SECTION I - CLASS DEFINITION
This class is restricted to wheeled transportation equipment
for railways. The rolling stock or equipment may be for use on
monorail, two-rail, elevated, suspended, or cable railways.
SECTION II - LINES WITH OTHER CLASSES AND WITHIN THIS CLASS
Patents for railway wheel rolling stock under the class definition
comprising a plurality of wheeled cars or train elements adapted
to be attached trailingly together and adapted to travel sequentially
along a rail and axles are separately classified in Class 295, Railway
Wheels and Axles.
SECTION III - REFERENCES TO OTHER CLASSES
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
| 49, | Movable or Removable Closures, appropriate subclasses for closures of the type
provided for and see the search notes in section IV, References
to other classes, of Class 49 for the loci of closures in other
classes. |
| 295, | Railway Wheels and Axles, (see Lines with Other Classes, above). |
| 305, | Wheel Substitutes for Land Vehicles,
subclass 8 for a wheel substitute modified to travel on a railroad
rail. |
| 410, | Freight Accommodation on Freight Carrier,
subclass 28 for a drop-center car for the tiered stowage of
vehicles as objects of freight; and subclass 45 for stowage of a
massive, e.g., massively tall, etc., article on a drop-center car. |
| 446, | Amusement Devices: Toys,
subclass 25 for smoking toy locomotives; and subclasses 431-471
for other toy rolling stock having a structural detail not suitable
for a full size train. |
SUBCLASSES
![[List of Patents for class 105 subclass 1.1]](../ps.gif) 1.1 | STREAMLINE FORM ROLLING STOCK: |
| | This subclass is indented under the class definition. Rolling stock having exterior surface configuration designed
to promote smooth airflow thereover when passing through the air,
so as to create a minimum amount of resistance of the train to movement
and to create a minimum of air turbulence. |
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| 1.2 | Airlift or ducted: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 1.1. Rolling stock of such configuration that ambient air is
forced vertically upward by the rolling stock passing therethrough;
or including a tublike passage to direct air from a high pressure
surface of the rolling stock to a relatively low pressure surface
thereof.
| | (1)
Note. Control of vertical movement of air, e.g., provision
to prevent disturbance of overhead power lines, etc., is included herein. |
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
| 74, | for a locomotive having an inclined planar surface
intended to react with ambient atmosphere to increase downward pressure
on the wheels to thereby increase traction. |
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| 1.3 | Having laterally movable air directing member: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 1.1. Train including air flow controlling structure movable normally
with respect to the remainder thereof and with respect to the direction
of travel.
| | (1)
Note. Included herein is a streamline surface on the front
of a locomotive shiftable to provide access to a front coupler. |
| | (2)
Note. A laterally movable member intended to interrupt smooth
air flow and provide increased friction, i.e., a brake, is included
in this subclass. | |
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| 1.4 | TRAINS: |
| | This subclass is indented under the class definition. Rolling stock comprising a plurality of wheeled cars or
train elements adapted to be attached trailingly together and adapted
to travel sequentially along a rail. |
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| 1.5 | Toy or model train: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 1.4. Train intended for entertainment, of inadequate size to
be used for transportation of people and not intended to be used
for transportation of produce.
| | (1)
Note. A model train, even though structurally identical to
a conventional train is included in this subclass, since it is not for
transportation of people or produce. | |
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| 3 | Articulated: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 1.4. Train (a) comprising plural cars pivotally connected but
not readily detachable from each other; or (b) including a first
car supporting truck connected to a second car supporting truck
so that they mutually interact to steer each other or prevent excessive
independent oscillation of the cars when traveling over straight
and variously curved track.
| | (1)
Note. A coupling, per se, not specifically provided for elsewhere,
for an articulated train is included herein. |
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
| 175.1, | for a railway truck including three or more wheels
engaging a single rail, with provision to allow lateral movement
of at least one wheel so that the truck can round a turn. |
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
| 213, | Railway Draft Appliances,
subclasses 62 through 72for a rigid train drawbar, per se. |
| 410, | Freight Accommodation on Freight Carrier,
subclass 45 for articulated car structure for hauling a massive
article. |
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| 4.1 | Two-car truck: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 3. Articulated train including a truck adapted to support one
end of each of two adjacent car bodies.
| | (1)
Note. A two-car truck, per se, is considered to be a "train" since
it supports a first and a second car. | |
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| 4.2 | Separable bogie: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 4.1. Articulated train in which the truck is adapted to be separated
into distinct members each including support wheels and each adapted
to support one of the adjacent car bodies. |
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| 4.4 | Including wheel steering provision: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 4.1. Articulated train including a truck supporting the end of
a car, which car supports the mating end of a second car.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
| 165 | through 170, for a truck including a plurality of axles with
provision to allow each to turn about an axis that intersects the
axis of track curvature, especially subclass 169 for such a truck
including a stub axle. |
| 176, | for a truck adapted to be interconnected with another
truck. |
| 180, | for a truck including a stub axle, generally. |
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| 5 | Nontelescoping: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 1.4. Devices for avoidance of telescoping of cars or locomotives
in case of collision. |
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| 6 | Bevel ended: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 5. Nontelescoping locomotives or cars having bevel ends or
inclines for opposite lateral diversion of adjacent ends in case
of heavy impact. |
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| 8.1 | Vestibule connections: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 1.4. Train including a connection between adjacent cars in addition
to the draft/buff coupler to restrict or otherwise provide
for relative movement between the cars, to transmit energy, information,
etc., from one car to another and to render the train effectively
a continuous unit.
| | (1)
Note. Included herein is a car body connection allowing movement
of a passenger from one car to another and a car body connection
between adjacent freight cars without provision to allow passenger
movement. |
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
| 160, | Flexible or Portable Closure, Partition, or Panel, appropriate subclasses for such a device not restricted
to train structure. |
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| 9 | Cab and tender: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 8.1. Devices including special forms of vestibule connection
between a locomotive cab and tender or between a tender and car. |
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| 10 | Face-plate expanders: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 8.1. Devices including means by which the diaphragm face-plates
of adjoining cars are brought together and maintained under pressure
in such position. |
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| 11 | Pneumatic: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 10. Devices including face-plate expanders in which the object
is accomplished by air pressure. |
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| 12 | Gravity: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 10. Devices including weighted means for accomplishing the object
and also sliding or link connections in which the diaphragm face-plates are
brought together and so maintained by the weight of the diaphragms
and face-plates. |
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| 13 | Vertical equalizing: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 10. Devices including face-plate expanders in which the mechanism
is so arranged that movement of one end of the diaphragm face-plate will
be transmitted through the mechanism, so as to cause movement of
the opposite end of the face-plate. |
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| 14 | Top bow spring: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 10. Devices including face-plate expander in which the upper
portions of the diaphragm face-plates of adjoining cars are brought together
and so maintained by the action of a single-trip bow-spring, and
including supporting means for said spring. |
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| 15 | Diaphragms: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 8.1. Devices including vestibule-diaphragms forming a closed
connection between the car ends. |
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| 17 | Telescopic: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 16. Devices in which the diaphragm-plates of adjoining cars
have telescopic connection or in which the diaphragm-plates and
the car-body to which they are attached have telescopic connection.
| | (1)
Note. This subclass also includes telescopic metal cover-plates
for diaphragms. | |
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| 18 | Bellows fold: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 15. Devices involving the specific construction of the folding
bellows of vestibule-cars, including the composition of fabric,
and without regard to the means of fastening same to the car-body or
face-plate. |
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| 19 | Slit plaits: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 18. Devices including folding-bellows diaphragms in which the
legs of the bellows are formed of two separate pieces, with fastening
means releasable under tension, so as to allow outward tilting of
the face-plate for repairs. |
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| 20 | Fasteners: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 18. Devices including means for fastening the folding diaphragms
to the car face-plates or the diaphragm face-plates, either permanently
or releasably. |
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| 21 | Face plates: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 8.1. Devices including specific face-plate construction and also
lock or catch means for holding adjoining face-plates in catching
engagement. |
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| 22 | Vertical hanger rod: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 21. Devices including means for preventing diaphragm face-plates
and parts connected thereto from sagging and consisting of resilient
vertical hanger-rods extending from the car-body to the face-plate. |
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| 23 | Curtain releasers: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 8.1. Devices including releasable means for vestibule-curtains
connecting adjacent cars in which the releasing operation takes
place automatically on the pulling apart of the cars. |
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| 24 | Trip handles: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 23. Devices in which the curtain-handle is pivoted at one end
and at the other end releasably held in engagement with a fixed
catch member. |
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| 25 | Twin jaws: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 23. Devices in which the catch mechanism consists of twin jaws
arranged on either the curtain or on the adjoining car and releasably
engaging a fixed element on the opposite member. |
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| 25.1 | Ventilation: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 8.1. Train including provision to permit passage to ambient atmosphere
therethrough. |
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| 26.05 | LOCOMOTIVES: |
| | This subclass is indented under the class definition. Rolling stock comprising a railway vehicle (or traction
machine) including drive structure having a portion thereof.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
| 90.1 | through 90.2, for a device under the instant control
of a trackman for forcing a railway vehicle to move a short |
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| 26.1 | Trackman’s-car type: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 26.05. Devices comprising (1) power propelled railway vehicles
operated by a walking attendant or (2) relatively small railway
vehicles similar to the hand cars or railway velocipedes classified
in this class, subclass 86, but having power propulsion means. |
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| 27 | Auxiliary function: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 26.05. Self-propelled power tools and locomotives provided with
auxiliary power devices, such as wind-lasses or motors for general
use. |
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| 28 | Turntables: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 26.05. Self-propelled power tools and locomotives modified by the
provision of a turntable, which usually carries the power plant,
as in case of a mounted railway crane or excavator.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
| 275, | for horizontally rotary tilting dumping car bodies. |
| 455, | for horizontal rotary rolling stock generally. |
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| 29.1 | With rack rail engaging drive: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 26.05. Locomotive including drive structure adapted to engage for
propelling thrust, a toothed bar (a) parallel to a support rail
therefor or (b) comprising a support rail therefor. |
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| 29.2 | Toy or model locomotive: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 29.1. Locomotive intended for entertainment, of inadequate size
to be used for transportation of people, and not intended to be
used for transportion of produce.
| | (1)
Note. A model locomotive, even though structurally identical
to a conventional locomotive, is included in this subclass, since
it is not for transportion of people or produce. |
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
| 446, | Amusement Devices: Toys,
subclass 410 for a toy locomotive, generally e.g., a locomotive,
etc., which as claimed structure, even if enlarged, would not be
a locomotive of the type found in this class. |
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| 30 | Gripping drivers: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 26.05. Locomotives having drive wheels which grip the opposite
sides or tops and bottoms of a rail or may be pressed against one
side of a rail-head. |
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| 31 | Track pushers: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 26.05. Locomotives having a propelling mechanism consisting of
one or more pusher-bars extending beneath the car and engaging the
track or roadbed for pushing the locomotive along the track. |
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| 32 | Intermittent grip: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 26.05. Locomotives having incorporated therein either an axle-driving
or axle-driven mechanism, there being included as a link in such driving
mechanism an intermittent-grip arrangement or, in case of power-motor
drive, the grip may be directly on the axle, adapted to be freely
moved in one direction and to have driving engagement with the mechanism
when moved in the opposite direction. |
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| 33 | Driver pick-up: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 26.05. Locomotives having means for raising driving-wheels from
the rails, as in case of auxiliary drivers or continuously-running
engines, or to get the drivers out of the way, as in case of log-loading
machines. |
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| 34.1 | Powered bogie: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 26.05. Locomotive including an assembly comprised of a pair of
wheels, and supporting framework to carry a distinct vehicle body;
constructed for connection to a vehicle-body with capability of swiveling
motion as a unit with relation thereto.
