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| Class 175 | BORING OR PENETRATING THE EARTH |
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![[List of Pre Grant Publications for class 175 subclass 1]](../as.gif) | ![[List of Patents for class 175 subclass 1]](../ps.gif) | 1 | WITH SEISMIC SHOCK GENERATING |
| | 2 | BORING WITH EXPLOSION IN INACCESSIBLE HOLE |
| | 3 |  Severing formed core by explosion |
| | 3.5 | Explosive charge carried by projectile |
| | 4 | Driving core receiver by explosion or with receptacle collecting material in bore |
| | 4.5 | Directing successive projectiles or charges in same path |
| | 4.51 | With position orienting or indicating |
| | 4.52 | With wall engaging packer or anchor |
| | 4.53 | Firing chamber movable in bore relative to carrier or another firing chamber |
| | 4.54 | With bore condition firing control, or compensating means |
| | 4.55 | Independent firing of plural charges |
| | 4.56 | Firing control mechanically actuated in bore |
| | 4.57 | Projectile forms bore |
| | 4.58 |  With means to initially restrain projectile for pressure build-up |
| | 4.59 | With means to prevent preliminary bore fluid contact |
| | 4.6 | Concave-shaped charge |
| | 5 | BORING A SUBMERGED FORMATION |
| | 6 | Boring with underwater tool drive prime mover |
| | 7 | Boring from floating support with submerged independent anchored guide base |
| | 8 | Boring from submerged buoyant support |
| | 9 | Boring from nonbuoyant support |
| | 10 | Boring with submersible vertically movable guide |
| | 11 | BORING BY DIRECTLY APPLYING HEAT TO FLUIDIZE OR COMMINUTE |
| | 12 | Combustion of the formation material |
| | 13 | With introduction of slag forming flux |
| | 14 | Combustion is confined chamber having restricted discharge orifice |
| | 15 | Rotating the heating tool |
| | 16 | Electrically produced heat |
| | 17 | WITH HEATING OR COOLING (1) WITHIN THE BORE, OR (2) DRILLING FLUID |
| | 18 | ICE BORING |
| | 19 | BORING WITHOUT EARTH REMOVAL (I.E., COMPACTING EARTH FORMATION) |
| | 20 | Combined with earth removal (e.g., removing sample) |
| | 21 | Fluid passage to exterior of drive point |
| | 22 | Drive point detached from shaft to form cased bore or with installation of casing |
| | 24 | AUTOMATIC CONTROL |
| | 25 | Of fluid pressure below ground |
| | 26 | Of boring means including a below-ground drive prime mover |
| | 27 | Of advance or applied tool weight |
| | 38 | In response to drilling fluid circulation |
| | 39 | WITH BIT WEAR SIGNAL GENERATING |
| | 40 | WITH SIGNALING, INDICATING, TESTING OR MEASURING |
| | 41 | Ray energy detection or measuring |
| | 42 | Indicating agent released in drilling fluid |
| | 44 | Providing identifiable indication of core position in situ for core sample orientation |
| | 45 | Tool position direction or inclination measuring or indicating within the bore |
| | 46 | Signaling or indicating condition of cutting in cuttings retainer |
| | 48 | Measuring or indicating drilling fluid (1) pressure, or (2) rate of flow |
| | 49 | Transparent inspection feature |
| | 50 | Indicating, testing or measuring a condition of the formation |
| | 51 | WITH SELF-ACTING CYCLIC ADVANCE AND RETRACTION OF TOOL OR TOOL SHAFT |
