US PATENT CLASS 84
Class Notes
Current as of: June, 1999
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DEFINITION
Classification: 84/
This class includes the instruments used in producing music and includes (1) electrical music instruments, (2) automatic instruments, and (3) those hand played. The automatic instruments and the hand played instruments have a parallel classification so far as seems practical, and in both the patents are divided in the usual way into four groups, stringed, wind, rigid vibrators, and membranes. Then follow details or features common to groups (1), (2), and (3). This class also includes some accessory devices generally recognized as belonging to the art or industry.
LINES WITH OTHER CLASSES
Instruments furnishing a sound of only one pitch, even if it might be used for musical purposes, are generally to be found in Class 116, Signals and Indicators, Class 446, Amusement Devices: Toys, subclasses 207+ and 397+, Class 472, Amusement Devices, subclass 64 or Class 623, Prosthesis (i.e., Artificial Body Members), Parts Thereof or Aids and Accessories Therefor, subclass 9 for larynxes.
Phonographs, unless in combination with a recognized musical instrument, are to be searched for in Class 369, Dynamic Information Storage or Retrieval.
Printed music and systems of notation are to be found in Class 84 (this class), Music, subclass 483.2.
Bellows and wind flow regulators, unless specifically adapted to musical instruments are to be found in Class 60, Power Plants, subclasses 407+, Class 91, Motors: Expansible Chamber Type; Class 92, Expansible Chamber Devices and Class 417, Pumps.
Many features of construction or manufacture should be sought for in woodworking or metal-working and many details not limited to this art in appropriate classes, as pedals, supports, clamps, cases, springs, etc.
For instrument supports of general application not claimed in combination with musical instruments or structurally limited to use with specific musical instruments, see Class 248, Supports, appropriate subclasses. REFERENCES TO OTHER CLASSES
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS
381, Electrical Audio Signal Processing Systems and Devices,
118, for amplifying and reproducing the sounds of musical instruments.
984, Musical Instruments, an alternative search of the type of subject matter generally found in Class 84 may also be found in Class 984 which is based on a modification of the European Patent Office.