|  | B |
SECTION B — PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING

TRANSPORTING

|  | B60 |
VEHICLES IN GENERAL

|  | B60 |
Note(s) In this class, the following term is used with the meaning indicated: "vehicle" means all vehicles except those restricted to one of the following types of vehicles: rail vehicles, waterborne vessels, aircraft, space vehicles, hand carts, cycles, animal-drawn vehicles, and sledges, which are covered by the relevant subclasses of Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...B61-B64. Thus the term "vehicle" includes: vehicular characteristics which are common to more than one of the above-listed types; certain characteristics restricted to automobiles, road or cross-country trailers. The following exceptions to the above should be noted: subclass Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...B60B or Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...B60C embrace all vehicle wheels and tyres, except wheels for roller skates Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...A63C 17/22, wheels for model railway vehicles Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...A63H 19/22, and special adaptations of wheels or tyres for aircraft Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...B64C 25/36; subclass Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...B60C embraces the connection of valves to inflatable elastic bodies in general, and in this respect it is not limited to vehicles; subclass Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...B60L embraces certain electric equipment of all electrically-propelled vehicles; subclass Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...B60M embraces certain power supply equipment for, but external to, any kind of electrically-propelled vehicle; subclass Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...B60R embraces safety belts or body harnesses used in all types of land vehicles; [4] subclass Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...B60S relates to all kinds of vehicles, except the servicing of rail locomotives Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...B61K 11/00, ground equipment for aircraft Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...B64F, or cleaning apparatus peculiar to waterborne vessels Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...B63B 57/00, Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...B63B 59/00; subclass Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...B60T includes brake control systems of general applicability, and in this respect it is not limited to vehicles. It also includes rail-vehicle power-brake systems and some other features of rail-vehicle brake systems.

|  | B60V |
AIR-CUSHION VEHICLES (devices for short-distance movement of heavy loads by providing a high-pressure fluid cushion, supplied from an independent source, between load and ground Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...B65G 7/06)

|  | B60V |
Note(s) In this subclass, the following expression is used with the meaning indicated: "air-cushion vehicles" includes all vehicles which are wholly or partly supported on land or water by air or other gaseous cushions.

|  | B60V 1/00 |
Air-cushion vehicles (land vehicles, waterborne vessels, or aircraft adapted or modified to travel on air cushions Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...B60V 3/00)

|  | B60V 1/02 |
· | wherein the cushion is generated and contained by at least one peripheral fluid curtain

|  | B60V 1/04 |
· | wherein the cushion is contained at least in part by walls

|  | B60V 1/06 |
· | wherein the cushion is formed within plenum chamber

|  | B60V 1/08 |
· | wherein the cushion is created during forward movement of the vehicle by ram effect

|  | B60V 1/10 |
· | in which the curtain-forming nozzle or the vehicle base is shaped to create a vortex curtain

|  | B60V 1/11 |
· | Stability or attitude control [2]

|  | B60V 1/12 |
· · | by dividing the cushion [2]

|  | B60V 1/14 |
· | Propulsion; Control thereof (Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...B60V 1/11 takes precedence) [2]

|  | B60V 1/15 |
· · | using part of the cushion-forming fluid [2]

|  | B60V 1/16 |
· | Flexible skirts

|  | B60V 1/18 |
· | Body structure

|  | B60V 1/20 |
· | Spray deflectors

|  | B60V 1/22 |
· | provided with hydrofoils (hydrofoils per se Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...B63B 1/24)

|  | B60V 3/00 |
Land vehicles, waterborne vessels, or aircraft, adapted or modified to travel on air cushions

|  | B60V 3/02 |
· | Land vehicles, e.g. road vehicles

|  | B60V 3/04 |
· · | co-operating with rails or other guiding means, e.g. with air cushion between rail and vehicle

|  | B60V 3/06 |
· | Waterborne vessels

|  | B60V 3/08 |
· | Aircraft, e.g. air-cushion alighting-gear therefor