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Class 346
RECORDERS
Class Definition:
This is generic class for apparatus and corresponding
processes for:
A. Making a record of the movements of machines or
instruments whose movements are desired to be recorded and at
least temporarily preserved.
B. Making a record of any phenomenon capable of being
detected either quantitatively or qualitatively and recorded
for at least temporary preservation:
The preceding in general require (a) the means to make the
record, (b) the means to detect qualitatively or
quantitatively the movement or other phenomenon, and (c) the
means actuated in accordance with the movement or other
phenomenon to cause the record making means to function.
C. The record making means and its immediate actuating means
as a subcombination of (A) and (B).
D. Watchmen's and workmen's time-recorders and time stamps.
This class also includes compartmented boxes adapted to
receiving checks, means being provided either for manual
operation or for clock work to shift a part so that a check
will be received in a selected compartment. See Subclass
References to the Current Class, below, identified as other
classes for record-making.
(1) Note. Organized apparatus significantly claimed
combined with a recording means which records some quality or
quantity related to such apparatus or its function, are for
the most part classified in the class appropriate to the type
of organized apparatus (see References to Other Classes,
below.)
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
27 for compartmented boxes adapted to receiving checks,
means being provided either for manual operation or for clock
work to shift a part so that a check will be received in a
selected compartment.
REFERENCES TO OTHER CLASSES
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
8, Bleaching and Dyeing; Fluid Treatment and Chemical
Modification of Textiles and Fibers, particularly 445 for
dye printing. (other class for record making, see (1) Note,
Class Definition)
33, Geometrical Instruments, 18.1 for scribers, subclasses
304+ for borehole direction or inclination indicators with
recorders, subclass 331 for other direction sensing and
indicating devices with recorders.
70, Locks, 433 for locks with recorders.
73, Measuring and Testing, for recording means broad or
specific combined with significant measuring or testing
structure, and see subclasses; 181, for recording ships'
logs; subclass 312, for recording, float type, liquid level
gauges; subclass 335.06, for a recording hygrometer; subclass
489, for recording means combined with a speed or
acceleration responsive device; subclasses 570+, for
apparatus having a recorder, for testing by vibrating the
specimen; subclass 712, for recording fluid pressure gauges;
subclass 862.27, for recording dynamometers.
84, Music, 461 for devices for recording the movement of
keys of a keyboard.
101, Printing. (other class for record making, see (1) Note,
Class Definition)
116, Signals and Indicators, for nonrecording signals and
indicators.
118, Coating Apparatus, will take organized systems including
recording, only as relates to the transfer of a developed
record-image by a Class 118 coating means. Means to develop
a latent image by a Class 118 coating device will not exclude
placement in Class 346. (other class for record making, see
(1) Note, Class Definition)
137, Fluid Handling, 551 for fluid handling apparatus
combined with a recorder. (other class for record making, see
(1) Note, Class Definition)
177, Weighing Scales, 2 for a recording weigher.
178, Telegraphy, for telegraph systems and receivers having a
recorder, particularly; 4, for automatic printing systems;
subclasses 18+, for writing systems; subclasses 23+, for
nonautomatic printing systems; subclasses 36+, for printing
receivers; subclasses 62, for chemical recording; subclasses
89+, for code recorders.
181, Acoustics, subclass 122 for mechanical seismographs.
194, Check-Actuated Control Mechanisms, for combinations of
recorder with significant check-controlled apparatus.
205, Electrolysis: Processes, Compositions Used Therein, and
Methods of Preparing the Compositions, 52 for electrolytic
marking. (other class for record making, see (1) Note, Class
Definition)
221, Article Dispensing, 2. (other class for record making,
see (1) Note, Class Definition)
222, Dispensing, 23 particularly subclass 30 for dispensers
combined with recorders.
232, Deposit and Collection Receptacles, subclass 18 for
letter boxes having recorders.
235, Registers, 2 for cash registers having a recorder;
subclasses 4+, for cash recorders; subclasses 50, for
recording voting machines; subclasses 58+, for calculators
having means to record either or both the factor entered or
the result.
236, Automatic Temperature and Humidity Regulation, for
significant systems of this type combined with a recorder.
246, Railway Switches and Signals, subclass 107, for block
signal systems having recorders; subclass 123, for systems
for recording the time at which a train passes a given point.
subclass 185, for means for actuating either signals or
controls upon a train in combination with means to record the
signal or control information.
250, Radiant Energy, subclass 315.3 for invisible radiation
xerography; and subclasses 580+ for photography using
invisible radiation. (other class for record making, see (1)
Note, Class Definition)
250, Radiant Energy, 250 for the detection of invisible
radiation or the testing of material by invisible radiation
and the recording of the results of the detection or the
test.
273, Amusement Devices: Games, 138.1 for recording chance
devices.
318, Electricity: Motive Power Systems, 567 for program or
pattern controlled electric motive power systems, even though
making the record is also claimed.
324, Electricity: Measuring and Testing, appropriate
subclasses for electrical testing systems having a recorder
combined therewith where no significant recording structure
is involved. This Class (346) should be searched for the
combination of electrical testing systems and a significant
recorder.
331, Oscillators, subclass 44 for electric oscillators
wherein means are provided for calibrating the tuning
position indicator or dial of the oscillator by marking the
indicator or dial in accordance with the results of the
comparison of the generated frequency with the known
frequency settings of a source of standard frequencies.
352, Optics: Motion Pictures, for motion picture recording
apparatus. (other class for record making, see (1) Note,
Class Definition)
356, Optics: Measuring and Testing, for devices which
utilize visible light or test visible light to measure
optical properties of light or substances, distance,
velocity, direction, angles, areas or volumes and which may
use a recorder to make a permanent record of the test. See
300 of Class 356 for the line between Classes 346 and 356.
(other class for record making, see (1) Note, Class
Definition)
358, Facsimile and Static Presentation Processing, 296 for
facsimile systems having a recording apparatus.
367, Communications, Electrical: Acoustic Wave Systems and
Devices, 14 for electrical seismographs and appropriate
subclasses for recording signaling systems.
369, Dynamic Information Storage or Retrieval, for making a
record of information which requires dynamic reproduction to
recover the stored information. (other class for record
making, see (1) Note, Class Definition)
374, Thermal Measuring and Testing, subclass 186 for a
thermometer combined with a detailed recording arrangement.
378, X-Ray or Gamma Ray Systems or Devices, 4 and 21+ for
X-ray tomography; subclasses 28+ for X-ray xeroradiography;
subclasses 167+ for photos:graphic detector supports; and
subclasses 189+ for nonphotos:graphic detector supports.
(other class for record making, see (1) Note, Class
Definition)
379, Telephonic Communications, see (2) Note, and see 114,
for recorders for counting or charging telephone calls or
connections combined with telephone systems or equipment;
subclasses 245+, for telephone calling number recorders.
386, Television Signal Processing for Dynamic Recording or
Reproducing, 1 and 46+ for television camera combined with
video apparatus for recording or reproducing processed
television signal.
396, Photography, appropriate subclasses for a photos:graphic
camera or photos:graphic fluid treating apparatus. (other
class for record making, see (1) Note, Class Definition)
399, Electrophotography, 9 for diagnostics, subclasses 38+
for controls, subclasses 130+ for image formation, subclasses
168+ for charging, subclasses 177+ for exposure, subclasses
222+ for development, subclasses 297+ for transfer,
subclasses 320+ for fixing, subclasses 343+ for cleaning, and
subclasses 361+ for document handling. (other class for
record making, see (1) Note, Class Definition)
400, Typewriting Machines. (other class for record making,
see (1) Note, Class Definition)
422, Chemical Apparatus and Process Disinfecting,
Deodorizing, Preserving, or Sterilizing, 50 for chemical
analytical and analytical-control apparatus involving
recording means.
