Apparatus, device, implement or method for placing or displacing particular articles in a particular manner or with reference to a particular support, for loading or unloading vehicles with materials or objects in general, charging or discharging furnaces, bins, chambers, or other receptacles, stacking or piling articles or materials, also combinations of general types of carriers or forwarding mechanisms, which
types, per se, are separately classified elsewhere, and general types of elevators, cranes, or hoists when associated with special means for handling the load to place it on the carrier or remove it therefrom.
(1) Note. The miscellaneous subclass of this class is designed to receive any material-moving mechanism for which no place has been established elsewhere.
(2) Note. The term "handling" in the title is intended to indicate in a general way those more or less complex and intricate movements, imparted to matter by instruments or mechanisms which are deemed analogous to nonshaping manipulations, or the varying movements imparted to matter or objects by hand.
(3) Note. Treatment of matter to change its shape or condition is not included in this class. As fabricating and material-conditioning apparatus have commonly associated with them means for bringing the material to the shaping or conditioning instrumentalities or carrying it therefrom, combinations of handling or conveying means with fabricating, shaping, or conditioning means are classified on the basis of the latter.
(4) Note. Earthworking in general effects a change in the shape or form of matter and is classified on that basis; but the removing of earth by power scoops, shovels, and the like, which operate in the same manner whether removing a pile of loose coal or grain or the loose earth from an excavation, are classified on the basis of handling in this or other material-moving or transportation classes. Otherwise stated, those inventions relating to the excavating art, including power scoops, shovels or the like in which movement is imparted to such scoops or shovels subsequent to or in addition to those movements deemed necessary to complete an excavating operation, which additional movement is usually for transporting the excavated material to a disposal point, are considered to include such handling of the excavated material as will provide a basis for classification in this class (414). Even the teeth of scoops, commonly placed there for excavating hard earth, may be broadly claimed in combination with a handling-machine otherwise falling into this class without excluding the patent from this class, although the specific teeth if claimed particularly, would go to a class of excavating or earthworking.
(5) Note. The separation of mixed solid materials by an operation depending on differences of size, form, mass, or other physical properties of the mixed materials or objects is deemed to be a highly special form of moving or handling materials, and the classes of separating are deemed superior to this class.
(6) Note. Regarding land or water vehicles supporting other load-handling devices, the vehicle is deemed to be a mechanism unless the handling mechanism is so combined with
and related to the vehicle as to load or unload that vehicle or handle its load or cargo. (7) Note. For a thorough search in material-handling, all subclasses found in the index indicating by title a fabrication or material-treating class, with feeding, conveying, or other handling means, should be inspected.
LINES WITH OTHER CLASSES
Combined conveyors, carriers, and forwarders of types now included under Class 198, Conveyors: Power-Driven, are to be found in Class 198; but combined carriers, the separate elements of which are in different classes, are provided for in this class.
Vehicles in which the body is merely moved or tilted to dump by gravity are classified in Class 298 or in Class 105, particularly, subclasses 238.1+; however, in regard to Class 298, see also the reference thereto in subclass 469 of this class (414).
For handling where manipulation during the progress of manual work is involved or for handling including the engagement of more than one part to aid in manual assembly of such parts, see Class 269, Work Holders. The fact that the article handled is assembled manually with an abutting receiver will not exclude a handling mechanism from Class 414.
VEHICLE LOADING AND UNLOADING
This class has numerous subclasses devoted to the loading and unloading of vehicles of various types; for examples see Subclass References to the Current Class, below. For vehicles charging and discharging in other classes, see References to Other Classes below
EXCAVATING AND LOADING MACHINES
For excavating and loading machines of the type having a scoop or rake delivering to an endless or rotary carrier, see "SEARCH CLASS" below in References to Other Classes below
GENERAL TRANSPORTATION AND MATERIAL HANDLING
See References to Other Classes below.
SIMPLE HANDLING OF CERTAIN CLASSES OF MATERIAL IN A SPECIALMANNER See References to Other Classes below.
MEANS CONTROLLING FLOW
See References to Other Classes below.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
137.1+, 140.1, 333-402, 434+, 467+ for loading and unloading of vehicles of various types.
