IPC 7 English version
 
A01K-A01K06102
  A01K 63/00 - A01K 97/28  

SECTION A – HUMAN NECESSITIES


A 01AGRICULTURE; FORESTRY; ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; HUNTING; TRAPPING; FISHING


A 01 KANIMAL HUSBANDRY; CARE OF BIRDS, FISHES, INSECTS; FISHING; REARING OR BREEDING ANIMALS, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR; NEW BREEDS OF ANIMALS


Note

 This subclass covers:

 –equipment for the care, culture or rearing of all animals or for obtaining their products, unless provided for elsewhere, e.g. milking A01J, shoeing animals A01L, veterinary devices A61D, culture of animal cells C12M, C12N;

 –methods of breeding animals or new animal breeds.  [5]


Subclass Index

ANIMAL HUSBANDRY IN GENERAL, ESPECIALLY CATTLE RAISING 

Housing, feeding or watering devices 

A01K 1/00 to A01K 9/00 

Taming; muzzles, leads 

A01K 15/00; A01K 25/00; A01K 27/00 

Marking; devices for grooming 

A01K 11/00; A01K 13/00 

Removing the fleece 

A01K 14/00 

Other apparatus 

A01K 17/00 to A01K 23/00, A01K 29/00 

AVICULTURE; EGGS 

Housing, feeding or drinking appliances 

A01K 31/00, A01K 39/00 

Marking 

A01K 35/00 

Other apparatus 

A01K 33/00, A01K 37/00, A01K 41/00, A01K 43/00, A01K 45/00 

APICULTURE 

Housing, feeding or drinking appliances 

A01K 47/00, A01K 53/00 

Other devices 

A01K 49/00, A01K 51/00, A01K 55/00, A01K 57/00, A01K 59/00 

PISCICULTURE 

A01K 61/00, A01K 63/00 

OTHER REARING OR BREEDING, NEW BREEDS 

A01K 67/00 

FISHING WITH NETS 

A01K 69/00 to A01K 75/00 

ANGLING 

Rods; reels 

A01K 87/00; A01K 89/00 

Lines; accessories therefor 

A01K 91/00; A01K 83/00, A01K 85/00, A01K 93/00, A01K 95/00 

Accessories 

A01K 97/00 

OTHER FISHING 

A01K 69/00, A01K 77/00 to A01K 81/00 


Animal husbandry in general, especially cattle-raising (devices in connection with harnesses B68B)


1/

00Housing animals; Equipment therefor (building construction, features of buildings E04; ventilating buildings F24F)

1/

01.Removal of dung or urine (A01K 1/015 takes precedence)  [2]

1/

015.Floor coverings, e.g. bedding-down sheets  [2]

1/

02.Pigsties; Dog-kennels; Rabbit-hutches or the like

1/

03..Housing for domestic or laboratory animals  [2]

1/

035..Devices for use in keeping domestic animals, e.g. fittings in housings, dog beds  [2]

1/

04.Tethering-poles or the like

1/

06.Devices for fastening animals, e.g. halters, toggles, neck-bars, chain fastenings

1/

062..Neck-bars  [2]

1/

064..Chain fastenings  [2]

1/

08.Arrangements for simultaneously releasing several animals

1/

10.Feed racks (devices for impeding movement of animals A01K 15/04)

1/

12.Milking stations (devices for milking A01J 1/00 to A01J 9/00)  [2]


3/

00Pasturing equipment, e.g. tethering devices; Grids for preventing cattle from straying; Electrified wire fencing (construction of fencing in general E04H 17/00; electric circuits for fences H05C)


5/

00Feeding devices for stock or game (A01K 1/10 takes precedence; for poultry A01K 39/00) [2]

5/

01.Feed troughs; Feed pails  [2]

5/

015.Licking-stone holders (salt blocks A23K 1/16)  [2]

5/

02.Automatic devices


7/

00Watering equipment for stock or game

7/

02.Automatic devices (construction of valves F16K)

7/

04..actuated by float  [2]

7/

06..actuated by the animal  [2]


9/

00Sucking apparatus for young stock


11/

00Marking of animals (of poultry A01K 35/00; lead-sealing pliers B25B)


