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SECTION A — HUMAN NECESSITIES
  
AGRICULTURE
 A01
AGRICULTURE; FORESTRY; ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; HUNTING; TRAPPING; FISHING
 A01K
ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; CARE OF BIRDS, FISHES, INSECTS; FISHING
 A01K

Note(s)

This subclass covers equipment for the care or culture of all living creatures except human beings, or for obtaining their products, unless provided for elsewhere, e.g. milking A01J, shoeing animals A01L, veterinary devices A61D, culture of bacteria or the like C12.

 A01K 1/00 - 
A01K 29/00
Animal husbandry in general, especially cattle-raising (devices in connection with harnesses B68B)
 A01K 1/00
Housing animals; Equipment therefor (building construction, features of buildings E04; ventilating buildings F24F)
 A01K 1/01
·  Removal of dung or urine (A01K 1/015 takes precedence)  [2]
 A01K 1/015
·  Floor coverings, e.g. bedding-down sheets  [2]
 A01K 1/02
·  Pigsties; Dog-kennels; Rabbit-hutches or the like
 A01K 1/03
·  ·  Housing for domestic or laboratory animals  [2]
 A01K 1/035
·  ·  Devices for use in keeping domestic animals, e.g. fittings in housings, dog beds  [2]
 A01K 1/04
·  Tethering-poles or the like
 A01K 1/06
·  Devices for fastening animals, e.g. halters, toggles, neck-bars, chain fastenings
 A01K 1/062
·  ·  Neck-bars  [2]
 A01K 1/064
·  ·  Chain fastenings  [2]
 A01K 1/08
·  Arrangements for simultaneously releasing several animals
 A01K 1/10
·  Feed racks (devices for impeding movement of animals A01K 15/04)
 A01K 1/12
·  Milking stations (devices for milking A01J 1/00-A01J 9/00)  [2]
 A01K 3/00
Pasturing equipment, e.g. tethering devices; Grids for preventing cattle from straying; Electrified wire fencing (construction of fencing in general E04H 17/00; electric circuits for fences H05C)
 A01K 5/00
Feeding devices for stock or game (A01K 1/10 takes precedence; for poultry A01K 39/00)  [2]
 A01K 5/01
·  Feed troughs; Feed pails  [2]
 A01K 5/015
·  Licking-stone holders (salt blocks A23K 1/16)  [2]
 A01K 5/02
·  Automatic devices
 A01K 7/00
Watering equipment for stock or game
 A01K 7/02
·  Automatic devices (construction of valves F16K)
 A01K 7/04
·  ·  actuated by float  [2]
 A01K 7/06
·  ·  actuated by the animal  [2]
 A01K 9/00
Sucking apparatus for young stock
 A01K 11/00
Marking of animals (of poultry A01K 35/00; lead-sealing pliers B25B)
 A01K 13/00
Devices for grooming or caring of animals, e.g. curry-combs (scissors B26B); Fetlock rings (bandages, poultices A61D); Tail-holders (as part of the harness B68B 5/04); Devices for preventing crib-biting; Washing devices (for medical purposes A61D 11/00); Protection against weather conditions or insects
 A01K 15/00
Devices for taming animals, e.g. nose-rings, hobbles; Devices for overturning animals in general; Training equipment; Covering boxes (devices for veterinary purposes A61D 3/00)
 A01K 15/02
·  Training or exercising equipment (A01K 15/04 takes precedence)  [2]
 A01K 15/04
·  Devices for impeding movement; Devices for impeding passage through fencing  [2]
 A01K 17/00
Dehorners; Horn trainers
 A01K 19/00
Weaning apparatus
 A01K 21/00
Devices for assisting or preventing mating (covering boxes A01K 15/00)
 A01K 23/00
Manure or urine pouches
 A01K 25/00
Muzzles
 A01K 27/00
Leads or collars, e.g. for dogs
 A01K 29/00
Other apparatus for animal husbandry
 A01K 31/00 - 
A01K 45/00
Aviculture; Testing, cleaning, stamping, or grading eggs
 A01K 31/00
Housing birds
 A01K 31/02
