PTO Manual of Classification for US patents

PTO Manual of Classification for US patents

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Class Number: 102
 Class Title: AMMUNITION AND EXPLOSIVES

Subclass  Subclass
Number    Title

  301     BLASTING
  302     .Terrain clearance
  303     .Mat or deflector
  304     .Blasting plug including an opening for a fuse, fuse ignitor, or
            explosive
  305     .Detonation wave modifying
  306     ..Shaped charge or charge with detonation wave cavity modifier
  307     ...Linear or curvilinear cavity
  308     ...Tandem charge
  309     ...Having a barrier
  310     ...Plural charges
  311     .Patterned blasting
  312     ..Borehole arrangement
  313     .Borehole loading
  314     .Contained blasting charge
  315     ..Having or receiving separated explosive constituents
  316     ..With flame or heat suppressant
  317     ..Similar contained charges joined end to end
  318     ..Booster or charge with booster detonator
  319     ..With well-anchoring means, wall-contacting guides, or buffers
  320     ..Having plural charges
  321     ..With support means
  322     ..With primer or ignitor
  323     ..Having a rupturable or expandable casing
  324     ..Having a flexible tube or bag container
  325     .Contained pressurized fluid blasting charge
  326     ..Fluid generated within container
  327     ..Fluid heated within container
  328     ..Contained fluid exit seal controlled by fluid pressure
  329     ...Valve-type seal
  330     ....Automatically operated
  331     .Blasting charge case
  332     .Blasting charge
  333     .Plug
  334     SMOKE GENERATING
  335     PYROTECHNICS
  336     .Flare
  337     ..With parachute
  338     ...Multiple flares
  339     ...Plural or vane-type parachutes or means to restrain complete
              initial parachute opening
  340     ...With means to eject parachute or flare from casing
  341     ..Marine type
  342     ..With means to eject flare from casing
  343     ..With support means
  344     ...Spike form
  345     ..With plural, successively ignited flares
  346     .Gun-type cartridge
  347     .Rocket
  348     ..With vane, wings, parachute, or balloon
  349     ..With support means
  350     ..With means to rotate by gas dischargee
  351     ..With means to eject object from casing
  352     ..Including plural, successively ignited charges
  353     .Toy torpedoe
  354     .With parachute or balloon
  355     .Simulation
  356     .Combined
  357     .With means to eject an object from a casing
  358     .With support means
  359     ..Wheel, rotor, or whirler
  360     .With plural, successively ignited charges
  361     .Firecracker
  362     HAVING GROUND PROPULSION MEANS
  363     FUEL AIR EXPLOSIVE
  364     INCENDIARY
  365     .Liquid or jelly
  366     OIL DISTRIBUTING
  367     GAS OR MIST DISPERSING
  368     .Grenade
  369     .Drop bomb
  370     .Cartridge or projectile
  371     BOMB LANCE
  372     HAVING RADIALLY DIRECTED PROPELLING HOLES
  373     .Including external propellent charge
  374     HAVING REACTION MOTOR
  375     .Pneumatically self-propelled type
  376     .With cartridge means
  377     .Having separation means
  378     ..Explosive
  379     .Having warhead fuse or arming means
  380     .Having propellent charge ignitor means
  381     .Having pressurization or variable control means for the
            propellant
  382     DROP BOMBS
  383     .With laterally directed barrels
  384     .With direction controlling means
  385     .Fin stabilizer only
  386     .With drop-retarding means
  387     ..Parachute
  388     ..Vane or rotor
  389     .Fragmentation
  390     .Marine type
  391     ..Depth regulation
  392     ...Hydrostatic
  393     .Cluster type
  394     .Rebounding or multiple bursting charges
  395     .Practice
  396     .Igniting means
  397     ..With target contact anticipator
  398     NONRECOCHETING PROJECTILE
  399     MARINE-TYPE PROJECTILE
  400     WITH EXTENDABLE ARMS
  401     MINES
  402     .Counter measure
  403     ..By explosion
  404     .Pop-up type
  405     .Aerial type
  406     .Marine type
  407     ..Practice (e.g., drill))
  408     ..Flooder means
  409     ..Field or group
  410     ...With manipulating means
  411     ..Laying, anchoring, or manipulating
  412     ...Depth regulation
  413     ....Anchor cable length
  414     ....Hydrostatic pressure
