| B01B |
Boiling; boiling apparatus |
| B01D |
Separation |
| B01F |
Mixing, e.g. dissolving, emulsifying or dispersing |
| B01J |
Chemical or physical processes, e.g. catalysis or colloid chemistry; their relevant apparatus |
| B01L |
Chemical or physical laboratory apparatus for general use |
| B02B |
Preparing grain for milling; refining granular fruit to commercial products by working the surface |
| B02C |
Crushing, pulverising, or disintegrating in general; milling grain |
| B03B |
Separating solid materials using liquids or using pneumatic tables or jigs |
| B03C |
Magnetic or electrostatic separation of solid materials from solid materials or fluids; separation by high-voltage electric fields |
| B03D |
Flotation; differential sedimentation |
| B04B |
Centrifuges |
| B04C |
Apparatus using free vortex flow, e.g. cyclones |
| B05B |
Spraying apparatus; atomising apparatus; nozzles |
| B05C |
Apparatus for applying fluent materials to surfaces, in general |
| B05D |
Processes for applying fluent materials to surfaces, in general |
| B06B |
Generating or transmitting mechanical vibrations in general |
| B07B |
Separating solids from solids by sieving, screening, sifting or by using gas currents; separating by other dry methods applicable to bulk material, e.g. loose articles fit to be handled like bulk material |
| B07C |
Postal sorting; sorting individual articles, or bulk material fit to be sorted piece-meal, e.g. by picking |
| B08B |
Cleaning in general; prevention of fouling in general |
| B09B |
Disposal of solid waste |
| B09C |
Reclamation of contaminated soil |
| B21B |
Rolling of metal |
| B21C |
Manufacture of metal sheets, wire, rods, tubes, profiles or like semi-manufactured products otherwise than by rolling; auxiliary operations used in connection with metal-working without essentially removing material |
| B21D |
Working or processing of sheet metal or metal tubes, rods or profiles without essentially removing material; punching metal |
| B21F |
Working or processing of metal wire |
| B21G |
Making needles, pins or nails of metal |
| B21H |
Making particular metal objects by rolling, e.g. screws, wheels, rings, barrels, balls |
| B21J |
Forging; hammering; pressing metal; riveting; forge furnaces |
| B21K |
Making forged or pressed metal products, e.g. horse-shoes, rivets, bolts or wheels |
| B21L |
Making metal chains |
| B22C |
Foundry moulding |
| B22D |
Casting of metals; casting of other substances by the same processes or devices |
| B22F |
Working metallic powder; manufacture of articles from metallic powder; making metallic powder; apparatus or devices specially adapted for metallic powder |
| B23B |
Turning; boring |
| B23C |
Milling |
| B23D |
Planing; slotting; shearing; broaching; sawing; filing; scraping; like operations for working metal by removing material, not otherwise provided for |
| B23F |
Making gears or toothed racks |
| B23G |
Thread cutting; working of screws, bolt heads or nuts, in conjunction therewith |
| B23H |
Working of metal by the action of a high concentration of electric current on a workpiece using an electrode which takes the place of a tool; such working combined with other forms of working of metal |
| B23K |
Soldering or unsoldering; welding; cladding or plating by soldering or welding; cutting by applying heat locally, e.g. flame cutting; working by laser beam |
| B23P |
Metal-working not otherwise provided for; combined operations; universal machine tools |
| B23Q |
Details, components, or accessories for machine tools, e.g. arrangements for copying or controlling; machine tools in general, characterised by the construction of particular details or components; combinations or associations of metal-working machines, not directed to a particular result |
| B24B |
Machines, devices, or processes for grinding or polishing; dressing or conditioning of abrading surfaces; feeding of grinding, polishing, or lapping agents |
| B24C |
Abrasive or related blasting with particulate material |
| B24D |
Tools for grinding, buffing or sharpening |
| B25B |
Tools or bench devices not otherwise provided for, for fastening, connecting, disengaging, or holding |
| B25C |
Hand-held nailing or stapling tools; manually-operated portable stapling tools |
| B25D |
Percussive tools |
| B25F |
Combination or multi-purpose tools not otherwise provided for; details or components of portable power-driven tools not particularly related to the operations performed and not otherwise provided for |
| B25G |
Handles for hand implements |
| B25H |
Workshop equipment, e.g. for marking-out work; storage means for workshops |
