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Class 410
FREIGHT ACCOMMODATION ON FREIGHT CARRIER
Class Definition:
A. This is the generic class for the accommodation of
discrete units of freight which have been loaded on board a
freight carrier for transportation, the freight accommodation
being to assure the integrity of the load unit against the
hazards of dynamic forces incident to transit
The class comprehends:
Means, entitled "accommodating means" in direct contact with
a load unit to inhibit untoward shifting relative to the
carrier that would be hazardous to the integrity of the unit.
The term "accommodating means" is the generic term
therefor.
Load unit accommodation on a freight carrier is recognized by
the provision of:
1. An accommodating means detail in the construction of the
load-supporting section of a freight carrier;
2. Means, per se, installable or otherwise put to use on a
freight carrier (like dunnage which is merely inserted
between load units);
3. Particular means on an exterior surface of the load unit
(usually, of the load bearer type) itself; particularly
provided, that is, to contact and thereby to cooperate with a
corresponding construction of the freight carrier to achieve
the accommodation of the load unit thereon;
4. An arrangement of an article of freight or the grouping of
articles in such a way or to assure the integrity of the load
against untoward shifting on board the freight carrier.
Accommodating means may, but need not necessarily be required
nor used to effect the arrangement; or
5. Freight accommodating methods, namely (a) associating a
load unit present on the freight carrier with the appropriate
accommodating means or (b) arranging (e.g., grouping) a load
unit on the freight carrier.
(1) Note. Cautionary note: A step of loading onto or of
unloading a load unit from a freight carrier places the
combination beyond the limits of this class; for which
greater combination see the material or article handling
class.
B. Present the critical element of load unit accommodation as
herein defined, placement in the class is on a predominant
disclosure basis. An invention will be found herein when the
subject matter of the invention, regardless of breadth is
disclosed as:
1. A support or receptacle which has a use as a freight
carrier vehicle body part, e.g., an on-and-off container or
other load bearer provided with the accommodating means
referred to above.
2. Article securing or bracing structure which in use is
attached to, installed on, or even merely placed on board a
freight carrier for freight accommodation (e.g., dunnage).
3. Structure concerning which the advance in the state of the
art has caused to be recognized as uniquely suitable to
freight accommodation on a freight carrier. The emphasis in
the disclosure of load unit accommodation on freight carrier
for this class should be on a level equivalent to a principal
embodiment description. However, as to the state of the art
test, a presumption of load unit accommodation on a freight
carrier not negated in the disclosure will serve for
inclusion of the document in this class (410). In fact,
except where clearly negated by the detailed description,
this class is available as a depository for such state of the
art structure as dunnage structures for load bracing and
twist lock devices for load bearer retention even when not
pinpointed in the description for use on a freight carrier.
4. A load bearer which is a shipping support on which a
single article is secured for on-and-off stowage aboard a
freight carrier. This subject matter is provided for in this
class, even when the shipping support load bearer does not
include the accommodating means cooperating with the freight
carrier. This is so because the state of the art recognition
of the equivalency in the art of the shipping support load
bearer, whether or not provided with such cooperating means,
has become so integrated at the time of the inception of this
class (410) that the search for both has been quite merged.
(1) Note. Cautionary note: A shipping support lacking the
accommodating means and supporting a group of articles on a
freight carrier has not been classified in this class (410)
but will be found elsewhere. A freight container absent the
accommodating structure cooperating between the container and
the freight carrier will also be found elsewhere. See
References to Other Classes.
A term which is defined in this class (410) definition, and
is limited to a single word, is identified by an asterisk.
Where a group of words defines the term, parentheses are used
to identify the beginning and end of the term; and this is
followed by an asterisk.
LINES WITH OTHER CLASSES AND WITHIN THIS CLASS
INTERNAL PLAN OF THIS CLASS
A. Class 410 consists of three major groupings, as follows:
1. Particular Article Accommodation, (see Subclass References
to the Current Class, for the location of the definition of
this term) - subclass 2+
2. Load Bearer Accommodation, (see Subclass References to the
Current Class, for the location of the definition of this
term) - 52+
3. Subcombinational Subject Matter, namely (a) Load Lashing -
96+; and (b) Load Bracing, i.e., Yieldable Brace - 117+, and
Load Bracing - 121 (generally). (see Subclass References to
the Current Class, for the location of the definition of
these terms)
The accommodation to the shape of the particular article in
this first group being of essence and the disclosure being
almost inevitably to such a detail, inventions limited to the
subcombination will nevertheless be uniformly classified in
that superior locus (subclasses 2+) and will be found as a
cross-reference only in the subcombinational loci, subclasses
96+ or, in particular, subclasses 117+ and 121+.
B. Search Time And Storage Economization: Search Units.
1. Economy in search time and retrieval efficiency and in
search area storage space has been incorporated in the
internal plan of this class. This was done by the
abstraction from the more generalized art of some particular
subclasses certain subjects matter meriting low priority as
the depository of the original (as opposed to the
cross-reference copy) of a document in the classification
schedule. As a result, subclasses of such low priority
subject matter recur as indents under classified loci of
higher priority (typically as subcombinations in different
superior and separately classified combinations). Recurring
sets of extractions or "break outs" have thus been developed
out of separate but mutually related indented subclasses.
They are usually quite small. A one "break out" readily
matches a second (sometimes also a third) freed from the
disclosures in principal subclasses entirely extraneous to
the particular search needs for which "search units" have
been devised.
2. Search Units: Where these "break out" pairs (or triplets)
most closely coincide in extensiveness and analogousness
further economy is achieved by emphatic discouragement of
cross-referencing internally of one another but rather, are
singled out and can be identified as constituting search
units. They are easily recognized and identifiable in the
Class 410 schedule.
3. The vehicle classes: The vehicle classes involved in the
haulage of freight, absent the freight accommodation
feature(s) as defined in section I, above, are:
RELATIONSHIP TO THE VEHICLE CLASSES
The vehicle classes involved in the haulage of freight,
absent the freight accommodation features as defined in the
Class Definition, above, are found in References to Other
Classes below.
Excluded from this class (410) are (a) haulage of material in
bulk, whether fluid, aggregate, particulate or in any bulk
form. However, a rigid-wall receptacle which contains fluent
or other bulk material qualifies as a load unit (of the load
bearer type) for this class (410); and (b) very short
distance movement of articles on a vehicle propelled by a
walking attendant handler (e.g., from a building to a moving
van); for which see References to Other Classes, below.
Securement means for articles on a pleasure vehicle for the
pleasure or convenience of the occupant(s), particularly, are
provided for elsewhere.
RELATIONSHIP TO THE RECEPTACLE AND SUPPORT CLASSES:
The receptacle and support classes include disclosures for
the provision of securement or bracing of an object or of a
group of objects intended for shipment together as a unit,
but excluded from the instant class (410) because of absence
of accommodating means cooperating with a freight carrier.
The receptacle classes of this description may be found in
References to Other Classes below.
The support classes are found in Reference to Other Classes,
below.
The receptacle and support classes are in particular related
to subclass(es) 52+ of the instant class (410) in that a
receptacle or support is recognized as a load bearer when
conforming to the limitations set forth in the Class
Definition; i.e., having means cooperating with a freight
carrier to effect the accommodation thereof on the freight
carrier. Placement in the instant
Class 410 is in no way barred because of further inclusion of
details of receptacle or support structures. This class is
the appropriate locus too, for a receptacle or support
disclosed as being, in fact (a) a freight carrier body part,
and (b) provided with accommodating means for a stowed load
unit, e.g., the particular article under subclasses 2+.
RELATIONSHIP TO ARTICLE HANDLING CLASSES
See References to Other Classes for the generic article
handling class, which provides for the means and method of
loading and unloading freight on-and-off a freight carrier.
See References to OTher classes for article handling classes
that provide for means for tautening flexible material about
a load of objects--absent the attachment of the load to the
freight carrier--and that provide for container lift loading
and unloading devices of the spreader frame type. (This type
lift device includes latch elements akin to the retainers of
of the instant class (410), particularly akin to the twist
lock type found in Class 410).
RELATIONSHIP TO ATTACHMENT DEVICE SUBCOMBINATIONS, ELEMENTS:
See REferences to Other Classes, below, for attachment
devices used to secure objects to one another only, to make
up a load unit found on a freight carrier, but which devices
do not couple the load unit to the freight carrier.
Class 188 Brakes, subclass 32 is the generic locus for a
wheel chock, recognized as a brake on the ground whereas the
instant Class 410 is the locus for such a device used on
board a freight carrier to stabilize freight; compare with
instant Class 410, subclass 30 for a wheel chock for a stowed
vehicle; and subclasses 49+ for a chock for stowed
cylindrical article, generally. Compare, too, with instant
subclass 62 for fore-and-aft accommodation of a stowed
vehicle where the aft-end accommodating means may be a wheel
chock. (Attachment Device Class)
RELATIONSHIP TO STOCK MATERIAL CLASSES
The locus for members of indeterminate shape, as for load
bracing, e.g., dunnaging, is found elsewhere. When in fact of
such a shape so as to be beyond the scope of that class, a
bracing member will be found in the instant class (410) in
subclasses 117+ when of flexible (i.e., flexible wall)
material; subclass 121 being the principal subclass for load
bracing; and subclasses 154 and 155 for, respectively, edge
around and honeycomb dunnage. Subclass References to the
Current Class of this class (410) is particularly relevant as
a guide to the location of dunnage in the instant Class 410.
(Stock Material Class)
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
2 for definition of the term Particular Article.
52 for definition of the term Load Bearer.
68 for a load unit of the load bearer type.
71 for definition of Corner Pedestal.
77 for definition of Retainer.
77 (1) Note, for definition of Retainer, Rigid Or Hold-down
Type.
82 for twist lock type retainers.
96 for Load Lashing.
97 for definition of Wraparound Lashing
101 for anchor part which directly engages the end of a
flaccid material member to secure that end at an anchor
location whereby to define the point from which the member
diverges from the freight carrier surface.
106 for the anchor-array one-piece member shaped or arranged
to require no tie piece.
107 see Tie Piece in the Glossary below.
117 for definition of Yieldable Brace (i.e., flaccid or
deformable).
121 for definition of Brace and Load Bracing.
154 155, for dunnage, species thereof.
REFERENCES TO OTHER CLASSES
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
24, Buckles, Buttons, Clasps, etc., include attachment
devices used to secure objects to one another only, to make
up a load unit found on a freight carrier, but which devices
do not couple the load unit to the freight carrier. The
class includes, for example, fasteners for coupling
containers to one another; for which see subclass 287 for
container-to-container locking devices including those of the
twist lock type which operate like those of the instant class
(410). (Attachment Device Class)
105, Railway Rolling Stock, 239+ for dumping car bodies; and
358 for tank cars; subclasses 355+ for freight car bodies;
and subclasses 404+ for freight car frames and other
structure. (Vehicle class involved in haulage of freight)
108, Horizontally Supported Planar Surfaces, see,
particularly, 51.11 for pallets; (Support Class)
114, Ships, 72 for freighters; subclasses 73+ for bulk cargo
freighters. (Vehicle class involved in haulage of freight)
180, Motor Vehicles (Vehicle class involved in haulage of
freight)
188, Brakes, subclass 32 is the generic locus for a wheel
chock, recognized as a brake on the ground whereas the
instant Class 410 is the locus for such a device used on
board a freight carrier to stabilize freight. See Lines With
Other Classes, for a further discussion of the line
(Attachment Device Class)
206, Special Receptacle or Package, for shipping support
lacking the accommodating means and supporting a group of
articles on a freight carrier.
