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

IPC ⁷ English version

E04H-E04H00732

E04H 9/00 - E04H 17/26

SECTION E – FIXED CONSTRUCTIONS

E 04

BUILDING (layered materials, layered products in general B32B)

E 04 H

BUILDINGS OR LIKE STRUCTURES FOR PARTICULAR PURPOSES; SWIMMING OR SPLASH BATHS OR POOLS; MASTS; FENCING; TENTS OR CANOPIES, IN GENERAL (foundations E02D) [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 A47C 7/66, bed canopies A47C 29/00, sun shades or awnings for buildings E04F 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]

Subclass Index

BUILDINGS

For dwelling or office purposes

E04H 1/00

For public purposes

E04H 3/00

For industrial or agricultural purposes; for parking

E04H 5/00; E04H 6/00

SWIMMING OR SPLASH BATHS OR POOLS

E04H 4/00

CONTAINERS

E04H 7/00

BUILDINGS AFFORDING SPECIAL PROTECTION

E04H 9/00

TOWERS, MASTS, CHIMNEY STACKS

E04H 12/00

MONUMENTS, TOMBS

E04H 13/00

BUILDINGS FOR COMBINATIONS OF DIFFERENT PURPOSES, DRIVE-IN BUILDINGS

E04H 14/00

TENTS, CANOPIES

E04H 15/00

FENCING, ENCLOSURES, CORRALS

E04H 17/00

Buildings or groups of buildings for dwelling or office purposes; General layout, e.g. modular co-ordination, staggered storeys (E04H 3/00 takes precedence; buildings for two or more purposes, drive-in buildings E04H 14/00; building construction in general E04B 1/00)

Dwelling houses; Buildings for temporary habitation (small erections for limited occupation E04H 1/12)

Apartment houses arranged in two or more levels

Office buildings; Banks (E04H 1/12 takes precedence; furniture or fittings for shops, storehouses, or the like A47F)

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 A47G 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, E04H 1/00; structures covering a large free area E04B 1/342)

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

Restaurants or shops having arrangements for self-service (paying counters A47F 9/02; furniture or installations specially adapted for supermarkets A47F 10/00; transport aspects B65G; coin-freed apparatus G07F)

Museums; Library buildings

Hospitals, infirmaries, or the like; Schools; Prisons

for meetings, entertainments, or sports

Tribunes, grandstands or terraces for spectators (auditoriums E04H 3/30; chairs, stools, benches A47C) [2]

Gymnasiums; Other sporting buildings (tribunes E04H 3/12)

for swimming (swimming or splash baths or pools E04H 4/00) [5]

Theatres; Concert halls; Studios for broadcasting, cinematography, television or similar purposes (drive-in buildings E04H 14/00; equipment for theatres or concert halls A63J) [2]

Constructional features of stages

Revolving stages; Stages able to be lowered (devices for raising or lowering persons A63J 5/12)

Shiftable or portable platforms

Constructional features of auditoriums (chairs, stools, benches A47C; building details providing acoustical effects E04B 1/99)

Swimming or splash baths or pools (wave-producers for baths A47K 3/10; separation B01D; treatment of water C02F; wave-producing pumps F04D 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 B63B 59/00) [5]

Buildings or groups of buildings for industrial or agricultural purposes (building construction in general E04B 1/00)

Buildings or groups of buildings for industrial purposes, e.g. for power-plants, factories (buildings forming part of cooling plants E04H 5/10; building structures for parking vehicles E04H 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 E02D 29/12)

Buildings or groups of buildings for agricultural purposes (silos E04H 7/22; manure storage places A01C 3/02; greenhouses A01G 9/14)

Buildings forming part of cooling plants

Cooling towers (towers in general E04H 12/00; cooling equipment F28)

Buildings for parking cars, rolling-stock, aircraft, vessels, or like vehicles, e.g. garages (tents for use as garages E04H 15/00; bicycle stands B62H; storing of vessels on land B63C 15/00; construction of ground-supported surfaces E01C; marking of parking areas on the ground E01F 9/00; building construction in general E04B 1/00)

Small garages, e.g. for one or two cars (attached to, or supported by, the vehicle B62D; prefabricated and with undivided interior E04B 1/343)

wheeled, hinged, foldable, telescopic, swinging, or otherwise movable (transportable or collapsible buildings in general E04B 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 (E04H 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 E04B 1/342)

Construction or assembling of bulk storage containers employing civil engineering techniques in situ or off the site (tower aspects E04H 12/00; storage aspects, e.g. floating roofs, sealing means, filling or discharging means B65D, B65G, F17B, F17C; foundations E02D 27/38) [2]

Containers for fluids or gases; Supports therefor (arrangements or adaptations of tanks for water supply E03B 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