| | (1)
Note. A bogie including a positively recited "third
rail" electrical collector is considered to be a "locomotive" for placement
herein. |
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
| 191, | Electricity: Transmission to Vehicles, appropriate subclasses for a track-engaging electrical
collector, per se, to be used as part of the combined bogie of this
subclass. |
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| 34.2 | Secondary traction device on locomotive: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 34.1. Locomotive including a first track engaging means for generating
thrust to propel the locomotive and, on the same locomotive, a powered
bogie also for generating thrust to propel the locomotive. |
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| 35 | Generating electric: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 26.05. Locomotives in which a prime mover, such as a stream or
explosive-gas engine, runs a dynamo for generating electricity,
which supplies current for electric motors to drive the locomotive.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
| 290, | Prime-Mover Dynamo Plants,
subclasses 9 through 29(subclasses indented under "Traction")
for arrangements wherein a nonelectric prime mover driven electric
generator supplies a traction motor, and subclasses 9 through 21
for prime mover driven generator supplied electric traction motor
systems. |
| 318, | Electricity: Motive Power Systems,
subclasses 140 through 158for generator-fed motor systems having generator
control. |
| 322, | Electricity: Single Generator Systems, appropriate subclasses for generator control systems. |
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| 36 | Turbine: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 35. Locomotives in which the prime mover is a steam-turbine,
commonly called "turbo-electric". |
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| 37 | Steam: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 26.05. Locomotives in which steam furnishes the motive power.
| | (1)
Note. This subclass is limited to the driving connections
and arrangement and location of parts on the frame. | |
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| 38 | Turbine: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 37. Locomotives in which a rotary piston or steam-turbine wheel
is used as the prime mover.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
| 61.5, | for a locomotive prime mover comprising a turbine
driven by gaseous products of combustion. |
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| 39 | Compound: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 37. Locomotives of the compound type in which steam exhausts
from a high- to a low-pressure cylinder.
| | (1)
Note. This subclass merely relates to the driving connections
and general arrangement of cylinders on a locomotive. | |
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| 40 | Articulated boilers: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 37. Locomotives having boilers provided with flexible steam
tight joints, so that the boiler may flex in going around a curve. |
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| 41 | Center firebox twin: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 37. A double locomotive built together rear to rear, so that
the fire-boxes are at the center of the locomotive. |
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| 42 | Transverse cylinder: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 37. Locomotives in which the piston-cylinders have their axes
at right angles to the length of the locomotives. |
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| 43 | Boilers: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 37. Locomotive apparatus comprising boilers.
| | (1)
Note. This subclass includes only such patents as relate
to boiler shape, arrangement, or fastenings designed for use on locomotives. | |
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| 44 | Saddles: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 43. Devices comprising seats or saddles for supporting locomotive
steam boilers, usually at the front end, and providing for boiler
expansion.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
| 362, | for freight cars having saddles for tanks. |
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| 45 | Superheaters: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 37. Apparatus including location, arrangement, and special construction
of super-heaters particularly adapted for use on steam locomotives. |
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| 47 | Articulated pipes: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 37. Locomotive apparatus relating to movably jointed and flexible
pipes for connection between relatively movable parts of locomotives. |
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| 48 | Control: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 37. Devices for controlling the operation of a steam locomotive. |
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| 48.1 | With coal feeding means (e.g., stokers, etc.): |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 37. Devices wherein the locomotive is provided with means to
convey solid fuels, such as coal, coke, etc., into the combustion
chamber of the locomotive.
| | (1)
Note. Examples of the type of structures to be found herein
are screw-type conveyer stokers and pusher-type conveyer stokers. |
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
| 232, | for coal feed structure on locomotive tenders. |
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
| 110, | Furnaces,
subclass 105.5 for locomotive type stokers combined with significant
furnace structure or means for feeding air or otherwise promoting combustion
but not including significant railway vehicle structure. |
| 198, | Conveyors: Power-Driven, appropriate subclasses, especially
subclasses 657 through 677for screw conveyors of general utility. |
| 241, | Solid Material Comminution or Disintegration,
subclass 276 for locomotive-type stokers provided with comminuting
means, but not including significant railway vehicle structure. |
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| 48.2 | And with or convertible to internal combustion engine: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 37. Locomotive (1) including a second prime mover of the type
having a enclosed chamber adapted to be filled with gas wherein
the gas is explosively ignited; or (2) wherein the prime mover can
utilize steam or explosive gas fuel.
| | (1)
Note. The second prime mover may be on a second vehicle attached
to that of the first prime mover. | |
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| 48.3 | And/or electric: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 37. Locomotive including a second prime mover of a type to which
electrical energy is supplied as fuel. |
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| 49 | Electric: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 26.05. Locomotives having electric-motor devices for their propulsion.
| | (1)
Note. Novel features in electric-motor construction are classified
here only when their only utility would be on a traveling vehicle. |
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
| 310, | Electrical Generator or Motor Structure, appropriate subclasses for electric motor structure, particularly
subclass 255 for railway-type stator structures. |
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| 50 | Battery: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 49. Electric locomotives which carry primary or storage batteries
for the entire or partial supply of electricity to the motors or
other car devices.
| | (1)
Note. The charging of the storage battery may or may not
be effected from line contact. |
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
| 35, | and 36, for electric locomotives carrying a prime
mover for charging storage batteries. |
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| 51 | Cell disposal: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 50. Apparatus relating to holders, automatic circuit-closers,
and special location of the battery cells on railway rolling-stock. |
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| 52 | Double rotor: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 49. Electric locomotives in which the field and armature of
the electric motor both rotate, but in opposite directions. |
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| 53 | Wheel rotor: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 49. Electric locomotives in which traction wheel contains the
electric motor and the rotor is attached to the tire of the wheel.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
| 310, | Electrical Generator or Motor Structure,
subclass 67 for a rotary motor or generator inbuilt with another
unit such as a wheel. |
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| 54 | Rotor on axle: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 49. Electric locomotives in which the armature is mounted on
the axle, thus effecting a gearless drive for an electric locomotive. |
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| 55 | Geared: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 54. The armature or rotor has a reducing-gear connection with
the axle. |
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| 56 | Plane field: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 54. Electric locomotives in which the field-pieces are arranged
at each side of the armature, i.e., the armature revolves in a vertical
plane between the two fields. |
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| 57 | Balanced cylindrical field: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 54. Electric locomotives in which the field is substantially
balanced with respect to the axle and is outside the periphery of
the armature. |
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| 58 | Twin fields: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 54. Electric locomotives in which the fields have portions in
common between two axles, one of which carries an armature. |
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| 59 | Motor coolers: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 49. Devices for cooling and ventilating electric motors in locomotives.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
| 310, | Electrical Generator or Motor Structure,
subclass 16 for cooling of a reciprocating electric motor of
generator, and subclasses 52 through 65 for cooling of a rotary
electric motor or generator. |
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| 60 | Insulation: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 49. Electric railway apparatus having a special location and
arrangement of insulating material between parts of cars or locomotives. |
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| 61 | Control: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 49. Devices for controlling electric locomotives.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
| 318, | Electricity: Motive Power Systems,
subclasses 543 through 557for rheostats in combination with motors. |
| 338, | Electrical Resistors,
subclass 50 for an electrical resistor mounted on wheels wherein
the sole purpose of the wheel mounting is to make the resistor mobile,
and subclasses 68-201 for mechanically variable electrical resistors,
per se. |
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| 61.5 | Gas turbine: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 26.05. Locomotive in which the motive power is furnished by a turbine
driven by gaseous products of combustion.
| | (1)
Note. A device in which the only motive power for driving
the locomotive furnished by the turbine is a jet of gas, e.g., turbojet,
is not included in this definition. |
| | (2)
Note. A turbine comprises a rotor driven by the kinetic energy
of a fluid, as distinct from a rotor driven by positive displacement
due to the action of fluid in an expansible chamber. |
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
| 38, | for a steam turbine-driven locomotive. |
| 62, | for locomotive power comprising an internal combustion
or explosive engine other than a gas turbine. |
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
| 60, | Power Plants, appropriate subclasses, especially
subclasses 39.01 through 39.83for power plants including gas turbines. |
| 415, | Rotary Kinetic Fluid Motors or Pumps, appropriate subclasses for a gas turbine, per se. |
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| 62.1 | Internal combustion engine: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 26.05. Locomotive in which the prime mover is of the type having
an enclosed chamber adapted to be filled with an explosive chemical
combined with provision to bring about such explosion and utilize
the power therefrom for motive power.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
| 61.5, | for a locomotive powered by an external combustion
engine, other than a steam engine. |
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| 63 | Pneumatic: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 26.05. Locomotives in which a propelling force is derived from
air pressure, either atmospheric or compressed. |
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| 64.1 | With pump: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 63. Locomotive combined with means to compress the pneumatic
medium used for exerting the propelling force.
| | (1)
Note. A reversible pneumatic motor utilized to save the energy
of momentum is included herein. |
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
| 104, | Railways, appropriate subclasses for a pneumatic railway
vehicle combined with an external source of pressurized air. |
| 280, | Land Vehicles,
subclass 216 for fluid- type energy storing device for an occupant-propelled
vehicle. |
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| 64.2 | Jet propelled: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 64.1. Locomotive wherein fluent material, e.g., gaseous material,
etc., is cast into the atmosphere to yield a resultant driving force
to the locomotive. |
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| 65 | Storage: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 63. Locomotives in which a propelling force is derived from
compressed air, such air being carried in storage reservoirs on
the locomotive and not including that type in which the air is compressed
on the car.
| | (1)
Note. This subclass also relates to the general arrangement
of air reservoirs on the locomotive. | |
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| 67 | Spring: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 26.05. Locomotives in which a propelling force is derived from
a spring or springs. |
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| 68 | Elliptic: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 67. Locomotives in which the springs are of the elliptical or
bow type. |
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| 69 | Coil: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 67. Locomotives in which the springs are of the coil or helical
type acting under tension or compression only. |
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| 70 | Torsion: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 67. Locomotives in which the springs are of the torsion type,
usually of coil or bar form. |
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| 71 | Spiral: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 67. Locomotives in which a propelling force is derived from
a spring or springs of the spiral type. |
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| 72 | Gravity: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 67. Locomotives in which the weight of the car, acting by gravity,
or a falling weight, operates through some agency, as gears or cams,
to give motion to the car. |
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| 72.1 | Inertia drive: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 26.05. Locomotive including a mass adapted to be in motion with
driving connection to propel the locomotive from the energy of motion
stored therein. |
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| 72.2 | With land engaging wheel: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 26.05. Locomotive having a wheel for rolling along a rail, and
having at least one wheel for riding on a planar surface of the
earth.
