|  | E |
SECTION E — FIXED CONSTRUCTIONS

BUILDING

|  | E04 |
BUILDING (layered materials, layered products in general Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...B32B)

|  | E04H |
BUILDINGS OR LIKE STRUCTURES FOR SPECIAL PURPOSES; MASTS; FENCING (foundations Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...E02D)

|  | E04H |
Note(s) This sub-class deals primarily with the lay-out of buildings as a whole, but includes details which are peculiar to types of buildings, or buildings for special purposes specified in the groups. The word "buildings" does not exclude engineering structures and other erections.

|  | E04H 1/00 |
Buildings or groups of buildings for dwelling or office purposes; General lay-out, e.g. modular co-ordination, staggered storeys (Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...E04H 3/00 takes precedence; buildings for two or more purposes, e.g. drive-in buildings, Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...E04H 14/00; building construction in general Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...E04B 1/00)

|  | E04H 1/02 |
· | Dwelling houses; Buildings for temporary habitation (small erections for limited occupation Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...E04H 1/12)

|  | E04H 1/04 |
· · | Apartment houses arranged in two or more levels

|  | E04H 1/06 |
· | Office buildings; Banks (Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...E04H 1/12 takes precedence; furniture or fittings for offices, shops, or the stores Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...A47F)

|  | 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 Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...A47G 5/00)

|  | E04H 1/14 |
· · | Telephone cabinets

|  | 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 Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...E04H 1/00; structures covering a large free area Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...E04B 1/342)

|  | E04H 3/02 |
· | Hotels; Motels; Coffee-houses; Restaurants; Shops; Department stores

|  | E04H 3/04 |
· · | Restaurants or shops having arrangements for self-service (paying counters Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...A47F 9/02; furniture or installations specially adapted for supermarkets Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...A47F 10/00; transport aspects Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...B65G; coin-freed apparatus Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...G07F)

|  | E04H 3/06 |
· | Museums; Library buildings

|  | E04H 3/08 |
· | Hospitals, infirmaries, or the like; Schools; Prisons

|  | E04H 3/10 |
· | for meetings, entertainments, or sports

|  | E04H 3/12 |
· · | Tribunes or grandstands (chairs, stools, benches Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...A47C)

|  | E04H 3/14 |
· · | Gymnasiums; Other sporting buildings (tribunes Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...E04H 3/12)

|  | E04H 3/16 |
· · · | for swimming

|  | E04H 3/18 |
· · · · | Swimming or splash basins (producing waves in swimming basins Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...F03C)

|  | E04H 3/19 |
· · · · · | Safety devices; Coverings for basins

|  | E04H 3/20 |
· · · · · | Devices for removal of polluted water; Devices for cleaning basins or for water treatment

|  | E04H 3/22 |
· · | Theatres; Concert halls (drive-in buildings Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...E04H 14/00; equipment for theatres or concert halls Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...A63J)

|  | E04H 3/24 |
· · · | Constructional features of stages

|  | E04H 3/26 |
· · · · | Revolving stages; Stages able to be lowered (devices for raising or lowering persons Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...A63J 5/12)

|  | E04H 3/28 |
· · · · | Shiftable or portable platforms

|  | E04H 3/30 |
· · · | Constructional features of auditoriums (chairs, stools, benches Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...A47C; building details providing acoustical effects Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...E04B 1/99)

|  | E04H 5/00 |
Buildings or groups of buildings for industrial or agricultural purposes (building construction in general Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...E04B 1/00)

|  | E04H 5/02 |
· | Buildings or groups of buildings for industrial purposes, e.g. for power-plants, factories (buildings forming part of cooling plants Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...E04H 5/10; building structures for parking vehicles Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...E04H 6/00)

|  | E04H 5/04 |
· · | Transformer houses

|  | E04H 5/06 |
· · | Pits or building structures for inspection or services (manhole shafts or other inspection chambers in general Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...E02D 29/12)

|  | E04H 5/08 |
· | Buildings or groups of buildings for agricultural purposes (silos Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...E04H 7/22; manure storage places Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...A01C 3/02; greenhouses Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...A01G 9/14)

|  | E04H 5/10 |
· | Buildings forming part of cooling plants

|  | E04H 5/12 |
· · | Cooling towers (towers in general Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...E04H 12/00; cooling equipment Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...F28)

|  | E04H 6/00 |
Buildings for parking cars, rolling-stock, aircraft, vessels, or like vehicles, e.g. garages (building construction in general Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...E04B 1/00; marking of parking areas on the ground Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...E01F; construction of ground-supported surfaces Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...E01C; bicycle stands Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...B62H; storing of vessels on land Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...B63C 15/00)

