US PATENT SUBCLASS 119 / 843
.~ Animal relocating, loading or unloading (e.g., gangway, chute, conveyor, turntable, elevator, etc.)

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119 /   HD   ANIMAL HUSBANDRY

712  DF  ANIMAL CONTROLLING OR HANDLING (E.G., RESTRAINING, BREAKING, TRAINING, SORTING, CONVEYING, ETC.) {20}
843.~ Animal relocating, loading or unloading (e.g., gangway, chute, conveyor, turntable, elevator, etc.) {3}
844  DF  .~.~> Fluid current conveyor (e.g., pneumatic poultry loader, etc.)
845  DF  .~.~> Endless-loop conveyor {1}
847  DF  .~.~> Ramp {2}

DEFINITION

Classification: 119/843

Animal relocating, loading or unloading (e.g., gangway, chute, conveyor, turntable, elevator, etc.):

(under subclass 712) Subject matter for carrying, directing, or otherwise assisting or managing the movement of an animal from one location to another (i.e., relocating).

(1) Note. Relocation involves bodily transfer of an animal, and can be either horizontal or vertical transfer (i.e., elevating). Vertical transfer should be distinguished from mere suspension intended to support or hang an animal in the same geos:graphic location, which is provided for elsewhere. However, such suspension is properly cross-referenced into this subclass when it is combined with, for example, a turntable or conveyor to transfer the suspended animal to a another area or operating station. An example of elevating for a relocation function is the lifting of an animal from the ground to a loading dock or stock car of higher elevation.

(2) Note. Implicit under the class definition is the requirement that relocation of a live animal be performed in a manner intended to maintain the animal generally alive or unharmed. However, this and indented subclasses are intended to provide for the removal of a sick or dead animal from one area to another, for example, as in the removal of a dead animal from living quarters for disposal.

(3) Note. Relocation can be performed by physically carrying the animal without its assistance, or by merely providing an avenue or guide by which the animal may use to relocate itself, such as by walking over a fenced gangway, ramp, etc., or by being guided or funnelled into a chute.

(4) Note. This subclass provides for loading and unloading of a crate or other means for relocating an animal not provided for elsewhere, but does not provide for a crate, housing, or vehicle, per se. Further, while this subclass provides for loading or unloading an animal crate, etc., once the animal or animals are loaded, the crate becomes an article, the handling of which may become appropriate subject matter for another class providing for article handling, depending upon the nature of the handling.

(5) Note. An animal conveyor claimed nominally as such is proper for this class, except for a conveyor used in a butchering operation. A conveyor of general utility that is disclosed but not claimed as an animal conveyor is proper for an other class providing for the conveyor. However, a conveyor having claimed structure that is disclosed but not claimed as being solely useful for contacting, controlling, handling, or otherwise aiding in the relocation of an animal while being conveyed is proper for this and indented subclasses.

SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS: 7+, for a stock car specifically adapted to house and transport an animal.

17+, for a cage for transporting an animal, especially subclass 20 for a pen or rack, e.g., corral.

200+, particularly subclasses 201+ for transporting an aquatic animal.

700, for a treadmill.

701, for a roundabout.

716, for suspending a bird.

727, for a wheeled body sling.

728, for suspending an animal other than a bird.

SEE OR SEARCH CLASS

14, Bridges,

69.5+, and the search notes thereto, for a gangway.

114, Ships,

362, for a ship boarding aid generally limited for use by personnel.

182, Fire Escape, Ladder, or Scaffold, appropriate subclasses.

193, Conveyors, Chutes, Skids, Guides, and Ways, for a nonpower driven conveyor, chute, or skid of general utility.

198, Conveyors: Power-Driven, for a power driven conveyor having utility other than the conveyance of an animal.

244, Aeronautics,

137.1, for loading of airplane cargo.

296, Land Vehicles: Bodies and Tops,

57.1+, for a vehicle having a downwardly swinging end-gate usable as a loading ramp for the vehicle.

406, Conveyors: Fluid Current, for a fluid current conveyor of general utility other than the conveyance of an animal.

414, Material or Article Handling, for loading or unloading of a ship or other vehicle with handling of material other than an animal, such as a crate, etc., which may contain an animal.

452, Butchering, 53, for conveying a live animal to slaughtering apparatus, and subclasses 177+ for conveying a carcass in a butchering operation.