US PATENT SUBCLASS 280 / 771
.~.~ Occupant steered

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29  DF  WHEELED {21}
80.1  DF  .~ Running gear {20}
771.~.~ Occupant steered {15}
87.1  DF  .~.~.~> Foot operated
87.2  DF  .~.~.~> Outrigged wheel controlled
773  DF  .~.~.~> With manually powered hydraulic steering
774  DF  .~.~.~> With remote position steering
775  DF  .~.~.~> With adjustable steering wheel or column
776  DF  .~.~.~> Including bias means maintaining steerable wheel and elongate surface engagement (e.g., furrow followers)
777  DF  .~.~.~> Steering column or wheel movable in response to collision
778  DF  .~.~.~> Plural steering hand grips or noncoaxial steering wheel and column
779  DF  .~.~.~> With steering column mount or support {1}
88  DF  .~.~.~> Combined brake
89  DF  .~.~.~> Checked {2}
91.1  DF  .~.~.~> Four-wheel controlled
92  DF  .~.~.~> One-wheel controlled
93.5  DF  .~.~.~> Monitoring or indicating means {1}
93.502  DF  .~.~.~> Linkage {7}

DEFINITION

Classification: 280/771

Occupant steered:

(under subclass 80.1) Subject matter wherein the running gear includes means operable by a vehicle operator positioned upon or within the vehicle to alter a travel path of the vehicle.

(1) Note. The feature of a steering wheel or other similar operator extremity engaged member is not required for classification in this subclass or those indented hereunder, but rather it is merely required that the vehicle be capable of effecting alteration of a travel path under control of an operator positioned upon or within the vehicle as contrasted with an attendant steered vehicle which is provided elsewhere.

(2) Note. During a reclassification of former indented subclasses 93+, now abolished, and other former subclasses, subclasses 688+, now abolished, it was established that a conflict existed between these subclasses because both involved suspension mounting of a steerable road wheel. Concurrent with the reclassification, the suspension arrangement or mounting aspect was assigned a superior position in the schedule hierarchy. The superior position within the schedule hierarchy is based on the fact that a suspension arrangement or mounting aspect provides for attaching and controlling movement of the steerable road wheel relative to the vehicle body, chassis, or frame whereas the feature of occupant controlled steering means for such a steerable road wheel is limited to pivotal motion about a vertical axis.

SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:

16, and 21.1, for occupant-steered sleds.

47.11, for hand-propelled vehicles with steering means.

263+, for occupant-propelled vehicles with steering means. SEE OR SEARCH CLASS

180, Motor Vehicles,

400+, for a motor having means for guiding it, and see the search notes therein to other subclasses of that class (180) which relate to the steering of a motor vehicle.