REFERENCES TO OTHER CLASSES
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS
4, Baths, Closets, Sinks, and Spittoons. (Means Controlling Flow.)
5, Beds,
81.1, and 83.1+.
15, Brushing, Scrubbing, and General Cleaning, 78+,.
37, Excavating,
304+, for self-loading vehicles. (Vehicle Loading and Unloading.)
37, Excavating, appropriate subclasses. (Excavating and Loading Machines.)
37, Excavating,
394+, for devices comprising a scoop and drag line to fill the same.
56, Harvesters. (Vehicle Loading and Unloading.)
56, Harvesters,
345,. (Excavating and Loading Machines.)
56, Harvesters,
344+,.
99, Foods and Beverages: Apparatus, for a conveyor designed for the reception of a food article, or a food or beverage containing receptacle when combined with a heat generator, a heat exchanger, other means for treating material operative during the conveying, or an enclosure or tank where the structure thereof is in excess of that necessary for the operation of the conveyor; 360+, for a conveyor to transport a fluid filled receptacle to and from a heat treatment.
100, Presses, appropriate subclasses for presses which may, when used on a vehicle, inherently function to load or unload the vehicle. (See class definition, Lines With Other Classes and Within This Class, Binding and Pressing Elsewhere
Classified, in Class 100). (Vehicle Loading and Unloading.)
104, Railways,
18+, for load transfer to or from moving trains; if external means is involved, see subclasses 334+, 337 and 338 of this class (414). (Vehicle Loading and Unloading.)
104, Railways. (General Transportation and Material Handling.)
105, Railway Rolling Stock,
239+, for dumping car bodies. (Vehicle Loading and Unloading.)
105, Railway Rolling Stock. (General Transportation and Material Handling.)
110, Furnaces,
101+, and 165+.
114, Ships, 27+, for dumping and unloading scows, and subclasses 183+ for bilge discharge. (Vehicle Loading and Unloading.)
114, Ships,
365+, for miscellaneous apparatus for handling life craft (e.g., aboard ships), and also analogous apparatus located on docks and seawalls. (General Transportation and Material Handling.)
137, Fluid Handling, for fluid handling not elsewhere provided for. (General Transportation and Material Handling.)
137, Fluid Handling. (Means Controlling Flow.)
141, Fluent Material Handling, With Receiver or Receiver Coacting Means.
169, Fire Extinguishers. (Means Controlling Flow.)
171, Unearthing Plants or Buried Objects, particularly
31, 60+, 63+ 89, 101, 110, 111+, and 138. (Excavating and Loading Machines.)
173, Tool Driving or Impacting, appropriate subclasses for a means of general utility for driving or impacting a tool, particularly
197+, and see the search notes therein for such means including a work cleansing feature. 180, Motor Vehicles. (General Transportation and Material Handling.)
182, Fire Escape, Ladder, or Scaffold,
1, for horizontal step on pivoted ladder; subclass 2.1 for horizontal platform on pivoted booms; subclasses 10+ for carrier traveling along an inclined cable; subclasses 12+ for horizontally traveling personnel supports with means to control or actuate said traveling; subclasses 36+ for personnel supports traversing the horizontal and riding on a track; subclasses 42+ for personnel carriers mounted on an endless conveyor; subclasses 48+ for chutes or towers for personnel use; subclasses 101+ for a vertically moving platform combined with a ladder; and subclasses 141+ for platforms combined with elevating or lowering means.
184, Lubrication. (Means Controlling Flow.)
186, Merchandising.
187, Elevator, Industrial Lift Truck, or Stationary Lift for Vehicle. (General Transportation and Material Handling.)
198, Conveyors: Power-Driven. (General Transportation and Material Handling.)
204, Chemistry: Electrical and Wave Energy,
198, 226 for electrode handling means specialized for electrolytic processes.
211, Supports: Racks.
212, Traversing Hoists. (General Transportation and Material Handling.)
221, Article Dispensing, 185, for ambulant article dispensing devices including vehicular types. (Vehicle Loading and Unloading.)
222, Dispensing,
608+, for vehicular types. (Vehicle Loading and Unloading.)
