|  | E |
SECTION E — FIXED CONSTRUCTIONS

BUILDING

|  | E02 |
HYDRAULIC ENGINEERING; FOUNDATIONS; SOIL-SHIFTING

|  | E02F |
DREDGING; SOIL-SHIFTING (winning peat Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...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 Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...E02D 17/18; methods for mining Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...E21C)

|  | E02F 3/00 |
Dredgers; Soil-shifting machines (for special purposes Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...E02F 5/00; other machines or apparatus for mining Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...E21C; tunnelling Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...E21D)

|  | 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 Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...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 Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...F16P; controlling in general Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...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 Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...F16P; controlling in general Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...G05)

|  | E02F 3/28 |
· · | with digging tools mounted on a dipper-arm; Dippers (Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...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 (Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...E02F 3/62 takes precedence; grab equipment for cranes Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...B66C)

|  | E02F 3/46 |
· · | with reciprocating digging or scraping elements moved by cables or hoisting ropes (Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...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 Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...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 turntable (Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...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 turntable

|  | E02F 3/76 |
· · · | Graders, bulldozers, or the like with scraper plates or ploughshare-like elements (soil-working Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...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 Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...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 Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...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 arrangements for making or assembling conduits or for laying conduits or cables (making conduits in situ per se Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...E02D 29/10; laying pipes per se Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...F16L 1/00; laying electric cables per se Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...H02G 1/06)

|  | E02F 5/12 |
· · | with equipment for back-filling trenches or ditches (Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...E02F 5/10 takes precedence)

|  | E02F 5/14 |
· · | Component parts for trench excavators, e.g. indicating devices

|  | E02F 5/16 |
· | Machines for digging other holes in the soil (earth drilling Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...E21)

|  | 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 Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...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 Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...B63B 35/28)

|  | E02F 7/02 |
· | Conveying equipment mounted on a dredger (conveyers in general Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...B65G)

|  | E02F 7/04 |
· | Loading devices mounted on a dredger (loading devices in general Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...B65G)

|  | E02F 7/06 |
· | Delivery chutes or screening plants mounted on a dredger (separating equipment in general Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...B03; delivery chutes in general Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...B65G)

|  | E02F 7/10 |
· | Pipe-lines for conveying excavated materials (pipes in general Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...F16L; pipe-line systems Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...F17D)

|  | E02F 9/00 |
Component parts of dredgers or soil-shifting machines, not restricted to one of the kinds covered by groups Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...E02F 3/00-E02F 7/00 (laying-out or take-up devices for trailing electric cables Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...B66C)

|  | E02F 9/02 |
· | Travelling gear (for motor vehicles Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...B60B, Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...B60G; undercarriages for locomotives or railroad cars Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...B61F; track-laying vehicles Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...B62D; for cranes Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...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 Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...F16C)

|  | E02F 9/14 |
· | Booms; Cable suspensions

|  | E02F 9/16 |
· | Cabins, platforms, etc. for the driver (for cranes Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...B66C 13/54)

|  | E02F 9/18 |
· | Counterweights

|  | E02F 9/20 |
· | Drives; Control devices (gearing in general Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...F16H; controlling in general Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...G05; electric multi-motor drives Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...H02K, Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...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