US Patent Class 134
CLEANING AND LIQUID CONTACT WITH SOLIDS



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  DF  CLASS NOTES
*  DD  PROCESSES
1  DF  .~ Including application of electrical radiant or wave energy to work
1.1  DF  .~.~ Plasma cleaning
1.2  DF  .~.~.~ Semiconductor cleaning
1.3  DF  .~.~ Semiconductor cleaning
2  DF  .~ For metallic, siliceous, or calcareous basework, including chemical bleaching, oxidation or reduction
3  DF  .~.~ Including acidic agent
4  DF  .~ Including forming a solidified or hardened coating for cleaning
5  DF  .~ Including melting
6  DF  .~ Using solid work treating agents
7  DF  .~.~ In particulate or comminuted form
8  DF  .~.~ Hollow work, internal surface treatment
9  DF  .~.~ Longitudinally traveling work, of bar, strip, strand, sheet or web form
10  DF  .~ Including regeneration, purification, recovery or separation of agent used
11  DF  .~.~ Gas or vapor form agent condensed or absorbed on work
12  DF  .~.~ By distilling, or liquefying vapors of, used agent
13  DF  .~.~ By crystallizing, precipitating, or eliminating dissolved solids from used agent
14  DF  .~ Work in coiled form during treating agent application
15  DF  .~ Longitudinally traveling work of bar, strip, strand, sheet or web form
16  DF  .~ Including distortion or deformation of work
17  DF  .~.~ Produced by temperature change, centrifugal force, or fluid pressure shock
18  DF  .~ Combined (e.g., automatic control)
19  DF  .~ Including work heating or contact with combustion products
20  DF  .~.~ Carbon removal (e.g., from engines)
21  DF  .~ Including use of vacuum, suction, or inert atmosphere
22.1  DF  .~ Hollow work, internal surface treatment
22.11  DF  .~.~ Pipe, tubing, hose, or conduit
22.12  DF  .~.~.~ With pressurized fluid or fluid manipulation
22.13  DF  .~.~.~ With inorganic alkaline material treating agent
22.14  DF  .~.~.~ With organic treating agent (e.g., solvent, surfactant, or reactant yielding soluble product, etc.)
22.15  DF  .~.~.~ With steam utilization
22.16  DF  .~.~ With inorganic salt treating agent
22.17  DF  .~.~ With inorganic alkaline material treating agent
22.18  DF  .~.~ With pressurized fluid or fluid manipulation
22.19  DF  .~.~ With organic treating agent (e.g., solvent, surfactant, or reactant yielding soluble product, etc.)
23  DF  .~.~ Work or work parts movable during treatment
24  DF  .~.~ Movable fluid applying nozzle and/or with plugging or sealing of work passage or opening
25.1  DF  .~ Work handled in bulk or groups
25.2  DF  .~.~ Kitchen or tableware
25.3  DF  .~.~ Food
25.4  DF  .~.~ Manufactured articles
25.5  DF  .~.~ Work stationary or moved countercurrently
26  DF  .~ Using sequentially applied treating agents
27  DF  .~.~ One a neutralizer for another
28  DF  .~.~ One an acid or an acid salt
29  DF  .~.~ One a soap or an alkaline agent
30  DF  .~.~ Including steam, gaseous agent or temperature feature
31  DF  .~ Gas or vapor condensation or absorption oowork
32  DF  .~ With work or work parts movable during treatment
33  DF  .~.~ Centrifugal force and/or rotated work body
34  DF  .~ With treating fluid motion
35  DF  .~.~ Caused by heating
36  DF  .~.~ Plural, separately fed, and either simultaneously applied or admixed, treating fluids
37  DF  .~.~ Gas or vapor blasts or currents
38  DF  .~ Paints, varnishes, lacquers, or enamels, removal
39  DF  .~ Carbon removal
40  DF  .~ Oils, grease, tar, or wax removal, by dissolving
41  DF  .~ Metal base work, acid treating
42  DF  .~ Miscellaneous
*  DD  APPARATUS
43  DF  .~ With relatively movable finder and orienter of apertures or passages in work
44  DF  .~ Operating or controlling device engaged and moved by work or separate work holder
