or Scaffold, 82 for a wall or
floor attached ladder or step.
296, Land Vehicles: Bodies and Tops, subclass 75 for
vehicle body footrests.
Subclass:
164.1
Combined devices:
This subclass is indented under subclass 163. Steps having a
part or attachment for performing an additional purpose or
function.
Subclass:
164.2
Steps combined with shoe scrapers:
This subclass is indented under subclass 164.1. Devices
where the additional function is removing dirt from shoes or
boots.
(1) Note. The scraper may only provide a nominal stepping
function, actually serving as an interim nonloaded resting
position, to clean the boot, in the process of entering the
vehicle.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
15, Brushing, Scrubbing, and General Cleaning, 237, for boot
scrapers not claimed in combination with vehicle structure.
296, Land Vehicles: Bodies and Tops, subclass 199 for door
sills.
Subclass:
165
This subclass is indented under subclass 163. Steps attached
to the wheel or axle of the vehicle.
Subclass:
166
This subclass is indented under subclass 163. Steps having
means permitting the step to be moved to various positions.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
182, Fire Escape, Ladder, or Scaffold, subclass 91 for a
wall or floor attached pivoted step.
Subclass:
169
This subclass is indented under subclass 163. Devices
relating to foot-engaging portion of the step.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
52, Static Structures (e.g., Buildings), 177 for a wear or
friction carrying surface of more general utility.
Subclass:
170
This subclass is indented under subclass 727. Devices
comprising socket devices for holding a whip.
Subclass:
171
This subclass is indented under subclass 170. Whip sockets
having means to grip the whip to hold it in the socket.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
176 for somewhat similar devices where the whip-gripping
means is locked in its gripping position.
Subclass:
172
This subclass is indented under subclass 171. Whip sockets
where the gripping means is a spring.
Subclass:
173
This subclass is indented under subclass 171. Whip sockets
where the gripping means is a rubber gasket.
Subclass:
174
This subclass is indented under subclass 171. Whip sockets
where the whip-socket is formed of pivotally connected
sections.
Subclass:
175
This subclass is indented under subclass 170. Devices to
secure a whip-socket to a vehicle part.
Subclass:
176
This subclass is indented under subclass 170. Whip-sockets
having locking means to secure the whip against
displacement.
(1) Note. Many of the patents in this subclass have some
form of whip-gripping means in combination with a lock to
positively hold the said means in the whip-gripping
position.
Subclass:
177
This subclass is indented under subclass 170. Whip sockets
having means for holding the lines when not in use.
Subclass:
178
This subclass is indented under subclass 170. Whip sockets
having means operable by the driver of a vehicle to use the
whip without withdrawal thereof from the socket.
Subclass:
180
This subclass is indented under subclass 179. Load binders
where the load is hay or similar material.
Subclass:
181
This subclass is indented under subclass 727. Devices
providing means to support the reins out of engagement with a
part of the vehicle or tail of the horse.
Subclass:
182
This subclass is indented under subclass 727. Devices
providing means for holding the lines when not in use.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
177 for reinholders combined with whip sockets.
Subclass:
183
This subclass is indented under subclass 182. Reinholders
comprising a clamp.
Subclass:
184
This subclass is indented under subclass 183. Reinholders in
which the clamp is spring-operated.
Subclass:
185
This subclass is indented under subclass 184. Reinholders in
which the clamp has spring-pressed pivoted jaws.
Subclass:
186
This subclass is indented under subclass 727. Devices
connected to a vehicle operable to prevent movement of the
draft animals when left standing, to stop said draft-animals
in case the driver loses control, and also mechanical devices
for guiding and controlling said draft-animals.
Subclass:
187
This subclass is indented under subclass 186. Devices
comprising a weight attached to a tie-line and secured to the
vehicle in such a manner as to be readily dropped by the
driver.
(1) Note. This subclass also includes the structure of the
weight, per se.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
16, Miscellaneous Hardware, subclass 404, for other weights.
Subclass:
188
This subclass is indented under subclass 186. Devices in
which a rod pivoted to the vehicle and connected to a
tie-line can by the engagement of its free end with the
ground cause a tension of the line.
Subclass:
189
This subclass is indented under subclass 186. Devices for
pulling tension on the driving-lines or separate tie-lines
operated by the wheels of the vehicle.
Subclass:
190
This subclass is indented under subclass 189. Devices where
the lines are wound upon a drum.
Subclass:
191
This subclass is indented under subclass 190. Devices having
a shiftable gear transmission between the drum and wheel.
Subclass:
192
This subclass is indented under subclass 190. Devices
provided with a clutch between the drum and wheel.
Subclass:
200
This subclass is indented under subclass 29. Vehicles of the
type in which there is provided some positive means adapting
the vehicle to be propelled by the occupant.
(1) Note. These subclasses do not include those vehicles
pushed along by the hands or feet of the occupant, for which
see the search notes below.
(2) Note. Due to their closeness in structure, motorcycle
frames and running gear are included in this group. Where
features are claimed limiting the device to a motor vehicle,
it is classified elsewhere. See the Search Class notes below
for a motor vehicle having a wheel arrangement comprising two
wheels in tandem relationship.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
7.1 87.01+ for those vehicles pushed along by the hands or
feet of the occupant.
43.1 for a vehicle having vertically adjustable ground
engaging means and which is unstable when in transporting
position but which is stabilized by an attendant or an
article to which the vehicle is temporarily attached.
827 for simulation type velocipedes, and see the Note to
that subclass for the line.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
74, Machine Element or Mechanism, appropriate subclasses, for
propulsion means, per se, including cranks and pedals, and
also where necessary vehicle parts, as frame or drive wheel,
are included by name only.
105, Railway Rolling Stock, 86 for trackman's car drive.
180, Motor Vehicles, 219 for a motor vehicle having a wheel
arrangement comprising two wheels in tandem relationship.
244, Aeronautics, subclass 64 for manual propulsion for
aircraft.
267, Spring Devices, subclass 132 for a spring device useful
as a velocipede seat support.
384, Bearings, subclass 431 for a plain bearing and subclass
457 for an antifriction bearing for a crankshaft which may
include mounting or supporting structure for the bearing.
440, Marine Propulsion, subclass 12, 21+ and 94, for hand and
foot powered propulsion means for movement through water, and
see the definition of "vessel" in Class 440 in the Class
Definition.
Subclass:
201
This subclass is indented under subclass 200. Vehicles in
which a pump is formed as a part of the vehicle.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
202 for pump carriers.
216 for pumps combined with a propelling system.
295 for pumps combined with props.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
152, Resilient Tires and Wheels, 415 for pumps constructed
and arranged so as to be capable of inflating the tires while
the vehicle is in motion.
417, Pumps, 231 for pumps attached to vehicles and actuated
thereby.
Subclass:
202
This subclass is indented under subclass 200. Vehicles in
which means is provided in the organized vehicle for carrying
additional passengers or articles.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
47.35 handle propelled stable vehicles having plural load
supports.
209 for parallel connected cycles.
222 231+ and 273+, for plural occupant propelled and/or
controlled vehicles.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
224, Package and Article Carriers, 400 for mere attachments
for carrying articles.
297, Chairs and Seats, 234 for an auxiliary seat supported
by a primary seat.
Subclass:
203
This subclass is indented under subclass 202. Vehicles in
which the additional carrying means is in the form of a side
car.
Subclass:
204
This subclass is indented under subclass 202. Vehicles in
which the additional carrying means is in the form of a
trailing vehicle.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
400 for vehicle trains and articulated vehicles.
Subclass:
205
This subclass is indented under subclass 200. Vehicles which
have a single wheel or two wheels having a common axis.
(1) Note. Additional steadying wheels may be provided but
such wheels are not intended to contact the ground when the
vehicle is in normal operation.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
47.2 for handle-propelled tiltable type vehicles with
auxiliary wheel stabilizing means.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
105, Railway Rolling Stock, subclass 142 for human balance
type monorail vehicles.
Subclass:
206
This subclass is indented under subclass 205. Vehicles in
which the occupant rides within the periphery of the wheel.
Subclass:
207
This subclass is indented under subclass 206. Vehicles in
which both (1) the occupant support rides on and (2) power is
applied to one or more annuli concentric with the wheel
axis.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
180, Motor Vehicles, subclass 10 for motor vehicles with
annular portable track.
Subclass:
208
This subclass is indented under subclass 206. Vehicles which
have two wheels side by side.
Subclass:
209
This subclass is indented under subclass 200. Vehicles in
which means is provided for connecting two cycles in
parallel.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
202 222, 231+, and 273, for organized vehicles having means
for carrying additional passengers.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
297, Chairs and Seats, 248 for parallel seats having means
to couple adjacent ones together.
Subclass:
210
This subclass is indented under subclass 200. Vehicles which
have some positive means operable by the occupant for
propelling the vehicle.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
3 for vehicles propelled by a person walking alongside the
vehicle.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
70, Locks, subclass 236 for means for locking the
propulsion.
74, Machine Element or Mechanism, appropriate subclass, for
mechanical movements, per se, including cranks and pedals.
105, Railway Rolling Stock, 86 for trackmen's cars.
244, Aeronautics, subclass 64 for manual aircraft
propulsion.
440, Marine Propulsion, 21 for boats and other vessels
propelled by foot or hand power, and see the definition of
"vessel" in Class 440 in the class definition.
482, Exercise Devices, particularly 57 for an exercise
device involving user translation on a bicycle or physical
simulation thereof.
Subclass:
211
This subclass is indented under subclass 210. Vehicles in
which the propelling means is operable to steer the vehicle,
i.e., one wheel may be driven faster than the other to steer
the vehicle.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
208 for bicycle similarly steered.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
180, Motor Vehicles, 6.2 for motor vehicles steered by
driving.
Subclass:
212
This subclass is indented under subclass 210. Vehicles in
which the occupant operated propulsion means involves some
means for storing energy, which energy is expended in driving
the vehicle.
Subclass:
213
This subclass is indented under subclass 212. Vehicles in
which the added power is a sail attachment.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
11.37 for skaters' sails.
Subclass:
214
This subclass is indented under subclass 212. Vehicles in
which the occupant operated propulsion means may, at least
selectively, directly propel the vehicle without aid of the
storing means.
Subclass:
215
This subclass is indented under subclass 214. Vehicles in
which the added energy device is interposed in the occupant
operated propelling train.
Subclass:
216
This subclass is indented under subclass 215. Vehicles in
which the interposed energy device is a fluid power plant.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
60, Power Plants, appropriate subclasses, for such power
plants, per se.
Subclass:
217
This subclass is indented under subclass 215. Vehicles in
which the interposed energy device is a flywheel or weight.
Subclass:
218
This subclass is indented under subclass 210. Vehicles in
which the fore part of the vehicle moves forward alternately
with the rear part. Usually the occupant alternately applies
and releases his weight from the vehicle seat.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
1 for similar vehicles having no wheels.
1.181 for similar vehicles of the simulation type.
Subclass:
219
This subclass is indented under subclass 210. Vehicles in
which the propelling means is constructed to intermittently
contact the surface over which the vehicle travels to push
the vehicle along.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
12.11 for sleds similarly propelled.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
180, Motor Vehicles, subclass 187 for a motor vehicle which
includes one or more ski-like or runner members and wherein
the vehicle is provided with at least one surface-engaging
propulsion element and further wherein the element has a
shuffling movement along the surface which supports it; and
subclass 8.1 for a motor vehicle having a special driving
device in the nature of a stepper.
Subclass:
220
This subclass is indented under subclass 210. Vehicles in
which the occupant support moves during the propulsion of the
vehicle to facilitate its propulsion. The movable support
usually is capable of propelling or assisting to propel the
vehicle.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
1.191 for similar vehicles of the simulation type.
218 for steppers and other nonsimulating velocipedes in
which the supports advance alternately.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
185, Motors: Spring, Weight, or Animal Powered, subclass
15.5 for motors operated by a pivoted seat.
297, Chairs and Seats, 195.1 for a saddle type seat,
subclasses 285+ for a resiliently mounted seat back, and
subclass 312 for seat bottom having resiliently mounted
independently movable sections.
Subclass:
221
This subclass is indented under subclass 220. Vehicles in
which the movable support is so connected with the propelling
train as to propel or assist in propelling the vehicle.
Subclass:
222
This subclass is indented under subclass 221. Vehicles which
are constructed to be propelled by more than one occupant.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
231 for plural occupant propelled vehicles.
Subclass:
223
This subclass is indented under subclass 221. Vehicles which
have occupant operated means other than the movable occupant
support for propelling the vehicle.
Subclass:
224
This subclass is indented under subclass 223. Vehicles in
which the added propelling means is constructed to be
operated by both the hands and feet of the operator.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
232 and 233+, for other hand and foot propelled vehicles.
Subclass:
225
This subclass is indented under subclass 223. Vehicles in
which the added propelling means is constructed to be
operated by the hands of the occupant.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
242.1 for other hand propelled vehicles.
Subclass:
226.1
Movable seat:
This subclass is indented under subclass 221. Vehicles in
which the movable occupant support is constructed to seat the
occupant.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
185, Motors: Spring, Weight, or Animal Powered, subclass
15.5 for motors operated by a pivoted seat.
Subclass:
227
This subclass is indented under subclass 226.1. Vehicles in
which the crank hanger moves in unison with the seat.
Subclass:
228
This subclass is indented under subclass 221. Vehicles which
are adapted to be operated by the feet of the occupant as in
walking.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
185, Motors: Spring, Weight, or Animal Powered, subclass 16
for belt tread operated motors.
482, Exercise Devices, particularly subclass 54 for an
exercise treadmill device.
Subclass:
229
This subclass is indented under subclass 220. Vehicles in
which the occupant support moves by reason of supporting
wheels being eccentrically mounted.
Subclass:
230
This subclass is indented under subclass 210. Vehicles which
have more than one point of power application by the
occupant.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
212 for added or stored energy devices.
223 for movable occupant support operated vehicles with
added power application.
Subclass:
231
This subclass is indented under subclass 230. Vehicles which
are designed to be propelled by more than one occupant.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
202 209, 222, and 273, for other plural occupant propelled
vehicles.
Subclass:
232
This subclass is indented under subclass 231. Vehicles
designed to be operated by the hands of one occupant and the
feet of another or by both the hands and feet of all
occupants.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
224 225, 233+, and 242.1+, for other hand or hand and foot
operated vehicles.
Subclass:
233
This subclass is indented under subclass 230. Vehicles which
are designed to be operated by both the hands and feet of the
occupant.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
224 225, 232, and 242.1+, for other hand and hand and foot
operated vehicles.
Subclass:
234
This subclass is indented under subclass 233. Vehicles in
which the propelling means is interconnected with the
steering means.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
240 for similar devices for single occupant vehicles.
Subclass:
235
This subclass is indented under subclass 233. Vehicles which
are constructed to be steered by the seat of the vehicle or
the body of the occupant.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
266 for occupant propelled vehicles with seat or body
steering.
Subclass:
236
This subclass is indented under subclass 210. Vehicles which
have means for reversing the direction of drive or for
varying the ratio of mechanical advantage between the power
source and the wheel.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
74, Machine Element or Mechanism, appropriate subclass, for
change speed or reversing gearing.
475, Planetary Gear Transmission Systems or Components, for
change-speed or reversing planetary transmission.
Subclass:
237
This subclass is indented under subclass 236. Vehicles which
have means for reversing the direction of drive.
Subclass:
238
This subclass is indented under subclass 236. Vehicles in
which at least two trains of gearing of different ratio are
provided with a shiftable clutch or gear adapted to put one
or another train into operation.
Subclass:
239
This subclass is indented under subclass 210. Vehicles which
are provided with three wheels in tandem.
Subclass:
240
This subclass is indented under subclass 210. Vehicles in
which the propelling means is interconnected with the
steering means.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
234 for plural power application vehicles of this type.
Subclass:
241
This subclass is indented under subclass 210. Vehicles in
which the propelling means includes a belt or chain adapted
to be intermittently gripped by the power applying means.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
74, Machine Element or Mechanism, 136 and 138+ for similar
mechanisms of general application.
Subclass:
242.1
Hand propelled:
This subclass is indented under subclass 210. Vehicles in
which the propulsion means is operated by the hands of the
operator.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
224 225, 232, and 233, for hand propulsion in combination
with some other occupant propulsion.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
105, Railway Rolling Stock, 86, for trackmen's cars.
Subclass:
243
This subclass is indented under subclass 242.1. Vehicles in
which the propelling means includes a strap, rope or other
flexible member adapted to be wound and unwound on a
ratcheted or overrunning drum.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
251 for other propulsion means of this type, e.g., foot.
Subclass:
244
This subclass is indented under subclass 242.1. Vehicles in
which the propelling means includes an oscillating lever.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
253 for other propulsion means of this type, e.g., foot.
Subclass:
245
This subclass is indented under subclass 244. Velocipedes in
which the oscillating lever operates a rack and pinion to
propel the vehicle.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
254 for foot operated mechanisms.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
74, Machine Element or Mechanism, 29 and 130+ for similar
mechanisms of general application.
Subclass:
246
This subclass is indented under subclass 244. Vehicles in
which the lever is connected to the drive wheel by a link or
linkage system with a ratchet or overrunning clutch
interposed.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
255 for foot operated mechanisms.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
74, Machine Element or Mechanism, 142 for mechanical
movements of this type.
Subclass:
247
This subclass is indented under subclass 244. Vehicles in
which the lever is connected to a crank by a link or linkage
system.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
256 for foot operated mechanisms.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
74, Machine Element or Mechanism, appropriate subclass
indented under subclass 25, for mechanical movements of this
type.
Subclass:
248
This subclass is indented under subclass 247. Vehicles in
which a gearing system is interposed in the propelling
mechanism.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
257 for foot operated mechanisms.
Subclass:
249
This subclass is indented under subclass 242.1. Vehicles in
which the power is applied through a hand wheel or crank with
gearing interposed between the crank and ground wheel.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
259 for foot operated mechanisms.
Subclass:
250
This subclass is indented under subclass 249. Vehicles in
which the gearing is a belt or chain gearing.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
474, Endless Belt Power Transmission Systems or Components,
appropriate subclasses for a power transmission using a belt
or chain drive system.
Subclass:
250.1
Wheelchair type:
This subclass is indented under subclass 242. Vehicles for
use by a seated disabled occupant.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
647 for folding wheelchairs.
Subclass:
251
This subclass is indented under subclass 210. Vehicles in
which the propelling means includes a strap, rope or other
flexible member adapted to be wound and unwound on a
ratcheted or overrunning drum.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
243 for similar hand propulsion means.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
74, Machine Element or Mechanism, 136 and 138+ for
mechanical movements of this type.
Subclass:
252
This subclass is indented under subclass 210. Vehicles in
which the power is applied by a straight line reciprocation.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
74, Machine Element or Mechanism, 25 for mechanical
movements of this type.
Subclass:
253
This subclass is indented under subclass 210. Vehicle in
which the power is applied by an oscillating lever.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
244 for hand propulsion means of this type.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
105, Railway Rolling Stock, 86 for trackmen's cars.
Subclass:
254
This subclass is indented under subclass 253. Vehicles in
which the power is transmitted from the lever to the wheel by
the inclusion of a rack and pinion.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
245 for manually operated devices of this type.
Subclass:
255
This subclass is indented under subclass 253. Vehicles in
which the power is transmitted from the lever to the wheel by
a link or linkage and a ratchet or overrunning clutch.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
246 for manually operated devices of this type.
Subclass:
256
This subclass is indented under subclass 253. Vehicles in
which the power is transmitted from the lever to the wheel by
a link or linkage and crank.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
247 for manually operated devices of this type.
Subclass:
257
This subclass is indented under subclass 256. Vehicles in
which a gear train is interposed in the drive.
Subclass:
258
This subclass is indented under subclass 253. Vehicles in
which the lever is connected to a train of gearing by means
of a ratchet or overrunning clutch.
Subclass:
259
This subclass is indented under subclass 210. Vehicles in
which the power is applied through a rotary crank.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
249 for manually operated devices of this type.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
74, Machine Element or Mechanism, appropriate subclasses,
especially 594.1 for cranks and pedals.
Subclass:
260
This subclass is indented under subclass 259. Vehicles in
which a train of gearing is interposed between the crank and
wheel.
Subclass:
261
This subclass is indented under subclass 260. Vehicles in
which the gearing is a belt or chain gearing.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
474, Endless Belt Power Transmission Systems or Components,
appropriate subclasses for a power transmission using a belt
or chain drive system.
Subclass:
262
This subclass is indented under subclass 259. Vehicles in
which the crank is connected to a wheel crank by means of a
pitman or connecting rod.
Subclass:
263
This subclass is indented under subclass 200. Vehicles in
which means is provided for steering the vehicle by the
occupant.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
1.206 for simulation type velocipedes steered by reins.
1.207 for simulation type velocipedes steered by stirrups.
211 for occupant propelled vehicles steered by driving.
234 and 235, for vehicles with hand and foot propulsion and
combined steering means.
240 for occupant propelled vehicles with interconnected
steering means.
771 for vehicles steered by the occupant, but not occupant
propelled.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
70, Locks, subclass 233 for steering wheel locks.
74, Machine Element or Mechanism, 551 for handle bars.
Subclass:
264
This subclass is indented under subclass 263. Vehicles in
which the steering means is combined with the brake.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
88 for occupant steered vehicles with combined steering and
brake.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
188, Brakes, 24.11 for velocipede brakes, per se.