  415     ...Antisweep anchorage
  416     ..Igniting means
  417     ...Magnetic
  418     ...Wave responsive
  419     ...Electrical
  420     ....Including arming means
  421     ....Contact type
  422     ...Contact type
  423     ....Extending firing means
  424     .Igniting means
  425     ..With position sensing means
  426     ..Automatic deactivation or self-destruction
  427     ..Electrical, magnetic, wave, or radiant energy actuated
  428     ..Pressure actuated
  429     ...Spring biased
  430     CARTRIDGES
  431     .Combustilbe, destructible, or caseless
  432     ..Expendable cartridge
  433     ..Telescoping powder charge
  434     .Telescoping powder charge
  435     .Wear reducing additive for barrel
  436     .Noncircular projectile or cartridge
  437     .Recoilless
  438     .Multiple projectiles
  439     .Projectile structure
  440     .Having liquid/gas propellent means
  441     .With projectile and explosive cap
  442     .With bore cleaning means
  443     .Having divided propelling charge
  444     .Practice projectile type
  445     ..Mortar
  446     ..Cartridge adapter
  447     ..Reduced charge
  448     .Shot
  449     ..Shot container
  450     ...Collapsible wad
  451     ....Integral wad
  452     ...Having integral closure means
  453     ...Having integral wad
  454     ...Including divided shot charge
  455     ...Including filler means in the shot area
  456     ...With additional means to keep container closed
  457     ..With control of shot spread
  458     ..With tracer means
  459     ..Including coated shot
  460     ..Having shot of different size or shape
  461     ..Collapsible wad
  462     ..Closure means
  463     ...Integral
  464     .Case
  465     ..Nonmetallicc
  466     ...Plastic cases
  467     ....With metal base or reinforcement
  468     ..Iron case
  469     ..Breech end structure
  470     ...With primer means
  471     ....Rim fired
  472     ....Electric
  473     SHELLS
  474     .Continuous rod warhead
  475     .Focused or directed detonation
  476     ..Shaped charge
  477     .With means to form bursting charge after projection
  478     .Having divided bursting charge
  479     .With bursting charge cushioning means
  480     .With laterally directed barrels
  481     .With safety means
  482     .Grenade
  483     ..With gun or other projector engaging or cooperating means
  484     ...With bullet passage through grenade
  485     ...With bullet stopping means
  486     ..With throwing handle, handgrip, or strand
  487     ..With igniting means
  488     ...Impact-operated
  489     .With secondary shells
  490     .With range increasing means
  491     .Shrapnel
  492     ..Focused fragmentation
  493     ..Structurally weakened casing
  494     ..Multiple fragments
  495     ...Casing
  496     ...Embedded
  497     ....With explosive
  498     .Practice
  499     .With igniting means
  500     ..Axially movable impacting means
  501     PROJECTILES
  502     .Nonlethal or deterrent
  503     .Tubular
  504     .Line carrying or filamentary material distributing
  505     ..Chaff dispensing
  506     .Fragmenting
  507     .Dumdum or mushrooming
  508     ..With cavity
  509     ...Hollow
  510     ....With expanding member
  511     .Lubricating
  512     .Narcotizing
  513     .Target marking
  514     .Having jacket
  515     ..Nonmetallic
  516     ..Composite
  517     .Composite
  518     ..Hardened core within a chamber
  519     ..With separate hardened nose
  520     ..Sabot or carrier
  521     ...Subcaliber
  522     ....Base enclosed
  523     .....With projectile exposed to propellent gass
  524     ..Rifling or driving means (e.g., band)
  525     ...Wedge expanded
  526     ...Including annular member
  527     ....Nonmetallic
  528     ...Band protector
  529     .Practice or cleaning
  530     JACKETED OR CARTRIDGE GAS GENERATOR
  531     .For gas-powered tools or means
  532     WADS
  200     IGNITING DEVICES AND SYSTEMS
  201     .Laser or light initiated
  202     .Propellant ignitors
  202.1   .Accidental fuse ignition prevention means
  202.2   ..Having electromagnetic field effects diminishing or
             elimination means
  202.3   ..Fuse device resistive shunt
  202.4   ...Voltage responsive variable resistance shunt (e.g.,
              semiconductor shunts)
  202.5   .Electrical primer or ignitor