| | (1)
Note. To be a locomotive, a railway vehicle must include
provision to propel itself along a rail. |
| | (2)
Note. A locomotive receiving part of its tractive or lading
load from a wheel engaging the flat surface beside a rail is included
herein. |
| | (3)
Note. A locomotive including a single wheel particularly
adapted to ride on a (1) rail or (2) planar surface of the earth is
included in this subclass. |
| | (4)
Note. A vehicle carrying wheel-substitute e.g., an endless
belt, etc., is considered to be a "wheel" for
placement in this subclass. |
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
| 215.2, | for a railway truck including both rail and highway
engaging wheels, wherein there is no provision to propel itself
along a rail. |
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| 74 | Airplane: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 73. Rolling stock carries airplanes or inclined surfaces to
regulate the load on the traction-wheels.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
| 1.2, | for streamline rolling stock with foil surfaces
to lift the air. |
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| 75 | Variable driver load: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 73. Rolling tock in which the weight of the tender, locomotive-pilot,
or trailing trucks may be shifted to or from the locomotive drive-wheels to
vary their tractive effect. |
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| 76 | Electric: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 73. Rolling stock which provides for the passage of electric
current through the wheel and rail to increase the tractive effect. |
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| 77 | Electromagnetic: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 73. Rolling stock in which a magnetic field on the locomotive
or roadbed causes increased adhesion between the wheels and rails. |
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| 78 | Wheel or axle: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 77. Apparatus in which the wheel and axle or the wheels alone
form part of the electromagnet. |
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| 79 | Inside drive boxes: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 26.05. Locomotives having axle driving boxes located at the inner
sides of the drive wheels for supporting the locomotive frame. |
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| 80 | Lateral motion: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 79. Axle driving boxes having means permitting lateral motion
of the locomotive frame on the driving boxes. |
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| 81 | Wedge adjustment: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 79. Axle driving boxes having vertical guide wedges for lateral
adjustment of the driveboxes. |
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| 82 | Equalizers: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 26.05. Locomotives having means including interconnected links,
levers, with or without springs, and pneumatic systems for equalizing
the load distribution to the axles.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
| 75, | for means for varying the load on locomotive drivers. |
| 194, | for equalizers for bogies. |
| 209, | for equalizers for trucks. |
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| 85 | Drive-wheel turners: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 26.05. Roundhouse appliances for turning locomotive drive wheels
without moving the locomotive for the purpose of setting the valves. |
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| 86 | TRACKMAN’S-CAR DRIVE: |
| | This subclass is indented under the class definition. Mechanism comprising manually or bodily operated driving
means for hand-cars, railway velocipedes, and other trackman’s
car.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
| 26.1, | for trackman’s-car-type vehicles are power
propelled for transport. |
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
| 280, | Land Vehicles,
subclasses 200 through 304.5for velocipedes of general utility. |
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| 87 | Vertical hand lever: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 86. Manually operated railway vehicles in which a vertical hand-operated
lever has driving connections with the wheels of the vehicle. |
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| 90.1 | Car pusher: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 89. Trackman’s-car drive adapted to engage another
railway car and move the same along a track. |
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| 90.2 | Motorized: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 90.1. Trackman’s car drive including a prime mover to
power and urge the other piece of rolling stock to move. |
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| 91 | Pedal crank: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 86. Railway vehicles, composed largely of the velocipede type
of trackman’s cars, which are operated by means of a pedal
crank. |
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| 92 | On axle: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 91. Railway vehicles having the pedal cranks located directly
on the axle of the driving-wheels. |
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| 93 | Treadle: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 86. Railway vehicles having treadle-operated driving means. |
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| 94 | Rockable seat: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 86. Railway vehicles in which a rocking or sliding movement
of the seat or seats is utilized to drive the vehicle.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
| 280, | Land Vehicles,
subclasses 220 through 229for land vehicles operated in this way. |
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| 95 | Bicycle conversion: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 86. Devices comprising attachments to an ordinary bicycle whereby
it is rendered capable of running on an ordinary railroad track. |
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| 96 | WHEEL OR AXLE DRIVE: |
| | This subclass is indented under the class definition. Wheel or axle drives for railway vehicles including both
axles which are driven and those which act as a driver.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
| 180, | Motor Vehicles,
subclasses 337 through 385for a motor vehicle having mechanism for connecting
the power shaft to the road wheels. |
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| 96.2 | Fluid transmission: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 96. Devices in which the drive is constituted wholly or partially
of fluid means.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
| 63 | through 65, for pneumatic locomotive power plants. |
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| 97 | Planetary: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 96. Driving gear including at some point, as a speed-changing
link therein, a planetary gear.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
| 55, | for electric power plants for locomotives having
gearing and having the rotor on the axle. |
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| 98 | Tandem drive: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 96. Power transmitting devices on locomotives for driving and
controlling a belt-gear or flexible-shaft drive along a train.
| | (1)
Note. The direct axle-driving means of these drives are found
in the subclasses below. | |
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| 99 | Articulated radial: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 96. Power transmitting devices comprising driving connections
from a locomotive to one or more axles having angular movement with
respect to the locomotive or the axles having relative horizontal
radial movement with respect to each other.
| | (1)
Note. Other forms of articulated radial drive are found in
the subclasses below. | |
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| 100 | Epicyclic drive wheels: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 96. Driving connections in which a small inner drive wheel rests
upon the inner rim of the large external traction wheel and drives
the latter. |
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| 101 | Belt gear: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 96. Driving devices in which the axle is directly driven by
a belt gear.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
| 474, | Endless Belt Power Transmission Systems or Components, appropriate subclasses for an endless belt transmission. |
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| 102 | To rotor: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 101. Driving devices in which the belt gear on the axle passes
around the rotor element of a motor or machine.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
| 106, | and 107, for swing and sliding motors, respectively,
functioning as belt tighteners. |
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| 103 | Double loop: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 102. Driving devices in which the driving belt is looped twice
around the axle and twice around the rotor.
| | (1)
Note. These drives are for dynamos. | |
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| 104 | To crank shaft: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 101. Driving devices in which the driving belt passes from the
wheel or axle to a wheel on a crankshaft, or the last element of
the gear train is a reciprocating engine. |
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| 105 | Belt tightener: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 96. Driving devices comprising special belt tighteners for axle
drives.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
| 474, | Endless Belt Power Transmission Systems or Components, appropriate subclasses, particularly
subclasses 101 through 138 for a belt tensioner. |
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| 106 | Swinging motor: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 105. Belt tighteners comprising a motor or dynamo carried on
swinging supports, so that the rotor-wheel can be shifted. |
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| 107 | Sliding motor: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 105. Belt tighteners comprising a motor or dynamo slidably mounted
to regulate the tension of the belt from the axle. |
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| 108 | Plane gear: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 96. Driving devices having two gear wheels, either toothed or
friction, in the same plane, one of the wheels being on the axle. |
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| 109 | To bevel gear: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 108. Plane gears with the axle gear continuing the transmission
in a bevel gear drive. |
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| 113 | To rotor: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 108. Plane gears in which the car wheel or axle gear engages
directly with a rotor wheel of a rotary motor or dynamo. |
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| 114 | Engaging traction wheel: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 113. Drive devices in which a traction wheel or rim integrally
formed with or rigidly attached to the gear engages directly with
a rotor wheel of a rotary motor or dynamo. |
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| 115 | With crank shaft: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 108. Plane gears in which the car axle gear engages a train of
gearing, which ends in a cranked shaft. |
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| 117 | Bevel gear: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 96. Drive devices in which the wheel or axle usually carries
a bevel gear, which engages a corresponding gear on a shaft which
is at an angle, usually a right angle, to the axle or car wheel.
| | (1)
Note. The gearing may be either frictional or toothed. | |
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| 118 | To rotor: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 117. Drive gearing in which the angle or bevel gear on the transverse
shaft is the rotor wheel of the motor or dynamo. |
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| 119 | Worm gear: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 96. Drive devices in which the car wheel or axle is driven directly
by a worm gear. |
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| 120 | Pitman to jack shaft: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 96. Drive devices in which a pitman passes from the cranked
car wheel or axle to a parallel cranked jack shaft. |
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| 121 | Geared: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 120. Drive devices in which the jack shaft has a gear wheel for
the motor drive. |
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| 122 | Pitman to rotor: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 96. Drive devices in which the cranked car wheel or axle is
connected directly by a pitman, which in turn is connected directly
to the rotor of a motor. |
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| 123 | Pitman to level: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 96. Drive devices in which the pitman connects at one end to
a cranked car wheel or axle and at the other end to a lever, which
may be a bar lever or a lever of the bell crank and shaft type. |
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| 124 | Pawl and ratchet: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 96. Railway vehicles in which the driving mechanism consists
of a ratchet drawbar or pawl in combination with a rachet wheel
secured to the car wheel or axle. |
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| 125 | Pawl on axle bracket: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 124. Pawl-and-rachet-driven railway vehicles in which the pawl
is mounted directly on the car axle or on a bracket or lever carried
by the car axle. |
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| 126 | Winding drum: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 125. Pawl-and-rachet-driven railway vehicles in which the pawl-carrying
bracket is accurate in form and is actuated by means of a rope or chain
passing over the arcuate surface. |
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| 127 | Rack and pinion: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 96. Railway vehicles in which the driving mechanism consists
of a rack bar in combination with a car wheel or axle carried pinion. |
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| 128 | One-way friction grip: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 96. Railway vehicles in which the car wheels or axles are provided
with clutches, such as cam or rollers, holding by frictional contact
when moved in one direction and adapted to move freely in the opposite
direction. |
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| 130 | Clutches |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 96. Driving devices comprising special forms of clutch mechanism
in connection with wheel, axles, and motors. |
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| 131 | Resilient drive: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 96. Driving devices which include yielding and spring driving
connections between the motor and the traction wheels.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
| 464, | Rotary Shafts, Gudgeons, Housings, and Flexible
Couplings for Rotary Shafts, appropriate subclasses for a flexible coupling between
a shaft and driven member. |
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| 132 | Loose link: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 96. Driving devices which include loose-link driving connections
between the motor and the traction wheels. |
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| 132.1 | Torque arms: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 96. Driving devices having transmission gearing where the driving
torque reactions are transmitted to the vehicle, truck frame, or
adjacent axle by a resiliently or nonresiliently connected torque
arm. |
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| 133 | MOTOR PLACEMENT: |
| | This subclass is indented under the class definition. Devices relating to the location or base-fastening of a
motor or dynamo on a car body or its truck.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
| 248, | Supports,
subclasses 637 through 681for machinery supports in general. |
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| 134 | Cable grip: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 133. Devices relating to modifications of a car body or its truck
so that a cable gripper may be operatively supported thereon for
use with a traction cable. |
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| 135 | Opposing torque equalizer: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 133. Devices in which a plurality of pivotally mounted electric
motors are interconnected, so that the motor torques oppose and
neutralize each other. |
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| 137 | Stator casings: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 136. Devices which include modifications of the stator casings
of electric motors to form bearings thereon for axle mounting. |
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| 138 | Bar supports: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 133. Motor placement devices comprising bars or frames for supporting
motors on trucks.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
| 106, | and 107, for swinging and sliding motors, respectively,
functioning as belt tighteners. |
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| 139 | With springs: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 138. Bars or frames with springs to yieldingly support the motor.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
| 135, | for plural motors pivotally mounted so that their
torques are opposed. |
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| 140 | Boxings and casings: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 133. Motor placement devices comprising boxes, crates, and castings
for enclosing and supporting motors or dynamos on trucks. |
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| 141 | MONORAIL: |
| | This subclass is indented under the class definition. Railway rolling stock adapted to run on and above a single
rail, so that the center of gravity of the vehicles is above the
rail.
| | (1)
Note. Two rails so close together as to leave merely a wheel-flange
way between them are classed as monorails. | |
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| 142 | Human balance: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 141. Monorail vehicles in which the rider balances the moving
vehicle by his body movement. |
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| 143 | Animal draft: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 141. Monorail vehicles in which a draft animal or human being
keeps the car balanced upon and moves it along the track. |
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| 144 | With slide guides: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 141. Monorail vehicles in which the vehicle balance is maintained
by side wheels or contact members engaging auxiliary side rails
or ways.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
| 104, | Railways,
subclass 119 for monorail tracks and tracks and vehicles combined. |
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| 145 | Raised center rail: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 144. Monorail vehicles adapted to tracks in which the center
or monorail is raised above the level of the side tracks. |
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| 146 | Overhead guides: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 141. Monorail vehicles adapted to tracks which include a monorail
beneath the cars and separated guide rails above the cars. |
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| 147 | Single top guide |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 141. Monorail vehicles adapted to tracks which include a single
rail beneath the cars and a single guide rail above the same. |
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| 148 | SUSPENDED: |
| | This subclass is indented under the class definition. Railway rolling stock comprising vehicles suspended from
trolleys, which run on elevated tracks. |
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| 149 | Car leveler: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 148. Devices for maintaining a car body horizontal regardless
of whether the body-supporting trolleys are running on a horizontal,
inclined, or catenary track. |
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| 149.2 | Suspended chair: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 149.1. Passenger car comprising an unenclosed seat.
| | (1)
Note. The chair of this subclass may include such accessories
as a safety rail and a footrest. | |
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| 150 | Single rail: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 148. Suspended vehicles designed to travel on a single elevated
rigid or cable track.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
| 16, | Miscellaneous Hardware (e.g., Bushing, Carpet Fastener, Caster, Door Closer, Panel Hanger, Attachable or Adjunct Handle, Hinge, Window Sash Balance, etc.),
subclass 87 for panel hangers and travelers. |
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| 151 | Cable retainers: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 150. Suspended vehicles having shiftable latches and guards for
preventing a trolley from being derailed or jumping from its track. |
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| 152 | Equalized trolleys: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 150. Multiple-wheeled suspended vehicle trolleys so connected
to their load as to insure a uniform load distribution to the several
trolley wheels. |
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| 153 | Under rolls: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 150. Suspended vehicles in which the trolleys have an auxiliary
set of wheels or rollers adapted to engage the underside of the
elevated rail. |
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| 154 | Inner wheels: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 148. Suspended vehicles in which the trolleys are provided with
inwardly projecting traction wheels designed to travel on a separated
pair of rails or on a single middle rail having two separate wheel
tread surfaces. |
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| 155 | Outer wheels: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 148. Suspended vehicles in which the trolleys have outwardly
projecting traction wheels for travel on separated rail tread surfaces,
and the vehicle suspension means travel between said tread surfaces. |
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| 156 | Vertical swivels: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 148. Suspended vehicles having swiveling devices for the suspension
hangers between the trolleys and car bodies or load carriers. |
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| 157.1 | TRUCKS: |
| | This subclass is indented under the class definition. Rolling stock comprising an assembly of a pair of wheels
and supporting framework to carry a distinct vehicle body. |
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| 157.2 | Toy or model truck: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 157.1. Truck intended for entertainment, or of inadequate size
to be used for transportation of people and not intended for transportation
of produce.
