This class provides for subject matter relating to the following when not provided for elsewhere:The control or treatment of water in open channels, naturally or artificially occurring bodies of water, or of water otherwise lying on the earth's surface.
The control or treatment of earth material is situ, and the securement or stabilization of structures in the earth.
Storage of fluid in underground cavities and disposal of waste in the earth.
Tunnel construction or pipe or cable laying or retrieving.
Apparatus and methods by which underwater work operations may be performed.
Apparatus and methods for launching a marine vessel into or removing it from a body of water, transportation of a vessel across dry land, or exposing a normally wetted surface, e.g., a vessel's hull, to the atmosphere. |
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1 • MARINE VESSEL PORTAGE, LAUNCHING, OR REMOVING
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2 • Rail mounted carrier
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3 • Lifting
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4 • Dry dock
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5 • Fabrication
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6 • Gate
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7 • Vessel support (e.g., bilge or keel block)
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8 • PRESSURIZED CAISSON
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9 • Having lifting cable
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10 • Movable relative to mobile support
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11 • MEANS TO EXPOSE A NORMALLY WETTED SURFACE,E.G., COFFERDAM, ETC.
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12 • Contoured to wetted surface, e.g., side hung ship caisson
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13 • Having transport, placement, or dislodgement means
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14 • Connectable sections
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15 • BANK, SHORE, OR BED PROTECTION
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16 • Revetment
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17 • Revetment laying
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18 • Continuous concrete or concrete filled bag
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19 • Mattress
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20 • Hinged concrete sections
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21 • Wave or flow dissipation
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22 • Fluid application
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23 • Floatable dissipator submerged at site
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24 • Artificial seaweed
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25 • Bed supported subsurface dissipator
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26 • Floating
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27 • Openwork
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28 • Flexibly suspended from or pivoted to support
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29 • Polypod
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30 • Openwork or concave face
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31 • Associated with solid wall
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32 • With fabric
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33 • Interfitted or interleaved members
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34 • Jetty
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35 • Spaced members
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36 • DRAINAGE OR IRRIGATION
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37 • Control means responsive to sensed condition
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38 • Including subsurface moisture barrier
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39 • Having regulation of flow through channel
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40 • At outlet or intake
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41 • Riser or standpipe outlet or intake
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42 • End cap
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43 • Porous or apertured pipe, flume, or tileway
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44 • Uniform discharge
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45 • Porous
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46 • Earthen bottom
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47 • Flow through joint
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48 • Open seam or shielded outlet
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49 • Corrugated
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50 • Porous waterway, e.g., sand drain, etc.
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51 • Branched flow
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52 • FLUID CONTROL, TREATMENT, OR CONTAINMENT
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53 • Fluid storage in earthen cavity
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54 • With indicator or alarm means
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55 • Cavity construction
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56 • Including cooling or heating of material surrounding cavity
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57 • Earth treatment
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58 • Dissolving earth
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59 • Supply or recovery of stored fluid by separate fluid
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60 • Floatable matter containment
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60.5 • Logging device for guiding logs
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61 • Ice
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62 • Barrier formed by fluid
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63 • Floating barrier
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64 • Submergible
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65 • With means to seal space between barrier and fixed structure
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66 • With barrier storage or deployment feature
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67 • Quick release float
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68 • Inflatable or deflatable
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69 • Self-inflating
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70 • Having joint detail
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71 • Having hinged joint between rigid sections
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72 • With reinforcing feature
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73 • Erosive scouring
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74 • Settling of suspended matter in a specific location (e.g., at a scoured pier)
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75 • Extracting power from moving fluid
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76 • Wave or tide
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77 • With flow restrictor or ramp
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78 • Associated with dam
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79 • Wave generation or enhancement
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80 • Flow control
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81 • Fishway
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82 • Elevator
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83 • Closed channel
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84 • Navigable canal
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85 • Having lock
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86 • Movable lifting member
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87 • Water gate or adjustable weir
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88 • Center flow
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89 • Uniform discharge
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90 • Removable
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91 • Flexible
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92 • Condition responsive
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93 • To weight of liquid separated from a main body
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94 • To pressure on pivoted water gate
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95 • With latch for closed position
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96 • Float
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97 • Having separate float chamber
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98 • Roller or flexible
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99 • Swinging
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100 • About horizontal axis
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101 • Overflow
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102 • Collapsible
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103 • Sliding
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104 • Vertical
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105 • Gate unseating
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106 • With lift mechanism or latch
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107 • Artificial water barrier (e.g., dam, levee, etc.)
