US Patent Class 405
HYDRAULIC AND EARTH ENGINEERING
 Electronic File Wrappers |  Electronic Patent Documents |  Paper Patent Documents | Current as of: June, 1999
|  and Services |
| Electronic File Wrappers | Electronic Patent Documents | Paper Patent Documents | Current as of: June, 1999
| and Services |
| DF | CLASS NOTES | |
| 1 | DF | MARINE VESSEL PORTAGE, LAUNCHING, OR REMOVING |
| 2 | DF | .~ Rail mounted carrier |
| 3 | DF | .~ Lifting |
| 4 | DF | .~ Dry dock |
| 5 | DF | .~.~ Fabrication |
| 6 | DF | .~.~ Gate |
| 7 | DF | .~.~ Vessel support (e.g., bilge or keel block) |
| 8 | DF | PRESSURIZED CAISSON |
| 9 | DF | .~ Having lifting cable |
| 10 | DF | .~ Movable relative to mobile support |
| 11 | DF | MEANS TO EXPOSE A NORMALLY WETTED SURFACE,E.G., COFFERDAM, ETC. |
| 12 | DF | .~ Contoured to wetted surface, e.g., side hung ship caisson |
| 13 | DF | .~ Having transport, placement, or dislodgement means |
| 14 | DF | .~ Connectable sections |
| 15 | DF | BANK, SHORE, OR BED PROTECTION |
| 16 | DF | .~ Revetment |
| 17 | DF | .~.~ Revetment laying |
| 18 | DF | .~.~ Continuous concrete or concrete filled bag |
| 19 | DF | .~.~ Mattress |
| 20 | DF | .~.~.~ Hinged concrete sections |
| 21 | DF | .~ Wave or flow dissipation |
| 22 | DF | .~.~ Fluid application |
| 23 | DF | .~.~ Floatable dissipator submerged at site |
| 24 | DF | .~.~ Artificial seaweed |
| 25 | DF | .~.~ Bed supported subsurface dissipator |
| 26 | DF | .~.~ Floating |
| 27 | DF | .~.~.~ Openwork |
| 28 | DF | .~.~ Flexibly suspended from or pivoted to support |
| 29 | DF | .~.~ Polypod |
| 30 | DF | .~.~ Openwork or concave face |
| 31 | DF | .~.~.~ Associated with solid wall |
| 32 | DF | .~.~.~ With fabric |
| 33 | DF | .~.~.~ Interfitted or interleaved members |
| 34 | DF | .~.~.~ Jetty |
| 35 | DF | .~.~.~ Spaced members |
| 36 | DF | DRAINAGE OR IRRIGATION |
| 37 | DF | .~ Control means responsive to sensed condition |
| 38 | DF | .~ Including subsurface moisture barrier |
| 39 | DF | .~ Having regulation of flow through channel |
| 40 | DF | .~.~ At outlet or intake |
| 41 | DF | .~.~.~ Riser or standpipe outlet or intake |
| 42 | DF | .~ End cap |
| 43 | DF | .~ Porous or apertured pipe, flume, or tileway |
| 44 | DF | .~.~ Uniform discharge |
| 45 | DF | .~.~ Porous |
| 46 | DF | .~.~ Earthen bottom |
| 47 | DF | .~.~ Flow through joint |
| 48 | DF | .~.~ Open seam or shielded outlet |
| 49 | DF | .~.~ Corrugated |
| 50 | DF | .~ Porous waterway, e.g., sand drain, etc. |
| 51 | DF | .~ Branched flow |
| 52 | DF | FLUID CONTROL, TREATMENT, OR CONTAINMENT |
| 53 | DF | .~ Fluid storage in earthen cavity |
| 54 | DF | .~.~ With indicator or alarm means |
| 55 | DF | .~.~ Cavity construction |
| 56 | DF | .~.~.~ Including cooling or heating of material surrounding cavity |
| 57 | DF | .~.~.~ Earth treatment |
| 58 | DF | .~.~.~.~ Dissolving earth |
| 59 | DF | .~.~ Supply or recovery of stored fluid by separate fluid |
| 60 | DF | .~ Floatable matter containment |
| 60.5 | DF | .~.~ Logging device for guiding logs |