206, Special Receptacle or Package, appropriate subclass,
frequently according to the specifically provided for
article; (Receptacle Class)
211, Supports: Racks, (support class)
220, Receptacles, see particularly 1.5 for freight
container, including invention in locking on-and-off
containers to one another. (Receptacle Class)
224, Package and Article Carriers, 400 for securement means
for articles on a pleasure vehicle for the pleasure or
convenience of the occupant(s). (Vehicle class involved in
haulage of freight)
244, Aeronautics, 118.1 for cargo planes; (Vehicle class
involved in haulage of freight)
248, Supports (support class)
254, Implements or Apparatus for Applying Pushing or Pulling
Force, 199 provide for means for tautening flexible material
about a load of objects---absent the attachment of the load
to the freight carrier. The more comprehensive combination
(including freight accommodation on the freight carrier) is
proper for the instant class (410), for which see subclasses
34+, when the load consists of a tautened group of particular
articles; and subclasses 96+ for load lashing of
indiscriminate articles of freight. (Article Handling
Class)
280, Land Vehicles, for example, 423.1 for semitrailers
(Vehicle class involved in haulage of freight)
280, Land Vehicles, for very short distance movement of
articles on a vehicle propelled by a walking attendant
handler (e.g., from a building to a moving van); 47.131 (for
a two-wheel or other type unstable vehicle), and subclasses
47.17+, and 47.34+. (Vehicle class)
294, Handling: Hand and Hoist-Line Implements, subclass 81
provides for container lift loading and unloading devices of
the spreader frame type. This type lift device includes
latch elements akin to the retainers of of the instant class
(410), particularly akin to the twist lock type found in lass
410). (Article Handling Class)
296, Land Vehicles: Bodies and Tops (Vehicle class
involved in haulage of freight)
298, Land Vehicles: Dumping. (Vehicle class)
414, Material or Article Handling, is the generic article
handling class. The class provides for the means and method
of loading and unloading freight on-and-off a freight
carrier. The relevant loci in that class (the article
handling vehicle search areas) include subclass 333, 334+,
337, 338, 339, 340+, 349+, 352+, 354+, and 373+ for various
combinations of one or more moving or stationary freight
carrier(s) and an external means of some nature for loading
or unloading, or cooperating in the loading or unloading
thereof. (Article Handling Class)
428, Stock Material or Miscellaneous Articles, is the locus
for members of indeterminate shape, as for load bracing,
e.g., dunnaging. (Stock Material Class)
GLOSSARY:
Also see Subclass References To The Current Class, above, for
the location of the definition of other Glossary terms.
CUSHIONING MEANS:
Fore-and-aft slide cushioning means - Load unit protection
means supplementing load accommodation. The effect of
inadvertently inertial forces which could cause damage to the
load unit is mitigated by means so supplementing
accommodation as to permit such an extent of reactive
movement of the load unit or the accommodating means, or both
as to be adequate to prevent damage that could occur were the
load rigidly fixed to the freight carrier. When the forces
guarded against and the reactive movement acts in the
direction along the longitudinal axis of the freight carrier,
this is recognized as fore-and- aft direction slide
cushioning. The effect of only mere compression-relaxation
of a resilient block is not intended to be included in the
cushioning concept.
LOAD LASHING RETAINER
Retainer which includes flaccid material accommodating means,
the virtue of the flaccidity being in its infinite deflective
capacity so that the means can (inter alia) (a) closely
conform to exterior configurations of load units, (b) extend
in guided changes in direction from the locus of securement
to the freight carrier to that of the retentive engagement
with the load unit, and (c) most particularly, under
subjection to force multiplying means, be so tightly engaged
with the load unit, and over such critical configurations of
the load unit surface that the engagement of this nature
constitutes load unit retention. A load lashing retainer may
consist of a combination of rigid material and flaccid
material elements provided that the flaccid material element
(or member) is significant in the combination. Significance
is present when the flaccid material element member is used
(a) to attach the load lashing retainer to the freight
carrier or retentively to connect with the load unit, or (b)
to extend between the freight carrier attachment member and
load unit securement member (one or both of which members are
rigid) to impart to the load lashing retainer made up of
these members unique advantages of flaccidity described in
the preceding paragraph. Not all flaccid load unit
accommodating relationships are, in fact, retentive. Tight
encirclement of the load (i.e., wraparound lashing) tautened
engagement with the load under the effect of force
multiplying means, and a tiedown (defined hereinbelow) do,
however, invariably accomplish load lashing retention.
TIE PIECE
The anchor part which directly engages the end of a flaccid
material member to secure that end at an anchor location
whereby to define the point from which the member diverges
from the freight carrier surface. The term is used in the
context of bi-partite construction in that the tie piece is
an add-on (e.g., welded on) part, the other part of the
anchor being the mounting for freight carrier attachment.
Commonly, the mounting is a one-piece member shaped or
otherwise so constructed or arranged on a freight carrier as
to define an array of anchor locations, at one or more of
which the add-on tie piece is attached. See Subclass
References To The Current Class, above.
TIEDOWN
A load lashing retainer which diverges from the freight
carrier surface whereat it is attached and extends and
terminates at the point or localized area of attachment to
the load units.
SUBCLASSES
Subclass:
1
INCLUDING TURNTABLE FOR LOAD, E.G., FOR SEMITRAILER:
This subclass is indented under the class definition.
Structure in which the freight carrier has a supporting
surface which is rotatable to turn lading which it underlies
(typically, a semitrailer or other wheeled vehicle for
transhipment) between positions (a) for loading and
unloading, and (b) for transit aboard the freight carrier.
[figure]
Subclass:
2
PARTICULAR ARTICLE ACCOMMODATION:
This subclass is indented under the class definition.
Structure for accommodating, by direct contact, an article of
the type which satisfies a particular need elsewhere (i.e.,
is not merely a bearer for the load in shipment, like a
container or pallet), which structure is designed, in its
contact with the lading, to take advantage of a particular
configuration of the lading, or one of its parts, to minimize
a carrying problem arising from such particular
configuration, e.g., tendency of a cylindrical article to
roll.
(1) Note. Included herein (see indented subclasses 31+) is
the accommodation of articles by their having been grouped in
a particular way or by having been otherwise so arranged on
the freight carrier that a foreseeable problem in transit is
minimized.
(2) Note. The class definition section, Internal Plan of
This Class relating to this and the indented subclasses is
reviewed, as follows: placement in this and indented
subclasses is on a predominant disclosure basis, which means
that, in the absence of a controlling claim barring such
placement or an overwhelming emphasis in the total disclosure
to that same effect, this is the locus (subclasses 2+) for
the original placement of an invention to accommodating means
for the particular article. Accordingly: a. A generic
invention to structure disclosed as accommodating a
semitrailer or container (ordinarily classified under
subclasses 52+) and equally applicable to the accommodation
of a particular article (a farm tractor in transit, for
example) will be classified as an original in subclasses 2+
and will appear in subclass(es) 52+ only as a cross-reference
where necessary. b. Subclasses 2+ will take an invention to a
load lashing means or load bracing means subcombination for a
particular article or group of articles and only a
cross-reference will be placed in subclasses 96+, load
lashing, or subclasses 121+, load bracing means; the locus
for the lashing or bracing subcombinations, respectively, of
general freight. [figure]
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
35 for a group of articles stowed on board a freight carrier
together with an on-and-off base.
46 for a shipping support onto which a single article only
has been secured for on-and-off storage on board a freight
carrier.
Subclass:
3
Wheeled vehicle:
This subclass is indented under subclass 2. Structure in
which the freight carrier is particularly designed or
equipped to accommodate that class of article which, in its
normal use, moves along a land surface by means of its
underlying supporting structure which rolls along that
surface.
(1) Note. This (the principal) subclass includes inventions
for bicycle stowage.
(2) Note. Semitrailers are presumed to be load bearers,
not, in themselves, particular articles of freight. [figure]
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
56 for the stowage of freight-laden semitrailers.
Subclass:
4
Four-wheeled vehicle accommodation:
This subclass is indented under subclass 3. Structure in
which the freight carrier is particularly designed or
equipped to accommodate such a wheeled vehicle as has sets of
running gear from corner-to-corner across the forward and the
rear ends. [figure]
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
206, Special Receptacle or Package, subclass 335 for a
four-wheel vehicle or group of vehicles preassembled in an
on-and-off container for shipment on a freight carrier,
absent means for interengagement with the freight carrier for
accommodation against the hazards of transportation.
Subclass:
5
This subclass is indented under subclass 4. Overturned or
on-edge vehicle arrangement: Structure for retaining the
stowed vehicle upon the carrier at an attitude substantially
905 or 1805 from the road condition attitude. [figure]
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
3 (the principle subclass) for an upended arrangement in the
stowage of bicycles.
13 for four-wheel vehicles stowage structure in which an end
only of the stowed vehicle is raised to maintain it at an
inclination of approximately 455.
24 for slanted deck structure to support stowed vehicles at
about a 455 angle.
Subclass:
6
Ramp becomes vehicle sustainer:
This subclass is indented under subclass 5. Structure
including panel means constituting a vertical panel at the
side edge of the freight carrier and mounted for swinging
movement outboard thereof for rolling or placement of a
vehicle thereonto for stowage, and means for securing the
vehicle to the panel whereby, when the panel is then swung to
its vertical position upward from the edge of the carrier the
panel means further functions to sustain the stowed vehicle
attached thereto at substantially 905 to its normal road use
attitude. [figure]
Subclass:
7
Vehicle retainer*:
This subclass is indented under subclass 4. Structure
including a retainer*; i.e., member(s) secured to the carrier
and particularly constructed for direct securement engagement
with a part of the stowed vehicle [figure]
Subclass:
8
Multipositionable; i.e., along array strip or track:
This subclass is indented under subclass 7. Structure in
which the carrier is further provided with an elongated
mounting member which has retainer positioning locations
therealong; and in which (a) the retainer engageable with the
stowed vehicle part extends from the location selected as
being the suitable one for retaining the vehicle on the
freight carrier, or (b) the elongated mounting member is
shaped to guide the vehicle retainer for sliding movement
therealong to the selected location. [figure]
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
104 for a track to guide a load lashing anchor to the
suitable location on the freight carrier.
108 113+ and 115, for an array of anchors.
150 for a track to guide a brace bar along a freight carrier
to its load bracing position.
Subclass:
9
Wheel hub, or axle retainer*:
This subclass is indented under subclass 8. Structure in
which the retainer* retentively engages that particular
functional part of the stowed vehicle, i.e., a wheel, which
rolls along the land surface in the normal road use of the
vehicle; or that particular functional part which provides,
or from which extends the road-use bearing axis for the
rolling part. [figure]
Subclass:
10
Tiedown*:
This subclass is indented under subclass 9. Structure in
which the retainer* for the stowed vehicle is a tiedown*.
[figure]
Subclass:
11
Tiedown*:
This subclass is indented under subclass 8. Structure in
which the retainer* for the stowed vehicle is a tiedown*.
[figure]
Subclass:
12
Including force-multiplying takeup or tensioning means:
This subclass is indented under subclass 11. Structure which
includes tautening means effective to multiply the force
applied to the tiedown and thence to the stowed vehicle over
that of a mere straight-line pull, e.g., drum or winch,
turnbuckle, jack strew, but not mere linkage. [figure]
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
38 for force-multiplying means for forcing articles in a
group into compactedly close proximity.
