|  | B |
SECTION B — PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING

TRANSPORTING

|  | B60 |
VEHICLES IN GENERAL

|  | B60 |
Note(s) 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...B60B or Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...B60C embrace all vehicle wheels and tyres, except wheels for roller skates Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...A63C 17/22, wheels for model railway vehicles Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...A63H 19/22, and special adaptations of wheels or tyres for aircraft Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...B64C 25/36; subclass Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...B60C embraces the connection of valves to inflatable elastic bodies in general, and in this respect it is not limited to vehicles; subclass Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...B60L embraces certain electric equipment of all electrically-propelled 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...B60R embraces safety belts or body harnesses used in all types of land vehicles; [4] subclass Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...B60S relates to all kinds of vehicles, except the servicing of rail locomotives Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...B61K 11/00, ground equipment for aircraft Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...B64F, or cleaning apparatus peculiar to waterborne vessels Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...B63B 57/00, Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...B63B 59/00; 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.

|  | B60P |
VEHICLES ADAPTED FOR LOAD TRANSPORTATION OR TO TRANSPORT, TO CARRY, OR TO COMPRISE SPECIAL LOADS OR OBJECTS (vehicles with special provisions for invalids Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...A61G 3/00)

|  | B60P |
Note(s) Attention is drawn to the Note following the title of class Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...B60.

|  | B60P 1/00 |
Vehicles predominantly for transporting loads and modified to facilitate loading, consolidating the load, or unloading (vehicles for carrying harvested crops with means for self-loading or self-unloading Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...A01D 90/00; peculiar to refuse-collecting-vehicles Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...B65F; loading or unloading vehicles by means not incorporated therein Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...B65G)

|  | B60P 1/02 |
· | with parallel up-and-down movement of load supporting or containing element (in combination with tipping Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...B60P 1/34; fork-lift or like trucks Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...B66F 9/06)

|  | B60P 1/04 |
· | with a tipping movement of load supporting or containing element (dredges or soil-shifting machines Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...E02F 3/00)

|  | B60P 1/06 |
· · | actuated by mechanical gearing only

|  | B60P 1/08 |
· · · | with relative displacement of the wheel axles

|  | B60P 1/10 |
· · · | with screw and nut

|  | B60P 1/12 |
· · · | with toothed gears, wheels, or sectors; with links, cams and rollers, or the like

|  | B60P 1/14 |
· · · | with cables, chains, or the like

|  | B60P 1/16 |
· · | actuated by fluid-operated mechanisms

|  | B60P 1/18 |
· · · | with relative displacement of the wheel axles

|  | B60P 1/20 |
· · · | with toothed gears, wheels, or sectors; with links, cams and rollers, or the like

|  | B60P 1/22 |
· · · | with cables, chains, or the like

|  | B60P 1/24 |
· · | using the weight of the load

|  | B60P 1/26 |
· · | Means for controlling movement of tailboards or sideboards [5]

|  | B60P 1/267 |
· · · | Controlling degree of tailboard or sideboard movement in dependence upon degree of tipping movement, e.g. by linkage or cam [5]

|  | B60P 1/273 |
· · · | Providing interdependence between tipping movement and the latching or unlatching of a freely-swingable tailboard or sideboard [5]

|  | B60P 1/28 |
· · | Tipping-body constructions

|  | B60P 1/30 |
· · | in combination with another movement of the element

|  | B60P 1/32 |
· · · | the other movement being lateral displacement

|  | B60P 1/34 |
· · · | the other movement being raising or lowering

|  | B60P 1/36 |
· | using endless chains or belts thereon

|  | B60P 1/38 |
· · | forming the main load supporting or containing element or part thereof

|  | B60P 1/40 |
· | using screw conveyers thereon

|  | B60P 1/42 |
· · | mounted on the load supporting or containing element

|  | B60P 1/43 |
· | using a loading ramp mounted on the vehicle (loading ramps per se Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...B65G 69/28) [5]

|  | B60P 1/44 |
· | having a loading platform thereon raising the load to the level of the load supporting or containing element

|  | B60P 1/46 |
· · | carried in vertical guides

|  | B60P 1/48 |
· | using pivoted arms raisable above the load supporting or containing element (load-engaging elements Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...B66)

