B
SECTION B — PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
  
TRANSPORTING
 B61
RAILWAYS
 B61

Note(s)

In this class, the following expression is used with the meaning indicated:

  • "railway systems" covers:
    1. systems in which trains or individual passenger vehicles or load carriers run on, or are guided by, ground or elevated tracks defined by rails, ropes, cables, or other guiding elements for wheels, rollers, or sliding anti-friction devices (permanently attached to a continuous traction element B65G 17/00);
    2. systems in which carriers or impellers for persons or loads are attached to, e.g. suspended from, a guided traction rope or cable which determines their path of movement (chain conveyers, scraper conveyers B65G 17/00, B65G 19/00);
    3. power and free systems of either of the above types in which vehicles, load-carriers, or loads may be selectively coupled to, or uncoupled from, continuous traction members, e.g. cables, chains.

 B61J
SHIFTING OR SHUNTING OF RAIL VEHICLES (shifting vehicles in general B60S; marshalling systems B61B)
 B61J 1/00
Turntables; Traversers; Transporting rail vehicles on other rail vehicles or dollies (shunting B61J 3/00)
 B61J 1/02
·  Turntables; Integral stops
 B61J 1/04
·  ·  of normal railroad type
 B61J 1/06
·  ·  for railways with suspended vehicles, e.g. aerial rope railways
 B61J 1/08
·  ·  for connecting inclined tracks or tracks of different height (wagon elevators B66)
 B61J 1/10
·  Traversers
 B61J 1/12
·  Rollers or devices for shifting or transporting rail vehicles on rails
 B61J 3/00
Shunting or short-distance haulage devices; Similar devices for hauling trains on steep gradients or as starting aids; Car-propelling devices therefor (overhead travelling cranes combined with auxiliary means for shunting railway vehicles B66C 17/26; capstans B66D)
 B61J 3/02
·  Gravity shunting humps (track brakes or retarding apparatus fixed to permanent way B61K 7/02)
 B61J 3/04
·  Car-shunting or haulage devices with cable traction or endless-chain driving means
 B61J 3/06
·  ·  with vehicle-engaging truck or carriage
 B61J 3/08
·  Devices with reciprocated pushing bars or like driving mechanisms combined with the track for shunting or hauling cars (railway systems of this kind B61B 13/12)
 B61J 3/10
·  Car-shunting or positioning devices with pinchbar action (pinchbars, crowbars in general B66F 15/00)
 B61J 3/12
·  Self-propelled tractors or pushing vehicles, e.g. mules (with cable traction B61J 3/06)