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| 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 B21D 43/00, B23Q 7/00, B23Q 41/02; vehicle, railway, sea or aircraft aspects B60 to B64; transportation, conveyor or haulage systems specially adapted for motor vehicle or trailer assembly lines B62D 65/18; in packaging B65B; handling thin or filamentary materials B65H; hoisting, lifting, hauling, e.g. truck loaders B66; handling liquids B67; specially adapted to underground conditions E21F 13/00; storing or distributing gases or liquids F17; in handling radioactive materials G21C 19/00) |
| Subclass Index |
| HANDLING AND STORAGE |
| Loading and unloading |
| Transfer, trans-shipment |
| Storage |
| Piling, unpiling |
| of articles |
| of loose material |
| Assisting manual handling |
| CONVEYERS, CHUTES |
| Mechanical |
| with endless element |
| with particular movement |
| other kinds |
| combinations or systems of general use |
| chutes; roller-ways; projectors |
| Parts or auxiliary devices applicable to different kinds |
| rollers; frames; auxiliary handling |
| control, safety; maintenance |
| Non-mechanical |
| Storing; Storage devices |
1/ | 00 | Storing articles, individually or in orderly arrangement, in warehouses or magazines (conveyer combinations in warehouses, magazines, or workshops B65G 37/00; stacking of articles B65G 57/00; removing articles from stacks B65G 59/00; loading machines B65G 65/02; arrangements of articles for drying or baking in kilns or ovens F26, F27) |
1/ | 02 | . | Storage devices (furniture, shop fittings, table equipment A47B, A47F, A47G; mechanical garages E04H; for data record cards in association with machines for marking or sensing data G06K; coin changers or sorters G07D; coin-freed apparatus G07F) |
1/ | 04 | . | . | mechanical |
1/ | 06 | . | . | . | with means for presenting articles for removal at predetermined position or level (B65G 1/12 takes precedence) [3] |
1/ | 07 | . | . | . | . | the upper article of a pile being always presented at the same predetermined level [3] |
1/ | 08 | . | . | . | . | the articles being fed by gravity |
1/ | 10 | . | . | . | with relatively-movable racks to facilitate insertion or removal of articles |
1/ | 12 | . | . | . | with article supports or holders movable in a closed circuit to facilitate insertion or removal of articles |
1/ | 127 | . | . | . | . | the circuit being confined in a vertical plane [3] |
1/ | 133 | . | . | . | . | the circuit being confined in a horizontal plane [3] |
1/ | 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 B65G 47/10) [4] |
1/ | 14 | . | . | Stack holders or separators |
1/ | 16 | . | Special arrangements of articles in storage spaces |
1/ | 18 | . | . | Articles inclined so as to be mutually self-supporting |
1/ | 20 | . | . | Articles arranged in layers with spaces between articles |
3/ | 00 | 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 B65G 65/28, B65G 65/30, B65G 69/04; storing agricultural or horticultural produce A01F 25/00) |
3/ | 02 | . | in the open air (B65G 3/04 takes precedence) |
3/ | 04 | . | in bunkers, hoppers or like large containers (such containers per se B65D 88/00) |
5/ | 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 E21F 17/16) |
| Devices assisting manual conveyance of articles over short distances, e.g. in storage depots, warehouses, or factories (chutes B65G 11/00; roller-ways B65G 13/00; luggage carriers A45C 13/38; holders or carriers for hand articles or for use while travelling or camping A45F 5/00; vehicles in general, axles, wheels B60; air-cushion vehicles B60V; handcarts, sledges, features of hand-propelled wheeled devices or pedestrian-controlled, power-driven vehicles equally applicable to handcarts B62B; ship-moving devices B63C, E02C; containers, pallets B65D; air-cushions as bearing elements F16C 29/00) |
7/ | 00 | Devices for moving or tilting heavy loads (for tilting and emptying barrels or casks B65G 65/24) |
7/ | 02 | . | 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 B66F 15/00) |
7/ | 04 | . | . | Rollers |
7/ | 06 | . | . | using fluid at high pressure supplied from an independent source to provide a cushion between load and ground |
7/ | 08 | . | . | for tilting the loads |
7/ | 10 | . | . | for rolling cylindrical loads |
7/ | 12 | . | Load-carriers, e.g. hooks, slings, harness, gloves, modified for load-carrying |