Subclass:
265
This subclass is indented under subclass 263. Vehicles in
which the vehicle is constructed to be steered by the feet of
the occupant.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
1.207 for velocipede type simulations steered by stirrups.
87.1 for vehicles with foot operated steering means.
Subclass:
266
This subclass is indented under subclass 263. Vehicles which
are constructed to be steered by the seat of the vehicle or
by the body of the occupant.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
235 for hand and foot propelled vehicles steered by seat or
bodies.
Subclass:
267
This subclass is indented under subclass 263. Vehicles which
are steered by means of two wheels.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
771 for other occupant steered vehicles.
Subclass:
268
This subclass is indented under subclass 267. Vehicles in
which means is provided for holding the vehicle in a straight
course or for returning the steering wheels to their normal
forward position.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
89 for steering gear checks.
271 for one wheeled steering with centering.
Subclass:
269
This subclass is indented under subclass 267. Vehicles in
which each steering wheel is mounted on a separate stub
axle.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
93.502 for a general utility wheeled land vehicle including
particular occupant control of stub axle supported steerable
road wheels.
124.125 for particular construction of running gear for a
general utility wheeled land vehicle separately supporting a
wheel upon an individual stub axle.
Subclass:
270
This subclass is indented under subclass 263. Vehicles in
which the steering is controlled by a single wheel.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
92 for occupant steered vehicles having one wheel control.
Subclass:
271
This subclass is indented under subclass 270. Vehicles in
which means is provided for holding the vehicle in a straight
course or for returning it to the straight forward position.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
89 for a general utility wheeled land vehicle including
occupant controlled steering having means for inhibiting or
prohibiting unintended variant operation of the steerable
road wheels.
108 for draft or tongue antivibrators.
268 for an occupant propelled-type wheeled land vehicle
including steering control by two steerable road wheels and
having means for restraining or returning the two steerable
road wheels to a straight-line orientation.
Subclass:
272
This subclass is indented under subclass 270. Vehicles in
which means is provided for restraining steering movement of
the wheel.
(1) Note. Includes latches for holding the wheel against
turning movement.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
70, Locks, especially 233 for locks claiming merely
conventional bicycle structure in combination with a
particular key operated or combination lock.
Subclass:
273
This subclass is indented under subclass 270. Vehicles which
are designed to support and be steered by plural occupants.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
202 209, 222, and 231+, for other plural occupant vehicles of
the occupant propelled type.
Subclass:
274
This subclass is indented under subclass 270. Vehicles in
which only the frame and running gear is claimed.
(1) Note. In accordance with the (2) Note of subclass 200,
motorcycle frames and running gear, without features causing
classification in Class 180, Motor Vehicles, are included in
this subclass and the subclasses indented hereunder.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
5.5 for a land vehicle including suspension modification
enacted as a result of a force encountered during surface
traversing motion.
281.1 where no steering feature is claimed. The mere naming
of the steering head will not operate to keep the patent out
of subclasses 281.1+.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
180, Motor Vehicles, 218 for self-propelled land vehicles
normally traveling on two wheels.
Subclass:
275
This subclass is indented under subclass 274. Frames which
are constructed to yield usually for the purpose of absorbing
shocks.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
283 for other yielding frames.
Subclass:
276
This subclass is indented under subclass 275. Frames in
which the front fork or the head in which it swivels is
constructed to yield to road shocks.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
279 for other front forks and heads.
Subclass:
277
This subclass is indented under subclass 276. Front forks in
which the front wheel moves independently of the fork.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
285 for similar constructions for the rear fork.
286 for this subject matter where no features are claimed
limiting the device to a front wheel mounting.
Subclass:
278
This subclass is indented under subclass 274. Frames in
which the frame is adjustable, foldable or knockdown usually
for the purpose of shipping or storage.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
34 87.05, and 287, for other collapsible or knockdown
vehicles.
Subclass:
279
This subclass is indented under subclass 274. Frames in
which the invention resides in the front steering fork or the
frame head in which it swivels.
Subclass:
280
This subclass is indented under subclass 279. Devices
comprising the crown of the fork.
Subclass:
281.1
Frames and running gear:
This subclass is indented under subclass 200. Vehicles
comprising the frame or running gear of velocipedes.
(1) Note. In accordance with the (2) Note of subclass 200,
motorcycle frames and running gear, without features causing
classification in Class 180, Motor Vehicles, are included in
this subclass and the subclasses indented hereunder.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
5.5 for a land vehicle including suspension modification
enacted as a result of a force encountered during surface
traversing motion.
80.1 for vehicle running gear of other types.
274 where steering features are claimed. The mere naming of
a steering head will not operate to keep the patent out of
this subclass.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
180, Motor Vehicles, 218 for self-propelled land vehicles
normally traveling on two wheels.
384, Bearings, subclass 431 for bearing mountings, or
supports for pedal type crank.
Subclass:
282
This subclass is indented under subclass 281.1. Frames which
are designed for more than two wheels.
Subclass:
283
This subclass is indented under subclass 281.1. Frames in
which the frame is designed to yield usually for the purpose
of absorbing shocks.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
87.03 for yieldable coaster frames.
275 for yielding frames and gear for one wheel controlled
vehicles.
Subclass:
284
This subclass is indented under subclass 283. Frames in
which the rear forks are yieldable.
Subclass:
285
This subclass is indented under subclass 284. Frames in
which the rear wheel is mounted to move independently of the
fork.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
277 for similar arrangement for front forks.
286 for this arrangement where no features are claimed
limiting the device to the rear wheel mounting.
Subclass:
286
This subclass is indented under subclass 283. Frames in
which the wheel is mounted to move independently of the fork
where the invention is not limited to either the front or
rear wheel.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
277 and 285, for front and rear wheel mountings of this
type.
Subclass:
287
This subclass is indented under subclass 281.1. Frames
constructed to be extended or readily taken apart or folded.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
34 87.05, and 278, for other adjustable vehicles.
Subclass:
288
This subclass is indented under subclass 281.1. Devices
comprising the rear fork, per se.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
474, Endless Belt Power Transmission Systems or Components,
subclass 116 for means to adjust tension in a bicycle drive
chain by moving the rear sprocket.
Subclass:
288.1
Low profile:
This subclass is indented under subclass 281.1. Vehicles in
which the frame and running gear are configured and arranged
to accept a recumbent or semirecumbent occupant, producing a
vehicle with a low center of gravity and reduced wind drag.
Subclass:
288.2
Combined with body:
This subclass is indented under subclass 281.1. Vehicles in
which the frame is combined with a structure intended to at
least partially surround the occupant.
Subclass:
288.3
Hollow shell frames:
This subclass is indented under subclass 281.1. Vehicles in
which load bearing structure is formed from hollow panels,
typically comprised of joined hollow shell halves rather than
a tubular skeletal truss structure.
Subclass:
288.4
Attachments and accessories:
This subclass is indented under subclass 200. Vehicles
including attachments for velocipedes and accessories limited
to use by the occupant and not otherwise classifiable.
(1) Note. The art indented hereunder is directed to a
combination of the bicycle with some other subcombination.
Where the class for the subcombination provides subclasses
for the subcombinations use in combination, the proper
classification is in that other subcombination class. For
instance, the class for locks provides for locks in special
applications including bicycles which have provisions to
accommodate the lock. See the Search Class notes below.
Similarly, another class takes article carriers even where
the vehicle structure is changed by the inclusion of bolt
holes, angle brackets, etc. Where the organization of a
bicycle as a whole is changed to provide a carrier, proper
classification is proper in this class but in a different
subclass. Handle bar attachments in the form of receivers and
other types of handle bar attachments are placed elsewhere.
Windshield and front fairings are placed in another class.
See the search notes below.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
152.1 158.1 and 160.1, for mud guards, wheel scrapers, and
wheel guards respectively, for other vehicles.
202 for where the organization of a bicycle as a whole is
changed to provide a carrier.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
70, Locks, subclass 233 and 236 for locks for bicycles.
Class 70 provides for locks in special applications including
bicycles which have provisions to accommodate the lock.
Furthermore, Class 70 provides for locks which act on
steering handles and which lock a cycle's usual driving
mechanism.
74, Machine Element or Mechanism, 55.1 for handle bars;
551.8 for attachments to handle bars and 594.1+ for cranks
and pedals.
135, Tent, Canopy, Umbrella, or Cane, 87 for canopies.
224, Package and Article Carriers, 412 for article carriers
for bicycles; also see this class for handle bar attachments
in the form of receivers..
296, Land Vehicles: Bodies and Tops, 78 for cowls and wind
shields.
297, Chairs and Seats, 195.1 for a saddle seat, per se, or
with only enough vehicle structure as is necessary to support
the saddle seat.
474, Endless Belt Power Transmission Systems or Components,
subclass 92 for a belt or chain cleaner mounted on a
velocipede.
Subclass:
290
This subclass is indented under subclass 288.4. Devices
comprising body harness for velocipede occupants.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
119, Animal Husbandry, subclass 770 for tethering a human
being and subclass 771 for a tether attached to a vehicle;
see search notes of these subclasses for further field of
search.
Subclass:
291
This subclass is indented under subclass 288.4. Devices
comprising steps and foot rests for velocipedes.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
163 for other vehicle steps and see the search notes
thereto.
Subclass:
292
This subclass is indented under subclass 288.4. Attachments
for towing a velocipede behind either another velocipede or
some other vehicle.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
400 for vehicle trains and articulated vehicles.
Subclass:
293
This subclass is indented under subclass 288.4. Devices for
propping up a velocipede when not in use or for steadying the
vehicle against overturning when in motion.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
203 for side-car carriers.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
211, Supports: Racks, subclass 5 and 17-22 for velocipede
racks and stands.
Subclass:
294
This subclass is indented under subclass 293. Props mounted
upon or attachable to the pedals or pedal cranks.
Subclass:
295
This subclass is indented under subclass 293. Props combined
with other devices or convertible to other parts or
attachments of velocipedes.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
294 for pedals convertible to props.
Subclass:
296
This subclass is indented under subclass 295. Combinations
of prop or steadying device and means for engaging a wheel of
the vehicle or the propulsion means to prevent rolling of the
vehicle. The engaging means is usually a brake.
Subclass:
297
This subclass is indented under subclass 295. Combinations
of prop or steadying device significantly claimed with
locking means to secure the prop against movement by
unauthorized persons.
(1) Note. This subclass does not include props or steadying
devices combined with mere latches.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
70, Locks, subclass 235 for props or steadying devices of
conventional construction combined with specific locking
devices.
Subclass:
298
This subclass is indented under subclass 293. Props which
are both pivotally mounted on the vehicle and extensible
therefrom.
Subclass:
299
This subclass is indented under subclass 298. Devices
wherein the prop or steadying device is substantially in the
form of a U-frame.
Subclass:
300
This subclass is indented under subclass 298. Props having
more than one supporting leg.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
299 for devices wherein the U-frame may have two ground
engaging parts resembling two legs.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
248, Supports, 163.1 for plural leg stands of general
application.
Subclass:
301
This subclass is indented under subclass 293. Devices
wherein the prop or steadying device is pivotally mounted on
the vehicle.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
298 for pivoted and extensible props.
Subclass:
302
This subclass is indented under subclass 301. Props which
are substantially in the form of a U-frame. The frame may be
pivoted at the base of the U so that the legs may engage the
ground, or may be pivoted at the legs so that the base may be
ground-engaging. The latter type are usually
wheel-straddling.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
299 for pivoted U-frames, which are extensible.
Subclass:
303
This subclass is indented under subclass 301. Props having
more than one supporting leg.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
300 for pivoted plural leg props.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
248, Supports, 163.1 for plural leg stands of general
application.
Subclass:
304
This subclass is indented under subclass 293. Props
extensibly or slidably mounted on the velocipede.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
298 for props which are pivoted and extensible.
Subclass:
304.1
Wheelchair:
This subclass is indented under subclass 288.4. Vehicles in
which the attachment is on a vehicle intended to be propelled
by the hands of a seated occupant.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
224, Package and Article Carriers, subclass 407 for a
package or article carrier attached to a wheelchair, where
the organization of the wheelchair is not changed.
Subclass:
304.2
Wheel driven:
This subclass is indented under subclass 288.4. Vehicles in
which the attachment utilizes energy provided by the moving
wheel.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
310, Electrical Generator or Motor Structure, subclass 75
for wheel driven generators.
Subclass:
304.3
Guards and reinforcements:
This subclass is indented under subclass 288.4. Vehicles
where the attachment protects either the vehicle or the
occupant.
(1) Note. In some cases the guard is in the form of a
reinforcement. Also included are devices to prevent the
intrusion of clothing or body parts into undesired areas.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
474, Endless Belt Power Transmission Systems or Components,
subclass 146 for chain guards not claiming particular
bicycle structure.
Subclass:
304.4
Occupant engaging:
This subclass is indented under subclass 304.3. Vehicles
where the guard is intended to contact the occupant only when
a collision or unsafe condition makes the occupant's body
move.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
290 for restraining devices in the form of harnesses which
continually engage the occupant's body.
Subclass:
304.5
Handling and carrying attachments:
This subclass is indented under subclass 288.4. Vehicles
having devices intended to facilitate grasping or moving the
bicycle manually taking the form of shoulder posts, grasping
handholds, etc.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
16, Miscellaneous Hardware, 442 for handles of general
utility.
Subclass:
400
This subclass is indented under subclass 29. Devices
comprising either (1) a vehicle having a pivot, hinge or
flexible section between body parts which are separately
connected to flexibly joined or separate ground-engaging
running gear units, or (2) a plurality of separate vehicles
connected together in such manner as to permit relative
motion between the vehicles and to permit a single source of
draft (push or pull) to propel the vehicles as a unit.
(1) Note. Where the articulated vehicle is solely disclosed
for use in an earth working or harvesting environment, the
proper classification is in Class 172. No specific
recitation in the claims of an earth working implement or
harvester is necessary to cause an assignment in Class 172.
Thus, where the articulative feature is disclosed solely in
the performance of an earth working or harvesting operation,
the body of art is not collected in Class 280.
(2) Note. This and indented subclasses take patents for
devices wherein one of the units is an art device such as a
dumping vehicle, such device being claimed by name only.
Providing for the particular art devices is analogous to the
line set forth in (1) Note above regarding the agricultural
implement classes.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
56, Harvester, 6 for ganged trailing harvesters.
172, Earth Working, 677 and the subclasses there noted, for
earth working apparatus with details of draft connection.
180, Motor Vehicles, 14.1 for motor vehicle trains.
213, Railway Draft Appliances, for draft appliances between
vehicles which travel on tracks.
244, Aeronautics, subclass 3 for trains of aircraft.
267, Spring Devices, subclass 115 for a fluid spring device
useful in draft gear; and subclass 138 for a spring device,
other than of the fluid spring type, for the same use.
403, Joints and Connections, 52 for articulated members in
general.
414, Material or Article Handling, subclass 481 and 485 for
a self-loading or unloading vehicle provided with a load
receiving portion which is pivotable relative to the
horizontal, and wherein the vehicle is of the trailer type.
Subclass:
401
This subclass is indented under subclass 400. Devices in
which the connection between the articulated section is
designed to cause and/or permit one section of the vehicle to
be moved from a trailing position to a completely supported
position on another section of the vehicle.
(1) Note. Vehicles classified here may or may not include
mechanism for positively moving the sections to collapsed
position.
(2) Note. Articulated vehicles in which the coupling
between the sections permits one section to be detached from
another so that one section may be superposed upon the other
for transportation, are classified in other subclasses of
this group.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
402 for means to transport a vehicle by suspending one end
thereof on a draft vehicle.
Subclass:
402
This subclass is indented under subclass 400. Devices in
which the leading vehicle or draft means between the vehicles
is provided with means to receive the axle, wheels or the
like of a vehicle to be transported, the leading end of the
transported vehicle being suspended so that the forward
running gear does not contact the ground.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
418 for normal four wheel vehicles convertible to two wheel
trailers being intended to carry loads as trailers and not
merely to be transported.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
414, Material or Article Handling, subclass 563 for towing
apparatus adapted to engage one end of a vehicle and elevate
it into towing position.
Subclass:
403
This subclass is indented under subclass 400. Devices in
which the articulated vehicles or vehicle sections are
provided with an enclosed access opening or sealed passageway
of substantial size therebetween to permit passage of humans
from one to the other.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
424 for passenger carrying semitrailers.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
105, Railway Rolling Stock, 8.1 for a railway vehicle,
generally, with vestibule structure.
Subclass:
404
This subclass is indented under subclass 400. Devices
wherein a plurality of articulated vehicles are each provided
with load supporting means (usually in the form of bolsters)
to receive a common relatively long load such as poles or
lumber.
(1) Note. The vehicles are frequently connected by means
other than the load.
Subclass:
405.1
Load distribution adjustment:
This subclass is indented under subclass 400. Vehicles in
which (a) the trailing vehicle is unbalanced, the leading
vehicle sustaining a vertical load as a result thereof, and
wherein means are provided for selectively adjusting the
proportion of the trailer load sustained by the leading
vehicle and trailer running gear or for adjusting the point
of load application longitudinally of the leading vehicle, or
(b) the connection between the vehicles is such that the
leading vehicle sustains a draft load having a vertical
component and selectively adjustable means are provided to
vary the longitudinal location of the point of application of
the vertical component of the draft load.
(1) Note. This subclass includes devices wherein a dolly or
wheels are provided between the leading and trailing vehicle
and means are provided to adjust the proportion of the
trailer weight sustained by the dolly and leading vehicle.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
86.5 for a general utility wheeled land vehicle including an
auxiliary axle assembly.
476.1 for a mere dolly acting as a wheeled draft
connection.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
180, Motor Vehicles, subclass 24.02 for a vehicle of that
class (Class 180) having five or more wheels and provided
with movable running gear for shifting or proportioning load;
or subclass 209 for a vehicle having a special wheel base as
defined in Class 180, subclass 21, which further includes
means for changing the number or position of supporting
wheels.
Subclass:
406.1
Plural connections:
This subclass is indented under subclass 405.1. Vehicles in
which there is provided a plurality of separate connections
between the vehicles at least one of which is adjustable for
the purpose of adjusting the load distribution.
Subclass:
406.2
House trailer hitch type:
This subclass is indented under subclass 406.1. Devices
wherein one of the connections includes an "A" - frame
drawbar typically used for connection to a vehicle which
provides a living space for occupants when not being towed.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
483 for resilient connections having no adjustment to vary
the load distribution.
Subclass:
407
This subclass is indented under subclass 405.1. Devices in
which the load distribution adjustment is accomplished by
adjusting the point of application of draft to the leading or
propelling vehicle.
(1) Note. The leading or propelling vehicle includes any
part of the draft mechanism which is rigid therewith when in
running relationship with other vehicle.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
446.1 for devices wherein the virtual hitch point is shifted
in response to turning movement of the leading vehicle.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
172, Earth Working, 315, 318+, 321, 326+, 439+, and 452+ for
earth working implements connected to a tractor by vertically
shiftable means which act to change the load distribution
between the tractor and implement.
Subclass:
407.1
Semitrailer type:
This subclass is indented under subclass 405.1. Vehicles in
which the trailing vehicle has wheels at the rear end only,
the front end being supported on the leading vehicle at or
ahead of the wheels and axles thereof.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
476.1 for wheeled dollies having no load adjustment
mechanism.
Subclass:
408
This subclass is indented under subclass 400. Devices in
which a single vehicle is provided with means at both the
leading and trailing ends thereof for attaching the same to
another vehicle.
(1) Note. Most of the patents in this and indented
subclasses are directed to a train of vehicles or a single
vehicle intended for use in train with other vehicles.
(2) Note. Included in this and indented subclasses are
vehicles having a coupling at both ends thereof merely for
the purpose of allowing them to be drawn from either end.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
105, Railway Rolling Stock, for vehicle trains adapted to
travel on tracks.
Subclass:
409
This subclass is indented under subclass 408. Devices in
which the draft means at the front and rear of the vehicle
are so located or the draft means between the adjacent
vehicles of a train of vehicles are so disposed that when
operated in train the longitudinal center lines of the
vehicles will be horizontally spaced from one another under
at least one condition of straight line motion.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
456.1 for a pair of articulated vehicles which are laterally
offset from one another, the offset being adjustable.
472 for a pair of articulated vehicles which are laterally
offset from one another.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
56, Harvesters, 6 for gang type harvesters.
Subclass:
410
This subclass is indented under subclass 408. Devices in
which there is provided a direct draft transmitting
connection between the front and rear draft means on the
vehicle such that when the vehicle is being operated in train
no draft load from the succeeding vehicle is transmitted to
the frame or running gear thereof.
Subclass:
411.1
Multiple trailing vehicles:
This subclass is indented under subclass 400. Vehicles in
which there is provided a leading or propelling vehicle and a
plurality of trailing or propelled vehicles drawn by the
propelling vehicle.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
408 for a plurality of articulated vehicles coupled one
behind the other, each having draft means at both the front
and rear.
476.1 for a wheeled draft connection which serves only to
connect a leading and trailing vehicle.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
56, Harvesters, 6 for gang type harvesters, and subclasses
473.5 and 474+ for carriers associated with harvesters.
172, Earth Working, 310 for plural wheeled earth working
implements and subclasses 624+ for a plurality of earth
working implements connected to a forward transverse draft
bar.
Subclass:
412
This subclass is indented under subclass 411.1. Devices in
which the relative position of at least one of the vehicles
with respect to the others may be selectively changed.
Subclass:
413
This subclass is indented under subclass 412. Devices in
which there are at least two trailing vehicles which travel
substantially side by side and adjustable means are provided
to selectively vary the relative positions of these vehicles
longitudinally.