103 for a load-lashing anchor incorporating
force-multiplying means.
Subclass:
13
In arrangement in which the vehicle end, at least, is raised
to hood section height:
This subclass is indented under subclass 7. Structure
including means maintaining at least one end of a stowed
vehicle supported at a level above the freight carrier floor
a distance not less than the anticipatable conventional hood
section height of a stowed vehicle.
(1) Note. The arrangement of this subclass, typically, is
for overlapping with another vehicle intended to be
transported. [figure]
Subclass:
14
This subclass is indented under subclass 13. Elevatable deck
suspended from hoist line: Structure including support
member(s) directly underlyingly engaging four-wheels of a
stowed vehicle and mounted on the freight carrier for
movement between raised transport position and lowered
loading position; and means including a flexible member,
e.g., chain, cable for raising the support member(s) and
maintaining the member(s) higher than the carrier floor.
[figure]
Subclass:
15
Lift simultaneously erects pivoted prop:
This subclass is indented under subclass 14. Structure
including leg means hinged at its ends to the carrier floor
and to the vehicle-underlying support member(s) so as to be
raised along with the elevatable deck members from prone
position to an erect position to cooperate in sustaining the
deck. [figure]
Subclass:
16
Including wheel-straddling member which is a retainer* or
retainer* adjunct:
This subclass is indented under subclass 13. Structure in
which the member in direct securement engagement with the
stowed vehicle is effective either (a) by engagement with the
vehicle wheel, which engagement is uninterruptedly across a
wheel dimension transverse to the circumference, i.e.,
substantially from sidewall to sidewall, or (b) by extension
from wheel straddling structure to a location in securement
engagement with another functional part of the stowed
vehicle.
(1) Note. Accommodating structure such as a straddle or
cradle does not constitute retentive securement where only
the lower wheel quadrant is engaged; whereas retention
amounting to securement necessarily is effected when similar
structure encompasses the upper wheel quadrant(s). [figure]
Subclass:
17
Including suspended retainer* member or prop:
This subclass is indented under subclass 13. Structure in
which the freight carrier is a walled vehicle and in which an
elongate arm or flexible means depends from substantially the
highest portion of the carrier interior either (a) to bring a
retainer* member into its direct, retentive contact with a
vehicle part, or (b) to abut and thereby brace either the
retained vehicle or some part of the retainer*. [figure]
Subclass:
18
Retainer* arm or prop extending from freight carrier wall:
This subclass is indented under subclass 13. Structure in
which is included a rigid, elongate member extending from a
vertical surface of the freight carrier either (a) to bring a
retainer* member into direct retentive contact with a stowed
vehicle part, the retainer member being at the distal end of
said elongate member, or (b) to abut and thereby brace either
the stowed vehicle or some part of the retainer* structure.
[figure]
Subclass:
19
For wheel, hub, or axle shaft:
This subclass is indented under subclass 7. Structure in
which a retainer* member(s) is retentively attachable to the
stowed vehicle functional part that rolls along the land
surface in the normal road use of the vehicle; or to that
particular functional part that provides or from which
extends the road-use bearing axis for the rolling member.
[figure]
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
9 for a multipositionable (e.g., track-mounted) wheel, hub,
or axle retainer.
16 for a wheel straddling retainer in a raised vehicle
arrangement.
Subclass:
20
Wheel wraparound*:
This subclass is indented under subclass 19. Structure in
which the retainer* is a wraparound* in tight encirclement
about the upper quadrants of a wheel. [figure]
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
9 for a wheel, hub, or axle shaft retainer in a raised
vehicle arrangement.
Subclass:
21
(Load lashing retainer)*:
This subclass is indented under subclass 19. Structure in
which the retainer* is a (load lashing retainer)*. [figure]
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
15 for disclosed but not claimed hub or axle retainer
structure quite commonly mounted on a "semi-decking" frame
(an art term for the angularly propped vehicle sustaining
deck).
48 for a rigid retainer effective by contact with the core
or hub of a cylindrical article, e.g., reel, or wheel not
mounted to a vehicle.
Subclass:
22
Hub or axle shaft retainer*:
This subclass is indented under subclass 19. Structure in
which a retainer* member is retentively attachable to that
particular functional part of the stowed vehicle that
provides, or from which extends the road-use bearing axis for
the vehicle wheel. [figure]
Subclass:
23
Tiedown*:
This subclass is indented under subclass 7. Structure in
which the retainer* is a tiedown*. [figure]
Subclass:
24
Raised vehicle arrangement:
This subclass is indented under subclass 4. Structure
comprising means for supporting at least one end of the
stowed vehicle above the freight carrier floor at a height at
least that of the anticipatable conventional hood section
height. [figure]
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
13 for a raised vehicle arrangement in which is included a
retainer for the stowed vehicle.
Subclass:
24.1
Including above-cab stowage:
This subclass is indented under subclass 24. Structure
including means so located and constructed as to support at
least one end section of a stowed vehicle directly over the
compartment of the freight carrier operator.
(1) Note. The support means may be, or may include the
vehicle cab roof to provide elevated height stowage.
[figure]
Subclass:
25
Interrupted or recessed wheel support:
This subclass is indented under subclass 24. Raised vehicle
arrangement structure in which spaced supporting portions or
members engage respective lower quadrant portions of a stowed
vehicle wheel perimeter, whereby the intervening perimetral
portion, which normally sustains the vehicle mass, as during
road use, is uncontacted by said member or portions.
(1) Note. Another sunken and upwardly concave member may,
however, span the space between the member or portions to
substantially conform to and contact the lower half perimeter
of the wheel. [figure]
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
26 for a raised vehicle arrangement wherein the underlying
support, in the raised vehicle arrangement, is planar so as
to contact the vehicle wheel at that point at which it
normally sustains the vehicle mass.
30 for wheel chock or cradle means to inhibit the rolling
tendency of a vehicle wheel.
49 for similar means to inhibit the rolling tendency of any
other cylindrical article.
57 for the fore-and-aft accommodation of a semitrailer which
could include similar sunken area structure for accommodating
the rear wheels.
65 for a rear wheel accommodating sunken area accommodating
the stowage of a semitrailer.
Subclass:
26
Multilevel deck; i.e., four-wheel support:
This subclass is indented under subclass 24. Structure
including one or more planar members supporting the stowed
vehicle entirely above the carrier floor by direct underlying
engagement with all four-wheels of said vehicle, whereby the
freight carrier floor sustains a vehicle at the requisite
height above a lower level. [figure]
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
105, Railway Rolling Stock, 371 for a railway freight
carrier convertible to multideck structure for hauling
indiscriminate freight.
206, Special Receptacle or Package, subclass 335 for a
multilevel deck, on-and-off shipping container for delivery
and shipment of vehicles on board a freight carrier.
Subclass:
27
Including interdeck transfer way:
This subclass is indented under subclass 26. Structure
including further structure underlyingly receiving the
vehicle wheel(s) thereupon and constituting either an
elevator or inclined ramp for transit of vehicles between the
vertically spaced decks.
(1) Note. Elevating structure, per se, and nothing more, is
proper for this subclass only when, either in itself or
together with another elevator(s), it provides a
substantially continuous elevated support for a plurality of
vehicles at least temporarily, for loading and unloading.
The elevator or ramp must be in addition to, and for service
between, a plurality of decks level. Absent the above, see
principal subclass 26 for an inclined fixed height structure
sustaining the four-wheels of a single stowed vehicle and
subclasses 14+ for such a structure which is adjustable,
e.g., elevatable. [figure]
Subclass:
28
On dropped-center car:
This subclass is indented under subclass 27. Structure in
which the freight carrier floor which underlyingly supports
the vehicle wheels is of an extent to include a center area
lower than the freight carrier running gear supports and
another area extending therefrom to a level to support a
part, at least, of a stowed vehicle directly above a running
gear support. [figure]
Subclass:
28.1
On dropped section freight carrier:
This subclass is indented under subclass 26. Structure in
which the freight carrier floor includes longitudinally
contiguous areas, namely, a relatively high area at an end
section of the freight carrier and a relatively lower area
longitudinally inward thereof, whereby a vehicle may be towed
athwart the areas at an incline with respective ends thereof
supported at the corresponding floor areas.
(1) Note. The freight carrier of this subclass is of the
type which is wheeled and is for highway travel and includes
a floor section inward of the running gear used to advantage
in freight haulage in being constructed lower than the
running gear height.
(2) Note. The stowed vehicle may be supported, front and
rear, directly on respective floor sections, or on structure
supported by and straddling the floor sections. [figure]
Subclass:
29
Vertically swingable from hinge at freight carrier wall:
This subclass is indented under subclass 26. Structure in
which the deck structure is pivotally mounted at the freight
carrier wall for vertical swinging movement.
(1) Note. The hinged deck structure may include a plurality
of members, of which each, or a pair of each extends from
opposite walls of the freight carrier for supporting
corresponding pairs of the supported vehicle wheels.
[figure]
Subclass:
29.1
Higher level deck positioned, then sustained by power
cylinder:
This subclass is indented under subclass 26. Structure in
which the member which underlyingly supports the stowed
vehicle by its wheels is vertically adjustable and in which
piston and cylinder telescoping tube means has one end
attached to the member and the other end to a point on the
freight carrier, the telescoping tube means being subject to
the influence of force from a fluid source to effect
elongation thereof to position the wheel support member at
the requisite height, or attitude at which the piston and
cylinder means cooperates in retaining the vehicle support
means. [figure]
Subclass:
30
Wheel cradle, chock, or well:
This subclass is indented under subclass 4. Structure
wherein the means to accommodate the stowed vehicle engages
the wheel(s) thereof at location(s) extending to, but not
beyond both lower quadrants of the wheel periphery; or along,
but not beyond, a substantial perimetral length of a lower
wheel quadrant. [figure]
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
49 for cradle structure accommodating a cylindrical article
other than a wheel mounted on a vehicle.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
188, Brakes, subclass 32 for a chock, recognized as a brake
on the ground for that class and subclass, and which may be
used to chock a vehicle wheel on a surface other than that of
a freight carrier.
Subclass:
31
Grouped:
This subclass is indented under subclass 2. Structure
particularly designed for accommodating a number of articles
as a load unit, or an arrangement of such a number of
articles.
(1) Note. This (the principal) subclass includes inventions
particularly designed for accommodation of groups of engines,
also racks or hanging hooks for meat carcasses. [figure]
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
206, Special Receptacle or Package, appropriate subclass for
a group of articles which is prepackaged possibly for stowage
as a load unit on board a freight carrier.
Subclass:
32
Group of articles which are, predominantly, regularly
contoured; i.e., are rodlike, panel shaped, blocks, or
analogous forms:
This subclass is indented under subclass 31. Structure or
arrangement wherein the accommodated load unit consists of
articles which are substantially the same in cross section
throughout at least nearly all of their length.
(1) Note. The article, under the instant definition, may
have a localized irregularity (for which, see subclass 31,
indented hereunder) but remains, on the whole,
"predominantly" regularly contoured, as the title to this
subclass phrases it. [figure]
Subclass:
33
Articles with protuberance or flange:
This subclass is indented under subclass 32. Structure or
arrangement particularly designed to establish a load unit of
articles shaped with a localized right-angled extension from
each of their otherwise regular contours. [figure]
Subclass:
34
This subclass is indented under subclass 32. Grouped by load
binder or press means: Structure including means firmly
forcing the articles into compact proximity.