| | (1)
Note. A model truck, even though structurally identical to
a conventional truck is included in this subclass, since it is not for
transportation of people or produce. | |
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| 158.1 | Modified car: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 157.1. Truck adapted to support a distinct vehicle of a shape specially
chosen for interfitting with that truck.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
| 4.1 | through 4.4, for a two-car truck for an articulated train. |
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| 158.2 | With spring for low floor car: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 158.1. Truck combined with resilient means to support the vehicle
with respect thereto, to support a vehicle having a load surface
that is physically lower than is usual for a car of the particular
type.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
| 4.1 | through 4.4, for trucks designed to support two adjacent car
bodies in an articulated train. |
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| 159 | Vehicle carrying: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 157.1. Floorless trucks designed to carry other vehicles, such
as loaded wagons.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
| 410, | Freight Accommodation on Freight Carrier,
subclass 53 for paired trucks, spaced apart to support each
of the end of a loaded semitrailer for transporting off the ground. |
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| 160 | Bunk: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 157.1. Logging trucks in which the log supports are transverse
beams or bolsters termed "log-bunks". |
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| 161 | Mining machine: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 157.1. Trucks designed to receive and transport mining machines
and to serve as base supports for such machines when in operation. |
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| 162 | Trackman’s car: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 157.1. Trucks comprising structural features and attachments to
trackman’s cars.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
| 86 | through 95, for trackman’s car drive. |
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| 163.1 | Overhead crane: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 157.1. Truck particularly adapted to support and carry a dragline
or other lifting structure of a type adapted to travel on a rail
vertically higher than material carried thereby.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
| 29.1, | for a locomotive of the rack rail type. |
| 96 | through 132.1, for a wheel or axle drive for railway rolling stock,
generally. |
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
| 212, | Traversing Hoists, appropriate subclassesfor traveling bridge cranes having a hoisting trolley
thereon. Hoisting means or structure peculiar thereto must be claimed
for original placement in Class 212. |
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| 163.2 | Skew control: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 163.1. Truck having a wheel for rolling over each of a pair of
rails and having provision to regulate the amount of travel of one
wheel with respect to the other wheel. |
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| 164 | Levelers: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 157.1. Devices for leveling up and temporarily fixing the positions
of truck platforms.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
| 280, | Land Vehicles,
subclasses 6.15 through 6.16for a land vehicle of general utility including
means, interposed between the vehicle body, chassis, or frame and
running gear thereof, for altering height or levelness of the vehicle
body, chassis, or frame; and subclasses 43-43.24 for a land vehicle of
general utility having vertically adjustable wheels for altering
a dimension of the vehicle or a part thereof. |
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| 165 | Radial : |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 157.1. Trucks having a plurality of axles so mounted as to allow
each to take a position on a curved track substantially radial to
the curve. |
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| 167 | Bogie: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 165. Trucks of the four-wheeled swiveled type with axles which
may radiate relatively to curved tracks. |
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| 168 | Positive control: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 167. Trucks having a connection such that the swiveling of the
truck relative to the body operates positively to place each axle
in substantially radial position to the track. |
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| 170 | Caster-wheel type: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 165. Trucks wherein each wheel is swiveled and follows a curved
track by swiveling on a vertical axis which intersects the contact
point of the wheel and rail. |
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| 171 | Lateral motion: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 157.1. Trucks connected to the car body so as to permit of lateral
movement relative to the car body.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
| 174, | for locomotive trucks capable of lateral motion
relative to the locomotive frame. |
| 185 | through 193, for lateral motion bolsters. |
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| 174 | Swinging bogie: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 172. Locomotive frames in which the front or trailing truck,
comprising one or more wheeled axles and a frame connection, is
mounted so that the truck is capable of lateral movement relative
to the locomotive frame.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
| 82, | for equalizer connections. |
| 189, | for shifting center plates. |
| 222, | for shifting axle boxes. |
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| 175.1 | Articulated: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 172. Locomotive truck with relatively movable truck and frame
parts to render the rolling stock supported thereby flexible for
rounding a turn on the supporting rails.
| | (1)
Note. The truck of this subclass may include three (or more)
wheels wherein one wheel may be displaced laterally for rounding
a turn. |
| | (2)
Note. Included herein is a truck of a car including plural
trucks interrelated with provision to allow for rounding of a turn. |
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
| 3 | through 4.4, for a plurality of railway cars flexibly coupled
in such a way as to appear to be a single unit. |
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| 176 | Interconnected: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 157.1. Railway trucks provided with means so connecting the running-gear
units that motion of one with relation to the vehicle causes motion of
another with relation to the vehicle. |
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| 177 | Multidirectonal: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 157.1. Trucks provided with a plurality of sets of supporting
wheels, each set adapted for running in a different angular direction. |
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| 180 | Stub axle: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 157.1. Trucks wherein each wheel has its independent axle.
| | (1)
Note. Where the axle-sections are so connected across the
truck (as by a sleeve) as to require no change in frame structure
over that required to support a single axle with two wheels, the
patent is not classified here. | |
| | |
| 181 | Antifriction wheels: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 157.1. Antifriction-wheels to carry the frame on the supporting
wheels or axles.
| | (1)
Note. The presence of mere rollers or ball bearings in the
journal boxes does not bring the patent to this subclass. | |
| | |
| 182.1 | Bogie: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 157.1. Truck constructed for connection to the vehicle body with
capability of swivel motion as a unit with relating thereto. |
| | |
| 184 | Maximum traction: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 182.1. Bogies constructed so as to throw the weight of the vehicle
largely on a single pair of driving wheels of each truck, the remaining
wheels serving mainly to guide the truck along the track. |
| | |
| 186 | Roller: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 185. Bogies having the bolster or spring seat mounted on rollers
for lateral movement. |
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| 187 | Rocker: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 185. Bogies in which the bolster is mounted on rockers or the
spring seat rocks. |
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| 189 | Center plate: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 185. Bogies having a short bolster member which is a mere center-bearing
or swivel-connection plate to support the vehicle body. |
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| 190.1 | Swinging: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 185. Bogie including a side frame along each lateral side thereof,
a link member pivotally attached to each side frame, and a body
supporting bolster pivotally attached to each link and extending
from the link of one side frame to the link of the other, with load
transmitted from the bolster by tension only being applied to the
links, allowing the bolster to move laterally with respect to the
side frames.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
| 189, | for a bogie having a lateral-motion bolster and
a mere center bearing to support a vehicle body. |
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| 193 | Bolster damper: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 185. Devices comprising attachments specially adapted to check
or cushion the lateral motion of truck-bolsters.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
| 188, | Brakes,
subclasses 297 through 320for a fluid-resistance dashpot of general utility. |
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| 194 | Equalizers: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 182.1. Bogies provided with means for transmitting weight from
the truck frames to the axle boxes in substantially equal proportions
regardless of inequalities in the level of the track.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
| 209, | for truck equalizers. |
| 210, | for parallel depression body supporting means. |
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| 195 | Six-wheel: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 194. Bogies provided with six supporting-wheels.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
| 166, | for six-wheel radial trucks. |
| 188, | for six-wheel bogies with lateral-motion bolster. |
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| 196 | Six-wheel: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 182.1. Bogies provided with six supporting wheels.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
| 188, | for six-wheel bogies with lateral motion bolster. |
| 195, | for six-wheel bogies with equalizing load-carrying
means. |
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| 197.05 | Sprung bolster: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 182.1. Bogie including a wheel-supported side frame structure extending
parallel to a first rail over which the device is to travel, a resilient
member supported thereby, and a rigid cross-member supported by
the resilient member, said cross-member extending to a corresponding wheel
supported side frame riding on a second rail parallel to the first.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
| 267, | Spring Devices,
subclasses 6 through 7for a spring device, per se, especially adapted
for a vehicle bolster. |
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| 197.1 | Leaf and coil: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 197.05. Sprung bolster bogies where the spring assembly includes
leaf and coil springs in series, parallel, series-parallel, or other
relation. |
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| 197.2 | Spring plankless: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 197.05. Sprung bolster bogies where some provision between bolster
and side frame connections is made to compensate for omission of the
conventional spring plank. |
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| 198 | Rocking: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 197.05. Sprung bolster bogies in which the bolster is so mounted
as to allow it to rock in a longitudinal vertical plane with relation
to the truck-frame.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
| 203, | for similar mounting of a combined transom and bolster. |
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| 198.1 | Pneumatic spring: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 197.05. Bogie wherein the resilient member comprises a vessel filled
with compressible gas.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
| 267, | Spring Devices,
subclasses 64.11 through 64.28for vehicle fluid springs in general. |
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| 198.2 | Bolster movement dampened by snubber: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 197.05. Bogie including provision to resistingly control free movement
of the cross-member with respect to the frame.
| | (1)
Note. A snubber is similar in function to a shock absorber. |
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
| 267, | Spring Devices,
subclasses 195 through 227for a railway truck snubber, per se, which comprises
a mechanical spring combined with a fluid or friction motion retarder. |
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| 198.3 | Hydraulic damping: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 198.2. Bogie including a chamber filled with liquid having provision
to transfer the liquid from one location to another, utilizing the
viscosity of the liquid to restrict free movement of the cross-member
with respect to the frame.
| | (1)
Note. A telescoping "shock absorber" is considered
to be a hydraulic snubber in the absence of other disclosure. |
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
| 267, | Spring Devices,
subclasses 217 through 227for a railway truck snubber, per se, which comprises
a mechanical spring combined with a fluid damper. |
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| 198.4 | Snubber biasing spring also supports bolster: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 198.2. Bogie including a resilient member to urge the snubber into
frictional engagement with a cooperating friction surface, wherein
the resilient member urging the snubber is positioned such that
it also acts to support the cross-over bolster directly. |
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| 198.5 | Bolster-mounted snubber: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 198.2. Bogie wherein the provision to resistingly control free
movement of the cross-member comprises structure mounted on the
cross-member.
| | (1)
Note. In order to control movement of the bolster with respect
to the frame, there must be engagement of both those parts. The
snubber of this subclass includes significant structure fixedly attached
to the bolster, i.e., more than a specific friction surface. | |
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| 198.6 | Linear torsion spring: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 197.05. Bogie wherein the resilient member includes a generally
straight, elongated portion adapted to twist within its elastic
limit to yieldably support the cross-member.
| | (1)
Note. A coil spring, though supporting a load by torsion,
is not included in this subclass. | |
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| 198.7 | Nonmetallic spring or cushion: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 197.05. Bogie wherein the resilient member is made of material other
than metal, and may include an additional resilient member, such that
the nonmetallic member only absorbs relatively small oscillations. |
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| 199.2 | Anti-roll device: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 199.1. Bogie including provision to counter movement of the supported
vehicle body with respect to the bogie about an axis parallel to
the supporting rail, or to allow or cause the vehicle body to lean
away from the direction of centrifugal force.
