US PATENT CLASS 285
Class Notes
Current as of: June, 1999
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DEFINITION
Classification: 285/
Joints between two or more members, such members comprising fluid, wire or cable conducting pipes, tubes or tubular bodies with or without rod-like bodies in end-to-end or side-to-side relation or between such a member and a plate, wall, receptacle or other base.
REFERENCES TO OTHER CLASSES
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS
4, Baths, Closets, Sinks, and Spittoons,
252.1+, for a closet bowl coupling and subclass 696 for a fitting or manifold for a sink or bath.
5, Beds,
279+, especially subclass 282 for joints and connections, and subclasses 288+ for corner fasteners.
24, Buckles, Buttons, Clasps, etc., appropriate subclasses, especially
588+, for head and socket separable fasteners. 29, Metal Working,
890.14+, for methods of making gas and water fittings.
48, Gas: Heating and Illuminating,
190, 194 for analogous structure in pressure regulators, safety devices and leak preventers specialized to that art.
52, Static Structures (e.g., Buildings),
58+, for an exterior type flashing, e.g., sealing around a chimney, subclass 95 for a conduit or passage means at a roof end structure, subclass 219 for a flue connection with a building structure, and subclasses 220.1+ for a service duct, e.g., an electrical conduit within a barrier structure.
55, Gas Separation,
495+, for separating media positioned in a flow line.
72, Metal Deforming, appropriate subclasses, for a method of or means for making a metal article by plastically working a blank, e.g., forging or bending it.
73, Measuring and Testing,
201, for joints or couplings combined with fluid meter box structure. (More than a conventional statement). 105, Railway Rolling Stock,
40, for a flexible joint between boiler sections in a steam locomotive and subclass 47 for an articulate or flexible pipe connection between relatively movable parts of a steam locomotive.
119, Animal Husbandry,
14.01+, for manifolds, couplings and claws providing means to connect teat cups with pressure and/or milk lines.
122, Liquid Heaters and Vaporizers,
87, for fire tube "U" couplings, 360+, for special water tube closures and couplings, 365 and 511, for specialized tubes and connectors.
126, Stoves and Furnaces,
307, and 312 for connections between stovepipes and stoves.
131, Tobacco,
225, for joints in tobacco smoking appliances.
137, Fluid Handling, for fluid handling apparatus including coupling and pipe joints in combination with other fluid handling means, see particularly 231, 355.16+, 580, 614+, and 637.05.
156, Adhesive Bonding and Miscellaneous Chemical Manufacture, appropriate subclass for process of making a joint by a laminating operation.
165, Heat Exchange,
173+, for side by side heat exchange tubes connected to a header plate, and subclass 178 for a heat exchange tube with a support or flow connector.
166, Wells,
75.11+, for well heads with some fluid handling or other feature special to wells, especially subclasses 86.1+ for a well head with a sealed or anchored inner member and a valve and subclasses 88.1+ for a well head with a sealed or anchored inner member and a lateral port, subclasses 179+ and the subclasses there noted for packers situated below ground level and sealing the annular space between a prepositioned well conduit and a pipe inserted into the conduit, subclasses 206+ for expanding anchor means situated below ground level holding an inner pipe to a prepositioned well conduit.
174, Electricity: Conductors and Insulators, particularly
17, 20, 50+, 66, 67, and 71-94 for pipe joints and couplings limited to electrical use.
210, Liquid Purification or Separation,
435+, for a filter element positioned in a flow line or a flow line connected casing and subclasses 459+ for a filter element mounted on a pipe.
213, Railway Draft Appliances,
76, for combined car and air train line couplings. See the Notes thereunder. 220, Receptacles,
3.2+, 241 and 242 for receptacles and face plates having means for coupling pipes thereto.
228, Metal Fusion Bonding,
122.1+, for a method of bonding a nonmetal to a metal using separate metallic filler and subclass 120 for a method of mechanical joining and bonding a nonmetal to a metal.
239, Fluid Sprinkling, Spraying, and Diffusing,
195+, 225+ and 587.1+ for combined sprayer devices and couplings and for couplings specially designed for rotating or adjusting the sprayer on the flow line.
241, Solid Material Comminution of Disintegration,
46.013+, especially subclass 46.015, for the combination of a sink joint, per se, classifiable in this class (285), and a comminuting means.
248, Supports,
188, for leg attaching connections for stands.
251, Valves and Valve Actuation, 89.5, 148+, 149+, and 149.9 for fluid handling apparatus including a flow path comprising a coupling having a valve therein.
256, Fences,
47+, for fence wire to post connections, and subclasses 65+ for fence rail to post connections.
264, Plastic and Nonmetallic Article Shaping or Treating: Processes, appropriate subclasses, for processes within the class definition for molding or shaping plastic materials.
277, Seal for a Joint or Juncture, for a seal between two pipes or a pipe and a wall that are at most secured together only by friction between the seal and the pipe or wall,
602+, for a static contact seal intended for use on a pipe, conduit, or cable.
279, Chucks or Sockets,
9.1+, for a connection between a holder and tool or work-piece having the gripping means or seat on or within the holder. See the Search Notes thereunder.
333, Wave Transmission Lines and Networks,
248+, for wave guide joints or couplings, which claim significant wave propagation characteristics, and subclasses 109+ for such joints or couplings providing a branched circuit.
403, Joints and Connections, for joints or connection in general.
408, Cutting by Use of Rotating Axially Moving Tool, for the combination of a pipe joint or coupling with means to drill in the manner of that class. 439, Electrical Connectors, appropriate subclasses for electrical connectors and see Lines With Other Classes and Within This Class in the Class Definition of that class (439) for the line between Class 439 and the other classes where
joints or couplings can be found.