| | 52 | WITH MAGAZINE FOR SUCCESSIVELY MOVING UNCONNECTED, ORIENTED TOOL OR SHAFT SECTIONS TO USE POSITION |
| | 53 | ENLARGEMENT OF EXISTING PILOT THROUGHBORE REQUIRING ACCESSIBILITY TO EXISTING OPPOSITE BORE ENDS TO INSERT AND REMOVE TOOL |
| | 54 | BORING BY BELOW GROUND RECIRCULATION OF UNSUPPORTED ELEMENTS (E.G., SHOT) |
| | 55 | TOOL ACTUATION BY REACTION OF ROTATING ECCENTRIC MASS |
| | 56 | NATURAL VIBRATION CHARACTERISTIC OF AN ELEMENT OF BORING MEANS RELATED (1) TO NATURAL VIBRATION CHARACTERISTIC OF ANOTHER ELEMENT, OR (2) TO FREQUENCY OF AN IMPOSED MOTION |
| | 57 | PROCESSES |
| | 58 | Sampling of earth formations |
| | 61 | Boring curved or redirected bores |
| | 62 | Boring horizontal bores |
| | 64 | Chemical reaction with earth formation or drilling fluid constituent |
| | 65 | Boring with specific fluid |
| | 73 | MEANS TRAVELING WITH TOOL TO CONSTRAIN TOOL TO BORE ALONG CURVED PATH |
| | 74 | Sectional guide or shaft having means to lock sections in angular relation while boring |
| | 75 | Normally curved guide or shaft |
| | 76 | Axially spaced opposed bore wall engaging guides |
| | 77 | SIDE WALL TOOL FED LATERALLY WITHOUT ROTATION FROM INACCESSIBLE HOLE |
| | 78 | MEANS CARRIED BY HOUSING INSERTABLE IN INACCESSIBLE HOLE TO ADVANCE SIDE WALL TOOL LATERALLY |
| | 79 | TOOL SHAFT ADVANCED RELATIVE TO GUIDE INSERTABLE IN INACCESSIBLE HOLE TO CHANGE DIRECTION OF ADVANCE |
| | 80 | Tool telescopes over guide having surface set at angle in hole |
| | 81 | With anchor for guide engaging hole side wall |
| | 82 | Guide carried by shaft to operative position |
| | 84 | WITH ABOVE-GROUND CLEANER FOR BORING MEANS |
| | 85 | WITH ORIENTING OR RACKING MEANS FOR UNCONNECTED TOOLS OR SECTIONS OF SHAFT OR CASING |
| | 86 | WITH BELOW-GROUND PERSONAL ACCOMMODATION |
| | 87 | CONVERTIBLE |
| | 88 | WITH MEANS CARRYING CUTTINGS LATERALLY OF BORE AXIS COMPRISING (1) CHUTE, (2) CONVEYER, OR (3) VEHICLE |
| | 89 | TOOL ELEMENT OR CONTINUOUSLY DRIVEN FLEXIBLE OR ARTICULATED ENDLESS MEMBER |
| | 90 | Flexible or articulated member carried on support swingable or laterally movable relative to bore axis |
| | 91 | BORING MEANS INCLUDING A CONTINUOUSLY ROTATING BIT DESCRIBING A NONCIRCULAR CROSS-SECTIONAL BORE |
| | 92 | WITH BELOW-GROUND TOOL DRIVE PRIME MOVER |
| | 93 | Below-ground (1) generation of motive fluid, or (2) storage of motivating energy |
| | 94 | With below-ground feed means |
| | 95 | Plural below-ground drive prime movers |
| | 97 | With means to anchor prime movers support to bore wall |
| | 100 | Discharge passage for motive fluid directed toward bore entrance |
| | 101 | With positive connection between tool and support shaft for rotary below ground motor |
| | 102 | With below-ground conveyer or impeller for removal of cuttings |
| | 103 | With above-ground means |
| | 104 | Electric |
| | 106 | With mechanical motion-converting means |
| | 107 | Fluid rotary type |
| | 108 | COMMON DRIVE OR ADVANCING MEANS FOR CONCURRENTLY BORING ALONG LATERALLY SPACED AXES |
| | 113 | WITH MEANS TO SIMULTANEOUSLY FEED AND ROTATE TOOL FROM A SINGLE MECHANICAL ELEMENT |
