US PATENT SUBCLASS 56 / 473.5
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Current as of: June, 1999
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DEFINITION
Classification: 56/473.5
(under the class definition) Devices comprising a storage type receiver mounted on a harvesting machine or partially supported at the side of such machine by a mobile support in proper position for receiving harvested crop from the harvester as it travels over the ground.
(1) Note. This subclass is directed primarily to a specific subcombination of a harvesting machine and should include the harvester by name only. Patents claiming structural features of the harvester are classified on the basis of such structural features.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
202+, for catchers attached to a cutter bar.
344+, for catchers combined with continuously gathering means.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS
280, Land Vehicles, 400+, for articulated vehicles in which a drawn vehicle may track at the side or rear of a drawing vehicle. Trailing vehicles in the vehicle subclasses are, for the most part, adaptable for use with any drawing vehicle, and are not designed for use with a specific type machine. See particularly subclasses 411.1+ for multiple tractor-towed vehicles which by disclosure may be a harvester and receiver or wagon.
414, Material or Article Handling,
334+, for a moving, wheeled, load-transporting type vehicle and a loading or unloading device therefor, which device is supported at least in part independently of the vehicle and
travels with the vehicle during the transfer of a load from the device to the vehicle or vice versa.