(1) Note. The means of this subclass may be firmly forced
against the group of articles by muscle power or by force
multiplying means associated with said first-named means (for
which latter, see indented subclasses 38+). [figure]
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
24, Buckles, Buttons, Clasps, etc., 16 for a wraparound load
binder for a group of articles having no parts connected to a
freight carrier; see, too, indented subclasses 19+ wherein
the load binder includes a tightener; and see subclasses 68+
for a tightener, per se.
Subclass:
35
Grouped together with on-and-off base:
This subclass is indented under subclass 34. Structure
further including underlying support structure for the load
unit and united therewith by the load binder or press means
for and throughout the loading and unloading sequences.
(1) Note. A rigid member underlying a load unit may be
merely an element of the press means of principal subclass 34
when its dimensions are not substantially different from the
remaining (side and top) press means member; rather than
being so substantially dimensioned as to be clearly
recognizable as a supporting base for the load unit.
[figure]
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
206, Special Receptacle or Package, subclass 386 for a group
of articles prepackaged on an on-and-off base for stowage for
shipment on board a freight carrier, absent means in
interengagement with the freight carrier for accommodation
against the hazards of transportation.
Subclass:
36
Cylindrical article group:
This subclass is indented under subclass 34. Structure in
which the means firmly maintains or urges articles of
substantially circular cross section into the compact
proximity. [figure]
Subclass:
37
Log load:
This subclass is indented under subclass 36. Structure or
arrangement in which the load unit consists of hewn tree
trunks in compact proximity. [figure]
Subclass:
38
Press:
This subclass is indented under subclass 34. Structure
comprising rigid means which contactingly bounds a side, at
least, of the group and force multiplying means associated
therewith whereby the rigid means is in itself adjustable for
movement against the side of the group or includes an
adjustable member for such movement under influence of means
which multiplies the force of compaction against said group.
[figure]
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
12 for force multiplying means used with a tiedown* for
retaining a four-wheel vehicle on a freight carrier.
Subclass:
39
Including spacer:
This subclass is indented under subclass 38. Structure
further including means intervening between articles in the
group or between and setting off one group of articles from
another. [figure]
Subclass:
40
Between groups:
This subclass is indented under subclass 39. Structure in
which the intervening means is between and sets off one group
of articles from another. [figure]
Subclass:
41
Including angle overlay, e.g., corner guard:
This subclass is indented under subclass 34. Structure in
which the articles of the group are of such shape that the
group is configured as to provide an abrupt, substantially
905 change of direction along the outside surface of the
group; and in which a rigid member is of such shape as to be
in overlying contact with said outside surface through said
change in direction.
(1) Note. In this way, frequently, the outside corner
article is protected from the bend of a taut lashing member.
[figure]
Subclass:
42
Cylindrical article group:
This subclass is indented under subclass 32. Structure in
which the accommodated load unit consists of articles of
substantially circular cross section. [figure]
Subclass:
43
Vehicle body part group:
This subclass is indented under subclass 31. Structure or
arrangement particularly designed to accommodate articles
consisting of frame or shell parts for vehicle manufacture or
assembly. [figure]
Subclass:
44
Accommodation of article which is massive relative to the
freight carrier:
This subclass is indented under subclass 2. Structure
particularly designed to accommodate a single article (a) of
such dimensions as to occupy substantially the entire space
of the freight carrier or to extend beyond an edge thereof
(e.g., onto a second carrier), or (b) of such height as to
require that the freight carrier load-support area surface
area on which the article rests be between and lower than the
height of the top of the carrier trucks.
(1) Note. A truck is considered to be a freight carrier for
this subclass so that an article bridging a pair of trucks
are properly classifiable therein. The article may in
itself, or together with on-and-off base, be the sole
structure bridging the pair of trucks; for which see indented
subclass 45. [figure]
Subclass:
45
Stowed as a bridge between trucks, or across cars, or on
drop-center (schnabel type) car:
This subclass is indented under subclass 44. Structure or
arrangement (a) in which the article, either by itself alone
or together with an on-and-off underlying support, is mounted
at each end onto separate, spaced apart freight carrier
running gear structures to constitute the sole connection
between those structures while so mounted, or (b) in which
the article staddles a plurality of horizontally swingingly
related freight carriers, or (c) in which the freight carrier
load-support area is between and lower than the height of the
freight carrier running gear supports.
(1) Note. With respect to part (b) of the above definition,
each of the separate spaced running gear structures (i.e.,
trucks) constitutes, in itself, a freight carrier and the
article, extending from the one to the other extends beyond
either one of them. The requirement for placement in
subclass 44, under (1) Note of the definition thereof, is
there by met. [figure]
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
53 for a load bearer, e.g., semitrailer, stowed as a bridge
between trucks.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
296, Land Vehicles: Bodies and Tops, subclass 25 for a
dropped center highway vehicle, e.g., semitrailer, absent the
provision thereon of load accommodating structure.
Subclass:
46
On supporting on-and-off base:
This subclass is indented under subclass 2. Structure
comprising underlying structure for an article and means for
effecting the immobilization of the article on the structure
for and through the loading and unloading sequences of
accommodation on a freight carrier. [figure]
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
35 for an on-and-off base stowed together with its article
load on board a freight carrier by the use of accommodating
(usually retainer)* means.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
206, Special Receptacle or Package, appropriate subclass for
an article preassembled on an on-and-off container to
constitute a shipping unit, but lacking means interengageable
with a freight carrier for accommodation against the hazards
of transportation.
220, Receptacles, 1.5 for a freight container.
Subclass:
47
Cylindrical article accommodation:
This subclass is indented under subclass 2. Structure
particularly designed to accommodate an elongate article of
substantially circular cross section; i.e., to utilize a
structural feature of, or nullify a particular problem
inherent in, the shape of the article. [figure]
Subclass:
48
Rigid retainer* acting as, or retentively contacting a core
or hub:
This subclass is indented under subclass 47. Structure
including rigid means retentively engaging the article along
its longitudinal axis, or retentively engaging a member
axially related to (generally, an axial part of) the
article. [figure]
Subclass:
49
Cradle or chock:
This subclass is indented under subclass 47. Structure in
which the accommodating means defines an upwardly facing
concavity or upwardly diverging angle(s), whether continuous
or interrupted, in either case to engage one or both lower
quadrants of the cylindrical article periphery and thereby
inhibit rolling. [figure]
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
188, Brakes, subclass 32 for a chock recognized as a brake
on the ground for that class distinguishing over the instant
subclass in that it is applied to a surface other than that
of a freight carrier.
Subclass:
50
And wraparound* lashing:
This subclass is indented under subclass 49. Structure
further including a wraparound* (load lashing retainer)*
attached at its ends to the freight carrier and drawn
securely about or through the article to secure it against a
contour-complementing surface of the accommodating means.
[figure]
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
20 for a wraparound for securing the wheel of a stowed
four-wheel vehicle to the freight carrier; and subclasses 97+
for a wraparound for lashing a load unit to a freight
carrier, generally.
Subclass:
51
DRAFT (INCLUDING PUSHED) FREIGHT CARRIER, I. E., WAGON, HAND
TRUCK:
This subclass is indented under the class definition.
Structure particularly designed to accommodate a load unit on
a freight carrier the motive force for which is intended to
be entirely biologically muscular.
(1) Note. Included herein are horse drawn wagons designed
for such facile removal of the load bearer structure from
running gear as is common to the more contemporary load
carrier stowage technology of subclasses 52+. Because of
such commonality that has been brought about by the advance
in the state of the art, this type of support or container is
classified with more contemporary on-and-off load bearers of
this class (410). [figure]
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
280, Land Vehicles, 47.131 for an inherently unstable
vehicle to which an article may be attached, and which may be
propelled by a walking attendant. Transportation (a) for a
insignificant distance, as within a supermarket or from a
building to a curbside moving van, or (b) by a noncommercial
user, e.g., a shopper or a boatman trailering his own boat
would be appropriate for that Class 280, subclass 47.131
rather than the instant class and subclass 51.
Subclass:
52
LOAD BEARER ACCOMMODATION:
This subclass is indented under the class definition.
Structure particularly designed to accommodate an on-and-off
freight support base or receptacle; i.e., such as underlying
support or such an enclosure as presumably receives freight
thereon or therein prior to being loaded on the carrier and
is unloaded from the carrier together with the freight.
(1) Note. A base (pallet) or enclosure (container), per se,
is herein included when provided with externally carried
means specifically for cooperation with mating means on the
freight carrier for the accommodation of said base or
enclosure and will be found in the particular subclass
provided for that particular accommodation. The means, per
se, specifically for cooperation with mating means on the
freight carrier for the accommodation of said base or
enclosure and will be found in the particular subclass
provided for that particular accommodation. The means, per
se, found in subclasses 96+ is also herein provided.
[figure]
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
294, Handling: Hand and Hoist-Line Implements, 67.1 for a
frame or a load bearer particularly designed (as by being
provided with corner fittings) for cooperating with hoist
equipment for loading onto or unloading from a freight
carrier.
Subclass:
53
Stowed as a bridge between trucks:
This subclass is indented under subclass 52. Structure or
arrangement in which the load bearer is mounted at each end
onto separate spaced apart freight carrier running gear
structures to constitute the sole connection between them.
[figure]
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
45 for a particular article so massive as to be accommodated
as a bridge between trucks.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
105, Railway Rolling Stock, 270 for a tank pivoted between
railway trucks in order to orient its outlet for pouring.
Subclass:
54
Diverse load accommodation, e.g., convertible between
semitrailer and container accommodation:
This subclass is indented under subclass 52. Structure in
which the freight carrier is particularly designed
simultaneously or alternatively to accommodate load units of
diverse construction, e.g., container and/or pallet and/or
semitrailer, and, therefore, necessitating mutually distinct
stowage structures or arrangements to be present on or be
assembled to or arranged on the freight carrier.
(1) Note. These subclasses (54+) require a positive
structural detail of each of the accommodations; the
plurality of accommodating means or, at least, structure
particularly provided to cooperate with each of them. Mere
retractability for getting accommodation means of a one type
out of the way, and going no further than to prepare the
freight carrier for an alternative accommodation is
inadequate for this subclass.
(2) Note. The original document to structure designed to
accommodate a particular article, as defined in subclass 2,
and also, alternatively or additionally, a load bearer
defined in principal subclass 52 will be classified in the
superior subclasses 2+ and should be crossed in this instant
subclass (54). [figure]
Subclass:
55
Retainer including load lashing anchor capability:
This subclass is indented under subclass 54. Structure
appropriate for retentive engagement with a load bearer is
combined with (e.g., has attached thereto) or is convertible
to structure for the attachment device used in load lashing.
(1) Note. See subclass 101 for the definition of a load
lashing anchor, and search indented subclass 102 for other
diverse use devices including an anchor. [figure]
Subclass:
56
Semitrailer accommodation:
This subclass is indented under subclass 52. Structure in
which the accommodated load bearer is of the type provided
with running gear at a location limited to the rear portion
thereof.