| | 114 | Constant rotation rate permitted regardless of (1) release of feed force, or (2) change in feed rate |
| | 118 | With feed anchor in earth wall being bored |
| | 121 | Rotary drive for relatively advancing feed screw |
| | 122 | WITH MEANS TO FEED DRIVE |
| | 135 | WITH ABOVE-GROUND MEANS TO IMPACT AN EARTH-PENETRATING MEANS |
| | 161 | WITH ABOVE-GROUND MEANS TO MOVE TOOL TO A DUMPING LOCATION OFFSET FROM BORE |
| | 162 | WITH ABOVE-GROUND MEANS TO FEED TOOL |
| | 170 | WITH TOOL DRIVE PRIME MOVER OR ABOVE-GROUND MECHANICAL MOTION CONVERTING DRIVE MEANS |
| | 171 | With installing casing |
| | 172 | With endless flexible conveyer |
| | 173 | With diversely operated shafts extending into bore |
| | 189 | Drive reciprocates tool |
| | 195 | Rotary drive for a relatively advancing tool (e.g., rotary table) |
| | 202 | ABOVE-GROUND MEANS FOR RELATIVELY MOVING BELOW-GROUND TOOL ELEMENTS |
| | 203 | WITH ABOVE-GROUND MEANS TO ADVANCE OR RETRACT BORING MEANS |
| | 205 | WITH MEANS PROVIDING PRESSURIZED GAS CONTACT WITH DRILLING LIQUID |
| | 206 | WITH ABOVE-GROUND MEANS FOR PREPARING OR SEPARATING DRILLING FLUID CONSTITUENTS |
| | 207 | WITH ABOVE-GROUND MEANS FOR HANDLING DRILLING FLUID OR CUTTING |
| | 208 | Fluid spray |
| | 209 | Fluid or cuttings directing or receiving means engaging bore entrance |
| | 212 | Pressurized gas supply |
| | 213 | With suction pump inlet communicating with bore bottom |
| | 214 | Fluid head on tool shaft having lateral port and axial passage with seal for means reciprocable in the head |
| | 215 | With tool shaft having plural passages for drilling fluid |
| | 216 | Standpipe |
| | 217 | With pump |
| | 218 | With valve |
| | 219 | WITH PARTICULAR ACCOMMODATION FOR PERSONNEL (E.G., SEAT OR PROTECTOR) |
| | 220 | WITH ABOVE-GROUND GUIDE FOR RELATIVELY ADVANCING TOOL |
| | 226 | WITH SAMPLE COVERING OR COATING MEANS (1) DISPENSED INTO SAMPLE RECEIVER, OR (2) FLUENT |
| | 227 | WITH STORAGE MEANS FOR BIT LUBRICANT CARRIED BY BIT OR SHAFT |
| | 230 | WITH EXPANSIBLE BORE WALL ANCHOR (E.G., PACKER) |
| | 231 | WITH MEANS MOVABLE RELATIVE TO TOOL BELOW GROUND TO CONTROL ECCENTRIC FLUID EMISSION |
| | 232 | WITH MEANS MOVABLE RELATIVE TO TOOL BELOW GROUND TO STOP FLOW TOWARD BORE BOTTOM |
| | 233 | Movable to seal sample receiver at bore bottom pressure |
| | 234 | With longitudinally spaced valve seats |
| | 236 | In sample receiver removable through below-ground tool shaft |
| | 237 | Means comprises dropped element |
| | 238 | Flow-stopping means includes relatively movable cutter element |
| | 239 | With undisturbed core receiver |
| | 241 | Stops flow by movement about fixed pivot |
| | 243 | Resiliently biased or composed of flexible material |
| | 244 | WITH MEANS MOVABLE RELATIVE TO TOOL TO RECEIVE, RETAIN, OR SEVER UNDISTURBED CORE |
| | 245 | Core bit closure relative upwardly movable by core |
| | 246 | Receiver removable through below-ground tool shaft |
| | 247 | With fluid pressure-responsive means to remove receiver or operate latch |
| | 248 | Core forming cutting edge or element on receiver |
| | 249 | Core-retaining or severing means |
| | 256 | WITH RELEASABLE MEANS NORMALLY HOLDING JOINTED SHAFT SECTIONS IN ANGULAR RELATION |
