CPC Definition - Subclass B67D
This place covers:
- Dispensing devices whereby beverages are dispensed from a tap or nozzle.
- Fuel dispensing devices, wherein the fuel is liquid at ambient temperature and atmospheric pressure.
- All liquid dispensing devices which are not classified in a subclass different than B67D.
Components or details (e.g. pumps, carbonators, cooling or heating arrangements etc...) of the devices are classified in B67D if those details are relevant for their structural association with the apparatus.
Components or details are NOT classified in B67D when for these aspects a (sub)group is provided in a subclass different than B67D (e.g. control taps for draught beverage dispensing are classified in B67D, domestic water taps, for which classification entries are present in the main group E03C 1/00, are not classified in B67D).
This place does not cover:
Dispensing slush beverages or granitas or ice-cream | |
Wearable containers for sportsmen e.g. bicycle runners | |
Sauce, mustard or ketchup dispensers | |
Apparatus for preparing beverages which are hot (also including brewing), but not cold | |
Drinking devices to be installed in vehicles | |
Bottles or other containers with a particular pouring opening | |
Closures with discharging devices, wherein the dispensing device is part of a removable cap | |
Funnels | |
Water supply directly from water mains (e.g. water taps), drinking fountains | |
Liquefied pressurised or cryogenic gas dispensers | |
Domestic hot-water supply systems | |
Devices for dispensing containers (e.g. bottled or canned beverages or lubricants) | |
Coin-freed or like apparatus for beverages if the details are pertaining to vending operations, customer interfaces and if the selection of drinks is not strictly linked with the preparation of beverages |
Attention is drawn to the following places, which may be of interest for search:
Cleaning pipes or tubes or systems of pipes or tubes | |
Opening of bottles, jars, cans, casks, barrels, or similar containers | |
Filling or opening of bottles, jars, cans, casks, barrels, or similar containers | |
Concurrent cleaning, filling and closing of bottles | |
Pipe systems | |
Measuring volume, volume flow, mass flow or liquid level, metering by volume |
This place covers:
- Apparatus for non-gravity dispensing of beverages which are cold.
- Apparatus suitable for non-gravity dispensing of both hot and cold beverages.
This place does not cover:
Apparatus for gravity dispensing of beverages |
In this place, the following terms or expressions are used with the meaning indicated:
Carbonator | device for adding carbon-dioxide gas to a beverage |
Faucet | tap |
Figal | container with the capacity of five gallons |
Python | bundle of flexible hoses for carrying a beverage |
Spigo | tap, cock |
When this is NOT done by some auxiliary fluid, but by e.g. rollers, pistons, etc...
Attention is drawn to the following places, which may be of interest for search:
Metering techniques used to control flow | |
Ratio control | |
Measuring volume, volume flow, mass flow or liquid level; metering by volume |
Attention is drawn to the following places, which may be of interest for search:
Water supply |
Attention is drawn to the following places, which may be of interest for search:
Measuring volume, flow, level; metering by volume |
Attention is drawn to the following places, which may be of interest for search:
Measuring volume, flow, level; metering by volume |
This place covers:
The controls of the amounts involve different metering techniques for different components.
Attention is drawn to the following places, which may be of interest for search:
Mixing devices | |
Liquid mixing devices | |
Mixing | |
Mixers |
Attention is drawn to the following places, which may be of interest for search:
Details of the carbonators in | |
Non-alcoholic beverages | |
Mixing gases with liquids by spraying: | |
By bubbling | |
Immersed stirrers | |
Surface aerating: | |
Using effervescence generating products: | |
Flow mixers |
This place covers:
Are those wherein the carbonation takes place during a linear flow of the liquid.
Attention is drawn to the following places, which may be of interest for search:
Beverage-making apparatus with dispensing means for adding a measured quantity of ingredients | |
Containers |
When in relation to constructional features of the dispensing apparatus.
Attention is drawn to the following places, which may be of interest for search:
Water taps |
Attention is drawn to the following places, which may be of interest for search:
Pressurised rigid containers | |
Bag in box | |
Pumps using positively or negatively pressurised fluid medium acting directly on the liquid to be pumped |
When the compressed gas has ONLY the purpose of driving the beverage.
