Table 4. Revised codes for "Hydraulic and Earth Engineering" from 

 the Manual of Classification of Patents . --Continued 



CLASS >)05 HYDRAULIC AND EARTH ENGINEERING 



JANUARY 1979 



138 

 139 

 1140 



mi 



1112 



i':3 

 1illl 



115 



lis 

 117 

 118 

 119 

 150 

 151 

 152 

 153 



155 

 156 



157 

 158 



159 

 160 



161 



162 

 163 

 161 



167 

 168 



169 

 170 



171 

 172 

 173 



171 



175 

 176 



177 



178 



179 



180 



181 

 182 



183 



181 



185 

 186 

 187 



UNDERGROUND PASSAGEWAY, E.G., TUNNEL 

 .Boring 



.With auxiliary tunnel 

 ..By axially overlapped members 



.Shield 

 ...With transverse force application 

 feature 

 ..Direction control 

 ...Door or bulkhead 

 ..Discrete independently advanceable 



earth supporting segments 

 ..Lining installation 

 ..Seal 



.Work platform 

 .Cut and cover 

 .Lining 

 .Panel 

 ...With sealing feature 

 ...With separate fastening means between 



adjacent panels 

 PIPE OR CASLE LAYING, RETRIEVING, OR 



UNDERWATER MANIPULATION 

 .Cast in situ 

 .With forming or cutting of pipe or 



cable 

 .With protection or indication of pipe 



or trench 

 .Submerging, raising, or manipulating 

 line of pipe or cable in or from 

 marine environment 

 ..Entrenched or buried 

 -Condition responsive 

 •Entrenching or burying apparatus 

 guided by pre-positioned pipe or 

 cable 

 ..With apparatus buoyancy control 



With bottom fluldizing means 



...By towing submerged sled with 



attached plow and pipe or cable 

 guide 

 ...With means to forcibly feed or to 



control tension in pipe or cable 

 .Facilitated by extension from 



line-laying vessel 

 ..Articulated segments 

 .With causing or controlling the 



deformation of a line 

 .With assembling of ling structure 

 ..By joining successive sections of 

 line 

 . .By control of buoyancy 

 ..With anchoring of line 



..With raising of line from marine floor 

 .By means advancing along terrain and 

 guiding pipe or catle into 

 subterranean position 

 ..Condition responsive 

 ..Tape or strip 



..With positive feed or means to vary 

 tension in pipe or cable 

 .Simultaneous laying of plural parallel 

 pipes or cables 

 ..With backfill or bedding material 



conveying or dispensing means 

 ..Including trench forming plow with 



pipe or cable guide 

 ...With depth adjustment 

 ..With plow vibrating or oscillating 



inhabitable 



.Guide inte 



to plow 



.Advancing su 



or cable 

 DIVING 



.Suit or acce 

 . .Rigid eleme 

 .Underwater d 



with or rigidly fix 

 anean length of ptp 



sory therefor 



t 



=king or mooring 



190 

 191 

 192 

 193 

 191 

 195 

 196 



199 

 200 

 201 

 202 



206 

 207 

 208 

 209 

 210 

 211 

 212 

 213 

 211 

 215 

 216 

 217 

 218 

 219 

 220 

 221 

 222 

 223 

 224 



225 

 226 

 227 



228 

 229 

 230 

 231 

 232 

 233 



231 

 235 

 236 



237 

 238 

 239 



211 

 212 

 213 

 211 

 215 



216 

 217 

 218 

 219 

 250 



. .With communic 



enclosures 

 .Remote control 



m surface 

 .With air lock 

 .With pressure equalization 

 .With continuous surface access 

 MARINE STRUCTURE OR FABRICATION THEREOF 

 .With work deck vertically adjustable 

 relative to floor 



ctlonal leg 

 ..Longitudinally extending projections 



or recesses 

 .Frictional gripper 

 ,.By buoyancy control 

 .With horizontally movable work deck 

 .With pivotal connection between work 



deck and base 

 .Floatable to site and supported by 



marine floor 

 ..With assembly of sectional supporting 



structure at site 

 .With ballasting means to sink or 



position structure at site 

 ...Detachable from structure 

 ...Compartment in base 



.And leg depending from base 

 ..Separable transport means 

 .Storage container 



icture protection 

 . .Fender 



.Roller type 

 .Having coil spring 

 . . .Resilient block 

 . .Sleeve or coating 



ir on frozen media 

 .Dock 



..Floating 

 ..Hinged 



..Vertically adjustable 

 .Cast in situ 

 . .Installing means 

 .With anchoring of structure to marine 



floor 

 ..By grouting preformed structure 

 ..Including floor modifying means 

 ..By pile extending through sleeve in 



structure 

 ..Pile driving 

 FOUNDATION 

 .Underpinning 

 .Columnar 



icess 



appa 



for 



sr, pile) 

 stalling 

 fluent 



.Casting in 

 material 

 .With heating, cooling, or explosion 

 .With subsequent moving 

 ..Subsurface dispensing of material 

 for flow toward surface 

 3rBing subsurface enlargement 

 ...Preformed enlargement cavity 

 .Providing embedded metallic 



reinforcement 

 .Dispensing fluent material while 



withdrawing dispenser 

 ..Dispensing auger 

 ...Driven dispenser witn separable tip 

 ..Withdrawing form structure 

 .With anchoring of structure 

 .Driving removable wall supporting 



core 

 . .Dia»etrically retractable core 

 ...Fluid pressure actuated 

 .With subsurfacr fluid discharge 

 Caisson or hollow shaft 

 omprising series of connected 

 longitudinal sections having diverse 

 coa positions 



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