(0)B60B:0/3:

IPC6

SECTION B - PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING

VEHICLE WHEELS; CASTORS; AXLES; INCREASING WHEEL ADHESION

B60B

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B60B001/00 - B60B003/18

TRANSPORTING

B 60

VEHICLES IN GENERAL

Note

In this class, the following term is used with the meaning indicated:

-	"vehicle" means all vehicles except those restricted to one of the following types of vehicles: rail vehicles, waterborne vessels, aircraft, space vehicles, hand carts, cycles, animal-drawn vehicles, and sledges, which are covered by the relevant subclasses of B 61 to B 64.

Thus the term "vehicle" includes:

-	vehicular characteristics which are common to more than one of the above-listed types;

-	certain characteristics restricted to automobiles, road or cross-country trailers.

The following exceptions to the above should be noted:

(a)	subclass B 60 B or B 60 C embrace all vehicle wheels and tyres, except wheels for roller skates A 63 C 17/22, wheels for model railway vehicles A 63 H 19/22, and special adaptations of wheels or tyres for aircraft B 64 C 25/36;

(b)	subclass B 60 C embraces the connection of valves to inflatable elastic bodies in general, and in this respect it is not limited to vehicles;

(c)	subclass B 60 L embraces certain electric equipment of all electrically-propelled vehicles;

(d)	subclass B 60 M embraces certain power supply equipment for, but external to, any kind of electrically-propelled vehicle;

(e)	subclass B 60 R embraces safety belts or body harnesses used in all types of land vehicles; [4]

(f)	subclass B 60 S relates to all kinds of vehicles, except the servicing of rail locomotives B 61 K 11/00, ground equipment for aircraft B 64 F, or cleaning apparatus peculiar to waterborne vessels B 63 B 57/00, B 63 B 59/00;

(g)	subclass B 60 T includes brake control systems of general applicability, and in this respect it is not limited to vehicles. It also includes rail-vehicle power-brake systems and some other features of rail-vehicle brake systems.