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| Class 174 | ELECTRICITY: CONDUCTORS AND INSULATORS |
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![[List of Pre Grant Publications for class 174 subclass 1]](../as.gif) | ![[List of Patents for class 174 subclass 1]](../ps.gif) | 1 | MISCELLANEOUS |
| | 2 | LIGHTNING PROTECTION |
| | 4R | AIR TERMINALS |
| | 5R | ELECTRIC SHOCK HAZARD PROTECTIVE DEVICES |
| | 6 | EARTH GROUNDS |
| | 8 | WITH FLUIDS OR VACUUM |
| | 9R |  Current conductive fluid and/or vacuum |
| | 10 | With cable or conduit preinstallation devices |
| | 11R | With fluid-condition responsive and/or indicating means |
| | 12R | With expansion and contraction means |
| | 14R | With fluid maintenance or conditioning means |
| | 15.1 | With cooling or fluid feeding, circulating or distributing |
| | 15.2 |  By heat pipe |
| | 15.3 | For bushing or pothead |
| | 15.4 | Superconductive type |
| | 15.6 | For cable, conductor or joint |
| | 15.7 | For welding or furnace cable |
| | 16.1 | By ventilation or gas circulation |
| | 17R | Boxes and housings |
| | 17.05 | Hermetic sealed envelope type (e.g., with exhaust stem) |
| | 18 | With bushing, terminal or lead-in |
| | 17LF | Liquid filled |
| | 17GF | Gas filled |
| | 17SF | Solid filled |
| | 17VA | Venting, absorption, expansion |
| | 17CT | Closures, terminals, gaskets |
| | 19 | Conduit or cable end structure |
| | 21R | Conduit or cable joints |
| | 22R | With fluid stops |
| | 21JS | Joints: separable |
| | 21JR | Joints: rotatable |
| | 21JC | Joints: rotatable, coaxial |
| | 21C | Joints: coaxial |
| | 21CA | Joints: coaxial angle expansion |
| | 23R | With fluid stops |
| | 24 | Conduits, cables and conductors |
| | 30 | Insulators |
| | 32 | ANTI-INDUCTIVE STRUCTURES |
| | 33 | Conductor transposition |
| | 350 | Shielded |
| | 351 | Resilient contacts |
| | 352 |  Metal coil core |
| | 353 | Magnetic |
| | 354 | Attaching clip or finger |
| | 355 | Strip or metal comb |
| | 356 | Conductive shell with nonconductive core |
| | 358 | Polymeric gasket |
| | 359 | Connectors |
| | 360 | Feedthrough |
| | 363 | Joints |
| | 364 | Pneumatic or hydraulic |
| | 365 | Sliding |
| | 366 | Resilient member |
| | 372 | Interlocking |
| | 374 | Between door and wall |
| | 376 | Interconnection order |
| | 377 | Housing or panel |
| | 378 | Flexible |
| | 379 | Convertible |
| | 381 | Transparent |
| | 382 | Access panel or opening |
| | 384 | Wall structure |
| | 387 | Multiple compartments |
| | 388 | Material |
| | 395 | Radio tube shields |
| | 396 | Coils, antieddy current |
| | 397 | Spark plugs, manifolds |
| | 37 | UNDERGROUND |
| | 40R | OVERHEAD |
| | 41 | With messenger cable |
| | 42 | With conductor vibration damping means |
| | 43 | Distributing and/or plural point support |
| | 44 | With connector or wire fanning arrangements |
| | 45R | Towers, poles or posts |
| | 40CC | Ground clamps and cable clips |
| | 40TD | Tension devices |
| | 46 | HANDLES |
| | 47 | COMBINED FLUID CONDUIT AND ELECTRICAL CONDUCTOR |
| | 480 | WALL MOUNTED |
| | 481 | Conduit and housing |
| | 50 | BOXES AND HOUSINGS |
| | 50.5 | Hermetic sealed envelope type |
| | 50.51 | With covering or casing for envelope |
| | 50.52 | With electrical connector |
| | 50.54 | With mounting means for a device within envelope |
| | 50.55 | Hollow lead surrounding another lead (e.g., concentric type) |
| | 50.56 | Lead-in insulated from metal wall |
| | 50.57 | Stem or sealing disk attached to envelope neck |
| | 50.59 | With shield for lead-in seal or between the lead-in conductors |
| | 50.6 | Plural lead-in |
| | 50.61 | With bonded seal for conductive member (e.g., glass to metal) |
| | 51 | With grounding means |
| | 520 | With electrical device |
| | 521 | Encapsulated (potted, molded, plastic filled) |
| | 535 | Details of mount |
| | 546 | Coated |
| | 547 | Cooled |
| | 549 | External terminals |
| | 559 | Multipart housing |
| | 565 | Specific material |
| | 53 | Plug receptacle or wall switch type |
| | 54 | With fixture coupling or mounting means |
| | 55 | Unitary with face plate |
| | 57 | Adjustable |
| | 58 | With box or housing mounting means |
| | 59 | With connectors |
| | 61 | Fixtures coupling or mounting means |
| | 650 | FEEDTHROUGH OR BUSHING |
| | 651 | Movable |
| | 652 | Compression |
