|  | B |
SECTION B — PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING

|  | B01 - B07 |
Subsection index
LIQUID/LIQUID, LIQUID/GAS OR GAS/GAS SEPARATION |
Method |
General operations | B01D
by centrifugal force, using centrifuges or free-vortex apparatus | B01D
using magnetic or electrostatic effect | B03C
Apparatus |
General operations | B01D
by centrifugal force, using centrifuges or free-vortex apparatus | B04B, B04C
using magnetic or electrostatic effect | B03C
SOLID/LIQUID OR SOLID/GAS SEPARATION |
Method |
General operations | B01D
by centrifugal force | B01D
using centrifuges or free-vortex apparatus | B01D
using magnetic or electrostatic effect | B03C
Apparatus |
General operations | B01D
by centrifugal force | B01D
using centrifuges or free-vortex apparatus | B04B, B04C
using magnetic or electrostatic effect | B03C
SOLID/SOLID SEPARATION |
Method |
Dry methods |
material in bulk | B07B
Individual sorting | B07C
Screening, sifting, pneumatic sorting | B07B
using pneumatic tables or jigs | B03B
by magnetic or electrostatic effect | B03C
by centrifugal force | B07B
using centrifuges or free-vortex apparatus | B07B
Wet methods |
General operations | B03B
flotation, differential sedimentation | B03D
screening | B07B
Combinations Dry methods - wet methods | B03B
Apparatus |
Dry methods |
material in bulk | B07B
Individual sorting | B07C
Screening, sifting, pneumatic sorting | B07B
using pneumatic tables or jigs | B03B
by magnetic or electrostatic effect | B03C
by centrifugal force | B07B
using centrifuges or free-vortex apparatus | B04B, B04C
Wet methods |
General operations | B03B
flotation, differential sedimentation | B03D
screening | B07B
Combinations Dry methods - wet methods | B03B

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.

|  | B60P |
VEHICLES ADAPTED FOR LOAD TRANSPORTATION OR TO TRANSPORT, TO CARRY, OR TO COMPRISE SPECIAL LOADS OR OBJECTS (vehicles with special provisions for transporting patients or disabled persons, or their personal conveyances Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...A61G 3/00)

|  | B60P |
Note(s) Attention is drawn to the Note following the title of class Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...B60.

P:10 |  | B60P 1/00 |
Vehicles predominantly for transporting loads and modified to facilitate loading, consolidating the load, or unloading (vehicles for carrying harvested crops with means for self-loading or self-unloading Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...A01D 90/00; peculiar to refuse-collecting-vehicles Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...B65F; loading or unloading vehicles by means not incorporated therein Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...B65G)

|  | B60P 1/02 |
· | with parallel up-and-down movement of load supporting or containing element (in combination with tipping Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...B60P 1/34; devices for lifting or lowering bulky or heavy goods for loading or unloading purposes, movable on wheels or the like, e.g. fork-lift trucks, Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...B66F 9/06)

|  | B60P 1/04 |
· | with a tipping movement of load supporting or containing element (dredges or soil-shifting machines Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...E02F 3/00)

|  | B60P 1/06 |
· · | actuated by mechanical gearing only

|  | B60P 1/08 |
· · · | with relative displacement of the wheel axles

|  | B60P 1/10 |
· · · | with screw and nut

|  | B60P 1/12 |
· · · | with toothed gears, wheels, or sectors; with links, cams and rollers, or the like

|  | B60P 1/14 |
· · · | with cables, chains, or the like

|  | B60P 1/16 |
· · | actuated by fluid-operated mechanisms

|  | B60P 1/18 |
· · · | with relative displacement of the wheel axles

|  | B60P 1/20 |
· · · | with toothed gears, wheels, or sectors; with links, cams and rollers, or the like

|  | B60P 1/22 |
· · · | with cables, chains, or the like

|  | B60P 1/24 |
· · | using the weight of the load

|  | B60P 1/26 |
· · | Means for controlling movement of tailboards or sideboards [5]

|  | B60P 1/267 |
· · · | Controlling degree of tailboard or sideboard movement in dependence upon degree of tipping movement, e.g. by linkage or cam [5]

|  | B60P 1/273 |
· · · | Providing interdependence between tipping movement and the latching or unlatching of a freely-swingable tailboard or sideboard [5]

