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300 | GRAVE DIGGER |
301 | LAND CLEARER |
302 | .Tree or stump remover |
303 | .Stone remover |
3 | PEAT EXCAVATORS |
196 | SNOW OR ICE REMOVING OR GROOMING BY PORTABLE DEVICE |
197 | .Process |
198 | .Railway clearer |
199 | ..With melter |
200 | ...Heated plow |
201 | ..Explosive |
202 | ..Fluid current conveyor |
203 | ..For clearing single rail of set |
204 | ...Electrified rail |
205 | ...Including rotary excavating tool |
206 | ....And scraper blade |
207 | ...Including means clearing side of, or groove in, rail |
208 | ..With endless conveyor |
209 | ..Having rotary excavating tool |
210 | ...Plural rotary tools |
211 | ....Diverse tools performing different stages of operation |
212 | ....And V-shaped scraper blade |
213 | ...Screw-type auger |
214 | ..Having scraper blade |
215 | ...Inclined plane with V-divider |
216 | ....Having auxiliary blade or shiftable divider |
217 | ...V-shaped |
218 | ...Diagonal |
219 | .Snow or ice surface groomer |
220 | ..Including rut cutter |
221 | ..Having diverse tools |
222 | ...Including rotary tool |
223 | ..Having rotary tool |
224 | ...Compacting roller |
225 | .With compressor die |
226 | ..And heater |
227 | .With melter |
228 | ..Having heated transport chamber |
229 | ...Electric or solar heat source |
230 | ..Manually powered |
231 | .With specific means to facilitate connection to, or disconnection from, vehicle |
232 | .Vehicle mount with obstacle responsive trip, or yieldable tool (e.g., brush) |
233 | ..Resilient impeller or blade |
234 | .Including specific hydraulic control system to position implement |
235 | .Vehicle mount including power lift |
236 | ..Power means is hydraulically actuated piston |
237 | .With endless conveyor |
238 | ..And rotary excavating tool |
239 | ..Multistage conveyors |
240 | ..Carrying excavating tool |
241 | .Combined or convertible |
242 | ..Rotary excavating tool |
243 | ...Lawnmower |
244 | .Motorized rotary excavating tool |
245 | ..Tool arresting means responsive to sensed condition |
246 | ..Electric motor drive |
247 | ..Rotor shaft adjustable relative to direction of travel |
248 | ..Diverse multistage rotary tools or tool portions (e.g., feeding and throwing, etc.) |
249 | ...Including screw-type auger for first stage |
250 | ....Augers on separate shafts |
251 | ....And centrifugal impeller for final stage |
252 | .....Auger and impeller on single shaft |
253 | ..Fed by scraper blade |
254 | ...Including screw-type auger |
255 | ....Augers on separate shafts |
256 | ...Including centrifugal impeller |
257 | ..Screw-type auger |
258 | ...Having plural vane segments |
259 | ..Centrifugal impeller |
260 | ..Having specific flow guide |
261 | ...Having motor powered adjustment |
262 | ...Vane within chute controls flow path |
263 | .Tool prepares wheel path for passage of wheel |
264 | .Scoop |
265 | ..Manually powered |
266 | .Scraper blade |
267 | ..Invertible |
268 | ..Pulled (e.g., by horse or vehicle) |
269 | ...V-shaped |
270 | ..Mounted on surface contacting support or guide |
271 | ...For adjusting height of blade |
272 | ..V-shaped |
273 | ...Adjustable or collapsible apex |
274 | ...And auxiliary wing or extension |
275 | ....Top flap |
276 | ...Diverging forwardly |
277 | ...Supported on inclined plane |
278 | ...Manually powered |
279 | ..Diagonally oriented |
280 | ...Including side gate discharge preventer |
281 | ...And auxiliary wing or extension |
282 | ...Supported on inclined plane |
283 | ...Adjustable about central vertical hinge |
284 | ...Manually powered |
285 | .Manually powered |
304 | SELF-LOADING VEHICLE |
305 | .Having endless digger or conveyor |
306 | .Elevating wheel |
307 | BENEATH A BODY OF WATER (E.G., DREDGER) |
308 | .With signal, scale, indicator, or inspection means |