428, Stock Material or Miscellaneous Articles, 411.1 for a
composite, nonstructural web or sheet characterized solely by
the compositions of the layers, and which may be useful as
carbon or transfer paper, and especially subclasses 488.1,
537.1, and subclass 914 (a cross-reference art collection)
for a transfer sheet. (other class for record making, see (1)
Note, Class Definition)
430, Radiation Imagery Chemistry: Process, Composition, or
Product Thereof. (other class for record making, see (1)
Note, Class Definition)
434, Education and Demonstration, subclass 47 for aircraft
trainers combined with recorders.
436, Chemistry: Analytical and Immunological Testing, 1 for
chemical analytical and analytical-control processes
involving recording steps.
505, Superconductor Technology: Apparatus, Material,
Process, 150 for high temperature (T[subscrpt]c[end
subscrpt] > 30 K) superconducting devices, and particularly
subclasses 170+ for information storage or retrieval systems,
or recording.
600, Surgery, 523, 544+, and 900 for recorders associated
with medical diagnostic apparatus.
SUBCLASSES
Subclass:
2
Recorders forming part of a sextant, theodolite or other
optical angle measuring device to record the observed angle.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
356, Optics: Measuring and Testing, 138 for angle measuring
devices.
Subclass:
3
Recorders which exhibit the performance of a steam, gasoline
or other expansible gas engine in terms of multiple parts of
the engine or of a part operative in synchronism with the
engine, i.e., one function of the engine (e.g., spark) should
be plotted against another function of the engine (e.g.,
shaft rotation).
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
45 for other plural function recorders.
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73, Measuring and Testing, subclass 115 for apparatus for
testing engine performance or efficiency having means to
record.
Subclass:
4
This subclass is indented under subclass 3. Recorders of the
type specified in ... in which one element of the recorder
is responsive to pressure existing within the engine
cylinder.
(1) Note. Many of the indicators in this subclass use a
long traveling paper web, upon which a time graph is drawn as
paper is reeled past recording stylus.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
72 for recorders having a marker responsive to the expansion
of a chamber.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
73, Measuring and Testing, 700 for fluid pressure gauges,
particularly subclass 712 for recording type.
Subclass:
5
This subclass is indented under subclass 4. Recorders of the
type specified in ... in which the record is made on a
rotatable or oscillatable cylinder about which is wrapped a
web sufficiently long to be wrapped but once therearound.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
138 and see the notes thereto for other recorders having
drum type receivers.
Subclass:
6
This subclass is indented under subclass 5. Recorders of the
type specified in ... in which a Bourdon tube is utilized to
drive the marker element of the recorder.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
73, Measuring and Testing, 741 for Bourdon fluid pressure
gauges.
92, Expansible Chamber Devices, appropriate subclasses for an
expansible chamber device, per se.
Subclass:
7
Recorders having a record tracer portion operative upon a
record receiver, said tracer portion being responsive to the
motion of a tine of a tuning fork, or to the change in
inclination of a body carrying a pendulous mass or to the
displacement of a mass due to shocks or accelerations.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
33, Geometrical Instruments, 308 for pendulum directed
recorders utilized in indicating borehole inclination and
subclass 331 for direction sensing and indicating devices
utilizing a recorder.
73, Measuring and Testing, 570 for a test of vibration, or
involving vibration of the test specimen; subclass 489 for an
accelerometer with recording means; and subclasses 514+ for
an accelerometer, per se.
84, Music, subclass 457 for tuning forks.
181, Acoustics, subclass 122 for mechanical seismographs.
324, Electricity: Measuring and Testing, subclass 162 for
electrical accelerometers.
367, Communications, Electrical: Acoustic Wave Systems and
Devices, 14 for electrical seismographs.
Subclass:
8
Recorders responsive to the direction assumed by a
translating member to record either the direction assumed by
that member or the rectangular components of direction
assumed by that member. These recorders are usually mounted
on a transporting member and are responsive to extent of
motion of that member as well as to direction assumed by that
member and the recorder may be associated with sundry other
devices such as compasses, signals and time stamps. Included
are devices that record deviation (i.e., left or right) from
a set course, rudder position, steering wheel position, etc.
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33, Geometrical Instruments, 775 for means for measuring
distance by means of a rolling contact.
40, Card, Picture, or Sign Exhibiting, 482 for means for
automatically moving a sign or map in accordance with the
rotation of an axle.
73, Measuring and Testing, 178 for navigating instruments
particularly 181+ for recording ships' logs.
434, Education and Demonstration, subclass 47 for aircraft
trainers combined with recorders or for such recorders, per
se, when particularly adapted for making a record of the
operation of such trainers.
Subclass:
9
Recorders of the printing or perforating type having a part
positioned in response to the position of a weighing member.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
40 for recorders operated by the weight of an individual or
object thereon or passing thereover.
78 and see the notes thereto for other print, dotting or
punching markers.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
177, Weighing Scales, 2 for a recording weigher.
Subclass:
10
This subclass is indented under subclass 9. Recorders of the
type in which the part positioned in response to the position
of the weighing member is geared to the load bearing member
and is a part of the recording means.
Subclass:
11
This subclass is indented under subclass 9. Recorders of the
type in which a recorder controlling element is movable
independently of the weight responsive member and in which
the weight responsive member exercises a control over the
recorder control element or the recording mechanism
associated therewith to cause proportional motion.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
9 for recorder elements which are merely positioned manually
opposite a weight responsive indicator and in which no
control is exercised by the indicator, or parts movable
therewith.
31 for recorders with follow ups.
Subclass:
12
This subclass is indented under subclass 11. Recorders of
the type in which the recorder controlling element moves
about the same axis as the weight responsive member or
co-linearly therewith.
Subclass:
13
Recorders combined with means, other than the necessary
elements to make a record, to integrate two or more
quantities, the result of the integration being indicated but
not recorded.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
235, Registers, for integrators, per se.
Subclass:
14
Recorders combined with means, other than the necessary
elements to make a record, to register the number of
occurrences of a phenomenon. Included herein are
combinations of recorders with electric meters and the like.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
235, Registers, 2 for combined cash registers and recorders,
subclasses 4+ for cash recorders subclass 50 for recording
voting machines and subclasses 58+ for calculators having
means to record either or both the factors entered or the
result, and other appropriate subclasses for nonrecording
registers.
Subclass:
15
Marking recorders combined with fare or passenger registers.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
97 for fare or passenger register character recording by
dotting, printing or punching.
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235, Registers, subclass 33 for fare registers, per se.
Subclass:
16
This subclass is indented under subclass 15. Recorders of
the type combined with a nonrecording indicator or alarm
mechanism.
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17 for nonrecording indicator or alarm in other
combinations.
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116, Signals and Indicators.
340, Communications: Electrical, appropriate subclasses for
miscellaneous electrical signaling systems and signals.
Subclass:
17
This subclass is indented under subclass 16. Recorders
combined with a nonrecording indicator or alarm not already
provided for in ....
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16 for nonrecording indicator or alarm combined with a
nonrecording fare register.
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116, Signals and Indicators.
340, Communications: Electrical, appropriate subclasses for
miscellaneous electric signaling systems or signals.
Subclass:
18
This subclass is indented under subclass 17. Recorders of
the type in which the nonrecording indicator or alarm is
speed responsive.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
150.1 for centrifugal governor responsive markers.
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73, Measuring and Testing, subclass 489 for recorders with a
speed or acceleration indicator. See (3) Note in the class
definition of Class 346 for the line with Class 73.
74, Machine Element or Mechanism, subclass 12 for means to
take off power from a main power line to operate
speedometers.
116, Signals and Indicators, 37, 57, 62.1+, and 74 for
signals and alarms that are speed actuated.