Subclass:
414.1
Boat carrying type:
This subclass is indented under subclass 400. Devices in
which the articulated vehicles are constructed to accommodate
a boat for transporting the same.
(1) Note. Cross-references of all boat-carrying trailers
are being collected here.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
43.11 for a vehicle having a vertically adjustable wheel,
the axis of which may be removed to a position above the load
carrying surface of the vehicle.
47.131 for tiltable vehicles stabilized by being attached to
an article, in some instances a boat, especially subclass
47.331 for such vehicles having floats thereon.
638 for extensible vehicles.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
114, Ships, subclass 344 for boats having attached running
gear or wheels adapting the boat to be pulled over land, the
wheels remaining attached to the boat when used in the
water.
414, Material or Article Handling, appropriate subclasses for
a vehicle which is adapted to receive, transport, and
relinquish a boat.
440, Marine Propulsion, 12.5 for a self-propelled vehicle
having land and water propulsion means (e.g., amphibious
vehicle).
Subclass:
414.2
Temporarily attached wheel assembly:
This subclass is indented under subclass 414.1. Devices
wherein the boat carrying type of vehicle is made up of
wheeled assemblies comprising no more than wheels, and axle,
and means to fasten the assembly to the boat.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
114, Ships, subclass 344 for boats having attached running
gear or wheels adapting the boat to be pulled over land, the
wheels remaining attached to the boat when used in the
water.
Subclass:
414.3
Boat suspending means:
This subclass is indented under subclass 414.1. Device
wherein the boat is supported from flexible members attached
to a frame which is above the boat.
Subclass:
414.5
This subclass is indented under subclass 400. Devices
comprising a leading propelling vehicle and a trailing
vehicle having at least one ground wheel, the wheel being
vertically adjustable with respect to the trailing vehicle
frame (i.e., running gear) by means of an actuator.
(1) Note. The actuator may comprise a servomotor or an
attendant manipulated lever, gear or the like which provides
mechanical advantage.
(2) Note. The patents in this subclass may also involve a
concurrent vertical adjustment of the draft member with
respect to the vehicle frame.
(3) Note. This definition does not include apparatus in
which the frame or running gear is rocked about the wheel
axis, without any other relative vertical movement of the
axis with respect to the vehicle frame. For such subject
matter for manipulating an earth working apparatus see the
search notes below.
(4) Note. This definition is not intended to include a
retractable landing gear for a semitrailer. The definition
also does not include a draft connection between articulated
vehicles with a retractable ground support. The definition
also does not include a wheeled draft connection. See the
search notes below for such devices.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
43 for a vehicle having a vertically adjustable wheel.
43.17 for vehicles having wheel means and a running gear and
actuating means to move the wheel means relative to the
running gear.
414 for boat trailers with vertically adjustable wheels.
423.1 for a retractable landing gear for a semitrailer.
475 for a draft connection between articulated vehicles with
a retractable ground support.
476.1 for a wheeled draft connection.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
172, Earth Working, 318 for an actuator on a tractor for
moving a wheel on an implement vertically with respect to the
implement; subclasses 323+ for subject matter for
manipulating an earth working apparatus' subclasses 326+ for
actuating means on a trailing wheeled implement for moving
the draft means vertically and especially subclass 328 for
said means interconnected with means to move a wheel
vertically. Also see (2) Note above and subclasses 395+ for
earth working apparatus having a wheel vertically adjustable
with respect to a frame.
Subclass:
415.1
Convertible:
This subclass is indented under subclass 400. Vehicles so
designed that the character of the device or its mode of
operation can be changed by reassembling all or some of its
parts in a different relationship to each other or by the
addition or omission of a part.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
474 for selectively rigid or flexible couplings.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
56, Harvesters, appropriate subclasses for conversions
enabling transport of harvesting apparatus.
172, Earth Working, appropriate subclasses for implement
carriers which are converted for movement on roads.
Subclass:
416
This subclass is indented under subclass 415.1. Devices in
which a vehicle is provided with draft means which is
convertible so that the vehicle may be drawn by either
animals or another vehicle.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
278, Land Vehicles: Animal Draft Appliances, for animal
draft appliances, per se.
Subclass:
416.1
Convertible or interchangeable from one type coupling to
another:
This subclass is indented under subclass 415.1. Vehicles
where the articulated connection may be changed to a
different type of connection by the replacement,
rearrangement or modification of the coupling members.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
476.1 for wheeled dollies converting a semi to a full
trailer or modifying the connection.
500 for specific hitches, per se.
Subclass:
416.2
From three point hitch:
This subclass is indented under subclass 416.1. Vehicles
which include a frame or other device attachable to a tractor
three point hitch and carrying another type of draft means
(e.g., a one or two point hitch).
(1) Note. Devices in this class enable a tractor, having a
three point hitch used to pull an earth engaging implement,
to be modified for pulling a wheeled device which is not an
earth working implement. Where the adaptation is made from a
three point hitch to another type draft yet still intended to
pull an earth working implement, as disclosed, the proper
classification is in Class 172.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
172, Earth Working, subclass 248 for convertible earth
working hitches.
Subclass:
416.3
Male and female coupling member:
This subclass is indented under subclass 415.1. Vehicles in
which a vehicle alternatively presents either a male or
female coupling element for connection with another vehicle
having a coupling member of either the female or male type.
Subclass:
417.1
To or from gooseneck:
This subclass is indented under subclass 416.1. Vehicles
where one mode of the conversion provides an articulated
hitch including an inverted U or L shaped member between the
leading and trailing vehicle, the U or L shape providing
clearance for existing leading vehicle structure, such as the
tailgate, rear deck or trunk, or enabling a difference in
elevation between the tractor and trailer.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
425.2 for shiftable but nonconvertible goosenecks.
Subclass:
418
This subclass is indented under subclass 415.1. Devices in
which at least one of the vehicles is convertible from a
four- wheel to a two-wheel vehicle.
(1) Note. This subclass includes vehicles which are
intended for use as four wheel vehicles only when used
independently, but are converted to two wheel vehicles when
connected with other vehicles.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
402 for normally four wheeled vehicles which have the
forward wheels lifted from the ground for transport
purposes.
Subclass:
418.1
Semitrailer-type vehicle:
This subclass is indented under subclass 415.1. Vehicles
where the conversion involves unbalanced trailing vehicles
having running gear at the rear thereof.
(1) Note. This subclass includes semitrailers adapted to be
nonpivotally attached to the rear end of another trailer.
(2) Note. This subclass does not include mere convertible
bodies or convertible hitches. The conversion must affect
the mode of articulation. Conversions of nonarticulated
vehicles to semitrailers by the addition of an articulated
front connection and or rear wheels is included in this
subclass.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
416.1 for fifth wheels convertible to other type hitches.
453 for fifth wheels.
476.1 for semitrailers interconnected for articulation
utilizing a wheeled dolly.
Subclass:
419
This subclass is indented under subclass 400. Devices in
which each of the articulated vehicles has wheels thereon
which are adapted to be turned with respect to the vehicles
for steering purposes and wherein a connection is provided
between the steerable wheels of the vehicles such that when
the wheels of one vehicle are turned the wheels of the other
vehicle are also turned.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
426 and 442+, for articulated vehicles in which the wheels
of a trailing unit are steered in response to articulative
movement between the vehicles.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
172, Earth Working, subclass 280 for an earth working
implement wheel steered by an interconnecting means between
it and the steering wheel of a motor vehicle.
Subclass:
420
This subclass is indented under subclass 400. Devices in
which a connection other than the draft connection is
provided between the vehicles to transmit power from one
vehicle to the other for miscellaneous purposes such as
braking or lighting.
(1) Note. Connections between the vehicles which form a
necessary part of the articulative relationship therebetween,
as for example, steering or tracking connections are not
included in this or indented subclasses.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
419 for steering connections between the wheel of a leading
and trailing vehicle.
442 for auxiliary connections between a leading and trailing
vehicle for steering the trailer wheels.
456.1 for plural connections between a leading and trailing
vehicle.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
172, Earth Working, 315 for an earth working apparatus
comprising a trailing implement with an actuator controlled
from a tractor.
180, Motor Vehicles, 14.1 for power transmission means
between the sections of a motor vehicle train.
Subclass:
421
This subclass is indented under subclass 420. Devices in
which the service connection between the vehicles comprises
means to conduct fluid from one vehicle to the other
vehicle.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
137, Fluid Handling, 351 for a valved fluid flow line
supported from an automobile.
213, Railway Draft Appliances, subclass 76 for the
combination of a railway draft coupling and a train pipe
coupling.
285, Pipe Joints or Couplings, 24 for the combination of a
coupling, a guide and support means, and subclasses 61+ for a
coupling combined with a support, especially subclass 62
wherein the support comprises vehicle means.
Subclass:
422
This subclass is indented under subclass 420. Devices in
which the service connection between the vehicles comprises
means to transmit electrical power from one vehicle to the
other vehicle.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
191, Electricity: Transmission to Vehicles, subclass 11 for
transmission of current from a single source to a plurality
of vehicles in series.
213, Railway Draft Appliances, 1.3 for the combination of a
railway draft coupling and electrical connecting means.
439, Electrical Connectors, especially 34 for an electrical
connector combined with a "named" vehicle.
Subclass:
423.1
Semitrailer:
This subclass is indented under subclass 400. Vehicles in
which there is provided a tractor capable of independent use
and an unbalanced trailing vehicle having running gear at the
rear end thereof, the forward end of the trailer being
supported on the back of the tractor at or forward of the
rear axle of the tractor by an articulated connection or
fifth wheel which connection transmits all of the draft.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
476.1 for wheeled dollies between the tractor and trailer.
763.1 for semitrailer landing gear.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
254, Implements or Apparatus for Applying Pushing or Pulling
Force, 418 for semitrailers having retractable ground
supports or jacks which are extended by power or force
increasing mechanism to raise and support the forward end of
the semitrailer when detached from the tractor and wherein no
other significant vehicle structure is claimed. The
inclusion of coupling or brake means, for example, is
considered to be significant vehicle structure.
Subclass:
424
This subclass is indented under subclass 423.1. Devices
having means to accommodate passengers, at least some of whom
are carried in the trailing vehicle.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
403 for articulated vehicles having an enclosed passage for
passengers between the vehicle sections.
Subclass:
425.1
Coupling and uncoupling with facilitating lift means:
This subclass is indented under subclass 423.1. Vehicles in
which there is provided power or manually actuated lift means
on the tractor or reacting between the tractor and trailer to
vertically position the connecting members (a) for coupling,
or (b) to raise the trailer after coupling.
(1) Note. Devices wherein the trailer is raised or lowered
by relative movement between the vehicles and direct contact
with a camming surface on the tractor are not included in
this subclass. This subclass does include devices wherein
the tractor fifth wheel member is elevated or lowered by cams
on the tractor, the power being provided by movement of the
tractor.
(2) Note. Also included are tractors commonly referred to
as "terminal tractors" having fifth wheels which are raised
after coupling to enable trailer movement without retracting
the landing gear.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
477 for coupling facilitating devices for articulated
vehicles other than the semitrailer type and see the search
notes thereto.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
298, Land Vehicles: Dumping, subclass 22 for dumping bodies
raised by the fifth wheel.
414, Material or Article Handling, subclass 482 for a
coupling lift to lower the rear end of the trailer to
facilitate loading.
Subclass:
425.2
With additional detachable or shiftable gooseneck:
This subclass is indented under subclass 425.1. Vehicles in
which, in addition to the coupling facilitation, the
articulated connection is at the forward end of an inverted L
or U shaped member attached to the leading end of a trailer
and the coupling facilitating lift is between the tractor and
the gooseneck.
(1) Note. Coupling facilitation between the trailer and the
gooseneck is not proper for this subclass.
(2) Note. The L or U shaped member may be disconnected or
shifted relative to the trailer principally for lowering the
trailer bed.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
441.2 for a shiftable gooseneck having no coupling
facilitation between the tractor, and where coupling between
the trailer and the gooseneck is facilitated.
Subclass:
426
This subclass is indented under subclass 423.1. Devices in
which the trailer has wheels which are mounted to turn with
respect to the body or frame for steering movements, such
steering movements being controlled by the change in angular
relationship between the tractor and trailer.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
442 for articulative vehicles of other than the semitrailer
type wherein the trailer wheels are steered by a change in
angular relationship between the vehicles, and see the search
notes thereto.
Subclass:
427
This subclass is indented under subclass 423.1. Devices
which are provided with two or more of the following: (1)
retractable landing gear to support the trailer when in
uncoupled condition, (2) brakes to retard or prevent movement
of the trailer, and (3) coupling mechanisms to detachably
connect the trailer and tractor, the operation of at least
two of these mechanisms being interdependent; i.e., the
operation of one of the mechanisms actuates the other
mechanism(s), or operation of one of the mechanisms is a
condition precedent to the operation of the other(s).
Subclass:
428
This subclass is indented under subclass 427. Devices
including interdependent operation of the trailer brakes and
coupling mechanism.
Subclass:
429
This subclass is indented under subclass 427. Devices in
which the trailer landing gear is retracted or extended by
the action of coupling or uncoupling the tractor and
trailer.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
431 for an interlock between the coupling and landing gear
which prevents uncoupling of the vehicles with the landing
gear retracted or prevents retraction of the landing gear
until the vehicles are coupled.
Subclass:
430
This subclass is indented under subclass 429. Devices in
which the trailer coupling member, i.e., the member which
cooperates with a complementary member on the tractor to
establish draft connection between the vehicles, is mounted
to move rectilinearly along the central axis of the trailer
during coupling action and such movement results in actuation
of the landing gear.
Subclass:
431
This subclass is indented under subclass 427. Devices in
which the coupling means between the vehicles is provided
with a latch or lock, the latch and landing gear being so
related that the vehicles cannot be uncoupled unless the
landing gear is extended and/or the landing gear cannot be
retracted before the vehicles are coupled together.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
429 for trailer landing gear which is extended and/or
retracted by the action of coupling and uncoupling the
vehicles.
Subclass:
432
This subclass is indented under subclass 423.1. Devices in
which there is provided means to prevent excessive horizontal
angular swing or overriding of the trailer with respect to
the tractor or means to prevent separation of the tractor and
trailer in the event that the coupling means should fail.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
457 for auxiliary safety connections which act to prevent
separation of the vehicles in case of failure of the primary
connection and wherein the vehicles are not of the
semitrailer type.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
188, Brakes, subclass 112 and 142 for trains of vehicles in
which the brakes of the rear vehicle are applied by the
tendency of the rear vehicle to override the leading
vehicle.
Subclass:
433
This subclass is indented under subclass 423.1. Devices
directed to the means by which the tractor and semitrailer
are releasably and articulatively connected and including no
more of the vehicle structure than is necessary to mount the
connecting means.
(1) Note. The nominal inclusion of the running gear of the
vehicles does not exclude a patent from this or indented
subclasses.
Subclass:
434
This subclass is indented under subclass 433. Devices in
which the connecting means carried by the two vehicles assume
a coupled or connected relationship as a result of movement
of one vehicle toward the other in a horizontal plane,
requiring no manual manipulation at the time of making the
connection.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
508 for self-coupling connections between articulated
vehicles other than the semitrailer type.
Subclass:
435
This subclass is indented under subclass 434. Devices in
which the connecting means on one of the vehicles includes a
pair of jaw or hook members which are pivoted about axes
transverse to the line of draft and which coact with a
complementary coupling part on the other vehicle to connect
the vehicles together.
Subclass:
436
This subclass is indented under subclass 435. Devices in
which the pivotal axes for the pivoted jaws are so located
that the draft applied to the jaws by the complementary
coupling member biases the jaws to a closed position.
Subclass:
437
This subclass is indented under subclass 434. Devices in
which one of the vehicles is provided with a member which
pivots about a horizontal axis which is transverse to the
line of draft and coacts with a complementary coupling part
on the other vehicle to effect connection of the vehicles.
Subclass:
438.1
Movably mounted:
This subclass is indented under subclass 433. Vehicles in
which at least one of the fifth wheel or coupling members is
mounted on its vehicle in such manner as to allow
articulative movement between the vehicles when in coupled or
connected relationship in addition to the articulative
movement permitted by the detachable connection between the
vehicles.
(1) Note. One example of such an additional articulation
axis is the transverse pivot axis for a fifth wheel plate.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
407.1 for adjustment of the coupling to distribute the load
between leading and trailing vehicles.
446.1 where the position of a connection is automatically
changed in response to load or draft connections.
492 for other connections having plural articulation axes.
Subclass:
439
This subclass is indented under subclass 438.1. Devices in
which the movement of at least one of the fifth wheel or
coupling members with respect to the vehicle on which it is
mounted is resisted by resilient means which provides a
restoring force tending to restore the member to a given
position.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
483 for resilient connections between articulated vehicles
of other types.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
267, Spring Devices, for spring devices, per se.
Subclass:
440
This subclass is indented under subclass 439. Devices in
which the resilient means consists at least in part of rubber
or analogous material.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
485 for resilient means of the rubber block type between
vehicles of other than the semitrailer types which resists
articulation in a plurality of directions.
Subclass:
441
This subclass is indented under subclass 439. Devices in
which at least one of the fifth wheel or coupling elements is
mounted so as to be movably longitudinally of the vehicle to
which it is connected and such movement is resisted by
springs.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
486 for resilient connections between vehicles of other than
the semitrailer type which resist relative movements between
the vehicles in the line of draft.
Subclass:
441.1
Turntable-type fifth wheel coupling:
This subclass is indented under subclass 438.1. Vehicles in
which the tractor carried fifth wheel elements are mounted on
a platform which rotates about a vertical axis. The
articulation between the tractor and trailer during steering
takes place about the turntable axis rather than about the
kingpin.
Subclass:
441.2
Detachable or shiftable gooseneck type:
This subclass is indented under subclass 423.1. Vehicles in
which the trailer includes an inverted L or U shaped member
the forward end of which carries an articulated connection at
a higher elevation than the load body and in which the L or U
shaped member may be disconnected, raised, or lowered from
the trailer principally to enable the trailer to come closer
to the ground for loading.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
425.2 for additional lifting means which guide and lift the
gooseneck to attach it to the leading vehicle.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
414, Material or Article Handling, subclass 481 for a
self-loading vehicle with a lowerable trailer front end and
where a ramp is claimed.
Subclass:
442
This subclass is indented under subclass 400. Devices in
which one or more of the vehicles has wheels movably mounted
thereon for steering movements and such steering movements
are controlled by a change in articulative relationship
between the vehicles.
(1) Note. Merely a single swinging axle which is directly
connected to the draft connection between the vehicles to be
swung thereby is excluded from this and indented subclasses.
(2) Note. The turning of a single dirigible wheel or
closely paired wheels of tricycle running gear is included
here.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
80.1 for particular running gear construction for a general
utility wheeled land vehicle, particularly subclass 87.2 for
an occupant steered outrigged wheel, subclasses 98+ for short
turn running gear construction, subclasses 124.1+ for running
gear including a suspension arrangement, or subclasses 137.5+
for turnable axles neither claiming or solely disclosing a
handle nor claiming articulated vehicles.
419 for articulated vehicles each vehicle having wheels
mounted for steering movement and steering of the wheels on
one vehicle resulting in steering of the wheels of the other
vehicle.
426 for articulated vehicles of the semitrailer type in
which the trailer wheels are steered in response to
articulative movement of the vehicles.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
172, Earth Working, subclass 282 for a wheel on a trailing
earth working implement steered by articulative movement
between the implement and a tractor.
Subclass:
443
This subclass is indented under subclass 442. Devices in
which each of the wheels which is controlled by articulative
movement of the vehicles is mounted on an individual axle
which is pivoted at its end to the vehicle.
Subclass:
444
This subclass is indented under subclass 443. Devices in
which there is provided a vertical pivotal connection between
the vehicle and draft member and the wheels of said vehicle
are connected to the draft member and swing on their
individual axles in response to horizontal turning of the
draft member about the vertical pivot.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
103 for vehicles having wheels mounted on stub axles which
are turned in response to pivoting of a draft member,
articulated vehicles not being claimed.
124.12 for a resilient, shock absorbing vertical pivot axis
mounted axle or axle assembly including a draft attachment
which is neither claimed or solely disclosed as a handle nor
claimed in combination with plural interconnected vehicles.
137.501 for a turnable axle lacking resilient, shock
absorbing means including a draft attachment which is neither
claimed or solely disclosed as a handle nor claimed in
combination with plural interconnected vehicles.
Subclass:
445
This subclass is indented under subclass 444. Devices having
means whereby the wheels may be disconnected from the drawbar
so that pivoting of the drawbar does not turn the wheels or
having means whereby the drawbar or a portion thereof may be
held against pivoting to prevent turning of the wheels.
Subclass:
446.1
Condition responsive connections:
This subclass is indented under subclass 400. Vehicles in
which there is a connection or draft relationship between the
vehicles which is modified in response to a change in draft
condition (e.g., increased load or stress reversal) or
articulative relationship of the vehicles.
(1) Note. A connection or draft relationship between two
vehicles is modified if, for example, the type of
articulation is changed (e.g., from pivoted to rigid
connection); or the location of the point of draft
application (either real or virtual) to either vehicle is
changed; or the distance between the vehicles is changed or
one vehicle is positively canted with respect to the other as
a result of articulative movement of the vehicles.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
439 and 483+, for resilient connections between articulated
vehicles.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
172, Earth Working, 7 for earth working apparatus with an
automatically controlled power means which responds to
changes in draft force between a trailing implement and a
tractor, and subclass 239 for an earth working implement with
a draft connection to a tractor, said draft connection
comprising a linkage which responds to change in draft
force.