| | (1)
Note. A truck side bearing is not considered to "counter
movement" for this subclass. |
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
| 199.3, | for a bogie having a truck side bearing. |
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| 199.3 | Truck side bearing: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 199.1. Bogie also including means remote from the center of the
bogie to assist in carrying the weight of the supported vehicle
body. |
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| 199.4 | Truck center bearing: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 199.1. Bogie including a support surface at the upper center thereof
for pivotally carrying the weight of the supported vehicle body. |
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| 199.5 | Single axle: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 199.1. Bogie including a frame supported by only one wheel riding
on each supporting rail and all wheels thereof riding on a common
axle. |
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| 200 | Bolster connections : |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 182.1. Bogies including the connections between (the truck bolster
and truck and connections between) truck and body bolsters, but
not including side and center bearings.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
| 384, | Bearings,
subclass 586 for side and center antifriction bearings. |
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| 201 | Lateral motion: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 200. Bolster connections provided with means between the truck
bolster and vehicle bolster allowing bodily lateral motion of the
truck with relation to the car body in addition to the relative
swivel motion.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
| 171, | for lateral motion connections between the car body
and truck. |
| 185, | for lateral motion connection between the bolster
and truck. |
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| 202 | Combined transom and bolster: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 182.1. Bogies wherein the cross-framing at the center of the truck
carries a center bearing rigid therewith, thus performing the functions
of both transom and bolster. |
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| 203 | Rocking: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 202. Combined transom and bolster bogies provided with a joint
between the side and cross frames, allowing a relative rocking motion
in a vertical plane longitudinally of the truck.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
| 198, | for rocking spring bolsters. |
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| 204 | Arch-bar type: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 182.1. Bogies having side frames of the arch-bar type, each comprising
a truss structure mounting journal boxes at its ends, the bolster
guides forming a double strut between the tension and compression
members at the center. |
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| 205 | Integral: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 204. Arch-bar type bogies having the arch-bar and the longitudinal
compression member integral. |
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| 206.1 | Side frames: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 182.1. Bogies having structure supported directly by the wheel
axle, which structure extends predominately parallel with the wheel
supporting rail.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
| 202, | for combined transom and bolster- type framing. |
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| 207 | Bolster guides: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 182.1. Bogies including guide columns for bolster ends in side
frames.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
| 204, | for arch-bar-type bogies. |
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| 208 | Spring planks and transoms: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 182.1. Bogies including structure of the cross-tie members between
the side frames adjacent the bolster, exclusive of bolster structure,
together with their means of attachment to the side frames.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
| 204, | for arch-bar-type bogies. |
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| 208.2 | Vertically flexible spring plank or loose connections: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 208. Bogies specific to spring plank structure which permit relative
vertical and/or tilting movement between opposite truck
side frames without straining the spring plank and its connection
to the respective side frames.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
| 179, | for trucks with vertical side pivots. |
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| 209 | Equalizers: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 157.1. Trucks having means for transmitting load from the truck
frame to the axles in substantially equal proportions regardless
of inequalities in the track level.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
| 194 | through 195, for bogie truck equalizers. |
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
| 280, | Land Vehicles,
subclasses 5.5 through 5.524for a land vehicle of general utility including
an active suspension system responsive to a force encountered while
the vehicle is undergoing surface traversing motion to modify a suspension
elasticity parameter; subclasses 6.15-6.16, especially subclasses
6.157-6.16 for a land vehicle of general utility including means, interposed
between the vehicle body, chassis, or frame and running gear thereof,
for altering height or levelness of the vehicle body, chassis, or frame;
subclasses 81.1-81.6 for land vehicles of general utility including plural
sets of supporting wheels, the wheels of each set being so mounted as
to constitute a substantially complete running gear unit; or subclasses 104-687
for a land vehicle of general utility including means for transmitting
weight to wheels on different axles in substantially equal proportions
regardless of inequalities of the level of the travelled surface. |
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| 210 | Parallel depression: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 157.1. Trucks having means for maintaining the vehicle body substantially
parallel with the track even under the weight of an eccentrically
disposed load.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
| 280, | Land Vehicles,
subclasses 5.5 through 5.524for a land vehicle of general utility including
an active suspension system responsive to a force encountered while
the vehicle is undergoing surface traversing motion to modify a suspension
elasticity parameter; or subclasses 6.15-6.16, especially subclasses
6.157-6.16 for a land vehicle of general utility including means, interposed
between the vehicle body, chassis, or frame and running gear thereof,
for altering height or levelness of the vehicle body, chassis, or frame. |
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| 211 | Platform: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 157.1. Trucks having a top platform or frame designed to receive
the underframe of a car body or a load. |
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| 212 | Spring: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 211. Trucks having a spring-supported platform or side-bar top
to receive the sills or underframe of a car body directly. |
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| 213 | Side-frame base: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 212. Trucks with axle box frames attached to a side frame, which
supports the springs for the platform.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
| 210, | for parallel depression-type trucks. |
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| 214 | Integral U-yoke: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 213. Trucks having the side-frame bar integrally formed with
inverted U-yokes, which guide the axle boxes.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
| 192, | for span-supported lateral motion bolsters. |
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| 215.1 | Supplemental wheel: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 157.1. Truck having a wheel intended to be in an inoperative position
during some vehicular uses of the truck and to be in an operative
position during other uses of the truck.
| | (1)
Note. Included herein is (1) a truck for use alternately
as a land vehicle or as a railroad vehicle; and (2) a truck having
a wheel that does not touch the rail under light loading, but settles
down and rides on the rail under heavy loading. |
| | (2)
Note. A vehicle-carrying wheel-substitution device; e.g.,
an endless belt, etc., is considered to be a "wheel" for
placement in this subclass. |
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
| 410, | Freight Accommodation on Freight Carrier,
subclass 67 for a freight carrying vehicle which may have supplemental
guidance wheels cooperating with a track mounted on a freight car floor.
The stowed vehicle may be a semitrailer proper for that subclass (rather
than subclasses 56-65 for semitrailer stowage on a freight carrier),
as explained in subclass 67 note for the line between these subclasses. |
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| 215.2 | Railway/highway truck: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 215.1. Truck for including wheel means for riding on a rail and
including wheel means for riding on a planar surface generally.
| | (1)
Note. A truck including a single wheel particularly adapted
to ride on a (1) rail or (2) planar surface is included in this subclass. |
| | (2)
Note. The railway wheel may ride on a rail at the same time
that the other wheel rides on a planar surface. |
| | (3)
Note. The planar surface engaging wheel of this subclass
may be driven. |
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
| 72.2, | for a locomotive including a land engaging wheel
and a rail engaging wheel wherein the rail engaging wheel is driven,
or wherein the land engaging wheel is driven to propel the locomotive
along the rail. |
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| 216 | Supplemental skids: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 157.1. Trucks having supporting shoes or runner members arranged
to slide along the track in case of truck derailment. |
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| 217 | Safety supports: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 157.1. Trucks having means to support parts of truck in case of
breakage thereof to prevent them from interfering with the movement
of the vehicle.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
| 199.1, | for body and truck connecting means. |
| 200, | for bolster connections to trucks and to body bolsters. |
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| 219 | Permanent fixture: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 218.1. Axle box mountings wherein some part of or the whole axle
box is fixed to the truck side frame, either integrally, by welding,
or by casting. |
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| 220 | Detachable fixture: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 218.1. Axle box mountings in which the axle box is secured at its
top or side, or both, to the truck frame by bolts or lugs, so that
it may be readily detached from the frame.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
| 219, | for axle boxes permanently fixed to the truck side
frame. |
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| 221.1 | Releasable enclosure: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 218.1. Truck having an axle bearing mounting wherein the axle bearing
is attached to the truck frame by an enclosing or surrounding means,
which enclosing or surrounding means has one or more detachable
parts to permit removal of the axle bearing. |
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| 221.2 | Key release: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 221.1. Truck including a frame having an open bottom slot for receiving
the axle and including a slot blocking member for attachment to
only one side of the a slot to retain the axle in the slot. |
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| 222 | Longitudinally movable: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 218.1. Axle box mountings having the axle box or bearing designed
to have movement transversely of the truck frame.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
| 80, | for lateral motion inside drive boxes for locomotives. |
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| 223 | Rocking: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 218.1. Axle box mountings in which the connections are such that
the axle journal may have lateral, vertical, or universal rocking
movement relatively to the truck frame.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
| 169, | for stub axle mountings in radial trucks. |
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| 224.05 | Spring and guide: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 218.1. Truck including a way for movement of the axle and its immediate
bearing structure with respect to the supporting frame and including
a spring for yieldably transmitting load from the axle to the frame. |
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| 224.06 | Spring biased guide or guide follower: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 224.05. Truck including a walled way, wherein the wall is resiliently
urged to narrow the way or wherein the member directed by the wall
to thereby restrict the way.
| | (1)
Note. The spring-biased guide or guide follower of this subclass
may comprise a buffer, i.e., a shock absorber. | |
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| 225 | Wear plates: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 218.1. Axle box mountings having wear plates in the truck pedestals,
against which the axle boxes rub. |
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| 226 | Bolster: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 157.1. Truck construction involving transverse supporting beams
between trucks and car bodies, usually termed "truck" and "body" bolsters. |
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| 227 | Double: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 226. Twin beam or frame bolsters for four-wheeled trucks.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
| 188, | 195, and 196, for frame bolsters for six-wheeled
trucks. |
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| 228 | Center-sill connection: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 226. Body bolsters on car under frames in which the center sills
are framed into the bolsters or the bolsters are substantially modified
to accommodate the center sills. |
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| 229 | Trussed: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 226. Bolsters having tie and compression members separated in
part from each other. |
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| 231 | TENDER: |
| | This subclass is indented under the class definition. Supply vehicles for carrying fuel, water, and other supplies
for locomotives. |
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| 232 | Coal feed: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 231. Tenders having means for aiding the fireman in supplying
coal to the furnace.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
| 110, | Furnaces,
subclasses 101 through 118,particularly subclasses 105.5 and 105.6 for locomotive
stokers, per se. |
| 198, | Conveyors: Power-Driven, appropriate subclasses for conveyors of particular
types, including reciprocating and screw-type conveyors often used for
feeding bulk material to furnaces. |
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| 234 | Screw: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 232. Coal-feeding tenders having screw or helical devices for
moving the coal forward in a tender. |
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| 235 | Tilting pan: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 232. Coal-feeding tenders having a tilting pan which is raised
at its rear end to cause the fuel thereon to slide forward in the
vicinity of the fireman. |
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| 236 | Tanks: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 231. Tenders having tanks for carrying oil or water on a tender. |
| | |
| 237 | Coal bin: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 231. Tender constructions involving coal bin arrangements and
gate control. |
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| 238.1 | SPECIAL CAR BODIES: |
| | This subclass is indented under the class definition. Railway rolling stock comprising car bodies designed for
special purposes and appurtenances special thereto. |
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| 238.2 | Toy or model railway car: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 238.1. Special car body intended for entertainment or of inadequate
size to be used for transportation of people, and not intended to
be used for transportation of produce.