45  DF  .~.~ For vehicle or wheel-form work
46  DF  .~.~ Devices other than valves (e.g., automatic work counters)
47  DF  .~.~.~ Pumps
48  DF  .~.~ Endless belt or rotary work carriers
49  DF  .~.~ Through-way work carriers or guides
50  DF  .~.~ Plural means to supply or apply plural different fluids separately or admixed
51  DF  .~.~ With means for moving work or work-holder by fluid impact thereagainst
52  DF  .~.~ Engaging element having rotary swinging, rocking or pivoted motion
53  DF  .~.~.~ External and internal fluid applying means
54  DF  .~.~ External and internal fluid applying means
55  DF  .~.~.~ External applying jet means
56 R  DF  .~ Automatic controls
57 R  DF  .~.~ With electric control
57 D  DF  .~.~.~ Dishwashing machine
57 DL  DF  .~.~.~.~ With door latch control feature
56 D  DF  .~.~ Dishwashing machine
58 R  DF  .~ Electrically controlled
58 D  DF  .~.~ Dishwashing machine
58 DL  DF  .~.~.~ With door latch control feature
59  DF  .~ With work assembling or disassembling means
60  DF  .~ With interstation fluid flow means
61  DF  .~ Sequential work treating receptacles or stations with means to transfer work or fluid-applying devices
62  DF  .~.~ With initial work emptying, inverting, orienting or puncturing means
63  DF  .~.~ With means for treating work other than with fluids, draining or heating
64 R  DF  .~.~ For sheet, web, strand or bar form work, longitudinally traveling
64 P  DF  .~.~.~ Photographic
65  DF  .~.~ With screw work conveyor
66  DF  .~.~ With work transfer from one movable carrier to another
67  DF  .~.~.~ Including endless belt type
68  DF  .~.~.~.~ With splash, spray or jet applying means
69  DF  .~.~.~ Between plural rotary carriers on same axis
70  DF  .~.~ With endless belt work transfer means
71  DF  .~.~.~ Horizontal axes
72  DF  .~.~.~.~ With splash, spray or jet applying means
73  DF  .~.~.~.~.~ With work immersing means
74  DF  .~.~.~.~.~.~ With separate movable means to cause fluid motion
75  DF  .~.~.~.~ Sequential endless-carrier immersing means
76  DF  .~.~ Traversing hoist-type work transfer means
77  DF  .~.~.~ Curved or non-rectilinear traverse work-path
78  DF  .~.~ With rotary or swinging work transfer means
79  DF  .~.~.~ Axially rotary
80  DF  .~.~.~.~ Turntable type
81  DF  .~.~.~.~.~ With synchronized or coordinate valve
82  DF  .~.~ With guide rails, rods or beams for work or work holders
83  DF  .~.~.~ Vertical, inclined, curved or movable or with rollers or work immersion means
84  DF  .~ Plural, separate, work treating or holding receptacles or stations; manual transfer type
85  DF  .~.~ With movably mounted work holder or receptacle
86  DF  .~.~.~ For motion during fluid application
87  DF  .~.~.~.~ Plural, mutually counterbalancing work supports
88  DF  .~.~ With fluid supplying or movable applying means
89  DF  .~.~.~ With movable means to cause fluid motion
90  DF  .~.~.~ With heater or heat exchanger
91  DF  .~.~ With valved liquid drain from one or more stations
92  DF  .~.~ With detachable work holder or receptacle
93  DF  .~ With solid agent dissolving or supplying means
94.1  DF  .~ With plural means for supplying or applying different fluids at the same workstation
95.1  DF  .~.~ Means for sequentially applying different fluids
95.2  DF  .~.~.~ With drying means
95.3  DF  .~.~.~ Fluid spraying means
96.1  DF  .~.~ 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  DF  .~.~ Coordinated intlet nonimpelling control and noninlet control
98.1  DF  .~.~ With coordinated or multiple valves
99.1  DF  .~.~ Plural fluids applying conduits
99.2  DF  .~.~.~ With means for supplying an additive (e.g., liquid detergent)
