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Class Number: 43
 Class Title: FISHING, TRAPPING, AND VERMIN DESTROYING

Subclass  Subclass
Number    Title

  1       MISCELLANEOUS
  2       DECOYS
  3       .Duck
  4       FISHING
  4.5     .Methods of fishing
  5       .Fish landing devices combined with tackle, e.g., gaffs,
            grapples
  6       .Harpoons and spears
  6.5     .Gathering or catching device with conveyer to boat
  7       .Nets
  8       ..Handling apparatus
  9.1     ..Trawl
  9.2     ...Having excluder device
  9.3     ...Having limiting or limit indicating feature
  9.4     ...Bottom running sled
  9.5     ...Bottom running roll
  9.6     ...Utilizing electrical shock to control fish or aquatic
              animal
  9.7     ...Having specific flow affected board device for holding
              net mouth open, e.g., an otterboard, etc.
  9.8     ...Having specific line element
  9.9     ...Having specific chafe preventing element
  9.95    ...Fabric construction
  10      ..Gill
  11      ..Dip
  12      ...Foldable
  13      ..Fish wheels
  14      ..Seines
  15      .Automatic hookers or catchers
  16      ..Signaling
  17      .Signal devices
  17.1    .Electric current or sonic wave energy
  17.2    .Releasing devices
  17.5    .Illuminated, e.g., luminous
  17.6    ..Artificial bait
  18.1    .Rod
  19      ..With line propelling or trajecting means
  19.2    ..With nonreeling motion means for rod and line, or line
  20      ..Reel section
  21      ...Motor operated
  21.2    ..Holders, supports, steadying devices
  22      ..Reel mounts
  23      ..Butts
  24      ..Line guides or tips
  25      ..Attachments
  25.2    ...Hook and tackle holders
  26      ..Cases
  18.5    ..Fiber glass or graphite fishing rod
  26.1    .Motor-operated
  26.2    ..Artificial bait
  27.2    .Trolley apparatus
  27.4    .Fixed support line handling means, e.g., trawlss
  34      .Trap hooks
  35      ..Artificial bait
  36      ..Expanding
  37      ..Pull-actuated
  41      .Enclosed or protected
  41.2    ..Casting guards
  42      .Artificial bait
  42.02   ..Line surge action with biased reaction
  42.03   ..Automatically movable directing vane
  42.04   ..Shiftable on strike
  42.05   ...Lure slidable on line
  42.06   ..Substance emitting and/or water passage
  42.08   ..Interlocked hook lure and line connections
  42.09   ..Interchangeable body parts
  42.1    ..Flexible body's housing or guarding hook
  42.11   ..Plural lures and movably connected rigid lure members
  42.12   ...One member within the other, at least one spinning
  42.13   ...Plural movable members offset or at sides of body
  42.14   ...Plural rotating members
  42.15   ...Movably connected in series
  42.16   ....One member rotating
  42.17   .....Sheet material member preceding and rotating
  42.18   ....Sheet material
  42.19   ..Spinner rotatably mounted on shaft
  42.2    ...Spiral or oppositely turned vanes
  42.21   ....Plug or minnow type
  42.22   ..Adjustable direction or buoyancy control
  42.23   ...Selective or shiftable lure to line connection
  42.24   ..Flexible or with flexible appendages, e.g., worms
  42.25   ...Feathers, strands, fibers, etc., only, e.g., flies
  42.26   ...Bodies with plural side-attached appendages
  42.27   ....Wing simulations
  42.28   ...Bodies with trailing appendages
  42.29   ....Detachable bait strip
  42.3    ....Two rearwardly directed appendages, e.g., frogs
  42.31   ..With confined shifting material and/or sound making
  42.32   ..Ornament
  42.33   ...Transparent, with reflector or pattern
  42.34   ...Projections and indentations for simulation and
              reflecting
  42.35   ..Hollow bodies
  42.36   ..Hook and line connection extending through or along body
  42.37   ..Mounted on hook
  42.38   ...Detachable
  42.39   ..Weighted
  42.4    ..With guards
  42.41   ...Hook housed or guarded by body
  42.42   ...Guards downwardly projecting
  42.43   ...Hook closing
  42.44   ..Hook pivoted to lure with motion-limiting means
  42.45   ..Solid bodies
  42.46   ...With spiral or vanes for spinning
  42.47   ...With sheet material vane
  42.48   ...Plugs
  42.49   ..Special line attachments
  42.5    ..Spoon type
  42.51   ...With spiral or oppositely directed vanes
  42.52   ...Nonmarginal and/or nonpivoted hook attachmentss
  42.53   ..Methods of making
  42.7    .Snagging and shellfish rigs, e.g., jiggers
  42.72   .With line shock absorber or resilient extension feature
