F
SECTION F — MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
  
WEAPONS; BLASTING
 F41
WEAPONS
 F41

Note(s)

  1. This class covers also means for practice and training which may have aspects of simulation, e.g. in apparatus for so-called "military games", although simulators are generally covered by class G09.  [4]
  2. In this class, the following terms or expressions are used with the meanings indicated:
    • "smallarm" means a firearm which is generally held with one or both hands for firing, but this term also includes a light machine-gun which may be supported on a tripod or the like during firing;  [5]
    • "gun" means any weapon having a barrel and a trigger or firing mechanism for projecting a missile; it may be a piece of ordnance or a smallarm. It may use combustible or explosive propellant charges, air pressure, electromagnetism or other propulsive forces;  [5]
    • "revolver-type gun" means a gun having a revolving drum magazine, the chambers of which are used successively as firing chamber;  [5]
    • "revolver" means a revolver-type pistol;  [5]
    • "semi-automatic firearm" means a firearm from which one shot is fired after actuation of the trigger and which then returns to a condition for firing a subsequent shot upon renewed actuation of the trigger;
    • "automatic firearm" means a firearm which will continue firing so long as the initial firing pressure is maintained on the trigger;
    • "sighting" means bringing into visual coincidence a direction defined by a so-called "sighting" device with the direction of a target;
    • "aiming" means bringing a weapon to a direction differing from the sighting direction by corrections in order that the projectile may hit the target;
    • "laying" means setting a weapon in the correct position for hitting a target.
  3. Attention is drawn to the definitions of "projectile", "missile" and "rocket" given in Note (2) following the title of class F42.  [4]
 F41F
APPARATUS FOR LAUNCHING PROJECTILES OR MISSILES FROM BARRELS, e.g. CANNONS (smallarms F41C); LAUNCHERS FOR ROCKETS OR TORPEDOES; HARPOON GUNS (functional features or details common to both smallarms and ordnance, mountings therefor F41A; projecting missiles without use of explosive or combustible propellant charge F41B)  [5]
 F41F
Subclass index
LAUNCHING FROM BARRELS 1/00
ROCKET OR TORPEDO LAUNCHERS 3/00
LAUNCHING GRAVITY-PROPELLED PROJECTILES OR MISSILES 5/00
OTHER LAUNCHING APPARATUS 7/00
 F41F 1/00
Launching apparatus for projecting projectiles or missiles from barrels, e.g. cannons (F41F 3/00 takes precedence); Harpoon guns
 F41F 1/06
·  Mortars (base plates therefor F41A 23/54)
 F41F 1/08
·  Multibarrel guns, e.g. twin guns  [5]
 F41F 1/10
·  ·  Revolving-cannon guns, i.e. multibarrel guns with the barrels and their respective breeches mounted on a rotor; Breech mechanisms therefor  [5]
 F41F 3/00
Rocket or torpedo launchers
 F41F 3/04
·  for rockets
 F41F 3/042
·  ·  the launching apparatus being used also as transport container for the rocket  [4]
 F41F 3/045
·  ·  adapted to be carried and used by a person, e.g. bazookas (F41F 3/042 takes precedence)  [4]
 F41F 3/048
·  ·  Means for imparting spin to the rocket before launching  [4]
 F41F 3/052
·  ·  Means for securing the rocket in the launching apparatus  [4]
 F41F 3/055
·  ·  Umbilical connecting means  [4]
 F41F 3/058
·  ·  Means for removing duds or misfires  [4]
 F41F 3/06
·  ·  from aircraft
 F41F 3/065
·  ·  ·  Rocket pods, i.e. detachable containers for launching a plurality of rockets  [5]
 F41F 3/07
·  ·  Underwater launching-apparatus  [4]
 F41F 3/073
·  ·  Silos for rockets, e.g. mounting or sealing rockets therein (F41F 3/077 takes precedence)  [5]
 F41F 3/077
·  ·  Doors or covers for launching tubes  [5]
 F41F 3/08
·  for marine torpedoes
 F41F 3/10
·  ·  from below the surface of the water
 F41F 5/00
Launching-apparatus for gravity-propelled missiles or projectiles (from aircraft B64D 1/04)
 F41F 5/04
·  from ships, e.g. for mines, for depth charges
 F41F 7/00
Launching-apparatus for projecting missiles or projectiles otherwise than from barrels (F41F 3/04 takes precedence)  [3]