.~ From rail to noncontiguous rail or other object
DEFINITION
Classification: 238/14.2
(under subclass 14.05) Electrical connections for connecting a rail to some object or device other than a contiguous rail.
(1) Note. This subclass includes, for example, "cross-bonds" for connecting a rail to the parallel rail at the opposite side of the track, connections between rails and "bootlegs", ground connections, etc.
(2) Note. This subclass does not include mere joints between a rail and a conductor wire, cable, bond, etc., for which see particularly this class, subclasses 14.13, 14.14 and 14.15, and note 6 to the definition of subclass 14.05.
