US PATENT CLASS 152
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152 /   HD   RESILIENT TIRES AND WHEELS



DEFINITION

Classification: 152/

This class includes (1) spring wheels for land vehicles; (2) resilient tires for land vehicle wheels; (3) patches for pneumatic tires; (4) anti-skid devices for resilient tires; (5) devices for securing tires to wheels, and (6) pneumatic tire inflating devices combined with the vehicle or wheel or remaining with a particular tire between periods of inflation, or designed to fill one tire from another.

LINES WITH OTHER CLASSES

For devices for giving a warning when the pressure within a pneumatic tire is either raised above or reduced below normal;

(a) If mechanical, see Class 116, Signals and Indicators, subclass 34. This subclass includes such devices incorporated in pneumatic tires but is not limited to devices on the tire or wheel. For devices under (a) wherein a pressure gage is combined with a valved inflation stem or valved filling chucks see Class 137, Fluid Handling, subclasses 227+, and for other valves and other fluid handling devices covered with a pressure gage see subclasses 551+, particularly subclass 557.

(b) If electrical, see Class 340, Communications: Electrical, subclass 442+. For devices under (b) wherein the invention is in a circuit breaker, see Class 200, Electricity: Circuit Makers and Breakers, subclasses 61.22+. For devices under (b) wherein the invention is in the electrical resistor combined with an inflation sensing actuator, see Class 338, Electrical Resistors, subclass 37.

SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:

337.1, 338.1, 341.1, and 342.1, and 415-431 particularly for wheels or pneumatic tires in combination with inflating valves.

429, and 430, for devices where the invention lies solely in the connection of the valve to the tire. REFERENCES TO OTHER CLASSES

SEE OR SEARCH CLASS

5, Beds, for inflated pillows and mattresses.

69, Leather Manufactures,

21, for the making of leather tires.

73, Measuring and Testing,

146+, for a pressure gauge in a tire or wheel installation, and subclasses 700+ for a pressure gauge of general utility.

81, Tools, appropriate subclasses for other tools specialized to use in working on and repairing tires.

137, Fluid Handling,

223+, for tire filling chucks and/or stems (see Lines With Other Classes, above), and subclasses 355.16+ for hose holders and hoses disclosed for inflating tires.

141, Fluent Material Handling, With Receiver or Receiver Coacting Means, appropriate subclasses for filling with gas, particularly

38, for inflating tires with gas and water. 156, Adhesive Bonding and Miscellaneous Chemical Manufacture,

110+, and 394+ for tire making processes and apparatus, respectively.

157, Wheelwright Machines,

1.1, and 11 for devices for applying and removing resilient tires from wheels.

222, Dispensing,

3+, for means for dispensing gases including those disclosed for inflating tires but not restricted in utility thereto.

235, Registers,

1, and 95 for mileage registers incorporated in resilient tires.

244, Aeronautics,

103, for resilient aircraft tires and wheels having fins, vanes, or other means to cause the wheel to be rotating when the wheels strike the ground.

251, Valves and Valve Actuation, for valves, per se. 264, Plastic and Nonmetallic Article Shaping or Treating: Processes, appropriate subclasses for processes within the class definition, for shaping or molding of plastic materials which may involve a vulcanization step;

315, and 326 for specific processes employing a toroidal mold bag or producing a toroidal product. Apparatus for reshaping, resizing or vulcanizing a tire or tire tube is classified elsewhere.

280, Land Vehicles,

201, for combinations of inflating means with a velocipede including a modified velocipede frame as part of the combination.

295, Railway Wheels and Axles,

11+, for resilient tires and wheels for railways vehicles.

305, Wheel Substitutes for Land Vehicles,

124+, for spring wheels or resilient tires especially modified to be used in flexible track apparatus for land vehicles. To be placed in Class 305 the wheel as disclosed must include structure which coacts with a flexible track, such as a flanged rim or a grooved rim which structure is adapted to interengage with a portion of a flexible track. Spring wheels or resilient tires which do not incorporate such structure, even though disclosed as being flexible track supporting wheels are classified in Class 152.

417, Pumps, for air pumps, per se, and especially

229+, for combinations of an inflating pump and a vehicle which operates the pump but not operating to inflate the tire while the vehicle is in motion.

425, Plastic Article or Earthenware Shaping or Treating: Apparatus,

28+, for apparatus for reshaping, resizing or vulcanizing a tire or tire tube. 428, Stock Material or Miscellaneous Articles, appropriate subclasses for a stock material product in the form of a

single or plural layer web or sheet including strips, strands or fibers, and especially

105+, for a composite web or sheet in which elements or constituents, (e.g., fibers, strands) in one layer are disposed at an angle to those in another layer, and subclass 114 for such a web or sheet in which a parallel relationship exists between the constituents of the layers.

492, Roll or Roller, for a roll, per se, not elsewhere provided for, and see the notes thereunder.

520, Synthetic Resins or Natural Rubbers,

1, and indented subclasses, for tire making limited to vulcanization alone or to vulcanization with mere preparation therefor.

523, Synthetic Resins or Natural Rubbers,

166, for a composition containing a synthetic resin or natural rubber having utility as a puncture sealant for a pneumatic tire or for use in emergency repair of vehicular tires or to processes of preparing said composition.