IPC 6 English version A01K !A-A01K 61/02

A01K-A01K06102

SECTION A– HUMAN NECESSITIES

A 01

AGRICULTURE; FORESTRY; ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; HUNTING; TRAPPING; FISHING

A 01 K

ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; CARE OF BIRDS, FISHES, INSECTS; FISHING; REARING OR BREEDING ANIMALS, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR; NEW BREEDS OF ANIMALS

Note

This subclass covers:

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equipment for the care, culture or rearing of all animals or for obtaining their products, unless provided for elsewhere, e.g. milking A 01 J, shoeing animals A 01 L, veterinary devices A 61 D, culture of animal cells C 12 M, C 12 N;

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methods of breeding animals or new animal breeds. [5]

Animal husbandry in general, especially cattle-raising (devices in connection with harnesses B 68 B)

Housing animals; Equipment therefor (building construction, features of buildings E 04; ventilating buildings F 24 F)

Removal of dung or urine (A 01 K 1/015 takes precedence) [2]

015

Floor coverings, e.g. bedding-down sheets [2]

Pigsties; Dog-kennels; Rabbit-hutches or the like

Housing for domestic or laboratory animals [2]

035

Devices for use in keeping domestic animals, e.g. fittings in housings, dog beds [2]

Tethering-poles or the like

Devices for fastening animals, e.g. halters, toggles, neck-bars, chain fastenings

062

Neck-bars [2]

064

Chain fastenings [2]

Arrangements for simultaneously releasing several animals

Feed racks (devices for impeding movement of animals A 01 K 15/04)

Milking stations (devices for milking A 01 J 1/00 to A 01 J 9/00) [2]

Pasturing equipment, e.g. tethering devices; Grids for preventing cattle from straying; Electrified wire fencing (construction of fencing in general E 04 H 17/00; electric circuits for fences H 05 C)

Feeding devices for stock or game (A 01 K 1/10 takes precedence; for poultry A 01 K 39/00) [2]

Feed troughs; Feed pails [2]

015

Licking-stone holders (salt blocks A 23 K 1/16) [2]

Automatic devices

Watering equipment for stock or game

Automatic devices (construction of valves F 16 K)

actuated by float [2]

actuated by the animal [2]

Sucking apparatus for young stock

11/

Marking of animals (of poultry A 01 K 35/00; lead-sealing pliers B 25 B)

13/

Devices for grooming or caring of animals, e.g. curry-combs (scissors B 26 B); Fetlock rings (bandages, poultices A 61 D); Tail-holders (as part of the harness B 68 B 5/04); Devices for preventing crib-biting; Washing devices (milking machine accessories for treatment of udders or teats A 01 J 7/04; for medical purposes A 61 D 11/00); Protection against weather conditions or insects

14/

Removing the fleece from live sheep or similar animals (hand-held cutting tools B 26 B) [5]

15/

Devices for taming animals, e.g. nose-rings, hobbles; Devices for overturning animals in general; Training equipment; Covering boxes (devices for veterinary purposes A 61 D 3/00)

15/

Training or exercising equipment (A 01 K 15/04 takes precedence) [2]

15/

Devices for impeding movement; Devices for impeding passage through fencing [2]

17/

Dehorners; Horn trainers

19/

Weaning apparatus

21/

Devices for assisting or preventing mating (covering boxes A 01 K 15/00)

23/

Manure or urine pouches

25/

Muzzles

27/

Leads or collars, e.g. for dogs (devices specially adapted or mounted for storing and repeatedly paying-out and re-storing lengths of material B 65 H 75/34)

29/

Other apparatus for animal husbandry

Aviculture; Testing, cleaning, stamping, or grading eggs

31/

Housing birds

31/

Door appliances; Automatic door-openers (counters for specific applications G 07 C 9/00)

31/

Dropping-boards; Devices for removing excrement

31/

Cages

31/

Transportable cages (A 01 K 31/08 takes precedence) [2]

31/

Collapsible cages

31/

Doors; Trap-doors

31/

Perches

31/

Nest-boxes

31/

Laying nests for poultry; Egg collecting [2]

31/

Laying batteries [2]

31/

Chicken coops or houses; Brooders

31/

Brooders [2]

31/

Heating arrangements

31/

Poultry runs

31/

Dovecots; Pigeonlofts [2]

33/

Nest-eggs

35/

Marking poultry or other birds

37/

Constraining birds, e.g. wing clamps

39/

Feeding or drinking appliances for poultry or other birds [2]

39/

Feeding devices (A 01 K 39/04 takes precedence) [2]

39/

012

filling automatically [2]

39/

014

Feed troughs; Feed throwers [2]

39/

Drinking appliances (A 01 K 39/04 takes precedence; construction of valves F 16 K) [2]

39/

022

with weight-controlled supply [2]

39/

024

with float-controlled supply [2]

39/

026

kept filled to constant level from incorporated storage [2]

39/

Combined feeding and drinking appliances

39/

Cramming appliances

41/

Incubators for poultry

41/

Heating arrangements

41/

Controlling humidity in incubators

41/

Egg-turning appliances for incubators

43/

Testing, sorting, or cleaning eggs (investigating or analysing eggs, e.g. by candling, G 01 N 33/08)

43/

Grading eggs

43/

according to size

43/

according to weight (sorting according to weight in general B 07 C 5/16)

43/

Grading and stamping

45/

Other aviculture appliances, e.g. devices for determining whether a bird is about to lay

Apiculture

47/

Beehives

47/

Construction or arrangement of frames for honeycombs

47/

Artificial honeycombs

47/

Other details of beehives, e.g. ventilating devices, entrances to hives, guards, partitions, bee escapes

49/

Rearing-boxes; Queen transporting or introducing cages

51/

Appliances for treating beehives or parts thereof, e.g. for cleaning or disinfecting

53/

Feeding or drinking appliances for bees

55/

Bee-smokers; Bee-keepers' accessories, e.g. veils (smoking pipes A 24 F)

57/

Appliances for providing, preventing, or catching swarms; Drone-catching devices

59/

Honey collection

59/

Devices for uncapping honeycombs

59/

Honey strainers

59/

Devices for extracting wax

Pisciculture; Aquaria; Terraria

61/

Culture of fish, mussels, crayfish, lobsters, sponges, pearls, or the like (harvesting oysters, mussels, sponges or the like A 01 K 80/00)

61/

Feeding devices for fish

A01K 63/00 - A01K 97/28