CPC Definition - Subclass E01C
This place covers:
Outdoor pavements and their foundations:
- General design or layout of roads;
- Paving made of prefabricated single units;
- Coherent paving made in situ;
- Special paving;
- Details of paving;
- Paving or foundation specially adapted for playgrounds or sports grounds;
- Paving specially adapted for footpaths, sidewalks or cycle tracks;
- Pavements lights.
Machines and methods for making, placing, working or repairing road surfacing and its foundations.
This place does not cover:
Attention is drawn to the following places, which may be of interest for search:
Further details of paving elements not covered by the groups E01C 5/00, E01C 9/00 and E01C 11/00, e.g. spacing features, interlocking, joining or drainage details are additionally classified in E01C 2201/00.
Further machine characteristics, parts or accessories not covered by the groups E01C 19/00, E01C 21/00, E01C 23/00, i.e. feeding devices for pavers, heated screeds, extendable screeds, screed or paver accessories and cabin details are additionally classified in E01C 2301/00.
Outdoor paving surfaces made of, or comprising synthetic grass are always classified in E01C 13/08, even when not disclosed as being adapted for sports.
This place covers:
General layout of roads incl.
- street systems and cross-sections of roads, as well as
- special road design for noise abatement or for compelling drivers to slow down,
- arrangements for gas absorption and
- road crossings.
This place does not cover:
Design or layout of sports grounds | |
Design or layout of airfields | |
Construction of traffic islands | |
Design or layout of helicopter landing stages | |
Speed bumps | |
Ventilation of tunnels |
This place does not cover:
Arrangements for absorbing or reflecting air transmitted road traffic noise, e.g. barriers |
This place does not cover:
Ventilation of tunnels |
This place does not cover:
Vehicle decelerating or arresting surfacings | |
Speed bumps |
This place covers:
Arrangements of foundations; Use of special materials for building up the foundation layers of the road; Protecting foundations from destructive influences.
This place does not cover:
Prefabricated foundation elements for prefabricated paving elements | |
Foundations specially adapted for playgrounds or sports grounds | |
Draining the subbase of roads |
Attention is drawn to the following places, which may be of interest for search:
Apparatus or processes for surface stabilisation for road building | |
Stabilising soil under existing surfacing | |
Soil-conditioning or soil-stabilising materials | |
Foundations in general |
E01C 3/02 is not used.
This place covers:
The covering of roads or sidewalks consisting of prefabricated single units:
- paving units characterised by their materials;
- reinforced paving units;
- paving units characterised by the material used for beds or joints or characterised by the way of laying.
Prefabricated foundation elements and individual couplings for these paving units.
Prefabricated paving units for sidewalk are generally classified here if they concern paving slabs for forming the surface covering the sidewalk; if they concern special paving elements or sets for forming the sidewalk itself, then they should be classified in E01C 15/00.
This place does not cover:
Gratings | |
Prefabricated paving units specially adapted for playgrounds or sports grounds | |
Prefabricated pavings specially adapted for footpaths, sidewalks or cycle tracks and not being simple paving slabs (for example prefabricated elements for forming elevated sidewalks). |
Attention is drawn to the following places, which may be of interest for search:
Paving elements consisting of material not defined or consisting of several possible different materials should be classified in E01C 5/00.
Paving elements consisting of al least two different materials in one element, e.g. rubber topping over concrete layer, should be classified in E01C 5/22.
Details within the paving unit itself concerning special surface design, special paving arrangements, drainage or interconnection should also be classified in E01C 2201/00.
This place covers:
Roads surfaces including road toppings, consisting of coherent paving made at the place of use, the road surfaces being made of road-metal with or without binders or by subjecting soil to stabilisation.
Repairing of concrete or bituminous roads.
Foundations for paving made in situ are usually classified in E01C 3/00, except of concrete base foundation for bituminous paving, which is classified in E01C 7/32 and in the relevant sub-groups of E01C 7/08.
If the chemical aspect of the composition of the concrete or bituminous paving layer is relevant it should normally belong to C04B or C08L 95/00 and not to E01C 7/00.
This place does not cover:
Foundations for roads | |
Individual units made from concrete cast in situ | |
Coherent pavings made in situ specially adapted for playgrounds or sports grounds | |
Coherent pavings made in situ specially adapted for footpaths, sidewalks or cycle tracks |
Attention is drawn to the following places, which may be of interest for search:
Foundations made by soil stabilisation | |
Methods or material for repairing pavings in general | |
Reinforcements in roads | |
Devices for preparing or distributing paving materials, for working the placed materials, or for forming, consolidating, or finishing the paving | |
Apparatus or processes for surface stabilisation for road building | |
Auxiliary devices for constructing, repairing, reconditioning, or taking-up road surfaces | |
Cement like composition | |
Bituminous composition | |
Soil stabilising materials |
In this place, the following terms or expressions are used with the meaning indicated:
Road-metal | Aggregate |
Coherent paving | Paving made of a mass of cohering material |
This place covers:
Paving elements poured in situ.