309 | .With means to control dredger operation (e.g., movement of dredged material) in response to sensed condition |
310 | ..Swell compensator |
311 | ..Suction relief valve |
312 | ..Control of swing or swing speed |
313 | .By use of submarine or undersea vessel |
314 | .Adapted to excavate specific discrete material |
315 | ..Shellfish |
316 | ...Including rake or scoop structure |
317 | .Suction |
318 | ..Having intake screen |
319 | ...And material size reducer (e.g., crusher) |
320 | ..With pumping chamber |
321 | ..With means to introduce lift agent directly into suction pipe |
322 | ...With downstream directed jet nozzle |
323 | ..With fluid jet digger adjacent suction inlet |
324 | ..Including driven digger adjacent suction inlet (e.g., cutterhead dredger) |
325 | ...With specific bearing, or means to lubricate or seal |
326 | ...Rotary |
329 | ....Axis transverse with respect to suction pipe |
330 | ....Axis vertical with respect to surface of body of water |
331 | ....Axis longitudinal with respect to suction pipe |
327 | ....Specific cutterhead structure |
328 | .....Including distinct tooth or tooth mounting |
332 | ...Endless |
333 | ..Draghead dredger (e.g., dustpan dredger) |
334 | ..With pipe suspension or support (e.g., ladder structure) |
335 | ..Pipe or nozzle structure |
336 | ...With coupling (e.g., connector) |
337 | .Rotary digger (e.g., bucket wheel) |
338 | .Endless |
339 | ..Specific bucket structure |
340 | .Grab |
341 | .Scoop or bucket |
342 | .With means to scour or scrape (e.g., propeller means, digging teeth, plow) |
343 | ..Rotary digging element |
344 | ..Nozzle |
345 | .With vessel, propulsion, or anchor structure (e.g., bank spud, spud brace) |
346 | ..Bottom spud anchor |
347 | DITCHER |
348 | .Condition responsive |
349 | .With crumber |
350 | .Having screw digger |
351 | ..With conveyor |
352 | .Having endless digger |
353 | ..Endless bucket |
354 | ...Transverse cut |
355 | ...Longitudinal cut |
356 | ....With side cutters |
357 | ....With distinct rotary digger |
358 | ....Reciprocating endless digger |
359 | ....With longitudinal endless conveyor |
360 | ....With transverse endless conveyor |
361 | .....Drive-related feature |
362 | ....Drive-related feature |
363 | ....Hand operated |
364 | .With side or auxiliary cutter |
365 | ..Rotary |
91 | .Wheel excavator |
92 | ..Longitudinal axis |
93 | ...Conveyor |
94 | ..Transverse axis |
95 | ...Conveyor |
96 | ....Longitudinal endless |
97 | ....Transverse endless |
366 | .Plow |
367 | ..Slit ditcher |
368 | ...Including longitudinal endless conveyor |
369 | ....And transverse endless conveyor |
370 | ..Mole plow |
372 | ..With plow supported wheel or supported on wheel frame |
373 | ..With conveyor |
374 | ...Wheel and belt |
375 | ...Longitudinal endless conveyor |
376 | ....And transverse endless conveyor |
377 | .....With colter |
378 | ..With colter |
379 | .Shovel or scoop |
380 | ..Slit ditcher |
104 | RAILWAY GRADERS |
105 | .Side former |
106 | ..Scoop |
107 | ...Endless conveyor |
381 | ROAD GRADER-TYPE |
382 | .Condition responsive |
383 | .Including ground supported, grader guiding rail |
384 | ..Adjustable digger |
385 | ...Rotary digger |
386 | .Rotary digger |
387 | ..Adjustable |
388 | .Transverse endless digger |
389 | .Plow with transverse endless conveyor |
390 | ..Disc plow |
391 | .Plow with transverse conveyor wheel |
392 | ..And endless conveyor |
393 | .Plow with inclined axis conveyor wheel |
394 | CABLE-OPERATED (E.G., DRAGLINE) |
395 | .Boom-type |
396 | ..Including means to control digging, hoisting, and dumping |
397 | ..Including mounting or support structure (e.g., boom support, sheave or pulley support) |
398 | .Scoop or bucket |
399 | ..Including support or mounting device (e.g., hitch, shackle, lifting or dumping trunion) |
400 | .Trolley-supported |
401 | ..Including cable or rope control means to facilitate loading, transporting, or dumping |
