US PATENT SUBCLASS 180 / 53.1
MOTOR AS SOURCE OF POWER FOR OTHER MACHINE

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180 /   HD   MOTOR VEHICLES

53.1MOTOR AS SOURCE OF POWER FOR OTHER MACHINE {7}
53.2  DF  .~> Other machine is creeper drive on motor vehicle
53.3  DF  .~> Other machine is mounted by three point hitch (i.e., Ford-Ferguson hitch)
53.4  DF  .~> Hydraulic drive to other machine
53.5  DF  .~> Electric drive to other machine
53.6  DF  .~> Drive to other machine by power take-off (PTO) driven by wheel or axle of motor vehicle {2}
53.7  DF  .~> Drive to other machine by power take-off (PTO) at front end of vehicle
53.8  DF  .~> Other machine is vehicle accessory

DEFINITION

Classification: 180/53.1

MOTOR AS SOURCE OF POWER FOR OTHER MACHINE:

(under the class definition) Devices designed to facilitate the use of the motor of a motor vehicle to supply power to drive other machines.

(1) Note. Inventions of this nature disclosed in connection with a steam traction-engine of usual wheelbase will be found in subclass 36.

(2) Note. Classes 74, Machine Element or Mechanism, and

464, Rotary Shafts, Gudgeons, Housing, and Flexible Couplings for Rotary Shafts, contain devices of general application for transmitting power from a motor.

SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:

14.1, for motor-vehicles supplying power to other vehicles connected thereto.

36, (see (1) Note).

198, for a portable carrier which comprises the sole support for a motor of the vehicle, the power of the motor continuing to be expended in the same manner (e.g., through the vehicle's wheels), however, as it was when the vehicle was not supported by the carrier. SEE OR SEARCH CLASS

74, Machine Element or Mechanism, (see (2) Note).

172, Earth Working,

35+, for driven earth working tools, and see the Search Class notes in this subclass for the line.

173, Tool Driving or Impacting,

25+, for a tool driving or impacting means mounted on a wheeled vehicle, in which the vehicle motor is mechanically coupled to the means to drive or impact a tool, and subclass 27 for a vehicle motor and drive motor powered by the same energy source.

222, Dispensing,

627, for a driven dispensing means which is carried on, or pulled or pushed by, a motor vehicle and wherein the means is driven by the motor of the vehicle.

242, Winding, Tensioning, or Guiding,

390.7, for a reeling device driven by a vehicle motor, 392 for a spool mounted on a vehicle wheel, and 391+ for a traction driven reel spool.

464, Rotary Shafts, Gudgeons, Housings, and Flexible Couplings for Rotary Shafts, (see (2) Note).