Coverings, the surface of which consists partly of prefabricated units and partly of sections made in situ.
Pavings for special parts of roads or with special functionality, incl.:
- pavings specially adapted for allowing vegetation,
- vehicle decelerating or arresting surfacings,
- paving take-off areas for vertically starting aircraft,
- wheel tracks,
- pavings for railroad level-crossings,
- pavings adjacent tramways rails,
- temporary pavings or
- steel gratings.
Details of special paving should also be classified in the relevant sub-groups of E01C 5/00, E01C 11/00 and/or E01C 2201/00.
This place does not cover:
Paving specially adapted for playgrounds or sports grounds | |
Paving specially adapted for footpaths, sidewalks or cycle tracks | |
Pavement lights | |
Removable forms or shutterings for road-building purposes | |
Bridge deck gratings | |
Speed control bumps | |
Manhole or like covers or frames | |
Gully gratings |
Attention is drawn to the following places, which may be of interest for search:
Protecting plants (trees) in general | |
Moulds and cores for cementitious compositions | |
Machines or methods for applying material to surfaces to form a permanent layer thereon | |
Arresting surface arrangements for aircrafts | |
Rail tracks for guiding vehicles | |
Landing platform for helicopters | |
Revetment of banks, dams, water-courses | |
Indoor flooring | |
Foot scrapers |
This place covers:
Methods or materials for repairing paving.
Details of paving incl.:
- joint constructions,
- reinforcements,
- gutters and kerbs and
- methods for preventing slipperiness on roads, including permanently installed heating devices.
Gutters for roads are normally classified in the relevant sub-groups of E01C 11/22, but if the invention relates to gully gratings, gullies adapted to be used with kerbs or interconnections of pipes with gutters, then it should be classified in E03F.
Methods or arrangements for preventing slipperiness or protecting against influences of the weather are normally classified in E01C 11/24 if they concern methods or arrangements applying within the paving itself, such as use of special additives to the paving material or permanently installed heating elements. If they concern methods or arrangements applying on the surface such as spreading gripping or thawing materials, then they should be classified in E01H 10/00 or in E01C 19/20 if they concern spreading machines for wintry services, which are not specially adapted for treating wintry roads but could also be used for spreading other materials.
This place does not cover:
Tactile arrangements on paving surface for the visually impaired |
This place does not cover:
Methods or materials for repairing specific concrete paving | |
Methods or materials for repairing specific bituminous paving | |
Repairing bridge floorings |
Attention is drawn to the following places, which may be of interest for search:
Devices for repairing the surface of roads |
This place does not cover:
Prefabricated paving characterised by the material used for joints | |
Bridge joints |
Attention is drawn to the following places, which may be of interest for search:
Machines for making joints | |
Removable joint shuttering | |
Sealing joints for buildings and the like |
Attention is drawn to the following places, which may be of interest for search:
Bituminated textile webs | |
Removable holder for dowel | |
Reinforcements for building in general |
This place does not cover:
Kerbs for sport grounds | |
Preformed sidewalk paving with integral kerb | |
Surface drainage of bridges | |
Kerbs specially adapted for traffic islands | |
Draining the sub-base of roads | |
Kerbs for guiding traffic or for display purposes | |
Sewers and surface drainage in general, incl. pipe connections in sewer systems | |
Gully gratings |
Attention is drawn to the following places, which may be of interest for search:
Edging for beds, lawns, e.g. using tiles |
This place does not cover:
Spreading machines for wintry services, if they are not specially adapted for treating wintry roads but could also be used for spreading other materials | |
Thawing materials in general | |
Improving gripping of ice bound or other slippery traffic surfaces by spreading gritting or thawing materials on the surface of the road |
This place covers:
Pavings for playgrounds or sports grounds (made of prefabricated single units or in situ) and their foundations, also including:
- construction of rinks or tracks for roller skating or the like;
- construction of grass surfaces (natural grown or synthetic);
- artificial surfaces for outdoor or indoor practice of snow or ice sports.
Details of paving should also be classified in the relevant sub-groups of E01C 5/00, E01C 11/00 and/or E01C 2201/00, if necessary.