| 61 | DF | .~.~ Ice |
| 62 | DF | .~.~ Barrier formed by fluid |
| 63 | DF | .~.~ Floating barrier |
| 64 | DF | .~.~.~ Submergible |
| 65 | DF | .~.~.~ With means to seal space between barrier and fixed structure |
| 66 | DF | .~.~.~ With barrier storage or deployment feature |
| 67 | DF | .~.~.~.~ Quick release float |
| 68 | DF | .~.~.~.~ Inflatable or deflatable |
| 69 | DF | .~.~.~.~.~ Self-inflating |
| 70 | DF | .~.~.~ Having joint detail |
| 71 | DF | .~.~.~.~ Having hinged joint between rigid sections |
| 72 | DF | .~.~.~ With reinforcing feature |
| 73 | DF | .~ Erosive scouring |
| 74 | DF | .~ Settling of suspended matter in a specific location (e.g., at a scoured pier) |
| 75 | DF | .~ Extracting power from moving fluid |
| 76 | DF | .~.~ Wave or tide |
| 77 | DF | .~.~.~ With flow restrictor or ramp |
| 78 | DF | .~.~ Associated with dam |
| 79 | DF | .~ Wave generation or enhancement |
| 80 | DF | .~ Flow control |
| 81 | DF | .~.~ Fishway |
| 82 | DF | .~.~.~ Elevator |
| 83 | DF | .~.~.~ Closed channel |
| 84 | DF | .~.~ Navigable canal |
| 85 | DF | .~.~.~ Having lock |
| 86 | DF | .~.~.~.~ Movable lifting member |
| 87 | DF | .~.~ Water gate or adjustable weir |
| 88 | DF | .~.~.~ Center flow |
| 89 | DF | .~.~.~ Uniform discharge |
| 90 | DF | .~.~.~ Removable |
| 91 | DF | .~.~.~.~ Flexible |
| 92 | DF | .~.~.~ Condition responsive |
| 93 | DF | .~.~.~.~ To weight of liquid separated from a main body |
| 94 | DF | .~.~.~.~ To pressure on pivoted water gate |
| 95 | DF | .~.~.~.~.~ With latch for closed position |
| 96 | DF | .~.~.~.~ Float |
| 97 | DF | .~.~.~.~.~ Having separate float chamber |
| 98 | DF | .~.~.~ Roller or flexible |
| 99 | DF | .~.~.~ Swinging |
| 100 | DF | .~.~.~.~ About horizontal axis |
| 101 | DF | .~.~.~.~.~ Overflow |
| 102 | DF | .~.~.~.~.~.~ Collapsible |
| 103 | DF | .~.~.~ Sliding |
| 104 | DF | .~.~.~.~ Vertical |
| 105 | DF | .~.~.~.~.~ Gate unseating |
| 106 | DF | .~.~.~.~.~ With lift mechanism or latch |
| 107 | DF | .~.~ Artificial water barrier (e.g., dam, levee, etc.) |
| 108 | DF | .~.~.~ Having spillway |
| 109 | DF | .~.~.~ Having impervious core |
| 110 | DF | .~.~.~ Hollow or buttressed |
| 111 | DF | .~.~.~.~ With ballast compartment or cavity |
| 112 | DF | .~.~.~.~ Vertical wall buttress |
| 113 | DF | .~.~.~ Tension stayed |
| 114 | DF | .~.~.~ Connectable sections |
| 115 | DF | .~.~.~ Flexible |
| 116 | DF | .~.~.~ In situ construction |
| 117 | DF | .~.~.~.~ Earthen |
| 118 | DF | .~.~ Open channel |
| 119 | DF | .~.~.~ Flume |
| 120 | DF | .~.~.~.~ Elbow or tee |
| 121 | DF | .~.~.~.~ Joint |
| 122 | DF | .~.~.~.~.~ Including U-clamp |
| 123 | DF | .~.~.~.~.~.~ With crossbar |
| 124 | DF | .~.~ Culvert |
| 125 | DF | .~.~.~ Terminal or head |
| 126 | DF | .~.~.~ Serially connected segments |
| 127 | DF | .~.~ Intake |
| 128 | DF | WASTE DISPOSAL IN SOIL |
| 129 | DF | .~ Landfill |
| 130 | DF | TEMPERATURE MODIFICATION OR CONTROL OF EARTHEN FORMATION |
| 131 | DF | .~ Heating |