224, Package and Article Carriers. (General Transportation and Material Handling.)
226, Advancing Material of Indeterminate Length, appropriate subclasses for methods of, and apparatus for, feeding material without utilizing the leading or trailing ends to effect movement of the material. (Simple Handling of Certain Classes of Material in a Special Manner.)
232, Deposit and Collection Receptacles.
239, Fluid Sprinkling, Spraying, and Diffusing,
650+, for scattering nonfluid material from a container. (Vehicle Loading and Unloading.)
241, Solid Material Comminution or Disintegration, appropriate subclasses for material handling claimed in combination with significant comminution. See Section 9 of the class definition of Class 241 for a general statement of the line.
242, Winding, Tensioning, or Guiding. (Simple Handling of Certain Classes of Material in a Special Manner.)
244, Aeronautics, particularly 136, 137.1, and 140+. (Vehicle Loading and Unloading.)
244, Aeronautics. (General Transportation and Material Handling.)
251, Valves and Valve Actuation. (Means Controlling Flow.)
254, Implements or Apparatus for Applying Pushing or Pulling Force. (General Transportation and Material Handling.)
258, Railway Mail Delivery. (Vehicle Loading and Unloading.)
271, Sheet Feeding or Delivering. (Simple Handling of Certain Classes of Material in a Special Manner.)
280, Land Vehicles. (General Transportation and Material Handling.)
291, Track Sanders. (Vehicle Loading and Unloading.)
294, Handling: Hand and Hoist-Line Implements.
296, Land Vehicles: Bodies and Tops,
1.1+, for bodies, and 50+ for end gates.
296, Land Vehicles: Bodies and Tops. (General Transportation and Material Handling.) 298, Land Vehicles, Dumping. (Vehicle Loading and Unloading.)
298, Land Vehicles: Dumping. (General Transportation and Material Handling.)
299, Mining or In Situ Disintegration of Hard Material,
64+, and see the search notes therein for mining or hard material disintegrating combined with material handling.
(Excavating and Loading Machines.)
300, Brush, Broom, and Mop Making,
18,.
312, Supports: Cabinet Structure,
35+,.
376, Induced Nuclear Reactions: Processes, Systems, and Elements. (General Transportation and Material Handling.)
376, Induced Nuclear Reactions: Processes, Systems, and Elements,
260+, for nuclear reactors including the handling of nuclear reactor components, particularly the nuclear fuel, but see also subclass 146 of this class (414). (Simple Handling of Certain Classes of Material in a Special Manner.) 406, Conveyors: Fluid Current,
39+, for vehicle mounted fluid current conveyors. (Vehicle Loading and Unloading.)
406, Conveyors: Fluid Current. (General Transportation and Material Handling.)
441, Buoys, Rafts, and Aquatic Devices. (General Transportation and Material Handling.)
446, Amusement Devices: Toys,
428, for a toy vehicle having a tiltable receptacle for discharging its contents (e.g., dump truck). (Vehicle Loading and Unloading.)
452, Butchering,
177+, for handling devices used in butchering operations.
453, Coin Handling.
454, Ventilation. (Means Controlling Flow.) 470, Threaded, Headed Fastener, or Washer Making: Process and Apparatus,
164+, and see the notes thereto for feeding of blanks of stock material in the form of strips and rods, not otherwise specifically provided for, to (1) manufacturing machines, or
(2) sorting or orienting devices. Included is the feeding of strip or rod type blanks or stock material for other than bolts, nails, nuts, screws, rivets, and washers, when such blanks or stock material are substantially uniform in cross section. (Simple Handling of Certain Classes of Material in a Special Manner.)
472, Amusement Devices, particularly
1+, for an amusement roundabout which may carry a person or object along a circuitous path and subclass 2 for an amusement round about combined with elevator type structure.
483, Tool Changing, generally for a process or apparatus including a tool transfer means combined with either a tool support or storage means and particularly
58+, for a tool transfer means combined with a tool storage means.
623, Prosthesis (i.e., Artificial Body Members), Parts Thereof, or Aids and Accessories Therefor,
57+, for artificial body members with remote control. (Vehicle Loading and Unloading.)