| | 257 | TOOL REMOVABLE OR INSERTABLE THROUGH OR AROUND DRIVING OR DRIVEN SHAFT OR CASING |
| | 258 | Laterally shiftable cutter element movable through shaft |
| | 259 | Plural cutter elements longitudinally relatively movable into transverse alignment |
| | 260 | Cutter element engages torque transmitting abutment on shaft when expanded |
| | 262 | Tool movable exteriorly of shaft |
| | 263 | CUTTER ELEMENT LATERALLY SHIFTABLE BELOW GROUND (E.G., EXPANSIBLE) |
| | 264 | With separable means holding tool collapsed above ground only |
| | 265 | Plural cutter elements longitudinally relative movable into transverse alignment |
| | 266 | Plural selectively shiftable cutter elements |
| | 271 | With latch operated by fluid pressure or dropped element |
| | 267 | Cutter element shifted by fluid pressure |
| | 270 | Cutter element shifted by dropped element |
| | 272 | Cutter element shifted by relatively longitudinally movable threaded elements |
| | 273 | Cutter element shifted by cam or gear axially rotatable relative to shaft |
| | 274 | With shifting mechanism spring biased to operative position |
| | 275 | With separate latch |
| | 279 | Cam or gear means movable to shift cutter element |
| | 281 | Cutter element substantially longitudinally movable on shaft |
| | 284 | Cutter element shifted by longitudinally relatively movable parts |
| | 290 | With latch |
| | 291 | Spring biased |
| | 292 | Pivoted about substantially longitudinal axis |
| | 293 | BELOW-GROUND (1) HAMMER, OR (2) IMPACT MEMBERS |
| | 294 | Combined with safety joint |
| | 295 | With noncutting portion forwardly of sleeve impact member having a cutting portion (e.g., reamer) |
| | 296 | Fluid-operated |
| | 298 | Continuous unidirectional rotary motion of one telescoping member effects consecutive impacts |
| | 299 | Resiliently biased |
| | 300 | With releasable means to detachably retain telescoping members against axial reciprocation |
| | 305 | Telescoping members relatively rotatable |
| | 307 | WITH CUTTING EDGE COVER |
| | 308 | WITH RECEPTACLE |
| | 309 | Removable or insertable through below-ground tool shaft |
| | 310 | With helical conveyer |
| | 311 | Suspended below bit |
| | 312 | Sieve or strainer |
| | 313 | WITH MECHANICAL CLEANER FOR BIT OR CUTTER ELEMENT |
| | 314 | WITH WELL-TYPE SCREEN |
| | 315 | COMBINED |
| | 316 | WITH RELATIVELY MOVABLE PARTS TO FACILITATE CLEANING WITHOUT DISASSEMBLY |
| | 317 | WITH MEANS MOVABLE RELATIVE TO TOOL OR SHAFT TO CONTROL BELOW-GROUND PASSAGE |
| | 319 | BELOW-GROUND MECHANICAL MOTION CONVERTING MEANS RELATIVELY MOVING PLURAL CUTTING EDGES |
| | 320 | WITH TOOL SHAFT DETAIL |
| | 321 | Axially telescoping shaft section |
| | 323 | Helix or helically arranged structure |
| | 324 | Means other than tool structure to induce fluent flow |
| | 325.1 | Shaft carried guide or protector |
| | 325.2 | Coupled between shaft sections or bit and shaft section |
| | 325.3 |  With bore wall engaging means rotatable relative to shaft section (e.g., with bearings) |
| | 325.4 | Having removable inserts |
| | 325.5 | Surrounding existing shaft section |
| | 325.6 | Held by a fastener parallel to shaft axis |
| | 325.7 | Held by discrete fastening means tangential to shaft axis |
