CPC Definition - Subclass E01D
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.
This place does not cover:
Highways or trackways for toys that may include bridges | |
Model railway bridges | |
Arrangement of ship based onboard ramps or gangways | |
Bridges extending between terminal buildings and aircraft for embarking or disembarking | |
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 | |
Floating tunnels or submerged bridge-like tunnels | |
Laying or reclaiming pipes; Repairing or joining pipes on or under water | |
Supports for pipes, cables or protective tubing | |
Floating power or information cables | |
Overhead installations of electric lines or cables | |
Installations of electric cables or lines in or on the ground or water | |
Installations of electric cables or lines in or upon bodies of water that are supported by floats |
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 | |
Wrecking of buildings in general | |
Towers, masts, poles and methods of erecting such structures | |
Flexible rubber or plastic pipes that are buoyant | |
Pipeline systems for gases, liquids or viscous products | |
Demolition of tall structures |
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.
This place covers:
Bridges not covered by any of the other types of bridges
This place does not cover:
Arch-type bridges | |
Truss-type bridges | |
Suspension or cable stay bridges | |
Bridges characterised by a combination of structures | |
Movable or portable bridges |
Bridges having a cross section like e.g. I-beam, T-beam or boxgirder type. E01D 4/00 - E01D 15/00 take precedence.
This place covers:
Bridge composed of connected elements (typically straight) which may be stressed from tension or compression.
This place does not cover:
Portable bridges, like Bailey bridges |
This place covers:
Bridges where the deck is supported by cables.
This group is not used.
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.
This place does not cover:
Arrangement of ship-based outboard ramps or gangways | |
Loading ramps in general |
Attention is drawn to the following places, which may be of interest for search:
Floating bodies or pontoons | |
Inflatable or unreelable girders; folding or telescopic girders |
This place covers:
Constructional details not necessarily related to types of bridges.
This place does not cover:
Road joints | |
Protection of piers against colliding vehicles | |
Foundations | |
Sealing joints not restricted to joints for bridges; expansion joints for buildings in general |
Attention is drawn to the following places, which may be of interest for search:
Sleepers in general | |
Guards barriers in general | |
Insulation for buildings in general | |
Flooring in general | |
Roof drainage |
This place covers:
Methods or apparatus specially adapted for erecting or assembling bridges
This place does not cover:
Assembling, placing or erecting temporary bridges |
This place covers:
Repairing, strengthening or dismantling brides.
This place does not cover:
Electrochemical desalination or re-alkalisation |
Attention is drawn to the following places, which may be of interest for search:
Repairing buildings in general |