This place does not cover:
Golf courses | |
General layout of sport grounds | |
Mechanical ski trails | |
Race tracks |
Attention is drawn to the following places, which may be of interest for search:
Layered products in general | |
Materials for simulating ice or snow | |
Yarns or threads | |
Drainage of soil in general | |
Indoor sport flooring |
This place covers:
Specially adapted paving elements or systems for footpaths, sidewalks or cycle tracks, such as:
a walkway or cycle track in the countryside, see for example US4176982:
a set of paving elements for constructing an elevated walkway, see for example WO2008025201:
or a tactile walk path, see for example US2009162143:
This place covers:
Lamp constructions incorporated in pavings or paving elements, e.g. paving block or tile.
This place does not cover:
Blocks specially designed for marking roads | |
Illuminated advertising or display means on roads |
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Devices or methods for preparing and/or applying paving material, and/or consolidating and/or finishing the road surface.
Devices for guiding or controlling the machines along a predetermined path.
Removable forms or shutterings for road-building purposes.
Devices or arrangements for forming individual paving elements, e.g. kerbs or by sectioning a freshly laid slab, in situ.
Apparatus for laying individual preformed surfacing elements.
The devices or methods for placing paving material treat paving material as such and not joint material, curing means, prefabricated underlays, reinforcing elements or traffic markings, which are classified in the relevant sub-groups of E01C 23/00.
The devices or methods for finishing the road surface are devices for smoothing, roughening or patterning freshly laid paving. Devices for working existing road surfaces are classified in E01C 23/06. Devices for making grooves or like channels in not-yet-hardened paving, or for curing, heating or drying paving are classified in the relevant sub-groups of E01C 23/00.
Spreaders for gripping or thawing materials are also classified in the relevant sub-groups of E01C 19/20, if they concern spreaders for wintry services, which are not specially adapted for treating wintry roads but could also be used for spreading other materials. If they are specially adapted for that use, they are classified in E01H 10/00.
This place does not cover:
Apparatus or process for surface stabilisation for road building | |
Devices for setting-out or checking the configuration of new surfacing | |
Producing hydraulic cement concrete in general | |
Stationarily-arranged melting boiler for tar or asphalt | |
Smoothing tools for mass made in situ for indoor paving |
Attention is drawn to the following places, which may be of interest for search:
Apparatus specially adapted for reconditioning or repairing paving | |
Fertiliser distributors | |
Crushing, pulverising or disintegrating in general | |
Apparatus for generating vibrations in general | |
Spreaders specially adapted for treating wintry roads | |
Compacting soil in general | |
Drives or control devices for graders | |
Drives or control devices for other soil-shifting machines |
Only the sub-groups of E01C 19/50 are used, E01C 19/50 itself is not used.
E01C 19/20 and its lower groups are subdivided by way of spreading. Classifying additional information in E01C 19/20.
This place does not cover:
Recycling in place or on the road involving soil stabilisation | |
Stabilising soil under existing surfacing |
Attention is drawn to the following places, which may be of interest for search:
Foundations made by soil stabilisation | |
Road surfaces made by soil stabilisation | |
Soil-conditioning or soil-stabilising materials | |
Soil consolidation in general |
This place covers:
Apparatus or methods focussed on work carried out on existing surfaces, like roughening, cutting, reconditioning or marking out.
Devices for setting-out or checking the configuration of new surfacing; Applications of apparatus for measuring, indicating, or recording the surface configuration of existing surfacing.
Devices for making, treating or filling grooves in not-yet-hardened paving; Devices for introducing inserts or removable insert-supports in not-yet-hardened paving.
Arrangements for curing paving; Devices for applying curing means; Devices for laying prefabricated underlay; Protecting paving under construction or while curing.
Devices for laying reinforcing elements or dowel bars; Removable support for reinforcing elements; Devices for making essentially horizontal ducts in paving.
Devices for installing or removing forms.
Devices for heating or drying foundation, paving, or materials thereon.
Devices for working existing road surfaces are classified in the relevant sub-groups of E01C 23/06. Devices for smoothing, roughening or patterning freshly laid paving are classified in E01C 19/42 - E01C 19/44.
Milling drums for working road surfaces are classified in E01C 23/088; however, if the invention concerns the cutter bits as such, then it should be classified in B28D 1/186.
This place does not cover:
Apparatus for reconditioning of salvaged non-hydraulic compositions for in plant recycling of salvaged bituminous mixtures | |
Marking out playing courts | |
Removing matter not bonded to the road surface | |
Roughening or detaching ice |
Attention is drawn to the following places, which may be of interest for search:
In plant recycling | |
Working stone or stone-like materials by milling | |
Road surface markings per se | |
Hydraulic cleaning | |
Measuring in general |
Filling potholes is classified in E01C 23/06 if the potholes are filled with new material, and in E01C 23/065 if the potholes are filled with material which has been reprocessed in place.