324, Electricity: Measuring and Testing, 160 for electrical
speed measuring and indicating.
340, Communications: Electrical, 670 for electric signaling
or alarm systems automatically responsive to speed.
Subclass:
19
Recorders combined with other means whereby a second record
may be made on a record receiver by means of a freely movable
implement, which implement is a unit normally independent of
the recorder and which implement is solely under control of
an operator, except that the recorder is provided with an
opening over the record receiver to delimit the area in which
said second record may be made.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
26 for autograph as sole record.
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281, Books, Strips, and Leaves.
462, Books, Strips, and Leaves for Manifolding.
Subclass:
20
Recorders combined with clock mechanism in which there are
time scale and indicator means.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
26 for time driven recorder elements with autograph as sole
record.
30 for time driven recorder elements also driven by a second
factor.
53 for time recording, where a second function is also
recorded on the same record receiver by a second marker, the
markers being under control of an element normally
unconnected with the apparatus (e.g., a key), a marker being
of the dotting, printing or punching type.
55 for time driven record receiving element, where two or
more functions are recorded thereon by markers under control
of an element normally unconnected with the apparatus (e.g.,
a key), a marker being of the dotting, printing or punching
type.
57 for time driven record receiving element, where two or
more functions are recorded thereon, where an element
normally disconnected from the apparatus is used to make a
printing, dotting or punching mark on the receiving element.
58 for time recording, where second function is recorded by
second marker on same receiver, where an element normally
disconnected from the apparatus is used to make a dotting,
printing or punching mark on the receiver.
59 for time recording, where a second function is recorded
on the same receiver, dotting, printing, or punching markers
being used.
64 for time driven record receiver, where a single marker
records two or more functions, the marker being controlled by
an element normally unconnected with the apparatus.
80 for time recording utilizing a dotting, printing or
punching marker.
86 for time controlled mechanism, used to shift a holder for
a separate record receiver card so that when the card is
inserted in the machine at different times, superimposed
dotting, printing or punching records are avoided.
114 for time driven record receiving web, there being a
"writer" type marker.
115 for time driven "writer" type marker, with time driven
record receiving web.
121 for time driven record receiving disc, there being a
"writer" type marker.
127 for time driven record receiving drum, there being a
"writer" type marker.
142 for hand time stamps.
Subclass:
21
Recorders provided with means to delete the record.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
510, Cleaning Compositions for Solid Surfaces, Auxiliary
Compositions Therefor, or Processes of Preparing the
Compositions, subclass 174 for compositions for removing ink
or writing fluid markings, such as ink eradicators.
Subclass:
22
Recorders provided either with deposit receptacles to receive
individual units of a record or units on which records are
made or with a chute through which the record receiver passes
from mouth to exit opening, a record being made in the
interim.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
27 for selective compartments to receive checks.
48 for plural record receivers in a magazine, with mechanism
for moving one to a position to receive a record.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
232, Deposit and Collection Receptacles.
Subclass:
23
Recorders combined with means to make a reference line on the
record receiver.
Subclass:
24
Recorders combined with means to sever or facilitate severing
of the completed record from the supply of record receiving
material.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
83, Cutting, appropriate subclasses for the severing
subcombination.
225, Severing by Tearing or Breaking, appropriate subclasses
for the record tearing subcombination.
242, Winding, Tensioning, or Guiding, 522 for cutting
elongated material and subsequent convolute winding.
Subclass:
25
Recorders combined with nonrecording devices other than those
provided for in preceding subclasses.
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33 for recorders combined with means the functioning of
which is to be recorded.
Subclass:
26
Recorders wherein there is a record receiver utilizing a time
driven element to receive a mark, or wherein a time driven
element is utilized to control the application of a mark to
the record receiver, with which receiver is adapted to
cooperate an implement, normally independent of the recorder,
and which implement is solely under control of an operator
except that the recorder is provided with an opening over the
record receiver to delimit the area in which a record may be
made.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
19 for autograph recording combined with other recording.
20 and see the notes thereto for timing subclasses in this
class.
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281, Books, Strips, and Leaves.
462, Books, Strips, and Leaves for Manifolding.
Subclass:
27
Compartmented boxes adapted to receive checks, means being
provided either by manual operation or by clockwork to shift
a part so that checks will be received in successive
compartments.
(1) Note. For the most part there is a recorder as part of
the combination.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
22 for record receiver deposit receptacles.
48 for record receiver magazine and means for moving a
receiver to a position to receive a mark.
Subclass:
28
Recorders wherein the sole means for obtaining the record of
a function is determined by the length of a web advanced at a
rate proportioned to the function. The web may have
preprinted indicia thereon.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
136 and see the notes thereto for other web subclasses.
Subclass:
29
Recorders wherein one of the recording elements is
responsive, concurrently to two or more functions, such as
amperes and volts or kva, or kw. or fuel consumption and
quantity of steam produced, or two pressures.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
3 for recording plural functions of steam and gas engines.
45 for making records of two or more functions, which
records may be distinguished from each other, particularly
subclasses 62+, where a single marker and single record
receiver are involved.
Subclass:
30
This subclass is indented under subclass 29. Recorders of
the type wherein one of the functions is time. There may be
more than two functions controlling the motion of the
recording element.
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20 and see the notes thereto for timing subclasses in this
class.
Subclass:
31
Recorder mechanisms in which there is a function responsive
element, a recorder controlling element, and a recorder
element controlled thereby, said controlling element being
movable by means independent of the means employed for
controlling the function responsive element, and in which the
controlling element assumes a position determined by the
condition of the function responsive element.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
11 for weight responsive members with mechanism to control a
movable recorder element to cause proportional motion.
32 for rebalancing systems.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
74, Machine Element or Mechanism, subclass 388 for follow-up
gearing.
91, Motors: Expansible Chamber Type, 358 for expansible
chamber motors having working member position feedback
control.
114, Ships, subclass 144 for follow-up ship steering.
236, Automatic Temperature and Humidity Regulation, 74 for
regulating systems having electrical follow-ups.
244, Aeronautics, 76 for follow-up aircraft steering.
303, Fluid-Pressure and Analogous Brake System, subclass 54
for follow-up fluid pressure brake valves.
318, Electricity: Motive Power Systems, 560 for electric
motor servomechanisms.
340, Communications: Electrical, subclass 870.43 for
telemetric systems having follow up.
Subclass:
32
Recorder mechanism embodying a function responsive element
which moves in either of two opposite directions from a
normal or balanced position in accordance with the change in
the function and which controls the movement of a mechanism
to restore or rebalance the element to its normal position,
the mechanism in its restoring operation effecting the
shifting of a recorder element.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
31 for follow-up systems and see the notes thereto.
Subclass:
33
Recorders combined with the means the functioning of which is
recorded.
(1) Note. Where a functioning means is claimed broadly as
operating a specific recorder, the patents are classified in
an appropriate subclass in this class and which subclass
includes the structure of the specific recorder.
(2) Note. Where both the functioning means and the recorder
are claimed broadly or where modifications of the functioning
means are claimed to adapt it to its recording operation or
where specific interconnecting structure between the
functioning means and the recorder are claimed, the patents
are classified in this and in indented subclasses.
(3) Note. For the most part, art devices significantly
claimed combined with means to record one or more aspects of
the operation thereof, are classified with the art device,
see the notes to the class definition.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
25 and preceding subclasses for recorders combined with
nonrecording devices.
72 for float or expansible chamber operated recorders.
73 for centrifugal governor operated recorders.
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73, Measuring and Testing, 152.02 for a process or an
apparatus for borehole formation logging wherein the logging
is not a purely electrical or a purely magnetic test and
subclass 152.62 for a combination of a recorder and an
apparatus for testing a pump for use in a borehole test or a
drilling test wherein the test is not a purely electrical or
a purely magnetic test.