|  | E04H 6/02 |
· | Small garages, e.g. for one or two cars (attached to, or supported by, the vehicle Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...B62D; prefabricated and with undivided interior Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...E04B 1/343; tents for use as garages Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...E04B 1/347)

|  | E04H 6/04 |
· · | wheeled, hinged, foldable, telescopic, swinging, or otherwise movable (transportable or collapsible buildings in general Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...E04B 1/343)

|  | E04H 6/06 |
· · | with means for shifting or lifting vehicles

|  | E04H 6/08 |
· | Garages for many vehicles

|  | E04H 6/10 |
· · | without mechanical means for shifting or lifting vehicles, e.g. with helically-arranged fixed ramps, with movable ramps

|  | 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 6/16 |
· · · | Garages shaped as a wheel or drum rotatable about horizontal axis

|  | E04H 6/18 |
· · · | with means for transport in vertical direction only or independently in vertical and horizontal directions (Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...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

|  | E04H 6/30 |
· · · | with means for transport in horizontal direction only

|  | E04H 6/32 |
· · · · | characterised by use of conveyer chains or rotatable rollers

|  | E04H 6/34 |
· · · · | characterised by use of movable platforms

|  | E04H 6/36 |
· · · · | characterised by use of freely-movable dollies

|  | E04H 6/38 |
· · · · | characterised by use of tiltable floors or floor sections

|  | E04H 6/40 |
· · · · | characterised by use of turntables or rotary rings

|  | E04H 6/42 |
· | Devices or arrangements peculiar to garages, not covered elsewhere, e.g. securing devices, safety devices

|  | E04H 6/44 |
· | for storing aircraft (structures covering a large free area Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...E04B 1/342)

|  | E04H 7/00 |
Container constructed in the manner of buildings; Constructional features of containers for liquids in bulk or of similar containers for gases or fluent solids; Supports therefor (tower aspects Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...E04H 14/00; foundations Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...E02D 27/38; other features of storage containers Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...B65G, Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...F17)

|  | E04H 7/02 |
· | Containers for fluids or gases; (arrangements or connection of water reservoirs Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...E03B 11/00)

|  | E04H 7/04 |
· · | mainly of metal

|  | E04H 7/06 |
· · · | with vertical axis

|  | E04H 7/08 |
· · · · | with telescopically-movable ring-shaped parts (sealing of rings Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...F17B 1/04)

|  | E04H 7/10 |
· · · · | with moving discs (sealing of discs Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...F17B 1/04)

|  | E04H 7/12 |
· · · · | with floating roofs (sealing of roofs Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...B65D 87/20)

|  | E04H 7/14 |
· · · | ball-shaped

|  | E04H 7/16 |
· · · | with horizontal axis

|  | E04H 7/18 |
· · | mainly of concrete, e.g. reinforced concrete, or other stone-like material

|  | E04H 7/20 |
· · · | Prestressed constructions

|  | E04H 7/22 |
· | Silos, bunkers, or similar containers

|  | E04H 7/24 |
· · | Constructions, with or without perforated walls, depending on the use of specified materials (Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...E04H 7/34 takes precedence)

|  | E04H 7/26 |
· · · | mainly of concrete, e.g. reinforced concrete or other stone-like material

|  | E04H 7/28 |
· · · · | composed of special building elements

|  | E04H 7/30 |
· · · | mainly of metal

|  | E04H 7/32 |
· · · | mainly of wood

|  | E04H 7/34 |
· · | Silos with special conditioning arrangements (drying arrangements Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...F26B)

|  | 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 (floatable buildings Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...B63B; foundation aspects Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...E02D; building constructions in general Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...E04B; bearings or like supports allowing movement Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...E04B 1/36; special details in regard to insulation or other protection Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...E04B 1/62; supporting structures for endangered or damaged existing buildings or parts thereof Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...E04G 23/04; doors, windows Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...E06B 5/00; air-conditioning, ventilation Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...F24F; cells or rooms shielded against dangerous radiation Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...G21F 7/00)

|  | E04H 9/02 |
· | withstanding earthquake or sinking of ground (foundations Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...E02D 27/34)

|  | E04H 9/04 |
· | against air-raid or other warlike actions (respiratory apparatus Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...A62B)

|  | E04H 9/06 |
· · | Structures arranged in or forming part of buildings

|  | E04H 9/08 |
· · · | Structures arranged underneath buildings, e.g. air-raid shelters

|  | E04H 9/10 |
· · | Independent shelters; Arrangement of independent splinter-proof walls

|  | E04H 9/12 |
· · · | entirely underneath the level of the ground, e.g. air-raid galleries (mine galleries Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...E21D; tunnels Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...E01G)

