E
SECTION E — FIXED CONSTRUCTIONS
  
BUILDING
 E01
CONSTRUCTION OF ROADS, RAILWAYS, OR BRIDGES (of tunnels E21D)
 E01B
PERMANENT WAY; PERMANENT-WAY TOOLS; MACHINES FOR MAKING RAILWAYS OF ALL KINDS (derailing or rerailing blocks on track, track brakes or retarders B61K)
 E01B
Subclass index
STRUCTURE OF THE PERMANENT WAY
General structure 2/00
Ballastway, transverse or longitudinal sleepers 1/00, 3/00
Rails or switches for general application 5/00 - 13/00, 26/00
Rails or switches for particular application 21/00 - 26/00
Protective arrangements 15/00 - 19/00
MAKING, MAINTAINING, RENEWING, OR TAKING-UP THE BALLASTWAY OR THE TRACK 27/00 - 37/00
 E01B 1/00 - 
E01B 26/00
Structure of the permanent way for railways or tramways
 E01B 1/00
Ballastway; Other means for supporting the sleepers or the track; Drainage of the ballastway (draining by trenches, culverts, or conduits E01F 5/00)
 E01B 2/00
General structure of permanent way (railway networks B61B 1/00; foundations for pavings E01C 3/00; foundations in general E02D)
 E01B 3/00
Transverse or longitudinal sleepers (for switches or crossings E01B 7/22); Other means resting directly on the ballastway for supporting rails
 E01B 3/02
·  made from wood (drying or impregnating B27K)
 E01B 3/04
·  ·  Means for preventing cleaving
 E01B 3/06
·  ·  ·  Anti-cracking dogs
 E01B 3/08
·  ·  ·  Straps or bands for hooping or encircling sleepers (apparatus for hooping wooden railway sleepers on the spot E01B 31/28)
 E01B 3/10
·  ·  Composite sleepers
 E01B 3/12
·  ·  Longitudinal sleepers; Longitudinal sleepers integral or combined with tie-rods; Combined longitudinal and transverse sleepers
 E01B 3/14
·  ·  Slabs; Blocks; Fastening tie-rods to them
 E01B 3/16
·  made from steel
 E01B 3/18
·  ·  Composite sleepers
 E01B 3/20
·  ·  Sleeper construction for special purposes, e.g. with openings for ballast working (sleepers for shiftable track for heavy loads E01B 23/12)
 E01B 3/22
·  ·  Longitudinal sleepers; Longitudinal sleepers integral or combined with tie-rods; Combined longitudinal and transverse sleepers
 E01B 3/24
·  ·  Slabs; Blocks; Pot sleepers; Fastening tie-rods to them
 E01B 3/26
·  ·  combined with inserts of wood, artificial stone, or other material
 E01B 3/28
·  made from concrete or from natural or artificial stone (manufacture B28)
 E01B 3/30
·  ·  Hollow sleepers
 E01B 3/32
·  ·  with armouring or reinforcement (hollow sleepers E01B 3/30)
 E01B 3/34
·  ·  ·  with pre-tensioned armouring or reinforcement (pre-tensioned armouring or reinforcing elements E04C 5/00)
 E01B 3/36
·  ·  Composite sleepers
 E01B 3/38
·  ·  Longitudinal sleepers; Longitudinal sleepers integral or combined with tie-rods; Combined longitudinal and transverse sleepers; Layers of concrete supporting both rails
 E01B 3/40
·  ·  Slabs; Blocks; Pot sleepers; Fastening tie-rods to them
 E01B 3/42
·  ·  combined with inserts of wood or other material
 E01B 3/44
·  made from other materials only if the material is essential
 E01B 3/46
·  made from different materials (E01B 3/26, E01B 3/42 take precedence)
 E01B 3/48
·  Distance keepers or tie-rods for sleepers
 E01B 5/00
Rails; Guard rails (manufacture of rails B21B); Distance-keeping means for them
 E01B 5/02
·  Rails
 E01B 5/04
·  ·  Grooved rails
 E01B 5/06
·  ·  Reversible or invertible rails
 E01B 5/08
·  ·  Composite rails; Compound rails with dismountable or non-dismountable parts
 E01B 5/10
·  ·  ·  Composite grooved rails; Inserts for grooved rails
 E01B 5/12