|  | B60P 1/50 |
· · | loading from in front of the vehicle

|  | B60P 1/52 |
· | using rollers in the load supporting or containing element

|  | B60P 1/54 |
· | using cranes for self-loading or self-unloading (vehicles for transporting cranes Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...B60P 3/28; mobile or travelling cranes Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...B66C)

|  | B60P 1/56 |
· | the load supporting or containing element having bottom discharging openings

|  | B60P 1/58 |
· | using vibratory effect

|  | B60P 1/60 |
· | using fluids, e.g. having direct contact between fluid and load [2]

|  | B60P 1/62 |
· · | with porous walls

|  | B60P 1/64 |
· | the load supporting or containing element being readily removable (caravans, camping, or the like vehicles characterised by living accommodation in the form of a removable body supported by the vehicle unit Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...B60P 3/33, Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...B60P 3/345) [5]

|  | B60P 3/00 |
Vehicles adapted to transport, to carry or to comprise special loads or objects (ambulance aspects, vehicles with special provisions for invalids Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...A61G 3/00; hearses Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...A61G 21/00; fire-fighting land vehicles Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...A62C 27/00; refuse-collecting vehicles Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...B65F 3/00, Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...B65F 7/00; snow-removing vehicles Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...E01H; armoured or armed vehicles Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...F41H 7/00; self-propelled mine-clearing vehicles Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...F41H 11/16)

|  | B60P 3/022 |
· | for transporting prefabricated buildings or modules thereof, e.g. prefabricated garages or the like (conveying or assembling building elements Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...E04G 21/14) [5]

|  | B60P 3/025 |
· | the object being a shop, cafeteria or display (the object being a workshop Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...B60P 3/14) [3]

|  | B60P 3/03 |
· | for transporting money or other valuables [3]

|  | B60P 3/035 |
· | for transporting reel units [3]

|  | B60P 3/04 |
· | for transporting animals

|  | B60P 3/05 |
· | for transporting meat (for transporting refrigerated goods Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...B60P 3/20) [3]

|  | B60P 3/055 |
· | for transporting bottles [3]

|  | B60P 3/06 |
· | for carrying vehicles (Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...B60P 3/12 takes precedence; caravans, camping, or like vehicles with vehicle-carrying means Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...B60P 3/363) [3,5]

|  | B60P 3/07 |
· · | for carrying road vehicles [3]

|  | B60P 3/071 |
· · · | Arrangement of overturned or on-edge vehicles [5]

|  | B60P 3/073 |
· · · | Vehicle retainers [5]

|  | B60P 3/075 |
· · · · | for wheels, hubs, or axle shafts [5]

|  | B60P 3/077 |
· · · · · | Wheel cradles, chocks, or wells [5]

|  | B60P 3/079 |
· · · · | Tie-downs (Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...B60P 3/075 takes precedence) [5]

|  | B60P 3/08 |
· · · | Multilevel-deck construction carrying vehicles [3]

|  | B60P 3/10 |
· · | for carrying boats

|  | B60P 3/11 |
· · | for carrying aircraft [3]

|  | B60P 3/12 |
· | for salvaging damaged vehicles

|  | B60P 3/14 |
· | the object being a workshop for servicing, for maintenance, or for carrying workmen during work (lifting devices for movable platforms or cabins for workmen Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...B66F 11/04)

|  | B60P 3/16 |
· | for carrying mixed concrete, e.g. having rotatable drums

|  | B60P 3/18 |
· | the object being a searchlight

|  | B60P 3/20 |
· | for transporting refrigerated goods (air treatment of goods space Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...B60H)

|  | B60P 3/22 |
· | Tank vehicles (tank aspects Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...B65D 88/00, Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...B65D 90/00, Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...F17C)

|  | B60P 3/24 |
· · | compartmented

|  | B60P 3/26 |
( transferred to Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...A61G 21/00 )

|  | B60P 3/28 |
· | for transporting cranes (vehicles using cranes for self-loading or self-unloading Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...B60P 1/54; mobile or travelling cranes Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...B66C)