|  | E04H 9/14 |
· | against other dangerous influences, e.g. tornadoes, floods

|  | E04H 9/16 |
· | against adverse conditions, e.g. extreme climate, pests

|  | E04H 12/00 |
Towers; Masts, poles; Chimney-stacks; Water-towers; Methods of erecting such structures (cooling-towers Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...E04H 5/12; devices for erecting masts or poles Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...B66F; foundation piles Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...E02D 5/22; foundations for masts, poles, or chimneys Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...E02D 27/42; structural elongated members in general Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...E04C 3/00; fixed climbing irons Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...E06C 9/04; derricks for oil drilling Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...E21B 15/00)

|  | E04H 12/02 |
· | Structures made of specified materials (Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...E04H 12/16, Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...E04H 12/18 take precedence)

|  | E04H 12/04 |
· · | of wood

|  | E04H 12/06 |
· · · | Truss-like structures

|  | E04H 12/08 |
· · | of metal

|  | E04H 12/10 |
· · · | Truss-like structures

|  | E04H 12/12 |
· · | of concrete or other stone-like material, with or without internal or external reinforcement, e.g. with metal coverings, with permanent form elements

|  | E04H 12/14 |
· · · | Truss-like structures

|  | E04H 12/16 |
· | Prestressed structures

|  | E04H 12/18 |
· | movable or with movable sections, e.g. using guy ropes, struts (rotary buildings Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...E04B 1/346)

|  | E04H 12/20 |
· | Side-supporting means therefor, e.g. using guy ropes, struts (ground anchors Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...E02D 5/80; fastening means for cables or ropes Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...F16G 11/00)

|  | E04H 12/22 |
· | Sockets or holders for poles or posts

|  | E04H 12/24 |
· | Cross-arms

|  | E04H 12/26 |
· | Winding-towers for mines (lifting devices Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...B66B)

|  | E04H 12/28 |
· | Chimney stacks, e.g. free-standing, or similar ducts (foundations Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...E02D 27/42; chimneys as part of buildings Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...E04F 17/02; connections between furnace and smoke stack, chimney equipment Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...F23)

|  | E04H 12/30 |
· | Water-towers (tanks per se Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...B65D 87/00; use of high-level tanks Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...E03B 11/12)

|  | E04H 12/32 |
· | Flagpoles (flags, banners, mountings therefor Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...G09F 17/00)

|  | E04H 12/34 |
· | Arrangements for erecting or lowering towers, masts, poles, chimney stacks, or the like (special lifting devices therefor Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...B66F 11/02)

|  | E04H 13/00 |
Monuments; Tombs; Burial vaults; Columbaria (sculpture or other artistic features Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...B44)

|  | E04H 14/00 |
Buildings for combinations of different purposes not covered in a single previous group of this sub-class, e.g. for double purpose (Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...E04H 3/02, Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...E04H 9/06 take precedence); Buildings of the drive-in type

|  | E04H 17/00 |
Fencing, e.g. fences, enclosures, corrals (features peculiar to electrified fences Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...A01K 3/00, Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...H05C; means for allowing passage through fences, barriers, or the like Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...E06B 11/00)

|  | E04H 17/02 |
· | Wire fencing (Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...E04H 17/14 takes precedence)

|  | E04H 17/04 |
· · | using wire, barbed wire, wire mesh, toothed strips, or the like; Coupling means therefor (wire netting Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...B21F 27/00; other metallic fabrics, see the relevant classes)

|  | E04H 17/06 |
· · | Parts for wire fences

|  | E04H 17/08 |
· · · | Anchoring means therefor, e.g. specially-shaped parts entering the ground; Struts or the like (for towers or masts Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...E04H 12/20; sockets for posts Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...E04H 12/22)

|  | E04H 17/10 |
· · | characterised by the way of connecting wire to the posts; Droppers

|  | E04H 17/12 |
· · · | the wire being placed in slots, grooves, or the like

|  | E04H 17/14 |
· | Fences constructed of rigid elements, e.g. with posts, with additional wire fillings

|  | E04H 17/16 |
· · | using prefabricated panel-like elements, e.g. wired frames

|  | E04H 17/18 |
· · · | Corrals, i.e. easily transportable or demountable enclosures

|  | E04H 17/20 |
· · | Posts therefor

|  | E04H 17/22 |
· · · | Anchoring means therefor, e.g. specially-shaped parts entering the ground; Struts or the like (for towers or masts Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...E04H 12/20; sockets for posts Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...E04H 12/22)

|  | E04H 17/24 |
· · | Connections for attaching additional wire to frames, posts or railings

|  | E04H 17/26 |
· | Devices for erecting or removing fences