100.1  DF  .~.~.~ With means for mixing or contacting fluids with each other before applying them
102.1  DF  .~.~.~.~ Having steam, air or gas applying conduit
102.2  DF  .~.~.~.~.~ With pressurized air or gas supplying means for fluid movement
102.3  DF  .~.~.~.~.~ With drying means
103.1  DF  .~.~ Having means for recirculating or reversing fluid flows
103.2  DF  .~.~ Fluid spraying means
103.3  DF  .~.~.~ Movable
104.1  DF  .~ Having self cleaning means
104.2  DF  .~ With means for collecting escaping material
104.3  DF  .~.~ Cleaned material
104.4  DF  .~.~ Foreign material separated from liquid
105  DF  .~ With heating, cooling or heat exchange means
106  DF  .~.~ With heat-generatable liquid-flow pressure means
107  DF  .~.~ Heat-exchange means external to work-treating chamber, vat or zone
108  DF  .~.~ Recirculation of treating liquid through conduit means
109  DF  .~ With treating fluid purifying or separating means
110  DF  .~.~ By filter or strainer only (except work-spraying head)
111  DF  .~.~.~ With liquid-moving recirculation, or flow reversing, and straining means
112  DF  .~ With brake or clutch
113  DF  .~ With alarm, signal, indicating, testing, inspecting, illuminating or display means
114  DF  .~ With liquid seal
115 R  DF  .~ Combined or convertible
115 G  DF  .~.~ With garbage grinder
116  DF  .~ With means to operate movably interconnected parts of work
117  DF  .~ Movably mounted fluid-holding receptacles
118  DF  .~.~ Rocking or rolling, bottom supported or shifting axis
119  DF  .~.~ Rotary or swinging motion
120  DF  .~.~.~ Horizontal axis only
121  DF  .~.~.~ Vertical axis only
122 R  DF  .~ For sheet, web, strand or bar form work, longitudinally traveling
122 P  DF  .~.~ Photographic
123  DF  .~ For vehicle or wheel form work
124  DF  .~ With endless belt work conveyer
125  DF  .~.~ With guide rails for work or work holder (not for belt)
126  DF  .~.~ With non-endless-belt work conveyer or manipulator
127  DF  .~.~ With plural endless belts
128  DF  .~.~ With means to release work held on belt
129  DF  .~.~ With movably mounted spray or jet applying conduits or nozzle and/or interconnected conveyer and valve
130  DF  .~.~ With separate movable means to cause fluid motion (e.g., pump, splasher, agitator)
131  DF  .~.~ With spray or jet applying conduits or nozzles
132  DF  .~ Spiral work path and/or spiral work conveyer (e.g., screw)
133  DF  .~ With work feeding and/or discharging means
134  DF  .~.~ Rotary, swinging or pivoted, work support feeding or discharging conveyers (except mere gates or stops)
135  DF  .~ With means to hold work holder in draining position above treating liquid
136  DF  .~ Work holder in form of valved plunger
137  DF  .~ With means to movably mount or movably support the work or work support
138  DF  .~.~ Movably mounted work holder operable by fluid contact
139  DF  .~.~.~ With separate movable splasher or pump
140  DF  .~.~ Motor operated apparatus
141  DF  .~.~.~ Fluid motor or turbine
142  DF  .~.~ Movable support having plural work holders movably mounted thereon (e.g., ferris-wheel type)
143  DF  .~.~ Interconnected tank closure and other movable element
144  DF  .~.~ With movably mounted spray or jet applying conduits or nozzles
145  DF  .~.~.~ Immovably mounted on movable work support
146  DF  .~.~ Interconnected movable work support and valve
147  DF  .~.~ With movable work support and separate movable means to cause fluid motion (e.g., pump, splasher, agitator)
148  DF  .~.~.~ And spray or jet applying conduit or nozzle
149  DF  .~.~ Axially rotary chuck, mandrel, rod or axle type holder
150  DF  .~.~ Work of container-form constituting sole liquid holder
