|  | B |
SECTION B — PERFORMING OPERATIONS

SHAPING

|  | B25 |
HAND TOOLS; PORTABLE POWER-DRIVEN TOOLS; MANIPULATORS

|  | B25 |
Note(s) The word "portable" is to be understood as including suspension for easy manual handling, e.g. in connection with spring-suspended portable apparatus for use along assembly lines.

|  | B25B |
TOOLS OR BENCH DEVICES NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR, FOR FASTENING, CONNECTING, DISENGAGING, OR HOLDING

|  | B25B |
Note(s) This sub-class is to be understood as covering those hand tools for fastening, connecting, disengaging, or holding which are not provided for in another sub-class such as Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...B25C (nailing or stapling tools) or in an application class such as Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...B65B (packaging) or Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...B21F (working of wire).

|  | B25C |
NAILING OR STAPLING TOOLS (nailing apparatus for shoemaking Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...A43D)

|  | B25C |
Note(s) For the purposes of this sub-class, the term "nail" is to be understood as including pin, bolt, stud and plug.

|  | B25D |
PERCUSSIVE TOOLS (portable drilling machines with reciprocating tool which is turned intermittently when out of contact with the working face Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...E21C 3/00)

|  | B25F |
COMBINATION OR MULTI-PURPOSE TOOLS NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR

|  | B25F |
Note(s) Tools which have a clear primary function as well as a secondary function or functions are classified in the appropriate sub-class for tools having such primary function.

|  | B25G |
HANDLES FOR HAND IMPLEMENTS (attaching the blades or the like to handles of hand tools for soil working Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...A01B 1/22; handles of hand implements for harvesting Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...A01D 1/14; handles integral with brushware Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...A46B)

|  | B25G |
Note(s) This sub-class provides for handles for hand implements, in general, and also for those handles for hand implements for particular purposes which are not provided for elsewhere, e.g. in Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...A45B 9/02, Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...A45C 13/22, Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...A45C 13/26, Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...A47B 95/02, Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...A47J 45/00, Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...B25J 13/02, Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...B60N 3/02, Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...B62B 5/06, Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...B62B 9/20, Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...B62K 21/26, Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...B62M 3/14, Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...B65D 25/28, Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...E05B, Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...G05G.

|  | B25H |
WORKSHOP EQUIPMENT, e.g. FOR MARKING-OUT WORK; STORAGE MEANS FOR WORKSHOPS (storing or packaging Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...B65)

|  | B25J |
MANIPULATORS; CHAMBERS PROVIDED WITH MANIPULATION DEVICES (manipulators associated with rolling mills Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...B21B 39/20; manipulators associated with forging machines Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...B21J 13/10; cranes Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...B66C; manipulators specially adapted for and associated with nuclear reactors Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...G21C)

|  | B25J |
Note(s) The term "manipulator" is to be understood as covering handling tools, devices, or machines having a gripping or work head capable of bodily movement in space and of change of orientation, such bodily movement and change of orientation being controlled, at will, by means remote from the head.