IPC 6 English version E04H !A-E04H 7/32

E04H-E04H00732

SECTION E– FIXED CONSTRUCTIONS

E 04

BUILDING (layered materials, layered products in general B 32 B)

E 04 H

BUILDINGS OR LIKE STRUCTURES FOR PARTICULAR PURPOSES; SWIMMING OR SPLASH BATHS OR POOLS; MASTS; FENCING; TENTS OR CANOPIES, IN GENERAL (foundations E 02 D) [4]

Notes

(1)

This subclass covers

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primarily the layout of buildings as a whole;

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details which are peculiar to types of buildings, or buildings for special purposes, specified in the groups;

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canopies in general and canopies similar in construction to tents. [4]

(2)

This subclass does not cover canopies having special application, which are covered by the relevant place, e.g. protecting chairs against the weather A 47 C 7/66, bed canopies A 47 C 29/00, sun shades or awnings for buildings E 04 F 10/00. [4]

(3)

In this subclass, the following terms are used with the meanings indicated:

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"buildings" does not exclude engineering structures and other constructions;

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"tent" means a tent or canopy having a supporting means, e.g. frame and a flexible cover. [4]

Buildings or groups of buildings for dwelling or office purposes; General layout, e.g. modular co-ordination, staggered storeys (E 04 H 3/00 takes precedence; buildings for two or more purposes, drive-in buildings E 04 H 14/00; building construction in general E 04 B 1/00)

Dwelling houses; Buildings for temporary habitation (small erections for limited occupation E 04 H 1/12)

Apartment houses arranged in two or more levels

Office buildings; Banks (E 04 H 1/12 takes precedence; furniture or fittings for shops, storehouses, or the like A 47 F)

Small buildings or other erections for limited occupation, erected in the open air or arranged in buildings, e.g. kiosks, waiting shelters for bus stops or for filling stations, roofs for railway platforms, watchmen's huts, dressing cubicles (movable screens as household equipment A 47 G 5/00)

Telephone cabinets

Buildings or groups of buildings for public or similar purposes; Institutions, e.g. infirmaries, prisons (portions of buildings for individual occupation, e.g. cubicles, E 04 H 1/00; structures covering a large free area E 04 B 1/342)

Hotels; Motels; Coffee-houses; Restaurants; Shops; Department stores

Restaurants or shops having arrangements for self-service (paying counters A 47 F 9/02; furniture or installations specially adapted for supermarkets A 47 F 10/00; transport aspects B 65 G; coin-freed apparatus G 07 F)

Museums; Library buildings

Hospitals, infirmaries, or the like; Schools; Prisons

for meetings, entertainments, or sports

Tribunes, grandstands or terraces for spectators (auditoriums E 04 H 3/30; chairs, stools, benches A 47 C) [2]

Gymnasiums; Other sporting buildings (tribunes E 04 H 3/12)

for swimming (swimming or splash baths or pools E 04 H 4/00) [5]

Theatres; Concert halls; Studios for broadcasting, cinematography, television or similar purposes (drive-in buildings E 04 H 14/00; equipment for theatres or concert halls A 63 J) [2]

Constructional features of stages

Revolving stages; Stages able to be lowered (devices for raising or lowering persons A 63 J 5/12)

Shiftable or portable platforms

Constructional features of auditoriums (chairs, stools, benches A 47 C; building details providing accoustical effects E 04 B 1/99)

Swimming or splash baths or pools (wave-producers for baths A 47 K 3/10; separation B 01 D; treatment of water C 02 F; wave-producing pumps F 04 D 35/00) [5]

formed in situ [5]

prefabricated or composed of prefabricated elements [5]

Safety devices; Coverings for baths [5]

Coverings consisting of rigid elements [5]

Coverings of flexible material [5]

Devices or arrangements for circulating water [5]

Parts, details or accessories not otherwise provided for [5]

specially adapted for cleaning (cleaning devices peculiar to vessels B 63 B 59/00) [5]

Buildings or groups of buildings for industrial or agricultural purposes (building construction in general E 04 B 1/00)

Buildings or groups of buildings for industrial purposes, e.g. for power-plants, factories (buildings forming part of cooling plants E 04 H 5/10; building structures for parking vehicles E 04 H 6/00)

Transformer houses; Substations or switchgear houses [5]

Pits or building structures for inspection or services (manhole shafts or other inspection chambers in general E 02 D 29/12)

Buildings or groups of buildings for agricultural purposes (silos E 04 H 7/22; manure storage places A 01 C 3/02; greenhouses A 01 G 9/14)

Buildings forming part of cooling plants

Cooling towers (towers in general E 04 H 12/00; cooling equipment F 28)

Buildings for parking cars, rolling-stock, aircraft, vessels, or like vehicles, e.g. garages (tents for use as garages E 04 H 15/00; bicycle stands B 62 H; storing of vessels on land B 63 C 15/00; construction of ground-supported surfaces E 01 C; marking of parking areas on the ground E 01 F 9/00; building construction in general E 04 B 1/00)

Small garages, e.g. for one or two cars (attached to, or supported by, the vehicle B 62 D; prefabricated and with undivided interior E 04 B 1/343)

wheeled, hinged, foldable, telescopic, swinging, or otherwise movable (transportable or collapsible buildings in general E 04 B 1/343)

with means for shifting or lifting vehicles

Garages for many vehicles

without mechanical means for shifting or lifting vehicles, e.g. with helically-arranged fixed ramps, with movable ramps

with mechanical means for shifting or lifting vehicles

with endless conveyer chains having load-carrying parts moving vertically, e.g. paternoster lifts

Garages shaped as a wheel or drum rotatable about a horizontal axis

with means for transport in vertical direction only or independently in vertical and horizontal directions (E 04 H 6/14 takes precedence)

characterised by use of conveyer chains or rotatable rollers for horizontal transport

characterised by use of movable platforms for horizontal transport

characterised by use of dollies for horizontal transport

characterised by use of tiltable floors or floor sections; characterised by use of movable ramps

characterised by use of turntables or rotary rings for horizontal transport

with means for transport in horizontal direction only

characterised by use of conveyer chains or rotatable rollers

characterised by use of movable platforms

characterised by use of freely-movable dollies

characterised by use of tiltable floors or floor sections

characterised by use of turntables or rotary rings

Devices or arrangements peculiar to garages, not covered elsewhere, e.g. securing devices, safety devices

for storing aircraft (structures covering a large free area E 04 B 1/342)

Construction or assembling of bulk storage containers employing civil engineering techniques in situ or off the site (tower aspects E 04 H 12/00; storage aspects, e.g. floating roofs, sealing means, filling or discharging means B 65 D, B 65 G, F 17 B, F 17 C; foundations E 02 D 27/38) [2]

Containers for fluids or gases; Supports therefor (arrangements or adaptations of tanks for water supply E 03 B 11/00) [2]

mainly of metal

with vertical axis

ball-shaped

with horizontal axis

mainly of concrete, e.g. reinforced concrete, or other stone-like material

Prestressed constructions

Containers for fluent solids, e.g. silos, bunkers; Supports therefor [2]

Constructions, with or without perforated walls, depending on the use of specified materials

mainly of concrete, e.g. reinforced concrete, or other stone-like material

composed of special building elements

mainly of metal

mainly of wood

E04H 9/00 - E04H 17/26