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 sub-class is primarily concerned with equipment for excavating or loosening earth or for moving loose earth. It is to be understood as covering equipment for working similarly on other materials and similar equipment for loading or unloading materials.

 E02F 1/00
General working methods with dredgers or soil-shifting machines (methods for making embankments E02D 17/18; methods for mining E21C)
 E02F 3/00
Dredgers; Soil-shifting machines (for special purposes E02F 5/00; machines or apparatus for mining E21C; for construction of tunnels E01G)
 E02F 3/02
·  hand-operated
 E02F 3/04
·  mechanically-driven
 E02F 3/06
·  ·  with digging screws
 E02F 3/08
·  ·  with digging elements on an endless chain (conveyers B65G)
 E02F 3/10
·  ·  ·  with tools that only loosen the material
 E02F 3/12
·  ·  ·  Component parts
 E02F 3/14
·  ·  ·  ·  Buckets; Chains; Guides for buckets or chains; Drives for chains
 E02F 3/16
·  ·  ·  ·  Safety or control devices (safety devices in general F16P; controlling in general G05)
 E02F 3/18
·  ·  with digging wheels turning round an axis
 E02F 3/20
·  ·  ·  with tools that only loosen the material
 E02F 3/22
·  ·  ·  Component parts
 E02F 3/24
·  ·  ·  ·  Digging wheels; Digging elements of wheels; Drives for wheels
 E02F 3/26
·  ·  ·  ·  Safety or control devices (safety devices in general F16P; controlling in general G05)
 E02F 3/28
·  ·  with digging tools mounted on a dipper-arm; Dippers (E02F 3/62 takes precedence)
 E02F 3/30
·  ·  ·  with a dipper-arm pivoted on a cantilever beam
 E02F 3/32
·  ·  ·  ·  working downwardly and towards the machine
 E02F 3/34
·  ·  ·  with a dipper-arm directly pivoted on the frame
 E02F 3/36
·  ·  ·  Component parts
 E02F 3/38
·  ·  ·  ·  Cantilever beams; Dipper-arms
 E02F 3/40
·  ·  ·  ·  Dippers
 E02F 3/42
·  ·  ·  ·  Drives for dippers or dipper-arms
 E02F 3/44
·  ·  with grab buckets (E02F 3/62 takes precedence; grab equipment for cranes B66C)
 E02F 3/46
·  ·  with reciprocating digging or scraping elements moved by cables or hoisting ropes (E02F 3/62 takes precedence)
 E02F 3/48
·  ·  ·  Drag-lines
 E02F 3/50
·  ·  ·  with buckets or other digging elements moved along a rigid guideway
 E02F 3/52
·  ·  ·  Cableway excavators (cable cranes B66C)
 E02F 3/54
·  ·  ·  Cable scrapers
 E02F 3/56
·  ·  ·  ·  with hand-controlled scraper or other digging elements
 E02F 3/58
·  ·  ·  Component parts
 E02F 3/60
·  ·  ·  ·  Buckets, scrapers, or other digging elements
 E02F 3/62
·  ·  drawn by a tractor or directly mounted on a tractor; Similar self-propelled machines; Skimmers, e.g. levelling apparatus
 E02F 3/64
·  ·  ·  with scraper buckets or forks; Bucket cars
 E02F 3/66
·  ·  ·  ·  with jigging buckets
 E02F 3/68
·  ·  ·  ·  with buckets movable along a fixed guide on the tractor chassis
 E02F 3/70
·  ·  ·  ·  with buckets mounted on an arm connected to the tractor chassis
 E02F 3/72
·  ·  ·  ·  ·  the arm being swingably mounted, e.g. on a turn-table (E02F 3/75 takes precedence)
 E02F 3/74
·  ·  ·  ·  ·  the arm being pivoted on a cantilever beam mounted on the tractor chassis
 E02F 3/75
·  ·  ·  ·  ·  ·  the beam being swingably mounted, e.g. on a turn-table
 E02F 3/76
·  ·  ·  Graders, bulldozers, or the like with scraper plates or ploughshare-like elements (soil-working A01B)