| B25J |
Manipulators; chambers provided with manipulation devices |
| B26B |
Hand-held cutting tools not otherwise provided for |
| B26D |
Cutting; details common to machines for perforating, punching, cutting-out, stamping-out or severing |
| B26F |
Perforating; punching; cutting-out; stamping-out; severing by means other than cutting |
| B27B |
Saws for wood or similar material; components or accessories therefor |
| B27C |
Planing, drilling, milling, turning or universal machines for wood or similar material |
| B27D |
Working veneer or plywood |
| B27F |
Dovetailed work; tenons; slotting machines for wood or similar material; nailing or stapling machines |
| B27G |
Accessory machines or apparatus for working wood or similar materials; tools for working wood or similar materials; safety devices for wood working machines or tools |
| B27H |
Bending wood or similar material; cooperage; making wheels from wood or similar material |
| B27J |
Mechanical working of cane, cork, or similar materials |
| B27K |
Processes, apparatus or selection of substances for impregnating, staining, dyeing or bleaching of wood, or for treating of wood with permeant liquids, not otherwise provided for; chemical or physical treatment of cork, cane, reed, straw or similar materials |
| B27L |
Removing bark or vestiges of branches; splitting wood; manufacture of veneer, wooden sticks, wood shavings, wood fibres or wood powder |
| B27M |
Working of wood not provided for in subclasses ; manufacture of specific wooden articles |
| B27N |
Manufacture by dry processes of articles, with or without organic binding agents, made from particles or fibres consisting of wood or other lignocellulosic or like organic material |
| B28B |
Shaping clay or other ceramic compositions; shaping slag; shaping mixtures containing cementitious material, e.g. plaster |
| B28C |
Preparing clay; producing mixtures containing clay or cementitious material, e.g. plaster |
| B28D |
Working stone or stone-like materials |
| B29B |
Preparation or pretreatment of the material to be shaped; making granules or preforms; recovery of plastics or other constituents of waste material containing plastics |
| B29C |
Shaping or joining of plastics; shaping of material in a plastic state, not otherwise provided for; after-treatment of the shaped products, e.g. repairing |
| B29D |
Producing particular articles from plastics or from substances in a plastic state |
| B29K |
Indexing scheme associated with subclasses , or , relating to moulding materials or to materials for reinforcements, fillers or preformed parts, e.g. inserts |
| B29L |
Indexing scheme associated with subclass , relating to particular articles |
| B30B |
Presses in general; presses not otherwise provided for |
| B31B |
Making containers of paper, cardboard or material worked in a manner analogous to paper |
| B31C |
Making wound articles, e.g. wound tubes, of paper, cardboard or material worked in a manner analogous to paper |
| B31D |
Making articles of paper, cardboard or material worked in a manner analogous to paper, not provided for in subclasses or |
| B31F |
Mechanical working or deformation of paper, cardboard or material worked in a manner analogous to paper |
| B32B |
Layered products, i.e. products built-up of strata of flat or non-flat, e.g. cellular or honeycomb, form |
| B33Y |
Additive manufacturing, i.e. manufacturing of three-dimensional [3d] objects by additive deposition, additive agglomeration or additive layering, e.g. by 3d printing, stereolithography or selective laser sintering |
| B41B |
Machines or accessories for making, setting, or distributing type; type; photographic or photoelectronic composing devices |
| B41C |
Processes for the manufacture or reproduction of printing surfaces |
| B41D |
Apparatus for the mechanical reproduction of printing surfaces for stereotype printing; shaping elastic or deformable material to form printing surfaces |
| B41F |
Printing machines or presses |
| B41G |
Apparatus for bronze printing, line printing, or for bordering or edging sheets or like articles; auxiliary apparatus for perforating in conjunction with printing |
| B41J |
Typewriters; selective printing mechanisms, i.e. mechanisms printing otherwise than from a forme; correction of typographical errors |
| B41K |
Stamps; stamping or numbering apparatus or devices |
| B41L |
Apparatus or devices for manifolding, duplicating or printing for office or other commercial purposes; addressing machines or like series-printing machines |
| B41M |
Printing, duplicating, marking, or copying processes; colour printing |