·  ·  Rails with a foot serving as a sleeper
 E01B 5/14
·  ·  Rails for special parts of the track, e.g. for curves
 E01B 5/16
·  Distance keepers
 E01B 5/18
·  Guard rails; Connecting, fastening or adjusting means therefor
 E01B 7/00
Switches; Crossings (operating mechanisms B61L)
 E01B 7/02
·  Tongues; Associated constructions
 E01B 7/04
·  ·  Constructions with tongues turning about a vertical pivot at the end
 E01B 7/06
·  ·  Constructions with flexible tongues or flexible fishplates
 E01B 7/08
·  ·  Other constructions of tongues, e.g. tilting about an axis parallel to the rail, movable tongue blocks or rails
 E01B 7/10
·  Frogs
 E01B 7/12
·  ·  Fixed frogs made of one part or composite
 E01B 7/14
·  ·  with movable parts
 E01B 7/16
·  ·  Jump-over frogs
 E01B 7/18
·  Combinations of switches and crossings
 E01B 7/20
·  Safety means for switches, e.g. switch point protectors, auxiliary or guiding rail members
 E01B 7/22
·  Special sleepers for switches or crossings; Fastening means therefor
 E01B 7/24
·  Heating of switches
 E01B 7/26
·  Lubricating of switches (lubricating of rails B61K 3/00)
 E01B 7/28
·  Crossings
 E01B 7/30
·  ·  Jump-over crossings
 E01B 9/00
Fastening rails on sleepers, or the like (fastening rails to bridges E01D 19/12)
 E01B 9/02
·  Fastening rails, tie-plates, or chairs directly on sleepers or foundations; Means therefor
 E01B 9/04
·  ·  Fastening on wooden or concrete sleepers or on masonry without clamp members
 E01B 9/06
·  ·  ·  Railways spikes (nails in general F16B)
 E01B 9/08
·  ·  ·  ·  Elastic spikes
 E01B 9/10
·  ·  ·  Screws or bolts for sleepers (screws or bolts in general F16B)
 E01B 9/12
·  ·  ·  Retaining or locking devices for spikes or screws
 E01B 9/14
·  ·  ·  Plugs, sleeves, thread linings, or other inserts for holes in sleepers (inserting plugs or sleeves E01B 31/26)
 E01B 9/16
·  ·  ·  ·  for wooden sleepers
 E01B 9/18
·  ·  ·  ·  for concrete sleepers
 E01B 9/20
·  ·  ·  by keys
 E01B 9/22
·  ·  Fastening on steel sleepers without clamp members
 E01B 9/24
·  ·  ·  by keys
 E01B 9/26
·  ·  ·  Welded fastenings
 E01B 9/28
·  ·  Fastening on wooden or concrete sleepers or on masonry with clamp members
 E01B 9/30
·  ·  ·  by resilient steel clips
 E01B 9/32
·  ·  Fastening on steel sleepers with clamp members
 E01B 9/34
·  ·  ·  by resilient steel clips
 E01B 9/36
·  ·  Metal sole-plates for rails which rails are directly fastened to sleepers
 E01B 9/38
·  Indirect fastening of rails by using tie-plates or chairs; Fastening of rails on the tie-plates or in the chairs
 E01B 9/40
·  ·  Tie-plates for flat-bottom rails (manufacture thereof B21)
 E01B 9/42
·  ·  ·  of two or more parts
 E01B 9/44
·  ·  Fastening the rail on the tie-plate
 E01B 9/46
·  ·  ·  by clamps
 E01B 9/48
·  ·  ·  ·  by resilient steel clips
 E01B 9/50
·  ·  ·  by keys
 E01B 9/52
·  ·  ·  ·  by resilient keys
 E01B 9/54
·  ·  Rail chairs
 E01B 9/56
·  ·  ·  for rails with two or more treads
 E01B 9/58
·  ·  Fastening the rail in the chair
 E01B 9/60
·  Rail fastenings making use of clamps or braces supporting the side or head of the rail
 E01B 9/62
·  Rail fastenings incorporating resilient supports
 E01B 9/64
·  Rail fastenings gripping or encircling the sleeper
 E01B 9/66
·  Rail fastenings allowing the adjustment of the position of the rails, so far as not covered by the preceding groups
 E01B 9/68
·  Pads or the like, e.g. of wood, rubber, placed under the rail, tie-plate, or chair
 E01B 11/00