| | 653 | Threaded casing with deformable member |
| | 655 | Threaded casing with resilient fingers |
| | 656 | Multipiece casing |
| | 659 | With opening retaining member |
| | 660 | Projections or fingers |
| | 661 | Cantilevered plate |
| | 662 | Serpentine cable path |
| | 663 | Plate and fastener |
| | 664 | Split collar |
| | 665 | Collar with engagement member |
| | 666 | Knockouts |
| | 667 | Plastic filled |
| | 668 | Wall engagement member |
| | 66 | COVERS OR FACE PLATES |
| | 68.1 | CONDUITS, CABLES OR CONDUCTORS |
| | 68.2 | Bus bars or bus ducts (Residual) |
| | 68.3 | Single duct conduits |
| | 250 | Preformed panel circuit arrangement (e.g., printed circuit) |
| | 251 | With encapsulated wire |
| | 252 | With cooling means |
| | 253 | Micropanel |
| | 254 | Convertible shape (e.g., flexible) or circuit (e.g., breadboard) |
| | 255 | With particular substrate or support structure |
| | 256 | With particular material |
| | 260 | With electrical device |
| | 261 | With particular conductive connection (e.g., crossover) |
| | 262 | Feedthrough |
| | 267 | Termination post |
| | 268 | With single conductive plane (e.g., tape, cable) |
| | 69 | Extensible |
| | 70R | Combined |
| | 71R | Branched |
| | 73.1 | With joint or end structure conductive stress distributing means |
| | 74R | With end structure |
| | 75R | With joint |
| | 76 | Plastic filled |
| | 77R | Sealing |
| | 78 | With grounding means |
| | 79 | With supporting means |
| | 80 | With insulator skirts |
| | 81 | Elbow or hood outlet type |
| | 82 | End cap outlet type |
| | 83 | Lining thimble |
| | 74A | Insulating cap or sleeve |
| | 84R | With joints |
| | 85 | Axially insulated joint sleeve sections |
| | 86 | Angularly movable or adjustable |
| | 87 | Angular |
| | 88R | Plural conductor and/or duct |
| | 89 | Radially spread or flanged sheath or conduit |
| | 90 | Stranded conductor |
| | 91 | Divided joint sleeves |
| | 93 | Sleeve and end cap-type casing |
| | 94R | Bare-conductor |
| | 84C | Crimped |
| | 84S | Separable |
| | 70S | Submarine repeater housings |
| | 70B | Bus bars |
| | 70C | Conduits or strips |
| | 70A | Aerial cable |
| | 95 | Plural duct |
| | 98 | With embedded conduit-duct or conductor |
| | 99R | With interior conductor or cable supports |
| | 101 | Removable wall |
| | 101.5 | Buoyant |
| | 102R | Conductive armor or sheath |
| | 103 | Plural individually sheathed or armored conductors |
| | 105R | Plural, insulated |
| | 106R | Plural, conductively contacting or composite |
| | 107 | Protected by nonconductive layer |
| | 108 | Spirally applied |
| | 102A | Alloys |
| | 102SC | Semiconducting |
| | 102C | Sheath coated |
| | 102SP | Strip, type, perforated, slotted |
| | 102P | Powdered insulation |
| | 102D | Corrugated |
| | 102E | Rope |
| | 110R | Insulated |
| | 111 | With beads or disc |
| | 112 | With identifying means |
| | 113R | Multiple conductor |
| | 114R | Split conductor |
| | 115 | Dissimilar or auxiliary conducting elements |
| | 116 | With filler insulation |
| | 117R | Assemblies of noncircular section |
| | 113A | Radially compressed |
| | 113AS | Air-spaced |
| | 113C | Insulating core |
| | 118 | With powdered or granular material |
| | 119R | Composite or noncircular strand section |
| | 120R | Plural or impregnated layers |
| | 121R | Fibrous or fabric with plastic or coating materials |
| | 122R | Fibrous or fabric |
| | 120C | Coated or impregnated |
| | 120FP | Fluid-type cable paper |
| | 120SC | Semiconducting |
| | 120AR | Rubber |
| | 120SR | Synthetic resin |
| | 124R | Fibrous or fabric |
| | 110A | Oxide |
| | 110P | Cellulose |
| | 110AR | Rubber |
| | 110SR | Synthetic resin |
| | 110SY | Styrene |
| | 110B | Isobutylent |
| | 110N | Polyamide (Nylon) |
| | 110PM | Polyethylene |
| | 110D | Synthetic polyester textile fiber |
| | 110V | Vinyl |
| | 110FC | Fluorocarbons |
| | 110S | Silicones |
| | 110F | Foam |
| | 110E | Epoxy |
| | 125.1 | Superconductors |
| | 126.1 | Conductor structure (nonsuperconductive) |
| | 126.2 | Composite |
| | 126.3 | Corrugated or slotted |
| | 126.4 | Metal coated on insulation |
| | 127 | Corona prevention |
| | 128.1 | Plural strand |
| | 133R | Noncircular strand section |
| | 135 | Accessories |
| | 137R | INSULATORS |
| | 138R | Special application |