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108 • Having spillway
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109 • Having impervious core
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110 • Hollow or buttressed
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111 • With ballast compartment or cavity
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112 • Vertical wall buttress
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113 • Tension stayed
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114 • Connectable sections
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115 • Flexible
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116 • In situ construction
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117 • Earthen
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118 • Open channel
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119 • Flume
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120 • Elbow or tee
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121 • Joint
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122 • Including U-clamp
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123 • With crossbar
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124 • Culvert
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125 • Terminal or head
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126 • Serially connected segments
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127 • Intake
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128.1 • SOIL REMEDIATION
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128.15 • In situ contaminant removal or stabilization
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128.2 • Vacuuming contaminant
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128.25 • With fluid application
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128.3 • At spaced locations
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128.35 • With heat
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128.4 • With heat
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128.45 • With treatment
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128.5 • Chemical
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128.55 • With heat
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128.6 • Temperature
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128.65 • Vitrify
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128.7 • With treatment
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128.75 • Chemical
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128.8 • With heat
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128.85 • Temperature
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128.9 • Vitrify
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129.1 • SUBTERRANEAN WASTE DISPOSAL, CONTAINMENT, OR TREATMENT
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129.15 • Compacting
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129.2 • With treatment of waste
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129.25 • Chemical
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129.27 • With heat
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129.28 • Temperature
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129.3 • Solidification
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129.35 • Earthen formation
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129.4 • Hydraulic fracture
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129.45 • Waste barrier, containment, or monitoring
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129.5 • Monitoring, detecting, or sensing
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129.55 • Complete containment structure
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129.57 • With drainage or collection
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129.6 • Floor, pit, or wall
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129.65 • With treatment
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129.7 • With drainage or collection
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129.75 • Flexible sheet or liner
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129.8 • Rigid sectional members
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129.85 • Drainage or collection
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129.9 • Daily cover
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129.95 • Landfill
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130 • TEMPERATURE MODIFICATION OR CONTROL OF EARTHEN FORMATION
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131 • Heating
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132 • UNDERGROUND PASSAGEWAY, E.G., TUNNEL
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133 • Vertical
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134 • Sectional
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135 • Seal or joint
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136 • Subaqueous
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137 • Below bed
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138 • Boring
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139 • With auxiliary tunnel
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140 • By axially overlapped members
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141 • Shield
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142 • With transverse force application feature
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143 • Direction control
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144 • Door or bulkhead
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145 • Discrete independently advanceable earth supporting segments
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146 • Lining installation
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147 • Seal
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148 • Work platform
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149 • Cut and cover
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150.1 • Lining
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150.2 • By spraying of settable material (e.g., concrete)
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151 • Panel
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152 • With sealing feature
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153 • With separate fastening means between adjacent panels
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154.1 • SUBTERRANEAN OR SUBMARINE PIPE OR CABLE LAYING, RETRIEVING, MANIPULATING, OR TREATING
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155 • Cast in situ
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156 • With forming or cutting of pipe or cable
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157 • With protection or indication of pipe or trench
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158 • Submerging, raising, or manipulating line of pipe or cable in or from marine environment
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159 • Entrenched or buried
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160 • Condition responsive
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161 • Entrenching or burying apparatus guided by pre-positioned pipe or cable
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162 • With apparatus buoyancy control
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163 • With bottom fluidizing means
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164 • By towing submerged sled with attached plow and pipe or cable guide
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165 • With means to forcibly feed or to control tension in pipe or cable
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166 • Facilitated by extension from line-laying vessel
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167 • Articulated segments
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168.1 • With causing or controlling the deformation of a line
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168.2 • Buckle arrestor for pipe
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168.3 • Pipe laying from a reel
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168.4 • Pipe tensioner
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169 • With assembling of line structure
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170 • By joining successive sections of line
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171 • By control of buoyancy
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172 • With anchoring of line
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173 • With raising of line from marine floor
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174 • By means advancing along terrain and guiding pipe or cable into subterranean position
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175 • Condition responsive
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176 • Tape or strip
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177 • With positive feed or means to vary tension in pipe or cable
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178 • Simultaneous laying of plural parallel pipes or cables
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179 • With backfill or bedding material conveying or dispensing means
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180 • Including trench forming plow with pipe or cable guide
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181 • With depth adjustment
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182 • With plow vibrating or oscillating means
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183 • Guide integral with or rigidly fixed to plow
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183.5 • Moving cable within pipe
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184 • Advancing subterranean length of pipe or cable
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184.1 • Repair, replacement, or improvement
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184.2 • Installing liner
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184.3 • Pipe splitting, breaking, or expanding
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184.4 • Supporting, anchoring, or positioning of pipe or cable
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184.5 • Plural pipe sections
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185 • DIVING
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186 • Suit or accessory therefor
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187 • Rigid element
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188 • Underwater docking or mooring
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189 • With communication between inhabitable enclosures