403 | COMBINED OR CONVERTIBLE |
468 | .Having quick-connect coupling |
404 | .Combined with subsoiler |
405 | .Combined with fork or rake |
406 | .Combined with clamp, grapple, or shear |
407 | .With scraper |
408 | ..Integrally mounted to a tool body and independently usable by re- positioning the tool body |
409 | ..Multicomponent tool (e.g., scoop or bucket) convertible by relative movement of tool parts |
410 | ..Separate tools simultaneously mounted and independently usable |
411 | SCOOP OR EXCAVATING AND TRANSPORTING CONTAINER |
413 | .With alarm, indicator, signal, or inspection means |
412 | .Supported on vehicle between longitudinally spaced ground supports |
414 | ..Condition responsive or programmable means controls the excavating operation |
415 | ...Control of attitude or depth of cut |
416 | ...Control of scoop component (e.g., elevator, apron, or ejector) |
417 | ..With specific suspension or means to steer or facilitate mounting of implement on vehicle |
418 | ..With tandem or plural scoops or compartments |
419 | ..With means to aid loading or load distribution |
420 | ...By auger |
421 | ...By digging movement of apron |
422 | ...By endless conveyor |
423 | ....With particular conveyor feature including drive means |
424 | ..With coaction between apron or elevator and bowl |
425 | ...Actuated by fluid means |
426 | ..With coaction between apron or elevator and ejector |
427 | ..With significant bowl structure or manipulation |
428 | ...Actuated by fluid means |
429 | ..With significant apron structure or manipulation |
430 | ...Actuated by fluid means |
431 | ..With particular unloading feature |
432 | ...Rear unloading |
433 | ...Revolving-type |
435 | .Mounted rearwardly of vehicle |
467 | ..Handled or hand operated |
436 | ..Bowl operatively connected to wheel axle |
437 | ...Including rear unloading |
438 | ....Actuated by fluid means |
439 | ...With caster wheel or shoe |
440 | ...Lever and latch mechanism |
441 | ..Dumping runner or revolving-type |
434 | .Manually operated (e.g., two-wheel barrow) |
442 | .Pushed forwardly of vehicle for filling |
443 | .Dipper-type (e.g., backhoe bucket) |
444 | .Scoop or bucket structure, per se |
445 | ..Including door structure or operator |
446 | DIGGING EDGE |
447 | .Oscillating or reciprocating |
448 | .Corner guard (e.g., corner tooth) |
449 | .Repositionable digging edge (e.g., reversible) |
450 | .Removable digging edge having integral tooth adaptor |
451 | .Distinct wear element mounted between teeth |
452 | .Tooth or adaptor |
453 | ..Having wear cap |
454 | ..Repositionable or replaceable tooth (e.g., reversible) |
455 | ..Mounting or retaining means |
456 | ...Including pin or key |
457 | ....Having resilient elastomeric element |
458 | ....Having resilient metallic element |
459 | .....Wire or rod formed |
460 | .Specific material (e.g., specialty steel, heat treatment of material, specific hardness test) |
142.5 | DITCH FILLER |
182 | ORANGE-PEEL BUCKETS |
461 | CLAMSHELL BUCKET |
184 | .Common pivot |
185 | ..Crossed lever |
186 | .Contiguous pivots |
187 | .Spaced pivots |
188 | .Link-connected |
189 | ROTARY DIGGER |
190 | .Endless conveyor |
462 | ENDLESS DIGGER |
463 | .With endless conveyor |
464 | ..Having nonbucket-type digging means |
465 | .Digging chain, bucket, blade, or tooth structure, per se |
195 | PROCESSES |
466 | MISCELLANEOUS |
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| CROSS-REFERENCE ART COLLECTIONS |
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901 | Bucket cleaners |
902 | Hydraulic motors |
903 | Scoop or scraper attachments |
904 | Vibration means for excavating tool |
905 | Nondredge excavating by fluid contact or explosion |
906 | Visual aids and indicators for excavating tool |
907 | Automatic leveling excavators |
908 | Canal cleaners |