·  Door appliances; Automatic door-openers (counters for specific applications G07C 9/00)
 A01K 31/04
·  Dropping-boards; Devices for removing excrement
 A01K 31/06
·  Cages
 A01K 31/07
·  ·  Transportable cages (A01K 31/08 takes precedence)  [2]
 A01K 31/08
·  ·  Collapsible cages
 A01K 31/10
·  Doors; Trap-doors
 A01K 31/12
·  Perches
 A01K 31/14
·  Nest-boxes
 A01K 31/16
·  ·  Laying nests for poultry; Egg collecting  [2]
 A01K 31/17
·  ·  ·  Laying batteries  [2]
 A01K 31/18
·  Chicken coops or houses; Brooders
 A01K 31/19
·  ·  Brooders  [2]
 A01K 31/20
·  ·  Heating arrangements
 A01K 31/22
·  Poultry runs
 A01K 31/24
·  Dovecots; Pigeonlofts  [2]
 A01K 33/00
Nest-eggs
 A01K 35/00
Marking poultry or other birds
 A01K 37/00
Constraining birds, e.g. wing clamps
 A01K 39/00
Feeding or drinking appliances for poultry or other birds  [2]
 A01K 39/01
·  Feeding devices (A01K 39/04 takes precedence)  [2]
 A01K 39/012
·  ·  filling automatically  [2]
 A01K 39/014
·  ·  Feed troughs; Feed throwers  [2]
 A01K 39/02
·  Drinking appliances (A01K 39/04 takes precedence; construction of valves F16K)  [2]
 A01K 39/022
·  ·  with weight-controlled supply  [2]
 A01K 39/024
·  ·  with float-controlled supply  [2]
 A01K 39/026
·  ·  kept filled to constant level from incorporated storage  [2]
 A01K 39/04
·  Combined feeding and drinking appliances
 A01K 39/06
·  Cramming appliances
 A01K 41/00
Incubators for poultry
 A01K 41/02
·  Heating arrangements
 A01K 41/04
·  Controlling humidity in incubators
 A01K 41/06
·  Egg-turning appliances for incubators
 A01K 43/00
Testing, sorting, or cleaning eggs (investigating or analising eggs, e.g. by candling, G01N 33/08)
 A01K 43/04
·  Grading eggs
 A01K 43/06
·  ·  according to size
 A01K 43/08
·  ·  according to weight (sorting according to weight in general B07C 5/16)
 A01K 43/10
·  ·  Grading and stamping
 A01K 45/00
Other aviculture appliances, e.g. devices for determining whether a bird is about to lay
 A01K 47/00 - 
A01K 59/00
Apiculture
 A01K 47/00
Beehives
 A01K 47/02
·  Construction or arrangement of frames for honeycombs
 A01K 47/04
·  Artificial honeycombs
 A01K 47/06
·  Other details of beehives, e.g. ventilating devices, entrances to hives, guards, partitions, bee escapes
 A01K 49/00
Rearing-boxes; Queen transporting or introducing cages
 A01K 51/00
Appliances for treating beehives or parts thereof, e.g. for cleaning or disinfecting
 A01K 53/00
Feeding or drinking appliances for bees
 A01K 55/00
Bee-smokers; Bee-keepers' accessories, e.g. veils (smoking pipes A24F)
 A01K 57/00
Appliances for providing, preventing, or catching swarms; Drone-catching devices
 A01K 59/00
Honey collection
 A01K 59/02
·  Devices for uncapping honeycombs
 A01K 59/04
·  Honey strainers
 A01K 59/06
·  Devices for extracting wax
 A01K 61/00 - 
A01K 63/00
Pisciculture; Aquaria; Terraria
 A01K 61/00
Culture of fish, mussels, crayfish, lobsters, sponges, pearls, or the like (harvesting oysters, mussels, sponges or the like A01K 80/00)
 A01K 61/02
·  Feeding devices for fish
 A01K 63/00
Receptacles for live fish, e.g. aquaria; Terraria
 A01K 63/02
·  Receptacles specially adapted for transporting live fish
 A01K 63/04
·  Arrangements for treating water specially adapted to receptacles for live fish (filters in general B01D; water treatment in general C02F)  [3]
 A01K 63/06
·  Arrangements for heating or lighting in, or attached to, receptacles for live fish (heating or lighting apparatus per se F21, H01, H05B)  [3]
 A01K 65/00
Fish stringers