(1) Note. An arrangement of wheels at the front end to
facilitate stowage (e.g., guidance) on the carrier will bar
placement in this subclass, even though the wheels are
nonroadable and have no other use than said storage
facilitation {See (1) Note in subclass 66}. Mere lowering of
the semitrailer landing gear does not, however, constitute
stowage (e.g., guidance) facilitation to make said bar to
placement herein operative. [figure]
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
1 for the inclusion of a turntable mounted on a
semitrailer-accommodating freight carrier for stowing the
trailer on board the carrier.
53 for a semitrailer stowed as a bridge between railway
trucks; in fact, constituting the sole structure linking the
spaced trucks.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
280, Land Vehicles, 414.1 for a boat carrying, articulated
vehicle, e.g., semitrailer.
Subclass:
57
Fore-and-aft accommodation:
This subclass is indented under subclass 56. Structure
including accommodating means engaging forward and rear
sections of the stowed semitrailer. [figure]
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
58 for a stand collapsibly mounted on a freight carrier for
accommodating a semitrailer at its front end.
64 for details of the kingpin retaining latch of such a
stand.
Subclass:
58
Collapsible and erectable stand:
This subclass is indented under subclass 56. Structure
including a support to maintain the fore end of a stowed
semitrailer raised above the freight carrier bed and means so
linking the support to the freight carrier bed as to be
extensible to a raised, supporting position and foldable to a
lowered position on or below the bed. [figure]
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
57 for semitrailer stowage structure including the fore-end
stand and means accommodating the rear end of the
semitrailer.
Subclass:
59
Tractor operated:
This subclass is indented under subclass 58. Structure
wherein the supporting stand is provided with means
engageable with a loading or unloading tractor so as to
utilize the tractor force for the extensible raising or the
collapsed lowering operation. [figure]
Subclass:
60
Cushioned:
This subclass is indented under subclass 59. Structure
including recoverable means, other than merely a resilient
block, which is yieldable under the influence of an excessive
or inadvertent force whereby to interveningly receive and
thereby ward off the undesirable effect of the force upon the
stand or the stowed trailer; which means tends to be restored
to its prior state upon, and as a consequence of, the
cessation of that force. [figure]
Subclass:
61
Jack screw erected:
This subclass is indented under subclass 58. Structure in
which the mounting means for the fore-end stand includes
threaded means operable to obtain a force multiplying
advantage effective to facilitate raising of the stand and
with it, presumably, the mass of the supported fraction of
the load. [figure]
Subclass:
62
(Fore-and-aft direction slide cushioning means)*:
This subclass is indented under subclass 58. Structure
wherein the mounting means for the trailer support includes a
base portion installed along the carrier floor for movement
parallel to the longitudinal axis of the carrier under the
influence of (fore-and-aft direction slide cushioning
means)*. [figure]
Subclass:
63
Cushioned cylinder strut:
This subclass is indented under subclass 58. Structure
wherein the mounting means for the trailer support comprises
underlying leg means including a leg consisting of hollow
interfitting parts which enclose means which render than
yieldable for telescopic movement in response to inadvertent
force incident to freight transportation and recoverable to
the earlier state upon and as a consequence of cessation of
the force. [figure]
Subclass:
64
King pin latch:
This subclass is indented under subclass 58. Structure in
which the trailer fore-end support includes means
particularly designed for releasable retentive connection
with a post extending downward from the underside of the fore
end of the trailer, which post is analogously employed to
join the trailer to the tractor during road use. [figure]
Subclass:
65
Accommodation means conforms to wheel sidewall during
guidance or rest condition, e.g., rub rail or wheel well:
This subclass is indented under subclass 56. Structure in
which the freight carrier support surface is provided with
accommodation means of such configuration as to be in
engagement with a sidewall of the semitrailer wheel during
its movement along the freight carrier to a stowed location
or when it is at that location, whereby lateral movement of
the semitrailer is thereby prevented.
(1) Note. The mere lowering of the wheeled landing gear on
a deck surface is not considered to convert a semitrailer to
a four-wheeled vehicle to bar placement in this subclass in
favor of lower subclasses 66+. However, additional (e.g.,
fore-end) wheels to facilitate guidance for stowage on the
freight carrier, even though such additional wheels are
nonroadable and have only that stowage facilitation use and
capability, is subject matter for that inferior subclass and
will be found therein rather than in the instant subclass.
See (1) Note in principal subclass 56. [figure]
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
57 for a freight carrier provided with rub rail or sunken
area structure accommodating the rear wheels of a stowed
semitrailer and also with means accommodating the fore end of
the semitrailer.
67 for rub rail or sunken area structure accommodating a
four-wheeled load bearer.
Subclass:
66
Wheeled load bearer accommodation:
This subclass is indented under subclass 52. Structure
particularly designed to accommodate such a load bearer as
includes rolling support means.
(1) Note. The "rolling support means" commonly but not
necessarily constitutes the running gear for road use; see
indented subclass 67 however, wherein are to be found
four-wheel vehicles having roller support structure having
utility for facilitating stowage, but impractical for road
use. [figure]
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
1 for a freight-carrier-mounted turntable for stowing a
wheeled vehicle, typically a semitrailer, on board; and
wherein wheel guide structure (e.g., track) is mounted on the
turntable and wherein, moreover, mating guide (track)
structure may further be mounted on the freight carrier.
Subclass:
67
Including wheel guide:
This subclass is indented under subclass 66. Structure in
which the freight carrier floor structure is provided with
means contacting the rolling support members for guiding or
for accommodating the supported load unit to or at its stowed
position. [figure]
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
57 for a freight carrier provided with such structure and
also with structure accommodating the fore end of the stowed
semitrailer.
65 for wheel guides of the rub rail type for accommodating a
semitrailer.
Subclass:
68
Accommodation of rigid wall container for bulk material:
This subclass is indented under subclass 52. Structure
particularly designed to accommodate such an enclosure as (a)
is form sustaining, and (b) contains fluent, particulate, or
aggregate material. [figure]
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
105, Railway Rolling Stock, subclass 270 for a container for
fluids pivoted on its axis between railway trucks so as to
reorient the outlet for pouring; and subclasses 358+ for tank
cars.
Subclass:
69
Load bearer tripped retainer*:
This subclass is indented under subclass 52. Structure
including a retainer for the load bearer including a part so
mounted and so positioned on the freight carrier as to be
moved as a result of contact with a load bearer which is
being stowed on the freight carrier.
(1) Note. The contact-induced movement may be of the reset
type; i.e., undergoing displacement to permit the load
carrier to move therepast to be finally positioned, provided
that the displacement is followed by spring, gravity, etc.,
induced resetting for ultimate retentive engagement.
[figure]
Subclass:
70
This subclass is indented under subclass 69. Retainer*
mounted on (corner pedestal)*: Structure in which a load
bearer retainer* is installed to extend and move through a
wall of a (corner pedestal)* so as to be load tripped upon
the load bearer corner(s) mating therewith. [figure]
Subclass:
71
Corner pedestal:
This subclass is indented under subclass 52. Structure
including a horizontal member engaging the meeting edges of a
corner of a load bearer and vertical members upstanding from
the outer edges of the horizontal member in position to
engage corresponding vertical surfaces of said load bearer
meeting edges to inhibit horizontal displacement of the load
bearer on the freight carrier in the direction both
longitudinally and transversely of the freight carrier; the
accommodating structure being positioned to maintain the load
bearer somewhat raised from the freight carrier surface.
(1) Note. The presence of the horizontal member merely upon
the upper surface of the freight carrier floor is adequate to
satisfy the "somewhat raised" requirement of this instant
subclass definition.
(2) Note. The disclosure is commonly directed, of course,
to a set of four corner pedestals for the respective four
corners of the load bearer. [figure]
Subclass:
72
Vertically displaceable, e.g., on horizontal axis:
This subclass is indented under subclass 71. Structure
including mounting means which permits displacement of the
corner pedestal between an upper position to maintain the
load bearer somewhat raised and a lower, generally nonuse,
position of the pedestal. [figure]
Subclass:
73
Including male-female retainer*:
This subclass is indented under subclass 72. Structure in
which the corner pedestal is provided with, or is constructed
to mount a retainer*, which is effective within the confines
of the vertical and horizontal pedestal members, to penetrate
a load bearer corner aperture. [figure]
Subclass:
74
Mounted on pedestal which is also slidable along track:
This subclass is indented under subclass 73. Structure in
which the corner pedestal which is provided with or which
mounts the retainer* is itself mounted on guide means for
movement toward or away from the location the corner of a
stowed load bearer is intended to occupy. [figure]
Subclass:
75
And slidable along track:
This subclass is indented under subclass 72. Structure in
which the freight carrier is provided with guide means
constraining the corner pedestal for movement there
along-toward and away from an intended location relative to
the corner of a stowed load bearer. [figure]
Subclass:
76
Including male-female retainer*:
This subclass is indented under subclass 71. Structure in
which the corner pedestal is provided with, or is constructed
to mount a retainer*, effective within the confines of the
horizontal and vertical pedestal members, to penetrate within
a load bearer corner recess. [figure]
Subclass:
77
Retainer:
This subclass is indented under subclass 52. Structure in
which the accommodating means is attached to the freight
carrier and engages a part of the stowed load bearer
adequately to effect securement thereto; i.e., to inhibit
displacement of the load carrier on the freight carrier in
both the lateral and vertical direction.
(1) Note. Inhibition of displacement in the lateral
direction is presumed when means inhibiting displacement in
the vertical direction is brought into play. However, merely
inhibiting displacement in the lateral direction will not be
assumed to constitute, in itself, retainer structure as
herein defined but will be recognized only as generic
accommodating means. Rigid material hold-down structure of
the hold-down type is predominantly the expedient by which to
inhibit vertical displacement of a load--and, typically,
lateral displacement as well (note, however, the load bearer
(load lashing retainer)* in subclass 85). The basics of a
hold-down is paraphrased from the definition of Class 248,
Supports, subclass 501, as follows: --form-sustaining
structure having an undersurface portion for engaging an
upwardly facing portion of a article to retain the article on
a support surface--; to wit, in the instant context, a load
bearer on a freight carrier surface. [figure]
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
57 for the accommodation of a semitrailer on a freight
carrier by means cooperating with fore and with aft sections
of the semitrailer, which means may be retainer*.
64 for the retention of a semitrailer on a freight carrier
by latch means on a stand retentively engaging the king pin
at the fore end of the semitrailer supported on the stand.
Subclass:
78
Multiunit retainer:
This subclass is indented under subclass 77. Structure in
which (a) the retainer includes parts particularly
interrelated for retaining a corresponding plurality of
stowed load bearers, or (b) there is further provided a
common operator to associate or disassociate a plurality of
retainers with respect to a corresponding plurality of load
bearer units.
(1) Note. Consonant with the scope thereof, the above
definition does not comprehend the customary plurality of
retainers which, in fact, act independently of one another in
their engagement with load bearers. Nor does this subclass
include the plurality of retainers; however, interrelated in
operation, for cooperating in retentively engaging different
parts of but a single load unit. [figure]
Subclass:
79
Oppositely directed latch pair to retain contiguous load
bearers:
This subclass is indented under subclass 78. Structure in
which the retainer is provided with lateral projections
extending in opposite directions and parallel to the surface
on which the load bearers are supported so as to be in
retentive engagement with a respective pair of side-by-side
load bearers. [figure]
Subclass:
80
Load bearer understructure retention, e.g., leg engaging:
This subclass is indented under subclass 77. Structure
including a part mounted on the freight carrier and
retentively engaging such a load bearer part as is positioned
or projects below the load-support surface thereof. [figure]
Subclass:
81
By insertion of completely separable retainer, e.g., bolt,
through aligned aperture:
This subclass is indented under subclass 80. Structure
wherein the retention is effected by the passage of a
hitherto independent elongated fastener through coaxial
apertures through each of the freight carrier and load bearer
parts.