374, Thermal Measuring and Testing, subclass 186 for
recording thermometers having significantly claimed measuring
and recording features.
Subclass:
34
This subclass is indented under subclass 33. Recorders of
the type wherein a record may be made by the same recording
means from more than one independently operating operator.
The recording couple may include a member with changeable
marker.
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29 for single recorder elements driven by two or more
factors.
44 for plural recorders.
45 for recording two or more functions, the records being
distinguishable from each other.
Subclass:
35
This subclass is indented under subclass 33. Recorders of
the type wherein a record of a single function is made,
whether of magnitude or position, and wherein a series of
markers operative on a surface is involved, one or more of
these markers being selected in accordance with the magnitude
of the function or the position of the part.
Subclass:
36
This subclass is indented under subclass 33. Recorders of
the type wherein the record is one of valve operation and is
produced by or upon movement of the valve.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
137, Fluid Handling, 553 particularly subclass 556 for
valves and other fluid handling apparatus combined with a
recorder.
251, Valves and Valve Actuation, appropriate subclasses for
valves not otherwise provided for.
Subclass:
37
This subclass is indented under subclass 33. Recorders of
the type wherein the functioning means is a tuning member of
a radio receiver.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
74, Machine Element or Mechanism, 10 for mechanical tuners
(dial shaft operators).
116, Signals and Indicators, 241 for radio dials.
192, Clutches and Power-Stop Control, subclass 138 for limit
of travel stop dial setters.
318, Electricity: Motive Power Systems, for systems of
electric motor control usable to tune radios.
334, Tuners, appropriate subclasses for tuners involving
circuit resonance varying elements.
361, Electricity: Electrical Systems and Devices, 287 for
variable condensers.
Subclass:
38
This subclass is indented under subclass 33. Recorders of
the type wherein the functioning means is a gun, fuse,
torpedo or other mechanism relating to ordnance.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
42, Firearms.
89, Ordnance.
102, Ammunition and Explosives.
114, Ships, 20.1 for marine, self propelled torpedoes.
Subclass:
40
This subclass is indented under subclass 33. Recorders of
the type wherein the functioning means is a member
depressible by the weight of an individual or article on the
member or passing thereover.
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9 for printing or perforating recorders having a part
positioned in response to a weighing member.
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177, Weighing Scales, 2 for a recording weigher.
235, Registers, subclass 99 for those having a seat,
platform or the like operated by the weight of a person or
article.
Subclass:
41
This subclass is indented under subclass 33. Recorders of
the type wherein the functioning means is a part connected
with the operation of the opening of a cover of a box or
instrument so as to make a record of the movement of a part
associated with the act of opening the cover.
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144 for the key or box used by a workman or watchman in the
course of making a record.
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70, Locks, 433 for locks with recorders.
Subclass:
42
This subclass is indented under subclass 33. Recorders of
the type wherein the functioning means is a gate, door or
turnstile.
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235, Registers, subclass 93 for those that are gate or
turnstile operated.
Subclass:
43
This subclass is indented under subclass 33. Recorders of
the type wherein the functioning means is a part which is
utilized to cause a dispensing of fluid by a pump.
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222, Dispensing, subclass 30 for dispensers with recorders.
Subclass:
44
Plural recorders including recorder mechanisms wherein there
is provided a recorder comprising a record producing marker
or equivalent instrumentality and a record receiving medium
together with another recorder mechanism comprising still
another record producing marker or equivalent instrumentality
and another record receiving medium.
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45 for plural function recorders, and see the notes
thereto.
Subclass:
45
Recorders for making records of two or more functions which
records may be distinguished from each other.
(1) Note. This subclass and indented subclasses are
predicated on the assumption that a preliminarily hand set
day or advertising printer, punch, or the like is not a
recorder within the means of this group of subclasses. Thus
a patent disclosing a stamp with hand preset type
representing month, day, and year operating in conjunction
with a printing register which changes automatically in
accordance with the number of passengers in a car is not
regarded as for a plural function recorder. However, if in
this combination, the date stamp were operated by clockwork,
the patent would be classified in an indented subclass. The
record of a conductor's identification key utilized with a
recording register is regarded as a plural function record
within the meaning of an indented subclass. So too is the
record of times of arrival and departure of a plurality of
workmen and where extra distinctions are made of late arrival
in addition to time indication the record is regarded as for
two functions.
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3 for recording plural functions of steam and gas engines.
29 where one recorder element is driven by two or more
factors.
34 for two or more external operating means for a recorder.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
358, Facsimile and Static Presentation Processing, 296 for
facsimile recorders that may have multiple recording styli.
Subclass:
46
Recorder mechanism for making plural function records wherein
the records are distinguishable from one another by different
colors.
Subclass:
47
This subclass is indented under subclass 46. Recorder
mechanism of the type wherein the two color records are of
workmen's time, as early and late arrival; normal working
time and overtime; arrival in one color and departure in
another.
Subclass:
48
This subclass is indented under subclass 45. Mechanism of
the type wherein a magazine is provided for retaining
individual record receivers and further mechanism is provided
for bringing one of the record receivers to position for
receiving a record or records.
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22 for combinations of a deposit receptacle to which the
record receiver is delivered.
27 for selective compartments to receive checks.
Subclass:
49
Plural record mechanism wherein there is provided a single
record receiver with a plural number of markers for making
records on the record receiver, each marker recording a
function different from another marker.
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35 for recorders where a single record is made, there being
plural markers operated by a single external means.
Subclass:
50
This subclass is indented under subclass 49. Recorders of
the type wherein at least one of the markers is a printer,
dotter, or punch, i.e., the marker has solely a rectilinear
motion toward and from the plane of the record receiver to
make the mark.
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78 and see the notes thereto for other recorders using
dotting, printing, or punching.
Subclass:
51
Plural function recorders involving the use of printing,
dotting, or punching markers and a single record receiving
element wherein there is a number of selectable levers, push
buttons, or equivalent devices mounted on the recorder or
mechanically, not electrically connected thereto, any one of
which may be selected to control the printing, dotting or
punching on the record receiving element. The selection may
be effected by shifting a manually operated member common to
a group of levers or buttons to cooperate with a selected one
of the group.
Subclass:
52
Plural records involving the use of printing, dotting, or
punching markers and a single record receiving element,
wherein the markers are under selective control of an element
normally unconnected with a recording apparatus, e.g., a key
usually carried in one's pocket.
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56 and 63+, for other discrete element control.
82 and 95+, for discrete record receiving cards.
Subclass:
53
This subclass is indented under subclass 52. Recorders of
the type wherein one of the recordings is that of clock time
where such clock time is designated by digits or by index and
clock dial. This subclass also includes clock driven dating
recorders.
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20 and see the notes thereto for timing subclasses in this
class.
Subclass:
54
This subclass is indented under subclass 52. Recorders of
the type wherein one of the recordings is that of the
characters from a register. An elapsed time register, i.e.,
one that does not read true time, is regarded as a register
and not as a clock.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
60 61 and 94+, for other register character recorders.
Subclass:
55
This subclass is indented under subclass 52. Recorders of
the type wherein the record receiving element is driven in
accordance with time.
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20 and see the notes thereto for timing subclasses in this
class.
Subclass:
56
Plural record recorders involving the use of a plural number
of printing, punching, or dotting markers and a single record
receiving element wherein an element normally disconnected
from the apparatus is utilized as a marker to make a
printing, dotting or punching mark on said record receiving
element.
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52 and 63+, for other discrete element control.
82 and 95+, for discrete record receiving cards.
Subclass:
57
This subclass is indented under subclass 56. Recorders of
the type wherein the record receiver is time driven.
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20 and see the notes thereto for timing subclasses in this
class.
