IPC 6 English version B65G-B65G 15/64

B65G-B65G01564

SECTION B– PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING

B 65

CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL

B 65 G

TRANSPORT OR STORAGE DEVICES, e.g. CONVEYERS FOR LOADING OR TIPPING; SHOP CONVEYER SYSTEMS; PNEUMATIC TUBE CONVEYERS (transport or storage devices used in a particular handling or treatment of articles or materials, see the relevant subclass, e.g. in metal-working B 21 D 43/00, B 23 Q 7/00, B 23 Q 41/02; vehicle, railway, sea or aircraft aspects B 60 to B 64; in packaging B 65 B; handling thin or filamentary materials B 65 H; hoisting, lifting, hauling, e.g. truck loaders B 66; handling liquids B 67; specially adapted to underground conditions E 21 F 13/00; storing or distributing gases or liquids F 17; in handling radioactive materials G 21 C 19/00)

Storing; Storage devices

Storing articles, individually or in orderly arrangement, in warehouses or magazines (conveyer combinations in warehouses, magazines, or workshops B 65 G 37/00; stacking of articles B 65 G 57/00; removing articles from stacks B 65 G 59/00; loading machines B 65 G 65/02; arrangements of articles for drying or baking in kilns or ovens F 26, F 27)

Storage devices (furniture, shop fittings, table equipment A 47 B, A 47 F, A 47 G; mechanical garages E 04 H; for data record cards in association with machines for marking or sensing data G 06 K; coin changers or sorters G 07 D; coin-freed apparatus G 07 F)

mechanical

with means for presenting articles for removal at predetermined position or level (B 65 G 1/12 takes precedence) [3]

the upper article of a pile being always presented at the same predetermined level [3]

the articles being fed by gravity

with relatively-movable racks to facilitate insertion or removal of articles

with article supports or holders movable in a closed circuit to facilitate insertion or removal of articles

127

the circuit being confined in a vertical plane [3]

133

the circuit being confined in a horizontal plane [3]

137

with arrangements or automatic control means for selecting which articles are to be removed (devices for feeding articles to conveyers from several groups of articles B 65 G 47/10) [4]

Stack holders or separators

Special arrangements of articles in storage spaces

Articles inclined so as to be mutually self-supporting

Articles arranged in layers with spaces between articles

Storing bulk material or loose, i.e. disorderly, articles (filling or emptying storage spaces or containers, spreading-out or piling-up bulk material or loose articles B 65 G 65/28, B 65 G 65/30, B 65 G 69/04; storing agricultural or horticultural produce A 01 F 25/00)

in the open air (B 65 G 3/04 takes precedence)

in bunkers, hoppers or like large containers (such containers per se B 65 D 88/00)

Storing fluids in natural or artificial cavities or chambers in the earth (modification of mine passages or chambers for storage purposes, especially for fluids E 21 F 17/16)

Devices assisting manual conveyance of articles over short distances, e.g. in storage depots, warehouses, or factories (chutes B 65 G 11/00; roller-ways B 65 G 13/00; luggage carriers A 45 C 13/38; holders or carriers for hand articles or for use while travelling or camping A 45 F 5/00; vehicles in general, axles, wheels B 60; air-cushion vehicles B 60 V; handcarts, sledges, features of hand-propelled wheeled devices or pedestrian-controlled, power-driven vehicles equally applicable to handcarts B 62 B; ship-moving devices B 63 C, E 02 C; containers, pallets B 65 D; air-cushions as bearing elements F 16 C 29/00)

Devices for moving or tilting heavy loads (for tilting and emptying barrels or casks B 65 G 65/24)

Devices adapted to be interposed between loads and the ground or floor, e.g. crowbars with means for assisting conveyance of loads (crowbars per se B 66 F 15/00)

Rollers

using fluid at high pressure supplied from an independent source to provide a cushion between load and ground

for tilting the loads

for rolling cylindrical loads

Load-carriers, e.g. hooks, slings, harness, gloves, modified for load-carrying

Apparatus having suspended load-carriers movable by hand or gravity (manually-operated endless-rope or chain conveyers B 65 G 17/00; railway systems B 61 B)

