US PATENT CLASS 294
Class Notes


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294 /   HD   HANDLING: HAND AND HOIST-LINE IMPLEMENTS



DEFINITION

Classification: 294/

This class comprises all devices combined with handles, terminal elements, or attachments peculiarly adapted for engaging supporting articles or materials for handling or manipulating purposes and not structurally limited to any classified art and such combinations thereof and accessories therefor as not elsewhere classifiable.

(1) Note. This class includes power applying element which relate to the engaging of the load and not to its movement thereafter, except that a means for applying a straight line force or push to the load after the load has been released from the engaging means to move the load away from the engaging means is classified in this class.

(2) Note. The addition of wheels to any type of handlers included in this class, except where such addition is merely incidental, (such as adding casters to hoisting buckets), is held to involve transportation combinations.

LINES WITH OTHER CLASSES

(1) Note. This class does not include hoisting machines, which are provided for in Class 414, Material or Article Handling.

(2) Note. For hand and hoist-line terminal implements and attachments, classifiable on their necessary function in more elemental classes, see particularly, Classes 24, Buckles, Buttons, Clasps, etc., 279, Chucks or Sockets, and 403, Joints and Connections.

(3) Note. For hand and hoist-line terminal implements and attachments so specialized as to be of only limited application as handling devices see particularly lasses 30,

Cutlery, 43, Fishing, Trapping, and Vermin Destroying, 56, Harvesters, 81, Tools, 111, Planting, 119, Animal Husbandry and 258, Railway Mail Delivery.

(4) Note. For hand and hoist-line terminal implements and attachments involving features additional to mere handling, such as changing the shape or condition of the matter engaged, see particularly Classes 37, Excavating, and 100, Presses. (5) Note. For power applying elements that relate to the movement of the load see Classes 198, Conveyors: Power-Driven, 212, Traversing Hoists, 414, Material or Article Handling, 254, Implements or Apparatus for Applying Pushing or Pulling Force, and 280, Land Vehicles.

REFERENCES TO OTHER CLASSES

SEE OR SEARCH CLASS

2, Apparel,

16+, for miscellaneous shields for the hands not specialized as handling devices.

5, Beds,

861+, for invalid lifts and transfer devices.

7, Compound Tools, for compound tools involving some features outside of this class.

15, Brushing, Scrubbing, and General Cleaning,

104.03+, 146, 147.1+, 173, 177+, and 220.1+, for holders for cleaning implements.

16, Miscellaneous Hardware,

110+, for handles. 24, Buckles, Buttons, Clasps, etc., appropriate subclasses, for nonforce transmitting or driving, holding devices and gripping elements, per se, handling-implement combinations not being present. (See specific search notes below and 2 Note).

29, Metal Working,

700+, for assembling-frames, valve-lifters, piston-ring removers and the like devices.

30, Cutlery,

322+, for table forks. (Also see 3 Note).

37, Excavating,

182, 411+, and 461, for scoops and orange peel and clamshell buckets. (See 4 Note).

43, Fishing, Trapping, and Vermin Destroying,

6, for fishing harpoons and spears.

47, Plant Husbandry,

1.01, for tong-like devices for treating tobacco-plants, etc. 53, Package Making,

147+, for machines to form packages combined with means to group the contents thereof prior to completion of the packaging operation.

56, Harvesters,

328.1+, for fruit gatherers. (Also see Note 3).

76, Metal Tools and Implements, Making,

101.1+, 111 and 113, for processes for making implements such as rakes, shovels, pitchforks, etc.

81, Tools, for a hand held tool specifically adapted to permit manipulation of a part, (e.g. fastener, valve) rather than merely transporting or moving an article from one location to another. Class 81 is the generic locus for pliers (

300+, ) and wrendus (subclasses 53+). See also subclass 487 for hand held holder (e.g., welding rod, holder) and miscellaneous hand tools having a clamp.

100, Presses,

234, for plier type presses not elsewhere provided for.

111, Planting (See 3 Note).

114, Ships, 51, and 221, for tools for use in ships and ship making, repairing, etc.; and subclasses 378+ for releasing devices claiming modified boat structure, separable fastenings on hoist-line and boat, and those showing boat fixtures of releasing hook type.

119, Animal Husbandry,

712+, for a device for controlling or handling an animal, especially subclasses 801+ for catching or holding animals. (Also see 3 Note).

140, Wireworking,

123+, for tools for wireworking.

166, Wells, appropriate subclasses for processes including grappling in a well bore,

98, for grapples combined with well anchored lifting means, subclass 99 for well devices with junk retrievers, subclasses 162+ for well receptacles.

171, Unearthing Plants or Buried Objects,

50+, for plant and buried object pull-up type extractor devices having a wheel or ground supported frame.

188, Brakes,

43, 44, 63, and 127 for brakes involving gripping and release. 215, Bottles and Jars,

396+, for bottle holding and carrying devices of types other than those provided for in subclasses 27.1+ of this class (294).

220, Receptacles, appropriate subclasses, for receptacles with handles to be manipulated by hand.

221, Article Dispensing, appropriate subclasses for article dispensers not otherwise provided for, many of which include a supply receptacle containing articles to be dispensed, combined with an implement of the handling, hand and hoist-line implement type of removing articles from said supply receptacle. See particularly

210+, in which discharge assistants of the article adhering or gripping type are included in combination with a source of supply of articles.

223, Apparel Apparatus,

113, 119 for devices specialized for holding footwear.

254, Implements or Apparatus for Applying Pushing or Pulling Force, appropriate subclasses, for devices wherein handling-terminals are combined with means for obtaining some mechanical advantage in handling the load. (Also see 5 Note).

258, Railway Mail Delivery,

3, for handling implements for the delivery of train-orders to persons on moving trains. (Also see 3 Note).

269, Work Holders, appropriate subclasses. Class 269 is the residual locus for patents to a device for clamping, supporting and/or holding an article (or articles) in position to be operated on or treated. See notes thereunder for other related loci. 279, Chucks and Sockets (see 2 Note).

280, Land Vehicles, (see 5 Note).

396, Photography,

647+, for photographer's work handling devices in fluid treating apparatus.

405, Hydraulic and Earth Engineering,

186, for divers tools; and subclasses 190+ for submarines and diving bells having remotely operated means (e.g., mechanical arms) for performing underwater work.

414, Material or Article Handling,

444+, 618+ and 729+ for portable grapples or grappling mechanism having power means for moving or manipulating the mechanism.

449, Bee Culture,

61+, for a handling implement to be used in manipulating the components of a bee hive.

452, Butchering,

17, for oyster openers and subclasses 189+ for supports for animal carcasses to facilitate their handling during butchering (gambrels). 606, Surgery,

205+, for forceps. 130, Threshing, subclass 4 for corn husking pegs.

901, Robots, subcollection 31+ for gripping devices useable on robots.