| B41N |
Printing plates or foils; materials for surfaces used in printing machines for printing, inking, damping, or the like; preparing such surfaces for use or conserving them |
| B42B |
Permanently attaching together sheets, quires, or signatures, or permanently attaching objects thereto |
| B42C |
Bookbinding |
| B42D |
Books; book covers; loose leaves; printed matter characterised by identification or security features; printed matter of special format or style not otherwise provided for; devices for use therewith and not otherwise provided for; movable-strip writing or reading apparatus |
| B42F |
Sheets temporarily attached together; filing appliances; file cards; indexing |
| B43K |
Implements for writing or drawing |
| B43L |
Articles for writing or drawing upon; accessories for writing or drawing |
| B43M |
Bureau accessories not otherwise provided for |
| B44B |
Machines, apparatus or tools for artistic work, e.g. for sculpturing, guilloching, carving, branding or inlaying |
| B44C |
Producing decorative effects; mosaics; tarsia work; paperhanging |
| B44D |
Painting or artistic drawing, not otherwise provided for; preserving paintings; surface treatment to obtain special artistic surface effects or finishes |
| B44F |
Special designs or pictures |
| B60B |
Vehicle wheels; castors; axles for wheels or castors; increasing wheel adhesion |
| B60C |
Vehicle tyres; tyre inflation; tyre changing; connecting valves to inflatable elastic bodies in general; devices or arrangements related to tyres |
| B60D |
Vehicle connections |
| B60F |
Vehicles for use both on rail and on road; vehicles capable of travelling in or on different media, e.g. amphibious vehicles |
| B60G |
Vehicle suspension arrangements |
| B60H |
Arrangements of heating, cooling, ventilating or other air-treating devices specially adapted for passenger or goods spaces of vehicles |
| B60J |
Windows, windscreens, non-fixed roofs, doors, or similar devices for vehicles; removable external protective coverings specially adapted for vehicles |
| B60K |
Arrangement or mounting of propulsion units or of transmissions in vehicles; arrangement or mounting of plural diverse prime-movers in vehicles; auxiliary drives for vehicles; instrumentation or dashboards for vehicles; arrangements in connection with cooling, air intake, gas exhaust or fuel supply of propulsion units in vehicles |
| B60L |
Propulsion of electrically-propelled vehicles; supplying electric power for auxiliary equipment of electrically-propelled vehicles; electrodynamic brake systems for vehicles in general; magnetic suspension or levitation for vehicles; monitoring operating variables of electrically-propelled vehicles; electric safety devices for electrically-propelled vehicles |
| B60M |
Power supply lines, or devices along rails, for electrically-propelled vehicles |
| B60N |
Seats specially adapted for vehicles; vehicle passenger accommodation not otherwise provided for |
| B60P |
Vehicles adapted for load transportation or to transport, to carry, or to comprise special loads or objects |
| B60Q |
Arrangement of signalling or lighting devices, the mounting or supporting thereof or circuits therefor, for vehicles in general |
| B60R |
Vehicles, vehicle fittings, or vehicle parts, not otherwise provided for |
| B60S |
Servicing, cleaning, repairing, supporting, lifting, or manoeuvring of vehicles, not otherwise provided for |
| B60T |
Vehicle brake control systems or parts thereof; brake control systems or parts thereof, in general; arrangement of braking elements on vehicles in general; portable devices for preventing unwanted movement of vehicles; vehicle modifications to facilitate cooling of brakes |
| B60V |
Air-cushion vehicles |
| B60W |
Conjoint control of vehicle sub-units of different type or different function; control systems specially adapted for hybrid vehicles; road vehicle drive control systems for purposes not related to the control of a particular sub-unit |
| B61B |
Railway systems; equipment therefor not otherwise provided for |
| B61C |
Locomotives; motor railcars |
| B61D |
Body details or kinds of railway vehicles |
| B61F |
Rail vehicle suspensions, e.g. underframes, bogies or arrangements of wheel axles; rail vehicles for use on tracks of different width; preventing derailing of rail vehicles; wheel guards, obstruction removers or the like for rail vehicles |
| B61G |
Couplings specially adapted for railway vehicles; draught or buffing appliances specially adapted for railway vehicles |
| B61H |