Attention is drawn to the following places, which may be of interest for search:
Means for maintaining its carbonation | |
Mixing gases with liquids | |
Pumps using positively or negatively pressurised fluid medium acting directly on the liquid to be pumped |
Attention is drawn to the following places, which may be of interest for search:
Containers for dispensing liquid or semi-liquid contents by internal gaseous pressure, i.e. aerosol containers comprising propellant | |
Pumps using positively or negatively pressurised fluid medium acting directly on the liquid to be pumped |
Attention is drawn to the following places, which may be of interest for search:
Containers for dispensing liquid or semi-liquid contents by internal gaseous pressure, i.e. aerosol containers comprising propellant | |
Pumps using positively or negatively pressurised fluid medium acting directly on the liquid to be pumped |
Attention is drawn to the following places, which may be of interest for search:
Pumps driven by steam or air |
Attention is drawn to the following places, which may be of interest for search:
Apparatus for generating gases | |
Containers for dispensing liquid or semi-liquid contents by internal gaseous pressure, i.e. aerosol containers comprising propellant |
This subgroup contains also Selz bottles.
Attention is drawn to the following places, which may be of interest for search:
Replaceable containers for liquid components | |
Pressure vessels in general |
Attention is drawn to the following places, which may be of interest for search:
Disinfecting | |
Washing or cleaning mixers with a jet of fluid; | |
Accessories for mixers-washing or cleaning using a fluid | |
Cleaning hollow articles by flushing using pressurised fluid | |
Cleaning pipes or tubes; | |
Cleaning hollow articles using fluid; | |
Cleaning of bottle-filling devices |
Attention is drawn to the following places, which may be of interest for search:
Component storage means | |
Casks, kegs |
Many of documents in B67D 1/0829 and subgroups relate to connection means for inverted bottles.
This place covers:
This group also contains cold plates.
Attention is drawn to the following places, which may be of interest for search:
Cooling systems per se | |
Liquid coolers | |
Heat exchangers |
Attention is drawn to the following places, which may be of interest for search:
Mechanical hand-held gun type valves | |
Electro-mechanical hand-held gun type valves | |
Multi-channel hoses | |
Heating or cooling pipes or pipe-systems |
Attention is drawn to the following places, which may be of interest for search:
Liquid coolers |
Attention is drawn to the following places, which may be of interest for search:
Machines, plant, or systems using Peltier effect; using Nernst-Ettinghausen effect | |
Cooling or freezing apparatus specially adapted for cooling bottles or cans |
Attention is drawn to the following places, which may be of interest for search:
Fluid level control devices | |
Indicating or measuring liquid level (details of gauge) |
Attention is drawn to the following places, which may be of interest for search:
Advertising |
This place does not cover:
Flow or pressure control devices or systems |
Attention is drawn to the following places, which may be of interest for search:
Pressure gauge | |
Gas pressure control devices | |
Temperature control |
Attention is drawn to the following places, which may be of interest for search:
Devices for creating vacuum in food containers, e.g. wine bottles: |
This place covers:
E.g. control panels, switching or controlling means.
Attention is drawn to the following places, which may be of interest for search:
Metering techniques to control flow | |
Control of flow in general | |
Control of level in general |
This place covers:
Flow control using flow or pressure sensors, e.g. for controlling pumps.
Attention is drawn to the following places, which may be of interest for search:
Measuring volume, volume flow, mass flow or liquid level; metering by volume |
This place covers:
Safety devices for flow control in beverage dispensing devices.
This place does not cover:
This group does not cover safety devices for other purposes, which are classified in |
This place does not cover:
Drip trays | |
Valves for preventing dripping from nozzles |
This place does not cover:
Froth control when obtained by control taps |
Attention is drawn to the following places, which may be of interest for search:
Means for controlling the build-up of foam in the container to be filled | |
Preparation of foamed food: |
Attention is drawn to the following places, which may be of interest for search:
Valves |
Control taps are to be classified in B67D 1/1405 and subgroups.
Attention is drawn to the following places, which may be of interest for search:
Froth control |
Attention is drawn to the following places, which may be of interest for search:
Taps with means for adjusting the position of a compensator from outside |
Attention is drawn to the following places, which may be of interest for search:
Taps with means for adjusting the position of a compensator from outside |
This place covers:
- Apparatus for gravity dispensing of cold beverages;
- apparatus suitable for gravity dispensing of both hot and cold beverages.
This place does not cover:
Dispensing of beverages involving a pumping means or a gas pressure, or from a pressurised line such as water mains |
Attention is drawn to the following places, which may be of interest for search:
Liquid coolers | |
Cooling or freezing apparatus specially adapted for cooling bottles or cans |
Attention is drawn to the following places, which may be of interest for search:
Apparatus for making beverages with ingredient-containing cartridges; cartridge-perforating means |
This place covers:
This group does also cover apparatus provided with holders for pouches, bags and similar containers.