13/

00Devices for grooming or caring of animals, e.g. curry-combs (scissors B26B); Fetlock rings (bandages, poultices A61D); Tail-holders (as part of the harness B68B 5/04); Devices for preventing crib-biting; Washing devices (milking machine accessories for treatment of udders or teats A01J 7/04; for medical purposes A61D 11/00); Protection against weather conditions or insects


14/

00Removing the fleece from live sheep or similar animals (hand-held cutting tools B26B) [5]


15/

00Devices for taming animals, e.g. nose-rings, hobbles; Devices for overturning animals in general; Training equipment; Covering boxes (devices for veterinary purposes A61D 3/00)

15/

02.Training or exercising equipment (A01K 15/04 takes precedence)  [2]

15/

04.Devices for impeding movement; Devices for impeding passage through fencing  [2]


17/

00Dehorners; Horn trainers


19/

00Weaning apparatus


21/

00Devices for assisting or preventing mating (covering boxes A01K 15/00)


23/

00Manure or urine pouches


25/

00Muzzles


27/

00Leads or collars, e.g. for dogs (devices specially adapted or mounted for storing and repeatedly paying-out and re-storing lengths of material B65H 75/34)


29/

00Other apparatus for animal husbandry


Aviculture; Testing, cleaning, stamping, or grading eggs


31/

00Housing birds

31/

02.Door appliances; Automatic door-openers (counters for specific applications G07C 9/00)

31/

04.Dropping-boards; Devices for removing excrement

31/

06.Cages

31/

07..Transportable cages (A01K 31/08 takes precedence)  [2]

31/

08..Collapsible cages

31/

10.Doors; Trap-doors

31/

12.Perches

31/

14.Nest-boxes

31/

16..Laying nests for poultry; Egg collecting  [2]

31/

17...Laying batteries  [2]

31/

18.Chicken coops or houses; Brooders

31/

19..Brooders  [2]

31/

20..Heating arrangements

31/

22.Poultry runs

31/

24.Dovecots; Pigeonlofts  [2]


33/

00Nest-eggs


35/

00Marking poultry or other birds


37/

00Constraining birds, e.g. wing clamps


39/

00Feeding or drinking appliances for poultry or other birds  [2]

39/

01.Feeding devices (A01K 39/04 takes precedence)  [2]

39/

012..filling automatically  [2]

39/

014..Feed troughs; Feed throwers  [2]

39/

02.Drinking appliances (A01K 39/04 takes precedence; construction of valves F16K)  [2]

39/

022..with weight-controlled supply  [2]

39/

024..with float-controlled supply  [2]

39/

026..kept filled to constant level from incorporated storage  [2]

39/

04.Combined feeding and drinking appliances

39/

06.Cramming appliances


41/

00Incubators for poultry

41/

02.Heating arrangements

41/

04.Controlling humidity in incubators

41/

06.Egg-turning appliances for incubators


43/

00Testing, sorting, or cleaning eggs (investigating or analysing eggs, e.g. by candling, G01N 33/08)

43/

04.Grading eggs

43/

06..according to size

43/

08..according to weight (sorting according to weight in general B07C 5/16)

43/

10..Grading and stamping


45/

00Other aviculture appliances, e.g. devices for determining whether a bird is about to lay


Apiculture


47/

00Beehives

47/

02.Construction or arrangement of frames for honeycombs

47/

04.Artificial honeycombs

47/

06.Other details of beehives, e.g. ventilating devices, entrances to hives, guards, partitions, bee escapes


49/

00Rearing-boxes; Queen transporting or introducing cages


51/

00Appliances for treating beehives or parts thereof, e.g. for cleaning or disinfecting


53/

00Feeding or drinking appliances for bees


55/

00Bee-smokers; Bee-keepers' accessories, e.g. veils (smoking pipes A24F)


57/

00Appliances for providing, preventing, or catching swarms; Drone-catching devices


59/

00Honey collection

59/

02.Devices for uncapping honeycombs

59/

04.Honey strainers

59/

06.Devices for extracting wax


Pisciculture; Aquaria; Terraria


61/

00Culture of fish, mussels, crayfish, lobsters, sponges, pearls, or the like (harvesting oysters, mussels, sponges or the like A01K 80/00)

61/

02.Feeding devices for fish

   A01K 63/00 - A01K 97/28