Rail joints (electrical connection of rails B60M 5/00)
 E01B 11/02
·  Dismountable rail joints
 E01B 11/04
·  ·  Flat fishplates
 E01B 11/06
·  ·  ·  with keys or pins
 E01B 11/08
·  ·  Angle fishplates
 E01B 11/10
·  ·  Fishplates with parts supporting or surrounding the rail foot
 E01B 11/12
·  ·  Fishplates engaging only the rail foot
 E01B 11/14
·  ·  Rail foot flange clips in one piece
 E01B 11/16
·  ·  Fishplates for joining rails of different sections
 E01B 11/18
·  ·  Fishplates for temporarily repairing broken rails
 E01B 11/20
·  ·  with gap-bridging
 E01B 11/22
·  ·  ·  by parts of the rails
 E01B 11/24
·  ·  ·  ·  with oblique or overlapping rail ends
 E01B 11/26
·  ·  ·  ·  with interlocking rail ends
 E01B 11/28
·  ·  ·  by parts of the joining members
 E01B 11/30
·  ·  ·  ·  Fishplates with integral tread parts lying in the cross-section of the rail head
 E01B 11/32
·  ·  ·  by separate parts; Inserts bridging both rail heads
 E01B 11/34
·  ·  ·  ·  Auxiliary rail beside the gap
 E01B 11/36
·  ·  Fastening means for fishplates
 E01B 11/38
·  ·  ·  Locking arrangements for fastening means (locking means for nuts or bolts in general F16B)
 E01B 11/40
·  ·  Dismountable rail joints combined with welded parts
 E01B 11/42
·  Joint constructions for relatively movable rails, e.g. rails on turntables, traversers, or swing bridges
 E01B 11/44
·  Non-dismountable rail joints; Welded joints (welding methods B23K)
 E01B 11/46
·  ·  General methods for making gapless tracks
 E01B 11/48
·  ·  Joints made by flame welding
 E01B 11/50
·  ·  Joints made by electric welding
 E01B 11/52
·  ·  Joints made by alumino-thermal welding
 E01B 11/54
·  Electrically-insulating rail joints
 E01B 11/56
·  Special arrangements for supporting rail ends (foot supports E01B 11/08-E01B 11/14)
 E01B 11/58
·  ·  Bridge plates
 E01B 11/60
·  ·  ·  with wedges
 E01B 11/62
·  ·  Bridge chairs (chairs E01B 9/54-E01B 9/58)
 E01B 13/00
Arrangements preventing shifting of the track
 E01B 13/02
·  Rail anchors
 E01B 15/00
Guards for preventing a person's foot being trapped in grooved rails
 E01B 17/00
Cattle guards connected to the permanent way (grids in general for preventing cattle from straying A01K 3/00)
 E01B 19/00
Protection of permanent way against development of dust or against the effect of wind, sun, frost, or corrosion; Means to reduce development of noise (snow fences E01F 7/02; snow-ploughs E01H 8/02; watering E01H 11/00)
 E01B 21/00
Track superstructure specially adapted for tramways in paved streets (paving E01C 9/04, E01C 9/06)
 E01B 21/02
·  Special supporting means; Draining of rails
 E01B 21/04
·  Special fastenings, joint constructions, or tie-rods
 E01B 23/00
Easily dismountable or movable tracks, e.g. temporary railways; Details specially adapted therefor
 E01B 23/02
·  Tracks for light railways, e.g. for field, colliery, or mine use
 E01B 23/04
·  ·  Fastening or joining means
 E01B 23/06
·  ·  Switches (turntables B60S, B61J); Portable switches; Turnouts
 E01B 23/08
·  Temporary tracks for use while repairing tramways
 E01B 23/10
·  Shiftable tracks for heavy loads, e.g. carrying excavators
 E01B 23/12
·  ·  Sleepers
 E01B 23/14
·  ·  Fastening or joining means (fastening of rails by keys E01B 9/24)
 E01B 23/16
·  ·  Switches
 E01B 25/00
Tracks for special kinds of railways (systems B61B; wheel tracks on roads E01C 9/02)
 E01B 25/00

Note(s)

In this group, the following term is used with the meaning indicated:

  • "track" includes non-load-carrying guide rails.