|  | B60P 3/30 |
· | Spraying-vehicles (sprinkling-wagons for fertilising liquid Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...A01C 23/00; for destruction of noxious animals, vermin, or unwanted vegetation Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...A01M; for spraying asphalt, bitumen, tar, or the like Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...E01C; for cleaning streets Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...E01H)

|  | B60P 3/32 |
· | comprising living accommodation for people, e.g. caravans, camping, or like vehicles (tents or canopies, in general Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...E04H 15/00)

|  | B60P 3/325 |
· · | the living accommodation being neither expansible nor collapsible nor capable of rearrangement [5]

|  | B60P 3/33 |
· · · | characterised by living accommodation in the form of a removable body supported by the vehicle unit [5]

|  | B60P 3/335 |
· · · | supported by a trailer-type vehicle or being itself of the trailer-type (Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...B60P 3/33 takes precedence) [5]

|  | B60P 3/34 |
· · | the living accommodation being expansible, collapsible or capable of rearrangement (Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...B60P 3/39 takes precedence; tents supported at least partially by vehicles Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...E04H 15/06) [5]

|  | B60P 3/345 |
· · · | characterised by living accommodation in the form of a removable body supported by the vehicle unit [5]

|  | B60P 3/35 |
· · · | supported by a trailer-type vehicle or being itself of the trailer-type (Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...B60P 3/345 takes precedence) [5]

|  | B60P 3/355 |
· · · · | collapsible to a condition not usable as living accommodation, e.g. to a trailer of compact design [5]

|  | B60P 3/36 |
· · | Auxiliary arrangements; Arrangements of living accommodation (toilet or washing arrangements Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...B60R 15/00); Details [5]

|  | B60P 3/363 |
· · · | with vehicle-carrying means [5]

|  | B60P 3/367 |
· · · · | with boat-carrying means [5]

|  | B60P 3/37 |
· · · | Exterior platforms, e.g. porch (awnings for buildings Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...E04F 10/00; trailer awnings Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...E04H 15/08; awnings for tents Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...E04H 15/58) [5]

|  | B60P 3/373 |
· · · | Passageways between living accommodation and vehicle operating compartment [5]

|  | B60P 3/377 |
· · · | Means for securing living accommodation to vehicle unit [5]

|  | B60P 3/38 |
· · · | Sleeping arrangements

|  | B60P 3/39 |
· · · · | expansible, collapsible or repositionable elements adapted to support a bed, e.g. wall portions [5]

|  | B60P 3/40 |
· | for carrying long loads, e.g. with separate wheeled load-supporting elements (Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...B60P 3/022 takes precedence; signal devices to be attached to overhanging load Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...B60Q 7/02) [5]

|  | B60P 3/42 |
· | convertible from one use to a different one (vehicles capable of travelling in or on different media, rail-and-road vehicles Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...B60F)

|  | B60P 5/00 |
Arrangements of weighing machines on vehicles (adapting weighing machines to use on transport vehicles Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...G01G 19/08)

|  | B60P 7/00 |
Securing or covering of load on vehicles

|  | B60P 7/02 |
· | Covering of load

|  | B60P 7/04 |
· · | by tarpaulins or like flexible members

|  | B60P 7/06 |
· | Securing of load (vehicle retainers Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...B60P 3/073) [5]

|  | B60P 7/08 |
· · | Securing to vehicle floor or sides (Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...B60P 7/13, Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...B60P 7/135 take precedence) [3,5]

|  | B60P 7/10 |
· · · | the load being plates, cases, or boxes

|  | B60P 7/12 |
· · · | the load being tree-trunks, beams, drums, tubes, or the like

|  | B60P 7/13 |
· · | Securing freight containers or forwarding containers on vehicles [3]

|  | B60P 7/135 |
· · | Securing or supporting by load bracing means [5]

|  | B60P 7/14 |
· · · | the load bracing means comprising a movable bulkhead

|  | B60P 7/15 |
· · · | the load bracing means comprising a movable bar [5]

|  | B60P 7/16 |
· · | Protecting against shocks

|  | B60P 7/18 |
· · · | Protecting freight containers or forwarding containers [3]

|  | B60P 9/00 |
Other vehicles predominantly for carrying loads