| 132 | DF | UNDERGROUND PASSAGEWAY, E.G., TUNNEL |
| 133 | DF | .~ Vertical |
| 134 | DF | .~ Sectional |
| 135 | DF | .~.~ Seal or joint |
| 136 | DF | .~ Subaqueous |
| 137 | DF | .~.~ Below bed |
| 138 | DF | .~ Boring |
| 139 | DF | .~.~ With auxiliary tunnel |
| 140 | DF | .~.~ By axially overlapped members |
| 141 | DF | .~.~ Shield |
| 142 | DF | .~.~.~ With transverse force application feature |
| 143 | DF | .~.~.~ Direction control |
| 144 | DF | .~.~.~ Door or bulkhead |
| 145 | DF | .~.~.~ Discrete independently advanceable earth supporting segments |
| 146 | DF | .~.~.~ Lining installation |
| 147 | DF | .~.~.~ Seal |
| 148 | DF | .~.~ Work platform |
| 149 | DF | .~ Cut and cover |
| 150.1 | DF | .~ Lining |
| 150.2 | DF | .~.~ By spraying of settable material (e.g., concrete) |
| 151 | DF | .~.~ Panel |
| 152 | DF | .~.~.~ With sealing feature |
| 153 | DF | .~.~.~ With separate fastening means between adjacent panels |
| 154 | DF | PIPE OR CABLE LAYING, RETRIEVING, OR UNDERWATER MANIPULATION |
| 155 | DF | .~ Cast in situ |
| 156 | DF | .~ With forming or cutting of pipe or cable |
| 157 | DF | .~ With protection or indication of pipe or trench |
| 158 | DF | .~ Submerging, raising, or manipulating line of pipe or cable in or from marine environment |
| 159 | DF | .~.~ Entrenched or buried |
| 160 | DF | .~.~.~ Condition responsive |
| 161 | DF | .~.~.~ Entrenching or burying apparatus guided by pre-positioned pipe or cable |
| 162 | DF | .~.~.~.~ With apparatus buoyancy control |
| 163 | DF | .~.~.~.~ With bottom fluidizing means |
| 164 | DF | .~.~.~ By towing submerged sled with attached plow and pipe or cable guide |
| 165 | DF | .~.~.~.~ With means to forcibly feed or to control tension in pipe or cable |
| 166 | DF | .~.~ Facilitated by extension from line-laying vessel |
| 167 | DF | .~.~.~ Articulated segments |
| 168.1 | DF | .~.~ With causing or controlling the deformation of a line |
| 168.2 | DF | .~.~.~ Buckle arrestor for pipe |
| 168.3 | DF | .~.~.~ Pipe laying from a reel |
| 168.4 | DF | .~.~.~ Pipe tensioner |
| 169 | DF | .~.~ With assembling of line structure |
| 170 | DF | .~.~.~ By joining successive sections of line |
| 171 | DF | .~.~ By control of buoyancy |
| 172 | DF | .~.~ With anchoring of line |
| 173 | DF | .~.~ With raising of line from marine floor |
| 174 | DF | .~ By means advancing along terrain and guiding pipe or cable into subterranean position |
| 175 | DF | .~.~ Condition responsive |
| 176 | DF | .~.~ Tape or strip |
| 177 | DF | .~.~ With positive feed or means to vary tension in pipe or cable |
| 178 | DF | .~.~ Simultaneous laying of plural parallel pipes or cables |
| 179 | DF | .~.~ With backfill or bedding material conveying or dispensing means |
| 180 | DF | .~.~ Including trench forming plow with pipe or cable guide |
| 181 | DF | .~.~.~ With depth adjustment |
| 182 | DF | .~.~.~ With plow vibrating or oscillating means |
| 183 | DF | .~.~.~ Guide integral with or rigidly fixed to plow |
