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1

Including application of electrical radiant or wave energy to work

1.1

Plasma cleaning

1.2

Semiconductor cleaning

1.3

Semiconductor cleaning

2

For metallic, siliceous, or calcareous basework, including chemical bleaching, oxidation or reduction

3

Including acidic agent

4

Including forming a solidified or hardened coating for cleaning

5

Including melting

6

Using solid work treating agents

7

In particulate or comminuted form

8

Hollow work, internal surface treatment

9

Longitudinally traveling work, of bar, strip, strand, sheet or web form

10

Including regeneration, purification, recovery or separation of agent used

11

Gas or vapor form agent condensed or absorbed on work

12

By distilling, or liquefying vapors of, used agent

13

By crystallizing, precipitating, or eliminating dissolved solids from used agent

14

Work in coiled form during treating agent application

15

Longitudinally traveling work of bar, strip, strand, sheet or web form

16

Including distortion or deformation of work

17

Produced by temperature change, centrifugal force, or fluid pressure shock

18

Combined (e.g., automatic control)

19

Including work heating or contact with combustion products

20

Carbon removal (e.g., from engines)

21

Including use of vacuum, suction, or inert atmosphere

22.1

Hollow work, internal surface treatment

22.11

Pipe, tubing, hose, or conduit

22.12

With pressurized fluid or fluid manipulation

22.13

With inorganic alkaline material treating agent

22.14

With organic treating agent (e.g., solvent, surfactant, or reactant yielding soluble product, etc.)

22.15

With steam utilization

22.16

With inorganic salt treating agent

22.17

With inorganic alkaline material treating agent

22.18

With pressurized fluid or fluid manipulation

22.19

With organic treating agent (e.g., solvent, surfactant, or reactant yielding soluble product, etc.)

23

Work or work parts movable during treatment

24

Movable fluid applying nozzle and/or with plugging or sealing of work passage or opening

25.1

Work handled in bulk or groups

25.2

Kitchen or tableware

25.3

Food

25.4

Manufactured articles

25.5

Work stationary or moved countercurrently

26

Using sequentially applied treating agents

27

One a neutralizer for another

28

One an acid or an acid salt

29

One a soap or an alkaline agent

30

Including steam, gaseous agent or temperature feature

31

Gas or vapor condensation or absorption on work

32

With work or work parts movable during treatment

33

Centrifugal force and/or rotated work body

34

With treating fluid motion

35

Caused by heating

36

Plural, separately fed, and either simultaneously applied or admixed, treating fluids

37

Gas or vapor blasts or currents

38

Paints, varnishes, lacquers, or enamels, removal

39

Carbon removal

40

Oils, grease, tar, or wax removal, by dissolving

41

Metal base work, acid treating

42

Miscellaneous

43

With relatively movable finder and orienter of apertures or passages in work

44

Operating or controlling device engaged and moved by work or separate work holder

45

For vehicle or wheel-form work

46

Devices other than valves (e.g., automatic work counters)

47

Pumps

48

Endless belt or rotary work carriers

49

Through-way work carriers or guides

50

Plural means to supply or apply plural different fluids separately or admixed

51

With means for moving work or work-holder by fluid impact thereagainst

52

Engaging element having rotary swinging, rocking or pivoted motion

53

External and internal fluid applying means

54

External and internal fluid applying means

55

External applying jet means

56R

Automatic controls

57R

With electric control

57D

Dishwashing machine

57DL

With door latch control feature

56D

Dishwashing machine

58R

Electrically controlled

58D

Dishwashing machine

58DL

With door latch control feature

59

With work assembling or disassembling means

60

With interstation fluid flow means

61

Sequential work treating receptacles or stations with means to transfer work or fluid-applying devices

62

With initial work emptying, inverting, orienting or puncturing means

63

With means for treating work other than with fluids, draining or heating

64R

For sheet, web, strand or bar form work, longitudinally traveling

64P

Photographic

65

With screw work conveyor

66

With work transfer from one movable carrier to another

67

Including endless belt type

68

With splash, spray or jet applying means

69

Between plural rotary carriers on same axis

70

With endless belt work transfer means

71

Horizontal axes

72

With splash, spray or jet applying means

73

With work immersing means

74

With separate movable means to cause fluid motion

75

Sequential endless-carrier immersing means

76

Traversing hoist-type work transfer means

77

Curved or non-rectilinear traverse work-path

78

With rotary or swinging work transfer means

79

Axially rotary

80

Turntable type

81

With synchronized or coordinate valve

82

With guide rails, rods or beams for work or work holders

83

Vertical, inclined, curved or movable or with rollers or work immersion means

84

Plural, separate, work treating or holding receptacles or stations; manual transfer type

85

With movably mounted work holder or receptacle

86

For motion during fluid application

87

Plural, mutually counterbalancing work supports

88

With fluid supplying or movable applying means

89

With movable means to cause fluid motion

90

With heater or heat exchanger

91

With valved liquid drain from one or more stations

92

With detachable work holder or receptacle

93

With solid agent dissolving or supplying means

94.1

With plural means for supplying or applying different fluids at the same workstation

95.1

Means for sequentially applying different fluids

95.2

With drying means

95.3

Fluid spraying means

96.1

With nonimpelling plural way liquid outlet (e.g., two way valve) or nonimpelling liquid outlet control coordinated with other control control coordinated with other control

97.1

Coordinated intlet nonimpelling control and noninlet control

98.1

With coordinated or multiple valves

99.1

Plural fluids applying conduits

99.2

With means for supplying an additive (e.g., liquid detergent)