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190 • Remote control
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191 • From surface
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192 • With air lock
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193 • With pressure equalization
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194 • With continuous surface access
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195.1 • MARINE STRUCTURE OR FABRICATION THEREOF
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196 • With work deck vertically adjustable relative to floor
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197 • Sectional leg
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198 • Longitudinally extending projections or recesses
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199 • Frictional gripper
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200 • By buoyancy control
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201 • With horizontally movable work deck
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202 • With pivotal connection between work deck and base
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203 • Floatable to site and supported by marine floor
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204 • With assembly of sectional supporting structure at site
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205 • With ballasting means to sink or position structure at site
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206 • Detachable from structure
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207 • Compartment in base
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208 • And leg depending from base
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209 • Separable transport means
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210 • Storage container
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211 • Structure protection
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211.1 • Corrosion prevention
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212 • Fender
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213 • Roller type
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214 • Having coil spring
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215 • Resilient block
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216 • Sleeve or coating
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217 • In or on frozen media
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218 • Dock
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219 • Floating
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220 • Hinged
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221 • Vertically adjustable
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222 • Cast in situ
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223 • Installing means
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223.1 • Tension leg platform
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224 • With anchoring of structure to marine floor
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224.1 • Pressure holding or loosening means
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224.2 • By riser pipe
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224.3 • Having flexible segment
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224.4 • Having tensioner
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225 • By grouting preformed structure
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226 • Including floor modifying means
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227 • By pile extending through sleeve in structure
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228 • Pile driving
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229 • FOUNDATION
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230 • Underpinning
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231 • Columnar structure (e.g., pier, pile)
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232 • Process or apparatus for installing
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233 • Casting in situ hardenable fluent material
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234 • With heating, cooling, or explosion
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235 • With subsequent moving
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236 • Subsurface dispensing of material for flow toward surface
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237 • Forming subsurface enlargement
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238 • Preformed enlargement cavity
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239 • Providing embedded metallic reinforcement
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240 • Dispensing fluent material while withdrawing dispenser
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241 • Dispensing auger
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242 • Driven dispenser with separable tip
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243 • Withdrawing form structure
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244 • With anchoring of structure
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245 • Driving removable wall supporting core
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246 • Diametrically retractable core
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247 • Fluid pressure actuated
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248 • With subsurfacr fluid discharge
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249 • Caisson or hollow shaft
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250 • Comprising series of connected longitudinal sections having diverse compositions
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251 • With joint or connection between sections of similar material
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252 • Between concrete sections
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252.1 • Pile having screw threads
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253 • With driving or cutting tip
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254 • Longitudinally ribbed
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255 • With end cap
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256 • Concrete
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257 • With form or casing
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258.1 • EARTH TREATMENT OR CONTROL
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259.1 • Rock or earth bolt or anchor
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259.2 • Frangible bolt
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259.3 • Expandable tube
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259.4 • Bolt having wedge expander
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259.5 • With settable material feature
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259.6 • Breaking canister or packet
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262 • With retaining wall
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263 • Chemical
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264 • Organic
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265 • Bituminous
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266 • Cementitious (e.g., grouting)
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267 • Filling substerranean cavity (e.g., underground wall)
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268 • Lining
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269 • Injector
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270 • Impermeabilization
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271 • Compaction
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272 • Shoring, bracing, or cave-in prevention
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273 • Cribbing
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274 • Sheet piles
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275 • Concrete
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276 • Metal
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277 • C or I sections
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278 • Head and claw interlock
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279 • With separate fastening, reinforcing or sealing means
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280 • Cellular
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281 • Bulb and socket interlock
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282 • Trench shoring
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283 • Shield type
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284 • Retaining wall
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285 • Pile and panel
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286 • Concrete
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287 • Cast in situ
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287.1 • Cast in situ
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288 • Roof support
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289 • Inflatable
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290 • Jack
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291 • Mobile
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292 • Position restoring
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293 • With canopy extension
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294 • Telescoping
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295 • Cantilevered
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296 • With rubble shield
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297 • With contour following feature
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298 • Under load advanceable
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299 • Self-advanceable
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300 • Paired
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301 • Nested
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302 • Control system
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302.1 • Subterranean roof plate
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302.2 • Cable or strap support
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302.3 • Mesh support
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302.4 • Ground stabilization or reinforcement
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302.5 • Vibration dampener
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302.6 • Erosion protection
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302.7 • Net, fabric, or sheet type
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303 • MISCELLANEOUS
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