Subclass:
447
This subclass is indented under subclass 446.1. Devices in
which the point of application of draft from the trailing
vehicle to the leading vehicle, or vice versa, is free to
move under operating conditions laterally with respect to
leading or trailing vehicles, respectively.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
467 for devices wherein the point of application of draft
load to a leading or trailing vehicle is selectively
adjustable laterally of the vehicle.
Subclass:
448
This subclass is indented under subclass 446.1. Devices in
which a reversal of the direction of stress; i.e., tension to
compression or vice versa, in the means connecting the
vehicles causes a change in the articulation or the manner in
which the vehicles are articulated.
(1) Note. The connection between the vehicles may be a
rigid connection for one of the conditions of stress.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
474 for connections between articulated vehicles which may
selectively be made rigid or flexible.
Subclass:
449
This subclass is indented under subclass 446.1. Devices in
which the draft connection between the vehicles is
automatically disconnected in response to a predetermined
excessive stress therein.
(1) Note. The release of the connection between the
vehicles upon overload may be only a partial release,
allowing an increase in distance between the vehicles.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
172, Earth Working, 261 for earth working apparatus with
parts which shift upon the occurrence of an overload.
180, Motor Vehicles, subclass 14.5 for motor vehicle trains
with overload release means between the vehicles.
278, Land Vehicles: Animal Draft Appliances, subclass 22
for automatic horse detachers.
Subclass:
450
This subclass is indented under subclass 449. Devices in
which the overload release mechanism includes a notched or
shouldered draft bar, the notch seating a resiliently biased
detent carried by the member receiving the draft bar, which
detent upon overload is forced away from the notch to release
the draft bar.
Subclass:
451
This subclass is indented under subclass 449. Devices in
which the draft connection includes a member which is
destructible upon the occurrence of a predetermined
overload.
(1) Note. The destructible element is usually in the form
of a break pin.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
172, Earth Working, subclass 271 for earth working apparatus
with a frangible means which permits shifting of a part on
the occurrence of an overload.
Subclass:
452
This subclass is indented under subclass 449. Devices which
include a coupling member having at least one element in the
form of a retaining hook or jaw to receive a complementary
coupling element and being pivoted about an axis transverse
to the direction of draft, the hook or jaw being movable
about the pivot in response to overload to release the
complementary coupling element.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
172, Earth Working, 265 for an earth working tool swingable
about a fixed axis on the occurrence of an overload.
Subclass:
453
This subclass is indented under subclass 452. Devices in
which the hook or jaw and its pivot are movable in a straight
line in the direction of draft, such movement resulting in
release of the hook for movement about the pivot.
Subclass:
454
This subclass is indented under subclass 452. Devices in
which the pivoted hook and coupling member on which the hook
is mounted each have a link pivoted thereto, the two links
also being pivoted one on the other.
Subclass:
455
This subclass is indented under subclass 452. Devices in
which the hook or jaw is held in the coupled or retaining
position by a resiliently biased member and under overload
condition overcomes the resilient bias and swings clear and
free of the member to release the complementary coupling
element.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
172, Earth Working, 264 for an earth working apparatus
comprising a tool shifted upon the occurrence of an overload
and a spring return device, and subclass 269 for an earth
working apparatus comprising a tool shifted upon the
occurrence of an overload and a resilient latch.
Subclass:
455.1
Antisway hitch:
This subclass is indented under subclass 446.1. Vehicles
wherein the ability of the trailing vehicle to pivot relative
to the leading vehicle is retarded by friction or other
snubbing devices.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
432 for safety devices for semitrailers which prevent
jackknifing.
474 for selectively rigid or flexible couplings.
Subclass:
456.1
Plural or laterally adjustable connections:
This subclass is indented under subclass 400. Vehicles
wherein there is provided (a) a plurality of distinct
connections between a pair of articulated vehicles, or (b) a
connection between the vehicles whereby the trailing vehicle
or its draft connection, including that part mounted on the
leading vehicle, can be selectively secured in or positively
shifted to plural positions at least one of which is offset
from or at a horizontal angle to the center line of the
leading vehicle.
(1) Note. A connection between two vehicles includes a
connection directly between the vehicles or between structure
rigid with the vehicles (including a rigidly mounted draft
bar) and such connection need not be secured to each vehicle,
but may merely engage therewith such as in a vertical load
bearing relationship.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
442 for plural connections between articulated vehicles
wherein one of the connections serves to steer the trailer
wheels in response to articulative movement.
472 for nonadjustable, laterally offset vehicles.
Subclass:
457
This subclass is indented under subclass 456.1. Devices
wherein there is provided in addition to the primary draft
connection between the vehicles an additional connection
which transmits the draft in case of failure of the primary
draft connection, but serves no function nor transmits any
draft when the primary connection is intact.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
433 for safety devices used in connection with semitrailer
type articulated vehicles. However, safety couplings to
prevent separation of a semitrailer upon failure of the
primary coupling have been cross-referenced here.
Subclass:
458
This subclass is indented under subclass 456.1. Devices in
which the connection between the vehicles comprises a pair of
members each of which is connected to both the leading and
trailing vehicle, the members crossing one another to give
the appearance of an X when viewed in plan.
Subclass:
459
This subclass is indented under subclass 456.1. Devices in
which there is provided a draft member pivoted about a
vertical axis on both the leading and trailing vehicle and an
additional connection between the vehicles is provided such
that pivoting of one of the vehicles with respect to the
draft member will enforce a proportional pivoting of the
second vehicle with respect to the draft member.
Subclass:
460.1
Laterally spaced parallel connections:
This subclass is indented under subclass 456.1. Vehicles in
which a plurality of separate connections is provided between
the articulated vehicles, at least two of the connections
being substantially parallel and spaced from one another in a
horizontal plane.
Subclass:
461.1
Vertically spaced connections:
This subclass is indented under subclass 456.1. Vehicles in
which there is provided a plurality of connections between
the articulated vehicles, the connections being located at
different elevations on each vehicle.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
497 for a draft or hitch member which is connected to a
leading vehicle at vertically spaced points.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
172, Earth Working, 439 for an earth working apparatus
having a mast type hitch.
Subclass:
462
This subclass is indented under subclass 456.1. Devices in
which the trailing vehicle is provided with a draft tongue or
bar which may be selectively adjusted to vary the fixed
horizontal angularity between the tongue and trailing
vehicle.
(1) Note. Devices wherein the trailing vehicle is provided
with a swinging axle and a draft member, the horizontal
angularity of which is adjustable relative to the axle, are
included in this and indented subclasses.
Subclass:
463
This subclass is indented under subclass 462. Devices in
which means are provided which operate to move the draft
member from one adjusted position to another.
(1) Note. Devices in which the tongue is moved from one
position to another merely by direct manual manipulation
thereof, with no mechanical advantage, are not included in
this and indented subclasses.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
468 for articulated vehicles which are laterally or
angularly adjustable and having an actuator to effect the
adjustment.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
172, Earth Working, 324 for an earth working apparatus
comprising a trailing ground supported frame with an actuator
for moving the tongue of the trailing means laterally.
Subclass:
464
This subclass is indented under subclass 463. Devices in
which the actuator comprises gearing.
(1) Note. For the definition of gearing, see Class 74,
Machine Element or Mechanism, subclass 640.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
47 for articulated vehicles which are laterally or angularly
adjustable and have gearing to effect the adjustment.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
74, Machine Element or Mechanism, 640 for gearing, per se.
Subclass:
465
This subclass is indented under subclass 464. Devices in
which the gearing comprises a screw and nonrotary nut,
rotation of the screw causing a relative longitudinal
movement of the screw and nut to effect adjustment of the
tongue.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
470 for articulated vehicles which are laterally or
angularly adjustable by means of a screw and nonrotary nut.
Subclass:
466
This subclass is indented under subclass 464. Devices in
which the gearing comprises a sprocket or drum and a flexible
chain or belt, cooperating therewith, rotation of the
sprocket effecting adjustment of the tongue.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
471 for articulated vehicles which are laterally or
angularly adjustable by means of a belt and sprocket.
Subclass:
467
This subclass is indented under subclass 456.1. Devices
wherein the vehicles are provided with connecting means
whereby the trailing vehicle or its draft connection to the
leading vehicle (including the draft member mounted on the
leading vehicle) may be selectively adjusted or positively
shifted to various positions at least one of which is spaced
horizontally from or positioned at an angle to the center
line of the leading vehicle.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
462 for articulated vehicles in which the trailing vehicle
has an angularly adjustable tongue whereby the relative
lateral positions of the vehicles may be changed.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
172, Earth Working, 446 for a laterally adjustable earth
working implement coupled to a tractor with a mast type
hitch, and subclasses 476+ for a laterally adjustable earth
working implement coupled to a tractor and adapted to be
lifted for transport on the tractor by an actuator.
Subclass:
468
This subclass is indented under subclass 467. Devices in
which means are provided which operate to move or adjust the
laterally or angularly adjustable member from one position to
another.
(1) Note. Devices in which the adjustable member is moved
from one position to another merely by direct manual
manipulation thereof without mechanical advantage are not
included in this and indented subclasses.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
463 for articulated vehicles, the trailing vehicle having a
tongue which is angularly adjustable by means of an
actuator.
Subclass:
469
This subclass is indented under subclass 468. Devices in
which the actuator comprises gearing.
(1) Note. For the definition of gearing see Class 74,
subclass 640.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
464 for articulated vehicles, the trailing vehicle having a
tongue which is angularly adjustable by means of gearing.
Subclass:
470
This subclass is indented under subclass 469. Devices in
which the gearing comprises a screw and nonrotary nut,
rotation of the screw causing relative longitudinal movement
of the screw and nut to effect the lateral or angular
adjustment.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
465 for articulated vehicles, the trailing vehicle having a
tongue which is angularly adjustable by means of a screw and
nonrotary nut.
Subclass:
471
This subclass is indented under subclass 469. Devices in
which the gearing comprises a sprocket or drum and a flexible
chain or belt cooperating therewith, rotation of the sprocket
effecting the lateral or angular adjustment.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
466 for articulated vehicles, the trailing vehicle having a
tongue which is angularly adjustable by means of a belt and
sprocket.
Subclass:
472
This subclass is indented under subclass 400. Devices in
which there is provided a leading or propelling vehicle and a
trailing or propelled vehicle, the longitudinal axes of the
vehicles being laterally spaced from one another with respect
to the direction of travel.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
409 for a train of more than two vehicles, the vehicles
being laterally offset with respect to one another.
411.1 for a leading vehicle and a plurality of trailing
vehicles which are not in tandem with one another.
462 and 467+, for articulated vehicles which may be adjusted
to travel in paths laterally offset from one another.
Subclass:
473
This subclass is indented under subclass 472. Devices in
which at least one element of the draft connection between
the vehicles is attached to the drawing or propelling vehicle
at a point forward of the rear axle and extends from the
vehicle in front of the rear wheel, the drawn vehicle usually
traveling at the side of the propelling vehicle.
Subclass:
474
This subclass is indented under subclass 400. Devices in
which the draft connection between the articulated vehicles
includes at least one joint which may be adjusted to
constitute either a rigid or a movable connection during
operation of the vehicles.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
445 for articulated vehicles having a draft member which is
pivoted to one of the vehicles to steer the wheels thereof
upon pivoting and wherein the draft member may be locked
against pivoting.
448 for a connection between articulated vehicles where the
type of articulation is modified in response to a change of
direction of stress in the draft connection.
478.1 for a draft member which is releasable from a normally
fixed position on a vehicle to facilitate connection to
another vehicle and then returned to its initial position.
Subclass:
475
This subclass is indented under subclass 400. Devices in
which the draft connection between the articulated vehicles
is provided with means for engaging the ground to partially
support one of the vehicles when uncoupled from the other
vehicle, the support means being movable to a retracted or
inoperative position when the vehicles are coupled.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
150.5 for vehicles, including trailers, having retractable
ground support to support same when not in motion or detached
from another vehicle, articulated vehicles not being
claimed.
427 for semitrailer landing gear the operation of which is
correlated with the coupling action or trailer brakes.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
254, Implements of Apparatus for Applying Pushing or Pulling
Force, 418 for vehicles having retractable ground support
means or jacks which are extended by power or force
increasing mechanism and wherein no other significant vehicle
structure is claimed. The mere mounting of the jack or
support on a vehicle tongue is not sufficient to exclude a
patent from Class 254.
Subclass:
476.1
Wheeled draft connection:
This subclass is indented under subclass 400. Vehicles in
which the draft connection between the articulated vehicles
is provided with a ground engaging wheel or wheels.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
475 for a draft connection between articulated vehicles
which is provided with retractable ground support means which
may include a wheel for performing a supporting function when
the vehicles are uncoupled.
767 for other auxiliary wheels for vehicles.
Subclass:
477
This subclass is indented under subclass 400. Devices having
means designed to lessen the labor involved in effecting a
connection or disconnection between the vehicles.
(1) Note. Coupling parts which merely automatically connect
upon contact or relative movement or which may be
disconnected merely by operation from a remote point are not
included in this or indented subclasses.
(2) Note. The provision of means in addition to the
coupling elements to guide coupling elements into engaging
relation upon relative movement of the vehicle is included
here.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
475 for a draft member provided with retractable means to
support the vehicle on the ground when not coupled to another
vehicle.
504 for couplings, per se, especially subclasses 508+ for
self-coupling devices. See (1) Note.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
172, Earth Working, 272 for an earth working implement with
means to facilitate mounting of the implement on a motor
vehicle.
Subclass:
478.1
Draft element bodily shiftable:
This subclass is indented under subclass 477. Vehicles in
which the draft or coupling member on one of the vehicles is
releasable from its normal position on the vehicle to permit
connection with the cooperating element on the other vehicle
and is then returned to the normal position.
(1) Note. The normal position of a draft or coupling member
on a vehicle is defined as that position or range of
positions that the part assumes or may assume when the
vehicle is in running, articulated relationship with another
vehicle.
Subclass:
479.1
With motor:
This subclass is indented under subclass 478.1. Vehicles in
which a nonmanual power means is provided to move the
shiftable draft element.
Subclass:
479.2
Telescoping drawbar swingable on horizontal guide:
This subclass is indented under subclass 478.1. Vehicles
where the drawbar or trailer tongue may elongate or retract
as well as slide horizontally on a guide.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
479.3 for devices where the retraction is accompanied by
forced centering.
Subclass:
479.3
Extensible swingable tow bar with coacting guide for
centering:
This subclass is indented under subclass 478.1. Vehicles
where either the tow bar or trailer tongue is extensible out
if its guide to facilitate coupling with another vehicle
after which, during its retraction, wedges, cams or other
surfaces react against a guide to center the bar in its
normal position.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
477 for a mere ramp or wedge on one vehicle which guides a
nonextensible tow bar on another vehicle upon relative
movement of the two vehicles.
Subclass:
480
This subclass is indented under subclass 400. Devices in
which the draft connection between the vehicles is capable of
transmitting tension forces, but is incapable of transmitting
compression forces between the vehicles.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
24, Buckles, Buttons, Clasps, etc., 305 for combined
fasteners, and subclasses 115+ for cord and rope holders.
Subclass:
480.1
With particular storage for retracted position:
This subclass is indented under subclass 480. Vehicles where
the tensile draft connection is stored when not in use in or
on particular structure of the vehicle.
(1) Note. Typically this structure is a reel holding a tow
cable.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
242, Winding, Tensioning, or Guiding, 370, particularly
subclasses 390.7, 391+, and 403+ for a reeling device
associated with a vehicle.
Subclass:
481
This subclass is indented under subclass 400. Devices in
which there is a leading and trailing vehicle (with respect
to the direction of motion), the motive power being supplied
by the trailing vehicle.
(1) Note. This subclass takes patents claiming a device
whose primary disclosed function is to push another vehicle,
or patents claiming a fending device of general utility, but
having a claim limited to the function of pushing another
vehicle.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
213, Railway Draft Appliances, 220 for railway car end
bumpers or buffers, and subclass 224 for means (e.g., rods)
mounted on a railway car which can be used to push a car
located on a parallel track.
293, Vehicle Fenders, for fenders of general utility which
may be incidentally disclosed as usable to push vehicles.
Subclass:
482
This subclass is indented under subclass 400. Devices in
which the normal running distance between a leading and
trailing vehicle may be selectively changed.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
446.1 for connections between articulated vehicles which
increase in length responsive to articulative movement
between the vehicles.
478.1 for a draft element which may be extended from the
vehicle to effect connection with another vehicle and is then
returned to its initial position.
Subclass:
483
This subclass is indented under subclass 400. Devices in
which the articulated connection between the vehicles or
between the draft means and at least one of the vehicles is
resiliently biased by spring means or the equivalent against
movement in at least one direction from a given position.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
439 for resilient connections between articulated vehicles
of the semitrailer type.
449 for overload release couplings.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
172, Earth Working, subclass 678 for an earth working
implement with a spring biased hitch.
267, Spring Devices, for spring devices, per se.
Subclass:
484
This subclass is indented under subclass 483. Devices in
which the articulated connection between the vehicles allows
relative movement of the vehicles in a plurality of
directions or senses, resilient means being provided to
resist movement in at least two directions.
(1) Note. Where the articulation between the vehicles
includes a pivot or axis of relative movement and resilient
means are provided to resist movement in either direction
from a neutral position about the pivot or along the axis,
such is not considered to be a bias in plural directions.
Subclass:
485
This subclass is indented under subclass 484. Devices in
which the resilient means resisting movements in a plurality
of directions is made up of a single element such as a coil
spring or block of rubber.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
440 for resiliently mounted fifth wheel members for
semitrailers wherein the resilient means includes rubber or
the equivalent.
Subclass:
486
This subclass is indented under subclass 483. Devices in
which the vehicles are connected together by a connection
allowing limited relative movement therebetween in the
direction of draft and resilient means is provided to resist
such movement.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
441 for semitrailers having fifth wheel elements which may
slide longitudinally, such sliding movement being resisted by
springs.
Subclass:
487
This subclass is indented under subclass 486. Devices
wherein the connection allowing movement between the vehicles
in the direction of draft is resiliently biased to an
intermediate or neutral position and the resilient means
resists movement therefrom in either direction.
(1) Note. The devices in this subclass are designed to
provide a resilient connection between the vehicles for
either tension or compression in the draft means.
Subclass:
488
This subclass is indented under subclass 483. Devices in
which the draft connection between the vehicles is provided
with a pivot the axis of which is vertical and resilient
means is provided to resist articulation of the draft means
about this axis.
Subclass:
489
This subclass is indented under subclass 483. Apparatus in
which the draft connection between the vehicles is provided
with a pivot the axis of which is horizontal and generally
transverse to the line of draft and resilient means is
provided to resist articulation of the draft means about this
axis.
Subclass:
490.1
Vertically adjustable:
This subclass is indented under subclass 400. Vehicles in
which the elevation of the draft or coupling member on at
least one of the vehicles may be selectively adjusted with
respect to the ground or the vehicle in order to be at the
proper height for receiving the corresponding member on the
other vehicle, or the coupling member on one of the vehicles
provides a plurality of vertically spaced connecting points
with which the corresponding coupling member on the other
vehicle can be selectively connected.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
478.1 for a draft or coupling member which may be vertically
shifted with respect to the vehicle on which it is mounted to
facilitate connection with another vehicle and is then
returned to its original position.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
172, Earth Working, subclass 321 for an earth working
apparatus comprising an actuator on a vehicle for moving a
wheeled implement, subclasses 439+ for an earth working
implement with a mast type hitch, and subclasses 452+ for an
earth working apparatus comprising an actuator adapted to
lift an implement for transport on a tractor.
Subclass:
491.1
Retractable, foldable or knockdown:
This subclass is indented under subclass 400. Vehicles in
which the draft member is movable from the position occupied
on a vehicle when connected to another vehicle to a nonuse or
hidden position on the vehicle or in which the draft means is
removable from the vehicle and is capable of being folded or
disassembled to facilitate handling or storage.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
475 for a vehicle draft member which is provided with a
retractable stand for supporting the vehicle when in
uncoupled condition.
482 for draft devices which are extensible to vary the
running distance between two vehicles.
638 for extensible vehicles.
Subclass:
491.2
Telescoping:
This subclass is indented under subclass 491.1. Vehicles in
which the draft means has two members, one of which slides
linearly within the other.
(1) Note. This telescopic motion may be compounded by some
minor pivotal motion to accommodate the hitch in its final
stored position.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
479.2 and 479.3, for draft members which may extend to
facilitate connection and retract to a normal use position.
482 for draft members which may telescope to plural adjusted
draft positions.
Subclass:
491.3
Pivoting to nonuse position with single draft member:
This subclass is indented under subclass 491.1. Vehicles in
which the connection is achieved by a single draft member
which pivots to its stored position.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
491.4 where the connection is achieved by a draft member
with braces which fold.
Subclass:
491.4
With folding braces movable to collapsed position:
This subclass is indented under subclass 491.1. Devices
where the draft member is rigidly braced in its operative
position by vehicle connected members which fold or otherwise
collapse to a nonuse position.
(1) Note. The draft member itself may collapse by either
pivoting or sliding.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
491.3 where only a single, unbraced draft member pivots to a
stored position.
Subclass:
491.5
Readily demountable hitch:
This subclass is indented under subclass 491.1. Vehicles
characterized by particular structure to easily and
selectively detach the hitch or draft member.