 E01B 25/02
·  Tracks for rack railways
 E01B 25/04
·  ·  Rack rails; Supports or connections for rack rails
 E01B 25/06
·  ·  Switches; Frogs; Crossings
 E01B 25/08
·  Tracks for mono-rails with centre of gravity of vehicle above the load-bearing rail (E01B 25/30 takes precedence)  [1,7]
 E01B 25/10
·  ·  Mono-rails; Auxiliary balancing rails; Supports or connections for rails
 E01B 25/12
·  ·  Switches; Crossings
 E01B 25/14
·  Tracks for cable-drawn railway vehicles
 E01B 25/15
·  ·  Switches; Crossings
 E01B 25/16
·  Tracks for aerial rope railways with a stationary rope
 E01B 25/18
·  ·  Ropes; Supports, fastening or straining means for ropes (ropes in general D07B; masts E04H 12/00; rope sockets F16G)
 E01B 25/20
·  ·  Switches; Crossings
 E01B 25/22
·  Tracks for railways with the vehicle suspended from rigid supporting rails
 E01B 25/24
·  ·  Supporting rails; Auxiliary balancing rails; Supports or connections for rails
 E01B 25/26
·  ·  Switches; Crossings
 E01B 25/28
·  Rail tracks for guiding vehicles when running on road or similar surface (wheel tracks on roads E01C 9/02)
 E01B 25/30
·  Tracks for magnetic suspension or levitation vehicles  [7]
 E01B 25/32
·  ·  Stators, guide rails or slide rails  [7]
 E01B 25/34
·  ·  Switches; Frogs; Crossings  [7]
 E01B 26/00
Tracks or track components not covered by any one of the preceding groups
 E01B 27/00 - 
E01B 37/00
Making, maintaining, renewing, or taking-up the ballastway or the track; Tools or machines specially designed therefor (derailing or rerailing of machines B61K 5/00; removal of foreign matter from the permanent way, vegetation control, applying liquids E01H)
 E01B 27/00
Placing, renewing, working, cleaning, or taking-up the ballast, with or without concurrent work on the track; Devices therefor; Packing sleepers
 E01B 27/02
·  Placing the ballast; Making the ballastway; Redistributing ballasting material; Machines or devices therefor; Levelling means
 E01B 27/04
·  Removing the ballast; Machines therefor, whether or not additionally adapted for taking-up ballast (E01B 27/06, E01B 27/12 take precedence; redistributing ballasting material E01B 27/02)
 E01B 27/06
·  Renewing or cleaning the ballast in situ, with or without concurrent work on the track
 E01B 27/08
·  ·  the track having been taken-up (E01B 27/11 takes precedence)
 E01B 27/10
·  ·  without taking-up the track (E01B 27/11 takes precedence)
 E01B 27/11
·  ·  combined with concurrent renewal of track components
 E01B 27/12
·  Packing sleepers, with or without concurrent work on the track; Compacting track-carrying ballast
 E01B 27/13
·  ·  Packing sleepers, with or without concurrent work on the track (preforming ballast cores or seats for sleepers E01B 27/02)
 E01B 27/14
·  ·  ·  Manual tools or hand-held power tools therefor
 E01B 27/16
·  ·  ·  Machines therefor, e.g. so-called sleeper-tamping machines
 E01B 27/17
·  ·  ·  ·  combined with means for lifting, levelling, or slewing the track
 E01B 27/18
·  ·  ·  by introducing additional fresh material under the sleepers, e.g. by the measured-shovel method, by the blowing method
 E01B 27/20
