|  | A |
SECTION A — HUMAN NECESSITIES

AGRICULTURE

|  | A01 |
AGRICULTURE; FORESTRY; ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; HUNTING; TRAPPING; FISHING

|  | A01B |
SOIL WORKING IN AGRICULTURE OR FORESTRY; PARTS, DETAILS, OR ACCESSORIES OF AGRICULTURAL MACHINES OR IMPLEMENTS, IN GENERAL (making or covering furrows or holes for sowing, planting or manuring Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...A01C 5/00; machines for harvesting root crops Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...A01D; mowers convertible to soil working apparatus or capable of soil working Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...A01D 42/04; mowers combined with soil working implements Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...A01D 43/12; soil working for engineering purposes Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...E01, Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...E02, Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...E21)

|  | A01B |
Subclass index
HAND TOOLS | 1/00
PLOUGHS |
General construction | 3/00, 5/00, 9/00, 11/00
Special adaptations | 13/00, 17/00
Details | 15/00
HARROWS |
General construction | 19/00, 21/00
Special applications | 25/00
Details | 23/00
IMPLEMENTS USABLE EITHER AS PLOUGHS OR AS HARROWS OR THE LIKE | 7/00
OTHER MACHINES | 27/00 - 45/00, 49/00, 77/00
ELEMENTS OR PARTS OF MACHINES OR IMPLEMENTS | 59/00 - 71/00
TRANSPORT IN AGRICULTURE | 51/00, 73/00, 75/00
OTHER PARTS, DETAILS OR ACCESSORIES OF AGRICULTURAL MACHINES OR IMPLEMENTS | 76/00
PARTICULAR METHODS FOR WORKING SOIL | 47/00, 79/00

|  | A01C |
PLANTING; SOWING; FERTILISING (combined with general working of soil Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...A01B 49/04; parts, details or accessories of agricultural machines or implements, in general Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...A01B 51/00-A01B 75/00)

|  | A01C |
Subclass index
FERTILISING |
Methods | 3/00, 21/00
Apparatus | 3/00, 15/00, 17/00, 19/00, 23/00
WORK PREVIOUS TO SOWING OR PLANTING | 1/00
PLANTING | 9/00, 11/00, 13/00, 14/00
SOWING | 7/00, 17/00, 19/00
COMMON APPARATUS | 5/00

|  | A01D |
HARVESTING; MOWING

|  | A01D |
Note(s) This subclass covers the shredding or pulverising of stubble, e.g. for the purpose of producing mulch, but does not cover other mechanical destruction of unwanted vegetation, which is covered by group Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...A01M 21/02. [7]

|  | A01D |
Subclass index
HAND IMPLEMENTS |
Cutting implements, rakes, forks, others | 1/00, 7/00, 9/00, 11/00
Accessories | 3/00, 5/00
MACHINES FOR HARVESTING ROOT CROPS |
Diggers | 13/00 - 19/00, 27/00
Topping | 23/00, 27/00
For specific products | 13/00, 21/00, 25/00, 29/00
Other machines | 31/00
Accessories | 33/00
HARVESTING OR MOWING CEREALS OR GRASS |
Harvesters or mowers | 34/00, 37/00, 41/00, 42/00, 43/00
Binders | 37/00, 39/00
Headers | 47/00
For specific products | 44/00, 45/00
Components | 57/00 - 69/00
Accessories | 75/00, 85/00
HAYMAKERS | 76/00 - 84/00
HARVESTING OTHER CROPS |
Underwater plants | 44/00
Standing crops | 45/00
Picking or gathering fruits, vegetables, or the like | 46/00, 51/00
GATHERING, LOADING, TRANSPORT | 51/00, 85/00 - 90/00
GENERAL METHODS | 91/00

|  | A01F |
THRESHING; BALING OF STRAW, HAY OR THE LIKE; STATIONARY APPARATUS OR HAND TOOLS FOR FORMING OR BINDING STRAW OR HAY INTO BUNDLES; CUTTING OF HAY, STRAW OR THE LIKE; STORING AGRICULTURAL OR HORTICULTURAL PRODUCE