(1) Note. This subclass includes temporarily attached
hitches.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
495 for vehicle mountings which are not intended to be
selectively and readily removed.
Subclass:
492
This subclass is indented under subclass 400. Devices in
which the connection between the vehicles includes at least
two pivots, the axes of which are spaced apart in the
direction of draft, or includes at least two pivots the axes
of which intersect, provided the axis of one of the pivots is
in or parallel to the line of draft.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
504 for couplings having universal movement, especially
subclasses 511+ for ball and socket couplings.
Subclass:
493
This subclass is indented under subclass 492. Devices in
which the vehicles are connected together by a rigid draft
member which is articulated at each end to one of the
vehicles.
Subclass:
494
This subclass is indented under subclass 493. Devices
wherein the tow bar is connected to one of the vehicles by a
horizontal axis pivot only and is connected to the other
vehicle by a vertical axis pivot or universal joint.
Subclass:
495
This subclass is indented under subclass 400. Devices which
comprise noncoupling type joints, mountings and connections
serving to attach a draft member more or less permanently to
a vehicle and in which more is claimed than the mere fact of
attachment of the member to the vehicle.
(1) Note. The normally separable coupling element is
usually found at the other end of the draft member.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
483 for a resilient connection between a draft member and
vehicle.
504 for detachable coupling connections between articulated
vehicles.
Subclass:
496
This subclass is indented under subclass 495. Devices in
which the draft transmitting means between a leading and
trailing vehicle is connected to the leading vehicle at a
point forward of the axis of the rear axle.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
473 for laterally offset vehicles in which the draft
connection to the leading or propelling vehicle is forward of
the rear axle and extends to the side of the vehicle in front
of the rear wheel.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
172, Earth Working, 297 for earth working apparatus
comprising earth working tools positioned forward of the rear
of a motor vehicle.
Subclass:
497
This subclass is indented under subclass 495. Devices in
which the draft element or hitch member of the leading
vehicle is connected thereto or to structure rigid therewith
at a plurality of points having different elevations.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
461.1 for plural connections between a leading and trailing
vehicle which are connected to each vehicle at different
elevations.
Subclass:
498
This subclass is indented under subclass 495. Devices in
which the mounting of the draft or coupling member on the
vehicle includes a pivot allowing relative movement of the
member and vehicle.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
492 for draft connections between articulated vehicles
having plural spaced joints.
Subclass:
499
This subclass is indented under subclass 498. Devices in
which the draft member is connected to the vehicle by a
pivot, the axis of which is vertical, and the vehicle is
provided a horizontal track or guide spaced from the pivot
and engaging the draft member to guide the movement of the
member in a horizontal plane.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
447 for hitches on which the draft member has its bearing on
a horizontal track or guide and travels freely thereon as the
leading vehicle turns.
467 for devices wherein the draft element is adjustably
secured to a horizontally extending bar or guide to change
the lateral position of the trailing vehicle with respect to
the leading vehicle.
Subclass:
500
This subclass is indented under subclass 495. Devices in
which a vehicle is provided with a fender or bumper which is
modified to form or have connected thereto a coupling element
for connecting another vehicle, or in which a coupling
element is connected to the vehicle fender or bumper by a
removable clamp which embraces the bumper structure.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
505 for couplings in which a conventional, unmodified bumper
forms one element of the coupling connection by which a pair
of articulated vehicles are connected and disconnected.
Subclass:
501
This subclass is indented under subclass 500. Devices in
which the coupling element is connected to some other portion
of the vehicle in addition to being connected to the bumper.
Subclass:
502
This subclass is indented under subclass 500. Devices in
which the coupling element is connected to the fender or
bumper by elements which grip the bumper and require no
modification of the bumper structure to effect the
connection.
Subclass:
503
This subclass is indented under subclass 495. Devices in
which the draft member is connected to the vehicle axle, axle
housing or gear housing.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
124.11 for running gear construction of a general utility
wheeled land vehicle wherein the axle or axle assembly is
pivotally mounted upon the vehicle body, chassis, or frame
which may or may not involve a draft attachment, especially
subclass 124.12 for a resilient, shock absorbing vertical
pivot axis mounted axle or axle assembly (i.e., swinging
axle) having a draft attachment.
137.501 for a turnable axle lacking resilient, shock
absorbing support and including a draft attachment neither
claimed or solely disclosed as a handle nor claimed in
combination with plural interconnected vehicles.
Subclass:
504
This subclass is indented under subclass 400. Devices in
which the articulated vehicles are provided with
complementary parts which are releasably connected together
to form the draft connection between the vehicles.
(1) Note. This and indented subclasses include
subcombinations of couplings or coupling elements which are
disclosed for use in connecting articulated vehicles.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
433 for couplings or fifth wheels for releasably connecting
a tractor and semitrailer.
495 for detachable connections, including clamps, between a
coupling element and its associated vehicle.
Subclass:
505
This subclass is indented under subclass 504. Devices in
which at least one of the vehicles is provided with a
conventional fender or bumper which forms one element of the
detachable coupling between the vehicles.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
500 for devices wherein one element of a detachable draft
coupling connection is secured to the bumper of a vehicle by
a clamp, or the conventional bumper structure is modified in
some manner to form or have secured thereto one element of a
detachable coupling connection.
Subclass:
506
This subclass is indented under subclass 504. Devices in
which the coupling is provided with means to reduce noise or
shocks due to vibration or play in the coupling parts during
use.
Subclass:
507
This subclass is indented under subclass 504. Devices in
which means are provided to prevent damage or access to the
coupling parts, particularly when in uncoupled relation, or
in which means are provided to lock the coupling parts
together to prevent unauthorized disconnection.
Subclass:
508
This subclass is indented under subclass 504. Devices in
which the opposing coupling members automatically assume a
coupled or connected relationship as a result of relative
movement toward one another in a horizontal plane and require
no manual manipulation at the time of making the connection.
(1) Note. This subclass includes patents where a manual
manipulation may be required to preset or condition one of
the coupling parts for the connecting action prior to
relative movement and actual connection of the parts.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
434 for semitrailer self-coupling devices.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
172, Earth Working, subclass 275 for earth working apparatus
comprising a self-coupling connection between a motor vehicle
and an implement.
Subclass:
509
This subclass is indented under subclass 508. Devices in
which one of the coupling members includes a movable element
which is biased to an open position by a spring or gravity or
the equivalent to receive a complementary coupling member and
is moved to a closed or coupled position by the action of the
complementary coupling member during the coupling operation.
Subclass:
510
This subclass is indented under subclass 508. Devices in
which one of the coupling members has a movable element which
normally occupies a closed position to retain the
complementary coupling member and is moved by movement of the
complementary member during coupling operation to pass the
member after which it returns to the closed position.
Subclass:
511
This subclass is indented under subclass 504. Devices in
which the complementary coupling parts are in the form of a
ball and a socket.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
508 for ball and socket couplings of the self-coupling
type.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
285, Pipe Joints or Couplings, 91 for ball and socket joints
of general utility.
403, Joints and Connections, subclass 90, 114, and 127+ for
ball and socket joints of general utility.
Subclass:
512
This subclass is indented under subclass 511. Devices in
which the socket has a portion or portions thereof movable
about a fixed axis or axes to permit assembly of the ball
therein.
(1) Note. Ball and socket joints wherein a portion of the
socket is subjected to compound motion to allow assembly are
not included, but will be found in the subclass under which
this subclass is indented.
Subclass:
513
This subclass is indented under subclass 511. Devices in
which the socket has a portion or portions thereof movable
rectilinearly to permit assembly of the ball therein.
Subclass:
514
This subclass is indented under subclass 504. Devices in
which each of the coupling members consists of a rigid and
integral part which is interfitted with the complementary
coupling member, the members being maintained in coupled
relationship by the shape of the parts and draft and gravity
forces acting thereon.
(1) Note. The coupling elements may be movably connected to
the respective vehicles and need to be rigid only in that
portion which directly cooperates with the complementary
coupling element to effect the connection between the
vehicles.
Subclass:
515
This subclass is indented under subclass 504. Devices which
comprises a coupling member including two spaced, relatively
fixed elements with aligned apertures, a second coupling
member having an aperture or eye disposable between the
relatively fixed elements of the first coupling member with
the three apertures aligned, and a pin member insertable
through the apertures and serving to transmit all of the
draft of the coupling.
Subclass:
600
This subclass is indented under subclass 11.12. Skates
having broad runners (substantially as wide or wider than the
human foot) and short in length (when compared to an average
ski) especially designed to traverse snow.
Subclass:
601
This subclass is indented under subclass 11.12. Devices
having runners substantially as wide as the human foot and
far greater in length that a skate, specifically designed for
down-hill gliding over snow.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
611 for ski bindings or fastening devices when only that
part of the ski which is necessary to make the binding
function is claimed.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
36, Boots, Shoes, and Leggings, subclass 4.5 for snow
shoes.
441, Buoys, Rafts, and Aquatic Devices, 68 for water skis
not including a propelling means.
Subclass:
602
This subclass is indented under subclass 601. Skis provided
with means to adjust or control the amount of longitudinal
flexibility or concavity.
Subclass:
603
This subclass is indented under subclass 601. Skis provided
with structure allowing each ski to be made shorter (or
longer) relative its longitudinal axis.
Subclass:
604
This subclass is indented under subclass 601. Skis provided
with structure which 1) prevents or minimizes slipping when
climbing a hill and/or 2) which increases friction between
the ski and the snow surface to cause the ski to stop or
drastically slow down.
Subclass:
605
This subclass is indented under subclass 604. Skis wherein
the braking means is a member which pivots to and from its
operative braking position.
Subclass:
606
This subclass is indented under subclass 601. Skis provided
with 1) means to adjust or control the direction of forward
movement or 2) handle structure which provides a rest or
steadying means for the skier.
Subclass:
607
This subclass is indented under subclass 601. Skis provided
with specific structure or a separate plate member on which
the skiers foot or boot sole rests.
Subclass:
608
This subclass is indented under subclass 601. Skis provided
with edge structure which 1) protects the ski from abuse or
wear and/or 2) helps to guide or keep the ski moving in a
relatively straight line.
Subclass:
609
This subclass is indented under subclass 601. Skis wherein
the bottom or snow engaging surface is provided with a
special or other than flat shape or contour.
Subclass:
610
This subclass is indented under subclass 601. Skis made from
a plurality of bonded layers and/or from a synthetic or
man-made material.
(1) Note. An all metal ski is not considered a synthetic
material for purposes of this subclass. For all metal,
search subclass 601.
Subclass:
611
This subclass is indented under subclass 11.3. Devices
especially designed to secure skis to a shoe or boot.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
600 for skis.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
36, Boots, Shoes, and Leggings, subclass 117.6 for a ski
boot with sole structure related to but not positively
reciting a ski binding or its specific structure or means to
dynamically interact with the ski binding.
441, Buoys, Rafts, and Aquatic Devices, subclass 70 for
water skis and their fastenings.
Subclass:
612
This subclass is indented under subclass 611. Fasteners
wherein the fastening means utilizes one or more magnets.
Subclass:
613
This subclass is indented under subclass 611. Devices
wherein the fastener operator and/or fastener is located in
or under the boot sole or on a plate attached to the boot
sole.
Subclass:
614
This subclass is indented under subclass 611. Devices in
which the ski fastener means may be alternately converted
from the cross-country type (only the toe of the boot
fastened to the ski) to the downhill type (toe and heel of
the boot fastened to the ski), such conversion being
obtainable while the boot is attached, in one form or the
other, to the ski.
Subclass:
615
This subclass is indented under subclass 611. Devices
wherein only the toe of the boot is secured to the ski,
allowing the heel to move unrestrained. Simple toe straps are
included herein.
Subclass:
616
This subclass is indented under subclass 611. Devices
wherein the toe fastener and the heel fastener are
interconnected by linkage means which moves each fastener to
and from its fastening position simultaneously.
Subclass:
617
This subclass is indented under subclass 611. Devices
wherein the toe fastener and the heel fastener are mounted on
a common support element or guide means, such means being
other than the ski.
Subclass:
618
This subclass is indented under subclass 617. Devices
wherein the common support element or guide means is mounted
on the ski in such a manner as to be movable relative thereto
or releasable therefrom.
(1) Note. Included in this subclass are the fastening means
wherein the boot and binding release as a unit from the ski.
Subclass:
619
This subclass is indented under subclass 611. Devices
wherein the fastener is in the form of a cable or strap-like
element, such element engaging the heel of the boot and/or
the ankle area of the boot.
Subclass:
620
This subclass is indented under subclass 619. Devices
wherein the cable or strap-like element is mounted on a
support element or plate, and such support element or plate
is movably and/or releasably mounted on the ski.
Subclass:
621
This subclass is indented under subclass 619. Devices
wherein the ski has mounted thereon, means to tighten the
cable or strap-like element against the heel or ankle of the
boot.
Subclass:
622
This subclass is indented under subclass 619. Devices
provided with means to (1) break or sever the cable or
strap-like element or (2) means to pull such element away
from fastening engagement with the boot.
Subclass:
623
This subclass is indented under subclass 611. Devices
wherein the fastener is in the form of a boot sole or heel
engaging clamp or hold-down. Each ski may support one or
more fastening devices which may be similar or diverse in
construction.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
616 for hold-downs or clamp interconnected for simultaneous
operation.
Subclass:
624
This subclass is indented under subclass 623. Devices
wherein the hold-down is positioned at the sides of the boot
and/or at the heel of the boot, but not at the toe of the
boot. Such fastening means or hold-downs are known in the
art as "Spademan" bindings.
Subclass:
625
This subclass is indented under subclass 623. Devices
wherein each hold-down or clamp has two or more boot sole
engaging members which may or may not be separately
operable.
Subclass:
626
This subclass is indented under subclass 623. Devices
wherein the hold-down or clamp is pivotable about a
horizontal axis, a vertical axis or both.
(1) Note. Toe irons or side cheeks which adjust to
different sizes about a vertical axis are not considered
pivotable for this subclass, but will be found in this class
(280) subclass 635.
Subclass:
627
This subclass is indented under subclass 626. Devices
wherein the pivotable hold-down or clamp is used in
conjunction with a side-cheek or other nonpivotable hold-down
or clamp.
Subclass:
628
This subclass is indented under subclass 626. Devices
wherein the fastener is mounted so as to pivot on at least
two axes, one being horizontal and the other vertical.
Subclass:
629
This subclass is indented under subclass 626. Devices
wherein a single hold-down structure is pivotable about one
or more vertical axes.
Subclass:
630
This subclass is indented under subclass 629. Devices
wherein the hold-down pivots about only one axis and that
axis is fixed.
Subclass:
631
This subclass is indented under subclass 626. Devices
wherein the hold-down pivots on a single horizontal axis
which is fixed in a position transverse of the ski.
Subclass:
632
This subclass is indented under subclass 631. Devices
provided with a latch or catch means to hold the pivoted
hold-down in a boot engaging position.
Subclass:
633
This subclass is indented under subclass 623. Hold-downs or
clamps wherein the means supporting the hold-down or clamp is
adjustable relative to and/or detachable from the ski.
Subclass:
634
This subclass is indented under subclass 623. Hold-downs or
clamps wherein the structure is specific to the hold-down
detent or spring tension structure and/or adjustment means
therefor.
Subclass:
635
This subclass is indented under subclass 623. Devices which
are fixed to or pivotally mounted on the ski and designed to
engage the sides of the ski boot sole, adjacent the toe end,
in a wedging manner as to heel engaging cable or other
suitable means forces the boot forward.
Subclass:
636
This subclass is indented under subclass 611. Devices having
means between the ski boot sole and the ski for supporting
and guiding the movement of the boot relative to the ski
and/or for reducing friction therebetween.
Subclass:
637
This subclass is indented under subclass 611. Devices having
a tether or safety line between the ski boot and the ski, the
purpose of which being to prevent the ski from being lost
should the ski be separated from the boot.
Subclass:
638
This subclass is indented under subclass 29. Wheeled
vehicles constructed in such a manner so as to allow the
physical dimension of the vehicle, or part thereof, to vary
or change.
(1) Note. The following features, generally associated with
vehicles of the type found elsewhere in this class are not
considered extensible:
A. Detachable or changeable bodies or body portions which are
intended to be attached or removed merely for the purposes of
selectively adapting the vehicle to carry different types of
loads without change in a vehicle dimension other than that
produced by the different bodies.
B. Transitory changes in the wheel and axle positions to aid
in loading.
C. Changes in the position of a loading toe or of a rack
associated with the toe.
D. Retractable elements, as for example, rest legs which do
not, when extended, produce a substantial change in an
overall dimension of the vehicle.
See the search notes below for subclass references to these
art areas.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
47.18 for detachable or changeable bodies or body portions
which are intended to be attached or removed merely for the
purposes of selectively adapting the vehicle to carry
different types of loads without change in a vehicle
dimension other than that produced by the different bodies.
47.21 for transitory changes in the wheel and axle positions
to aid in loading.
47.27 for changes in the position of a loading toe or of a
rack associated with the toe.
47.33 for retractable elements, as for example, rest legs
which do not, when extended, produce a substantial change in
an overall dimension of the vehicle.
87.05 for extensible coasters.
278 and 287, for extensible and knockdown occupant propelled
vehicles.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
52, Static Structures (e.g., Buildings), subclass 67 for a
structure of more general application having telescoping sub
and main enclosures.
Subclass:
639
This subclass is indented under subclass 638. Vehicles which
vary dimension by folding from a condition of use to a more
compact or smaller nonuse form, for ease of storage or
shipment.
(1) Note. Folding baby-carriages are found in this group.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
9 for vehicles with wheels and runners, the wheels or
runners being retracting.
20 for folding sleds.
32.6 for folding repairmen's creepers.
47.25 and 47.38+ for nonfolding, occupant seating carts or
baby-carriages.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
297, Chairs and Seats, 16.1 for a chair or seat having
relatively folding bottom, back and legs; subclasses 311+ for
a seat bottom movable relative to the remaining structure;
subclass 350 for a laterally folding or collapsible back; and
subclasses 353+ for a back movable relative to the remaining
structure.
Subclass:
640
This subclass is indented under subclass 639. Folding
vehicles designed to movably support a casket or stretcher.
Subclass:
641
This subclass is indented under subclass 38. Folding
vehicles in which the axis of each wheel-carrier pivot is
arranged in a direction transverse to the normal forward
direction of travel of the vehicle.
Subclass:
642
This subclass is indented under subclass 641. Folding
vehicles which are in the form of a manually powered chair,
baby stroller, carriage, perambulator, etc., and are
structurally stable without the aid of the operator.
Subclass:
643
This subclass is indented under subclass 642. Folding
vehicles designed to provide a secondary function different
from a primary function, by the addition, subtraction or
rearrangement of parts; e.g., carriage to stroller or bed to
seat.
Subclass:
644
This subclass is indented under subclass 642. Folding
vehicles wherein the vehicle body, as opposed to the
framework and wheel carriers, is made of a flexible material,
such as leather or cloth.
Subclass:
645
This subclass is indented under subclass 641. Folding
vehicles comprising a manually powered vehicle, adapted to
rely upon the operator for equilibrium when in operation, and
having wheel carriers which are pivoted to the vehicle frame
structure.
Subclass:
646
This subclass is indented under subclass 645. Folding
vehicles having a pair of wheels mounted upon members which
are adapted to swing toward each other from opposite sides of
the vehicles as the vehicle is being folded.
Subclass:
647
This subclass is indented under subclass 639. Folding
vehicles which are manually powered and designed to carry an
animate occupant in a specific position.
Subclass:
648
This subclass is indented under subclass 647. Folding
vehicles designed to provide a secondary function different
from that of a primary function by the addition, subtraction
or rearrangement of parts, e.g., carriage to stroller or bed
to seat.
Subclass:
649
This subclass is indented under subclass 647. Folding
vehicles comprising a frame, itself comprised of plurality of
elongated members, at least two of which are on each side of
the vehicle and are pivotally connected to each other
intermediate their ends.
Subclass:
650
This subclass is indented under subclass 647. Folding
vehicles intended to carry the occupant in a seated
position.
Subclass:
651
This subclass is indented under subclass 639. Wheeled
vehicles comprising a simple vehicle designed to support and
transport a load and being powered by manual pushing or
pulling.
Subclass:
652
This subclass is indented under subclass 651. Folding carts
having one or two wheels and relying upon the manual operator
for equilibrium when in operation.
Subclass:
653
This subclass is indented under subclass 652. Folding carts
having one wheel on the front end and two handles on the rear
end.
Subclass:
654
This subclass is indented under subclass 652. Folding carts
having a frame member, a manually engagable handle at upper
end thereof and a wheel or wheels attached to the lower end
thereof.
Subclass:
655
This subclass is indented under subclass 652. Folding carts
provided with a manually engageable handle means, such handle
means designed to collapse or fold from a use to a nonuse
position.
Subclass:
655.1
Handle only is collapsible:
This subclass is indented under subclass 639. Vehicles where
only the handle is folded and retracted so as to change the
overall dimensions of the vehicle in changing from a use to a
non-use vehicle condition.
(1) Note. Where handle movement is additional to other
parts collapsing, see subclasses above.
Subclass:
656
This subclass is indented under subclass 638. Extensible
vehicles structurally designed to by pulled or towed behind
another wheeled vehicle on which the trailer is dependent for
motion.
Subclass:
657
This subclass is indented under subclass 638. Extensible
vehicles designed to transport or aid in the transport of an
animal or human being.
Subclass:
658
This subclass is indented under subclass 657. Extensible
vehicles designed for a baby or small child.
