CPC Definition - Subclass E05G
This place covers:
Portable or fixed safes and strong-rooms for keeping valuables including details such as wall structure, alarms and repellent or fire-extinguishing material releasing devices for such safes and strong-rooms.
Also covered are bank protection devices, such as entrance control or trapping mechanisms, and safety transaction partitions such as barriers for bank teller windows.
This place does not cover:
Attention is drawn to the following places, which may be of interest for search:
Devices to prevent theft of bags, trunks or baskets | |
Non-safety paying counters | |
Secure transfers between a building and a vehicle | |
Floatable safes | |
Protective closures against war-like action |
Portable or fixed safes and strong-rooms for keeping valuables including details of such safes and strong-rooms: E05G 1/00.
Bank protection devices: E05G 5/00.
Safety transaction partitions: E05G 7/00.
The main group E05G 1/00 contains a number of older documents that were classified administratively (in batches). These documents have not yet been reclassified to the sub-groups and are indexed with E05Y 2800/00. This index should not be used for classification.
E05G 2700/00 is an old indexing scheme. It can be used for search but should not be used for classification.
In this place, the following terms or expressions are used with the meaning indicated:
Bank | A building or portion of a building devoted to the safekeeping or exchange of valuables between the "bank" and its customers |
Bank protection device | A mechanism in or on a bank for protecting the valuables or repelling attacks by stealth or force |
In patent documents, the following abbreviations are often used:
Cashier | Teller |
This place covers:
Portable or fixed safes and strong-rooms for keeping valuables including details such as wall structure, alarms and repellent or fire-extinguishing material releasing devices for such safes and strong-rooms.
This place does not cover:
Attention is drawn to the following places, which may be of interest for search:
Protective closures against war-like action |
Safes and strong-rooms as well as details such as wall structure, closures, and compartments: E05G 1/00 - E05G 1/08.
Alarms or other indicators for safes and strong-rooms: E05G 1/10.
Fluent material, e.g. repellent or fire-extinguishing material, releasing devices for safes and strong-rooms: E05G 1/12.
Furthermore, it is noted that the main group E05G 1/00 contains a large number of older documents that were classified administratively. These documents have not yet been reclassified to the sub-groups of E05G 1/00 and are indexed with E05Y 2800/00. The presence of these documents should not be construed as an indicator to classify similar documents in E05G 1/00. Rather, the sub-groups always take precedence.
In patent documents, the following words/expressions are often used as synonyms:
- "repellent" and "repellant"
This place covers:
Portable safes and strong-boxes for keeping valuables, e.g. armoured carrying cases, cash cassettes and small safes which may be attached to a supporting structure.
This place does not cover:
Attention is drawn to the following places, which may be of interest for search:
Devices to prevent theft of bags, trunks, baskets or the like | |
Coin boxes for coin freed apparatus |
This place does not cover:
Strong boxes with means for masking or destroying the valuables |
Attention is drawn to the following places, which may be of interest for search:
Burglar, theft or intruder alarm per se | |
Fire or explosion alarm per se |
This place covers:
Safes and strong-rooms for valuables featuring arrangements for generating, releasing and/or distributing fluent materials such as for fire extinguishing or burglar repelling.
This place does not cover:
Strong boxes with means for masking or destroying the valuables | |
Identifying, scaring or incapacitating burglars, thieves or intruders with smoke, gas, powder or liquid |
This place covers:
Devices and arrangements for the protection of banks by control of ingress and egress to the bank as well as control of valuables in case of hold-up. The group includes entrance control systems, transaction security booths, trapping mechanisms and access sluices.
This place does not cover:
Attention is drawn to the following places, which may be of interest for search:
Closed circuit television systems |
Entrance control systems and access sluices | |
Cashier's counters | |
Trapping or confining mechanisms, transaction security booths |
This place covers:
Entrance control systems and access sluices for bank and valuables protection including security doors, turnstiles, cages and respective sensors and control systems.
This place does not cover:
Trapping or confining mechanisms such as transaction security booths |
This place covers:
Trapping or confining mechanisms and transaction security booths for bank and valuables protection.
Attention is drawn to the following places, which may be of interest for search:
Thief or burglar incapacitating means in general |
This place covers:
Devices and arrangements to secure safety during transactions of valuables, such as bank depositories and security devices for bank teller windows.
Attention is drawn to the following places, which may be of interest for search:
Non-safety paying counters | |
Secure depositories for food | |
Secure transfers between a building and a vehicle |
In patent documents, the following abbreviations are often used:
Cashier | Teller |
This place covers:
Bank depositories such as night safes and safe-deposit boxes.
Attention is drawn to the following places, which may be of interest for search:
Automatic safe-deposit box systems with multiple compartments |
This place covers:
Movable security barriers for bank teller windows.
This place does not cover:
Pass-boxes for security barriers in bank teller windows, e.g. with stationary, rotatable or sliding bottoms |