(under subclass 117) Device or arrangement for permitting a living being or goods to be taken aboard or removed from aircraft.
(1) Note. This is the generic subclass for patents, not otherwise classifiable, relating to the loading or unloading of aircraft, including the mere dumping of a load from the aircraft, whether in flight or not in flight.
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2+, for means whereby an aircraft in flight may pick up or release another aircraft, including gliders, singly or in trains.
115+, for loading or unloading means associated with mooring devices.
118.1+, and 118.5+, for aircraft structure designed to improve the efficiency for transporting cargo or people, respectively, absent detail or arrangement for loading or unloading or discharge thereof.
135, for supplying fuel to or discharging fuel from an aircraft in flight.
136, for discharging and diffusing material in air from aircraft in flight. 138+, for parachutes or other devices, either, per se, or in combination with aircraft structure, for safely lowering persons, cargo, or aircraft structure to the ground.
905, for an inflatable evacuation slide.
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89, Ordnance,
1.5, for bomb, flare, and signal dropping.
182, Fire Escape, Ladder, or Scaffold,
137+, for a body catcher.
258, Railway Mail Delivery,
1.2+, for means, other than mere dumping, for transferring a load to or from an aircraft in flight, and other subclasses for transferring objects to and from moving vehicles in general.
414, Material or Article Handling, various subclasses for the loading or unloading, in general, of vehicles, and particularly
373+, for the combination of a load-transporting type vehicle and an external means cooperating in the loading or unloading of the vehicle (except that this subclass (137.1) is proper if the claims make it clear that the vehicle structure with which the means cooperates is structure which is peculiar to a vehicle of the aircraft type) and see also subclasses 467+ for a self-loading or unloading vehicle (except that this subclass (137.1) is proper if the disclosure relates solely to a vehicle of the aircraft type).