Subclass:
58
This subclass is indented under subclass 56. Recorders of
the type wherein there is also involved a recording of clock
time, which clock time must be indicated either by the use of
digits or by indicator and clock dial.
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20 and see the notes thereto for timing subclasses in this
class.
Subclass:
59
Plural record markers involving the use of a plural number of
printing, dotting or punching markers and a single record
receiving element wherein one of the recordings is of clock
time, said recording being in the form of digits or indicator
and clock dial. A marker making a "late" record indication
on a card is regarded as one of the markers within the
definition.
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20 and see the notes thereto for timing subclasses of this
class.
Subclass:
60
This subclass is indented under subclass 59. Recorders of
the type wherein a further recording is made of the
characters from a register. The register may step up in
response to signals from a watchman's or other transmitter to
identify the particular transmitter, or in response to the
increase in a magnitude. A pointer which oscillates back and
forth in accordance with a variation in magnitude is not a
register.
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54 61 and 94+, for other register character recorder.
Subclass:
61
Plural record markers involving the use of printing, dotting
or punching markers and a single record receiving element
wherein one of the records is that of the characters from a
register.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
54 60 and 94+, for other register character recorders.
Subclass:
62
Plural function recorders wherein the record is effected by
the use of a single marker and single record receiver. The
plural functions may be denoted, for example, by differences
in direction of the record or by differences in the position
of the record relative to the record receiver or by
differences in angular position of the mark on the record
receiver, e.g., a scriber may make a mark in one direction
for one function, and in another direction for another
function. A workman may shift a time operated functioned
printing wheel to his workman position on a sheet.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
29 where one recorder element is driven by two or more
factors.
Subclass:
63
This subclass is indented under subclass 62. Recorders of
the type wherein the marker is displaced with reference to
the record receiving surface in accordance with the
conformation of a discrete element (i.e., an element normally
unconnected with the recorder) inserted into the recorder.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
52 and 56+ for other discrete element control.
82 and 95+ for discrete record receiving cards.
Subclass:
64
This subclass is indented under subclass 63. Recorders of
the type wherein the record receiver is time driven.
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20 and see the notes thereto for timing subclasses of this
class.
Subclass:
65
Single function recorders with record receiving means having
a single set of scalar lines on which individual record
points are interpretable as having different values, said
recorder also having record making means to designate the
interpretation to be given to a particular record point.
Subclass:
66
Single function recorders wherein there is provided either a
plural number of record receivers to wherein there is
provided a single receiver which may be subsequently divided
into a plural number of pieces and which recorders make
simultaneous records which are either in duplicate or in some
proportion relative to one another.
(1) Note. Where the record receiver is a single element and
intended to be severed, each piece will contain a complete
record.
(2) Note. This subclass also includes recorders providing
for a plurality of simultaneous records of the same function
made in different manner as by printing and punching or as by
writing and printing.
Subclass:
67
This subclass is indented under subclass 66. Recorders of
the type wherein but a single marker is employed. Usually the
records are carbons of one another, or are records made by a
stylus piercing a number of superposed record receivers.
Subclass:
68
Recorders wherein the marker is automatically displaced from
record making position when the record receiving element is
removed from its record receiving position.
Subclass:
69
Means to vibrate the whole recorder or a record effecting
portion thereof to prevent sticking together of the marker
and receiver.
Subclass:
70
Recorders with automatic means to shift the marker to change
its zero position as the paper zero position shifts, as due
to change in size of paper as the humidity changes.
Subclass:
71
Recorders wherein a marker makes an undulating record of
constant amplitude.
Subclass:
72
Recorders wherein a marker is responsive to the movement of a
float or the expansion of a chamber.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
4 for recording plural functions of gas or steam engines,
where one element of the recorder is responsive to pressure
in the engine cylinder.
33 for recorders having external operating means.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
73, Measuring and Testing, subclass 312 for recording, float
type, liquid level gauges; subclass 322.5 for floats, per se,
and subclass 712 for recording fluid pressure gauges.
92, Expansible Chamber Devices, appropriate subclasses for an
expansible chamber device, per se.
137, Fluid Handling, subclass 557 for fluid handling
apparatus combined with fluid pressure responsive recorders,
subclass 558 for liquid level responsive recorders.
Subclass:
73
Recorders wherein a marker is responsive to a speed
responsive device of the centrifugal governor type.
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18 for recorders combined with nonrecording speed indicator
or alarm, and see the notes thereto.
33 for recorders having external operating means.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
73, Measuring and Testing, 535 for a speed responsive device
of the centrifugal weight type, per se.
399, Electrophotography, for electrostatic photocopying.
Subclass:
74.2
MAGNETOGRAPHIC:
This subclass is indented under the class definition.
Subject matter wherein a magnetic field pattern in pictorial
or s:graphic form is recorded on a magnetic medium for
visible display, as by development, by toning, or other
techniques.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
358, Facsimile and Static Presentation Processing, subclass
296 for the subject matter of this subclass in combination
with a facsimile.
360, Dynamic Magnetic Information Storage or Retrieval,
appropriate subclass for magnetic recording not intended to
be rendered directly visible.
361, Electricity: Electrical Systems and Devices, 193 for
magnetizing or controlling magnetic fields.
399, Electrophotography, 9 for diagnostics, subclasses 38+
for controls, subclasses 130+ for image formation, subclasses
168+ for charging, subclasses 177+ for exposure, subclasses
222+ for development, subclasses 297+ for transfer,
subclasses 320+ for fixing, subclasses 343+ for cleaning, and
subclasses 361+ for document handling.
Subclass:
74.3
Physical reorientation of magnetic particles:
This subclass is indented under subclass 74.2. Subject
matter including physically rearranging particulate magnetic
material within a record by application of a magnetic field
thereto, thereby altering the reflective nature of the medium
to produce the visible image.
Subclass:
74.4
Radiation sensitive:
This subclass is indented under subclass 74.2. Subject
matter wherein light or other radiation, including heat,
forms the image by magnetizing or demagnetizing a surface.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
76.1 for thermal recording apparatus or method for recording
phenomenon.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
219, Electric Heating, appropriate subclass for thermal
recording heating elements.
359, Optics: Systems (Including Communication) and Elements,
290 for light-controlled surface or interface.
360, Dynamic Magnetic Information Storage or Retrieval,
subclass 59 for thermomagnetic recorders and recording of
nondirectly visible image.
Subclass:
74.5
Magnetographic head:
This subclass is indented under subclass 74.2. Subject
matter wherein the specifics to the writing implement head
are recited.
Subclass:
74.6
Magnetochemical or physical chemistry:
This subclass is indented under subclass 74.2. Subject
matter wherein the image is produced in a latent form by the
interaction of the magnetic field with other physical or
chemical effects other than ferromagnetization.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
430, Radiation Imagery Chemistry: Process, Composition, or
Product Thereof, appropriate subclass for the product defined
in terms of a composition.
Subclass:
74.7
Multiple color:
This subclass is indented under subclass 74.2. Subject
matter wherein an image is produced in a plurality of
colors.
Subclass:
76.1
THERMAL RECORDING:
This subclass is indented under the class definition.
Subject matter wherein a phenomenon is recorded on a record
receiver by a heated recording head or by a recording head
through which an electrical heating current is transmitted to
a conductive record receiver or transfer material.
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107.1 for similar subject matter wherein the recording means
is a laser.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
178, Telegraphy, subclass 94 for pyros:graphic telegraph
code recorders.
347, Incremental Printing of Symbolic Information, 171 for
thermal marking apparatus and processes.
Subclass:
77
Records employing mechanisms for deforming a record receiver,
as for example by slitting, tearing, bending, scratching, or
embossing.
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78 and see the notes thereto for printing, dotting, or
punching markers.
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400, Typewriting Machines, 127 for embossing type.
