US PATENT SUBCLASS 105 / 61.5
.~ Gas turbine
Current as of: June, 1999
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DEFINITION
Classification: 105/61.5
(under subclass 26.05) Locomotive in which the motive power is furnished by a turbine driven by gaseous products of combustion.
(1) Note. A device in which the only motive power for driving the locomotive furnished by the turbine is a jet of gas (e.g., turbojet) is not included in this definition.
(2) Note. A turbine comprises a rotor driven by the kinetic energy of a fluid, as distinct from a rotor driven by positive displacement due to the action of fluid in an expansible chamber.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
38, for a steam turbine driven locomotive.
62, for locomotive power comprising an internal combustion or explosive engine other than a gas turbine.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS 60, Power Plants, appropriate subclasses, and especially
39.01+, for power plants including gas turbines.
415, Rotary Kinetic Fluid Motors or Pumps, appropriate subclasses for a gas turbine, per se.