9/ | 00 | Apparatus having suspended load-carriers movable by hand or gravity (manually-operated endless-rope or chain conveyers B65G 17/00; railway systems B61B) |
| 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 B65G 47/00; loading or unloading B65G 65/00; escalators or moving walkways B66B 21/00; drag-line scraper conveyers E02F 3/46) [4] |
11/ | 00 | Chutes (used as storage devices B65G 1/02, B65D 88/26; for sports, games, or amusements A63G 21/00; for refuse disposal in buildings E04F 17/12) |
11/ | 02 | . | of straight form |
11/ | 04 | . | for mail in buildings |
11/ | 06 | . | of helical or spiral form |
11/ | 08 | . | with discontinuous guiding surfaces, e.g. arranged in zig-zag or cascade formation |
11/ | 10 | . | flexible |
11/ | 12 | . | pivotable |
11/ | 14 | . | extensible, e.g. telescopic |
11/ | 16 | . | Interior surfaces; Linings |
11/ | 18 | . | Supports or mountings |
11/ | 20 | . | Auxiliary devices, e.g. for deflecting, controlling speed of, or agitating, articles or solids |
13/ | 00 | Roller-ways (storage devices comprising roller-ways B65G 1/02; endless-chain conveyers comprising load-supporting rollers B65G 17/00; rollers, or arrangements thereof B65G 39/00; in metal-rolling equipment B21B 39/00, B21B 41/00) |
13/ | 02 | . | having driven rollers |
13/ | 04 | . | . | all rollers driven |
13/ | 06 | . | . | Roller driving means [3] |
13/ | 07 | . | . | . | having endless driving elements |
13/ | 071 | . | . | . | with frictional engagement |
13/ | 073 | . | . | . | comprising free-wheel gearing |
13/ | 075 | . | Braking means [3] |
13/ | 08 | . | of curved form; with branch-offs |
13/ | 10 | . | . | Switching arrangements |
13/ | 11 | . | Roller frames |
13/ | 12 | . | . | adjustable |
15/ | 00 | 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 B65G 17/06) |
15/ | 02 | . | for conveying in a circular arc |
15/ | 04 | . | the load being carried on the lower run of the endless surface |
15/ | 06 | . | with oppositely-moving parts of the endless surface located in the same plane and parallel to one another |
15/ | 08 | . | the load-carrying surface being formed by a concave or tubular belt, e.g. a belt forming a trough |
15/ | 10 | . | 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/ | 12 | . | . | with two or more endless belts |
15/ | 14 | . | . | . | the load being conveyed between the belts |
15/ | 16 | . | . | . | . | between an auxiliary belt and a main belt |
15/ | 18 | . | . | . | the belts being sealed at their edges (endless- surface conveyers having a single belt with sealed edges B65G 15/08) |
15/ | 20 | . | . | . | arranged side by side, e.g. for conveyance of flat articles in vertical position (for conveying sheets or like thin flat articles B65H) |
15/ | 22 | . | comprising a series of co-operating units |
15/ | 24 | . | . | in tandem |
15/ | 26 | . | . | extensible, e.g. telescopic |
15/ | 28 | . | Conveyers with a load-conveying surface formed by a single flat belt, not otherwise provided for |
15/ | 30 | . | Belts or like endless load-carriers (co-operating with rails or the like B65G 21/22; with rollers B65G 39/20; belts in general F16G) |
15/ | 32 | . | . | made of rubber or plastics |
15/ | 34 | . | . | . | with reinforcing layers, e.g. of fabric |
15/ | 36 | . | . | . | . | the layers incorporating ropes, chains, or rolled steel sections |
15/ | 38 | . | . | . | with flame-resistant layers, e.g. of asbestos, glass |
15/ | 40 | . | . | . | troughed or tubular; formed with joints facilitating troughing |
15/ | 42 | . | . | . | having ribs, ridges, or other surface projections |
15/ | 44 | . | . | . | . | for impelling the loads |
15/ | 46 | . | . | . | formed with guides |
15/ | 48 | . | . | metallic |
15/ | 50 | . | . | Endless load-carriers consisting of a series of parallel ropes or belt strips |
15/ | 52 | . | . | . | interconnected by transverse slats |
15/ | 54 | . | . | Endless load-carriers made of interwoven ropes or wires |
15/ | 56 | . | . | with edge-protecting or reinforcing means |
15/ | 58 | . | . | with means for holding or retaining the loads in fixed position, e.g. magnetic |
15/ | 60 | . | Arrangements for supporting or guiding belts, e.g. by fluid jets (construction of rollers or supports therefor B65G 39/00, F16G) |
15/ | 62 | . | . | Guides for sliding belts |
15/ | 64 | . | . | for automatically maintaining the position of the belts |
| B65G 17/00 - B65G 25/12 |