Structures specially adapted for buildings for special purposes; general layout of buildings as a whole, e.g. modular co-ordination; details which are peculiar to different types of the buildings for special purposes specified in the groups.

Buildings made of building modules;

Dwelling houses in general, i.e. apartment houses arranged in two or more levels;

Office buildings;

Small buildings for limited occupation.

Use also E04B 2001/0053 - E04B 2001/0092 to classify buildings characterised by their shape or layout grid.

Use E04H 2001/1288 to classify sauna cabins, E04H 2001/1283 to classify small buildings of the ISO-containers type, E04H 2001/1294 to classify the booths for smoking.

Buildings for hotels, restaurants, shops, department stores, museums, hospitals, mobile medical centres;

Public institutions like schools, prisons;

Buildings like e.g. stadiums, arenas or halls for meetings, entertainment and sport; Tribunes, grandstands and terraces for spectators, i.e. telescopic grandstands as well as foldable retractable or tiltable tribunes;

Other sporting buildings, like e.g. buildings housing swimming pools;

Buildings for theatres, concert halls, studios;

Stages, i.e. revolving stages or stages with shiftable or portable platforms;

Constructional features of auditoriums.

Use E04H 2003/142 to classify sporting buildings with vertically movable or tillable playing fields or sections, E04H 2003/145 for those with reconfigurable seating arrangement and E04H 2003/147 for those using horizontally movable sections of tribunes.

Devices for producing waves in swimming pools;

Floating swimming pools;

Easy movable and transportable swimming pools, i.e. with inflatable parts or made of shell type elements or of panes;

Safety devices for swimming pools, i.e. floors adjustable in height;

Swimming pool coverings made of rigid elements or of flexible materials; Devices or arrangements for circulating water, i.e. devices for removal of polluted water, cleaning baths or for water treatment;

Devices and accessories peculiar to swimming pools, i.e. coping elements, liner fixing means, step units, lighting means;

Devices and apparatuses specially adapted for cleaning, i.e. hand-held strainers, powered cleaners, suction cleaners, self-propelled cleaners.

Use E04H 2004/0068 to classify pools made of plastic shells or plastic elements including at least parts of walls and floors.

Treatment of water for swimming pools;

Devices for removal of polluted water, i.e. circumferential gutters;

Bottom drains;

Recirculating pumps for swimming pool water, arm-mounted debris traps; floating skimmers and skimmers integrated in the pool wall;

Devices for distributing chemical products in the water of swimming pools and systems for heating the water content of swimming pools.

Devices and accessories peculiar to swimming pools, i.e. coping elements; Liner fixing means;

Means for facilitating access, e.g. step units or slides;

Dividing means for swimming pool, e.g. panels, bulkheads;

Lighting means.

Use E04H 2004/146 and E04H 2004/147 to classify the fixing aspects of the liners.

Devices and apparatuses specially adapted for cleaning the swimming pool, e.g. hand-held strainers, powered cleaners, suction cleaners, self-propelled cleaners, cleaners wherein the propulsion results from an intermittent interruption of the waterflow through the cleaner;

Connection between the cleaners and the water circulation system;

Cleaning whips;

Pool nozzles.

Buildings for industrial purposes, e.g. for power-plants, factories, data processing centers;

Buildings forming pars of cooling plants;

Transformer houses;

Substations or switchgear houses;

Pits for inspection or services and coverings therefore;

Buildings for agricultural purposes;

Cooling towers.

Garages for vehicles on two wheels;

Small garages, for one or two cars, like e.g. carports, small garages of the wheeled, hinged, foldable, telescopic, swinging or otherwise movable type, small garages using tiltable floors or ramps;

Garages for many vehicles with mechanical means for shifting or lifting vehicles or without mechanical means for shifting or lifting vehicles, like e.g. with means for transport in vertical direction only or independently in vertical and horizontal directions, either the cars rolling freely from the transfer means or using different transfer means or by the use of movable platforms for horizontal transport or characterised by the use of turntables, rotary elevators or the like on which the cars are not permanently parked;

Devices or arrangements peculiar to garages, not covered elsewhere, e.g. securing devices, safety devices, automatically operated car-parks, devices for collecting oil or further fluids under parked cars.

Containers for fluids or gases mainly made of metal, with vertical axis, roof constructions therefore, with horizontal axis or ball shaped or mainly made of reinforced or prestressed concrete;

Containers for fluent solids, e.g. silos, bunkers, supports therefore, e.g. with or without perforated walls mainly made of reinforced concrete, of metal or of wood.

Use E04H 2007/225 to classify the silos with retaining wall type elements, e.g. trench silos.

Buildings, or groups of buildings, or shelters adapted to withstand or provide protection against abnormal external influences, e.g. war-like action, earthquake, extreme climate.

Earthquake withstanding structures, having e.g. steel columns and beams or concrete columns;

Earthquake withstanding shelters and protection cells arranged inside of buildings;

Preventing constructional measures against earthquake damage in existing buildings;

Bearing, supporting or connecting construction for withstanding earthquake, damping devices having e.g. laminated structures of alternating elastomeric and rigid layers or structures comprising rolling elements like balls, pins.

Use E04H 9/0235 to classify anti-seismic devices with hydraulic or pneumatic damper and E04H 9/0237 to classify structural braces with damping devices.

Looping references between E04H 9/02 and E02D 27/34 have been identified. Until this inconsistency is resolved, the current classification practice in CPC is as follows: both references should be treated as informative.

Protection of buildings by reducing the movement of buildings, e.g. caused by earthquakes, using mass-spring system, or systems where the mass is actively moved in opposite phase to the building movement, or tanks with liquid mass, with or without baffles for impeding liquid movement.