| 184 | DF | .~ Advancing subterranean length of pipe or cable |
| 185 | DF | DIVING |
| 186 | DF | .~ Suit or accessory therefor |
| 187 | DF | .~.~ Rigid element |
| 188 | DF | .~ Underwater docking or mooring |
| 189 | DF | .~.~ With communication between inhabitable enclosures |
| 190 | DF | .~ Remote control |
| 191 | DF | .~.~ From surface |
| 192 | DF | .~ With air lock |
| 193 | DF | .~ With pressure equalization |
| 194 | DF | .~ With continuous surface access |
| 195.1 | DF | MARINE STRUCTURE OR FABRICATION THEREOF |
| 196 | DF | .~ With work deck vertically adjustable relative to floor |
| 197 | DF | .~.~ Sectional leg |
| 198 | DF | .~.~ Longitudinally extending projections or recesses |
| 199 | DF | .~.~ Frictional gripper |
| 200 | DF | .~.~ By buoyancy control |
| 201 | DF | .~ With horizontally movable work deck |
| 202 | DF | .~ With pivotal connection between work deck and base |
| 203 | DF | .~ Floatable to site and supported by marine floor |
| 204 | DF | .~.~ With assembly of sectional supporting structure at site |
| 205 | DF | .~.~ With ballasting means to sink or position structure at site |
| 206 | DF | .~.~.~ Detachable from structure |
| 207 | DF | .~.~.~ Compartment in base |
| 208 | DF | .~.~.~.~ And leg depending from base |
| 209 | DF | .~.~ Separable transport means |
| 210 | DF | .~ Storage container |
| 211 | DF | .~ Structure protection |
| 211.1 | DF | .~.~ Corrosion prevention |
| 212 | DF | .~.~ Fender |
| 213 | DF | .~.~.~ Roller type |
| 214 | DF | .~.~.~ Having coil spring |
| 215 | DF | .~.~.~ Resilient block |
| 216 | DF | .~.~ Sleeve or coating |
| 217 | DF | .~ In or on frozen media |
| 218 | DF | .~ Dock |
| 219 | DF | .~.~ Floating |
| 220 | DF | .~.~ Hinged |
| 221 | DF | .~.~ Vertically adjustable |
| 222 | DF | .~ Cast in situ |
| 223 | DF | .~.~ Installing means |
| 223.1 | DF | .~ Tension leg platform |
| 224 | DF | .~ With anchoring of structure to marine floor |
| 224.1 | DF | .~.~ Pressure holding or loosening means |
| 224.2 | DF | .~.~ By riser pipe |
| 224.3 | DF | .~.~.~ Having flexible segment |
| 224.4 | DF | .~.~.~ Having tensioner |
| 225 | DF | .~.~ By grouting preformed structure |
| 226 | DF | .~.~ Including floor modifying means |
| 227 | DF | .~.~ By pile extending through sleeve in structure |
| 228 | DF | .~.~ Pile driving |
| 229 | DF | FOUNDATION |
| 230 | DF | .~ Underpinning |
| 231 | DF | .~ Columnar structure (e.g., pier, pile) |
| 232 | DF | .~.~ Process or apparatus for installing |
| 233 | DF | .~.~.~ Casting in situ hardenable fluent material |
| 234 | DF | .~.~.~.~ With heating, cooling, or explosion |
| 235 | DF | .~.~.~.~ With subsequent moving |
| 236 | DF | .~.~.~.~ Subsurface dispensing of material for flow toward surface |
| 237 | DF | .~.~.~.~ Forming subsurface enlargement |
| 238 | DF | .~.~.~.~.~ Preformed enlargement cavity |
| 239 | DF | .~.~.~.~ Providing embedded metallic reinforcement |
| 240 | DF | .~.~.~.~ Dispensing fluent material while withdrawing dispenser |
| 241 | DF | .~.~.~.~.~ Dispensing auger |