| | (1)
Note. A model car, even though structurally identical to
a conventional railway car, is included in this subclass, since
it is not for transportation of people or produce. | |
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| 239 | Dumping: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 238.1. Car bodies adapted to throw out their load or permit it
to fall out by gravity.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
| 222, | Dispensing, appropriate subclasses for dispensing in general,
and see the notes thereto. |
| 298, | Land Vehicles: Dumping, appropriate subclasses for land vehicle dumping
bodies. |
| 414, | Material or Article Handling,
subclasses 333 through 402for the loading or unloading of a wheeled (except subclass
373) load-transporting-type vehicle, e.g., a railway vehicle, etc., wherein
means external to the vehicle is involved. |
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| 241.1 | Moving car dump: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 239. Dumping bodies in which the dumping operation is controlled
by and concurrent with the movement of the car. |
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| 241.2 | Actuated by means external to car: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 241.1. Dumping bodies comprising means to cooperate with an externally
located, e.g., trackside, etc., device for carrying out the dumping
operation.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
| 414, | Material or Article Handling,
subclasses 383 through 384for the combination of a load-transporting vehicle and
means external thereto cooperating in the loading or unloading thereof,
and wherein the vehicle is in motion and the means reorients the vehicle
load body into an attitude whereby the load departs by gravity; and
subclasses 387-388 for an arrangement differing from that of subclass
383 only in that, instead of the body being reoriented, a body component,
e.g., gate, etc., is relocated. |
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| 242 | Suspended: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 239. Dumping vehicles having supporting trolleys designed to
travel on an overhead track or cable. |
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| 244 | Gondola drop bottom: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 239. Gondola cars having drop doors in its bottom between the
center sills and side walls.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
| 280 | through 285, for dumping door constructions which may include
so much of car construction as is necessary to mount the door. |
| 286 | through 307, for dumping door actuators which may include as
much of the car as is necessary to mount the actuator. |
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| 245 | Central ridge: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 244. Gondola cars having a permanent inverted-V ridge placed
over the center sills to prevent retention of the lading thereon
after dumping. |
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| 246 | Rising ridge: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 244. Gondola cars in which the self-cleaning ridge rises in the
act of dumping and falls again when the doors are closed. |
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| 247 | Hopper type: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 239. Lading receptacles having an interior form such as to be
self-clearing by gravity when the bottom doors are opened. |
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| 248 | Multiple hopper: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 247. Lading receptacles in which the car bottom has a plurality
of funnel-shaped outlets longitudinally arranged. |
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| 249 | Facing center chute: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 248. Lading receptacles, in which the downwardly inclined end
walls converge toward the car-center, where they form two or more
chutes, which discharge the lading longitudinally toward each other.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
| 256, | for inclined bottom side-spout gondolas. |
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| 250 | Longitudinal doors: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 247. Hopper-type cars having drop-bottom doors arranged to swing
about axes longitudinally of the car or slide transversely of the
car. |
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| 251 | Center-sill separator: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 250. Hopper-type cars in which the hopper outlet is divided centrally
and longitudinally by a center sill or door pivot means.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
| 244 | through 246, for gondola drop-bottom cars. |
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| 252 | Side-chute bridge |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 250. Hopper-type cars having the longitudinal hopper doors pivoted
adjacent the center sill, their outer edges dropping to contact
with stationary side chutes or aprons for conducting the lading to
the side of the way. |
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| 253 | Transverse doors: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 247. Hopper-type cars having the outlet doors at the base of
the hopper swinging about axes running transversely of the car or
sliding longitudinally of the car.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
| 248, | for multiple-hopper constructions. |
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| 254 | Inclined bottom: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 239. Dumping car bodies in which the car bottom has such an inclination
that upon the release of a side door the entire lading is discharged
by gravity. |
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| 255 | Opposite doors: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 254. Inclined-bottom cars in which the car bottom inclines downwardly
and outwardly both ways from the center to discharge doors on opposite sides
of the car. |
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| 256 | Side-spout gondola: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 254. Gondola cars having portions of the flat floor removed,
and inclined chutes or spouts extending from the center sill beneath
the floor lever to the car sides, where the spouts are closed with
doors below the side walls of the gondola.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
| 249, | for multiple-hopper cars with facing center chutes. |
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| 257 | Shifting: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 254. Gondola cars in which the car floor or a part thereon is
moved to an inclined position for the discharge of the load by gravity.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
| 246, | for cars having a rising ridge between outlet doors. |
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| 259 | Plow car: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 258. Gondola cars designed to be unloaded by a plow operated
throughout a train length. |
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| 261.1 | Tilting body: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 239. Dumping cars including a load-carrying part which is unloaded
by tilting or inclining the load-carrying part in its entirety. |
| | |
| 261.2 | End dumping car: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 261.1. Dumping cars wherefrom unloading is effected by movement
of the load along the length of the load-carrying part.
| | (1)
Note. The load-carrying part of this subclass may be reoriented
before dumping to unload beside the supporting rails. | |
| | |
| 262 | Inwardly dumping section: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 261.1. Cars having a pair or series of pairs of dumping sections
adapted to tilt toward each other and toward the car center and
arranged either longitudinally or transversely of the car. |
| | |
| 264 | Rolling tilt: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 261.1. Lading receptacles having a curved bottom or trunnion supports
adapted to have rolling contact with ways on the supporting trunk. |
| | |
| 265 | With motor: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 264. Lading receptacles having a motor for effecting the rolling
tilt of the receptacle. |
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| 266 | Worm gear: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 264. Lading receptacles having a worm-gear control to regulate
the tilting. |
| | |
| 267 | Screw : |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 264. Lading receptacles having a screw to effect the tilting. |
| | |
| 268 | Cam-track tilt: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 261.1. Lading receptacles provided on each side with a plurality
of projections adapted to slide along camways on the track to effect
tilting of the receptacle. |
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| 269 | Side and tilt: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 261.1. Lading receptacles which in dumping slides longitudinally
until they tip at the ends of the ways on which they slide. |
| | |
| 270 | Pivoted: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 261.1. Lading receptacles trunnioned or hung on horizontal pivots
carried by the truck. |
| | |
| 272 | Off center: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 270. Lading receptacles supported on two parallel pivots equill
distant from the center of the receptacle for dumping at will to
either side of the car, or on a single pivot-line offset from the receptacle
center for dumping to one side only. |
| | |
| 274 | One-side dump: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 272. Lading receptacles in which the car body is adapted to tilt
one way only.
| | (1)
Note. The pivot is usually off center, so that the body tilts
or rights itself by gravity on being unlocked. | |
| | |
| 275 | Horizontal rotary: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 274. Lading cars having a turn-table or vertical pivot for the
lading receptacle.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
| 28, | for locomotive turntables, usually carrying a tool
such as a crane or excavator. |
| 455, | for turntable connections between car bodies and
trucks. |
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| 276 | Displaceable sides: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 261.1. Car bodies provided with hinged or slidable sides or side
doors to release the lading upon the tilting of the car body. |
| | |
| 277 | Bodily movable: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 276. Car bodies in which the movable sides or side doors have
a movement of translation away from load-retaining position relative
to the car body. |
| | |
| 279 | Aprons and baffles |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 261.1. Car body constructions involving guides and guard walls
or plates for directing the placement of the lading during the dumping
operation. |
| | |
| 280 | Doors: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 239. Car body constructions involving doors adapted for use on
dumping cars only.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
| 256, | for side-spout gondolas with doors. |
| 276 | through 277, for tilting body cars with displaceable sides. |
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
| 49, | Movable or Removable Closures, appropriate subclasses for closures of the type
provided for. |
| 160, | Flexible or Portable Closure, Partition, or Panel,
subclasses 130 through 236for doors composed of plural panels interconnected
for relative movement mounted upon the side of a car for holding
grain in the car and/or allowing grain to be dispensed
from the car. |
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| 281 | Interchangeable hinge: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 280. Doors provided with releasable hinges on the opposite edges,
so that they may swing from either edge at will.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
| 49, | Movable or Removable Closures,
subclass 193 for a closure movable on alternative axes on opposite
ends of the closure. |
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| 282.1 | Sliding: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 280. Doors operable along guideways, which may be comprised of
straight, circular, cam, or plural inclined ways and extend parallel
to plane of the door. |
| | |
| 282.2 | Having resilient sealing gasket: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 282.1. Door including a relatively soft member of material that
will return to its original shape, which soft member is intended
to interfit with other body opening structure and create a tight fit
between the door and the opening structure. |
| | |
| 282.3 | Driven by rack and pinion: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 282.1. Door including means to force the door from/to open
position to/from closed position comprising a bar having
gear teeth therealong and a relatively small gear for drively interfitting therewith. |
| | |
| 283 | Offset pivot: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 280. Doors having pivots or hinges located laterally away from
the plane of the door. |
| | |
| 284 | Link swing: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 280. Doors in which the links are pivotally connected to the
doors, so that there is angular motion between each link and its
door. |
| | |
| 285 | Buffers: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 280. Doors having buffer or stop devices to receive the impact
of a door. |
| | |
| 288 | Multiple door: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 286. Door actuation for a plurality of doors having rigid or
fixed connections therebetween, whereby they may be operated as
a unit. |
| | |
| 289 | Interconnected: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 288. Door actuators connected to a plurality of independent doors
for simultaneously operating same. |
| | |
| 290 | Links: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 289. Door actuators in which the doors are connected for operation
through a pair of connected links. |
| | |
| 291 | With hook: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 290. Door actuators having one or more hooks, so as to hang up
and lock the doors and links at the end of the door operation. |
| | |
| 292 | Chains: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 289. Door actuators having chain attachments between a plurality
of doors for operating the same. |
| | |
| 293 | Creeping shaft: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 286. Door actuators comprising a bodily moving shaft parallel
to the door hinges and movable against the lower side of the door
and toward its free edge for closing the door.
| | (1)
Note. The shaft usually travels on fixed guideways on the
underframe. | |
| | |
| 295 | Chain wind: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 293. Door actuators in which the creeping shaft is operated by
a chain wrapped one or more turns around the shaft. |
| | |
| 296 | Crankshaft: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 286. Mechanisms in which the door is closed by a crankarm wiping
against the underside of the door. |
| | |
| 297 | Creeping: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 296. Door actuators in which the crankshaft itself has a traveling
or rolling movement along fixed guideways in the underframe. |
| | |
| 299 | Crank and link: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 286. Door actuators having a crank arm connected through a link
to the door.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
| 291, | for multiple door actuators comprising hooks and
links. |
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| 301 | Creeping-shaft lock: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 300. Chain-winding shafts, which, as the door seats in a closed
position, shift bodily under the edge of the door and act as a lock
for the door. |
| | |
| 302 | Tension lock shifter |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 300. Chain winders in which the door seats in a closed position,
a continued operation of the chain winder produces an increased
chain tension, which operates the door lock. |
| | |
| 303 | Terminal hook: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 300. Chain winders in which the chain has a hook adjacent its
attachment to the door, so that when the latter is closed, the hook
engages a locking abutment and holds the door closed. |
| | |
| 304 | Toggle or strut: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 286. Door actuators in which the straightening of a pair of toggle
links or moving a strut or prop to upright position pushes the door
upward against the car bottom to closed position. |
| | |
| 306 | Lever or chain: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 286. Door actuators comprising a lever and attached links or
chains located beneath a door and closing the door when raised. |
| | |
| 308.1 | Having door latch: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 239. Dumping body having means to physically secure a door in
a closed position.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
| 364, | for a mine cars which may have a door latch. |
|
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| 308.2 | Toggle: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 308.2. Dumping body wherein the securing means includes a pair
of links pivotally fitting together and adapted to limitedly snap
past the center line with the ends of the links in latching the
door to either (1) secure the door directly or (2) secure a door
latching pin. |
| | |
| 309 | Shifting-shaft: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 308. Door locks comprising a shaft which is moved bodily under
the free edge of the door for locking it.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
| 293 | through 295, for creeping shaft door actuators. |
| 301, | for chain winding door actuators with creeping-shaft
lock. |
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| 310.1 | Bolt pivoted about axis parallel to door plane: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 308.1. Dumping body wherein the means to physically secure a door
comprises a member attached to the door or to body structure and adapted
to turn about a line that extends in a direction that is parallel
with the surface of the door in order to block relative movement
of the door and body structure. |
| | |
| 310.2 | Sliding bolt: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 308.1. Dumping body wherein the means to physically secure a door
comprises a member attached to the door or to a door structure and adapted
to move along its length in order to block relative movement of
the door and body structure. |
| | |
| 311.1 | Control: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 239. Dumping cars including (1) means utilizing energy of an
external source, e.g., momentum of the car, etc., to effect dumping;
(2) means to limit the degree of opening of a door, e.g., a chain,
etc., or (3) means to drive car body closure from one position to
another.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
| 286 | through 307, for a dumping car with a door actuator. |
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| 311.2 | Lost motion: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 311.1. Dumping car wherein including means to open the closure
thereof having play in the drive train thereof, so that opening
movement of the door does not necessarily effect corresponding movement
of the drive train element.