Access covers or locks for openings in masts or poles;

Structures made of specified materials, like e.g. plastic or composite layer of resin and longitudinally arranged glass fibres;

Structures made of wood and truss-like structures made of wood;

Structures made of metal, truss-like structures made of metal, structures with truss-like sections combined with tubular-like sections, details of flanges for tubular masts;

Structures made of concrete, with or without internal or external reinforcements, pre-stressed structures;

Movable structures or having movable sections, e.g. rotatable, telescopic, with identical elements or with hinged sections;

Side support means for towers, masts or poles, e.g. using guy ropes, struts;

Sockets or holders for poles or posts;

Cross arms;

Winding-towers for mines;

Chimney stacks, e.g. free-standing or similar ducts;

Water-towers;

Flag poles;

Arrangements for erecting and lowering towers, masts, poles, chimney stacks or the like.

Sockets or holders for poles or posts driven or screwed into the ground;

Sockets or holders for poles or posts to be placed on the ground, e.g. filed with, water, sand or the like;

Mounting poles or posts to a holder, e.g. on a flat base, in a socket;

Clamping poles or posts on a stub;

Means for adjusting the orientation of the post or pole;

Holders used for protection, repair or reinforcement of the post or pole.

Arrangements for casting in situ concrete towers or the like;

Arrangements for stacking tower sections on top of each other;

Arrangements for lifting tower sections for placing additional sections under them;

Arrangements for tilting up whole structures or sections thereof;

Arrangements for setting poles in the ground;

Arrangements for demolition towers or the like.

Accessories for grave sites, e.g. liners, covers, vault lowering devices;

Funeral monuments, grave sites curbing or markers not making part of vaults;

Ventilation systems for tombs and burial vaults;

Columbaria, mausoleum with frontal access to vaults;

Memorials for cremation ashes.

Hunting, fishing huts or the like;

Bathing or beach cabins;

Tents used as toys;

Tents or tent-like constructions composed partially of rigid panels;

Tents combined or specially associated with other devices, e.g. of suspended type, partially supported by vehicles;

Heating, lighting aspects for tents. Ventilating of tents and of tent roofs;

Tents having plural sectional covers, e.g. pavilions, vaulted tents, marquees, circus tents, plural tents, e.g. modular;

Inflatable tents;

Cone shaped tents;

Centre-pole supported tents, e.g. umbrella type tents;

Convertible tents, e.g. from one type to another type tent, from tent to canopy, from tent cover into diverse articles;

Parts, components, construction details, accessories, interior equipment, specially adapted for tents, e.g. guy-line equipment, skirts, thresholds;

Supporting means for tents, e.g. frames;

Covers, floors, closures, awnings sunshades;

Poles;

Pegs, stakes or the like;

Tent or canopy cover fastenings, e.g. the fixing members being a beading, the fixing members being locked by an additional locking member or the longitudinal recesses being made from two clamping members.

Use E04H 2015/201 - E04H 2015/205 to classify different constructional aspects of the inflatable tents.

Use E04H 2015/326 to classify the frame members connected by elastic cords and E04H 2015/328 to classify the frames erected solely by guy lines.

Tent frames of arch-shaped type, expansible, e.g. extensible in a fan type manner, flexible and foldable;

External type frames, i.e. outside cover, also with flexible supporting means;

Collapsible, e.g. breakdown type, having connecting nodes, telescoping and foldable, foldable, i.e. having pivoted or hinged means, of lazy-tong type or characterised by connecting arches with lazy-tongues, of parallelogram type.

Anti-climbing devices, e.g. fixed or rotary spikes;

Wire fencing;

Fences constructed of rigid elements;

Fences using prefabricated panel-like elements;

Posts for fences and anchoring means therefore;

Devices for erecting and removing fences

Illustrative example of subject matter classified in this group.

Illustrative example of subject matter classified in this group.

Electrified wire fencing for any use or application.

A01K 3/005, electrified wire fencing for pasturing equipment, should be considered at all times since the subject matter overlaps.

Wire mesh fencing.

A01K 3/00, pasturing equipment, should be considered at all times since the subject matter overlaps.

Wire fencing including barbed wire, wire mesh, toothed strips, or the like for any use or application.

A01K 3/00, pasturing equipment, should be considered at all times since the subject matter overlaps.

Illustrative example of subject matter classified in this group.

Illustrative example of subject matter classified in this group.

Illustrative example of subject matter classified in this group.

Fences made of building blocks or of woven slats;

Post and rail fences with or without vertical cross-members and connections between rail and post for such fences;

Picket fences with pickets attached to the side or going through the horizontal members connections between the horizontal members and post for such fences;

Fences using prefabricated panel-like elements, e.g. panels or wired panels with or without frame, with cross members, fitted in grooves of posts;

Corrals;

Posts for frames and anchoring means therefore;

Connections for attaching additional wire to frames, posts or railings

See E04H 17/006 to classify the caps for posts, E04H 17/1445 to classify the fences with pivotable slats for reduced wind resistance or for adjusting visibility, E04H 17/1447 - E04H 17/1488 to classify the different details of the connections between rails and posts.

Illustrative example of subject matter classified in this group.

Illustrative example of subject matter classified in this group.

Illustrative example of subject matter classified in this group.

Illustrative example of subject matter classified in this group.

Devices for post and wire handling, e.g. for erecting, for removing posts or for stretching or winding wire or wire mesh;

Hand tools for winding fences, e.g. tying or splicing tools.

Documents disclosing pile driving should be classified in E02D 7/00.

Removing sheets piles bulkheads, piles, mould-pipes or other moulds belong to E02D 9/00.