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]
 F41B
WEAPONS FOR PROJECTING MISSILES WITHOUT USE OF EXPLOSIVE OR COMBUSTIBLE PROPELLANT CHARGE; WEAPONS NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR (projectiles for fishing, e.g. fish-spears, A01K 81/00; sports implements for throwing A63B 65/00, e.g. boomerangs A63B 65/08; stationary apparatus for projecting sports balls, e.g. tennis balls, A63B 69/40; throwing or slinging toys A63H 33/18, knives, axes B26B; projectiles or missiles other than those incorporating springs as projecting means F42B 6/00)
 F41B
Subclass index
BLOW GUNS 1/00
SLING WEAPONS 3/00
FRICTION-WHEEL OPERATED LAUNCHERS 4/00
BOWS, CROSSBOWS 5/00
ELECTROMAGNETIC LAUNCHERS 6/00
SPRING GUNS 7/00
LIQUID PRESSURE GUNS, e.g. WATER PISTOLS 9/00
AIR GUNS, STEAM GUNS 11/00
THRUSTING WEAPONS, CUTTING WEAPONS CARRIED AS SIDE-ARMS 13/00
OTHER WEAPONS 15/00
 F41B 1/00
Blow guns, i.e. tubes for impelling projectiles, e.g. peas or darts, by the force of the breath (pop guns A63H)
 F41B 3/00
Sling weapons (throwing-apparatus for clay-pigeon or clay-disc targets F41J 9/18)
 F41B 3/02
·  Catapults, e.g. slingshots  [3]
 F41B 3/03
·  ·  Catapults having a pivotable launcher arm  [5]
 F41B 3/04
·  Centrifugal sling apparatus  [3]
 F41B 4/00
Friction-wheel operated launchers  [5]
 F41B 5/00
Bows; Crossbows
 F41B 5/06
·  Quivers  [3]
 F41B 5/10
·  Compound bows  [5]
 F41B 5/12
·  Crossbows  [5]
 F41B 5/14
·  Details of bows; Accessories for arc shooting (sighting devices for bows F41G 1/467)  [5]
 F41B 5/16
·  ·  Archer's finger tabs (sporting arm or hand protectors in general A41D 13/08)  [5]
 F41B 5/18
·  ·  Bow-string drawing or releasing devices (F41B 5/16 takes precedence)  [5]
 F41B 5/20
·  ·  Bow stabilisers or vibration dampers  [5]
 F41B 5/22
·  ·  Arrow rests or guides  [5]
 F41B 6/00
Electromagnetic launchers  [5]
 F41B 7/00
Spring guns (catapults F41B 3/02)
 F41B 7/02
·  the spring forming part of the missile or projectile
 F41B 7/04
·  adapted to discharge harpoons
 F41B 7/08
·  Toy guns
 F41B 9/00
Liquid ejecting guns, e.g. water pistols
 F41B 11/00
Air guns, e.g. air pistols; Steam guns
 F41B 11/02
·  Adaptations for feeding or loading missiles from magazines
 F41B 11/04
·  for ejecting a powder, e.g. pepper
 F41B 11/06
·  with pressure supplied by gas cartridge (F41B 11/08 takes precedence; valves therefor F41B 11/32)
 F41B 11/08
·  adapted to discharge harpoons
 F41B 11/12
·  having an air piston effecting a compressor stroke during the firing of each shot  [5]
 F41B 11/14
·  ·  spring-operated  [5]
 F41B 11/16
·  ·  ·  having an additional slidable mass moving in the opposite direction of the piston, e.g. for recoil reduction  [5]
 F41B 11/18
·  ·  ·  Arrangements for putting the spring under tension  [5]
 F41B 11/20
·  ·  ·  ·  by a rocking lever  [5]
 F41B 11/22
·  ·  ·  ·  ·  in breakdown air guns  [5]
 F41B 11/24
·  having a deformable bellows or bulb pressed during the firing  [5]
 F41B 11/26
·  having precompressed air before the firing (F41B 11/06, F41B 11/08, F41B 11/32 take precedence)  [5]
 F41B 11/28
·  ·  Pumping or compressor arrangements therefor  [5]
 F41B 11/30
·  ·  ·  operated by a rocking-lever system, e.g. in breakdown air guns  [5]
 F41B 11/32
·  Arrangement of valves in, or valves specially adapted for, air guns  [5]
 F41B 11/34
·  Sealing arrangements; Pistons  [5]
 F41B 13/00
Thrusting-weapons (bayonets F41C 27/18); Cutting-weapons carried as side-arms (training appliances for fencing A63B 69/02; sheaths for hand cutting tools B26B 29/00)
 F41B 13/02
·  Sabres; Cutlasses; Swords; Epees
 F41B 13/04
·  ·  Sheaths or scabbards therefor
 F41B 13/06
·  ·  ·  for concealment, e.g. swordsticks
 F41B 13/08
·  Daggers; Stilettoes
 F41B 13/10
·  Lances; Pikes (spears for sporting purposes A63B 65/02)
 F41B 15/00
Weapons not otherwise provided for
 F41B 15/02
·  Batons; Truncheons; Sticks; Shillelaghs
 F41B 15/04
·  ·  with electric stunning-means
 F41B 15/06
·  ·  with inserted knives or spikes
 F41B 15/08
·  Knuckledusters
 F41B 15/10
·  Bolas