E
SECTION E — FIXED CONSTRUCTIONS
  
BUILDING
 E01
CONSTRUCTION OF ROADS, RAILWAYS, OR BRIDGES
 E01C
CONSTRUCTION OF, AND SURFACES FOR, ROADS, SPORTS GROUNDS, OR THE LIKE; MACHINES AND AUXILIARY TOOLS FOR CONSTRUCTION AND REPAIR (forming road or like surfaces by compacting or grading snow or ice E01H)
 E01C

Note(s)

This sub-class is understood as covering the construction and surfacing of floorings made of similar materials to roads, e.g. of concrete, of paving; the subdivisions below accordingly apply to such floorings in the same way as to roads or the like.

 E01C 1/00
Design or layout of roads, e.g. for noise abatement, for gas absorption (design or layout of sports grounds A63C 19/00; design or layout of airfields B64F)
 E01C 1/02
·  Crossings, junctions, or interconnections between roads on the same level
 E01C 1/04
·  Road crossings on different levels; interconnections between roads on different levels
 E01C 3/00 - 
E01C 17/00
Structure of roads, playgrounds, sports grounds, airfields
 E01C 3/00
Foundations for paving of roads or runways or airfields (foundations in general E02D)
 E01C 3/02
·  Concrete base for bituminous paving
 E01C 3/04
·  Foundations produced by soil stabilisation
 E01C 3/06
·  Methods or arrangements for protecting foundations from destructive influences of moisture, frost or vibration
 E01C 5/00
Paving for roads or airfields made of prefabricated single units; Similar paving for playgrounds or sports grounds (making artificial stones C04B; building stones E04C; flooring E04F)
 E01C 5/02
·  made of natural stones, e.g. sett stones
 E01C 5/04
·  made of bricks
 E01C 5/06
·  made of units with cement or like binders
 E01C 5/08
·  ·  Reinforced units
 E01C 5/10
·  ·  ·  Prestressed reinforced units
 E01C 5/12
·  made of units with bituminous binders
 E01C 5/14
·  made of wooden units
 E01C 5/16
·  made of metallic units (steel gratings E01C 9/10)
 E01C 5/18
·  made of rubber units
 E01C 5/20
·  made of units of plastics (E01C 5/18 takes precedence)
 E01C 5/22
·  made of units composed of a mixture of materials covered by two or more of groups E01C 5/02-E01C 5/20
 E01C 7/00
Coherent paving for roads or airfields made in situ; Similar paving for playgrounds or sports grounds
 E01C 7/02
·  made of road-metal without binders
 E01C 7/04
·  ·  of broken stones, gravel, or like materials
 E01C 7/06
·  ·  by melting, burning, or vitrifying road-metal in situ
 E01C 7/08
·  made of road-metal and binders
 E01C 7/10
·  ·  of road-metal and cement or like binders (cement or like binders, composition of mortars C04B)
 E01C 7/12
·  ·  ·  Mortar-bound paving
 E01C 7/14
·  ·  ·  Concrete paving
 E01C 7/16
·  ·  ·  ·  Prestressed concrete paving
 E01C 7/18
·  ·  of road-metal and bituminous binders
 E01C 7/20
·  ·  ·  Binder incorporated in cold state, e.g. natural asphalt
 E01C 7/22
·  ·  ·  Binder incorporated in hot state, e.g. heated bitumen
 E01C 7/24
·  ·  ·  Binder incorporated as an emulsion or solution (making dispersions or emulsions for road building C04B)
 E01C 7/26
·  ·  ·  mixed with other materials, e.g. cement, rubber, leather, fibre
 E01C 7/30
·  ·  of road-metal and other binders, e.g. synthetic material
 E01C 7/32
·  ·  of courses of different kind made in situ
 E01C 7/34
·  ·  ·  made of several courses which are not bound to each other
 E01C 7/35
·  ·  Topping or surface dressings; Methods of mixing, impregnating, or spreading them
 E01C 7/36
·  by subjecting soil to stabilisation
 E01C 9/00
Special pavings; Pavings for special parts of roads or airfields (pavement lights E01C 17/00; manhole or like covers or frames E02D 29/14)
 E01C 9/02
