US PATENT SUBCLASS 410 / 2
PARTICULAR ARTICLE ACCOMMODATION

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410 /   HD   FREIGHT ACCOMMODATION ON FREIGHT CARRIER

2PARTICULAR ARTICLE ACCOMMODATION {5}
3  DF  .~> Wheeled vehicle {1}
31  DF  .~> Grouped {2}
44  DF  .~> Accommodation of article which is massive relative to freight carrier {1}
46  DF  .~> On supporting on-and-off base
47  DF  .~> Cylindrical article accommodation {2}

DEFINITION

Classification: 410/2

PARTICULAR ARTICLE ACCOMMODATION:

(under the class definition) Structure for accommodating, by direct contact, an article of the type which satisfies a particular need elsewhere (i.e., is not merely a bearer for the load in shipment, like a container or pallet), which structure is designed, in its contact with the lading, to take advantage of a particular configuration of the lading, or one of its parts, to minimize a carrying problem arising from such particular configuration, e.g., tendency of a cylindrical article to roll.

(1) Note. Included herein (see indented subclasses 31+) is the accommodation of articles by their having been grouped in a particular way or by having been otherwise so arranged on the freight carrier that a foreseeable problem in transit is minimized.

(2) Note. The class definition section, Internal Plan of This Class relating to this and the indented subclasses is reviewed, as follows: placement in this and indented subclasses is on a predominant disclosure basis, which means that, in the absence of a controlling claim barring such placement or an overwhelming emphasis in the total disclosure to that same effect, this is the locus (subclasses 2+) for the original placement of an invention to accommodating means for the particular article. Accordingly: a. A generic invention to structure disclosed as accommodating a semitrailer or container (ordinarily classified under subclasses 52+) and equally applicable to the accommodation of a particular article (a farm tractor in transit, for example) will be classified as an original in subclasses 2+ and will appear in subclass(es) 52+ only as a cross-reference where necessary. b. Subclasses 2+ will take an invention to a

load lashing means or load bracing means subcombination for a particular article or group of articles and only a cross-reference will be placed in subclasses 96+, load lashing, or subclasses 121+, load bracing means; the locus for the lashing or bracing subcombinations, respectively, of general freight. [figure]

SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:

35, for a group of articles stowed on board a freight carrier together with an on-and-off base.

46, for a shipping support onto which a single article only has been secured for on-and-off storage on board a freight carrier.