·  ·  Compacting the material of the track-carrying ballastway, e.g. by vibrating the track, by surface vibrators (of trackless ballastway E01B 27/02; for packing sleepers E01B 27/12)
 E01B 29/00
Laying, rebuilding, or taking-up tracks; Tools or machines therefor (E01B 27/00, E01B 31/00 take precedence)
 E01B 29/02
·  Transporting, laying, removing, or renewing lengths of assembled track, assembled switches, or assembled crossings (E01B 29/04 takes precedence)
 E01B 29/04
·  Lifting or levelling of tracks (lifting devices in general B66F)
 E01B 29/05
·  Transporting, laying, removing, or renewing both rails and sleepers (as assembled units E01B 29/02)
 E01B 29/06
·  Transporting, laying, removing, or renewing sleepers (E01B 29/05 takes precedence; carrying devices B65G 7/12)
 E01B 29/09
·  ·  under, or from under, installed rails
 E01B 29/10
·  ·  ·  for inserting or removing sleepers
 E01B 29/11
·  ·  ·  ·  Removal involving destruction of the sleeper, e.g. the sectioning thereof
 E01B 29/13
·  ·  ·  for moving sleepers in a direction parallel to the rails, e.g. for spacing or aligning them (E01B 29/10 takes precedence)
 E01B 29/14
·  ·  ·  for lifting sleepers up to the rails (lifting devices in general B66F)
 E01B 29/16
·  Transporting, laying, removing, or replacing rails; Moving rails placed on sleepers in the track (E01B 29/05 takes precedence; moving or tilting heavy loads in general B65G 7/00)
 E01B 29/17
·  ·  Lengths of rails assembled into strings, e.g. welded together
 E01B 29/20
·  ·  Moving rails placed on installed sleepers in the plane of the track
 E01B 29/22
·  ·  Raising rails from sleepers, e.g. for inserting sole-plates (lifting devices in general B66F)
 E01B 29/24
·  Fixing or removing detachable fastening means or accessories thereof; Pre-assembling track components by detachable fastening means (E01B 29/02, E01B 31/26 take precedence)
 E01B 29/26
·  ·  the fastening means being spikes (E01B 29/16 takes precedence; hand-held tools for nail or staple driving or extracting B25C)
 E01B 29/28
·  ·  the fastening means being of screw-and-nut type (portable apparatus for fixing or removing screws or the like B25B); Apparatus therefor, adapted to additionally drilling holes
 E01B 29/29
·  ·  ·  for horizontally-arranged fastening elements, e.g. fish-bolts
 E01B 29/32
·  Installing or removing track components, not covered by the preceding groups, e.g. sole-plates, rail anchors (E01B 31/26 takes precedence)
 E01B 29/40
·  Means or arrangements for temporarily supporting laid tracks, or rails or sleepers in the track (temporary fishplates E01B 11/18)
 E01B 29/42
·  Undetachably joining or fastening track components in or on the track, e.g. by welding, by gluing; Pre-assembling track components by gluing; Sealing joints with filling components (E01B 31/26 takes precedence; independent heating means E01B 31/18; welding in general B23K; gluing metal parts in general F16B 11/00)
 E01B 29/44
·  ·  Methods for effecting joining of rails in the track, e.g. taking account of ambient temperature
 E01B 29/46
·  ·  Devices for holding, positioning, or urging together the rail ends (adjusting the joint by moving rails E01B 29/20)
 E01B 31/00
