US PATENT SUBCLASS 137 / 899
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137 /   HD   FLUID HANDLING

343  DF  WITH CASING, SUPPORT, PROTECTOR OR STATIC CONSTRUCTIONAL INSTALLATIONS {7}
899.~ Vehicle {8}
345  DF  .~.~> Locomotive {1}
347  DF  .~.~> Railway car {3}
351  DF  .~.~> Automotive {4}
355.12  DF  .~.~> With hose reel storage means
899.1  DF  .~.~> Guided by means of track or guideway
899.2  DF  .~.~> Aerial or water-supported (e.g., airplane or ship, etc.)
899.3  DF  .~.~> With retractable or nonuse-positionable support wheel
899.4  DF  .~.~> Vehicle supports fluid compressor and compressed fluid storage tank

DEFINITION

Classification: 137/899

Vehicle:

(under subclass 343) Apparatus in which the casing, support, or protector is a vehicle or a part thereof, which vehicle or part thereof supports and enables movement of the fluid-handling device or part thereof relative to means

external to the fluid-handling device or part thereof.

(1) Note. The term "vehicle" includes water, rail, and airborne carriers as well as land vehicles.

(2) Note. In regard to the line between Class 137 and Class 239 (as specified in the class definition of Class 239, Lines With Other Classes, Miscellaneous Class notes and Lines, Slow Diffusers), the placement of documents within Class 137, these subclasses (899+) and Class 239, subclasses 726+, represents ]an exception to the specified class line. This exception to the line between Classes 137 and 239 relates "only " to the placement of documents between subclasses 899+ of Class 137 and subclasses 726+ of Class 239. Specifically, any document which discloses a portable, overhead type of irrigating or other sprinkling apparatus, which is supported upon vehicular means, which has some form of sprinkler or other spray outlet means secured thereto for sprinkling or spraying fluid onto a surface supporting the apparatus, and which claims subject matter encompassed by the definitions of Class 239, subclasses 726+, has been placed in the appropriate subclass of Class 239, subclasses 726+, regardless of whether or not a sprinkler or other spray outlet means was specified in the claims.

SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:

38+, for movable systems controlled by the position or inertia of the system, especially subclass 43 for tanks having means for closing vents if the tank overturns.

125, for tank truck mounted plural siphons.

223+, for tire filling chucks or stems. 267, for tank truck mounted plural tanks.

580, for transfer of fluid to a moving receiver by means of a running joint.

SEE OR SEARCH CLASS

15, Brushing, Scrubbing, and General Cleaning,

313, for vacuum cleaners installed in vehicles.

114, Ships,

74, for tankers; and subclasses 232+ for oil distributors for ships.

180, Motor Vehicles, appropriate subclasses, especially

54.1+, for power plants.

222, Dispensing,

608+, for ambulant dispensers, and see the search notes to subclass 608. 239, Fluid Sprinkling, Spraying, and Diffusing,

726+, for portable, overhead-type of irrigating apparatus supported upon vehicular means, and see the search notes to subclasses 726+, and see (2) Note above.

244, Aeronautics,

136, for material discharging and diffusing from aircraft.

280, Land Vehicles, appropriate subclasses, especially

830+, for tanks or boilers associated with land vehicles.

291, Track Sanders,

3+, for fluid delivery in track sanders.