E
SECTION E — FIXED CONSTRUCTIONS
  
BUILDING
 E02
HYDRAULIC ENGINEERING; FOUNDATIONS; SOIL-SHIFTING
 E02F
DREDGING; SOIL-SHIFTING (winning peat E21C 49/00)
 E02F

Note(s)

This subclass covers:

  • primarily equipment for excavating or loosening earth or for moving loose earth;
  • equipment for working similarly on other materials and similar equipment for loading or unloading materials.

 E02F
Subclass index
GENERAL WORKING METHODS 1/00
HAND-OPERATED MACHINES OR APPARATUS FOR GENERAL USE 3/02
MECHANICALLY-DRIVEN MACHINES OR APPARATUS FOR GENERAL USE OR THEIR SPECIAL DETAILS 3/04
MACHINES FOR SPECIAL PURPOSES OR THEIR SPECIAL DETAILS 5/00
EQUIPMENT FOR CONVEYING OR SEPARATING EXCAVATED MATERIAL 7/00
GENERAL DETAILS 9/00
P:0 E02F 1/00
General working methods with dredgers or soil-shifting machines (methods for making embankments E02D 17/18; methods for mining E21C)
P:20 E02F 3/00
Dredgers; Soil-shifting machines (for special purposes E02F 5/00; other machines or apparatus for mining E21C; tunnelling E21D)
 E02F 3/02
·  hand-operated
 E02F 3/04
·  mechanically-driven
 E02F 3/08
·  ·  with digging elements on an endless chain (conveyers B65G)
 E02F 3/18
·  ·  with digging wheels turning round an axis
 E02F 3/28
·  ·  with digging tools mounted on a dipper- or bucket-arm, e.g. dippers, buckets  [4]
 E02F 3/36
·  ·  ·  Component parts
 E02F 3/40
·  ·  ·  ·  Dippers; Buckets  [4]
 E02F 3/42
·  ·  ·  ·  Drives for dippers, buckets, dipper-arms or bucket-arms  [4]
 E02F 3/46
·  ·  with reciprocating digging or scraping elements moved by cables or hoisting ropes  [4]
 E02F 3/64
·  ·  Bucket cars, i.e. having scraper bowls  [4]
 E02F 3/76
·  ·  Graders, bulldozers, or the like with scraper plates or ploughshare-like elements (soil working A01B); Levelling devices  [4]
 E02F 3/88
·  ·  with arrangements acting by a sucking or forcing effect, e.g. suction dredgers (pumps in general F04)
P:10 E02F 5/00
Dredgers or soil-shifting machines for special purposes
 E02F 5/02
·  for digging trenches or ditches (agricultural ploughs for working ridges A01B 13/00)
 E02F 5/10
·  ·  with arrangements for reinforcing trenches or ditches; with arrangements for making or assembling conduits or for laying conduits or cables (laying pipes per se F16L 1/00; making pipes in situ F16L 1/028; laying electric cables per se H02G 1/06)  [6]
P:30 E02F 7/00
Equipment for conveying or separating excavated material (barges adapted for carrying-away material from floating dredgers B63B 35/00)
P:40 E02F 9/00
Component parts of dredgers or soil-shifting machines, not restricted to one of the kinds covered by groups E02F 3/00-E02F 7/00 (laying-out or take-up devices for trailing electric cables B66C)  [3]
 E02F 9/02
·  Travelling gear (for motor vehicles B60B, B60G; undercarriages for locomotives or railroad cars B61F; track-laying vehicles B62D; for cranes B66C)
 E02F 9/08
·  Superstructures; Supports for superstructures
 E02F 9/14
·  Booms; Cable suspensions
 E02F 9/16
·  Cabins, platforms, or the like for the driver (for cranes B66C 13/00)
 E02F 9/18
·  Counterweights
 E02F 9/20
·  Drives; Control devices (gearing in general F16H; controlling in general G05; electric multi-motor drives H02K, H02P)
 E02F 9/22
·  ·  Hydraulic or pneumatic drives
 E02F 9/24
·  Safety devices
 E02F 9/26
·  Indicating devices
 E02F 9/28
·  Small metalwork for digging elements, e.g. teeth