IPC 6 English version B63C-B63C 15/00

B63C-B63C01500

SECTION B– PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING

B 63

SHIPS OR OTHER WATERBORNE VESSELS; RELATED EQUIPMENT

B 63 C

LAUNCHING, HAULING-OUT, OR DRY-DOCKING OF VESSELS; LIFE-SAVING IN WATER; EQUIPMENT FOR DWELLING OR WORKING UNDER WATER; MEANS FOR SALVAGING OR SEARCHING FOR UNDERWATER OBJECTS (floating nets, floating slipways, or the like for recovering aircraft from the water B 63 B 35/52)

Dry-docking of vessels or flying-boats (storing of vessels on land otherwise than by dry-docking B 63 C 15/00; mooring of vessels B 63 B 21/00; hydraulic-engineering aspects E 02 B)

Floating dry-docks (ship transporters with adjustable draught B 63 B 35/42)

self-docking

Arrangements of pumping or filling equipment for raising or lowering docks

Dry docks (locks E 02 C 1/00) [2]

Centring devices

Docks adapted for special vessels, e.g. submarines

Launching or hauling-out by landborne slipways; Slipways (ship-borne guides for handling lifeboats or the like B 63 B 23/30; cranes, winches, or the like B 66; ship-lifting for adapting to different water levels E 02 C)

by longitudinal movement of vessel

by sideways movement of vessel

by vertical movement of vessel, e.g. by crane

Tracks on slipways

using releasing devices

using cradles (vehicles in general for transporting boats or the like B 60 P)

using braking means

Equipment usable both on slipways and in dry docks

Stagings; Scaffolding; Shores or struts

Bilge or keel blocks

Salvaging of disabled, stranded, or sunken vessels; Salvaging of vessel parts or furnishings, e.g. of safes; Salvaging of other underwater objects (means for searching for underwater objects B 63 C 11/48)

in which the lifting is done by hauling

using pontoons or the like

in which lifting action is generated in, or adjacent to, vessels or objects

using rigid floats

using inflatable floats external to vessels or objects

by bringing air or floating bodies or material into vessels or objects

using freezing for closing holes or for strengthening the vessel or the like

Apparatus engaging vessels or objects

using nets

using grabs

using electromagnets or suction devices

Apparatus for passing chains or the like under vessels or objects

Means for indicating the location of underwater objects, e.g. sunken vessels (means for searching for underwater objects B 63 C 11/48; buoys in general B 63 B 22/00)

Refloating stranded vessels

Floatable safes (safes in general E 05 G)

Life-saving in water (life-saving in general A 62 B; arrangement or adaptation of signalling or lighting devices for ships, other waterborne vessels or for equipment for shipping B 63 B 45/00; rescue equipment specially adapted for submarine personnel B 63 G 8/40)

Air-sea rescue devices, i.e. equipment carried by, and capable of being dropped from, an aircraft (inflatable vessels B 63 B 7/00; inflatable buoys B 63 B 22/22) [5]

Lifeboats, life-rafts or the like, specially adapted for life-saving (B 63 C 9/01 takes precedence; floatable furniture B 63 C 9/30; boats in general B 63 B; inflatable vessels B 63 B 7/00; equipment for handling lifeboats or the like B 63 B 23/00; rafts B 63 B 35/58) [4,5]

enclosed [5]

Life-rafts

Shark screens, e.g. buoyant means combined with means to surround or otherwise enclose the user (B 63 C 9/06 takes precedence) [5]

Floatable closed containers with accommodation for one or more persons inside (B 63 C 9/01 takes precedence) [5]

Life-buoys, e.g. rings; Life-belts, jackets, suits, or the like (B 63 C 9/01 takes precedence; equipment for swimming A 63 B, e.g. swimming aids A 63 B 31/00) [5]

087

Body suits, i.e. substantially covering the user's body (diving suits B 63 C 11/04, B 63 C 11/10) [5]

093

using solid buoyant material [5]

105

having gas-filled compartments (connection of valves to inflatable elastic bodies B 60 C 29/00) [5]

covering the torso, e.g. harnesses [5]

115

using solid buoyant material [5]

125

having gas-filled compartments (connection of valves to inflatable elastic bodies B 60 C 29/00) [5]

attachable to a body member, e.g. arm, neck, head or waist [5]

135

using solid buoyant material [5]

having gas-filled compartments (connection of valves to inflatable elastic bodies B 60 C 29/00) [5]

Inflatable equipment characterised by the gas-generating device [5]

Arrangements for puncturing gas-generating cartridges [5]

characterised by signalling means, e.g. lights (arrangement or adaptation of signalling or lighting devices for ships or other waterborne vessels B 63 B 45/00)

Devices for holding or launching life-buoys, inflatable life-rafts, or other floatable life-saving equipment (equipment for handling life-boats or the like B 63 B 23/00)

Containers for inflatable life-saving equipment [5]

Cast or life lines; Attachments thereto; Containers therefor (adaptations of aerial cableways to shipboard use B 63 B 27/18; guns for line-throwing F 41 F; line-carrying missiles F 42 B 12/68)

Adaptations of vessel parts or furnishings to life-saving purposes

Floatable furniture

Equipment adapted to use on ice

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Equipment for dwelling or working under water; Means for searching for underwater objects (composition of chemical substances for use in breathing apparatus A 62 D 9/00; swimming aids or equipment A 63 B 31/00 to A 63 B 35/00; submarines B 63 G 8/00)

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Divers' equipment

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Resilient suits

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with rigid helmet

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Control of air pressure within suit, e.g. for controlling buoyancy

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Rigid suits

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Diving masks (swimming helmets, swimming goggles A 63 B 33/00)

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with forced air supply

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with air supply by suction from diver, e.g. schnorkels

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Air supply (for diving masks B 63 C 11/14, B 63 C 11/16; respiratory apparatus in general A 62 B)

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from water surface

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carried by diver

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in closed circulation

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Communication means (electric communication in general H 04)

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Heating

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Ballast

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Decompression arrangements; Exercise equipment

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Diving chambers with mechanical link, e.g. cable, to a base (manipulators B 25 J; diving chambers without mechanical link to a base B 63 G 8/00; caissons adapted to laying foundations E 02 D 23/00 to E 02 D 27/00)

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of closed type

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with entrance above water surface

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adapted to specific work

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with independent propulsion or directional control

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of open type, e.g. diving-bells

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Divers' sleds or like craft, i.e. craft on which man in diving-suit rides

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Means for searching for underwater objects (means for indicating the location of sunken objects B 63 C 7/26; locating by use of the reflection or reradiation of radio or other waves G 01 S)

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Floating structures with underwater viewing devices, e.g. with windows [5]

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using grapnels

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Tools specially adapted for working underwater, not otherwise provided for [3]

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Equipment forming part of, or attachable to, vessels, facilitating transport over land (harnesses attachable to vessels for personal carrying A 45 F; amphibious craft, land vehicles convertible for use on water B 60 F; land vehicles for carrying boats B 60 P)

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Storing of vessels on land otherwise than by dry-docking