Subclass:
659
This subclass is indented under subclass 638. Extensible
vehicles designed to transport an article utilizing manual
power.
Subclass:
676
This subclass is indented under subclass 104. Land vehicles
in which the axles between which the weight or load is
equalized include two or more axles in tandem, so located at
one end of the frame of the vehicle that additional means are
required for supporting the other end of the frame.
Subclass:
677
This subclass is indented under subclass 676. Tandem axles
wherein each of the tandem axles is associated with or
attached, one at either end, to an elongate beam member and
the beam member being pivotally connected at or near its
center to the frame of the vehicle.
Subclass:
678
This subclass is indented under subclass 677. Tandem axles
with walking beams, provided with a suspension means having
one or more fluid type (liquid or gas) springs.
Subclass:
679
This subclass is indented under subclass 677. Tandem axles
with walking beams, provided with a suspension means having
one or more torsion type spring elements.
Subclass:
680
This subclass is indented under subclass 677. Tandem axles
with walking beams, provided with a suspension means having
one or more leaf type spring elements.
Subclass:
681
This subclass is indented under subclass 677. Tandem axles
with walking beams, provided with a suspension means
comprising one or more rubber spring or cushioning elements.
Subclass:
682
This subclass is indented under subclass 676. Tandem axles
wherein each axle is attached to a leaf spring means at
approximately the center thereof, the outboard end of each
leaf spring being pivotally connected to the vehicle frame
and the inboard end of each spring being pivotally connected
to a "rocker" means or assembly, such means or assembly being
pivotally attached, at its center, to the vehicle frame.
Subclass:
683
This subclass is indented under subclass 676. Tandem axles
provided with a fluid (liquid or gas) spring or spring
suspension system between the axles and vehicle frame.
Subclass:
684
This subclass is indented under subclass 676. Tandem axles
provided with a suspension means between the axles and
vehicle frame, such suspension means comprising spring means
of the torsion type.
Subclass:
685
This subclass is indented under subclass 676. Tandem axles
provided with a suspension means between the axles and
vehicle frame, such suspension means comprising spring means
of the coil or helix type.
Subclass:
686
This subclass is indented under subclass 676. Tandem axles
provided with a suspension means between the axles and
vehicle frame, such suspension means comprising spring means
of the leaf type.
Subclass:
687
This subclass is indented under subclass 676. Tandem axles
provided with a suspension means between the axles and the
vehicle frame, such suspension means comprising spring or
cushioning means made of rubber or a similar resilient
substance.
Subclass:
727
This subclass is indented under subclass 29. Devices adapted
for attachment to various parts of a vehicle to perform some
special function.
Subclass:
728.1
Inflatable passenger restraint or confinement (e.g., air bag)
or attachment:
This subclass is indented under subclass 727. Devices
wherein the attachment comprises a bag designed to inflate
upon impact of the vehicle with an external object and
thereby confine a vehicle occupant in a protective
environment made up of a confinement bag and a vehicle seat.
(1) Note. A passenger restraining device of the inflatable
type is provided for only in this class (280).
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
801.1 for safety belts, per se.
Subclass:
728.2
With specific mounting feature:
This subclass is indented under subclass 728.1. Devices
combined with means to connect: (a) the bag housing to a
vehicle, (b) the bag to a housing or an inflator or (c) an
inflator to a housing.
Subclass:
728.3
Deployment door:
This subclass is indented under subclass 728.1. Devices
having a cover or lid which opens upon inflation of the bag.
Subclass:
729
Devices under subclasses 728.1+ wherein the confinement (air
bag) is made of a plurality of individual compartments or is
made of two or more bags, one within the other.
Subclass:
730.1
Inflated confinement specially positionedrelative to occupant
or conforming to the body shape of occupant:
This subclass is indented under subclass 728.1. Devices
wherein the confinement, when inflated, is (a) positioned in
a particular manner with respect to the occupant's body or
(b) is shaped or contoured with respect to a particular part
of the occupant's body.
Subclass:
730.2
Mounted in vehicle and positioned laterally of occupant:
This subclass is indented under subclass 730.1. Devices
wherein the confinement is stored during its nonuse or
uninflated condition within the vehicle at the side of the
occupant.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
297, Chairs and Seats, 216.1 for a crash seat.
Subclass:
731
Devices under subclasses 728.1+ wherein the confinement is
stored in its nonuse or deflated condition within or on the
vehicle steering column.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
777 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 column or other element of
the means is movable in response to a collision, and see
especially (1) Note of that subclass.
Subclass:
732
Devices under subclasses 728.1+ wherein the confinement is
stored in its nonuse or deflated condition within or on the
vehicle instrument panel or "dash-board".
Subclass:
733
Devices under subclasses 728.1+ wherein the inflatable
confinement is 1) shaped as or resembles a belt, strap or
harness arrangement and/or 2) is combined with a belt, strap
or harness arrangement.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
801.1 for noninflatable safety belt and harness arrangements
and for inflatable safety belt and harness arrangements which
inflate under conditions other than upon impact or impending
impact.
Subclass:
734
Devices under subclasses 728.1+ which are inflated in
response to one or more particular vehicle conditions which
assume impending collision or crash.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
180, Motor Vehicles, 268 for a motor vehicle provided with a
belt or harness for restraining an occupant and with means
whereby the belt or harness controls, or is controlled by,
the functioning of a vehicle system or component; and
subclasses 271+ for a motor vehicle provided with means
(frequently a means which is responsive to a condition of the
vehicle or its operation) for promoting the safety of the
vehicle, its occupant or load, or an external object.
Subclass:
735
This subclass is indented under subclass 734. Devices
wherein the confinement inflation initiation means and or
condition sensor is electrical.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
200, Electricity: Circuit Makers and Breakers, 61.45 for
electric switch sensors.
307, Electrical Transmission or Interconnection Systems,
subclass 10.1 to complete the search for electric control
for air bags.
340, Communications: Electrical, subclass 436 and 438 for
electrical alarms or indicators of collision or contact with
an external object or responsive to a condition of the
vehicle.
Subclass:
736
Devices under subclasses 728.1+ having an inflation fluid
source or generator and the means to control such fluid flow
from the source to the confinement or to the atmosphere or
such fluid flow from the confinement to the atmosphere.
Subclass:
737
This subclass is indented under subclass 736. Devices
provided with means to open or rupture a closure in the fluid
source to allow the inflation fluid to flow to the
confinement.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
137, Fluid Handling, 67 for destructible valve control.
222, Dispensing, subclass 3 for gas dispensing that can be
used with an air bag and subclass 5 for gas dispensing with a
cutter or punch.
441, Buoys, Rafts, and Aquatic Devices, 90 for mechanical
inflation means (e.g., lever actuated compressed gas
release).
Subclass:
738
This subclass is indented under subclass 736. Devices having
means to draw ambient air into the flow line and mix such air
with the inflation fluid, such mixture being the total or
resultant inflation fluid which fills the confinement.
Subclass:
739
This subclass is indented under subclass 736. Devices
provided with means to deflate the confinement after
inflation thereof.
Subclass:
740
This subclass is indented under subclass 736. Devices
wherein the confinement is provided with means to diffuse or
deflect the stream of inflation fluid, thereby spreading the
stream of inflation fluid from a single point to a more
general area within the confinement.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
55, Gas Separation, appropriate subclasses for specific
filter structure, per se.
Subclass:
741
Devices under subclasses 728.1+ having a specific inflation
fluid source or generator therefor.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
102, Ammunition and Explosives, 200 for igniters, per se,
and subclasses 530 and 531 for cartridged gas generators.
422, Chemical Apparatus and Process Disinfecting,
Deodorizing, Preserving, or Sterilizing, subclass 164, 165,
and 166 for gas generators that can be used with an air bag.
Subclass:
742
Devices under subclasses 728.1+ having a specific inflation
fluid control therefor.
(1) Note. See search notes in subclass 737 above.
Subclass:
743.1
Specific confinement structure:
This subclass is indented under subclass 728.1. Devices
wherein the confinement or the bag is provided with a
specific shape or is defined by its specific structure.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
383, Flexible Bags, subclass 3 for flexible bags which are
inflatable.
493, Manufacturing Container of Tube From Paper; or Other
Manufacturing From a Sheet or Web, 405 for bag folding, per
se.
Subclass:
743.2
With confinement expansion regulating tether or strap:
This subclass is indented under subclass 743.1. Devices
combined with a strip or band which controls the inflation of
the bag to conform to a certain shape or limit the extension
of the bag.
Subclass:
748
This subclass is indented under subclass 727. Devices
designed to protect a vehicle occupant from injury should the
vehicle sharply decelerate or collide with another object.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
728.1 for inflatable "air-bag" confinements.
801.1 for seat belts and shoulder harnesses.
Subclass:
749
This subclass is indented under subclass 748. Devices
comprising nets, curtains, transparent sheets or the like,
designed to catch or restrain the forward movement of a
vehicle occupant, should the vehicle sharply decelerate or
collide with another object.
Subclass:
750
This subclass is indented under subclass 748. Devices
connected to the vehicle steering wheel or column and
designed to protect the vehicle driver by cushioning the
driver impact on the steering wheel.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
731 for "air-bag" type confinements associated with a
vehicle steering column.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
74, Machine Element or Mechanism, 492 for steering posts,
per se, subclass 552 for steering wheels, per se.
Subclass:
751
This subclass is indented under subclass 748. Devices
wherein the safety guard comprises 1) the addition of padding
to the standard interior vehicle elements and/or 2) addition
of nonstandard, padded elements to the vehicle interior, all
of which being designed to cushion an occupant impact upon
the element should a collision occur.
Subclass:
752
This subclass is indented under subclass 751. Devices
wherein 1) the padded member is the vehicle instrument panel
or dashboard or 2) the instrument panel or dashboard is
modified in such a manner as to receive a padded or cushioned
member.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
180, Motor Vehicles, subclass 90.
296, Land Vehicles: Bodies and Tops, subclass 70 for
similar art.
Subclass:
753
This subclass is indented under subclass 751. Devices which
move from an inoperative position to an operative position
upon the occurrence of a condition, that condition usually
being rapid deceleration.
Subclass:
754
This subclass is indented under subclass 727. Devices which
extend between the vehicle frame (or other unsprung portion)
and the vehicle axle (or other sprung portion) for the
purpose of preventing the vehicle spring from flexing in
either or both directions.
(1) Note. These devices are usually used to lock the
vehicle spring and body together to prevent having to raise
the body of an automobile excessively off the ground to
change a tire.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
180, Motor Vehicles, 199 for a motor vehicle which is
provided with powered, ground-engaging means for producing,
or assisting in the production of, lateral movement of the
vehicle (e.g., for parking), and see particularly (2) Note of
subclass 199 regarding the frequent appearance, in that area,
of a device or element for preventing the sagging of a wheel
and its suspension members when the portion of the vehicle to
which they are attached is raised.
Subclass:
755
This subclass is indented under subclass 727. Devices
designed to stabilize or otherwise keep the vehicle from
rolling or tilting past a given point.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
5.501 for a land vehicle including suspension modification
enacted as a result of a force encountered during surface
traversing motion wherein the force encountered represents a
perceived abnormal or hazardous handling or ride posture
characteristic.
28.15 for a central runner vehicle including an auxiliary
runner.
28.16 for a runner vehicle including an auxiliary runner.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
180, Motor Vehicles, 282 for a motor vehicle which is
provided with means for promoting the safety of the vehicle,
its occupant or load, or an external object, and wherein the
means is one which may be responsive to the sensing of a tilt
of the vehicle.
Subclass:
756
This subclass is indented under subclass 727. Devices
wherein the vehicle is provided with one or more bar
arrangements extending over and around the occupant
compartment, such bar or bar arrangement designed 1) to
protect the occupant from being crushed should the vehicle
overturn and/or 2) protect the occupant from object falling
from overhead.
Subclass:
757
This subclass is indented under subclass 727. Devices which
can be attached to a conventional vehicle and which are
designed to provide traction with the road surface to
eliminate skid or slide.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
188, Brakes, 5 for a brake for nonrail vehicle, which brake
is applied to the ground for the purpose of either checking
the vehicle's forward motion or preventing side motion or
skidding thereof.
Subclass:
758
This subclass is indented under subclass 757. Devices
wherein the added traction is provided by a shift in position
of movable weights, such shift caused by the centrifugal
force generated as the vehicle begins to change direction.
Subclass:
759
This subclass is indented under subclass 757. Devices
wherein the added traction is provided by the addition of
static weight masses.
Subclass:
760
This subclass is indented under subclass 727. Devices
wherein the attachment is in the form or 1) a platform or
shelf type accessory or 2) the means by which tractor
accessories are mounted or attached to the tractor frame.
Subclass:
761
This subclass is indented under subclass 727. Devices
wherein the attachment is in the form of a manually actuated
device designed to minimize the physical effort required to
parallel park a vehicle. The devices usually take the form
of means to relieve a major portion of the weight of the
steering wheels.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
180, Motor Vehicles, 199 for a motor vehicle which is
provided with powered, ground-engaging means for producing,
or assisting in the production of, lateral movement of the
vehicle (e.g., for parking); and subclass 204 for a motor
vehicle which is provided with a device for programmably
operating the vehicle's steerable wheels during a parking
maneuver of the vehicle.
Subclass:
762
This subclass is indented under subclass 727. Attachments
which are attached to and used on the exterior of the
vehicle.
Subclass:
763.1
Retractable prop, support or stabilizer:
This subclass is indented under subclass 762. Device which
provides the vehicle with a means to brace or hold the
vehicle in a fixed or established position, such means being
carried by the vehicle in a nonuse, stored position, and such
means provided with a mechanism which will extend or
otherwise move the means into a use position, when the
vehicle is not in motion.
(1) Note. Included herein are devices which relieve the
vehicle suspension or vehicle wheels of the weight of the
vehicle in order to stabilize the vehicle in a working
position, e.g., outrigger. Also included are devices which
level a stationary vehicle relative to an unlevel vehicle
supporting surface.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
6.153 for a vehicle including (a) means, interposed between
the vehicle body, chassis, or frame and running gear thereof,
for altering height or levelness of the vehicle body,
chassis, or frame or (b) an attached retractable prop, stand,
or support which is interrelated to a means interposed
between the vehicle body, chassis, or frame and running gear
thereof.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
254, Implement or Apparatus for Applying Pushing or Pulling
Force, 418 for a vehicle attached jack which is extended by
a power or force increasing mechanism, to lift the vehicle or
a part thereof off of the vehicle supporting surface, for the
purposes of repair to the vehicle or to position the vehicle
relative to something else, e.g., positioning a semitrailer
relative to a tractor for coupling to or uncoupling from the
trailer.
293, Vehicle Fenders, for the combination of a jack and a
vehicle bumper.
Subclass:
764.1
With actuator for pivoted support:
This subclass is indented under subclass 763.1. Device
wherein the prop, support or stabilizer is hinged to the
vehicle frame in such manner so as to pivot or swing into or
out of an operative position, and such prop, support or
stabilizer is provided with structural means to initiate or
bring about such movement.
Subclass:
765.1
Having additional translating or telescoping movement:
This subclass is indented under subclass 864.1. Device
wherein the swinging or pivoting movement is coupled with a
translating, telescoping or otherwise elongating movement,
both movements being necessary to bring the prop, support or
stabilizer into operative position.
Subclass:
766.1
With actuator for translating or telescoping movement:
This subclass is indented under subclass 763.1. Device
wherein the prop, support or stabilizer moves in operative
position by means of a translating, telescoping or otherwise
elongating movement, and such prop, support or stabilizer is
provided with structural means to initiate or bring such
movement about.
Subclass:
767
This subclass is indented under subclass 762. Substitute or
auxiliary wheels for assuming the weight of the vehicle when
either the tires, wheels or axles thereof are disabled for
any reason.
Subclass:
768
This subclass is indented under subclass 762. Devices
wherein the attachment is a skirt or barrier to be used in
conjunction with a house trailer, mobile home or the like,
such skirt to extend from the floor level to the trailer to
the ground and usually being for purpose of insulation,
storage and/or appearance.
Subclass:
769
This subclass is indented under subclass 762. Device
designed to support and carry a load.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
224, Package and Article Carriers, for a vehicle supported
article carrier, where the organization of the vehicle is
unchanged.
Subclass:
770
This subclass is indented under subclass 762. Devices
designed to protect a particular part of the vehicle from
externally caused damage.
Subclass:
771
Occupant steered:
This subclass is indented under subclass 80.1. Subject
matter wherein the running gear includes means operable by a
vehicle operator positioned upon or within the vehicle to
alter a travel path of the vehicle.
(1) Note. The feature of a steering wheel or other similar
operator extremity engaged member is not required for
classification in this subclass or those indented hereunder,
but rather it is merely required that the vehicle be capable
of effecting alteration of a travel path under control of an
operator positioned upon or within the vehicle as contrasted
with an attendant steered vehicle which is provided
elsewhere.
(2) Note. During a reclassification of former indented
subclasses 93+, now abolished, and other former subclasses,
subclasses 688+, now abolished, it was established that a
conflict existed between these subclasses because both
involved suspension mounting of a steerable road wheel.
Concurrent with the reclassification, the suspension
arrangement or mounting aspect was assigned a superior
position in the schedule hierarchy. The superior position
within the schedule hierarchy is based on the fact that a
suspension arrangement or mounting aspect provides for
attaching and controlling movement of the steerable road
wheel relative to the vehicle body, chassis, or frame whereas
the feature of occupant controlled steering means for such a
steerable road wheel is limited to pivotal motion about a
vertical axis.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
16 and 21.1, for occupant-steered sleds.
47.11 for hand-propelled vehicles with steering means.
263 for occupant-propelled vehicles with steering means.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
180, Motor Vehicles, 400 for a motor having means for
guiding it, and see the search notes therein to other
subclasses of that class (180) which relate to the steering
of a motor vehicle.
Subclass:
773
With manually powered hydraulic steering:
This subclass is indented under subclass 771. Apparatus
comprising steerable wheel moving means comprising a liquid
impelling means powered by the normal manual steering action
of a vehicle operator, the impelled liquid providing the
force to steer the vehicle.
Subclass:
774
With remote position steering:
This subclass is indented under subclass 771. Apparatus
wherein addition to the normal steering arrangement there is
provided means by which the vehicle operator may guide the
vehicle from a position spaced from the normal operator's
steering position.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
93.503 for an occupant controlled steering arrangement
including alternate or repetitive means for creating pivoting
movement of steerable road wheels operable from a single
operator's position.
Subclass:
775
With adjustable steering wheel or column:
This subclass is indented under subclass 771. Apparatus
wherein the steering wheel is movable to at least one other
operating position at the occupant's steering station.
(1) Note. The steering wheel may be moved to either another
use or to a nonuse position.
Subclass:
776
Including bias means maintaining steerable wheel and elongate
surface engagement (e.g., furrow followers):
This subclass is indented under subclass 771. Apparatus in
which there is provided means connected to a movable steering
part for either urging or maintaining a steerable ground
engaging wheel in engagement with elongate side wall or a
rut, curb, or the like for steering the vehicle thereby
(e.g., furrow followers).
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
87.2 for another land vehicle of the occupant steered type
which is adapted to follow a rut, curb, or the like, but
wherein an additional wheel is provided for engaging such a
surface feature, and see the search notes of that subclass
(87.2) for related art in other classes.
Subclass:
777
Steering column or wheel movable in response to collision:
This subclass is indented under subclass 771. Apparatus
wherein the steering means includes parts either movable or
deformable upon receipt of an excessive frontal impacting
force so that possible injury thereby to the occupant
(vehicle operator) is either avoided or minimized.
(1) Note. A bag inflatable on impact mounted on a steering
column is not considered to be a movable or deformable
steering part for classification here, see Class 280,
subclasses 728+. However, an inflatable air bag mounted on a
steering means having claimed movable or deformable parts
responsive to an impact force in excess of a normal operating
force is considered proper for classification here.
(2) Note. Included in this subclass are patents in which
steering mechanism is moved by either the impact of a
collision or by a vehicle operator in response to forces of a
collision.
Subclass:
778
Plural steering hand grips or noncoaxial steering wheel and
column:
This subclass is indented under subclass 771. Apparatus
comprising either plural manually engageable and movable
steering members or a manually engageable steering wheel
rotating about an axis other than the axis of its associated
steering column means for steering the vehicle.
Subclass:
779
This subclass is indented under subclass 771. With steering
column mount or support: Apparatus comprising the structure
fixedly holding the steering post or column in place on the
vehicle.
Subclass:
780
Having nonrigid member:
This subclass is indented under subclass 779. Apparatus
wherein the means to hold and maintain the steering post or
column in its normal operating position includes either a
resilient or a pliant means to allow for slight (either
misalignment or relative) movement between the steering post
or column and the vehicle.
Subclass:
781
Specific vehicle frame:
This subclass is indented under subclass 80.1. Wheeled
running gear having a frame on which a vehicle body may be
mounted.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
52, Static Structures (e.g., Buildings), 633 for openwork
structures such as trusses or trellises; and subclasses
720.1+ for elongated rigid members having general application
including vehicle use as disclosed.
105, Railway Rolling Stock, subclass 397 and 404 for
passenger and freight car frames.
180, Motor Vehicles, 291 for a motor vehicle wherein the
motor and the body frame are related specifically to one
another; and subclass 311 for a frame for a vehicle, which
frame includes a feature peculiar to a vehicle of the
motor-propelled kind.
