US PATENT CLASS 211
Class Notes
Current as of: June, 1999
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DEFINITION
Classification: 211/
This class includes built-up open framework structures designed to support articles. Racks in the nature of upright stands or standards carrying article supports are also included, and also self-supporting articles supports, frequently built up of sheet material.
The term "racks" includes frame structures and supports having flexible supporting elements, such as strands or straps, as the article-supporting elements.
LINES WITH OTHER CLASSES
For racks involving devices for holding rolls where the material on the roll can be wound or unwound therefrom by operation of the roll see Class 242, Winding and Reeling. See also Class 226, Advancing Material of Indeterminate Length, for roll holders in which there are also involved devices for feeding or removing the material from the roll other than by operation of the roll, and Class 83, Cutting, in such cases where there is also involved means for cutting the material unrolled.
REFERENCES TO OTHER CLASSES
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34, Drying and Gas or Vapor Contact With Solids, appropriate subclasses for racks combined with means in addition to the movable or immovable rack structure to promote drying and/or gas or vapor contact with the material supported.
40, Card, Picture, or Sign Exhibiting, appropriate subclasses for racks designed to support matter only for advertising, as cards, pictures, signs or dummies, or constituting a display machine; and especially
120, for stands to hold calendars. 114, Ships,
190, for life-preserver racks.
126, Stoves and Furnaces,
337+, for racks combined with a stove oven.
134, Cleaning and Liquid Contact With Solids, appropriate subclasses for racks combined with washing apparatus.
206, Special Receptacle or Package, appropriate subclasses for a rack combined with a crating or shipping container and generally having article holding or securing means.
221, Article Dispensing, appropriate subclasses for article dispensing devices, including rack type structures claimed or disclosed in connection with a cabinet-type support or other cabinet feature as the source of supply for the articles to be dispensed. Class 211 has rack structures including features recognized as dispensing features by Class 221 (see Class Definition and Lines With Other Classes and Within This Class in Class 221). Until further steps can be taken to clear the line between Classes 211 and 221, patents and applications will be disposed in accordance with the present disposition of the art.
226, Advancing Material of Indeterminate Length, appropriate subclasses for methods of, and apparatus for, feeding material without utilizing the leading or trailing ends to effect movement of the material.
248, Supports, appropriate subclasses for other supports and see the class definition of that class for the line between the two classes.
294, Handling: Hand and Hoist-Line Implements,
55, for tobacco hangers and subclasses 87.1+ and 159 for racks in the form of article carriers having handles. 312, Supports: Cabinet Structure, appropriate subclasses for racks combined with an inclosure, such as a cabinet structure.
343, Communications: Radio Wave Antennas,
866+, for loop type antennas with frames therefor; and subclasses 878+ for antennas with supports.
452, Butchering,
177+, and 185+ for racks with means especially relating them to butchering.