 E02F 3/78
·  ·  ·  with rotating digging elements
 E02F 3/80
·  ·  ·  Component parts
 E02F 3/81
·  ·  ·  ·  Buckets or forks
 E02F 3/82
·  ·  ·  ·  for emptying buckets by tilting
 E02F 3/83
·  ·  ·  ·  ·  by tilting sideways
 E02F 3/84
·  ·  ·  ·  Drives or control devices therefor
 E02F 3/85
·  ·  ·  ·  ·  Applications of hydraulic or pneumatic systems
 E02F 3/86
·  ·  ·  ·  ·  ·  for controlling bucket position
 E02F 3/87
·  ·  ·  ·  ·  ·  for controlling sequence of operations
 E02F 3/88
·  ·  with arrangements acting by a sucking or forcing effect (pumps in general F04)
 E02F 3/90
·  ·  ·  Component parts
 E02F 3/92
·  ·  ·  ·  Digging elements, e.g. suction heads
 E02F 3/94
·  ·  ·  ·  Apparatus for separating stones from the dredged material
 E02F 3/96
·  ·  with arrangements for alternate use of different digging elements
 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 13/02)
 E02F 5/04
·  ·  with digging screws
 E02F 5/06
·  ·  with digging elements mounted on an endless chain
 E02F 5/08
·  ·  with digging wheels turning round an axis
 E02F 5/10
·  ·  with arrangements for reinforcing trenches or ditches; with or without arrangements for assembling piping or cables
 E02F 5/12
·  ·  with equipment for back-filling trenches or ditches
 E02F 5/14
·  ·  Component parts for trench excavators, e.g. indicating devices
 E02F 5/16
·  Machines for digging other holes in the soil (making earth borings for foundations E02D 17/14; deep drilling E21B)
 E02F 5/18
·  ·  for horizontal holes
 E02F 5/20
·  ·  for vertical holes
 E02F 5/22
·  for making embankments; for back-filling (in combination with trench excavators E02F 5/12)
 E02F 5/24
·  ·  Depositing dredged material in mounds
 E02F 5/26
·  ·  Combined conveying-bridges and dredgers
 E02F 5/28
·  for cleaning watercourses or other waters
 E02F 5/30
·  Auxiliary apparatus, e.g. for thawing, cracking, blowing-up, or other preparatory treatment of the soil
 E02F 7/00
Equipment for conveying or separating excavated material (barges adapted for carrying-away material from floating dredgers B63B 35/28)
 E02F 7/02
·  Conveying equipment mounted on a dredger (conveyers in general B65G)
 E02F 7/04
·  Loading devices mounted on a dredger (loading devices in general B65G)
 E02F 7/06
·  Delivery chutes or screening plants mounted on a dredger (separating equipment in general B03; delivery chutes in general B65G)
 E02F 7/10
·  Pipelines for conveying excavated materials (pipes in general F16L; pipe-line systems F17D)
 E02F 9/00
Component parts for dredgers, depositing machines, or like apparatus, not adapted to a kind covered by groups E02F 3/00-E02F 7/00 (laying-out or take-up devices for trailing electric cables B66C)
 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 9/04
·  ·  Walking gears moving the dredger forward step-by-step
 E02F 9/06
·  Floating substructures as supports
 E02F 9/08
·  Superstructures; Supports for superstructures
 E02F 9/10
·  ·  Supports for movable superstructures mounted on travelling or walking gears or on other superstructures
 E02F 9/12
·  ·  ·  Slewing or traversing gears (roller and ball bearings F16C)
 E02F 9/14
·  Booms; Cable suspensions
 E02F 9/16
·  Cabins, platforms, etc. for the driver (for cranes B66C 13/54)
 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