100.1

With means for mixing or contacting fluids with each other before applying them

102.1

Having steam, air or gas applying conduit

102.2

With pressurized air or gas supplying means for fluid movement

102.3

With drying means

103.1

Having means for recirculating or reversing fluid flows

103.2

Fluid spraying means

103.3

Movable

104.1

Having self cleaning means

104.2

With means for collecting escaping material

104.3

Cleaned material

104.4

Foreign material separated from liquid

105

With heating, cooling or heat exchange means

106

With heat-generatable liquid-flow pressure means

107

Heat-exchange means external to work-treating chamber, vat or zone

108

Recirculation of treating liquid through conduit means

109

With treating fluid purifying or separating means

110

By filter or strainer only (except work-spraying head)

111

With liquid-moving recirculation, or flow reversing, and straining means

112

With brake or clutch

113

With alarm, signal, indicating, testing, inspecting, illuminating or display means

114

With liquid seal

115R

Combined or convertible

115G

With garbage grinder

116

With means to operate movably interconnected parts of work

117

Movably mounted fluid-holding receptacles

118

Rocking or rolling, bottom supported or shifting axis

119

Rotary or swinging motion

120

Horizontal axis only

121

Vertical axis only

122R

For sheet, web, strand or bar form work, longitudinally traveling

122P

Photographic

123

For vehicle or wheel form work

124

With endless belt work conveyer

125

With guide rails for work or work holder (not for belt)

126

With non-endless-belt work conveyer or manipulator

127

With plural endless belts

128

With means to release work held on belt

129

With movably mounted spray or jet applying conduits or nozzle and/or interconnected conveyer and valve

130

With separate movable means to cause fluid motion (e.g., pump, splasher, agitator)

131

With spray or jet applying conduits or nozzles

132

Spiral work path and/or spiral work conveyer (e.g., screw)

133

With work feeding and/or discharging means

134

Rotary, swinging or pivoted, work support feeding or discharging conveyers (except mere gates or stops)

135

With means to hold work holder in draining position above treating liquid

136

Work holder in form of valved plunger

137

With means to movably mount or movably support the work or work support

138

Movably mounted work holder operable by fluid contact

139

With separate movable splasher or pump

140

Motor operated apparatus

141

Fluid motor or turbine

142

Movable support having plural work holders movably mounted thereon (e.g., ferris-wheel type)

143

Interconnected tank closure and other movable element

144

With movably mounted spray or jet applying conduits or nozzles

145

Immovably mounted on movable work support

146

Interconnected movable work support and valve

147

With movable work support and separate movable means to cause fluid motion (e.g., pump, splasher, agitator)

148

And spray or jet applying conduit or nozzle

149

Axially rotary chuck, mandrel, rod or axle type holder

150

Work of container-form constituting sole liquid holder

151

With spray or jet applying conduits or nozzles

152

For work having hollows or passages

153

Rotary, pivoted or swinging work holder

154

With non-impelling fluid deflector or baffle

155

With means to drain from or supply liquid to the tank

156

Work support having a float and/or swing drive or bias

157

Rotary, revolving, swinging or oscillating motion work holder or carrier

158

With plural work receiving chambers or holders and/or with cover carried by work receiving chamber

159

Horizontal axis

160

Carried by pivotally mounted links or levers or by strands

161

Compound motion

162

Actuating means extending through or carried by tank cover

163

With liquid impeller mounted on work support

164

Work support reciprocated by pivoted links or lever or by strands

165

Rail or rod form guides for work or work holder

166R

For work having hollows or passages

167R

With movably or flexibly mounted spray or jet applying conduits or nozzles

168R

With movable means to cause fluid motion (e.g., pumps)

168C

Conduit cleaner

167C

Conduit cleaner

169R

With movable means to cause fluid motion (e.g., pumps, followers)

169A

Automotive parts cleaner

169C

Conduit cleaner

170

With means to apply fluids both internally and externally

171

With plural fluid-supplying pipes

166C

Conduit cleaner

172

With movably or flexibly mounted spray or jet applying conduits or nozzles

173

As pump or element thereof

174

With separate pump, splasher or agitator

175

Conduit or nozzle attached to or operatively interconnected with treating chamber closure

176

With fluid discharge reaction nozzle

177

Attached to or operatively interconnected with treating chamber closure

178

Coordinated with valve therefor

179

Fluid discharge reaction nozzle

180

With guiding means to restrict motion to rotation, to swinging, or to an annular closed or to a curved path

181

With motor therefor

182

With non-impelling fluid deflector or baffle other than conduits or nozzles

183

Movably mounted, adjustable or removable

184

With movable means to cause fluid motion (e.g., pump, splasher, agitator)

185

Compound motion

186

With means to drain from and/or supply liquid to tank

187

Pivoted (e.g., rotary swinging or oscillating)

188

Motor operated

189

Movable in annular path that surrounds work-space

190

Delivering fluids to work-space through annular, work-space-surrounding conduit

191

Delivering to conduits or nozzles

192

Actuating means extending through or carried by tank cover

193

Plural fluid-moving means (excludes single with plural vanes)

194

About horizontal axis

195

Through or one-way fluid flow pumps

196

Vertically reciprocable (e.g., dashers)

197

Actuating means carried by or extending through tank cover

198

With spray or jet supplying and/or applying means

199

Work circumposable or opposed fluid-applying jets or plural pipes

200

With closable work-treating chambers

201

Miscellaneous

900

PAINT ROLLER

901

CONTACT LENS

902

SEMICONDUCTOR WAFER

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