|  | A01F |
Subclass index
THRESHING |
General construction | 5/00, 7/00, 9/00
Special applications | 11/00
Details | 12/00
BALING OF STRAW, HAY OR THE LIKE | 1/00, 13/00, 15/00
ACCESSORIES FOR THRESHING MACHINES OR BALING PRESSES | 17/00, 19/00, 21/00
STORING AGRICULTURAL OR HORTICULTURAL PRODUCE | 25/00
MACHINES OR IMPLEMENTS FOR CUTTING HAY OR STRAW | 3/00, 29/00

|  | A01G |
HORTICULTURE; CULTIVATION OF VEGETABLES, FLOWERS, RICE, FRUIT, VINES, HOPS, OR SEAWEED; FORESTRY; WATERING (picking of fruits, vegetables, hops, or the like Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...A01D 46/00; plant reproduction by tissue culture techniques Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...A01H 4/00; devices for topping or skinning onions or flower bulbs Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...A23N 15/08; propagating unicellular algae Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...C12N 1/12; plant cell culture Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...C12N 5/00)

|  | A01G |
Subclass index
CULTIVATION IN GENERAL | 1/00, 3/00, 7/00, 9/00, 16/00, 17/00
HYDROPONICS, CULTIVATION WITHOUT SOIL | 31/00
CULTIVATION OF SEAWEED | 33/00
PROTECTING PLANTS | 11/00, 13/00, 15/00
PICKING OR HANDLING FLOWERS, HANDLING FRUIT | 3/00, 5/00
FORESTRY | 23/00
WATERING | 25/00, 27/00, 29/00

|  | A01H |
NEW PLANTS OR PROCESSES FOR OBTAINING THEM; PLANT REPRODUCTION BY TISSUE CULTURE TECHNIQUES [5]

|  | A01H |
Subclass index
PROCESSES | 1/00, 3/00
REPRODUCTION | 4/00
FLOWERING PLANTS; GYMNOSPERMS | 5/00; 7/00
OTHER PRODUCTS | 9/00 - 17/00

|  | A01J |
MANUFACTURE OF DAIRY PRODUCTS (preservation, pasteurisation, sterilisation of milk products Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...A23; for chemical matters, see subclass Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...A23C)

|  | A01J |
Subclass index
MILKING | 1/00 - 9/00
TREATMENT OF MILK OR CREAM | 11/00, 13/00
MANUFACTURING BUTTER | 15/00
KNEADING OR FORMING BUTTER, MARGARINE OR BUTTER SUBSTITUTES | 17/00 - 23/00
CHEESE-MAKING | 25/00, 27/00
SUBJECT MATTER NOT PROVIDED FOR IN OTHER GROUPS OF THIS SUBCLASS | 99/00

|  | A01K |
ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; CARE OF BIRDS, FISHES, INSECTS; FISHING; REARING OR BREEDING ANIMALS, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR; NEW BREEDS OF ANIMALS

|  | A01K |
Note(s) This subclass covers: equipment for the care, culture or rearing of all animals or for obtaining their products, unless provided for elsewhere, e.g. milking Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...A01J, shoeing animals Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...A01L, veterinary devices Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...A61D, culture of animal cells Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...C12M, Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...C12N; methods of breeding animals or new animal breeds. [5]

|  | A01K |
Subclass index
ANIMAL HUSBANDRY IN GENERAL, ESPECIALLY CATTLE RAISING |
Housing, feeding or watering devices | 1/00 - 9/00
Taming; muzzles, leads | 15/00; 25/00; 27/00
Marking; devices for grooming | 11/00; 13/00
Removing the fleece | 14/00
Other apparatus | 17/00 - 23/00, 29/00
AVICULTURE; EGGS |
Housing, feeding or drinking appliances | 31/00, 39/00
Marking | 35/00
Other apparatus | 33/00, 37/00, 41/00, 43/00, 45/00
APICULTURE |
Housing, feeding or drinking appliances | 47/00, 53/00
Other devices | 49/00, 51/00, 55/00, 57/00, 59/00
PISCICULTURE | 61/00, 63/00
OTHER REARING OR BREEDING, NEW BREEDS | 67/00
FISHING WITH NETS | 69/00 - 75/00
ANGLING |
Rods; reels | 87/00; 89/00
Lines; accessories therefor | 91/00; 83/00, 85/00, 93/00, 95/00
Accessories | 97/00
OTHER FISHING | 69/00, 77/00 - 81/00, 99/00

