IPC Definitions - January 01, 2012
A63B - Definition
This subclass covers:
Gymnastic or exercising apparatus or equipment, of which examples are:
Climbing or mountaineering apparatus, including apparatus for climbing trees or poles.
Swimming aids or equipment, e.g. flippers, goggles.
Balls for ball games including:
Rackets, bats or other striking implements for ball games, e.g. tennis rackets and similar, golf clubs, baseball bats, cricket bats, hockey sticks.
Accessories for golf; accessories for other ball games.
Targets or goals for ball games; tennis and similar nets and accessories therefor.
Implements for throwing, e.g. darts, javelins, spears, throwing-hammers, boomerangs, discus discs, quoits, juggling clubs.
Miscellaneous sporting games, e.g. miniature golf, juggling, curling, badminton, shuttlecock or like games, games using a hockey puck; projectiles for these games which do not fall into the above category of balls for ball games.
Training appliances for particular sports, e.g. for fencing, riding, skiing, rowing, punching-balls for boxing, golf swing trainers, artificial mountain slopes.
Other games or sports accessories, e.g. indicating or scoring devices, body protectors.
Relationship between large subject matter areas
Some sporting subject matter is to be found in other subclasses of class A63. Skates, skis and their bindings, roller skates, skate-boards and the design or layout of playing-courts, rinks, bowling-greens or water-skiing areas or the like are classified in A63C. Bowling-alleys, bowling-games and equipment for bowls (but not the balls which are in A63B) and billiards or snooker are classified in A63D. Merry-go-rounds, swings, rocking-horses, toy animals for riding, chutes, switchbacks, water roundabouts, helter-skelters or the like are classified in A63G. Toys are in A63H. Racing, riding sports and equipment and accessories therefore, including race-courses and race-tracks, are in A63K.
In relation to apparatus or methods for manufacturing balls, it should be borne in mind that working of plastics or substances in a plastic state is classified in class B29 and the chemical or compositional aspects of balls is in Section C, e.g. compositions for making golf balls are usually in subclass C08L.
References relevant to classification in this subclass
This subclass does not cover:
Protective equipment in the form of clothing or garments for sporting purposes | A41D 13/00 |
in the form of caps or hats | A42B 1/08 |
Helmets | A42B 3/00 |
Apparatus for passive exercising or massage | A61H |
Unicycles | B62K 1/00 |
Vessels or like floating structures for pleasure or sport | B63B 35/71, B63B 35/73 |
Life-saving in water | B63C 9/00 |
Breathing aids for swimming, e.g. snorkels | B63C 11/12 |
Divers' sleds or like craft | B63C 11/46 |
Training of parachutists | B64D 23/00 |
Archers' finger tabs | F41B 5/16 |
Traps for clay-pigeon targets | F41J 9/18 |
Devices for exercising or strengthening of fingers or arms in teaching music | G09B 15/06 |
Non-skid devices or attachments for footwear, e.g. crampons | A43C 15/00 |
Breathing masks or helmets for use at high altitudes | A62B 18/00 |
Safety belts for climbers | A62B 35/00 |
Picks | B25D 7/00 |
Ladders attached to fixed structures | E06C 9/04 |
Attention is drawn to the following places, which may be of interest for search:
Measuring muscular strength | A61B 5/22 |
Connecting valves to inflatable elastic bodies | B60C 29/00 |
Throwing weapons | F41B |
e.g. sling-weapons | F41B 3/00 |
Stop watches | G04F |
Timing devices | G07C |