296, Land Vehicles: Bodies and Tops, subclasses 178-187
and 203.01+ for vehicle frames claimed in combination with
body structure and a disclosure of or a broadly claimed
reference to running gear.
Subclass:
782
Forming fluid or electrical conduit means or having other
means to accommodate the transmission of a force or signal:
This subclass is indented under subclass 781. Apparatus in
which the frame, or a portion thereof is constructed (1) to
serve as a fluid or electrical conductor, or (2) to
accommodate means for the transmission of energy.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
5 for a vehicle having a vehicle service tank.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
224, Package and Article Carriers, 400 for vehicle attached
carriers.
Subclass:
783
Having storage compartment:
This subclass is indented under subclass 781. Apparatus in
which the vehicle frame is particularly constructed to
encompass or to form a means usable to store or confine a
miscellaneous article or substance.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
5 for a vehicle having a service tank attached thereto.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
224, Package and Article Carriers, subclass classes 400+ for
vehicle attached carriers.
296, Land Vehicles: Bodies and Tops, 10 for a vehicle body
which is a convertible box; and subclasses 37+ for vehicle
bodies having an auxiliary article compartment.
Subclass:
784
Having impact absorbing means:
This subclass is indented under subclass 781. Apparatus in
which a portion or all of the frame is designed to
permanently or temporarily change shape or dimension upon
impact of the frame with another body.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
293, Vehicle Fenders, 107, 129, 131, and 132+ for impact
absorbing bumpers for vehicles.
296, Land Vehicles: Bodies and Tops, subclass 189 for
impact absorbing body structure.
Subclass:
785
Assembled from prefabricated connectable sections:
This subclass is indented under subclass 781. Apparatus in
which the frame is an assemblage of a plurality of unitary
preassembled structural members adapted to be interconnected
or otherwise joined together.
Subclass:
786
Single longitudinal beam type:
This subclass is indented under subclass 781. Apparatus
having a single backbone type beam member comprising the sole
longitudinal structural member extending substantially the
length of the frame.
Subclass:
787
With spring suspension means:
This subclass is indented under subclass 786. Apparatus in
which the frame member is provided with a spring suspension
means whereby said frame is mounted to its supporting
structure (e.g., running gear).
Subclass:
788
With resilient means for suspension:
This subclass is indented under subclass 781. Apparatus in
which the frame member is provided with a spring suspension
means whereby said frame is mounted to its supporting
structure (e.g., running gear).
(1) Note. This subclass accepts a running gear combination
of specific frame construction and a suspension arrangement.
However, when the claim is directed to the suspension with
only a nominal recitation of frame structure, the patent is
properly classified in an appropriate subclass provided
elsewhere for the particular suspension arrangement.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
124.1 for particular running gear construction for a general
utility wheeled land vehicle including a resilient, shock
absorbing suspension arrangement.
Subclass:
789
Trailer type:
This subclass is indented under subclass 781. Apparatus in
which the frame is specifically constructed for use in a
nonpowered vehicle to be pulled by a tractor or other vehicle
having self-propelling means.
(1) Note. Patents are classified in this subclass in which
the type of vehicle is claimed nominally (e.g., semitrailer,
boat trailer, etc.); however, patents claiming structure
which accommodates a specific load or which are specific to
any type of vehicle are classified with that type of vehicle.
See the search notes below for semitrailers and boat
trailers.
(2) Note. Patents are classified in this subclass in which a
hitching means for the trailer is nominally claimed. Patents
claiming vehicles and specific hitch structure are classified
elsewhere in this class.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
423.1 for semitrailers.
414 for boat trailers.
491.1 for vehicles and specific hitch structure.
Subclass:
790
Having vertically offset load bearing surface:
This subclass is indented under subclass 781. Apparatus in
which a section of the frame when viewed in side elevation,
has a portion which is vertically offset from at least
another portion of said frame along its length and said
portion is capable of supporting a load.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
2 for vehicle frames claimed in combination with a body
having a drop portion, or frames having a drop portion
claimed in combination with body means and/or axle(s) for
wheels.
Subclass:
791
Pinched frame type:
This subclass is indented under subclass 781. Apparatus
formed of a plurality of first vehicle frame sections having
elongated members extending longitudinally and spaced
transversely of the vehicle, said sections being spaced
longitudinally of the vehicle and connected by other
longitudinal frame means of lesser transverse dimension than
that of the first frame sections.
Subclass:
792
Wide-hipped frame type:
This subclass is indented under subclass 781. Apparatus in
which the shape of the frame as seen in plan view includes a
wide box-shaped mid portion and narrower sections extending
from said mid portion in both fore and aft directions.
Subclass:
793
X-frame type:
This subclass is indented under subclass 781. Apparatus
having members which form an X as the frame is seen in plan
view.
Subclass:
794
Transverse frame members form "X":
This subclass is indented under subclass 793. Apparatus in
which the frame is provided with members extending generally
transversely of the frame and which are crossed or otherwise
interconnected to form an X as seen in plan view.
Subclass:
795
Transverse member is body support:
This subclass is indented under subclass 781. Apparatus
wherein the frame is provided with a transversely extending
member by which a body may be supported.
Subclass:
796
Having tubular transverse frame member:
This subclass is indented under subclass 781. Apparatus
having a transverse frame member which is circular or oval
shaped in cross section.
Subclass:
797
Longitudinal frame member is box-shaped:
This subclass is indented under subclass 781. Apparatus
having a longitudinal frame member which is square or
rectangular shaped in cross section.
Subclass:
798
Longitudinal frame member is tubular:
This subclass is indented under subclass 781. Apparatus
having a longitudinal frame member which is circular or oval
shaped in cross section.
Subclass:
799
Longitudinal frame member is an "I" beam:
This subclass is indented under subclass 781. Apparatus
having a longitudinally extending frame member which is
I-shaped in cross section.
Subclass:
800
Longitudinal frame member is channel-shaped:
This subclass is indented under subclass 781. Apparatus
having a longitudinally extending member which is
channel-shaped in cross section.
Subclass:
801.1
Safety belt or harness, e.g., lap belt or shoulder harness:
This subclass is indented under subclass 727. Apparatus
wherein the vehicle is provided with a flexible, straplike
member engageable with the body of a vehicle occupant and
preventing, restraining, or limiting movement of the occupant
relative to the vehicle should the vehicle sharply
decelerate, collide with another object, or be involved in
any other sudden, unexpected movement.
(1) Note. A safety belt or harness included in this and the
indented subclasses must be combined with significant vehicle
structure such as, (a) where the vehicle structure has been
specifically modified in some way to accommodate the belt or
harness device, (b) where the vehicle structure operationally
cooperates with the belt or harness device (e.g., the folding
of the front seat back moves belt system to allow occupant
access to the rear seat of the vehicle or the belt or harness
device relies upon the opening or closing of a vehicle door
for its operation), or (c) where the belt or harness device
is combined with other extraneous vehicle structure (e.g., a
door or a portion thereof, a door opening, a dashboard, a
windshield, a vehicle, brake or bumper, a rocker panel, or
seating arrangements peculiar to a vehicle). Mere,
incidental attachment of the belt or harness device or
accessories therefor to named, conventional vehicle body
portions (e.g., the vehicle body or frame, center post,
transmission tunnel, roof rail, floor pan, side panel, or
vehicle seat) or the location of a portion of the belt or
harness device relative to such named, conventional vehicle
body portions does not constitute significant vehicle
structure and will, accordingly, place the document
elsewhere. See the Search Class notes below.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
733 for an inflatable device designed to inflate upon impact
or impending impact where the inflatable device is (a) shaped
as or resembles a belt, strap, or harness arrangement or (b)
is combined with belt, strap, or harness arrangement.
801.2 for a safety belt or harness having an adjustable
anchor means.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
24, Buckles, Buttons, Clasps, etc., particularly 572 for a
device in the nature of a buckle for joining two straplike
members.
180, Motor Vehicles, 268 for a safety belt or harness
operationally combined with a motor vehicle system (e.g., the
ignition circuit) or a component (e.g., the transmission
selector lever).
297, Chairs and Seats, 468 for a safety belt or harness
device, per se, combined with a seat or combined merely with
named, conventional vehicle body portions, see (1) Note
above.
340, Communications: Electrical, subclass 457.1 for a
specific, vehicle-mounted, electrical system which may
involve a circuit which includes elements of a seat belt.
Subclass:
801.2
Having adjustable anchor means:
This subclass is indented under subclass 801.1. Apparatus
wherein a support for the flexible, straplike member is
attached to a mounting means; the mounting means includes a
device which permits at least two selective operational
positions for the support.
(1) Note. The mounting means is rigidly fixed to the
vehicle structure other than a vehicle seat (e.g., door,
floor, or roof).
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
248, Support, subclass 297.31 for step-by-step adjustment of
anchor means.
297, Chair and Seats, 468 for a support attached to a
mounting means connected to a vehicle seat.
Subclass:
802
Passive restraint system:
Apparatus under subclasses 801.1+ wherein at least a portion
of the apparatus is automatically movable from a vehicle
entry position, in which position the occupant can easily
enter the vehicle, to an occupant restraining position
without any deliberate or manipulative occupant effort upon
the apparatus itself.
Subclass:
803
Having belt retractor mounted on vehicle closure:
This subclass is indented under subclass 802. Apparatus
including a take-up device mounted on or in a vehicle closure
member (e.g., a vehicle door) to withdraw or take-up at least
a portion of the straplike member onto or into the closure
member.
Subclass:
804
Having belt connected to member slidable in a vehicle-mounted
track:
Apparatus under 802 wherein the vehicle is provided with a
trackway and the straplike member is connected to a slide
member movable along the trackway such that the slide member
slides in one direction to move the straplike member to an
easy-enter position and slides in the opposite direction to
move the straplike member to an occupant restraining
position.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
801.2 for safety belt or harness having an adjustable anchor
means.
Subclass:
805
With energy absorber:
Apparatus under subclasses 801.1+ wherein the straplike
member is provided with means to cushion, soften, or
neutralize the shock or strain on the occupant's body as the
occupant is forced against the restraint upon sudden
deceleration or impact.
Subclass:
806
Inertia responsive locking or tightening of belt or harness:
Apparatus under subclasses 801.1+ wherein the straplike
member allows at least some limited movement of the
occupant's body relative to his seat during normal operation
of the vehicle and includes means, responsive to a sudden
deceleration or impact of the vehicle, to either (a) lock the
straplike member against extension thereof by the occupant's
body as the occupant is forced against the straplike member
so as to restrain the occupant to his seat or (b) tighten the
straplike member by means of a takeup device about the
occupant's body so as to restrain the occupant to his seat.
Subclass:
807
Retractable:
Apparatus under subclasses 801.1+ wherein the straplike
member is connected to a take-up device to withdraw or
take-up at least a portion of the straplike member to a
stowed or out-of-way position.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
242, Winding, Tensioning, or Guiding, 370 for a reeling
device on which strap material can be wound.
Subclass:
808
Shoulder belt or harness:
Apparatus under subclasses 801.1+ wherein the straplike
member is engageable with and restrains the upper portion of
the vehicle occupant's body.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
801.2 for safety belt or harness having an adjustable anchor
means.
Subclass:
809
SKI OR SKATE APPLIANCE OR ATTACHMENT:
This subclass is indented under the class definition. Device
especially designed to be (a) useable with or as an
attachment for skates or skis, or (b) to be used by a skater
or skier while pursuing a skating or skiing activity.
(1) Note. This subclass takes supports connected with the
skates and those held by hand in the nature of ski poles.
Self-sustaining frame devices which aid in the support of the
weight of the person are regarded as amusement or exercise
devices and are classified in either Class 472 or Class 482
as indicated by the search note below.
(2) Note. "Skates" include ice skates and roller skates.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
604 for an attachment for a ski which engages the snow to
prevent slip or to brake the movement of the ski; and
subclass 611 for ski-to-boot connecting means.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
2, Apparel, 16 for devices for protecting the hands of
skiers in gripping tow cables.
104, Railways, 173 particularly subclasses 178, 180, and
202+, for towing cables for skiers and for devices for
gripping ski tow cables.
401, Coating Implements With Material Supply, subclass 19
for diverse coating tools including solid material for
rubbing contact.
441, Buoys, Rafts, and Aquatic Devices, subclass 68 for
water skis.
472, Amusement Devices, particularly 14 for an occupant
propelled roundabout used as a skater support.
482, Exercise Devices, 51 for an exercise device involving
user translation, e.g., skiing, skating, etc., or physical
simulation thereof, particularly subclass 70 for an exercise
device which may simulate Nordic skiing and subclass 71 for
an exercise device related to conditioning or developing a
muscle related to Alpine skiing.
Subclass:
810
Wind sail for propelling or braking skier or skater:
This subclass is indented under subclass 809. Device
comprising a means having a relatively large area which a
skier or skater may present to the wind either for the
purpose of propulsion thereby or as a motion retardation
means.
(1) Note. The sail may be carried by the skier or skater or
it may be attached to the skater or ski.
Subclass:
811
Ice or roller skate boot attachment (e.g., cover, protector,
etc.):
This subclass is indented under subclass 809. Device adapted
to be attached or applied to a boot or shoe used for ice or
roller skating.
(1) Note. These devices include warmers, scuff preventing
means, etc.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
36, Boots, Shoes, and Leggings, 7.1 for overshoes.
Subclass:
812
Seat supported by ski pole:
This subclass is indented under subclass 809. Device having
means which may be supported by one or more ski poles and
thereby form a surface upon which a person may sit either in
a stationary position or while skiing.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
826 for sticks or rods which support a skier or skater while
straddling the same while in motion.
Subclass:
813
Ski or pole having means to scrape snow or ice from ski or
boot:
This subclass is indented under subclass 809. Device wherein
a ski pole or a ski itself is provided with a means which may
be moved against a ski or boot having snow or ice adhering
thereto for the purpose of removing said snow or ice.
Subclass:
814
Clamp, tie, or case for carrying or storage of skis:
This subclass is indented under subclass 809. Device having
a means which may or may not be separably attached to a ski
or to a plurality of skis for the purpose of (a) securing a
plurality of skis together in a manner whereby they may not
be used for skiing, or (b) securing a ski or skis to a
relatively stationary object for storage.
(1) Note. The means may be adapted additionally to be
attached to a ski pole.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
818 for means securing a pair of skis together while being
used for skiing for the purpose of training the skier to
maintain the skis in a given relative relationship; and
subclass 601 for skis which may have means built therein
(i.e., magnets) to hold a pair together.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
206, Special Receptacle or Package, subclass 315.1 for a bag
or receptacle for skis.
211, Supports: Racks, subclass 70.5 for supports or racks
for slender articles such as skis.
224, Package and Article Carriers, 309, 323, 602, 917 for a
body supported ski carrier, and 917.5 for a vehicle supported
ski carrier.
294, Handling: Hand and Hoist-Line Implements, subclass 137
for hand-held ski carrier having handles, especially subclass
147 for carrier adapted to support skis as well as other
articles (e.g., boots, poles, etc.).
Subclass:
815
Prevents warp, maintains camber, or conforms to ski shape:
This subclass is indented under subclass 814. Device wherein
said securing means is particularly shaped or is applicable
to the ski at a point or points thereon whereby, when
applied, the skis is warped to, or maintained in, a
particularly desired configuration.
Subclass:
816
Combined:
This subclass is indented under subclass 809. Device
combined with means which, if claimed per se, would be
classified in another class, and wherein the other class is
not a locus for said means combined with other devices, and
which is not merely a part or subcombination of a ski, skate,
or ski pole.
(1) Note. The means include a compass, light, liquid
container, crutch, pyrotechnic device, marker, etc.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
219, Electric Heating, subclass 201 for electric heaters
combined with other devices.
Subclass:
817
Anti-crossover for skis:
This subclass is indented under subclass 809. Device in
which a bar or deflecting means is provided on at least one
of the skis worn by a skier to prevent one ski from riding
over the top of the other ski while skiing.
Subclass:
818
Having means interconnecting skis for training:
This subclass is indented under subclass 809. Device having
means whereby the skis of a pair, being used by skier, or
secured together to establish a given positional relationship
between said skis in order to assist the skier in learning to
ski.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
814 for clamping means for securing skis together or to
other objects for nonuse purposes.
845 for skis used to form runners of a runner-equipped
vehicle (i.e., sled).
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
441, Buoys, Rafts, and Aquatic Devices, subclass 73 for
water skis having means to secure a pair together for
training purposes.
Subclass:
819
Ski pole:
This subclass is indented under subclass 809. Device being
an elongated means to be carried by the hand of and used to
assist in the stabilization movement or braking of a skater
or skier.
Subclass:
820
Having means to interconnect with another pole:
This subclass is indented under subclass 819. Device having
means on at least one of a pair of elongated means whereby a
plurality of said means may be secured together for carrying
or for storage.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
814 for clamps which secure a plurality of skis together for
storage and which may simultaneously secure a ski pole
thereto.
Subclass:
821
Hand grip:
This subclass is indented under subclass 819. Device wherein
said elongated means is provided with a means adapted
particularly to be engaged by the user's hand or wrist.
Subclass:
822
Having quick release means:
This subclass is indented under subclass 821. Device wherein
the hand or wrist engagable means is attached to the
elongated means and is adapted to detach itself from the
elongated means in an emergency when the force tending toward
separation exceeds a predetermined amount.
Subclass:
823
Adjustable length (e.g., retractable tip):
This subclass is indented under subclass 819. Device in
which the length of the elongated means may be changed either
so that it may be made to penetrate the snow or ice more
readily or so that it is more accommodating to the height of
the user.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
809 for ski poles which may be collapsed to a nonuseable
condition but which is not adjustable in length when in the
useable condition.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
403, Joints and Connections, appropriate subclass for an
elongated member having means whereby its length may be
adjusted.
Subclass:
824
Ring or basket:
This subclass is indented under subclass 819. Device having
dishlike means having an axis of rotation which is secured to
or forms a part of the elongated means along said axis to
offer resistance against penetration of snow or ice by said
elongated means.
Subclass:
825
Scabbards for ice or roller skates:
This subclass is indented under subclass 809. Device
comprising a cover to protect an ice skate runner or the
wheel of a roller skate.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
224, Package and Article Carriers, appropriate subclasses for
body and belt carriers for skates.
294, Handling: Hand and Hoist-Line Implements, subclass 137
for hand carriers for skates.
Subclass:
826
Riding stick:
This subclass is indented under subclass 809. Device
comprising a stick or rod to be straddled by a skater or
skier to at least partially support the skater or skier while
in motion, said stick or rod may be provided with a
ground-engaging roller or runner at one end thereof.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
812 for ski poles having seat means supported thereby upon
which a person may sit.
Subclass:
827
SIMULATIONS OF THE VELOCIPEDE TYPE:
This subclass is indented under the class definition.
Vehicles in which some object is simulated.
(1) Note. This group includes both those vehicles which
have positive occupant propelling means and those which are
adapted to be pushed along by the occupant. Also, vehicles
which include a simulation and are propelled by a walking
(nonoccupant) attendant are included herein.
(2) Note. Simulations comprise both the forms which are
claimed specifically as figures having bodies, heads, legs,
ears, etc., or as having equipment such as saddles, stirrups,
reins, etc., and those disclosed simulations having claimed
features which necessarily import or require structure or
arrangements not found in nonsimulation type vehicles.
Examples of such features are steering or driving mechanisms
housed in bodies of substantial depth or thickness, or
arranged to by-pass or accommodate figure parts not claimed
as such but having no useful place in the conventional
vehicle, as projecting heads or feet not used for support.
Automobile simulations for subclasses 827 and 828 comprise
body and running gear combinations having structure, the
chief purpose of which is to render the vehicle attractive to
children by imitating features characteristic of automobiles,
as sound effects, simulations of brakes, headlights,
radiators, etc., hoods, cowls, rear decks or fenders. A body
comprising a flat board claimed as having the outline of an
automobile is considered a simulation. Vehicles have not
been classified herein on a purely disclosure basis except as
an alternative to placing the patent in subclass 1 of this
class.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
87.01 for nonsimulation type vehicles having neither power
means nor positive occupant propelling, but adapted to coast
or be pushed along by the occupant.
200 for nonsimulating type vehicles having positive occupant
propelling means, and for occupant propelled vehicles having
mere figurehead steering bar or shaft where no specific
structure of the head is claimed, as reins, jaws, etc.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
446, Amusement Devices: Toys, appropriate subclasses for a
wheeled toy which is a simulation of something. A simulation
for Class 280 is distinguished from a Class 446 Toy, in that
the device 1) must have structure enabling operation in a
mode consistent with typical vehicular activity, and 2) must
be capable of supporting, and as disclosed intended to carry,
a rider.
Subclass:
828
Occupant propelled:
This subclass is indented under subclass 827. Vehicles of
the type in which there is provided some positive means
adapting the vehicle to be propelled by the occupant.
(1) Note. This subclass does not include those adapted to
be pushed along by the occupant.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
12.1 and 200+, for other vehicles with occupant propelling
means.
Subclass:
829
Boat:
This subclass is indented under subclass 828. Vehicles in
which the object simulated is a boat.
Subclass:
830
TANK OR BOILER:
This subclass is indented under the class definition.
Vehicles where the frame is specially adapted to carry a
boiler or tank.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
137, Fluid Handling, 255 for flow control between tanks and
subclasses 899+ for fluid handling in vehicles.