(1) Note. The fastener was "hitherto independent" when
carried upon the person for use as a retainer. It is also
considered "hitherto independent" when hung from a chain or
the like at a convenient spot on the load bearer or freight
carrier surface. [figure]
Subclass:
82
Twist lock:
This subclass is indented under subclass 77. Structure
comprising a flanged shift the flange of which enters a load
bearer fitting past a restriction which partially blocks
egress, the shaft being then rotatable about its axis whereby
to turn the flange behind the ingress-blocking restriction
whereby to lock and retain the load bearer on the freight
carrier. [figure]
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
24, Buckles, Buttons, Clasps, etc., subclass 287 for a twist
lock joining adjacent load bearers; frequently when on a
freight carrier.
294, Handling: Hand and Hoist-Line Implements, subclass 81
for a handling device equipped with twist lock terminals to
enter the corner fittings of a load bearer for the handling
thereof, i.e., to load a load bearer on, or unload one from a
freight carrier.
Subclass:
83
Project-retract mounting:
This subclass is indented under subclass 82. Structure
including means which is on, or parallel to the support
surface of the load bearer on the freight carrier, which
means mounts the retainer for displacement between (a) an
operative position for entry into a load bearer fitting, and
(b) a nonuse position locating the retainer flange below the
level of that support surface.
(1) Note. The load bearer support surface could be the
floor or a bolster of the freight carrier or could be a
floor- or bolster-attached housing for the twist lock flanged
member. [figure]
Subclass:
84
Load bearer mounts active retainer received by static freight
carrier keeper:
This subclass is indented under subclass 77. Structure in
which the freight carrier includes a fixed member and the
load bearer is equipped with retainer structure including a
part movable into retentive engagement with said carrier
fixed member. [figure]
Subclass:
85
Load bearer (load lashing retainer)*:
This subclass is indented under subclass 77. Structure in
which the accommodating means is a (load lashing retainer)*.
[figure]
Subclass:
86
Including load bearer cushioning means:
This subclass is indented under subclass 77. Structure
comprising means so retaining the load bearer or so related
to the load bearer support or retaining structure as to
impart thereto recoverable movability so as to be movably
yieldable under an excessive or undesirable force and thereby
ward off the undesirable effect of that force.
(1) Note. The mere compression of a solid block is not
herein provided for. [figure]
Subclass:
87
Cushioned accommodation:
This subclass is indented under subclass 52. Structure
comprising means so participating in the accommodation of the
load bearer as to impart to the load bearer recoverable
movability so as to be yieldable under an excessive or
inadvertent force and thereby ward off the undesirable effect
of that force upon the load unit. [figure]
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
117 for a yieldable brace for a load unit, generally.
Subclass:
88
(Fore-and-aft direction slide cushioning means)*:
This subclass is indented under subclass 87. Structure so
related to the load bearer as to constitute (fore-and-aft
direction slide cushioning means)* therefor. [figure]
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
62 for (fore-and-aft direction slide cushioning means)* for
semitrailer stand-support accommodation.
Subclass:
89
Wall-to-wall socket-entering load bearer:
This subclass is indented under subclass 52. Structure in
which a wall of the freight carrier is provided with means
defining a recess, matched by a corresponding recess means on
an opposed wall, and the load bearer is provided with a
projection mating with said means for accommodation of the
load bearer on the freight carrier. [figure]
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
54 for a wall-to-wall socketed load bearer convertible to a
brace panel by being repositioned to extend wall-to-wall, but
vertically.
132 and 142, for a freight carrier having a wall-to-wall
brace panel with pin-in-socket panel-to-wall association.
144 for projection-in-aperture association of a wall-to-wall
brace bar with the freight carrier wall.
Subclass:
90
Load bearer accommodation by underside socketing:
This subclass is indented under subclass 52. Structure in
which, at the common plane whereat the load bearer
undersurface rests on the freight carrier floor, a projection
extends from one of these and enters a recess of the other to
inhibit lateral shifting of the load bearer on the floor.
[figure]
Subclass:
91
Pin-socket accommodation:
This subclass is indented under subclass 90. Structure in
which the projection is a localized male post member and the
recess is an aperture surrounding the member. [figure]
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
81 for a projection-in-fitting retainer* arrangement wherein
both projection and fitting are apertured and wherein the
apertures are alignable so as to receive a bolt or boltlike
member to retain the load bearer unit on the freight
carrier.
Subclass:
92
Rollerway:
This subclass is indented under subclass 52. Structure
including an assemblage of members each of which is so
mounted along the load-supporting surface of the freight
carrier as to be rotatable about its own individual axis, or
center for a sphere, and so projecting or projectable from
that surface as to be engageable with the undersurface of a
load bearer to facilitate movement thereof to an appropriate
location on the freight carrier. [figure]
Subclass:
93
Drop side car, side converts to ramp:
This subclass is indented under subclass 52. Structure
comprising a freight carrier component, usually side wall
member, hinged at an outside edge of the freight carrier
floor for swinging movement between (a) vertically upstanding
position constituting a barrier to the shifting movement of
the load unit past the freight carrier, and (b) a lowered
position to permit loading or unloading of the load unit
thereacross; the component being one in a parallel array
along said edge to substantially coincide with the edge
widths of load bearers intended to be arrayed along the
freight carrier. [figure]
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
244, Aeronautics, subclass 118.3 for an aircraft closure
panel swingably displaceable outwardly and downwardly to
constitute an on-ground loading ramp.
Subclass:
94
Load bearer abutment:
This subclass is indented under subclass 52. Structure
comprising a rigid member connected to and upstanding from
the floor of a freight carrier to engage and prevent lateral
movement of a stowed load bearer there past. [figure]
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
121 154 and 155, for dunnage members; i.e., free standing and
unconnected to the freight carrier to fill in spaces between
load units.
Subclass:
95
Between load bearer units:
This subclass is indented under subclass 94. Structure in
which the rigid upstanding member spans the space between and
thereby abuttingly separates adjacent load bearers on the
freight carrier. [figure]
Subclass:
96
LOAD LASHING RETAINER OR LOAD LASHING ADJUNCT:
This subclass is indented under the class definition.
Structure including (a) flexible member means to engage
lading on a freight carrier to control the lading against
inadvertent shifting during transportation, or (b) means
attachable to the freight carrier for securement of the
flexible member means thereto and, thereby, to the freight
carrier, or (c) an arrangement of lading, including the use
of flexible member means, to accomplish the purpose
hereinabove defined.
(1) Note. Attention is directed to the (1) Note proviso in
the definition of indented subclass 101 that an anchor (or
equivalent hardware) for a flexible member disclosed as
merely bracing the lading (along only one edge, as under
subclass(es) 117) is not barred from placement therein
(subclasses 101+). [figure]
Subclass:
97
Wraparound:
This subclass is indented under subclass 96. Structure
wherein the flexible means encircles the lading to effect
retention thereof on the freight carrier.
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[figure]
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
120 for a wraparound*-type retainer consisting however, of
an assembly of rigid material rod members (as opposed to
chain links) joined angularly and end-to-end to tightly
encompass a lading unit.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
224, Package and Article Carriers, 309 for wraparound means
for securing an article, e.g., package, to the roof of a
passenger vehicle.
Subclass:
98
Method:
This subclass is indented under subclass 97. Process
including the use of a wraparound* to retain lading on a
freight carrier to control inadvertent shifting thereof
during transportation. [figure]
Subclass:
99
Including angular surface guard, e.g., edge-around:
This subclass is indented under subclass 97. Subject matter
in which the encircled load unit has a rectangular or an
arcuate dimension and, therefor, includes a corner or a
curved outer surface location and in which the rigid material
member protectively intervenes at that location either (a)
between the lading and the flexible means encircling it, or
(b) as a connector between adjacent ends of flexible means
members. [figure]
Subclass:
100
Including tightener or tensioner:
This subclass is indented under subclass 97. Structure
including force-multiplying means to draw the flexible member
means in tight encirclement about lading, e.g., winch,
turnbuckle, jack screw, (but not mere linkage) or spring
means connected to the flexible member means in intervening
relation between the lading and the freight carrier to
provide a force constantly urging the flexible member means
into tight compaction about the lading. [figure]
Subclass:
101
Anchor:
This subclass is indented under subclass 96. Structure
comprising an attachment device secured to a freight carrier
surface at a location (usually one of a number of locations)
for securing an end of a flexible member thereto to leave the
remainder thereof available for use in constraining lading
against inadvertent shifting during transport on board the
carrier.
(1) Note. Disclosure that the attached flexible member is
used merely for bracing, as defined in subclass 117, will not
bar placement of the anchor subcombination in this locus
(subclasses 101+). [figure]
Subclass:
102
Multipurpose, e.g., combined, convertible:
This subclass is indented under subclass 101. Structure in
which the anchor location is both the tie piece* locus and
also the locus for structure which serves another purpose,
e.g., hold down, bracket, brace bar receiver, even for
retaining a second flexible member.
(1) Note. The plural uses may be simultaneous or
alternative and may, but need not necessarily, involve
rearrangement, modification, or substitution of parts.
[figure]
Subclass:
103
Including winch or tensioner:
This subclass is indented under subclass 101. Structure in
which the device is provided with tautening means which is
effective either by taking up a turn on the flexible member,
e.g., drum, or by augmenting the force applied through the
(tie piece)*. [figure]
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
254, Implements or Apparatus for Applying Pushing or Pulling
Force, 199 and 213+ for a cable tautening device, including
a tie piece to retain the end of a load lashing or binding
cable.
Subclass:
104
Track-guided anchor:
This subclass is indented under subclass 101. Structure
including an elongated member fixed to a surface of the
freight carrier and constructed to mount a tie piece* for
guided sliding movement to one of a plurality of locations
along the length of said member most suitable for the instant
load retaining arrangement. [figure]
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
10 and 11, for tiedown structure to retain a four-wheel
vehicle on a freight carrier, which structure includes
track-guided anchor structure; and for track-guided anchor
structure, per se, limited to this use.
115 for an elongated member which in itself provides an
array of anchor locations or which is provided with an array
of locations to which tie pieces are mounted; there being no
guide structure for communication between the locations.
Subclass:
105
Anchor-admitting cross-slotted track:
This subclass is indented under subclass 104. Structure in
which the elongated mounting member is formed with passage
means having at least one communicating side recess and the
flexible-member-retaining device is formed at its end with a
correspondingly relatively wide mounting portion receivable
through said side recess but too large for entry or escape
through any other part of the passage. [figure]
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
150 for a cross-slotted track for slidably guiding and
selectively locating the end of a brace bar along a freight
carrier wall.
Subclass:
106
Mounted on exposed and bordering structural member:
This subclass is indented under subclass 101. Structure in
which the device is affixed to or formed from a single
elongated structural member, e.g., top chord or bulb angle,
side sill of flat car, incorporated in and recognized as
basic carrier structure for the framing of the cargo space
available to the ambient, or to a door post of a box car.