·  Wheel tracks (rail tracks for guiding vehicles E01B 25/28)
 E01C 9/04
·  Pavings for railroad level-crossings
 E01C 9/06
·  Pavings adjacent tramways rails
 E01C 9/08
·  Temporary pavings (steel gratings E01C 9/10)
 E01C 9/10
·  Steel gratings (gully gratings E03F 5/06; as building elements in general E04C)
 E01C 11/00
Details of the paving for roads or airfields
 E01C 11/02
·  Arrangement or construction of joints; Methods of making joints; Packing for joints
 E01C 11/04
·  ·  for cement concrete paving
 E01C 11/06
·  ·  ·  Methods of making joints
 E01C 11/08
·  ·  ·  Packing of metal
 E01C 11/10
·  ·  ·  Packing of plastic or elastic materials
 E01C 11/12
·  ·  ·  Packing of metal and plastic or elastic materials
 E01C 11/14
·  ·  ·  Dowel assembly
 E01C 11/16
·  Reinforcements (for building in general E04C)
 E01C 11/18
·  ·  for cement concrete pavings
 E01C 11/20
·  ·  ·  for prestressed concrete pavings
 E01C 11/22
·  Gutters; Kerbs
 E01C 11/24
·  Methods or arrangements for preventing slipperiness or protecting against influences of the weather
 E01C 11/26
·  ·  Permanently-installed heating or blowing devices
 E01C 13/00
Pavings or foundations specially adapted to playgrounds or sports grounds (general layout A63C 19/00)
 E01C 15/00
Pavements specially adapted to footpaths, sidewalks, or cycle tracks
 E01C 17/00
Pavement lights, i.e. translucent constructions forming part of the surface (blocks specially designed for marking roads E01F 9/04)
 E01C 19/00 - 
E01C 23/00
Machines, tools, or auxiliary devices for constructing or repairing the surfacing of roads or like structures (constructing the road bed E02D, E02F)
 E01C 19/00
Machines, tools, or auxiliary devices for preparing or distributing paving materials, for working the placed materials, or for forming, consolidating, or finishing the paving (surface stabilisation E01C 21/00; apparatus specially adapted for reconditioning or repairing paving E01C 23/00)
 E01C 19/02
·  for preparing the materials
 E01C 19/05
·  ·  Crushing, pulverising, or disintegrating apparatus (in general B02C); Aggregate screening, cleaning, or heating apparatus
 E01C 19/08
·  ·  Apparatus for transporting and melting asphalt, bitumen, tar, or the like (stationarily-arranged melting boilers for tar, asphalt, or the like, in general C10C 3/12)
 E01C 19/10
·  ·  Apparatus or plant for premixing or precoating aggregate or fillers with non-hydraulic binders, e.g. with bitumen, with resins; Apparatus for premixing non-hydraulic mixtures prior to placing or for reconditioning salvaged non-hydraulic compositions
 E01C 19/12
·  for distributing granular or liquid materials (E01C 23/07 takes precedence; for filling joints or grooves E01C 23/02, E01C 23/09)
 E01C 19/15
·  ·  for laying-down uncoated stone or similar materials, or for striking-off or spreading same without compacting, e.g. for crushed rock base courses, sand cushions for paving (E01C 19/52 takes precedence; distributing E01C 19/20)
 E01C 19/16
·  ·  for applying or spreading liquid materials, e.g. bitumen slurries (E01C 19/45, E01C 23/02, E01C 23/03, E01C 23/16 take precedence; spraying or spreading liquids or other fluent materials to surfaces in general B05)
 E01C 19/17
·  ·  ·  Application by spraying
 E01C 19/18
·  ·  Devices for distributing road-metals mixed with binders, e.g. cement, bitumen, without consolidating or ironing effect (E01C 19/20, E01C 19/47 take precedence; conveying installations for concrete or the like B65G)
 E01C 19/20
·  ·  Apparatus for distributing, e.g. spreading, granular or pulverulent materials, e.g. sand, gravel, salt, dry binders (fertiliser distributors A01C 15/00)
 E01C 19/21
