B
SECTION B — PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
  
SHAPING
 B25
HAND TOOLS; PORTABLE POWER-DRIVEN TOOLS; WORKBENCH DEVICES; 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 B25C (hand-held nailing or stapling tools) or in an application class such as B65B (packaging) or B21F (working of wire).


 B25C
HAND-HELD NAILING OR STAPLING TOOLS; MANUALLY OPERATED PORTABLE STAPLING TOOLS (for shoemaking A43D)
 B25C

Note(s)

  1. For the purposes of this sub-class, the term "nail" is to be understood as including pin, bolt, stud, plug or the like.
  2. Tools for driving both nails or staples are classified with the nailing tools. [3]

 B25D
PERCUSSIVE TOOLS (percussive machines for forging B21J; hand-held drilling machines, in general B23B 45/00, for wood B27C 3/08; drilling machines, used for mining or quarrying, with reciprocating tool which is turned intermittently when out of contact with the working face E21C 3/00)  [2]

 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 A01B 1/22; handles of hand implements for harvesting A01D 1/14; handles integral with brushware 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. it does not provide for those provided for in A45B 9/02, A45C 13/22, A45C 13/26, A47B 95/02, A47J 45/00, B25J 13/02, B26B, B60N 3/02, B62B 5/06, B62B 9/20, B62K 21/26, B62M 3/14, B65D 25/28, E05B, G05G.


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

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