|  | B60P 1/28 |
· · | Tipping-body constructions

|  | B60P 1/30 |
· · | in combination with another movement of the element

|  | B60P 1/32 |
· · · | the other movement being lateral displacement

|  | B60P 1/34 |
· · · | the other movement being raising or lowering

|  | B60P 1/36 |
· | using endless chains or belts thereon

|  | B60P 1/38 |
· · | forming the main load supporting or containing element or part thereof

|  | B60P 1/40 |
· | using screw conveyers thereon

|  | B60P 1/42 |
· · | mounted on the load supporting or containing element

|  | B60P 1/43 |
· | using a loading ramp mounted on the vehicle (loading ramps per se Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...B65G 69/28) [5]

|  | B60P 1/44 |
· | having a loading platform thereon raising the load to the level of the load supporting or containing element

|  | B60P 1/46 |
· · | carried in vertical guides

|  | B60P 1/48 |
· | using pivoted arms raisable above the load supporting or containing element (load-engaging elements Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...B66)

|  | B60P 1/50 |
· · | loading from in front of the vehicle

|  | B60P 1/52 |
· | using rollers in the load supporting or containing element

|  | B60P 1/54 |
· | using cranes for self-loading or self-unloading (vehicles for transporting cranes Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...B60P 3/28; mobile or travelling cranes Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...B66C)

|  | B60P 1/56 |
· | the load supporting or containing element having bottom discharging openings

|  | B60P 1/58 |
· | using vibratory effect

|  | B60P 1/60 |
· | using fluids, e.g. having direct contact between fluid and load [2]

|  | B60P 1/62 |
· · | with porous walls

|  | B60P 1/64 |
· | the load supporting or containing element being readily removable (caravans, camping, or the like vehicles characterised by living accommodation in the form of a removable body supported by the vehicle unit Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...B60P 3/33, Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...B60P 3/345) [5]

P:20 |  | B60P 3/00 |
Vehicles adapted to transport, to carry or to comprise special loads or objects (ambulances or other vehicles with special provisions for transporting patients or disabled persons, or their personal conveyances Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...A61G 3/00; hearses Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...A61G 21/00; fire-fighting land vehicles Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...A62C 27/00; refuse-collecting vehicles Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...B65F 3/00, Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...B65F 7/00; snow-removing vehicles Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...E01H; armoured or armed vehicles Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...F41H 7/00; self-propelled mine-clearing vehicles Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...F41H 11/16)

|  | B60P 3/022 |
· | for transporting prefabricated buildings or modules thereof, e.g. prefabricated garages or the like (conveying or assembling building elements Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...E04G 21/14) [5]

|  | B60P 3/025 |
· | the object being a shop, cafeteria or display (the object being a workshop Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...B60P 3/14) [3]

|  | B60P 3/03 |
· | for transporting money or other valuables [3]

|  | B60P 3/035 |
· | for transporting reel units [3]

|  | B60P 3/04 |
· | for transporting animals

|  | B60P 3/05 |
· | for transporting meat (for transporting refrigerated goods Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...B60P 3/20) [3]

|  | B60P 3/055 |
· | for transporting bottles [3]

|  | B60P 3/06 |
· | for carrying vehicles (Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...B60P 3/12 takes precedence; caravans, camping, or like vehicles with vehicle-carrying means Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...B60P 3/363) [3,5]

|  | B60P 3/07 |
· · | for carrying road vehicles [3]

|  | B60P 3/071 |
· · · | Arrangement of overturned or on-edge vehicles [5]

|  | B60P 3/073 |
· · · | Vehicle retainers [5]

|  | B60P 3/075 |
· · · · | for wheels, hubs, or axle shafts [5]

|  | B60P 3/077 |
· · · · · | Wheel cradles, chocks, or wells [5]

|  | B60P 3/079 |
· · · · | Tie-downs (Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...B60P 3/075 takes precedence) [5]

|  | B60P 3/08 |
· · · | Multilevel-deck construction carrying vehicles [3]

|  | B60P 3/10 |
· · | for carrying boats

|  | B60P 3/11 |
· · | for carrying aircraft [3]

|  | B60P 3/12 |
· | for salvaging damaged vehicles

|  | B60P 3/14 |
· | the object being a workshop for servicing, for maintenance, or for carrying workmen during work (lifting devices for movable platforms or cabins for workmen Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...B66F 11/04)

|  | B60P 3/16 |
· | for carrying mixed concrete, e.g. having rotatable drums

|  | B60P 3/18 |
· | the object being a searchlight

|  | B60P 3/20 |
· | for transporting refrigerated goods (air treatment of goods space Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...B60H)

|  | B60P 3/22 |
· | Tank vehicles (tank aspects Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...B65D 88/00, Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...B65D 90/00, Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...F17C)