Chutes; Kinds or types of conveyers; Constructional features, details, or auxiliary devices peculiar to conveyers of particular types (feeding or discharging conveyers by devices incorporated in, or operatively associated with, conveyers B 65 G 47/00; loading or unloading B 65 G 65/00; escalators or moving walkways B 66 B 21/00; drag-line scraper conveyers E 02 F 3/46) [4]

11/

Chutes (used as storage devices B 65 G 1/02, B 65 D 88/26; for sports, games, or amusements A 63 G 21/00; for refuse disposal in buildings E 04 F 17/12)

11/

of straight form

11/

for mail in buildings

11/

of helical or spiral form

11/

with discontinuous guiding surfaces, e.g. arranged in zig-zag or cascade formation

11/

flexible

11/

pivotable

11/

extensible, e.g. telescopic

11/

Interior surfaces; Linings

11/

Supports or mountings

11/

Auxiliary devices, e.g. for deflecting, controlling speed of, or agitating, articles or solids

13/

Roller-ways (storage devices comprising roller-ways B 65 G 1/02; endless-chain conveyers comprising load-supporting rollers B 65 G 17/00; rollers, or arrangements thereof B 65 G 39/00; in metal-rolling equipment B 21 B 39/00, B 21 B 41/00)

13/

having driven rollers

13/

all rollers driven

13/

Roller driving means [3]

13/

having endless driving elements

13/

071

with frictional engagement

13/

073

comprising free-wheel gearing

13/

075

Braking means [3]

13/

of curved form; with branch-offs

13/

Switching arrangements

13/

Roller frames

13/

adjustable

15/

Conveyers having endless load-conveying surfaces, i.e. belts and like continuous members, to which tractive effort is transmitted by means other than endless driving elements of similar configuration (having load-conveying surfaces formed by interconnected longitudinal links B 65 G 17/06)

15/

for conveying in a circular arc

15/

the load being carried on the lower run of the endless surface

15/

with oppositely-moving parts of the endless surface located in the same plane and parallel to one another

15/

the load-carrying surface being formed by a concave or tubular belt, e.g. a belt forming a trough

15/

comprising two or more co-operating endless surfaces with parallel longitudinal axes, or a multiplicity of parallel elements, e.g. ropes defining an endless surface

15/

with two or more endless belts

15/

the load being conveyed between the belts

15/

between an auxiliary belt and a main belt

15/

the belts being sealed at their edges (endless- surface conveyers having a single belt with sealed edges B 65 G 15/08)

15/

arranged side by side, e.g. for conveyance of flat articles in vertical position (for conveying sheets or like thin flat articles B 65 H)

15/

comprising a series of co-operating units

15/

in tandem

15/

extensible, e.g. telescopic

15/

Conveyers with a load-conveying surface formed by a single flat belt, not otherwise provided for

15/

Belts or like endless load-carriers (co-operating with rails or the like B 65 G 21/22; with rollers B 65 G 39/20; belts in general F 16 G)

15/

made of rubber or plastics

15/

with reinforcing layers, e.g. of fabric

15/

the layers incorporating ropes, chains, or rolled steel sections

15/

with flame-resistant layers, e.g. of asbestos, glass

15/

troughed or tubular; formed with joints facilitating troughing

15/

having ribs, ridges, or other surface projections

15/

for impelling the loads

15/

formed with guides

15/

metallic

15/

Endless load-carriers consisting of a series of parallel ropes or belt strips

15/

interconnected by transverse slats

15/

Endless load-carriers made of interwoven ropes or wires

15/

with edge-protecting or reinforcing means

15/

with means for holding or retaining the loads in fixed position, e.g. magnetic

15/

Arrangements for supporting or guiding belts, e.g. by fluid jets (construction of rollers or supports therefor B 65 G 39/00, F 16 G)

15/

Guides for sliding belts

15/

for automatically maintaining the position of the belts

B65G 17/00 - B65G 25/12