In this class, the following term is used with the meaning indicated:
"vehicle" means all vehicles except those restricted to one of the following types of vehicles: rail vehicles, waterborne vessels, aircraft, space vehicles, hand carts, cycles, animal-drawn vehicles, and sledges, which are covered by the relevant subclasses of Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...B61-B64.
Thus the term "vehicle" includes:
vehicular characteristics which are common to more than one of the above-listed types;
certain characteristics restricted to automobiles, road or cross-country trailers.
The following exceptions to the above should be noted:
subclass Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...B60C embraces the repairing of, and the connection of valves to, inflatable elastic bodies in general, and in this respect it is not limited to vehicles;
subclass Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...B60M embraces certain power supply equipment for, but external to, any kind of electrically-propelled vehicle;
subclass Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...B60T includes brake control systems of general applicability, and in this respect it is not limited to vehicles. It also includes rail-vehicle power-brake systems and some other features of rail-vehicle brake systems.
AIR-CUSHION VEHICLES (devices for short-distance movement of heavy loads by providing a high-pressure fluid cushion, supplied from an independent source, between load and ground Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...B65G 7/06)
B60V
Note(s)
In this subclass, the following expression is used with the meaning indicated:
"air-cushion vehicles" includes all vehicles which are wholly or partly supported on land or water by air or other gaseous cushions.