·  ·  for simultaneously but separately applying liquid material and granular or pulverulent material, e.g. bitumen and grit, with or without spreading
 E01C 19/22
·  for consolidating or finishing laid-down unset materials (E01C 23/02 takes precedence; apparatus for generating vibrations per se B06B)
 E01C 19/23
·  ·  Rollers (E01C 19/43 takes precedence; specially adapted for agricultural purposes A01B 29/00; garden rollers A01G 1/12; specially adapted for compacting snow E01H 4/00; for compacting soil E02D 3/04)
 E01C 19/24
·  ·  ·  hand propelled (E01C 19/27-E01C 19/29 take precedence)
 E01C 19/25
·  ·  ·  propelled by animals or vehicles (E01C 19/26-E01C 19/29 take precedence)
 E01C 19/26
·  ·  ·  self-propelled or fitted to road vehicles (E01C 19/27-E01C 19/29 take precedence)
 E01C 19/27
·  ·  ·  with elastically-deformable rolling elements, e.g. pneumatic tyres (vibrating or impacting E01C 19/28)
 E01C 19/28
·  ·  ·  Vibrated rollers or rollers subjected to impacts, e.g. hammering blows (E01C 19/29 takes precedence)
 E01C 19/29
·  ·  ·  Rolling apparatus adapted to apply a rolling pressure less than its weight, e.g. roller finishers travelling on formrails
 E01C 19/30
·  ·  Tamping or vibrating apparatus other than rollers (E01C 23/02, E01C 23/04 take precedence; vibrated depositing devices E01C 19/12; tamping or vibrating rollers E01C 19/28; portable percussion tools in general B25D; tamping or vibrating soil in general E02D 3/02)
 E01C 19/32
·  ·  ·  Hand-held hand-actuated rammers or tampers
 E01C 19/34
·  ·  ·  Power-driven rammers or tampers
 E01C 19/35
·  ·  ·  ·  Hand-held or hand-guided tools (E01C 19/36-E01C 19/40 take precedence)
 E01C 19/36
·  ·  ·  ·  with direct-acting explosion chambers
 E01C 19/38
·  ·  ·  ·  with means specifically for generating vibrations
 E01C 19/40
·  ·  ·  ·  adapted to impart a smooth finish to the paving, e.g. tamping or vibrating finishers
 E01C 19/41
·  ·  Apparatus having both rolling tools and ramming, tamping, or vibrating tools
 E01C 19/42
·  ·  Machines for imparting a smooth finish to freshly-laid paving courses other than by rolling, tamping, or vibrating (for distributing only E01C 19/12)
 E01C 19/43
·  ·  Machines or arrangements for roughening or patterning freshly-laid paving courses, e.g. indenting rollers
 E01C 19/44
·  ·  Hand-actuated tools other than rollers, dampers, or vibrators, specially adapted for imparting a required surface finish to freshly-laid paving courses (E01C 19/43 takes precedence)
 E01C 19/45
·  Portable apparatus for preparing, or for preparing and applying to the road, compound liquid binders, e.g. emulsified bitumen, fluxed asphalt (applying only E01C 19/16)
 E01C 19/46
·  for preparing and placing the materials (E01C 19/45 takes precedence; making surfaces by mixing borrowed aggregate with binders E01C 21/00)
 E01C 19/47
·  ·  Hydraulic cement concrete mixers combined with distributing means specially adapted for road building (concrete mixers per se B28C)
 E01C 19/48
·  for laying-down the materials and consolidating them, or finishing the surface
 E01C 19/50
·  Removable forms or shutterings for road-building purposes (E01C 23/02, E01C 23/04 take precedence; permanent forms E01C 3/00-E01C 7/00; slip forms E01C 19/48); Devices or arrangements for forming individual paving elements, e.g. kerbs, in situ
 E01C 19/52
·  Apparatus for laying individual preformed surface elements, e.g. kerbs (preforming and placing continuous strip E01C 19/46; forming paving elements in situ E01C 19/50)
 E01C 21/00
Apparatus or processes for surface stabilisation for road building or like purposes, e.g. mixing borrowed aggregate with binder (stabilising soil under existing surfacing E01C 23/10; soil stabilisation in general E02D 3/12)