Subclass:
78
Recorders wherein the means for effecting the making of a
record comprises a record receiver and an instrumentality
cooperating therewith to print thereon, form dots thereon, or
punch holes therethrough.
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9 for weight recorders using dotting, printing, or
punching.
50 for plural function recorders using dotting, printing, or
punching.
77 for making the record by deforming the receiver as by
slitting, tearing, bending, scratching or embossing.
141 for printing, dotting, or punching markers.
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83, Cutting, appropriate subclasses for means to cut or
perforate.
178, Telegraphy, subclass 92 for teles:graphic code
indenting or perforating recorders.
234, Selective Cutting (e.g., Punching), appropriate
subclasses for selective means to cut or perforate.
400, Typewriting Machines, 127 for embossing or penetrating
type.
Subclass:
79
This subclass is indented under subclass 78. Recorders of
the type wherein an interconnection exists between the
advancing mechanism for the record receiver and the means for
moving the marker so that one moves concomitantly with the
other either by reason of a common drive for the two or by
reason of a drive connection between the two.
Subclass:
80
This subclass is indented under subclass 78. Recorders of
the type wherein the instrumentalities make indications of
clock time or indicate against a time scale the occurrence of
an event.
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20 and see the notes thereto for timing subclasses of this
class.
94 for elapsed time recorders.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
235, Registers, subclass 377 and 378 for systems wherein a
time record is sensed and the amount of time that has elapsed
and a corresponding cost is determined.
368, Horology: Time Measuring Systems or Devices.
Subclass:
81
This subclass is indented under subclass 80. Recorders of
the type wherein the recording marker prints or punches time
either by utilization of a time driven marker cooperative
with a time dial scale or by utilization of characters
themselves indicative of time.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
94 for recorders which record total time elapsed rather than
actual time.
Subclass:
82
This subclass is indented under subclass 81. Recorders of
the type wherein the record is made on a card or equivalent
receiver which card is normally an element entirely free of
the machine but is used in conjunction therewith for the
purpose of time recording thereon, the recorder having a
record receiver opening particularly shaped to snugly receive
the card.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
95 for other discrete record receiving cards.
134 and see the notes thereto for other card receivers.
Subclass:
83
This subclass is indented under subclass 82. Recorders of
the type wherein means are provided to locate the card in
different positions to receive nonsuperposed time records.
Subclass:
84
This subclass is indented under subclass 83. Recorders of
the type wherein the locating means are a plurality of guides
each guide determining a different position for the
localization of the record.
Subclass:
85
This subclass is indented under subclass 83. Recorders of
the type wherein the variable positioning means consists of
means to modify a card as by notching thereof or punching
holes therethrough, said notches or holes being adapted to
cooperate with parts to control the new position of the
card.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
96 for other card modifiers.
Subclass:
86
This subclass is indented under subclass 83. Recorders of
the type wherein time controlled mechanism is employed to
shift the card holder. This time controlled mechanism may be
in addition to other manually operated card positioning
mechanisms.
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20 and see the notes thereto for other timing subclasses in
this class.
Subclass:
87
This subclass is indented under subclass 81. Recorders of
the type wherein the record receiver is movable toward the
time markers to effect recording.
Subclass:
88
This subclass is indented under subclass 87. Recorders of
the type wherein the time markers are either dials with time
markers on them or indexes oriented with respect to time and
intended to make marks on a scaled element.
Subclass:
89
This subclass is indented under subclass 81. Recorders of
the type wherein the time marking characters are movable
toward the record receiving mechanism to effect the making of
the record.
Subclass:
90
This subclass is indented under subclass 81. Recorders of
the type wherein the time marking characters are movable
toward the record receiving medium to effect the making of
the record and wherein time markers consist of dials with
pointers or merely time driven pointers or dial markers.
Subclass:
91
This subclass is indented under subclass 81. Recorders of
the type with special means to drive, align, or reset time
character wheels.
Subclass:
92
This subclass is indented under subclass 91. Recorders of
the type, with means to drive, align, or reset a time
character marking pointer or marking dial.
Subclass:
93
This subclass is indented under subclass 80. Recorders of
the type wherein the record receiver is a web.
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136 and see the notes thereto for other web subclasses.
Subclass:
94
This subclass is indented under subclass 78. Recorders of
the type wherein the recording marker has register characters
on it, or a pointer cooperating with a scale, and prints or
punches the record receiving medium to record the value of
the register reading. A register which is driven by clockwork
and shows the total time elapsed rather than actual time is
classified herein.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
54 60 and 61, for other register character recorders.
81 for recording actual rather than elapsed time.
Subclass:
95
This subclass is indented under subclass 94. Recorders of
the type wherein the record receiving medium is a card, sheet
or the like normally entirely free of the machine from the
machine and is inserted into the machine at the time of
making the record.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
82 for other discrete record receiving cards.
134 and see the notes thereto for other card receivers.
Subclass:
96
This subclass is indented under subclass 95. Recorders of
the type wherein means forming part of the machine are
provided to so modify the discrete record receiving element
so that upon the next insertion of the element it will be
impossible to obtain a record superposed on a previous
record.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
85 for other card modifiers.
Subclass:
97
This subclass is indented under subclass 94. Recorders of
the type which register the number of fares collected and the
number of passengers in a public conveyance.
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15 for recorder combined with nonrecording fare register.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
235, Registers, 33 for nonrecording fare registers.
Subclass:
98
This subclass is indented under subclass 94. Recorders of
the type wherein special means are provided either to drive
the printing or punching register, or parts thereof, or to
reset the register.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
235, Registers, 47 and 144 for register zero setting.
Subclass:
99
This subclass is indented under subclass 98. Recorders of
the type wherein modifications in or on the card, control the
setting of the register mechanism.
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134 and see the notes thereto for other card receivers.
Subclass:
100
This subclass is indented under subclass 78. Recorders of
the type wherein the markings are punched and are made by a
serrated or toothed rotating member.
Subclass:
101
This subclass is indented under subclass 78. Recorders of
the type wherein a record is effected by the application to
the record receiver of a recording element in the form of a
helix any point of which may operate upon the record
receiver.
Subclass:
102
This subclass is indented under subclass 78. Recorders of
the type wherein the record is made upon a rotatable disc.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
137 and see the notes thereto for other disc receivers.
Subclass:
103
This subclass is indented under subclass 78. Recorders of
the type wherein the record is made upon a rotatable drum.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
138 and see the notes thereto for other drum receivers.
Subclass:
104
This subclass is indented under subclass 78. Recorders of
the type wherein the record is made upon a stationary planar
record receiving element of any configuration.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
134 and see the notes thereto for other card receivers.
Subclass:
105
This subclass is indented under subclass 78. Recorders of
the type wherein means are provided in the form of a sheet or
ribbon to carry a pigment such as ink which may be
transferred to the record receiver and means are provided to
support or move said sheet or ribbon.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
101, Printing, subclass 336 for ribbon inkers for printing
apparatus.
400, Typewriting Machines, 91 for ribbon mechanism.
462, Books, Strips, and Leaves for Manifolding, 69.
Subclass:
106
This subclass is indented under subclass 105. Recorders of
the type wherein means are provided to coordinate the
movement of the ink transfer support or moving means with the
movement to effect marking.
Subclass:
107.1
LIGHT OR BEAM RECORDING:
This subclass is indented under the class definition.
Subject matter wherein a phenomenon is recorded on a
photosensitive or a heat sensitive medium by a light or
stream of electrons.
(1) Note. The light can be generated by an ambient or an
artificial light source.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
74 for magnetographic recorders.
76.1 for thermal recording apparatus and processes.
150.1 for electric recording apparatus and processes.
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178, Telegraphy, subclass 15 for photos:graphic recorders
for automatic systems. Subclass 90 for miscellaneous
photos:graphic telegraph recorders.