151  DF  .~.~ With spray or jet applying conduits or nozzles
152  DF  .~.~.~ For work having hollows or passages
153  DF  .~.~.~ Rotary, pivoted or swinging work holder
154  DF  .~.~ With non-impelling fluid deflector or baffle
155  DF  .~.~ With means to drain from or supply liquid to the tank
156  DF  .~.~ Work support having a float and/or swing drive or bias
157  DF  .~.~ Rotary, revolving, swinging or oscillating motion work holder or carrier
158  DF  .~.~.~ With plural work receiving chambers or holders and/or with cover carried by work receiving chamber
159  DF  .~.~.~.~ Horizontal axis
160  DF  .~.~.~ Carried by pivotally mounted links or levers or by strands
161  DF  .~.~.~ Compound motion
162  DF  .~.~.~ Actuating means extending through or carried by tank cover
163  DF  .~.~.~ With liquid impeller mounted on work support
164  DF  .~.~ Work support reciprocated by pivoted links or lever or by strands
165  DF  .~.~ Rail or rod form guides for work or work holder
166 R  DF  .~ For work having hollows or passages
167 R  DF  .~.~ With movably or flexibly mounted spray or jet applying conduits or nozzles
168 R  DF  .~.~.~ With movable means to cause fluid motion (e.g., pumps)
168 C  DF  .~.~.~.~ Conduit cleaner
167 C  DF  .~.~.~ Conduit cleaner
169 R  DF  .~.~ With movable means to cause fluid motion (e.g., pumps, followers)
169 A  DF  .~.~.~ Automotive parts cleaner
169 C  DF  .~.~.~ Conduit cleaner
170  DF  .~.~ With means to apply fluids both internally and externally
171  DF  .~.~ With plural fluid-supplying pipes
166 C  DF  .~.~ Conduit cleaner
172  DF  .~ With movably or flexibly mounted spray or jet applying conduits or nozzles
173  DF  .~.~ As pump or element thereof
174  DF  .~.~ With separate pump, splasher or agitator
175  DF  .~.~.~ Conduit or nozzle attached to or operatively interconnected with treating chamber closure
176  DF  .~.~.~ With fluid discharge reaction nozzle
177  DF  .~.~ Attached to or operatively interconnected with treating chamber closure
178  DF  .~.~ Coordinated with valve therefor
179  DF  .~.~ Fluid discharge reaction nozzle
180  DF  .~.~ With guiding means to restrict motion to rotation, to swinging, or to an annular closed or to a curved path
181  DF  .~.~.~ With motor therefor
182  DF  .~ With non-impelling fluid deflector or baffle other than conduits or nozzles
183  DF  .~.~ Movably mounted, adjustable or removable
184  DF  .~ With movable means to cause fluid motion (e.g., pump, splasher, agitator)
185  DF  .~.~ Compound motion
186  DF  .~.~ With means to drain from and/or supply liquid to tank
187  DF  .~.~ Pivoted (e.g., rotary swinging or oscillating)
188  DF  .~.~.~ Motor operated
189  DF  .~.~.~ Movable in annular path that surrounds work-space
190  DF  .~.~.~ Delivering fluids to work-space through annular, work-space-surrounding conduit
191  DF  .~.~.~ Delivering to conduits or nozzles
192  DF  .~.~.~ Actuating means extending through or carried by tank cover
193  DF  .~.~.~ Plural fluid-moving means (excludes single with plural vanes)
194  DF  .~.~.~ About horizontal axis
195  DF  .~.~ Through or one-way fluid flow pumps
196  DF  .~.~ Vertically reciprocable (e.g., dashers)
197  DF  .~.~.~ Actuating means carried by or extending through tank cover
198  DF  .~ With spray or jet supplying and/or applying means
199  DF  .~.~ Work circumposable or opposed fluid-applying jets or plural pipes
200  DF  .~.~ With closable work-treating chambers
201  DF  .~ Miscellaneous
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CROSS-REFERENCE ART COLLECTIONS
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901  DF  CONTACT LENS
902  DF  SEMICONDUCTOR WAFFER