US PATENT CLASS 42
Class Notes
Current as of: June, 1999
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DEFINITION
Classification: 42/
This class includes all the portable firearms, i.e., those which are supported by hand when operated, such as shoulder guns, pistols, toy firearms and cane guns, except the automatic or explosion-operated firearms. This class also has such firearms combined with cleaners, intrenching devices, bayonets, and other cutters (including specifically pistol-swords). The following devices are likewise found here either, per se, or in combination with the firearm; ram rods, gun-rests and some body supported arm rests.
REFERENCES TO OTHER CLASSES
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7, Compound Tools,
158, for hand manipulable cutters (including bayonets) combined with other tools.
15, Brushing, Scrubbing, and General Cleaning,
104.05+, for gun cleaners.
30, Cutlery, pertinent subclasses, for hand manipulable cutters (including bayonets), per se, and
142+, for the combination of two or more cutters. 33, Geometrical Instruments,
233+, for gun sights, per se, and gun and sight combinations where only so much gun structure is included as is necessary to accommodate the sight and subclass 244 for a gun sight cover.
60, Power Plants,
632+, for one shot explosion actuated expansible chamber type motors.
81, Tools,
3.05, and the notes thereto appended for shell projectile or
wad extractors.
86, Ammunition and Explosive-Charge Making.
89, Ordnance, for heavier mounted guns,
14.1, for all barrels with heat exchangers, and subclasses 125+ for automatic or explosion-operated firearms.
102, Ammunition and Explosives, appropriate subclasses, for gun projectiles, per se.
124, Mechanical Guns and Projectors, for mechanical projectile throwing or impelling apparatus in which the propelling agent is nonexplosive. 206, Special Receptacle or Package,
317, for a weapon container (e.g., gun case).
221, Article Dispensing,
24, for article dispensers shaped to simulate various figures and which may include firearm simulations. Also, see the class definition of Class 221 for article dispensers in other classes related to magazine feed in general.
222, Dispensing,
79, for dispensers simulating firearms, e.g., water pistols, and subclass 192 for dispensers combined with firearms where only so much of the firearm as is necessary to support or operate the dispenser is claimed.
294, Handling: Hand and Hoist-Line Implements,
49+, for intrenching tools of the shovel type.