This group does also cover apparatus provided with holders for bottles or similar containers being held upside down and provided with a closure, but with no constructional details specified.
Attention is drawn to the following places, which may be of interest for search:
Hole-piercing devices |
Attention is drawn to the following places, which may be of interest for search:
Caps | |
Closures with filling and discharging, or with discharging, devices | |
Packages formed by enclosing articles or materials in preformed containers | |
Housing | L67D1/00Y10 |
This document also covers details of the cap only.
Attention is drawn to the following places, which may be of interest for search:
Apparatus requiring external operation and adapted at each repeated and identical operation to measure and separate a predetermined volume of fluid or fluent solid material from a supply or container without regard to weight and to deliver it wherein the measuring chamber is filled and emptied by tilting or inverting the supply vessel, e.g. bottle emptying apparatus |
Attention is drawn to the following places, which may be of interest for search:
Other supports for positioning apparatus or articles |
Attention is drawn to the following places, which may be of interest for search:
Closures with filling and discharging devices for containers | |
Valves, taps, cocks |
This place covers:
- apparatus for dispensing of fuel from containers into vehicles.
- apparatus for dispensing of fuel from vehicles (e.g. tank trucks) into containers.
- loading arms.
- apparatus for dispensing detergents for cleaning buildings.
- spouts.
- arrangements of pumps.
- apparatus or devices for transferring liquids to or from ships.
This place does not cover:
Apparatus for dispensing beverages | |
Apparatus or devices for transferring liquids when loading or unloading ships | |
Ice-cream, sorbet, sherbet and granita dispensers | |
Mustard or ketchup dispensers | |
Soap dispensers | |
Spraying apparatuses | |
Glue dispensers | |
General disposition of plant in stations for supplying fuel to vehicles | |
Filling or emptying locomotive water tanks, e.g. water columns | |
Apparatus for refuelling aircraft during flight | |
Ground installations specially adapted for fuelling stationary aircraft | |
Containers with special means for dispensing contents | |
Fuel jerrycans |
This place covers:
This group also covers spouts for fuel dispensing e.g. from hand-held containers or into railway wagons and tank-wagons; loading arms.
This place does not cover:
Nozzles and spouts for commercial fuel dispensers |
This place covers:
E.g. for detergents for cleaning buildings; dispensing liquids into railway wagons and tank-wagons; loading arms.
Attention is drawn to the following places, which may be of interest for search:
Mustard and ketchup hand-pump dispensers | |
Soap dispensers | |
Single-unit hand-held apparatus in which flow of contents is produced by the muscular force of the operator at the moment of use |
Attention is drawn to the following places, which may be of interest for search:
Means for locking a pump or its actuation means in a fixed position |
This place covers:
E.g. follower plates.
Attention is drawn to the following places, which may be of interest for search:
Arrangements of power-operated pumps | |
Apparatus in which liquid or other fluent material is applied to the surface of the work by contact with a member carrying the liquid or other fluent material: component parts |
Attention is drawn to the following places, which may be of interest for search:
Arrangements of power-operated pumps | |
Apparatus in which liquid or other fluent material is applied to the surface of the work by contact with a member carrying the liquid or other fluent material: component parts | |
Fuel tank details in connection w. dispensers | |
Coin-freed apparatus for controlling dispensing or fluids, semi-liquids or granular material from reservoirs |
Attention is drawn to the following places, which may be of interest for search:
Apparatus and devices for transferring fuels, lubricants or mixed fuels and lubricants |
Attention is drawn to the following places, which may be of interest for search:
Condensation of vapours |
Also recovered vapour condensers.
Attention is drawn to the following places, which may be of interest for search:
Vapour recovery systems, constructional features or components |
Attention is drawn to the following places, which may be of interest for search:
Control of flow without auxiliary power |
Attention is drawn to the following places, which may be of interest for search:
Control of flow without auxiliary power |
Attention is drawn to the following places, which may be of interest for search:
Measuring volume or indicating or recording in connection with measuring in general | |
Measuring volume or volume flow in general | |
Counting mechanisms per se | |
Transactions between vehicles and fuel dispensers | |
Coin-freed apparatus for controlling dispensing or fluids, semi-liquids or granular material from reservoirs wherein the volume is determined during delivery |
Attention is drawn to the following places, which may be of interest for search:
Mechanisms actuated by means, e.g. cards, providing billing information at the time of purchase to free or to actuate vending, hiring, coin or paper currency dispensing or refunding apparatus | |
Coin-freed apparatus for controlling dispensing or fluids, semi-liquids or granular material from reservoirs wherein the volume is determined during delivery |
Also on credit cards, smart cards or the like. Payment with credit cards.
