CPC Definition - Subclass A47K
This place covers:
Sanitary equipment for bathrooms and their accessories, e.g.:
- Wash-stands; Baths; Showers, sinks, wash-basins, closets, or urinals;
- Holders or dispensers for soap, toothpaste, or the like;
- Body washing or cleaning implements;
- Body-drying implements; Toilet paper; Holders therefor;
- Chamber pots; Chairs with toilet conveniences or specially adapted for use with toilets;
- Seats or covers for all kinds of closets.
This place does not cover:
This place covers:
Wash-stands for personal hygiene and their appurtenances, e.g. holding devices or accessories.
This place does not cover:
Devices for washing hair or scalp | |
Washing basins for the kitchen | |
Wash stands for curative purposes | |
Wash-basins connected to the waste pipe |
Attention is drawn to the following places, which may be of interest for search:
Connection of bathroom accessories to the wall | |
Combinations of water tabs, soap dispensers and hand dryers |
This place covers:
Bath tubs standing alone or built in, showers and shower cabins or screens; Accessories for bath tubs and showers.
This place does not cover:
Bathes for curative purposes | |
Bathing devices for special therapeutic or hygienic purposes | |
Shower heads | |
Suspending the sully pipe | |
Heated bathes |
This place covers:
Combinations of different sanitary appliances.
This place does not cover:
Combinations describing also the connection to the waste pipe |
This place covers:
Holders or dispensers for solid powdered and liquid soap; Toothpaste; Foam or lather making devices for soap.
This place does not cover:
Shaving soap or cosmetics | |
Pliable containers with auxiliary devices for expelling the contents |
This place covers:
Devices for cleaning the human body, with or without containing soap; mechanically driven devices; Devices used by hand or fixed to the wall or bathtub.
This place does not cover:
Bathtubs or showers per se | |
Bathing devices for special therapeutic or hygienic purposes |
This place covers:
Body-drying implements like towels, from fabric or paper and their dispensers, hand or mechanically driven; Toilet paper and its holders and dispensers, hand or mechanically driven; Drying the body by hot air.
This place does not cover:
Hair drying | |
Curative hot-air baths | |
Sheet or web dispensers in general | |
Electric heating elements |
Attention is drawn to the following places, which may be of interest for search:
Details of dispensers |
This place covers:
Closets and urinals not connected to the water supply line or the sewerage; Chamber pots and chairs with toilet arrangements; Cleaning tools for the toilet bowl.
This place does not cover:
Portable urinating aids | |
Closets or urinals for vehicles | |
Closets or urinals for railway cars | |
Closets or urinals for ships | |
Closets or urinals for aircraft | |
Closets or urinals connected to the water supply line and the sewerage | |
Closets with recirculation of bowl-cleaning fluid | |
Devices for emptying or cleaning chamber-pots, bed-pans or the like | |
Urinals with flushing arrangements |
This place covers:
Toilets provided with any devices for directly consuming, e.g. by burning excreta, i.e. urine and faeces and/or deodorize relative emissions, irrespective of the type of heating means used.
Accessories, e.g. pre-treatment devices, specially adapted or arranged to these toilets.
This place does not cover:
Incinerators specially adapted for consuming animal litter | |
Sewage, sludge or waste products from water treatment installations |
This place covers:
Toilet seats and covers and all accessories therefore, e.g. mounting, cleaning devices, heating, ventilating devices, user protections.
This place does not cover:
Dog or cat toilets | |
Controlling the flushing valve while raising or lowering the seat | |
Cleaning devices with flushing for the toilet bowl |
Devices for cleaning, heating and ventilating are classified here only if incorporated in the seat but not in the bowl.
This place covers:
Other equipment concerning the sanitary devices not otherwise provided in A47K; Body supports which are no seats; Separate apparatus for deodorising, disinfecting or cleaning devices without flushing for toilet bowls, seats or covers; Holders for toilet brushes.
This place does not cover:
Portable urinating aids | |
Devices for receiving spittle | |
Disinfecting apparatus for medical, surgical or hygienic purposes | |
Cleaning devices with flushing for toilet bowls, seats or covers | |
Devices for emptying or cleaning chamber-pots, bed pans, bed urinals |