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

WEAPONS; BLASTING

|  | F41 |
WEAPONS

|  | F41 |
Note(s) 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 Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...G09. [4] 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. Attention is drawn to the definitions of "projectile", "missile" and "rocket" given in Note (2) following the title of class Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...F42. [4]

|  | F41F |
APPARATUS FOR LAUNCHING PROJECTILES OR MISSILES FROM BARRELS, e.g. CANNONS (smallarms Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...F41C); LAUNCHERS FOR ROCKETS OR TORPEDOES; HARPOON GUNS (functional features or details common to both smallarms and ordnance, mountings therefor Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...F41A; projecting missiles without use of explosive or combustible propellant charge Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...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 (Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...F41F 3/00 takes precedence); Harpoon guns

|  | F41F 1/06 |
· | Mortars (base plates therefor Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...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 (Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...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 (Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...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 Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...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 (Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...F41F 3/04 takes precedence) [3]