Brakes or other retarding devices specially adapted for rail vehicles; arrangement or disposition thereof in rail vehicles |
| B61J |
Shifting or shunting of rail vehicles |
| B61K |
Auxiliary equipment specially adapted for railways, not otherwise provided for |
| B61L |
Guiding railway traffic; ensuring the safety of railway traffic |
| B62B |
Hand-propelled vehicles, e.g. hand carts or perambulators; sledges |
| B62C |
Vehicles drawn by animals |
| B62D |
Motor vehicles; trailers |
| B62H |
Cycle stands; supports or holders for parking or storing cycles; appliances preventing or indicating unauthorised use or theft of cycles; locks integral with cycles; devices for learning to ride cycles |
| B62J |
Cycle saddles or seats; auxiliary devices or accessories specially adapted to cycles and not otherwise provided for, e.g. article carriers or cycle protectors |
| B62K |
Cycles; cycle frames; cycle steering devices; rider-operated terminal controls specially adapted for cycles; cycle axle suspensions; cycle sidecars, forecars, or the like |
| B62L |
Brakes specially adapted for cycles |
| B62M |
Rider propulsion of wheeled vehicles or sledges; powered propulsion of sledges or cycles; transmissions specially adapted for such vehicles |
| B63B |
Ships or other waterborne vessels; equipment for shipping |
| B63C |
Launching, hauling-out, or dry-docking of vessels; life-saving in water; equipment for dwelling or working under water; means for salvaging or searching for underwater objects |
| B63G |
Offensive or defensive arrangements on vessels; mine-laying; mine-sweeping; submarines; aircraft carriers |
| B63H |
Marine propulsion or steering |
| B63J |
Auxiliaries on vessels |
| B64B |
Lighter-than-air aircraft |
| B64C |
Aeroplanes; helicopters |
| B64D |
Equipment for fitting in or to aircraft; flight suits; parachutes; arrangements or mounting of power plants or propulsion transmissions in aircraft |
| B64F |
Ground or aircraft-carrier-deck installations specially adapted for use in connection with aircraft; designing, manufacturing, assembling, cleaning, maintaining or repairing aircraft, not otherwise provided for; handling, transporting, testing or inspecting aircraft components, not otherwise provided for |
| B64G |
Cosmonautics; vehicles or equipment therefor |
| B64U |
Unmanned aerial vehicles [uav]; equipment therefor |
| B65B |
Machines, apparatus or devices for, or methods of, packaging articles or materials; unpacking |
| B65C |
Labelling or tagging machines, apparatus, or processes |
| B65D |
Containers for storage or transport of articles or materials, e.g. bags, barrels, bottles, boxes, cans, cartons, crates, drums, jars, tanks, hoppers, forwarding containers; accessories, closures, or fittings therefor; packaging elements; packages |
| B65F |
Gathering or removal of domestic or like refuse |
| B65G |
Transport or storage devices, e.g. conveyors for loading or tipping, shop conveyor systems or pneumatic tube conveyors |
| B65H |
Handling thin or filamentary material, e.g. sheets, webs, cables |
| B66B |
Elevators; escalators or moving walkways |
| B66C |
Cranes; load-engaging elements or devices for cranes, capstans, winches, or tackles |
| B66D |
Capstans; winches; tackles, e.g. pulley blocks; hoists |
| B66F |
Hoisting, lifting, hauling, or pushing, not otherwise provided for, e.g. devices which apply a lifting or pushing force directly to the surface of a load |
| B67B |
Applying closure members to bottles, jars, or similar containers; opening closed containers |
| B67C |
Filling with liquids or semiliquids, or emptying, of bottles, jars, cans, casks, barrels, or similar containers, not otherwise provided for; funnels |
| B67D |
Dispensing, delivering, or transferring liquids, not otherwise provided for |
| B68B |
Harness; devices used in connection therewith; whips or the like |
| B68C |
Saddles; stirrups |
| B68F |
Making articles from leather, canvas, or the like |
| B68G |
Methods, equipment, or machines for use in upholstering; upholstery not otherwise provided for |
| B81B |
Microstructural devices or systems, e.g. micromechanical devices |
| B81C |
Processes or apparatus specially adapted for the manufacture or treatment of microstructural devices or systems |
| B82B |
Nanostructures formed by manipulation of individual atoms, molecules, or limited collections of atoms or molecules as discrete units; manufacture or treatment thereof |
| B82Y |
Specific uses or applications of nanostructures; measurement or analysis of nanostructures; manufacture or treatment of nanostructures |
| B99Z |
Subject matter not otherwise provided for in this section |
