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| SECTION F– MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING |
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| WEAPONS; BLASTING |
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| F 41 | WEAPONS |
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| Notes |
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| (1) | This class covers also means for practice and training which may have aspects of simulation, e.g. in apparatus for so-called "military games", although simulators are generally covered by class G 09. [4] |
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| (2) | In this class, the following terms or expressions are used with the meanings indicated: |
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| – | "smallarm" means a firearm which is generally held with one or both hands for firing, but this term also includes a light machine-gun which may be supported on a tripod or the like during firing; [5] |
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| – | "gun" means any weapon having a barrel and a trigger or firing mechanism for projecting a missile; it may be a piece of ordnance or a smallarm. It may use combustible or explosive propellant charges, air pressure, electromagnetism or other propulsive forces; [5] |
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| – | "revolver-type gun" means a gun having a revolving drum magazine, the chambers of which are used successively as firing chamber; [5] |
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| – | "revolver" means a revolver-type pistol; [5] |
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| – | "semi-automatic firearm" means a firearm from which one shot is fired after actuation of the trigger and which then returns to a condition for firing a subsequent shot upon renewed actuation of the trigger; |
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| – | "automatic firearm" means a firearm which will continue firing so long as the initial firing pressure is maintained on the trigger; |
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| – | "sighting" means bringing into visual coincidence a direction defined by a so-called "sighting" device with the direction of a target; |
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| – | "aiming" means bringing a weapon to a direction differing from the sighting direction by corrections in order that the projectile may hit the target; |
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| – | "laying" means setting a weapon in the correct position for hitting a target. |
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| (3) | Attention is drawn to the definitions of "projectile", "missile" and "rocket" given in Note (2) following the title of class F 42. [4] |
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| F 41 A | FUNCTIONAL FEATURES OR DETAILS COMMON TO BOTH SMALLARMS AND ORDNANCE, e.g. CANNONS; MOUNTINGS FOR SMALLARMS OR ORDNANCE [5] |
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| F 41 B | WEAPONS FOR PROJECTING MISSILES WITHOUT USE OF EXPLOSIVE OR COMBUSTIBLE PROPELLANT CHARGE; WEAPONS NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR (projectiles for fishing, e.g. fish-spears, A 01 K 81/00; sports implements for throwing A 63 B 65/00, e.g. boomerangs A 63 B 65/08; stationary apparatus for projecting sports balls, e.g. tennis balls, A 63 B 69/40; throwing or slinging toys A 63 H 33/18, knives, axes B 26 B; projectiles or missiles other than those incorporating springs as projecting means F 42 B 6/00) |
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| F 41 C | SMALLARMS, e.g. PISTOLS, RIFLES (functional features or details common to both smallarms and ordnance, mountings therefor F 41 A; projecting missiles without use of explosive or combustible propellant charge F 41 B) |
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| F 41 F | APPARATUS FOR LAUNCHING PROJECTILES OR MISSILES FROM BARRELS, e.g. CANNONS (smallarms F 41 C) |
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| F 41 G | WEAPON SIGHTS; AIMING (optical aspects thereof G 02 B) |
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| F 41 H | ARMOUR; ARMOURED TURRETS; ARMOURED OR ARMED VEHICLES; MEANS OF ATTACK OR DEFENCE, e.g. CAMOUFLAGE, IN GENERAL |
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| F 41 J | TARGETS; TARGET RANGES; BULLET CATCHERS |
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