  42.74   .Spreaders or separators for plural lines and/or hooks
  43.1    .Line-attached bodies, hooks and rigs
  43.11   ..Line storing
  43.12   ..Releasable from line, e.g., casting weights
  43.13   ..Line-guiding or twist-controlling, e.g., trolling vanes,
             otters
  43.14   ..With adjustable weight or buoyancy
  43.15   ..Plural diverse-type bodies
  43.16   ..Hooks
  43.2    ...Guards, e.g., weedless hooks
  43.4    ....Shiftable, collapsible, or line-operated
  43.6    ....Hook closing
  44.2    ...Bait holders and retainers
  44.4    ....Bait encircling
  44.6    ....Opposed gripping jaws
  44.8    ....Mounted on, integral with, or rigidly connected to
               hook
  44.81   ...Weighted
  44.82   ...With plural piercing points
  44.83   ...With leaders and/or line-connection feature
  44.84   ....Branch or lateral line type
  44.85   .....Adjustable along line
  44.86   ....With check or collect ring keeper
  44.87   ..Selectively free sliding or fixed on line
  44.88   ...Line strain or motion actuated, e.g., strike or pole tip
              released
  44.89   ..Bendable or deformable material for line connection,
             e.g., split shot
  44.9    ..With line passing through center of body
  44.91   ...With line-gripping means
  44.92   ..With relatively movable parts and/or resilient
             construction for attachment to line
  44.93   ...Movable wedge or collect ring type
  44.94   ...Spiral or pigtail line holder wrapped around stem
  44.95   ...Resiliently biased or elastic line clamping means
  44.96   ..Sinkers with ground-engaging means, e.g., trolley or surf
             anchors
  44.97   ..Sinkers with guards or retrieving features
  44.98   .Lines and/or leaders
  44.99   .Bait distributors, e.g., chumming devices
  53.5    .Disgorgers and gags
  54.1    .Holder
  55      ..Catch and natural bait
  56      ..Minnow buckets
  57      ...Aerating pump
  57.1    ..Hook
  57.2    ...Holder for snelled hook under tension
  57.3    ..Trotline holder
  58      TRAPS
  59      .Burglar
  60      .Imprisoning
  61      ..Swinging or sliding closure
  62      ..Falling encaging member
  63      ..Jaw cage type
  64      .Self and ever sett
  65      ..Nonreturn entrance
  66      ...Victim-opened
  67      ...Victim-closed
  68      ..Sinking compartment
  69      ..Tiltable platform
  70      ...Trigger-released
  71      ..Rotatable platform
  72      ...Trigger-released
  73      .Self-reset
  74      ..Rotating door or platform
  75      ..Smiting
  76      .Victim-reset
  77      .Impaling or smiting
  78      ..Rectilinear striker movement
  79      ...Impaling
  80      ....Burrow type
  81      ..Swinging striker
  81.5    ...Auxiliary striker holder
  82      ...Direct engaging latch
  83      ....Automatic catch
  83.5    ...Automatic set
  84      .Explosive
  85      .Choking or squeezing
  86      ..Movable loops
  87      ..Constricting noose
  88      .Jaw
  89      ..Suspended
  90      ..Modified jaw
  91      ...Parallel oscillating
  92      ..Modified trigger mechanism
  93      ...Direct engagement
  94      ....Wedge or toggle
  95      ...Automatic catch
  96      ..Attachments
  97      ...Setting
  98      .Electrocuting
  99      ..Body-removing or concealing
  100     .Fish
  101     ..Weirs
  102     ..Elevatable cage
  103     ..Portable or floating
  104     ...Towable
  105     ..Foldable or collapsible
  106     ..Porpoise
  107     .Insect
  108     ..Tree trunk
  109     ..Furniture
  110     ..Operator-controlled
  111     ..Mechanically operated
  112     ..Electrocuting
  113     ..Illuminated
  114     ..Adhesive
  115     ...Flypaper holders
  116     ...Flexible with drawable section
  117     ...Upright perch slidable receptacle
  118     ..Reticulate fabric
  119     ..Window screen or door
  120     ..Garbage cann
  121     ..Crawling insect type
  122     ..Fly vases
  123     ..Bedbug type
  124     VERMIN DESTROYING
  125     .Fumigators
  126     ..Tree apparatus
  127     ..Smokers
  128     ...Bee type
  129     ..Vaporizers
  130     ...Steam
  131     .Poison holders
  132.1   .Insect
  133     ..Catchers
  134     ...Implements
  135     ....Spring-operated
  136     ....Adhesive
  137     ....Swatters
  138     ...Machines
  139     ....Suction
  140     .....Traveling
  141     ....Blast
  142     ....Rotated agitator
  143     ....Oscillated agitator
  144     ..Burners
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