 A01K 67/00
Rearing living beings in general
 A01K 67/02
·  Methods for breeding vertebrates
 A01K 67/04
·  Silkworms
 A01K 69/00 - 
A01K 81/00
Fishing (fish stringers A01K 65/00)
 A01K 69/00
Stationary catching devices
 A01K 69/02
·  Fixed nets without traps
 A01K 69/04
·  Fixed nets with traps
 A01K 69/06
·  Traps
 A01K 69/08
·  ·  Rigid traps, e.g. lobster pots
 A01K 69/10
·  ·  Collapsible traps
 A01K 71/00
Floating nets
 A01K 73/00
Drawn nets
 A01K 73/02
·  Trawling nets
 A01K 73/04
·  ·  Devices for spreading or positioning, e.g. control thereof  [2]
 A01K 73/045
·  ·  ·  for lateral sheering, e.g. trawl boards  [2]
 A01K 73/05
·  ·  ·  for vertical sheering  [2]
 A01K 73/052
( transferred to A01K 73/053, A01K 75/06 )
 A01K 73/053
·  ·  ·  Ground-line rollers  [4]
 A01K 73/054
( transferred to A01K 75/04 )
 A01K 73/06
·  ·  Hauling devices for the headlines
 A01K 73/10
·  ·  Determining the quantity of the catch, e.g. by the pull or drag on the lines
 A01K 73/12
·  Nets held vertically in the water, e.g. seines
 A01K 74/00
Other catching nets or the like  [2]
 A01K 75/00
Accessories for nets; Details of nets, e.g. structure
 A01K 75/02
·  Illuminating devices for nets
 A01K 75/04
·  Floats (for angling A01K 93/00)  [4]
 A01K 75/06
·  Sinkers (for angling A01K 95/00)  [4]
 A01K 77/00
Landing-nets; Landing-spoons
 A01K 79/00
Methods or means of catching fish in bulk not provided for in groups A01K 69/00-A01K 77/00
 A01K 79/02
·  by electrocution (electric circuits therefor H05C)
 A01K 80/00
Harvesting oysters, mussels, sponges or the like (nets A01K 73/00, A01K 74/00; dredgers E02F)  [3]
 A01K 81/00
Fishing with projectiles (weapons, projectiles other than fish-spears F41, F42)
 A01K 81/04
·  Fish-spears
 A01K 81/06
·  Equipment for hunting fish under water (swimming equipment A63B 31/00-A63B 35/00)
 A01K 83/00 - 
A01K 97/00
Angling
 A01K 83/00
Fish-hooks
 A01K 83/02
·  Expanding fish-hook assembly
 A01K 83/04
·  with special gripping arms
 A01K 83/06
·  Devices for holding bait on hooks
 A01K 85/00
Artificial baits
 A01K 85/01
·  with illumination, sound emission or the like  [2]
 A01K 85/02
·  with jerking hooks
 A01K 85/04
·  with flat bodies
 A01K 85/06
·  with mechanical drive
 A01K 85/08
·  Artificial flies
 A01K 87/00
Rods
 A01K 87/02
·  Connecting devices for parts of the rods
 A01K 87/04
·  Fishing-line guides on rods
 A01K 87/06
·  Devices for fixing reels on rods
 A01K 89/00
Reels
 A01K 89/01
·  with pick-up, i.e. with rotary guiding member and stationary drum  [2]
 A01K 89/012
·  ·  motor-driven  [2]
 A01K 89/015
·  with rotary drum  [2]
 A01K 89/017
·  ·  motor-driven  [2]
 A01K 89/02
·  Brake devices for reels
 A01K 89/04
·  Guides on reels
 A01K 91/00
Lines
 A01K 91/02
·  Devices for casting lines
 A01K 91/04
·  Devices for connecting hooks to lines
 A01K 91/06
·  Apparatus on lines not otherwise provided for, e.g. automatic hooker  [2]
 A01K 93/00
Floats for angling, with or without signalling devices (A01K 91/06 takes precedence)
 A01K 95/00
Sinkers for angling
 A01K 97/00
Accessories for angling (landing-nets, landing-spoons A01K 77/00)
 A01K 97/01
·  for ice-fishing  [2]
 A01K 97/02
·  Devices for laying ground-bait
 A01K 97/04
·  Containers for bait; Preparation of bait  [2]
 A01K 97/06
·  Containers or holders for hooks
 A01K 97/08
·  Containers for rods
 A01K 97/10
·  Supports for rods
 A01K 97/12
·  Signalling devices, e.g. tip-up devices (A01K 91/06 takes precedence)  [2]
 A01K 97/14
·  Gaffs
 A01K 97/16
·  Devices for drying fishing lines