E
SECTION E — FIXED CONSTRUCTIONS
  
BUILDING
 E04
BUILDING (layered materials, layered products in general B32B)
 E04H
BUILDINGS OR LIKE STRUCTURES FOR PARTICULAR PURPOSES; SWIMMING OR SPLASH BATHS OR POOLS; MASTS; FENCING; TENTS OR CANOPIES, IN GENERAL (foundations E02D)  [4]
 E04H

Note(s)

  1. This subclass covers
    • primarily the layout of buildings as a whole;
    • details which are peculiar to types of buildings, or buildings for special purposes, specified in the groups;
    • 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 7/62, 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:
    • "buildings" does not exclude engineering structures and other constructions;
    • "tent" means a tent or canopy having a supporting means, e.g. frame and a flexible cover.  [4]
 E04H
Subclass index
BUILDINGS
For dwelling or office purposes 1/00
For public purposes 3/00
For industrial or agricultural purposes; for parking 5/00; 6/00
SWIMMING OR SPLASH BATHS OR POOLS 4/00
CONTAINERS 7/00
BUILDINGS AFFORDING SPECIAL PROTECTION 9/00
TOWERS, MASTS, CHIMNEY STACKS 12/00
MONUMENTS, TOMBS 13/00
BUILDINGS FOR COMBINATIONS OF DIFFERENT PURPOSES, DRIVE-IN BUILDINGS 14/00
TENTS, CANOPIES 15/00
FENCING, ENCLOSURES, CORRALS 17/00
P:80 E04H 1/00
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)
 E04H 1/02
·  Dwelling houses; Buildings for temporary habitation (small erections for limited occupation E04H 1/12)
 E04H 1/04
·  ·  Apartment houses arranged in two or more levels
 E04H 1/12
·  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)
 E04H 1/14
·  ·  Telephone cabinets
P:70 E04H 3/00
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)
 E04H 3/02
·  Hotels; Motels; Coffee-houses; Restaurants; Shops; Department stores
 E04H 3/06
·  Museums; Library buildings
 E04H 3/08
·  Hospitals, infirmaries, or the like; Schools; Prisons
 E04H 3/10
·  for meetings, entertainments, or sports (building details providing acoustical effects E04B 1/99)
 E04H 3/14
·  ·  Gymnasiums; Other sporting buildings (tribunes E04H 3/10)
P:90 E04H 4/00
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]
P:60 E04H 5/00
Buildings or groups of buildings for industrial or agricultural purposes (silos E04H 7/00; greenhouses A01G 9/14; building construction in general E04B 1/00)
P:50 E04H 6/00
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)
 E04H 6/02
·  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)
 E04H 6/06
·  ·  with means for shifting or lifting vehicles
 E04H 6/08
·  Garages for many vehicles
 E04H 6/12
·  ·  with mechanical means for shifting or lifting vehicles
 E04H 6/14
·  ·  ·  with endless conveyer chains having load-carrying parts moving vertically, e.g. paternoster lifts
 E04H 6/18
·  ·  ·  with means for transport in vertical direction only or independently in vertical and horizontal directions (E04H 6/14 takes precedence)
 E04H 6/20
·  ·  ·  ·  characterised by use of conveyer chains or rotatable rollers for horizontal transport
 E04H 6/22
·  ·  ·  ·  characterised by use of movable platforms for horizontal transport
 E04H 6/24
·  ·  ·  ·  characterised by use of dollies for horizontal transport
 E04H 6/26
·  ·  ·  ·  characterised by use of tiltable floors or floor sections; characterised by use of movable ramps
 E04H 6/28
·  ·  ·  ·  characterised by use of turntables or rotary rings for horizontal transport
P:20 E04H 7/00
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 27/32)  [2]
P:10 E04H 9/00
Buildings, groups of buildings, or shelters, adapted to withstand or provide protection against, abnormal external influences, e.g. war-like action, earthquake, extreme climate (floating buildings B63B; foundation aspects E02D; building constructions in general E04B; bearings or like supports allowing movement E04B 1/36; special details regarding insulation or other protection E04B 1/62; supporting structures for endangered or damaged existing buildings or parts thereof E04G 23/00; doors, windows E06B 5/00; air-conditioning, ventilation F24F; camouflage F41H 3/00; cells or rooms shielded against dangerous radiation G21F 7/00)
 E04H 9/02
·  withstanding earthquake or sinking of ground (foundations E02D 27/34)
 E04H 9/04
·  against air-raid or other war-like actions (respiratory apparatus A62B)
 E04H 9/14
·  against other dangerous influences, e.g. tornadoes, floods
 E04H 9/16
·  against adverse conditions, e.g. extreme climate, pests
P:30 E04H 12/00
Towers; Masts, poles; Chimney stacks; Water-towers; Methods of erecting such structures (cooling towers E04H 5/00; supports for road signs E01F 9/011; foundation piles E02D 5/22; foundations for masts, poles, or chimneys E02D 27/32; structural elongated members in general E04C 3/00; fixed climbing irons E06C 9/00; derricks for oil drilling E21B 15/00)  [6]
 E04H 12/22
·  Sockets or holders for poles or posts
P:40 E04H 13/00
Monuments; Tombs; Burial vaults; Columbaria (sculpture or other artistic features B44)
P:0 E04H 14/00
Buildings for combinations of different purposes not covered by any single one of main groups E04H 1/00-E04H 13/00 of this subclass, e.g. for double purpose (E04H 3/02, E04H 9/04 take precedence); Buildings of the drive-in type
P:100 E04H 15/00
Tents or canopies, in general  [4]
 E04H 15/20
·  inflatable, e.g. shaped, strengthened, or supported by fluid pressure (connection of valves to inflatable elastic bodies B60C 29/00; inflatable forms for making walls, floors, ceilings or roofs in situ E04G 11/00)  [4]
 E04H 15/32
·  Parts, components, construction details, accessories, interior equipment, specially adapted for tents, e.g. guy-line equipment, skirts, thresholds  [4]
 E04H 15/34
·  ·  Supporting means, e.g. frames  [4]
P:110 E04H 17/00
Fencing, e.g. fences, enclosures, corrals (sockets for posts E04H 12/22; features peculiar to electrified fences A01K 3/00, H05C; means for allowing passage through fences, barriers, or the like E06B 11/00)
 E04H 17/02
·  Wire fencing, e.g. made of wire mesh (E04H 17/14 takes precedence; working or processing of wire B21F, e.g. making wire nets B21F 27/00)
 E04H 17/14
·  Fences constructed of rigid elements, e.g. with additional wire fillings or with posts
 E04H 17/16
·  ·  using prefabricated panel-like elements, e.g. wired frames
 E04H 17/26
·  Devices for erecting or removing fences