Working rails, sleepers, baseplates, or the like, in or on the line; Machines, tools, or auxiliary devices specially designed therefor (characterised by features independent of use on assembled track B21, B23-B25, B27)
 E01B 31/02
·  Working rail or other metal track components on the spot
 E01B 31/04
·  ·  Sectioning or slitting, e.g. by sawing, shearing, flame-cutting
 E01B 31/06
·  ·  Making holes, e.g. by drilling, punching, flame-cutting
 E01B 31/08
·  ·  Bending, e.g. for straightening rails or rail joints (for aligning rail ends to be welded E01B 29/46)
 E01B 31/12
·  ·  Removing metal from rails, rail joints, or baseplates, e.g. for deburring welds, reconditioning worn rails
 E01B 31/13
·  ·  ·  by milling
 E01B 31/15
·  ·  ·  by planing or filing
 E01B 31/17
·  ·  ·  by grinding
 E01B 31/18
·  ·  Reconditioning or repairing worn or damaged parts on the spot, e.g. applying inlays, building-up rails by welding (E01B 31/04-E01B 31/12 take precedence); Heating or cooling of parts on the spot, e.g. for reducing joint gaps, for hardening rails
 E01B 31/20
·  Working or treating non-metal sleepers in or on the line, e.g. marking, creosoting (working metal sleepers E01B 31/02)
 E01B 31/22
·  ·  Cutting or grinding wooden sleepers, e.g. for forming rail seats (E01B 31/24 takes precedence)
 E01B 31/23
·  ·  ·  Sectioning (combined with removal of segments from track E01B 29/11)
 E01B 31/24
·  ·  Forming, treating, reconditioning, or cleaning holes in sleepers; Drilling-templates (E01B 29/28, E01B 31/26 take precedence)
 E01B 31/26
·  ·  Inserting or removing inserts or fillings for holes in sleepers, e.g. plugs, sleeves
 E01B 31/28
·  ·  Applying or removing anti-splitting or like reinforcing means (E01B 31/26 takes precedence; straps or bands therefor E01B 3/08)
 E01B 33/00
Machines or devices for shifting tracks, with or without lifting, e.g. for aligning track, for shifting excavator track (combined with sleeper packing machines E01B 27/17)
 E01B 33/02
·  for slewing, i.e. transversely shifting, in steps
 E01B 33/04
·  ·  Manual tools; Devices not mounted on vehicles
 E01B 33/06
·  for slewing in a continuous operation, e.g. for tracks which carry excavators
 E01B 33/08
·  ·  Boom track-slewing machines
 E01B 33/10
·  ·  Bridge track-slewing machines
 E01B 33/12
·  ·  Combined boom and bridge track-slewing machines
 E01B 33/18
·  ·  Details not peculiar to a particular type of machine
 E01B 33/21
·  ·  ·  Arrangement or construction of rollers moving the rails
 E01B 35/00
Applications of measuring apparatus or devices for track-building purposes (apparatus on locomotives or cars to indicate or record bad track sections B61K 9/00; measuring angles, linear dimensions, or irregularities in general G01B, G01C)
 E01B 35/02
·  for spacing; for cross levelling; for laying-out curves
 E01B 35/04
·  ·  Wheeled apparatus
 E01B 35/06
·  for measuring irregularities in longitudinal direction
 E01B 35/08
·  ·  for levelling
 E01B 35/10
·  ·  for aligning
 E01B 35/12
·  for measuring movement of the track or of components thereof under rolling loads, e.g. depression of sleepers, increase of gauge
 E01B 37/00
Making, maintaining, renewing, or taking-up the ballastway or the track, not provided for in a single one of groups E01B 27/00-E01B 35/00