| | (1)
Note. Included in this subclass is a device providing safety
for the person operating the door in dumping. Once the door is
moved, the weight freight therein could, without the lost-motion
clutch, overpower the person. | |
| | |
| 313 | Shaft lock: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 311.1. Dump car controls comprising locking devices for shafts
used in door control. |
| | |
| 314 | Sleeping: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 238.1. Car bodies adapted to provide sleeping accommodations for
passengers. |
| | |
| 315 | Arrangement: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 314. Interior arrangement of cars involving compartments, seats,
berths, closets, and storage-places to adapt a car for day and night
travel. |
| | |
| 316 | Berths: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 314. Sleeping car constructions comprising berth fixtures involving
some modifications of the car interior. |
| | |
| 317 | Vertically movable: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 316. Berths movable bodily and vertically as unitary beds from
the car top downwardly or upwardly from the floor. |
| | |
| 319 | Collapsible: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 316. Berths having frames in small sections adapted to be folded
or collapsed against the car wall; also collapsible pneumatic berths. |
| | |
| 321 | Hinged: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 316. Berths hinged to the car wall and adapted to be folded upwardly
when not in use. |
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| 323 | Partitions: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 314. Sleeping car constructions comprising movable partitions
for night use in sleeping cars. |
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| 325 | Article holders: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 314. Sleeping car constructions comprising devices for holding
clothing and other items at night. |
| | |
| 328 | Merchandising: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 238.1. Cars designed for the use of traveling salesmen or for the
display of merchandise or other articles. |
| | |
| 330 | Rolling: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 329.1. Passenger cars, in which the body is in the form of a ball
or cylinder, which is adapted to be rolled along the track.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
| 356, | for similar cars for freight. |
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| 332 | Convertible open and closed: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 329.1. Passenger cars adapted to be used as an open-sided summer
car or to be converted into a closed-sided winter car at will.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
| 160, | Flexible or Portable Closure, Partition, or Panel, appropriate subclasses for closures made of flexible
material, or made of plural strips, slats, or panels interconnected
for relative motion, including such structures claimed in combination
with other types of closures or other types of flexible and portable
panels, where the features of car structure claimed are only those necessary
for the mounting and operating of the closure. |
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| 333 | Vertical sliding panel: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 332. Convertible passenger cars in which vertically sliding panels
between the side posts of the car may be adjusted to make the car
an open or closed car. |
| | |
| 334 | Roof storage: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 333. Cars in which the vertically sliding panels may be pushed
under the roof if desired. |
| | |
| 335 | Drop storage: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 333. Cars in which the sliding panels may be dropped low in the
side wall or under the floor when desired. |
| | |
| 336 | Seat-back panel: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 332. Cars in which the seats aligned along the car side have
the seat backs forming an exterior panel of the car side which is
pocketed to receive an upper sliding panel. |
| | |
| 339 | Spaced sliding doors: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 332. Cars in which the side panels of the car are made up of
alternating fixed panels and sliding panels or doors. |
| | |
| 340 | Double deck: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 329.1. Passenger cars provided with upper and lower decks or floors
for passenger accommodation. |
| | |
| 341 | Entrance and exit control: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 329.1. Passenger car arrangements comprising steps, doors, conductor’s
and motormen’s stations, and partition bars to facilitate
the collection of fares and to systematize the entrance and exit of
passengers to and from the cars.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
| 49, | Movable or Removable Closures,
subclass 24 for a plurality of closures controlled individually
and jointly through a master control, and subclass 49 for a closure
combined with means to direct or control traffic when no defined
train control or car structure or arrangement is included. |
| 91, | Motors: Expansible Chamber Type, appropriate subclasses for expansible chamber motors
for operating gates or doors. |
| 303, | Fluid-Pressure and Analogous Brake Systems, appropriate subclasses for fluid pressure brakes
combined with door operating motors. |
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| 341.5 | Turnstile: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 341. Arrangements of the turnstile type to facilitate the collection
of fares and to systematize the entrance and exit of passengers
to and from cars. |
| | |
| 342 | Motorman’s compartment: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 329.1. Passenger cars having special arrangements for motorman’s
cab or compartment.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
| 341, | for entrance and exit control combined with motorman’s
station. |
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| 343 | Door arrangement: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 329.1. Passenger car constructions involving door location and
arrangement.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
| 341, | for passenger entrance and exit control. |
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| 344 | Passenger placement: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 329.1. Passenger car constructions involving the relative arrangement
of seats, standing-room, handholds, doors, and trainmen’s
space whereby the interior passenger capacity of a car may be utilized
in a desired way.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
| 340, | for double deck cars. |
| 341, | for entrance and exit control. |
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| 345 | Seats: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 344. Passenger car constructions comprising seats built into
and forming part of a car structure. |
| | |
| 346 | Open car: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 345. Seats for summer cars placed transversely and framed against
the side posts. |
| | |
| 347 | End panels: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 346. Seat construction comprising seat and panels fastened to
the side posts. |
| | |
| 348 | Emergency exits: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 329.1. Passenger car constructions comprising closed openings through
the floor, roof, or walls of a car, adapted to be opened only in
case of emergency for escape of passengers. |
| | |
| 349 | Automatic: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 348. Emergency exits in which the closures for the openings are
automatically actuated, as by the overturning of a car, for example. |
| | |
| 350 | Dust guards: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 329.1. Passenger car constructions comprising devices tending to
lessen the dust contents of the air in the vicinity of car doors
or windows. |
| | |
| 351 | Car bottom: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 350. Dust guards tending to limit the distribution of dust from
the road bed by the action of the car wheels and trucks. |
| | |
| 353 | Storm fronts: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 329.1. Passenger car constructions involving glass fronts and protective
closures for motormen on electric cars.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
| 160, | Flexible or Portable Closure, Partition, or Panel, appropriate subclasses for storm fronts in the form
of flexible and portable panels, including their mounting and/or
operating means and combinations with rigid closures, including
windshields. Such combinations claimed in combination with other
vehicle structure, e.g., wind-shield wipers, glare shields, etc.,
or when the relation to the vehicle is claimed, are in Class 105. |
| 296, | Land Vehicles: Bodies and Tops,
subclasses 77.1 through 96.22for storm fronts for land vehicles. |
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| 354 | Hand straps: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 329.1. Passenger car constructions involving depending straps and
handholds for safety of standing passengers.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
| 40, | Card, Picture, or Sign Exhibiting,
subclass 318 for car hand straps carrying advertising indicia
thereon. |
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| 355 | Freight: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 238.1. Cars designed for the carrying of freight.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
| 410, | Freight Accommodation on Freight Carrier, appropriate subclasses for a freight carrier of any category,
including railway, provided with means particularly for inhibiting
the undesirable effects of untoward occurrences on the lading while
on board; see, for example:
subclasses 2 through 50for means on the freight carrier engageable with
a particular article, i.e., of such shape as to present a vulnerability
which is overcome by the way said means accommodates the article;
subclasses 52-95 wherein the freight carrier accommodating means contacts
a stowed load bearer such as a semitrailer (56-65) or other wheeled (66-67)
or wheelless containers; for example, subclasses 77-86 wherein containers
are positively retained on the freight carrier; subclasses 96-116 wherein
indiscriminate load units are lashed on board a freight carrier;
and subclasses 121-155 wherein the load unit is accommodated by
load bracing means. |
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| 356 | Rolling: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 355. Freight-carrying receptacles in the form of drums or cylinders,
which are adapted to be rolled along the track.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
| 330, | for similar cars for passengers. |
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| 357 | Vacuum wall: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 355. Freight cars with double walls, from between which the air
may be exhausted to stabilize the interior temperature of the car. |
| | |
| 358 | Tank: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 355. Freight cars designed to carry fluid material.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
| 410, | Freight Accommodation on Freight Carrier,
subclass 68 for a freight carrier of any category including
railway provided with accommodating means for rigid wall fluid-filled
containers, i.e., means in contact with the container(s) to inhibit
untoward movement thereof while on board. |
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| 360 | Tank form: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 358. Tank cars involving variations in tank form.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
| 410, | Freight Accommodation on Freight Carrier,
subclass 68 for a freight carrier which accommodates a plurality of
removable containers for bulk material. |
|
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| 362 | Saddle and anchors: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 358. Tank car constructions including tank-supporting saddles,
bolsters, and anchoring devices for holding the tank in place. |
| | |
| 363 | Knockdown body: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 355. Freight car bodies designed to be folded down upon their
under-frames or to be separated into sections, as for marine shipment. |
| | |
| 364 | Mine: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 355. Cars of low narrow gauge for use in mines.
| | (1)
Note. The wheel axles are attached directly to the car bottom. |
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
| 275, | for horizontally rotary tilting dumping cars. |
|
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| 365 | Tubular way: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 355. Freight cars designed for use in cylindrical passage, such
as tunnels, kilns, and treatment tanks.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
| 104, | Railways,
subclass 138.1 for tubular railways. |
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| 370 | Convertible deck: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 355. Boxcars which are convertible into a multiple floor or deck
car at will.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
| 410, | Freight Accommodation on Freight Carrier,
subclasses 26 through 29.1for a multideck freight car for transporting wheeled
vehicles. |
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| 371 | Sectional: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 370. Convertible boxcars in which the supplemental floor or deck
is made in sections. |
| | |
| 372 | Side hinge: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 371. Convertible boxcars in which the deck or floor sections
are hinged to the car walls. |
| | |
| 373 | Tiered crates and slides: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 355. Freight cars provided with vertical tiers of slides or crates
designed as car fixtures for shipping fruit or fragile articles. |
| | |
| 375 | Auxiliary floors: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 355. Freight cars having independent auxiliary floors adapted
to rest upon the main car floor, as in case of refrigerator cars.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
| 52, | Static Structures (e.g., Buildings),
subclasses 660 through 676for fabric or lattice openwork of more general application
including slatted floor covering and gratings. |
| 404, | Road Structure, Process, or Apparatus,
subclasses 17 through 70for walkway and floor-like structure. |
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| 377.01 | Movable cover: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 355. Subject matter wherein the uppermost space bounded by the
top of sidewalls of the car is covered by a movable member.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
| 296, | Land Vehicles: Bodies and Tops,
subclasses 100.01 through 100.18for a top of the freight load vehicle. |
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| 377.05 | Hinged to car body: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 377.01. Subject matter wherein the member is attached to the car
by a jointed or flexible device which permits a turning or pivoting
of the movable member. |
| | |
| 377.06 | With actuator: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 377.05. Subject matter including a mechanism for causing the turning
or pivoting of the movable member.
| | (1)
Note. The mechanism includes a hydraulic, pneumatic, or spring
device. | |
| | |
| 377.07 | Hatch: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 377.05. Subject matter wherein the member includes a substantially
smaller opening located therein. |
| | |
| 377.08 | With seal: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 377.01. Subject matter comprising a means for preventing the passage
of foreign matter wherein the member is supported by an underlying
surface of the car and the means is located between the member and
the surface for preventing the passage of the foreign matter therethrough. |
| | |
| 377.09 | Sliding: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 377.01. Subject matter wherein the member is moved by sliding it
on a supporting structure. |
| | |
| 377.11 | Locking device: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 377.01. Subject matter wherein the member includes a securing means
for preventing an unauthorized access to the inside of the car.
| | (1)
Note. Mere fastener means such as hooks or clamps or bolts
attached to the member or to the body of the car do not constitute
a locking device for this subclass. |
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
| 308.1 | through 310.2, for door latch for car bodies adapted to unload
by dumping. |
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| 378 | Movable side sections: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 355. Freight cars having openings in the car walls and closures
therefor.
| | (1)
Note. This subclass does not include freight car doors with
or without their operating or mounting means. |
| | (2)
Note. Closures on plural walls which are not interconnected
for concurrent movement or do not close a continuous opening will
be found in this Class (105). |
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
| 258 | through 259, for side door gondolas. |
| 280 | through 285, for dumping doors. |
| 286 | through 307, for dumping door operators. |
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
| 49, | Movable or Removable Closures, (see (1) and (2) Notes). |
| 160, | Flexible or Portable Closure, Partition, or Panel, (see (1) Note). |
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| 380 | Stakes: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 355. Freight cars having stakes for holding logs or other lading
on logging or flat cars and for holding up the walls of gondola
cars.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
| 280, | Land Vehicles,
subclasses 143 through 148for land vehicle bolsters and standards. |
| 296, | Land Vehicles: Bodies and Tops,
subclass 43 for stakes and sockets for land vehicles. |
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| 381 | Side folding: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 380. Stake-type freight cars in which the stakes have a folding
movement in the vertical plane of the car sides. |
| | |
| 382 | Releasable: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 380. Stake-type freight cars in which the stakes on being unlocked
may fall outwardly and release the lading. |
| | |
| 383 | Pocket openers: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 382. Releasable stake cars in which a closure on a wall of the
stake pocket is released to permit the stake to fly out under load
pressure. |
| | |
| 384 | Direct detent: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 382. Releasable stake cars in which a pawl, hook, or locking
lug directly engages the stake or a lug thereon to hold the stake
upright. |
| | |
| 385 | Horizontal slide: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 382. Releasable stake cars in which the stake slides outwardly
on horizontal guides as a preliminary movement to falling to load
release position. |
| | |
| 386 | Vertical slide: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 382. Releasable stake cars in which the stake move to load-releasing
position by a vertical sliding movement. |
| | |
| 387 | Collapsible: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 382. Releasable stake cars in which the stake is usually in the
form of an articulated inverted V, which is adapted to collapse
or flatten out when unlocked. |
| | |
| 388 | Chain release: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 382. Releasable stake cars in which the stake is held upright
by a chain under tension, upon release of which the stake falls. |
| | |
| 389 | Telescopic: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 380. Stake-type cars in which the stake is made up of a plurality
of telescopic or sliding sections. |
| | |
| 390 | Pockets: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 380. Stake-type cars having sockets or pockets adapted to hold
car stakes. |
| | |
| 391 | Folding: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 390. Stake pockets adapted to collapse or fold out of the way
when not in use. |
| | |
| 392 | Freight-contacting rollers: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 355. Freight cars having anti-friction rolls in car doorways
or on the car floor to facilitate freight-handling.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
| 492, | Roll or Roller, appropiate subclasses for a roll, per se, not elsewhere
provided for, and see the notes thereunder. |
|
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| 392.5 | Shock absorbing: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 238.1. Car bodies modified to take up the shock of collisions or
severe bumps.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
| 213, | Railway Draft Appliances,
subclasses 220 through 223for car buffers, per se. |
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| 393 | Expansible: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 238.1. Cars adapted to be extended laterally or longitudinally
to increase their floor space, or foldable house cars. |
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| 394 | Armored and protected: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 238.1. Express cars, usually metallic, designed to be bullet-proof
and provided with defensive means and protective devices for guarding against
train robbery. |
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| 395 | Automatic door lock: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 238.1. Cars having door locks under control of the air-brake system
or the engineer or by the train or car movement.