| | 326 | Engaging means advances in adjacent hole |
| | 327 | BIT OR BIT ELEMENT |
| | 331 | Rolling cutter bit or rolling cutter bit element |
| | 332 | Core forming-type bit |
| | 334 | Bit with leading cutter forming smaller diameter initial bore |
| | 336 | Rolling cutter bit with fixed cutter |
| | 337 | With drilling fluid supply to bearing |
| | 338 | With rotary or endless carrier |
| | 339 | With drilling fluid conduit details |
| | 341 | Plural rolling cutters with intermeshing teeth |
| | 342 | Adjustable cutter element |
| | 343 | Wobbling cutter |
| | 344 | Noncutting portion forwardly of rolling cutter (e.g., reamer) |
| | 348 | Longitudinal axis cutter |
| | 350 | Laterally offset cutter axis |
| | 354 | Axle rotatable with cutter |
| | 355 | Circumferentially displaced cutter axes |
| | 356 | Stub axle only |
| | 357 | Detachable multiaxis support or spider |
| | 358 | Mutually contacting cutter supports |
| | 360 | Cross axle with stub axle |
| | 361 | Cross axle |
| | 362 | Vertically disaligned cross axle sections |
| | 363 | Separable supports |
| | 364 | Removable cross axle or bushing |
| | 365 | Outwardly directed stub axle |
| | 366 | Separable support for stub axle |
| | 367 | Detachable stub axle, bushing or bearing |
| | 369 | Stub axle cutter securing means |
| | 371 | With bearing or seal details |
| | 373 | Disk cutter |
| | 374 | Specific or diverse material |
| | 376 | Nonsymmetrical bit (e.g., nontracking) |
| | 377 | Spiral rib or tooth row |
| | 378 | Irregular tooth cutter row |
| | 379 | Cutting edge self-renewable during operation |
| | 380 | Unsupported abrading particle type (e.g., shot) |
| | 381 | Cutting edges relatively longitudinally movable during operation |
| | 382 | Adjustable cutter element |
| | 385 | Bit with leading portion (e.g., pilot) forming smaller diameter initial bore |
| | 386 | Leading portion is separable starter |
| | 387 | Leading portion is core forming type |
| | 388 | Leading portion is a screw |
| | 389 | Impact type |
| | 391 | Plural larger diameter steps |
| | 392 | Leading portion is forked rotary type |
| | 393 | With fluid conduit lining or element (e.g., slush tube) |
| | 394 | With helical-conveying portion |
| | 396 | Axially parallel side wall with transverse cuttings retaining portion |
| | 397 | Forked rotary nontracking |
| | 398 | Nonsymmetrical bit |
| | 401 | Cutting edges facing in opposite axial directions |
| | 402 | Casing shoe type |
| | 403 | Core forming type |
| | 406 | Noncutting portion forwardly of cutting portion (e.g., reamer) |
| | 408 | With bit guide or bore wall compacting device |
| | 412 | Plural separable cutter elements |
| | 414 | Impact or percussion type |
| | 415 | Combined with rotary |
| | 416 | Noncircular bore cutter |
| | 417 | With internal-fluid passage |
| | 420 | Cruciform |
| | 420.1 | Insert |
| | 421 | Symmetrical forked rotary type (e.g., fishtail) |
| | 328 | Magnetized or with magnet |
| | 425 | Specific or diverse material |
| | 424 | MISCELLANEOUS (E.G., EARTH-BORING NOZZLE) |
| | 423 | WEDGING SLIP ASSEMBLY FOR SUPPORTING A PIPE OR ROD |
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