US PATENT SUBCLASS 414 / 340
WHEELED, LOAD-TRANSPORTING TYPE VEHICLES AND MEANS FOR TRANSFERRING, OR ENABLING TRANSFER OF, LOAD FROM ONE VEHICLE TO ANOTHER

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340WHEELED, LOAD-TRANSPORTING TYPE VEHICLES AND MEANS FOR TRANSFERRING, OR ENABLING TRANSFER OF, LOAD FROM ONE VEHICLE TO ANOTHER {4}
341  DF  .~> By additional load-supporting vehicle for moving with load from one load-transporting type vehicle to the other {1}
343  DF  .~> With means on each vehicle cooperating to effect, or facilitate, transfer of load
344  DF  .~> With driven load engaging device, supported at least in part externally of the vehicles, for moving load therebetween
345  DF  .~> Means is confined to one of the vehicles {2}

DEFINITION

Classification: 414/340

WHEELED, LOAD-TRANSPORTING TYPE VEHICLES AND MEANS FOR TRANSFERRING, OR ENABLING TRANSFER OF, LOAD FROM ONE VEHICLE TO ANOTHER:

(under the class definition) Apparatus comprising two or more wheeled vehicles of a load-transporting type and means for moving, or facilitating the movement of, a load between two of the vehicles.

(1) Note. The means is always external, totally or in part, to at least one of the load-transporting type vehicles.

(2) Note. See (2), (3), and (4) Notes in subclass 467.

SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:

334+, for the combination of a moving, wheeled, load-transporting type vehicle and a device which travels with the vehicle for the purpose of loading or unloading it. While the device of that subclass (334) may possess certain vehicular aspects (e.g., wheels), it does not constitute a vehicle of the load-transporting type.

809, for a process of charging or discharging a load-transporting type vehicle and external means cooperating in the loading or unloading thereof.