IPC 6 English version E02B-E02B 17/08

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E02-E02B01708

SECTION E– FIXED CONSTRUCTIONS

E 02

HYDRAULIC ENGINEERING; FOUNDATIONS; SOIL-SHIFTING

E 02 B

HYDRAULIC ENGINEERING (ship-lifting E 02 C; dredging E 02 F)

Equipment or apparatus for, or methods of, general hydraulic engineering

Hydraulic models

Engineering work in connection with control or use of streams, rivers, coasts, or other marine sites (barrages or weirs E 02 B 7/00); Sealings or joints for engineering work in general

Stream regulation, e.g. breaking up subaqueous rock, cleaning the beds of waterways, directing the water flow (dredging or scraping devices E 02 F)

Structures or apparatus for, or methods of, protecting banks, coasts, or harbours (sealings or joints E 02 B 3/16)

Moles; Piers; Quays; Quay walls; Groynes; Breakwaters

Structures of loose stones with or without piles (piles E 02 D 5/00)

Dams; Dykes; Sluice ways or other structures for dykes, dams, or the like (making embankments or dams in general E 02 D 17/18)

Revetment of banks, dams, watercourses, or the like (of slopes in general E 02 D 17/20)

Preformed blocks; Arrangements thereof

Sealings or joints (joints for foundation structures E 02 D 29/16; sealing joints not restricted to hydraulic engineering work E 04 B 1/68)

Reclamation of land from water (drainage of soil E 02 B 11/00)

Equipment for shipping on coasts, in harbours or on other fixed marine structures, e.g. bollards (tying-up, anchoring B 63 B 21/00, e.g. bollards for shipping B 63 B 21/06; buoys B 63 B 22/00) [5]

Mooring posts [5]

Fenders (fenders integral with waterborne vessels or specially adapted therefor B 63 B 59/02) [5]

Fender piles [5]

Artificial water canals (for water-power plants E 02 B 9/02; irrigation of soil E 02 B 13/00)

Making or lining canals

Navigable canals

Operating equipment in connection with canals (ship-lifting devices E 02 C)

Details, e.g. gates, screens

Barrages or weirs; Layout, construction, methods of, or devices for, making same (for protecting banks, coasts, or harbours E 02 B 3/04; sealings or joints E 02 B 3/16; handling building or like materials for hydraulic engineering E 02 D 15/00; foundations in general E 02 D 27/00)

Fixed barrages

Dams across valleys

Earth-fill dams; Rock-fill dams

Wall dams

Gravity dams, i.e. those in which the weight of the structure prevents overturning

Arch dams

Buttress dams

Fixed weirs; Superstructures or flash-boards therefor

Siphon weirs

Movable barrages; Lock gates

Stop log dams; Emergency gates

Needle weirs

Vertical-lift gates

with sliding gates

with guide wheels or rollers for the gates

Cylindrical or tubular gates

Flash-boards for vertical-lift gates

Elevating mechanisms for vertical-lift gates

Rolling gates

Swinging or turning gates

Gates of segmental or sector-like shape with horizontal axis

Hinged-leaf gates

Gates turning round a horizontal axis arranged midway of the flap

Roof or double shutter gates

Floating gates

Equipment preventing vibration of gates

Sealings for gates

Details of barrages or weirs (cleaning or keeping clear the surface of open water E 02 B 15/00)

Sediment base gates; Sand sluices; Structures for arresting waterborne material

Valves, slides, or the like; Submerged sluice gates

Spillways; Devices for dissipation of energy, e.g. for reducing eddies

Fish passes; Passages for rafts or boats

Water-power plants; Layout, construction or equipment, methods of, or apparatus for, making same (hydraulic motors F 03 B)

Water-ways

Free-flow canals or flumes; Intakes (gratings or screens therefor E 02 B 5/08)

Pressure galleries or pressure conduits; Galleries specially adapted to house pressure conduits; Means specially adapted for use therewith, e.g. housings, valves, gates (driving inclined galleries E 21 D 9/02; valves in general F 16 K; conduits in general F 16 L) [6]

Tide or wave power plants (water-pressure machines, tide or wave motors F 03 B)

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Drainage of soil, e.g. for agricultural purposes

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Drainage-device-laying apparatus, e.g. drainage ploughs

13/

Irrigation ditches, i.e. gravity flow, open channel water distribution systems (other distribution systems for watering or spraying gardens, fields, sports grounds, or the like A 01 G 25/00) [2]

13/

Closures for irrigation conduits

15/

Cleaning or keeping clear the surface of open water; Apparatus therefor (construction of ships or other waterborne vessels B 63 B, e.g. vessels specially adapted for collecting pollution from open water B 63 B 35/32; in swimming or splash baths or pools E 04 H 4/16) [5]

15/

from ice [5]

15/

Devices for cleaning or keeping clear the surface of open water from oil or like floating materials by separating or removing these materials (other treatment of water, waste water or sewage C 02 F; materials for treating liquid pollutants, e.g. oil, gasoline, fat, C 09 K 3/32)

15/

Barriers therefor (E 02 B 15/08 takes precedence) [5]

15/

Devices for reducing the polluted area without removing the material [5]

15/

Devices for removing the material from the surface [5]

17/

Artificial islands mounted on piles or like supports, e.g. platforms on raisable legs; Construction methods therefor (fenders E 02 B 3/26; anchoring floating platforms B 63 B 21/00; floating platforms, e.g. anchored, B 63 B 35/44; independent underwater structures E 02 D 29/00) [5]

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placed by lowering the supporting construction to the bottom, e.g. with subsequent fixing thereto

17/

Equipment specially adapted for raising, lowering, or immobilising the working platform relative to the supporting construction (platform lifts in general B 66 F 7/00)

17/

for immobilising, e.g. using wedges or clamping rings

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for raising or lowering