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 subclass covers:

  • primarilyequipment for excavating or loosening earth or for moving loose earth;
  • 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; other machines or apparatus for mining E21C; tunnelling 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 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- or bucket-arm, e.g. dippers, buckets
 E02F 3/30
·  ·  ·  with a dipper-arm pivoted on a cantilever beam
 E02F 3/32
·  ·  ·  ·  working downwardly and towards the machine, e.g. with backhoes
 E02F 3/34
·  ·  ·  with bucket-arms directly pivoted on the frames of tractors or self-propelled machines
 E02F 3/342
·  ·  ·  ·  Buckets emptying overhead (E02F 3/348-E02F 3/358 take precedence)  [4]
 E02F 3/345
·  ·  ·  ·  Buckets emptying side-ways (E02F 3/348-E02F 3/358 take precedence)  [4]
 E02F 3/348
·  ·  ·  ·  Buckets emptying into a collecting or conveying device  [4]
 E02F 3/352
·  ·  ·  ·  Buckets movable along a fixed guide  [4]
 E02F 3/355
·  ·  ·  ·  Buckets connected to the rear end of a tractor  [4]
 E02F 3/358
·  ·  ·  ·  Bucket-arms pivoted on a turntable being part of a tractor frame  [4]
 E02F 3/36
·  ·  ·  Component parts
 E02F 3/38
·  ·  ·  ·  Cantilever beams; Dipper-arms; Bucket-arms
 E02F 3/39
·  ·  ·  ·  ·  with telescopic arms  [4]
 E02F 3/40
·  ·  ·  ·  Dippers; Buckets
 E02F 3/407
·  ·  ·  ·  ·  with ejecting device  [4]
 E02F 3/413
·  ·  ·  ·  ·  with grabbing device (grab equipment for cranes B66C)  [4]
 E02F 3/42
·  ·  ·  ·  Drives for dippers, buckets, dipper-arms or bucket-arms
 E02F 3/43
·  ·  ·  ·  ·  Control of dipper or bucket position; Control of sequence of drive operations  [4]
 E02F 3/44
( transferred to E02F 3/413, E02F 3/47 )
 E02F 3/46
·  ·  with reciprocating digging or scraping elements moved by cables or hoisting ropes
 E02F 3/47
·  ·  ·  with grab buckets (grab equipment for cranes B66C)  [4]
 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
( transferred to E02F 3/627 )
 E02F 3/627
·  ·  Devices to connect beams or arms to a tractor or similar self-propelled machine  [4]
 E02F 3/633
·  ·  ·  Drives therefor  [4]
 E02F 3/64
·  ·  Bucket cars, i.e. having scraper bowls
 E02F 3/65
·  ·  ·  Component parts, e.g. drives, control devices  [4]
 E02F 3/66
( transferred to E02F 3/28 )
 E02F 3/68
( transferred to E02F 3/352 )
 E02F 3/70 - 
E02F 3/74
( transferred to E02F 3/34 )
 E02F 3/75
( transferred to E02F 3/358 )
 E02F 3/76
·  ·  Graders, bulldozers, or the like with scraper plates or ploughshare-like elements (soil working A01B); Levelling devices
 E02F 3/78
·  ·  ·  with rotating digging elements
 E02F 3/80
·  ·  ·  Component parts
 E02F 3/81
( transferred to E02F 3/815 )
 E02F 3/815
·  ·  ·  ·  Blades; Levelling tools  [4]
 E02F 3/82
( transferred to E02F 3/28 )
 E02F 3/83
( transferred to E02F 3/345 )
 E02F 3/84
·  ·  ·  ·  Drives or control devices therefor
 E02F 3/85
·  ·  ·  ·  ·  Applications of hydraulic or pneumatic systems
 E02F 3/86 - 
E02F 3/87
( transferred to E02F 3/43 )
 E02F 3/88
·  ·  with arrangements acting by a sucking or forcing effect, e.g. suction dredgers (pumps in general F04)
 E02F 3/90
·  ·  ·  Component parts, e.g. drives, control devices
 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 arrangements for making or assembling conduits or for laying conduits or cables (making conduits in situ per se E02D 29/10; laying pipes per se F16L 1/00; laying electric cables per se H02G 1/06)
 E02F 5/12
·  ·  with equipment for back-filling trenches or ditches (E02F 5/10 takes precedence)  [3]
 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 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 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 5/32
·  ·  Rippers  [4]
 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
·  Pipe-lines for conveying excavated materials (pipes in general F16L; pipe-line systems F17D)
 E02F 9/00
Component parts of dredgers or soil-shifting machines, not restricted to one of the kinds covered by groups E02F 3/00-E02F 7/00 (laying-out or take-up devices for trailing electric cables B66C)  [3]
 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, or the like 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