[figure]
Subclass:
107
Project-retract (tie piece)*:
This subclass is indented under subclass 106. Structure in
which the device includes a (tie piece)* mounted for movement
from a nonuse position within the bounds of the exposed
surface configuration of the structural member to a position
maintained exposed therepast, as by force exerted on the
attached lading-engaging flexible member. [figure]
Subclass:
108
In exposed array therealong:
This subclass is indented under subclass 106. Structure in
which a row of (tie piece)* or anchor formations is mounted
or arranged on the framing member at loci whereat all are
substantially bordering the freight carrier contour and
available to the ambient. [figure]
Subclass:
109
And inboard-mounted anchor, e.g., recessed in car facing:
This subclass is indented under subclass 108. Structure
further including another flexible-member-retaining device
secured to the carrier within the confines (though not
necessarily the plane) of the framework. [figure]
Subclass:
110
Atop wall of open top freight carrier, e.g., bulb-angle
mounted:
This subclass is indented under subclass 108. Structure in
which a row of (tie pieces)* or anchor formations is arranged
along, or adjacent and parallel to, the uppermost edge of the
vertical body member of the freight carrier and thereby in an
exposed and bordering array because the freight carrier has
no top wall structure to thwart access thereto. [figure]
Subclass:
111
Project-retract (tie piece)*:
This subclass is indented under subclass 101. Subject matter
in which the (tie piece)* is mounted so as to be recessed
within the bounds of the mounting structure in the nonuse
position thereof and be shiftable to extend therebeyond and
be maintained in that position under the force applied to the
attached flexible, lading engaging member. [figure]
Subclass:
112
Recessed in car facing:
This subclass is indented under subclass 101. Structure in
which covering material is so formed or so mounted on a
surface of the freight carrier exposed to lading as to define
an inset at or along that surface; and in which anchor
structure, either the entire anchor or only the (tie piece)*
thereof, is so mounted as to be available only at the inset
and to be confined within the plane defined by the exposed
surface of the covering material. [figure]
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
107 for such a project-retract tie piece on a bordering
surface of a freight carrier open to the ambient.
111 for a project-retract tie piece which is recessed in
freight carrier facing in its nonuse position.
Subclass:
113
Recessed anchor array:
This subclass is indented under subclass 112. Structure in
which the attachment device for the flexible material member
essentially is, or includes elongated member means having a
row of anchor locations therealong, the anchor locations
being provided by (a) spaced formations shaped from (e.g.,
stricken from) the elongated member means to provide access
thereto for the end of the flexible member, or (b) the
arrangement of an elongated member and such backing, support,
or other adjacent freight carrier interior structure as
defines such spaced access formation, or (c) a spaced row of
(tie pieces)* added on (e.g., welded on) to the elongated
member means; the attachment device in any of these
constructions or arrangements being so surrounded by adjacent
structural details as to be accessible only at or within the
plane defined thereby. [figure]
Subclass:
114
Of attached (tie pieces)*, e.g., welded:
This subclass is indented under subclass 113. Structure in
which the anchor locations are defined by a row of individual
(tie pieces)* mounted along the elongated anchor array member
means at the anchor intervals and contained within the
exposed plane of the covering means. [figure]
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
113 the principal subclass, for the anchor array provided by
the elongated anchor member itself by means of formations
therealong at the anchor intervals and unitary therewith; or
by the way it is mounted and related to adjacent freight
carrier structure.
Subclass:
115
Array strip or formation:
This subclass is indented under subclass 101. Structure
comprising elongated member means, e.g., bar, strip, post;
and see (1) Note, below, fixed to the freight carrier surface
and provided at intervals along the length thereof either (a)
with the individual tie pieces*, or (b) with a row of unitary
formations or arrangements for the direct connection thereto
of the end of a lading engaging member.
(1) Note. The "elongated member means" herein defined may
be, in fact, part of wider panel structure (e.g., edge,
flange; see subclass 108) only when it is unmistakably
distinct from the rest of the panel and so narrow as hardly
to permit more than a single anchoring to occur at a single
location along the row (two would be rare and could occur
only under the limitations of subclass 102). [figure]
Subclass:
116
Including mounting means for facile assembly or removal of
(tie piece)*:
This subclass is indented under subclass 101. Structure in
which the attachment device includes a (tie piece)* provided
with means mounting the device for ready securement to and
disengagement from the freight carrier.
(1) Note. The requirement for either facile securement or
disengagement is met where either is disclosed and it is
obvious that a reverse manipulation will complete both.
Facility in assembling and removal is presumably negated by
the necessity to use a tool: but not necessarily. Delivering
a light blow to unwedge the device, for example, need not
necessarily negate operational facility.
(2) Note. Performance of facile assembly and removal may
occur for the tie piece and anchor mounting as a unit; or by
association and disassociation of the tie piece alone from
the means which mounts it on the anchor receiver and remains
with it. [figure]
Subclass:
117
YIELDABLE BRACE:
This subclass is indented under the class definition.
Structure comprising accommodating means which (a) is in
whole or in part of flaccid material so as to yield upon
application against lading when the means is installed on the
freight carrier, or (b) subsequent to positioning or
installation on the freight carrier is in such direct
engagement with the load unit and is of such deformable
construction that it will undergo a change of shape upon
receiving force from lading disturbed by untoward occurrence
during shipment. [figure]
Subclass:
118
Panel:
This subclass is indented under subclass 117. Structure in
which the accommodating means is a deformable member of
significant length and breadth conformingly to engage a
surface area of the load unit. [figure]
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
121 (e.g., 123+, indented thereunder), for load bracing panel
means in which the member directly engaging a surface of the
load unit is rigid and essentially nondeformable but is
provided with yieldable means urging the panel into bracing
augmentation with the load unit, compare, for example,
subclass 119 indented hereunder, with subclass 125, indented
under 123.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
150, Purses, Wallets, and Protective Covers, 154 for
flexible covers for the protection of articles, generally.
Subclass:
119
Inflated or inflatable:
This subclass is indented under subclass 118. Structure
wherein the load unit engaging member is a wall of a bag
which is filled with fluid or is in communication with a
fluid source of reception of filling fluid for its
accommodating function. [figure]
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
119 for a squeeze device; i.e., an inflated or inflatable
bag for exerting lading-engaging force upon a pair of brace
panels on opposite sides of the bag.
128 for pneumatic means including a bag between a brace
panel and a freight carrier compartment wall for exerting
lading-engaging force upon the panel.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
280, Land Vehicles, 728 for a passenger restraint inflatable
bag in a land vehicle.
Subclass:
120
RIGID MEMBER RETAINER, E.G., WRAP-AROUND TYPE:
This subclass is indented under the class definition.
Structure comprising a rigid material retainer*, e.g.,
form-sustaining, elongate rod members, as opposed to chain
links, articulatively or angularly joined to one another at
their ends to pass over and to encompass a load unit in tight
encirclement thereof.
(1) Note. 270 encompassment against a planar freight
carrier surface is adequate for this subclass definition.
[figure]
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
97 for chain means for flexibly encircling lading or for the
combination of flexible and rigid wraparound members, in
either case to constitute a flexible (retainer)*
(wraparound)*.
Subclass:
121
LOAD BRACING MEANS:
This subclass is indented under the class definition.
Structure comprising a brace; i.e., rigid member means for
contacting a vertical side of lading on a freight carrier to
block inadvertent lateral shifting of the lading in transit.
(1) Note. This (the principal) subclass contains dunnage
members; i.e., freely insertable elements between and in
contact with adjacent load units to fill the intervening
space. [figure]
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
154 for honeycomb-shaped dunnage.
155 for dunnage elements shaped to contact angularly related
load unit surfaces.
Subclass:
122
Bifacial brace:
This subclass is indented under subclass 121. Structure in
which the lading-engaging member means includes a pair of
rigid lading-engaging panels or frames provided with means
interconnecting them for movement away from one another and
for maintaining them thus apart in either spaced parallelism
or opposite divergence; the bi-member means thereby
constituted being locatable in a space between adjacent load
units with each member in blocking engagement with a
respective confronting side of each load unit. [figure]
Subclass:
123
Squeeze:
This subclass is indented under subclass 122. Structure
further including fluid pressure, electrically powered or
force-multiplying means, e.g., jack screw, ratchet, (but not
mere linkage means) operative between the lading-engaging
members to urge them apart for augmenting the blocking force
on the lading. [figure]
Subclass:
124
Powered or pressurized:
This subclass is indented under subclass 123. Structure
wherein the means to urge the blocking member apart to
augment the blocking force on the lading is fluid pressure or
electrically powered means. [figure]
Subclass:
125
Intervening squeeze bag:
This subclass is indented under subclass 124. Structure
including a closed, flexible, fluid-filled container in
intervening contact with and between the blocking members and
of a dimension at least approaching that of the area or
length of the members. [figure]
Subclass:
126
Track guided:
This subclass is indented under subclass 123. Structure (a)
including means installed on the freight carrier and
extending longitudinally therealong, (b) and in engagement
with a conformingly shaped edge portion or added-on part of
at least one of the lading-engaging members, (c) to constrain
longitudinal movement of a member along the freight carrier
to a position effective for lading-blocking engagement.
[figure]
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
125 for squeeze structure of the construction which includes
an intervening squeeze bag and which may be track mounted.
Subclass:
127
Brace panel with wall-to-lading adjustment means:
This subclass is indented under subclass 121. Structure
comprising a rigid, planar-face lading engaging and bracing
member and means at, or adjacent to the wall of a freight
carrier so movably related to the member and to the wall as
to displace the member, upon movement thereof, into load
bracing contact therewith, or into enhancement of such
contact [figure]
Subclass:
128
Forcing, e.g., motorized, pressurized, or adjusted by
force-multiplying means:
This subclass is indented under subclass 127. Structure
further including means urged by fluid pressure or motive
power or through the provision of force multiplying
structure, e.g., turnbuckle, jack screw, but excluding mere
linkage, to compel the shifting of the lading engaging and
bracing member to its operative position abutting the lading.
[figure]
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
123 and 126, indented thereunder, for force multiplying
means for urging the individual panels of a bifacial brace in
the directions away from one another more tightly to brace
load units at either side of the respective panels.
124 indented under 123, for motor powered or fluid pressure
means for effecting the same.
Subclass:
129
Panel or frame, wall-to-wall:
This subclass is indented under subclass 121. Structure in
which the rigid member means has a planar contour of such
width and height dimensions as to be capable of substantially
spanning the transverse dimension of the freight carrier, in
the horizontal dimension of said means, and to extend to
significant height vertically.
(1) Note. Frame structure defining a substantially planar
contour is considered to constitute a panel under the above
definition.
(2) Note. The rigid member means in this and the indented
subclasses is referred to in disclosures classified hereunder
as a bracing member, at other times as a bulkhead. In either
case the member is assumed to be effective for bracing a load
unit, in any event, to be so similarly shaped and installed
as to be classified together regardless of how referred to
and, by implication, used. Some few such panel or frame
members are herein classified even when not positioned
wall-to-wall recognizing, for example, that dimensions
appropriately "wall-to-wall" in a freight car do not aptly
apply to the hold of a ship, where the panel member may be
installed post to post. [figure]
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
54 for a brace panel convertible to wall-to-wall
socket-entering load bearer by being repositioned from the
vertical bracing position to the horizontal load bearer
supporting position.
Subclass:
130
Track mounted:
This subclass is indented under subclass 129. Structure in
which the planar-face member means is provided with a
projection (usually roller equipped), and in which the
freight carrier is equipped with means extending along the
length thereof which is shaped to captively guide the
extension for sliding or rolling movement therealong to
position said member means at a selected one of a number of
compartment-spanning positions intermediate the ends of the
freight carrier. [figure]
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
125 for bifacial squeeze structure commonly track mounted
and extending wall-to-wall, which latter squeeze structure
includes an intervening air bag.