| | 138A | Antennas |
| | 138C | Compositions |
| | 138S | Spark plugs |
| | 138B | Pull chains |
| | 138D | Studs, rods, and joints |
| | 138E | Slot liners and spacers |
| | 138F | Terminal covers |
| | 138G | Component mounting pads, spacers and holders |
| | 138H | Neon tube type |
| | 138J | Resistor or heater type |
| | 139 | Combined |
| | 140R | With conductive arcing or stress distributing means |
| | 141R | Strings or stacks |
| | 142 | Bushing type |
| | 144 | Arcing or grading devices |
| | 140C | Coated |
| | 140H | Hood type |
| | 140S | Strain type |
| | 140CR | Corona ring |
| | 145 | With connector |
| | 146 | Mid-line spacers |
| | 148 | Multiple insulator assemblies |
| | 151 | Through wall or plate |
| | 154 | Insulator and conductor embracing holder |
| | 156 | Divided insulator |
| | 158R | With insulator-supporting or attaching means |
| | 159 | Insulated nail or staple type |
| | 160 | Strand engaging suspension means |
| | 161R | Adjustably or movably mounted |
| | 162 | Double arm |
| | 163R | Support and/or insulator embracing or clamping |
| | 164 | Support penetrating |
| | 158F | Fence post insulators |
| | 167 | With conductor receiving aperture or bushing type |
| | 168 | With conductor holding means |
| | 176 | With terminal elements |
| | 177 | Plural |
| | 178 | Multi-part, sectional or composite insulator |
| | 181 | With insulated reinforcing or interlocking element |
| | 182 | Cap and pin |
| | 183 | Overlapping |
| | 186 | Caps |
| | 187 | Ventilating |
| | 188 | Cap type |
| | 189 | Plastic material adhered |
| | 190 | Divided cap |
| | 191 | Clamps or clasps |
| | 192 | Rings or wedges |
| | 193 | Screw or bayonet |
| | 194 | Pin type |
| | 195 | Multi-part insulators |
| | 196 | Plastic material adhered |
| | 197 | Clamps or clasps |
| | 198 | Rings or wedges |
| | 199 | Expanded |
| | 200 | With thimble in socket |
| | 201 | Through pin |
| | 202 | Screw or bayonet type |
| | 207 | Link or clevis |
| | 208 | Link type |
| | 209 | Sectional, multi-part, composite, or coated |
| | 211 | With moisture or dirt removing or shedding |
| | 212 | Surface configuration |
| | 137A | Coated |
| | 137B | Compositions |
| FOREIGN ART COLLECTIONS | ||
| FOR000 | CLASS-RELATED FOREIGN DOCUMENTS |
| Any foreign patents or nonpatent literature from subclasses that have been reclassified have been transferred directly to the FOR Collection listed below. These Collections contain ONLY foreign patents or nonpatent literature. The parenthetical references in the Collection titles refer to the abolished subclasses from which these Collections were derived. | ||
| ANTI-INDUCTIVE STRUCTURES (174/32) |
| FOR107 | WALL MOUNTED CONDUITS AND/OR HOUSINGS (174/48) |
| BOXES AND HOUSINGS (174/50) |
| FOR109 | With electric device or mounting means therefor (174/52.1) |
| FOR115 | With conduit or cable opening, coupling means or hole closures (174/65R) |
| DIGESTS | ||
| | DIG1 | ANTI-TRACKING |
| | DIG2 | BALLASTS |
| | DIG7 | SODIUM CONDUCTORS, CONNECTORS, ETC. |
| | DIG8 | SHRINKABLE TUBES, ETC. |
| | DIG9 | PULL-OUT CABINET OR DRAWER WITH RETRACTABLE CABLE |
| | DIG10 | BUSHING WITH CURRENT TRANSFORMERS |
| | DIG11 | ZIPPER TUBES |
| | DIG12 | HELICAL PREFORMS |
| | DIG13 | HIGH VOLTAGE CABLE (E.G., ABOVE 10KV, CORONA PREVENTION, ETC.) |
| | DIG14 | Having a particular cable application (e.g., winding, etc.) |
| | DIG15 | In a power generation system (e.g., prime-mover dynamo, generator system, etc.) |
| | DIG16 | In a motive power system (e.g., electric motor control system, etc.) |
| | DIG17 | In an electric power conversion, regulation, or protection system |
| | DIG18 | In a power distribution network |
| | DIG19 | In a dynamo-electric machine |
| | DIG23 | In a circuit breaker, relay, or switch |
| | DIG24 | In an inductive device (e.g., reactor, electromagnet, etc.) |
| | DIG26 | Having a plural-layer insulation system |
| | DIG29 | Having a semiconductive layer |
| | DIG30 | Having insulation with a particular dimension or geometry |
| | DIG31 | Having a shield or metallic layer |
| | DIG32 | Having means for cooling |
| | DIG33 | Method of cable manufacture, assembly, repair, or splicing |
| | DIG34 | PCB IN BOX OR HOUSING |
| | DIG35 | BOX OR HOUSING MOUNTED ON SUBSTRATE OR PCB |
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