CPC Definition - Subclass E01D

Last Updated Version: 2020.01
CONSTRUCTION OF BRIDGES, {ELEVATED ROADWAYS} OR VIADUCTS; ASSEMBLY OF BRIDGES (bridges extending between terminal buildings and aircraft for embarking or disembarking passengers B64F 1/305; {tracks for special kinds of railways E01B 25/00; culverts E01F 5/005})
Definition statement

This place covers:

Spanning structures, e.g. railway bridges, for allowing traffic, e.g. pedestrians, automobiles, trains, to travel across naturally occurring obstructions, e.g. gorges, bodies of water, or over man-made obstacles, e.g. roads, canals. Each spanning structure including obstruction or obstacle traversing structure that provides a passageway for traffic and links or is held up by:

  • one or more supports supported by the surface of the earth, e.g. arch-type bridges with end supports, lift-type brides with single main support, portable-type bridges with wheeled support; or
  • one or more buoyant supports which contact a fluid type obstruction or obstacle being crossed, e.g. floating-type bridges with buoyant support.

Spanning structures used for purposes other than carrying traffic, e.g. aqueducts, that are structurally similar to spanning structures for traffic and traverse the same types of obstructions and obstacles.

Specially adapted components for use in spanning structures, e.g. suspension cable clamps.

Accessories or ancillary devices specially adapted for use with spanning structures. e.g. drawbridge gates that are actuated when the span moves.

Methods specially adapted for constructing spanning structures, e.g. specially adapted bridge erecting or assembling techniques.

Methods specially adapted for restoring damaged, e.g. replacing dilapidated decking, or structurally augmenting, e.g. strengthening existing component to allow increased traffic load, existing spanning structures.

Methods specially adapted for demolishing or dismantling spanning structures.

Apparatus specially adapted for constructing, restoring, augmenting, or demolishing spanning structures.

References
Limiting references

This place does not cover:

Highways or trackways for toys that may include bridges

A63H 18/00

Model railway bridges

A63H 19/34

Arrangement of ship based onboard ramps or gangways

B63B 27/14

Bridges extending between terminal buildings and aircraft for embarking or disembarking

B64F 1/305

Loading ramps

B65G96/28

Supports that may include structure for spanning a road and supporting electric lines or communication cable going to overhead road signs or traffic signals

E01F 9/696

Floating tunnels or submerged bridge-like tunnels

E02D 29/067

Laying or reclaiming pipes; Repairing or joining pipes on or under water

F16L 1/00

Supports for pipes, cables or protective tubing

F16L 3/00

Floating power or information cables

H01B 7/12

Overhead installations of electric lines or cables

H02G 7/00

Installations of electric cables or lines in or on the ground or water

H02G 9/00

Installations of electric cables or lines in or upon bodies of water that are supported by floats

H02G 9/12

Informative references

Attention is drawn to the following places, which may be of interest for search:

Constructions in general and structures which are not restricted to walls

E04B 1/00

Wrecking of buildings in general

E04G 23/08

Towers, masts, poles and methods of erecting such structures

E04H 12/00

Flexible rubber or plastic pipes that are buoyant

F16L 11/133

Pipeline systems for gases, liquids or viscous products

F17D 1/00

Demolition of tall structures

F42D 3/02

Special rules of classification

Relevant information with respect to the material constitution of bridges, i.e. wood, concrete, stone or stone-like, metal and plastic are additionally classified in E01D 2101/00.

Bridges in general (characterised by their structural type E01D 4/00 - E01D 15/00)
Definition statement

This place covers:

Bridges not covered by any of the other types of bridges

References
Limiting references

This place does not cover:

Arch-type bridges

E01D 4/00

Truss-type bridges

E01D 6/00

Suspension or cable stay bridges

E01D 11/00

Bridges characterised by a combination of structures

E01D 12/00

Movable or portable bridges

E01D 15/00

Bridges characterised by the cross-section of their bearing spanning structure
Special rules of classification

Bridges having a cross section like e.g. I-beam, T-beam or boxgirder type. E01D 4/00 - E01D 15/00 take precedence.

Truss-type bridges
Definition statement

This place covers:

Bridge composed of connected elements (typically straight) which may be stressed from tension or compression.

References
Limiting references

This place does not cover:

Portable bridges, like Bailey bridges

E01D 15/133

Suspension or cable-stayed bridges
Definition statement

This place covers:

Bridges where the deck is supported by cables.

Bridges characterised by a combination of structures not covered as a whole by a single one of groups E01D 2/00 - E01D 11/00
Relationships with other classification places

This group is not used.

Movable or portable bridges; Floating bridges
Definition statement

This place covers:

Movable bridges for allowing passing of (waterborne) traffic, e.g. lift, swing, travelling or bascule bridges. Portable bridges being mainly temporary or military bridges.

References
Limiting references

This place does not cover:

Arrangement of ship-based outboard ramps or gangways

B63B 27/14

Loading ramps in general

B65G 69/28

Informative references

Attention is drawn to the following places, which may be of interest for search:

Floating bodies or pontoons

B63B

Inflatable or unreelable girders; folding or telescopic girders

E04C 3/005

Structural or constructional details of bridges
Definition statement

This place covers:

Constructional details not necessarily related to types of bridges.

References
Limiting references

This place does not cover:

Road joints

E01C 11/04- E01C 11/10

Protection of piers against colliding vehicles

E01F 15/00

Foundations

E02D

Sealing joints not restricted to joints for bridges; expansion joints for buildings in general

E04B 1/68

Informative references

Attention is drawn to the following places, which may be of interest for search:

Sleepers in general

E01B 3/00

Guards barriers in general

E01F 15/00

Insulation for buildings in general

E04B 1/62

Flooring in general

E04B 5/00

Roof drainage

E04D 13/04

Methods or apparatus specially adapted for erecting or assembling bridges
Definition statement

This place covers:

Methods or apparatus specially adapted for erecting or assembling bridges

References
Limiting references

This place does not cover:

Assembling, placing or erecting temporary bridges

E01D 15/127, E01D 15/133

Methods or apparatus for repairing or strengthening existing bridges {(electrochemical desalination or re-alkalisation C04B 41/00); Methods or apparatus for dismantling bridges}
Definition statement

This place covers:

Repairing, strengthening or dismantling brides.

References
Limiting references

This place does not cover:

Electrochemical desalination or re-alkalisation

C04B 41/00

Informative references

Attention is drawn to the following places, which may be of interest for search:

Repairing buildings in general

E04G 23/00