126 for a track mounted bifacial squeeze intervening,
commonly wall-to-wall, between adjacent load units.
Subclass:
131
Wall-to-wall pair, oppositely swinging:
This subclass is indented under subclass 130. Structure in
which the planar face member means comprises a pair of planar
members of a width substantially half that of the transverse
dimension of the freight carrier interior, the members being
turnably mounted on respective individual pivots between
positions (a) defining a common plane transversely spanning
said interior, and (b) spaced substantial parallelism to one
another and adjacent parallelism to each respective freight
carrier side wall. [figure]
Subclass:
132
Including pin-in-aperture latch:
This subclass is indented under subclass 130. Structure in
which the planar face member means is provided with a
pin-shaped element extending or extensible from an edge
thereof and the freight carrier is provided with a series of
conformingly shaped openings; i.e., holes or slots, extending
along the length thereof for the selective reception of the
pin-shaped element to fixedly lock the planar member means at
a selected position along the length of the freight carrier.
[figure]
Subclass:
133
Track is apertured to defined both (a) a sprocket wheel rack,
and (b) a series of latch pin receivers:
This subclass is indented under subclass 132. Structure in
which the guide for the movement of the planar face member
means, or immediately adjacent structure fixedly secured to
the guide, is provided with (a) a series of openings
therealong to cooperate with sprocket means rolling
therealong, and (b) with another series of openings to define
lock pin receivers. [figure]
Subclass:
134
Gang-operated latch pins:
This subclass is indented under subclass 133. Structure
including operating means so linked to a spaced plurality of
lock elements as sequentially or simultaneously to move them
into or out of lock position with respective lock apertures.
[figure]
Subclass:
135
Panel movable to out-of-way position:
This subclass is indented under subclass 132. Structure in
which the planar face member means is shiftable to a
nonblocking position close to and substantially parallel to
one of the freight carrier interior surfaces. [figure]
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
131 for panel structure constituted from a pair member which
is positionable to complement one another for the
wall-to-wall arrangement and are individually and oppositely
swingable about respective hinges adjacent opposite freight
carrier walls to out-of-way adjacency parallel to these
walls.
Subclass:
136
Winched:
This subclass is indented under subclass 135. Structure
including cable and pulley means, the pulley being attached
to the freight carrier and the cable extending from the
pulley and attached adjacent the distal end of the pivoted
panel or frame member for turning it about the pivot at its
other end to an out-of-the way position adjacent and parallel
to a freight carrier, usually the upper surface thereof.
[figure]
Subclass:
137
Gang-operated latch pins:
This subclass is indented under subclass 132. Structure
including operating means so linked to a spaced plurality of
lock elements as sequentially or simultaneously to move them
into or out of locking engagement with the respective lock
apertures. [figure]
Subclass:
138
Including pin which latches into track aperture:
This subclass is indented under subclass 137. Structure in
which the spaced plurality of members includes one which is
movable into or out of lock engagement with one of the lock
openings which is in a series formed along the
panel-movement-controlling guide. [figure]
Subclass:
139
Track is apertured to receive latch pin:
This subclass is indented under subclass 132. Structure in
which the guide for the sliding movement of the planar face
member means is provided with a series of openings along the
length thereof for the selective reception of the pin-shaped
lock element. [figure]
Subclass:
140
Deployed structure or comprising individually installed
parts:
This subclass is indented under subclass 129. Structure in
which the planar face rigid member means consists of a number
of parts (e.g., planking, linked members) and in which (a)
each part is sequentially installed along a common vertical
plane in wall-to-wall spanning arrangement to define, in the
composite, the planar face panel structure, or (b) members
are so pivotally linked to one another as to be installed by
extending them from substantially side-by-side parallelism to
compartment-spanning configuration. [figure]
Subclass:
141
Latched to side wall aperture or slot:
This subclass is indented under subclass 140. Structure in
which the parts are installed by the reception of a
projection at their ends into an opening of a receiver
therefor mounted at or formed from a side wall of the freight
carrier.
(1) Note. The projection-receiving opening may be defined
by an endless or discontinued wall configuration. [figure]
Subclass:
142
Having aperture-entering latch pin:
This subclass is indented under subclass 129. Structure in
which the planar face rigid member means is provided with a
pin-shaped element extending or extensible from an edge
thereof receivable in a conformingly shaped opening formed at
a freight carrier surface to fixedly lock said member means
in the substantially wall-to-wall position at a location
intermediate the end walls of the freight carrier. [figure]
Subclass:
143
Brace bar, wall-to-wall:
This subclass is indented under subclass 121. Structure for
use in a freight carrier having opposed side walls between
its ends; and in which the rigid member means constitutes an
elongate compartment-spanning member provided with end means
for securement to the opposed side walls of the freight
carrier at the location where it abuts lading and inhibits
shifting thereof during transit.
(1) Note. A brace bar receiver either installed along or
formed from the opposed side walls and cooperating with the
end means of the spanning member for its securement is
provided for hereunder (for which see indented subclass
152).
(2) Note. The limitation "end means" is limited to one of
the usual pair of structures under the subclass definition to
function at one of the pair of brace bar ends. [figure]
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
129 for a wall-to-wall brace panel at times referred to as a
"bulkhead".
Subclass:
144
Aperature-entering wall-to-wall connection at the end:
This subclass is indented under subclass 143. Structure in
which one of (a) the end means, or (b) the brace bar receiver
is provided with a passage and the other includes a member
(or members) which enters, substantially fills, and is
blockingly bounded on all sides of the passage.
(1) Note. This subclass has been defined to provide for
such a passage as has an endless border completely to block
movement of the contained member laterally therepast. Hence,
the passage is not a slot or any other formation which has a
discontinuity negating such endless border configuration.
See subclass 150 for an end-fitting-receiving passage which
is a cross slot in open communication with an elongated
passage constituting a track; hence, not provided for in
subclasses 144+. [figure]
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
132 and 142, for a brace panel installed wall-to-wall by the
use of aperture-entering latch pin.
Subclass:
145
Axially adjustable toward wall, e.g., telescopic:
This subclass is indented under subclass 144. Structure in
which the compartment-spanning member includes a part which
is shiftable relative to the remainder in the direction of
the longitudinal axis of the whole to compensate for
differences in space between opposed receivers therefor, or
otherwise to facilitate compartment-spanning installation.
(1) Note. The shiftable part is commonly an end fitting
which mounts the end means or itself constitutes end means in
that it includes a projection; i.e., pin or hook member,
which enters the aperture of the brace bar receiver for
installation between the freight carrier walls. [figure]
Subclass:
146
Axially adjustable end fitting, with pivoted
aperture-entering part:
This subclass is indented under subclass 145. Structure in
which the projection (pin or hook) is swingably mounted on
the end fitting for entry of the projection through the
passage in the brace bar receiver mounted on the freight
carrier wall. [figure]
Subclass:
147
Aperture-entering duo:
This subclass is indented under subclass 146. Structure in
which the swingably mounted projection is one of a pair of
aperture-entering projections.
(1) Note. In this subclass (a) each aperture-ending
projection of the pair may be mounted on its own swinging
part, (b) both mounted on the same swinging part, (c) one of
the pair not swingably mounted on the end fitting at all, or
(d) any arrangement of an aperture-entering pair of
projections, provided that one of the pair swingably enters
the aperture, as hereinabove defined. The projections may
both enter the same aperture or each enter a separate
aperture. [figure]
Subclass:
148
Axially adjustable end fitting has integral aperture-entering
part and pivotally mounted cooperating latch part:
This subclass is indented under subclass 145. Structure in
which the end fitting is an attachment member which includes
(a) a projecting part (pin or hook) shiftable as a unit
therewith for entry into a receiver aperture, and (b) another
part mounted adjacent thereto for swinging movement toward
the free end of said first part to a position contiguous with
the receiver surface to interfere with the removal of the
said first part from the receiver aperture. [figure]
Subclass:
149
Spring biased:
This subclass is indented under subclass 145. Structure
including resilient means effective between the relatively
shiftable parts to urge them apart or together and thereby
toward or away from the freight carrier side wall.
(1) Note. The direction in which the parts are urged is
usually toward the freight carrier wall and the installed
receiver; however, an opposite bias relation and effect (away
from the wall and receiver) is herein also provided; to
tighten an end part hook portion against an inside wall of a
receiver aperture after installation of the hooked end
therein. [figure]
Subclass:
150
Track mounted, for slidable adjustment along the car wall:
This subclass is indented under subclass 143. Structure in
which the brace bar receiver extends longitudinally a
substantial distance between the ends of the freight carrier
and is configured to cooperate with the end means of the
compartment-spanning member to guide the member for
displacement within the freight carrier through said
distance. [figure]
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
8 for track-mounted structure for a retainer for a stowed
vehicle.
74 and 75, for a track-mounted corner pedestal on which a
load bearer is retained or merely accommodated,
respectively.
104 for a track-mounted load lashing anchor.
130 for track-mounted brace panel structure.
Subclass:
151
Wall-to-wall force fit; or having wall-piercing end:
This subclass is indented under subclass 143. Structure in
which the compartment-spanning member is retained between the
side walls either (a) by the tightness of the engagement
therewith, or (b) by means of a wall-penetrating prong or
nail. [figure]
Subclass:
152
Brace bar receiver:
This subclass is indented under subclass 143. Structure
comprising means either installed along or formed from
opposed side walls of the freight carrier for cooperating
with the end means of the elongate spanning member for
securement of one to the other. [figure]
Subclass:
153
Brace post:
This subclass is indented under subclass 121. Structure in
which the rigid member means is an elongated, vertically
upstanding member, or group of members unattached to one
another; and in which the freight carrier includes means or
formations for the attachment or positioning of the member
thereon in load accommodating juxtapositioning [figure]
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
105, Railway Rolling Stock, 380 for stakes for bracing
lading at the edge of a freight car; and subclasses 390+ for
stake pockets.
296, Land Vehicles: Bodies and Tops, subclass 43 for a land
vehicle body having a stake to hold its load in place.
Subclass:
154
Honeycomb:
This subclass is indented under subclass 121. Structure
which is free-standing, i.e., unconnected to the freight
carrier and abuts lading to fill otherwise unoccupied space,
the structure defining a parallel array, or arrays, of
formations of endless configuration constituted from
interconnected sets of thin panel portions with faces spaced
from one another except at their serially interconnected
edges. [figure]
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS:
428, Stock Material or Miscellaneous Articles, 116 for
nonmetallic honeycomb stock material; and subclass 593 for
metallic honeycomb stock material.
Subclass:
155
Edge-around dunnage brace:
This subclass is indented under subclass 121. Structure the
unit of which is a member freely intervening, i.e.,
unconnected to the carrier, between load units of angular
configuration, the member defining a part or spaced parts of
complementing angular configuration whereby contactively to
extend about both sides of the edge defining the angular
configuration. [figure]
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
41 for an edge-around corner guard used in a lashed-together
group of regularly contoured articles.
90 for the edge-around guard used in wraparound lashing of
indiscriminate freight.
Subclass:
156
MISCELLANEOUS:
This subclass is indented under the class definition.
Structure not provided in for in any other preceding
subclass. [figure]
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