|  | B60P 3/24 |
· · | compartmented

|  | B60P 3/28 |
· | for transporting cranes (vehicles using cranes for self-loading or self-unloading Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...B60P 1/54; mobile or travelling cranes Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...B66C)

|  | B60P 3/30 |
· | Spraying-vehicles (sprinkling-wagons for fertilising liquid Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...A01C 23/00; for destruction of noxious animals, vermin, or unwanted vegetation Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...A01M; for spraying asphalt, bitumen, tar, or the like Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...E01C; for cleaning streets Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...E01H)

|  | B60P 3/32 |
· | comprising living accommodation for people, e.g. caravans, camping, or like vehicles (tents or canopies, in general Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...E04H 15/00)

|  | B60P 3/325 |
· · | the living accommodation being neither expansible nor collapsible nor capable of rearrangement [5]

|  | B60P 3/33 |
· · · | characterised by living accommodation in the form of a removable body supported by the vehicle unit [5]

|  | B60P 3/335 |
· · · | supported by a trailer-type vehicle or being itself of the trailer-type (Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...B60P 3/33 takes precedence) [5]

|  | B60P 3/34 |
· · | the living accommodation being expansible, collapsible or capable of rearrangement (Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...B60P 3/39 takes precedence; tents supported at least partially by vehicles Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...E04H 15/06) [5]

|  | B60P 3/345 |
· · · | characterised by living accommodation in the form of a removable body supported by the vehicle unit [5]

|  | B60P 3/35 |
· · · | supported by a trailer-type vehicle or being itself of the trailer-type (Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...B60P 3/345 takes precedence) [5]

|  | B60P 3/355 |
· · · · | collapsible to a condition not usable as living accommodation, e.g. to a trailer of compact design [5]

|  | B60P 3/36 |
· · | Auxiliary arrangements; Arrangements of living accommodation (toilet or washing arrangements Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...B60R 15/00); Details [5]

|  | B60P 3/363 |
· · · | with vehicle-carrying means [5]

|  | B60P 3/367 |
· · · · | with boat-carrying means [5]

|  | B60P 3/37 |
· · · | Exterior platforms, e.g. porch (awnings for buildings Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...E04F 10/00; trailer awnings Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...E04H 15/08; awnings for tents Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...E04H 15/58) [5]

|  | B60P 3/373 |
· · · | Passageways between living accommodation and vehicle operating compartment [5]

|  | B60P 3/377 |
· · · | Means for securing living accommodation to vehicle unit [5]

|  | B60P 3/38 |
· · · | Sleeping arrangements

|  | B60P 3/39 |
· · · · | expansible, collapsible or repositionable elements adapted to support a bed, e.g. wall portions [5]

|  | B60P 3/40 |
· | for carrying long loads, e.g. with separate wheeled load-supporting elements (Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...B60P 3/022 takes precedence; signal devices to be attached to overhanging load Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...B60Q 7/02) [5]

|  | B60P 3/41 |
· · | for log transport [6]

|  | B60P 3/42 |
· | convertible from one use to a different one (vehicles capable of travelling in or on different media, rail-and-road vehicles Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...B60F)

P:0 |  | B60P 5/00 |
Arrangements of weighing machines on vehicles (adapting weighing machines to use on transport vehicles Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...G01G 19/08)

P:40 |  | B60P 7/00 |
Securing or covering of load on vehicles

|  | B60P 7/02 |
· | Covering of load

|  | B60P 7/04 |
· · | by tarpaulins or like flexible members

|  | B60P 7/06 |
· | Securing of load (vehicle retainers Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...B60P 3/073) [5]

|  | B60P 7/08 |
· · | Securing to vehicle floor or sides (Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...B60P 7/13, Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...B60P 7/135 take precedence) [3,5]

|  | B60P 7/10 |
· · · | the load being plates, cases, or boxes

|  | B60P 7/12 |
· · · | the load being tree-trunks, beams, drums, tubes, or the like

|  | B60P 7/13 |
· · | Securing freight containers or forwarding containers on vehicles [3]

|  | B60P 7/135 |
· · | Securing or supporting by load bracing means [5]

|  | B60P 7/14 |
· · · | the load bracing means comprising a movable bulkhead

|  | B60P 7/15 |
· · · | the load bracing means comprising a movable bar [5]

|  | B60P 7/16 |
· · | Protecting against shocks

|  | B60P 7/18 |
· · · | Protecting freight containers or forwarding containers [3]

P:30 |  | B60P 9/00 |
Other vehicles predominantly for carrying loads