 E01C 21/02
·  Fusing, calcining, or burning soil in situ
 E01C 23/00
Auxiliary devices or arrangements for constructing, repairing, reconditioning, or taking-up road or like surfaces (apparatus for reconditioning of salvaged non-hydraulic compositions E01C 19/10)
 E01C 23/01
·  Devices or auxiliary means for setting-out or checking the configuration of new surfacing, e.g. templates, screed supports (form rails E01C 19/50); Applications of apparatus for measuring, indicating, or recording the surface configuration of existing surfacing, e.g. profilographs (E01C 23/07 takes precedence; measuring roughness or irregularity in general G01B)
 E01C 23/02
·  Devices for making, treating, or filling grooves or like channels in not-yet-hardened paving, e.g. for joints or markings (surface patterning E01C 19/43); Removable forms therefor (non-removable forms E01C 11/02); Devices for introducing inserts or removable insert-supports in not-yet-hardened paving (E01C 23/04 takes precedence; non-removable insert supports E01C 11/02)
 E01C 23/03
·  Arrangements for curing paving; Devices for applying curing means; Devices for laying prefabricated underlay, e.g. sheets, membranes (reinforcing elements E01C 23/04); Protecting paving under construction or while curing, e.g. use of tents (road barriers E01F 13/00)
 E01C 23/04
·  Devices for laying reinforcing elements or dowel bars; Removable supports for reinforcing elements (non-removable supports therefor E01C 11/16; side forms adapted to supporting reinforcement E01C 19/50); Devices, e.g. removable forms, for making essentially horizontal ducts in paving, e.g. for prestressed reinforcement
 E01C 23/05
·  Devices for installing or removing forms
 E01C 23/06
·  Devices or arrangements for working the finished surface (working freshly-laid paving E01C 19/42-E01C 19/44, E01C 23/02); Devices for repairing the surface of damaged paving
 E01C 23/07
·  ·  Apparatus combining measurement of the surface configuration of paving with application of material in proportion to the measured irregularities (measuring means only E01C 23/01)
 E01C 23/08
·  ·  for roughening or patterning; for removing high spots or material bonded to the surface, e.g. markings (removing matter not bonded to the surface E01H 1/00; roughening or detaching ice E01H 5/12)
 E01C 23/09
·  ·  for forming cuts, grooves, or recesses, e.g. for making joints or channels for markings, for cutting-out sections to be removed; for cleaning, treating, or filling cuts, grooves, recesses, or fissures; for trimming paving edges
 E01C 23/10
·  ·  for raising or levelling sunken paving; for filling voids under paving; for introducing material into substructure (stabilising soil in general E02D 3/12)
 E01C 23/12
·  ·  for taking-up, tearing-up, or breaking-up paving (adapted to both placing and removing paving E01C 19/52)
 E01C 23/14
·  for heating or drying foundation, paving, or materials thereon, e.g. paint (E01C 23/03 takes precedence; heating or drying devices incorporated in the paving E01C 11/26; surface stabilisation by fusing, calcining, or burning soil in situ E01C 21/02; for street cleaning E01H 1/08; melting snow or ice on surfacing E01H 5/10)
 E01C 23/16
·  Devices for marking-out, applying, or forming traffic or like markings on finished paving (E01C 23/14 takes precedence; inserting or forming in not-yet-hardened paving E01C 23/02, in recesses formed in fully-set paving E01C 23/09; marking-out playing courts or playgrounds A63C 19/06; applying liquids or other fluent materials to surfaces in general B05); Protecting fresh markings