250, Radiant Energy, 580 for a recording detector responsive
to invisible radiation generally.
347, Incremental Printing of Symbolic Information, 224 for
radiation marking apparatus and processes.
352, Optics: Motion Pictures, for motion picture recording
apparatus employing photosensitive recording material.
355, Photocopying, appropriate subclasses for photocopying
film strip or sheets where no other recording apparatus is
involved.
358, Facsimile and Static Presentation Processing, subclass
302 for facsimile photos:graphic recorders.
378, X-Ray or Gamma Ray Systems or Devices, appropriate
subclasses particularly 167 for X-ray devices using
photos:graphic detectors.
396, Photography, for photos:graphic apparatus for recording
images.
399, Electrophotography, 9 for diagnostics, subclasses 38+
for controls, subclasses 130+ for image formation, subclasses
168+ for charging, subclasses 177+ for exposure, subclasses
222+ for development, subclasses 297+ for transfer,
subclasses 320+ for fixing, subclasses 343+ for cleaning, and
subclasses 361+ for document handling.
430, Radiation Imagery Chemistry: Process, Composition, or
Product Thereof, appropriate subclasses for radiation imagery
process and material.
Subclass:
107.2
Including camera:
This subclass is indented under subclass 107.2. Subject
matter including a light proof box fitted with a lens through
an aperture of which the phenomenon is recorded on the
medium.
(1) Note. This subclass is distinguished from Class 396,
Photography, because of a lack of a singular image plane or
screen associated with individual photograph.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
396, Photography, for photos:graphic apparatus for recording
images.
Subclass:
107.3
Mirror galvanometer:
This subclass is indented under subclass 107.1. Subject
matter comprising electrical light deflecting means
responsive to variations of the phenomenon for causing
fluctuations in position of a beam of light to record the
variations on the medium.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
324, Electricity: Measuring and Testing, subclass 97 for
mirror galvanometers.
347, Incremental Printing of Symbolic Information, subclass
243, 259, and 260+ for a deflector used in a plural or
singular beam scan recorder.
359, Optics: Systems (Including Communication) and Elements,
subclass 196 for deflection using a moving element, subclass
223 for moving a reflective element.
Subclass:
107.4
Plural:
This subclass is indented under subclass 107.3. Subject
matter comprising at least two mirror galvanometers.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
359, Optics: Systems (Including Communication) and Elements,
subclass 201 for plural moving scanning elements.
Subclass:
107.5
Having optical means interposed between the mirror
galvanometer and the record receiver:
This subclass is indented under subclass 107.3. Subject
matter comprising light modifying device located between the
mirror galvanometer and the medium to affect the formation of
the record.
(1) Note. The light modifying device includes, for example,
mirror, lens, filter, light pipe, or masking means, etc.
Subclass:
107.6
Including record receiver or handling means therefor:
This subclass is indented under subclass 107.1. Subject
matter comprising details of the medium or means for feeding
or transporting the medium.
Subclass:
111
Recorders wherein the record making instrumentality or marker
writes a record by the application of pigment to the record
receiver which instrumentality, while the changes in the
phenomenon take place, is in direct continuous contact with
the receiver.
(1) Note. Where the marker only is movable during recording
classification is in this subclass.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
33, Geometrical Instruments, 18.1 for scribers.
178, Telegraphy, 18.01 for telautographs.
Subclass:
112
This subclass is indented under subclass 111. Recorders of
the type wherein both the receiver and marker are movable
during the making of the record.
Subclass:
113
This subclass is indented under subclass 112. Recorders of
the type wherein the marker movement and record receiver
movement are interconnected.
Subclass:
114
This subclass is indented under subclass 112. Recorders of
the type wherein there is provided a time driven web on which
the record is made.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
20 and see the notes thereto for other timing subclasses in
this class.
136 and see the notes thereto for other web subclasses.
Subclass:
115
This subclass is indented under subclass 114. Recorders of
the type wherein the marker is time driven and makes a mark
of variable length proportional to elapsed time.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
20 and see the notes thereto for other timing subclasses in
this class.
Subclass:
116
This subclass is indented under subclass 112. Recorders of
the type wherein there is a time driven web record receiver
and the marker is pivoted on an axis to make a mark on the
web, the marker not being capable of moving rectilinearly
along the web.
(1) Note. The marker itself may have a pivotal movement
about one axis to move the plane of the web or may have a
pivotal movement to move both to and in the plane of the
web.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
119 123 and 128, for other combinations in which the marker
has pivotal motion only.
Subclass:
117
This subclass is indented under subclass 116. Recorders of
the type wherein the marker is pivoted so as to enable the
marker element to move only in the plane of the web to make a
record.
Subclass:
118
This subclass is indented under subclass 112. Recorders of
the type in which a web record receiver is driven from and
proportional to the speed of a part of a machine under
investigation.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
124 for work driven record receiving discs.
136 and see the notes thereto for other web subclasses.
Subclass:
119
This subclass is indented under subclass 118. Recorders of
the type wherein the marker is moved pivotally to make a
record. Includes markers responsive to phenomenon to move
toward and from the web as well as in the plane of the web.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
116 123 and 128, for other combinations in which the marker
has pivotal motion only.
Subclass:
120
This subclass is indented under subclass 119. Recorders of
the type wherein the movement of the marker is in the plane
of the web only.
Subclass:
121
This subclass is indented under subclass 112. Recorders of
the type in which the record receiving member is a time
driven rotatable disc.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
20 and see the notes thereto for other timing subclasses in
this class.
137 and see the notes thereto for other disc receivers.
Subclass:
122
This subclass is indented under subclass 121. Recorders of
the type wherein the disc is bodily displaceable as well as
rotatable on an axis.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
126 for rotatable drums which are also bodily displaceable.
Subclass:
123
This subclass is indented under subclass 121. Recorders of
the type in which a marker which is a pivotal movement only,
makes the record on the disc. The pivotal movement may be
about two axes.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
116 119 and 128, for other combinations in which the marker
has pivotal motion only.
Subclass:
124
This subclass is indented under subclass 112. Recorders of
the type in which the record receiving member is a work
driven rotatable disc.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
118 for work driven record receiving webs.
137 and see the notes thereto for other disc receivers.
Subclass:
125
This subclass is indented under subclass 112. Recorders of
the type wherein the record receiver is on a drum.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
138 and see the notes thereto for other drum receivers.
Subclass:
126
This subclass is indented under subclass 125. Recorders of
the type in which the record receiving member is a drum
capable of rotation on its axis and translation during the
making of a record.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
122 for rotatable discs which are also bodily translatable.
Subclass:
127
This subclass is indented under subclass 125. Recorders of
the type in which the record receiver is a time driven drum
rotating on its axis.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
20 and see the notes thereto for other timing subclasses in
this class.
Subclass:
128
This subclass is indented under subclass 127. Recorders of
the type in which the marker has a pivotal motion, only, in
order to make the record. The pivoting may be about an axis
parallel to or at an angle to the plane of the record
material on the drum or the pivoting may be about a plurality
of axes.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
116 119 and 123, for other combinations in which the marker
has pivotal motion only.
Subclass:
129
This subclass is indented under subclass 112. Recorders of
the type wherein the record receiver is a card, usually,
though not always carried by a plane surface.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
134 and see the notes thereto for other card receivers.
Subclass:
130
This subclass is indented under subclass 111. Recorders of
the type in which the record receiver, only, is movable
during recording, the stylus being either fixed in position
or adjusted to writing position or recording.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
114 and 118+, for writers where both the web and marker move
during the making of the record.
136 and see the notes thereto for other web subclasses.
Subclass:
131
This subclass is indented under subclass 130. Recorders of
the type in which the record receiver is in the form of a
rotatable disc.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
137 and see the notes thereto for other disc receivers.