  202.6   ..Having an additional ignitor or water destructible fuse
  202.7   ..Having an exploding bridgewire
  202.8   ..Having a spark gap or conductive composition or charge
  202.9   ..With electric terminals
  202.11  ..Having an electric matchhead
  202.12  ..Assemblies (e.g., packaging)
  202.13  ..Having a powder train time delay
  202.14  ..With housing
  204     .Percussion primers or ignitors
  205     .Heat, friction, or chemical primers or ignitors
  206     .Ignition or detonation circuit
  207     ..Including activated generator
  208     ...Turbine
  209     ...Magnetic
  210     ...Piezoelectric crystal
  211     ..Proximity fuze
  212     ...Magnetic
  213     ...Light or infrared
  214     ...Radio wave
  215     ..Including logic means
  216     ..Including impact or inertia switch
  217     ..Plural sequentially fired ignitors or detonators
  218     ..Electronic switch discharges capacitor
  219     ...Ionized gas, i.e., glow tube or thyratron
  220     ...Silicon controlled rectifier
  221     .Arming devices
  222     ..Blocking or interrupting type
  223     ...Fluid pressure operated
  224     ....Fluidic device
  225     ....Rotating vane
  226     .....Rotor or slide release
  227     .....Impacting device release
  228     ....With or including a timing device
  229     ....Rotor or slide
  230     ....Impacting device release
  231     ...Centrifugal and setback operated
  232     ....With or including a timing device
  233     .....With setback latch
  234     ....Impacting device releasee
  235     ....Rotor or slide with setback release
  236     .....Firing pin is latch
  237     ...Centrifugal operated
  238     ....With or including a timing device
  239     ....Latch for impacting device
  240     .....Spiral band
  241     .....Pivoted weight
  242     .....Spring biased piston
  243     .....Expanding weight
  244     ....Rotor or slide
  245     .....Centrifugally released latch
  246     .....Deceleration released latch
  247     ...Inertia operated
  248     ....With or including a timing device
  249     .....With setback latch
  250     .....Fluent material
  251     ....Rotor or slide with setback release
  252     ....Impacting device latch
  253     .....Ball and detent
  254     ...Slide or rotor
  255     ....Timing device operated
  256     ....Spring operated
  257     ...Timer operated impacting device latch
  258     ...Externally released latch
  259     ....Bore riding pin
  260     ....Manually released
  261     .....To actuate impacting means
  262     ..Switch
  263     ...Vane or fluid pressure operated
  264     ...Timing device operated
  265     .Multiple mode fuzes
  266     ..Impact and time delay
  267     ...Spin decay
  268     ...Mechanical time delay
  269     ...Power train delay
  270     ..Mode selecting means
  271     ...Delay or impact
  272     .Impacting devices
  273     ..Graze or multiangle
  274     ..Spring driven with latch
  275     ..With frangible restraint
  275.1   .Fuse cord (e.g., blasting cord)
  275.2   ..With one-way connector or arrangement
  275.3   ..With combustible time-delay cord connection means
  275.4   ..To or from connector having booster charge
  275.5   ..With explosive charge
  275.6   ..With igniting means
  275.7   ..With cord holding device to couple cords
  275.8   ..Detonator cord
  275.9   .Fuse
  275.11  .Initiating devices
  275.12  .Holders for fuse or fuse cord to blasting cartridge,
            igniting device, or detonator
  276     .Time controlled
  277     ..With fluent material
  277.1   ..Munition powder train
  277.2   ...Train length selection means
  281     EXPLOSIVE CAPS FOR TOY GUNSS
  282     PROPELLENT CHEMICAL CHARGE CONTAINER
  283     POWDER FORM
  284     .Spiral type
  285     .Composite type
  286     ..Having different burning rates
  287     ...Rocket motor type
  288     ..Powder grain shape formed of fixed shape segments
  289     .Having embedded reinforcing or burning control means
  290     .Having burning inhibiting means
  291     .Rocket propellent grain
  292     .Powder grain
  293     MISCELLANEOUS
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  *       CROSS-REFERENCE ART COLLECTIONS
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  700     COMBUSTILBE CARTRIDGE
  701     CHARGE WAVE FORMING
  702     COMPRESSION IGNITION
  703     FLECHETTE
  704     COOLANTS
  705     SEPARATED EXPLOSIVE CONSTITUENTS