| | (1)
Note. The objects are to prevent passengers opening car doors
while the car is moving and to prevent robbery from freight cars. | |
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| 396 | CAR FRAMING AND STRUCTURE: |
| | This subclass is indented under the class definition. Car constructions involving frame and structure designed
as a load sustainer and carrier and a unit subjected to train shocks.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
| 52, | Static Structures (e.g., Buildings),
subclasses 41 through 44and 45-56 for a car roof construction. |
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| 397 | Passenger: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 396. Car constructions includes passenger car structure not otherwise
classified.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
| 280, | Land Vehicles,
subclasses 781 through 800for land vehicle frames. |
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| 399 | Truss: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 397. Passenger car frames in which a series of struts and ties
are used in the side walls. |
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| 400 | Continuous rib: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 397. Passenger cars in which a pair of side posts and a carline
of a car are replaced by a unitary inverted U-shaped member arched
over the underframe.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
| 334, | for the roof-storage-type of convertible open and
closed passenger car. |
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| 401 | Metal sheathing: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 397. Passenger cars having metal sheathing or plates in their
frames.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
| 409 | through 410, for metal sheathing for freight cars. |
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
| 52, | Static Structures (e.g., Buildings), appropriate subclasses for various constructions of more
general application which have exterior sheathing, particularly
subclasses 330 , 459-472, 474-761, and 518-560. |
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| 402 | Ends: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 397. Passenger car constructions involving end structure. |
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| 403 | Cast: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 402. Passenger car ends having cast metallic framing members. |
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| 404 | Freight: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 396. Freight car structure not otherwise classified.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
| 280, | Land Vehicles,
subclasses 781 through 800for land vehicle frames. |
| 410, | Freight Accommodation on Freight Carrier, appropriate subclasses, especially
subclasses 106 through 110for a lading tiedown anchor structure. |
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| 405 | Concrete: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 404. Freight cars in which concrete or cement structure is used
in whole or in part. |
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| 406.1 | Gondola: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 404. Freight car framing and structure of particular utility
to an open-top railway car having a floor, two vertical side walls,
and two vertical end walls. |
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| 406.2 | Drop end door: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 406.1. Freight car framing and structure including provision for
replacably opening one of the end walls by movement thereof about
an axis parallel to and located near the floor. |
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| 407 | Truss: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 404. Freight car frames in which tie and strut elements are used
in the car walls. |
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| 408 | Timber pockets: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 404. Freight car constructions involving castings and abutment
plates to receive the ends of car posts. |
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| 409 | Metal sheathing: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 404. Freight car constructions involving metal-plate side walls.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
| 401, | for metal sheathing for passenger cars. |
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
| 52, | Static Structures (e.g., Buildings), appropriate subclasses for various constructions of more
general application which have exterior sheathing, particularly
subclasses 459 through 472,474-761, and 518-560. |
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| 410 | Ends: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 409. Freight car sheathing comprising sheet-metal ends for cars. |
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| 414 | Metallic: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 413. Under or floor frames which are metallic.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
| 358 | through 362, for tank-type freight cars. |
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| 416 | Mono-center sill type |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 414. Underframes in which the center sill is made from a single
beam, which may be integral or two contacting beams riveted together. |
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| 417 | Spread-center sill type: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 414. Underframes in which the center sills are spaced more widely
apart than in an ordinary double-center construction, such as for
accommodation of hopper-car body, for example. |
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| 419 | Cross bearers: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 414. Underframe construction involving only cross members in
the under-frame intermediate the ends thereof. |
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| 420 | Draft-sill framing: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 396. Underframe constructions involving connections of the draft-sills
to the end sills, bolsters, or center sills.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
| 213, | Railway Draft Appliances, appropriate subclasses, particularly
subclass 57 for drawbar connections to the draft-sills. |
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| 421 | End sills: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 396. Underframe constructions involving structure and connections
of end sills only.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
| 173, | for locomotive frame buffer beams. |
| 402 | through 403, for cast ends for passenger cars. |
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| 422 | FLOORS: |
| | This subclass is indented under the class definition. Car constructions involving floors for all types of cars.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
| 375, | for auxiliary floors for freight cars. |
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
| 404, | Road Structure, Process, or Apparatus, appropriate subclasses, especially
subclasses 17 through 70for walkway and floor-like structure. |
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| 423 | LININGS: |
| | This subclass is indented under the class definition. Car constructions comprising fabric, metallic, and other
linings for car interiors.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
| 428, | Stock Material or Miscellaneous Articles, appropriate subclasses for a stock material product in
the form of a single or plural layer web or sheet; see especially
subclasses 175 through 176,190, 193, and 196-197 for such a product embodying
a fabric or textile, and subclasses 457-472.3 for a composite web
or sheet including metal as one of the layers. |
| 442, | Fabric (Woven, Knitted, or Nonwoven Textile or
Cloth, etc.),
subclasses 181 through 303and 304-319 for a woven or knit fabric. |
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| 424 | ANTILEAK JOINTS: |
| | This subclass is indented under the class definition. Freight cars having special joint fixtures to prevent leakage
of granular material. |
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| 425 | PLATFORMS: |
| | This subclass is indented under the class definition. End platform structure for all railway rolling stock.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
| 341, | for passenger car entrance and exit controls. |
| 342, | for motorman’s compartment. |
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| 426 | Trapdoors: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 425. Platforms having horizontal trap doors or closures over
car steps. |
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| 429 | With gate: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 426. Trap doors operatively connected with a gate or door closing
the entry to the platform. |
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| 430 | With steps: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 426. Trap doors operatively connected with the shiftable steps
located beneath the trap door.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
| 427, | for trap doors, vertical gates, or doors and movable
steps, all operatively connected together. |
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| 431 | Convertible: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 430. Trap doors which may be converted into a series of steps,
and vice versa. |
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| 433 | Lateral shifter: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 432. Actuators for trap doors, which are slid laterally to project
from the car side to register with a station platform. |
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| 434 | Spring: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 432. Actuators for trap doors, comprising spring devices for
throwing up or aiding in throwing up the doors. |
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| 435 | Lock and starter: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 426. Trap doors having locks for holding them down and starters
for initiating the opening movement of the trap after it is unlocked. |
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| 436 | Side gangway: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 425. Platforms having means for laterally bridging the space
between a car platform or car floor and an adjacent track platform.
| | (1)
Note. This subclass includes door operated gangways, and
also those constructions where the door itself constitutes a gangway
in one position. |
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
| 393, | for car bodies in which parts can be shifted to
expand or contract the floor space. |
| 433, | for laterally shiftable trap doors. |
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
| 14, | Bridges,
subclasses 69.5 through 72.5for gangways of general application. |
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| 437 | STEPS WITH GATE: |
| | This subclass is indented under the class definition. Car construction in which the movement of a car door or
gate is interconnected for operation with the car steps. |
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| 438 | Convertible: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 437. The car step and gate construction involves the conversion
of the steps into a door or gate to bar the way to a car platform. |
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| 439 | SIDE GUARDS: |
| | This subclass is indented under the class definition. Car constructions involving side barriers on open street
cars or in other similar relation to railway rolling stock. |
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| 440 | Single passage: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 439. Side barriers each of which controls single or individual
passageways, as on an open street car. |
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| 441 | Seat shifter: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 440. Side barrier constructions in which the reversal of the
seat-backs of an open street car controls the side guards on both
sides of the car. |
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| 442 | Long drop bar: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 439. Side barriers in which the bars drop from the top of the
car or are raised from the bottom to form side barriers at the ends
of the seats in an open-type street car. |
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| 443 | STEPS: |
| | This subclass is indented under the class definition. Steps adapted for use only on railway rolling stock.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
| 52, | Static Structures (e.g., Buildings),
subclasses 177 through 181for wear or friction increasing traffic carrying surface,
and subclasses 182-191 for miscellaneous stepped surfaces. |
| 182, | Fire Escape, Ladder, or Scaffold,
subclasses 93 through 99for a wall-attached ladder. |
| 280, | Land Vehicles,
subclass 163 for steps for land vehicles. |
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| 444 | Electric control: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 443. Steps which are shiftable and are either electrically controlled
or control an electric circuit. |
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| 447 | Folding: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 443. Steps pivoted so as to be folded or swung to inoperative
position. |
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| 448 | Z-fold riser: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 447. Steps in which step riser or link connection is pivoted
to the adjacent step treads, so that they may be folded together. |
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| 450 | Cover: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 443. Cover guards for steps to prevent the use of the steps. |
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| 451 | HEATING DEVICES: |
| | This subclass is indented under the class definition. Railway car heating devices for loosening ore or coal, so
that it can be readily unloaded, and other special purposes.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
| 237, | Heating Systems, appropriate subclasses for car heating. |
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| 452 | SOUND DEADENERS: |
| | This subclass is indented under the class definition. Devices, for elimination of noise on railway rolling stock.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
| 181, | Acoustics,
subclass 207 for sound deadening devices on mechanical vibrating
structure. |
| 295, | Railway Wheels and Axles,
subclass 7 for sound deadeners on wheels. |
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| 453 | BODY SUSPENSION AND SPRINGS: |
| | This subclass is indented under the class definition. Car body suspension devices and spring supports located
in whole or in part above the underframe. |
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| 454 | LONGITUDINALLY MOVABLE BODY: |
| | This subclass is indented under the class definition. Car bodies which have a longitudinal slidable movement relatively
to the truck.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
| 361, | for longitudinally slidable tank car bodies. |
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| 455 | HORIZONTAL ROTARY: |
| | This subclass is indented under the class definition. The car body has a turntable or vertical pivotal connection
with the truck.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
| 28, | for locomotives with turntable connections. |
| 275, | for tilting body dump cars with turntable connections. |
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| 456 | CABS: |
| | This subclass is indented under the class definition. Railway rolling stock having trainmen’s compartments
on locomotives and on top of freight cars.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
| 34, | for power tool and other locomotive constructions
with operator’s station on turntable. |
| 342, | for such compartments built into motor passenger
cars. |
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| 457 | RUNNING BOARDS AND RAILS: |
| | This subclass is indented under the class definition. Railway rolling stock having trainmen’s running
boards and hand rails on the tops or sides of cars.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
| 341, | for passenger entrance and exit arrangements. |
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| 458 | SAFETY BRIDGES: |
| | This subclass is indented under the class definition. Railway rolling stock having bridging devices between adjacent
coupled cars to permit safe passage therebetween or to catch a trainmen
falling from the top and between the cars.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
| 436, | for side gangway devices. |
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| 459 | Locomotive and tender: |
| | This subclass is indented under subclass 458. Bridging devices located where the fireman usually stands,
which in case of uncoupling of the tender may prevent the falling
of the fireman. |
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| 460 | END FOOTBOARDS: |
| | This subclass is indented under the class definition. Railway rolling stock constructions comprising low transverse
footboards on the ends of switch engines and freight cars for the
use of trainmen. |
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| 462 | POLING, ROPING, AND JACKING IRONS: |
| | This subclass is indented under the class definition. Railway rolling stock having abutment fixtures adapted for
temporary engagement with side track push rods, ropes, chains, or
lifting jacks. |
| | |
| 463.1 | MISCELLANEOUS: |
| | This subclass is indented under the class definition. Railway rolling stock not provided for above.
| | (1)
Note. An accessory for railway rolling stock not provided
for in a preceding subclass or in another class may be found in
this subclass. | |
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