Subclass:
132
This subclass is indented under subclass 130. Recorders of
the type in which the receiver is in the form of a rotatable
drum.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
138 and see the notes thereto for other drum receivers.
Subclass:
133
This subclass is indented under subclass 130. Recorders of
the type in which the record receiver is a card usually
though not necessarily mounted on a plane surface.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
134 and see the notes thereto for other card receivers.
Subclass:
134
The material on which the record is made and/or the driving
means for the same.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
82 95+, 99, 104, 129, and 133, for various combinations
classified on the basis of the use of a card receiver.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
101, Printing, subclass 415.1 for means, per se, for
securing flexible sheets to a base for holding and stretching
the same even though disclosed for use with a recorder, and
see the notes for related art.
Subclass:
135.1
Laminated, impregnated, or coated bases:
This subclass is indented under subclass 134. Subject matter
wherein the record receiving has a base with a lamination
thereon, or which is impregnated or coated with record
receiving material.
(1) Note. The material may have chart graduations or the
like.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
427, Coating Processes, 146 for coating processes, per se,
wherein the product has utility as a transfer or copy sheet.
428, Stock Material or Miscellaneous Articles, appropriate
subclasses for a stock material product in the form of a
plural layer web, sheet, or strand of general use, including
a coated or impregnated stock material product, not elsewhere
provided for, and especially 411.1 for a nonstructural
plural layer product; see also the reference to Class 346 in
Class 428, class definition, References to Other Classes.
430, Radiation Imagery Chemistry: Process, Composition, or
Product, Thereof, 270.11 for nonstructural layered product
having a radiation sensitive composition layer claimed or
solely disclosed as optically recordable and optically
machine readable (e.g., optical recording media, etc.
Subclass:
136
This subclass is indented under subclass 134. Record
receivers, the receiver being in the form of a web.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
28 93, 114+, 118+, and 130, for various combinations
classified on basis of use of a web form receiver.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
226, Advancing Material of Indeterminate Length, appropriate
subclasses for methods of, and apparatus for, feeding
material without utilizing the leading or trailing ends to
effect movement of the material.
242, Winding, Tensioning, or Guiding, 324 for unwinding and
rewinding a machine convertible information carrier such as a
magnetic tape or image film.
428, Stock Material or Miscellaneous Articles, appropriate
subclasses for a stock material product in the form of a
single or plural layer web of general utility, and see the
reference to Class 346 in Class 428, class definition,
References to Other Classes.
451, Abrading, 296 for a machine using an abrasive endless
band and subclasses 526+ for abrasive endless band structure,
per se.
Subclass:
137
This subclass is indented under subclass 134. Record
receivers, the receiver being in the form of a disc.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
102 121+, 124, and 131, for various combinations classified
on basis of use of a web form receiver.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
428, Stock Material or Miscellaneous Articles, 64.1 for
single or plural layer sheet in the form of a disc or
circular sheet of general utility and see the reference to
Class 346 in Class 428, class definition, References to
Other Classes.
Subclass:
138
This subclass is indented under subclass 134. Record
receivers, the receiver being in the form of a drum.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
5 103, 125+, and 132, for various combinations classified on
the basis of use of a drum type receiver.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
451, Abrading, 496 and 504+ for a rotary cylinder type of
abrader having sheet holding means.
Subclass:
139
The structure of the marker and or the driving means
therefor.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
116, Signals and Indicators, 328 for indicating pointer
structure.
Subclass:
140.1
With ink supply to marker:
This subclass is indented under subclass 139. Markers with
means to supply ink thereto for subsequent application to the
record strip.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
101, Printing, 335 for printing apparatus inkers,
particularly subclasses 364+ for fountains.
178, Telegraphy, subclass 96 for teles:graphic code
recorders having ink devices.
401, Coating Implements With Material Supply, appropriate
subclasses for a hand-manipulated fountain pen.
Subclass:
141
This subclass is indented under subclass 139. Markers
wherein the marker is of the printing, punching, or dotting
type.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
78 and see the notes thereto for recorders using dotting,
printing, or punching markers.
Subclass:
142
This subclass is indented under subclass 141. Markers as in
which the marker is in the form of a hand time stamp adapted
to cooperate with a record receiver, said record receiver
being an element not connected with the time stamp.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
20 and see the notes thereto for timing, subclasses of this
class.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
101, Printing, 72 for hand numbering stamps and other
appropriate subclasses for hand printers.
Subclass:
143
This subclass is indented under subclass 139. Markers as
which are hand driven.
Subclass:
144
The key or box used by a watchman or workman in the course of
making a record.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
52 56 and 63, for recorders operated or controlled by an
element normally disconnected from the recorder.
Subclass:
145
The support for the recorder or a portion of a recorder.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
73, Measuring and Testing, subclass 431 for instrument
casings.
248, Supports, for miscellaneous supports, per se.
Subclass:
146
Miscellaneous recorders not otherwise classifiable.
Subclass:
150.1
ELECTRIC RECORDING:
This subclass is indented under the class definition.
Subject matter wherein electricity is applied to the medium
for recording a phenomenon.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
74 for magnetographic recorders.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
118, Coating Apparatus, appropriate subclasses, especially
620 for a coating device including means to apply electrical
and/or radiant energy to work material or coating material,
and see (2) Note of the class definition.
178, Telegraphy, subclass 62 for chemical and electrolytic
telegraph recorders.
219, Electric Heating, subclass 384 for perforating by
electric spark.
242, Winding, Tensioning, or Guiding, 210 for winding and
unwinding devices for apparatus for processing web material
to bear machine-utilizable information representations.
330, Amplifiers, appropriate subclasses for the various types
of amplifiers and amplifier systems, subclass 308 for
transistor amplifiers having an atomic particles or radiant
energy impinging on a semiconductor, and subclass 59 for
amplifier systems having light controlled or activated
device.
347, Incremental Printing of Symbolic Information, 111 for
electric marking apparatus and processes.
358, Facsimile and Static Presentation Processing, subclasses
296+ for recorders combined with facsimile systems.
360, Dynamic Magnetic Information Storage or Retrieval, for
the magnetic recording of nonvisible information; e.g.,
audio, video, digital information.
386, Television Signal Processing for Dynamic Recording or
Reproducing, 1 and 46+ for color and black and white
television signal recording.
399, Electrophotography, 9 for diagnostics, subclasses 38+
for controls, subclasses 130+ for image formation, subclasses
168+ for charging, subclasses 177+ for exposure, subclasses
222+ for development, subclasses 297+ for transfer,
subclasses 320+ for fixing, subclasses 343+ for cleaning, and
subclasses 361+ for document handling.
427, Coating Processes, for methods of development of the
latent image.
430, Radiation Imagery Chemistry: Process, Composition, or
Product Thereof, 25 for the chemical process and material of
electroimagery and magnetoimagery.
Subclass:
150.2
By electrical discharge (e.g., spark or electroerosion):
This subclass is indented under subclass 150.1. Subject
matter wherein the phenomenon is recorded by dielectric
breakdown.
(1) Note. The dielectric breakdown may cause an electrical
discharge from a stylus onto a medium by direct contact or
through an air gap.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
347, Incremental Printing of Symbolic Information, 159 for
electrical discharge marking apparatus and processes.
Subclass:
150.3
Electrochemical:
This subclass is indented under subclass 150.1. Subject
matter wherein the phenomenon is recorded by reaction of a
chemical (e.g., electrolyte) to the applied electricity.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
347, Incremental Printing of Symbolic Information, 163 for
electrochemical marking apparatus and processes.
Information Products Division -- Contacts
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U.S. Patent and Trademark Office
Information Products Division
PK3- Suite 441
Washington, DC 20231
tel: (703) 306-2600
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Last Modified: 6 October 2000