| 242 | DF | .~.~.~.~.~ Driven dispenser with separable tip |
| 243 | DF | .~.~.~.~ Withdrawing form structure |
| 244 | DF | .~.~.~ With anchoring of structure |
| 245 | DF | .~.~.~ Driving removable wall supporting core |
| 246 | DF | .~.~.~.~ Diametrically retractable core |
| 247 | DF | .~.~.~.~.~ Fluid pressure actuated |
| 248 | DF | .~.~.~ With subsurfacr fluid discharge |
| 249 | DF | .~.~.~ Caisson or hollow shaft |
| 250 | DF | .~.~ Comprising series of connected longitudinal sections having diverse compositions |
| 251 | DF | .~.~ With joint or connection between sections of similar material |
| 252 | DF | .~.~.~ Between concrete sections |
| 252.1 | DF | .~.~ Pile having screw threads |
| 253 | DF | .~.~ With driving or cutting tip |
| 254 | DF | .~.~.~ Longitudinally ribbed |
| 255 | DF | .~.~ With end cap |
| 256 | DF | .~.~ Concrete |
| 257 | DF | .~.~.~ With form or casing |
| 258 | DF | EARTH TREATMENT OR CONTROL |
| 259.1 | DF | .~ Rock or earth bolt or anchor |
| 259.2 | DF | .~.~ Frangible bolt |
| 259.3 | DF | .~.~ Expandable tube |
| 259.4 | DF | .~.~ Bolt having wedge expander |
| 259.5 | DF | .~.~ With settable material feature |
| 259.6 | DF | .~.~.~ Breaking canister or packet |
| 262 | DF | .~.~ With retaining wall |
| 263 | DF | .~ Chemical |
| 264 | DF | .~.~ Organic |
| 265 | DF | .~.~.~ Bituminous |
| 266 | DF | .~.~ Cementitious (e.g., grouting) |
| 267 | DF | .~.~.~ Filling substerranean cavity (e.g., underground wall) |
| 268 | DF | .~.~.~ Lining |
| 269 | DF | .~.~.~ Injector |
| 270 | DF | .~ Impermeabilization |
| 271 | DF | .~ Compaction |
| 272 | DF | .~ Shoring, bracing, or cave-in prevention |
| 273 | DF | .~.~ Cribbing |
| 274 | DF | .~.~ Sheet piles |
| 275 | DF | .~.~.~ Concrete |
| 276 | DF | .~.~.~ Metal |
| 277 | DF | .~.~.~.~ C or I sections |
| 278 | DF | .~.~.~.~ Head and claw interlock |
| 279 | DF | .~.~.~.~ With separate fastening, reinforcing or sealing means |
| 280 | DF | .~.~.~.~ Cellular |
| 281 | DF | .~.~.~.~ Bulb and socket interlock |
| 282 | DF | .~.~ Trench shoring |
| 283 | DF | .~.~.~ Shield type |
| 284 | DF | .~.~ Retaining wall |
| 285 | DF | .~.~.~ Pile and panel |
| 286 | DF | .~.~.~ Concrete |
| 287 | DF | .~.~.~.~ Cast in situ |
| 287.1 | DF | .~.~ Cast in situ |
| 288 | DF | .~.~ Roof support |
| 289 | DF | .~.~.~ Inflatable |
| 290 | DF | .~.~.~ Jack |
| 291 | DF | .~.~.~.~ Mobile |
| 292 | DF | .~.~.~.~.~ Position restoring |
| 293 | DF | .~.~.~.~.~ With canopy extension |
| 294 | DF | .~.~.~.~.~.~ Telescoping |
| 295 | DF | .~.~.~.~.~ Cantilevered |
| 296 | DF | .~.~.~.~.~ With rubble shield |
| 297 | DF | .~.~.~.~.~ With contour following feature |
| 298 | DF | .~.~.~.~.~ Under load advanceable |
| 299 | DF | .~.~.~.~.~ Self-advanceable |
| 300 | DF | .~.~.~.~.~.~ Paired |
| 301 | DF | .~.~.~.~.~.~.~ Nested |
| 302 | DF | .~.~.~.~.~ Control system |
| 302.1 | DF | .~.~.~ Subterranean roof plate |
| 302.2 | DF | .~.~.~ Cable or strap support |
| 302.3 | DF | .~.~.~ Mesh support |
| 303 | DF | MISCELLANEOUS |