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]
 F41H
ARMOUR; ARMOURED TURRETS; ARMOURED OR ARMED VEHICLES; MEANS OF ATTACK OR DEFENCE, e.g. CAMOUFLAGE, IN GENERAL
 F41H
Subclass index
ARMOUR
Personal protection gear 1/00
Armour plates, shields 5/00
CAMOUFLAGE 3/00
ARMOURED OR ARMED VEHICLES 7/00
FLAME, GAS OR CHEMICAL WARFARE 9/00
OTHER ATTACK OR DEFENCE MEANS 11/00, 13/00
 F41H 1/00
Personal protection-gear (shields for personal use F41H 5/08; for protection against chemical warfare A62B)
 F41H 1/02
·  Armoured or projectile- or missile-resistant garments; Composite protection fabrics
 F41H 1/04
·  Protection helmets (crash helmets A42B 3/00)
 F41H 1/06
·  ·  of steel; Steel head-shields
 F41H 1/08
·  ·  of plastics; Plastic head-shields
 F41H 3/00
Camouflage, i.e. means or methods for concealment or disguise (for vessels B63G 8/34, B63G 13/02)
 F41H 3/02
·  Covers, e.g. screens, nets (making thereof, see the relevant classes, e.g. D04)
 F41H 5/00
Armour; Armour plates (processes for manufacturing or treating B21, C21)
 F41H 5/007
·  Reactive armour; Dynamic armour  [5]
 F41H 5/013
·  Mounting or securing armour plates  [5]
 F41H 5/02
·  Plate construction
 F41H 5/04
·  ·  composed of more than one layer
 F41H 5/06
·  Shields (in ships B63G 9/00; in aircraft B64D 7/00)
 F41H 5/08
·  ·  for personal use
 F41H 5/10
·  ·  ·  Spade bayonets, i.e. usable as a spade, bayonet, or cover against rifle fire
 F41H 5/12
·  ·  for smallarms; for light-rocket launchers
 F41H 5/14
·  ·  ·  Wheeled armoured shields
 F41H 5/16
·  ·  for ordnance
 F41H 5/18
·  ·  Rotating shields
 F41H 5/20
·  Turrets
 F41H 5/22
·  Manhole covers, e.g. on tanks (in general F16J)
 F41H 5/24
·  for stationary use, e.g. fortifications
 F41H 5/26
·  Peepholes; Windows (manufacture or composition of glass C03); Covers therefor
 F41H 7/00
Armoured or armed vehicles (general vehicle aspects B60; armoured or armed ships B63G; armoured or armed aircraft B64D; mounting guns, e.g. machine-guns, on vehicles F41A 23/00)
 F41H 7/02
·  Land vehicles with enclosing armour, e.g. tanks (endless-track vehicles, steering thereof B62D)
 F41H 7/03
·  ·  Air-pressurised compartments for crew; Means for preventing admission of noxious substances, e.g. combustion gas from gun barrels, in crew compartments; Sealing arrangements  [5]
 F41H 7/04
·  ·  Armour construction (in general F41H 5/00)
 F41H 7/10
·  Mine-laying land vehicles
 F41H 9/00
Equipment for attack or defence by spreading flame, gas, or smoke; Chemical warfare equipment (protection against chemicals A62B)
 F41H 9/02
·  Flame-throwing apparatus (for destroying vegetation A01M 15/00)
 F41H 9/04
·  Gas blowing apparatus, e.g. for tear gas (F41H 9/10 takes precedence)
 F41H 9/06
·  Apparatus for generating artificial fog or smoke screens (smoke-pot projectors, e.g. arranged on vehicles, F42B 5/155)
 F41H 9/08
·  ·  Smoke-pots without propulsive charge, i.e. stationary  [5]
 F41H 9/10
·  Hand-held or body-worn self-defence devices using repellant gases or chemicals  [5]
 F41H 11/00
Defence installations; Defence devices (constructional aspects, see section E, e.g. E04H 9/04)
 F41H 11/02
·  Anti-aircraft or anti-guided missile defence installations or systems (cartridges or missiles for producing smoke or for dispensing radar chaff or infra-red material F42B 5/15, F42B 12/48, F42B 12/70)
 F41H 11/04
·  ·  Aerial barrages
 F41H 11/05
·  Net barriers for harbour defence
 F41H 11/06
·  Gun-traps
 F41H 11/08
·  Barbed-wire obstacles; Barricades; Stanchions; Tank traps; Vehicle-impeding devices; Caltrops
 F41H 11/10
·  ·  Dispensing-apparatus therefor, e.g. devices for dispensing and reeling barbed wire
 F41H 11/11
·  ·  Clearing or neutralising barbed-wire obstacles (smallarm attachments for wire cutting F41C 27/20)  [5]
 F41H 11/12
·  Means for clearing land minefields (sweeping mines B63G)
 F41H 11/14
·  ·  with electric explosive cable, e.g. mine-clearing snakes
 F41H 11/16
·  ·  Self-propelled mine-clearing vehicles
 F41H 13/00
Means of attack or defence not otherwise provided for