US PATENT SUBCLASS 359 / 552
.~ Mounted adjacent roadway


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359 /   HD   OPTICS: SYSTEMS (INCLUDING COMMUNICATION) AND ELEMENTS

515  DF  SIGNAL REFLECTOR {11}
552.~ Mounted adjacent roadway


DEFINITION

Classification: 359/552

Mounted adjacent roadway:

(under subclass 515) Subject matter wherein the reflector is permanently mounted next to the roadway for viewing by the driver of an automobile and generally reflecting the beams of automobile headlights.

(1) Note. A reflector sign permanently fastened to a road surface would belong in this subclass but the same reflector counterbalanced within a recess in the roadway - ordinarily up and visible but capable of retraction into the recess when contacted by the vehicle wheel is classified in Class 404.

SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:

532, for a unitary plate of 3-corner retrore-flectors mounted adjacent the roadway.

547, for a unitary mass of discrete reflecting elements mounted on or adjacent the roadway.

553, for a reflector which is portable, i.e., temporarily placed.

SEE OR SEARCH CLASS

40, Card, Picture, or Sign Exhibiting, sub-class 612 for highway or street marker. 116, Signals and Indicators,

63+, for street traffic where the device for giving signals are generally due to some movement of some part or element from a normal or nonsignalling or signal - controlled position (e.g., a semaphore).

180, Motor Vehicles,

168, having controlling apparatus adapted to interact with stationary apparatus which describes the course of the vehicle's travel.

404, Road Structure, Process, or Apparatus,

9+, for traffic director where the reflector is not permanently fixed to the road surface.