|  | A01L |
SHOEING OF ANIMALS

|  | A01L |
Subclass index
SHOES | 1/00, 3/00, 5/00, 9/00
EQUIPMENT AND ACCESSORIES | 7/00, 11/00, 13/00, 15/00

|  | A01M |
CATCHING, TRAPPING OR SCARING OF ANIMALS (apiculture Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...A01K 47/00-A01K 59/00; fishing Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...A01K 69/00-A01K 97/00; pesticides Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...A01N); APPARATUS FOR THE DESTRUCTION OF NOXIOUS ANIMALS OR NOXIOUS PLANTS (equipment fitted in or to aircraft for dropping or releasing powdered, liquid or gaseous matter, e.g. pesticides, herbicides, Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...B64D 1/16)

|  | A01M |
Note(s) In this subclass, terms "killing" and "destruction" cover "non-chemical sterilisation" of invertebrates. [7]

|  | A01M |
Subclass index
SPRAYERS; FUMIGATORS; FLAME-THROWERS | 7/00 - 11/00; 13/00; 15/00
CATCHING OR KILLING INSECTS | 1/00 - 5/00, 17/00
CATCHING OR KILLING ANIMALS OTHER THAN INSECTS | 19/00, 23/00, 25/00, 27/00
SCARING DEVICES; HUNTING APPLIANCES | 29/00; 31/00
DESTRUCTION OF UNWANTED VEGETATION | 21/00
SUBJECT MATTER NOT PROVIDED FOR IN OTHER GROUPS OF THIS SUBCLASS | 99/00

|  | A01N |
PRESERVATION OF BODIES OF HUMANS OR ANIMALS OR PLANTS OR PARTS THEREOF; BIOCIDES, e.g. AS DISINFECTANTS, AS PESTICIDES, AS HERBICIDES (preparations for medical, dental, or toilet purposes Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...A61K; methods or apparatus for disinfection or sterilisation in general, or for deodorisation of air Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...A61L); PEST REPELLANTS OR ATTRACTANTS (decoys Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...A01M 31/06; medicinal preparations Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...A61K); PLANT GROWTH REGULATORS (compounds in general Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...C01, Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...C07, Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...C08; fertilisers Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...C05; soil conditioners or stabilisers Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...C09K 17/00)

|  | A01N |
Note(s) This subclass covers: [3] compositions, physical forms, methods of application of specific materials or the use of single compounds or compositions; [7] chemosterilants for the sexual sterilisation of invertebrates, e.g. insects (sex sterilants for other purposes Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...A61K). [7] This subclass does not cover materials which affect the growth of a plant solely by supplying nutrients, i.e. plant food, ordinarily required for growth or materials which are used to prevent or cure mineral deficiencies in plants, e.g. addition of iron chelates to cure iron chlorosis, which materials are covered by class Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...C05. [3] In this subclass, the following expression is used with the meaning indicated: "plant growth regulators" are those materials which alter the plant through a chemical modification of the plant metabolism, such as auxins. [3] Biocidal, pest repellant, pest attractant or plant growth regulatory activity of compounds or preparations is further classified in subclass Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...A01P. [8]

|  | A01N |
Subclass index
PRESERVATION OF CORPSES OF HUMANS OR ANIMALS, OR OF PLANTS | 1/00, 3/00
BIOCIDES, PEST REPELLANTS OR ATTRACTANTS, PLANT GROWTH REGULATORS |
Physical form or method of application | 25/00
containing organic compounds | 27/00 - 57/00, 61/00
containing inorganic compounds | 59/00
containing micro-organisms, enzymes, extracts of animals or plants | 63/00, 65/00

|  | A01P |
BIOCIDAL, PEST REPELLANT, PEST ATTRACTANT OR PLANT GROWTH REGULATORY ACTIVITY OF CHEMICAL COMPOUNDS OR PREPARATIONS [8]

|  | A01P |
Note(s) This subclass covers biocidal, pest repellant, pest attractant or plant growth regulatory activity of chemical compounds or preparations already classified as such in subclasses Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...A01N or Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...C12N, or in classes Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...C01, Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...C07 or Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...C08. [8] Attention is drawn to the notes following the title of subclass Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...A01N, which are also applicable to this subclass. [8] In this subclass, activity is classified in all appropriate places. [8] The classification symbols of this subclass are not listed first when assigned to patent documents. [8]