Class 037 :: EXCAVATING

Definition

Subclasses List

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