180, Motor Vehicles, 36 for a motor vehicle of the steam
traction engine type; subclass 69.4 for a tank for a vehicle
where the motor is positively recited; subclasses 303+ for a
motor vehicle, generally, having means to generate steam and
a motor for utilizing the steam to propel the vehicle; and
subclass 310 for a motor vehicle of the kind described for
subclass 303, but wherein the vehicle's motor is not claimed;
also, see subclass 225 for a motor vehicle having a wheel
arrangement comprising two wheels in tandem relationship and
wherein an element of the vehicle's frame, or a fender of the
vehicle, constitutes also either an exhaust passageway or a
fuel reservoir.
220, Receptacles, subclass 18 for tanks with no particular
vehicle structure claimed.
410, Freight Accommodation on Freight Carrier, subclass 68
for a land vehicle freight carrier for transporting
containers of fluid or bulk material.
Subclass:
831
Tank forms load support:
This subclass is indented under subclass 830. Vehicles
wherein the tank is configured to support other loads on the
vehicle.
Subclass:
832
Insulated tank walls:
This subclass is indented under subclass 830. Vehicles
wherein the tank walls have special provisions to deter the
passage of heat through the walls by interposition of an
appropriate insulator.
Subclass:
833
Saddle type; vehicle frame straddling:
This subclass is indented under subclass 830. Vehicles
wherein the fluid is contained in two separate tanks, one on
each side of the vehicle.
(1) Note. The separate tanks may be directly interconnected
structurally or indirectly by the vehicle frame.
Subclass:
834
Service tank:
This subclass is indented under subclass 830. Vehicles where
the tank contains a fluid for use by the prime mover to
produce propulsion.
Subclass:
835
Cycle type:
This subclass is indented under subclass 834. Vehicles
wherein the service tank is attached to a vehicle of the type
where the occupant rides astride of the frame.
Subclass:
836
Ground engaging or rolling wheel type:
This subclass is indented under subclass 830. Vehicles
wherein the tank or boiler itself forms a ground contacting
means which aids in the movement of the vehicle.
Subclass:
837
Semitrailer tank vehicle:
This subclass is indented under subclass 830. Vehicles
provided with ground engaging means at one end only, the
other end being adapted to be attached to a leading vehicle.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
838 for tanks mounted on a common frame with the cab and
power plant.
839 for tanks mounted on stable trailers.
Subclass:
838
Tank truck:
This subclass is indented under subclass 830. Vehicles
wherein the external walls of the tank define the exterior
surface of the vehicle and the power plant, cab and tank are
all mounted on a common frame.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
837 for tanks mounted on a semitrailer.
839 for tanks mounted on stable trailers.
Subclass:
839
Trailer tank vehicle:
This subclass is indented under subclass 830. Vehicles
having forward and rearward ground engaging means and a draft
device.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
837 for tanks mounted on a semitrailer.
838 for tanks mounted on a common frame with the cab and
power plant.
Subclass:
841
SKATES:
This subclass is indented under the class definition.
Devices to be secured to the feet of the rider whereby he may
propel himself over land, ice or snow and commonly called
skates.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
7.13 for convertible skates.
Subclass:
842
Ski simulators:
This subclass is indented under subclass 841. Devices
intended to simulate gliding over snow when used on dry
land.
Subclass:
843
Ball type roller skates:
This subclass is indented under subclass 841. Devices where
the ground contacting running gear is in the form of
spherical members.
Subclass:
844
Endless tread skates:
This subclass is indented under subclass 841. Devices where
the ground contacting running gear is in the form of a
continuous band.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
305, Wheel Substitutes for Land Vehicles, appropriate
subclasses for endless treads, per se.
Subclass:
845
RUNNER VEHICLE:
This subclass is indented under the class definition.
Vehicles provided with surfaces slidably engaging the
supporting-surface over which the vehicle moves.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
8 for vehicles having wheels and runners.
11.12 for runner skates.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
37, Excavating 196 for roadway snow excavators and 411+ for
sleded scoops.
172, Earth Working, 387 for earth working apparatus with
runners.
180, Motor Vehicles, 182 for a motor vehicle which includes
one or more ski-like or runner members.
Subclass:
847
Dust and mud guards:
This subclass is indented under subclass 727. Devices for
protecting the occupants of a vehicle or the vehicle itself
from the dust and mud incident to the use of that vehicle.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
172, Earth Working, 508 for earth working apparatus with a
guard, shield or plant diverter.
296, Land Vehicles: Bodies and Tops, 84 for windshields,
per se.
Subclass:
848
Body attached:
This subclass is indented under subclass 847. Dust and mud
guards secured to the body (load-carrier) of a vehicle.
Subclass:
849
Fender skirts:
This subclass is indented under subclass 848. Devices for
closing the fender opening to the front or rear wheels.
(1) Note. The device may be arranged to move as the wheel
turns for steering.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
292, Closure Fasteners, Digest 1 for fender shield
fasteners.
Subclass:
850
Scuff pads and covering shields for fenders:
This subclass is indented under subclass 848. Devices for
protecting the interior or exterior fender surfaces.
Subclass:
851
Splash guards:
This subclass is indented under subclass 847. Devices
comprising auxiliary guard members secured to a mudguard or
adjacent rigid portion of a vehicle and disposed to the front
or rear of the vehicle wheels to catch the splash therefrom.
Subclass:
852
For velocipedes:
This subclass is indented under subclass 851. Auxiliary
devices to prevent water splash up from velocipede wheels.
Subclass:
853
Apertured fender wall with closures:
This subclass is indented under subclass 847. Fenders
provided with lid type closures to enable access inside the
fender to a gasoline filler tube or to the wheel itself for
installing tire chains.
(1) Note. The lid may also be combined with license plate
holders or tail lights.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
292, Closure Fastener, appropriate subclasses for closure
fasteners.
296, Land Vehicles: Bodies and Tops, subclass 1 for body
accessories.
Subclass:
854
Fender braces:
This subclass is indented under subclass 847. Fenders
provided with devices which secure and steady the fender to
the frame.
Subclass:
855
Wheel scrapers and cleaners:
This subclass is indented under subclass 150. Devices, for
removing mud, stones, nails, or other attached substances,
from the periphery of wheels, either by scraping, brushing,
or otherwise removing the substances.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
172, Earth Working, 558 for cleaning means for earth working
disks.
Subclass:
856
Wheel scrapers for dual wheels:
This subclass is indented under subclass 855. Devices for
removing substances from paired wheels mounted on each end of
an axle.
CROSS-REFERENCE ART COLLECTIONS
Subclass:
900
RUNNER VEHICLE ATTACHMENTS:
Collection of art relating to attachments for sleds including
brakes, runner guides, etc.
Subclass:
901
ADAPTATION OF NONSPECIALIZED VEHICLES TO SEMITRAILER
TRACTORS:
Collection of art related to standard vehicles which may be
converted to act as a tractor for a semitrailer by the
addition or rearrangement of coupling structure at or forward
of the rear axle (i.e., fifth wheels placed in the bed of a
pick up truck, hitches located in trunk or on roof of a
passenger vehicle).
FOREIGN ART COLLECTIONS
The definitions for FOR 100-FOR 197 below correspond to the
definitions of the abolished subclasses (6.1, 6.11, 6.12, 93,
94, 95.1, 96, 96.1, 96.3, 97, 109-111, 112.1, 112.2, 113-123,
125-138, 660-675, 688-726, 772, 840, and 846) under Class 280
from which these collections were formed. See the Foreign
Art Collection schedule for specific correspondences. {Note:
The titles and definitions for indented art collections
include all the details of the one(s) that are hierarchically
superior.}
Subclass: FOR 100
BODY-LEVELING DEVICES: Foreign art collection for vehicles
comprising (a) means for keeping the body portion of a
vehicle level responsive to a means sensing an actual or
incipient nonlevel condition, or (b) an adjustable means
extending between the running gear and the body of a vehicle
which is operative to level the body.
Subclass: FOR 101
Foreign art collection for a vehicle body-leveling device
comprising means for keeping the body portion of a vehicle
level responsive to a means sensing an actual or incipient
nonlevel condition.
Subclass: FOR 102
Foreign art collection for a vehicle body leveling device
comprising an actuator and interconnected means extending
between the running gear and the body for moving ground
engaging means vertically oppositely with respect to the body
to level the body.
Subclass: FOR 103
Using hydraulic motor: Foreign art collection for vehicles
body leveling device in which the ultimate source of power to
actuate the leveling is hydraulic fluid, typically in a
piston cylinder motor.
Subclass: FOR 104
With cornering tipping deterrent: Foreign art collection for
apparatus comprising means for (a) counteracting external
forces tending to overturn the vehicle, or (b) at least
improve the turning characteristics of a vehicle during
travel in a curved path.
Subclass: FOR 105
Foreign art collection for vehicles in which each steered
supporting-wheel has its individual axle.
Subclass: FOR 106
Foreign art collection for devices provided with means
tending to return the steering-wheels to their straight-line
positions when moved therefrom.
Subclass: FOR 107
Link connected: Foreign art collection for vehicles in which
the stub axles are joined by elongated rigid elements for
unison steering movement.
Subclass: FOR 108
Foreign art collection for devices in which the steering gear
includes a rotary shaft and gearing.
Subclass: FOR 109
Idler arm steering linkage: Foreign art collection for
devices in which the linkage includes a center link moved
laterally by the steering gear arm attached at one end and an
additional pivotal arm attached between the opposite center
link end and the frame or chassis.
Subclass: FOR 110
Foreign art collection for devices having means for mounting
a steering stub-axle relative to its support. This mounting
may also have in addition to the necessary pivoted movement
other relative movements of the axle and its support.
Subclass: FOR 111
Foreign art collection for stub axle mounts having one or
more springs located between the axle and load carrier or
vehicle frame, to cushion the movements of the axle.
Subclass: FOR 112
Foreign art collection for suspensions provided with manual
means to adjust the caster and/or camber adjustment of the
front wheel.
Subclass: FOR 113
Foreign art collection for suspension means comprising two or
more diverse or different spring types, e.g., leaf and coil.
Subclass: FOR 114
Foreign art collection for suspension means combined with a
lever or rod-like member or members designed to stabilize one
or both of the front wheels.
Subclass: FOR 115
Foreign art collection for suspension means wherein the
spring is of the torsion type, providing its flexibility
about its own longitudinal axis.
Subclass: FOR 116
Foreign art collection for devices wherein the torsion spring
serves to stabilize one or both of the steerable wheels, such
stabilization tending to force the plane of the wheels into a
position perpendicular to the ground surface.
Subclass: FOR 117
Foreign art collection for devices wherein the spring is in
the shape of a helix or coil.
Subclass: FOR 118
Foreign art collection for devices wherein the coil spring is
physically located above the uppermost of plural lever arms.
Subclass: FOR 119
Foreign art collection for devices wherein the coil spring is
mounted on a strut or rod which rotates about its
longitudinal axes during the steering act, such strut being
connected at its lower end to a single control lever or arm.
Such constructions are known in the art as "MacPherson-type"
suspensions.
Subclass: FOR 120
Foreign art collection for suspension means wherein the
spring is made up of one or more flat, elongated flexible el
ments commonly known as leaf springs.
Subclass: FOR 121
Foreign art collection for suspension means wherein the
spring is in the shape of a helix or coil.
Subclass: FOR 122
Foreign art collection for suspension means wherein the
spring is made of rubber or rubber-like material.
Subclass: FOR 123
Foreign art collection for suspension means comprising one or
more fluid (liquid or gas) springs.
Subclass: FOR 124
Foreign art collection for suspension means wherein the
claims are drawn to the structure of elements of the
suspension system or joints therebetween.
Subclass: FOR 125
Foreign art collection for devices wherein the structural
feature claimed is of the ball joint type.
Subclass: FOR 126
Foreign art collection for devices wherein the structure of
the suspension system provides a spatial or geometric
relationship between the various parts, for example, the
relative inclination between the control arm and some other
structural part.
Subclass: FOR 127
Foreign art collection for devices where the axis of the
stub-axle pivot lies in the plane of the wheel.
Subclass: FOR 128
Foreign art collection for vehicles having a supporting wheel
axle which swings about a vertical pivot.
Subclass: FOR 129
Foreign art collection for vehicles in which one axle is
mounted for pivotal swinging movement about a vertical axis
and rocking movement about a horizontal axis normal to its
length.
Subclass: FOR 130
Foreign art collection for vehicles provided with springs
between the wheels and the load-carrier.
Subclass: FOR 131
Foreign art collection for vehicles so constructed that the
axles may rock relatively to each other in vertical planes.
Subclass: FOR 132
Spring: Foreign art collection for vehicles provided with
resilient members between the wheels and the load-carrier.
Subclass: FOR 133
Roll-responsive rocking axles for body banking: Foreign art
collection for vehicles where the axles pivot in a vertical
plane in response to rotation of the body about a
longitudinal axis to angle the body into a turn.
Subclass: FOR 134
Foreign art collection for vehicles having one axle mounted
for pivotal swinging movement about a vertical axis.
Subclass: FOR 135
Foreign art collection for vehicles in which each two-wheel
axle and its superposed mounting form a substantially
complete and independent running-gear unit. Ordinarily no
reaches are used to connect the two though they may be
employed. Draft attachments are usually involved.
Subclass: FOR 136
Foreign art collection for vehicles provided with springs
between the wheels and the load-carrier.
Subclass: FOR 137
Foreign art collection for vehicles provided with means for
attaching shafts, poles, or the like for draft purposes.
Subclass: FOR 138
Foreign art collection for vehicles in which the vertical
axis about which the pivotal axle swings is offset from its
longitudinal axis.
Subclass: FOR 139
Foreign art collection for vehicles provided with springs
between the wheels and the load-carrier.
Subclass: FOR 140
Foreign art collection for vehicles in which all the springs
are leaf-springs, and they extend longitudinally, or
substantially so, of the vehicle.
Subclass: FOR 141
Foreign art collection for vehicles provided with springs
between the wheels and the load-carrier.
Subclass: FOR 142
Foreign art collection for vehicles in which the springs are
of the leaf type.
Subclass: FOR 143
Foreign art collection for vehicles in which all the springs
extend longitudinally, or substantially so, of the vehicle.
Subclass: FOR 144
Foreign art collection for vehicles in which all the springs
extend laterally of the vehicle.
Subclass: FOR 145
Foreign art collection for vehicles provided with a spring or
spring system between the wheels and load carrier or vehicle
frame.
Subclass: FOR 146
Foreign art collection for suspensions including means to
prevent the vehicle from tipping or leaning while rounding a
curve.
Subclass: FOR 147
Foreign art collection for suspensions wherein the suspended
wheel is totally independent in both control and movement
from all other wheels.
Subclass: FOR 148
Foreign art collection for suspensions wherein the suspended
wheel is a steerable wheel.
Subclass: FOR 149
Foreign art collection for steerable wheels suspended by
spring means comprising two or more diverse or different
spring types, e.g., leaf and coil.
Subclass: FOR 150
Foreign art collection for steerable wheels suspended by
fluid spring suspension means.
Subclass: FOR 151
Foreign art collection for steerable wheels suspended by leaf
spring suspension means.
Subclass: FOR 152
Foreign art collection for steerable wheels suspended by
torsion spring suspension means.
Subclass: FOR 153
Foreign art collection for steerable wheels suspended by coil
spring suspension means.
Subclass: FOR 154
Foreign art collection for independent suspension means
comprising two or more diverse or different spring types,
e.g., leaf and coil.
Subclass: FOR 155
Foreign art collection for independent suspension means
comprising one or more fluid type (liquid or gas) springs.
Subclass: FOR 156
Foreign art collection for independent suspension means
comprising one or more leaf type springs.
Subclass: FOR 157
Foreign art collection for independent suspension means
comprising one or more torsion type springs.
Subclass: FOR 158
Foreign art collection for independent suspension means
comprising one or more coil type springs.
Subclass: FOR 159
Foreign art collection for suspension means comprising one or
more fluid type (liquid or gas) springs.
Subclass: FOR 160
Foreign art collection for fluid suspension means provided
with structure to prevent or reduce (a) vehicle nose-dive
(front end depression) caused by rapid vehicle deceleration
and/or (b) vehicle squat (rear end depression) caused by
rapid vehicle acceleration.
Subclass: FOR 161
Foreign art collection for fluid suspension means provided
with structure to raise or lower a vehicle wheel from or to
contact with the road surface.
Subclass: FOR 162
Foreign art collection for fluid suspension means of a type
usually found in military tanks or similar tracked vehicles
wherein the actual spring structure is encased in an "arm"
structure, one end of the "arm" being pivoted to the vehicle
body, the other end being in engagement with the track.
Subclass: FOR 163
Foreign art collection for fluid suspension means wherein the
amount of fluid pressure available within the fluid spring is
controlled by the application of a vacuum or negative
pressure. The vacuum source is usually, but not necessarily,
the vehicle engine.
Subclass: FOR 164
Foreign art collection for fluid suspension means having an
electric control means for adjusting the rigidity of the
suspension means, the height of the vehicle body with respect
to the ground surface or the distance between the wheel and
the vehicle body.
Subclass: FOR 165
Foreign art collection for fluid suspension means wherein (a)
each individual spring means utilized both liquid and gas in
its operation, or (b) a fluid spring and a gas spring are
connected together in such a manner as to operate as one.
Subclass: FOR 166
Foreign art collection for fluid suspension means wherein the
fluid is a liquid.
Subclass: FOR 167
Foreign art collection for hydraulic suspension means working
in unison or combined with nonfluid type springs.
Subclass: FOR 168
Foreign art collection for fluid suspension means wherein the
fluid is gas.
Subclass: FOR 169
Foreign art collection for pneumatic suspension means working
in unison or combined with nonfluid type springs.
Subclass: FOR 170
Foreign art collection for pneumatic suspension means having
a linkage or lever means which is attached at one end to the
load carrying position or vehicle frame and which is attached
at the other end to pneumatic suspension means, the purpose
of which being to stabilize or support the pneumatic
suspension means.
Subclass: FOR 171
Foreign art collection for fluid suspension means wherein the
main thrust of the claimed disclosure is in a specific valve
or valving arrangement.
Subclass: FOR 172
Foreign art collection for suspension means comprising two or
more diverse or different spring types, e.g., leaf and coil.
Subclass: FOR 173
Foreign art collection for suspension means wherein the
suspension means comprises rubber spring means.
Subclass: FOR 174
Foreign art collection for rubber suspension means wherein
the suspension means is a torsion bar or spring means.
Subclass: FOR 175
Foreign art collection for suspension means wherein the
suspension means comprises leaf spring means.
Subclass: FOR 176
Foreign art collection for leaf spring suspension means
wherein the leaf spring lies in a plane which is at right
angles to the plane in which the suspended wheel lies.
Subclass: FOR 177
Foreign art collection for leaf spring suspension means
wherein the leaf spring consists of a single leaf.
Subclass: FOR 178
Foreign art collection for suspension means wherein the
suspension means comprises a torsion bar or spring means.
Subclass: FOR 179
Foreign art collection for torsion suspension means wherein
the torsion bar or spring is in the shape of a helix or
coil.
Subclass: FOR 180
Foreign art collection for torsion suspension means wherein
the torsion bar or spring means lies in a plane which is at
right angles to the plane in which the suspended wheel lies.
Subclass: FOR 181
Foreign art collection for suspension means wherein the
spring is in the shape of a helix or coil.
Subclass: FOR 182
Foreign art collection for coil suspension means having a
linkage or lever means which is attached at one end to the
load carrying portion of the vehicle or vehicle frame and
which is attached at the other end to the coil suspension
means, the purpose of which being to stabilize or support the
coil suspension means.
Subclass: FOR 183
Foreign art collection for coil suspension means wherein the
lever stabilizer or support means lies in a plane which is at
right angles to the plane in which the suspended wheel lies.
Subclass: FOR 184
Foreign art collection for vehicles having mounts for axles
allowing them to swing about a vertical axis.
Subclass: FOR 185
Foreign art collection for devices in which the axle may rock
about a horizontal axis normal to its length.
Subclass: FOR 186
Foreign art collection for devices in which the axle and its
mounting form a substantially complete and independent
running-gear unit. Ordinarily no reaches are used to connect
this axle or mount with another, though they may be so
employed. Draft attachments are usually involved.
Subclass: FOR 187
Foreign art collection for devices provided with springs
between the wheels and the load-carrier.
Subclass: FOR 188
Foreign art collection for devices provided with springs
between the wheels and load-carrier.
Subclass: FOR 189
Foreign art collection for devices in which the axle and its
superposed mounting form a substantially complete and
independent running gear unit. Ordinarily no reaches are
used to connect this axle or mount to another, though they
may be employed. Draft attachments are usually involved.
Subclass: FOR 190
Foreign art collection for devices provided with springs
between the wheels and the load-carrier.
Subclass: FOR 191
Foreign art collection for devices provided with means for
attaching shafts, poles or the like for draft purposes.
Subclass: FOR 192
Foreign art collection for devices having a vertical axis
about which the axle swings, this axis being offset from its
longitudinal axis.
Subclass: FOR 193
Foreign art collection for devices provided with springs
between the wheels and load-carrier.
Subclass: FOR 194
Foreign art collection for devices in which all the springs
are leaf-springs, and they extend longitudinally, or
substantially so, of the vehicle.
Subclass: FOR 195
Foreign art collection for devices provided with springs
between the wheels and the load-carrier.
Subclass: FOR 196
Foreign art collection for devices in which all the springs
are leaf-springs, and they extend longitudinally, or
substantially so, of the vehicle.
Subclass: FOR 197
Foreign art collection for devices having means for
preventing rattling between cooperating parts. They are
usually resilient means for holding the two rubbing members
of the fifth-wheel in close contact.
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Last Modified: 6 October 2000