Attention is drawn to the following places, which may be of interest for search:
Protocols for network applications |
Attention is drawn to the following places, which may be of interest for search:
Volumetric metering: Apparatus requiring external operation and adapted at each repeated and identical operation to measure and separate a predetermined volume of fluid or fluent solid material from a supply or container without regard to weight and to deliver it | |
Details of, or accessories for, apparatus of the preceding groups insofar as such details or appliances are not adapted to particular types of such apparatus |
Technology mainly applied in the 1930's.
This place covers:
One chamber emptied while other is being filled;
Technology mainly applied in the 1940's.
Attention is drawn to the following places, which may be of interest for search:
Devices providing for temperature compensation |
Attention is drawn to the following places, which may be of interest for search:
Larm arrangements in general |
Assuming that the correct liquid is dispensed (e.g. by means of compatible coupling or complementary shape). Avoiding tampering or cheating.
Attention is drawn to the following places, which may be of interest for search:
Overfill prevention | |
Of leakage-indicating devices comprising hollow spaces within walls under pressure or vacuum | |
Investigating fluid-tightness of structures by detecting the presence of fluid at the leakage point | |
For pipes, cables or tubes; for pipe joints or seals; for valves |
This place covers:
E.g. shear valves, breakaway couplings.
Attention is drawn to the following places, which may be of interest for search:
Shear valves also in safety valves actuated in consequence of extraneous circumstances, e.g. shock, change of position | |
Safety valves actuated in consequence of extraneous circumstances, e.g. excessive temperature | |
Safety valves with a fracturing member, e.g. fracturing diaphragm, glass, fusible joint |
Attention is drawn to the following places, which may be of interest for search:
Arrangements for carrying off, or preventing the formation of electrostatic charges |
Attention is drawn to the following places, which may be of interest for search:
Details of, or arrangements associated with, aerials by structural association with other equipment or articles | |
Details of, or arrangements associated with, aerials Adaptation for use in or on movable bodies | |
Radio transmission systems | |
Transmission control procedure: Protocols for network applications |
This place does not cover:
nozzles in general | |
fluid-delivering valves in general |
Also drip collectors.
Attention is drawn to the following places, which may be of interest for search:
Mixing liquids to be transferred |
This place covers:
Simple displays for images and text.
This place does not cover:
Filling nozzles with simple LED indicators: |
Attention is drawn to the following places, which may be of interest for search:
Labels, tag tickets, or similar identification or indication means |
This place covers:
Accessories for keeping the hand lever triggered.
This place does not cover:
Arrangements of pumps for other liquids |
Attention is drawn to the following places, which may be of interest for search:
Positive displacement pumps |
For fuels and lubricants only.
For fuels and lubricants only: arrangements for other liquids should be classified in B67D 7/0205 and subgroups.
Also for emptying tank trucks; also for follower plates.
Attention is drawn to the following places, which may be of interest for search:
Electrically driven pumping installations or systems for submerged use |
Attention is drawn to the following places, which may be of interest for search:
Coin-freed apparatus |
Attention is drawn to the following places, which may be of interest for search:
Apparatus or devices for transferring fuels, lubricants or mixed fuels and lubricants | |
Spill sumps | |
Arrangements of flow- or pressure-control valves | |
Arrangements of pumps of piston type | |
Supplying fuel to vehicles, general disposition of plant in service stations | |
Large containers | |
Accessories for large containers | |
Accessories for buried containers | |
Spillage retaining means | |
Manhole shafts and access chambers | |
Sewers | |
Devices for passing cables through walls: | |
Manifolds for chemical and beverage industry such as breweries: | |
Installations of electric cables or lines in or on the ground or water in cable chambers |
Attention is drawn to the following places, which may be of interest for search:
Hand carts | |
Lubricant filling or draining | |
Apparatus with hand-positioned nozzle supplied with lubricant under pressure |
This place covers:
Devices and apparatus involving hoses, pipes or couplings, specially designed for loading and unloading ships.
Attention is drawn to the following places, which may be of interest for search:
Loading or unloading fluids on ships |
Attention is drawn to the following places, which may be of interest for search:
Dispensing using articulated pipes | |
Filling nozzles |
This place covers:
Subject-matter related to dispensing, delivering or transferring liquids not provided for in specific application groups nor in any other group of B67D.