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Class Number: 171
Class Title: UNEARTHING PLANTS OR BURIED OBJECTS
Subclass Subclass
Number Title
1 METHODS OF RECOVERING BURIED OBJECTS
2 PLURAL ALTERNATELY USABLE UNEARTHING UNITS
3 STABILIZING COLTER OR FIN
4 WITH ADDITIONAL EARTH OR PLANT ROLLING IMPLEMENT
5 WITH VERTICAL CUTTER FOR VEGETATION
6 WITH EARTH MARKER OR TRAILING EARTH CONDITIONER
7 PERIODIC DUMPING IN PILES
8 DRIVE TRIGGERED BY DESIRED OBJECT
9 SUPPORT OVERLOAD RELEASE AND RESET; DRIVE OVERLOAD RELIEF; OR
AUTOMATIC CONTROL
10 WITH PRELIMINARY REMOVAL OR UNDESIRED EARTH MATERIAL
11 REMOVABLE OR ALTERNATE COLLECTION RECEPTACLES
12 WITH APPARATUS CLEANER IN NONRECOVERY ZONE OF UNEARTHING UNIT
13 WITH TOOTHED MOVING STRIPPER OR PICK-OFF FOR UNDESIRED OBJECT
14 RECOVERED OBJECT PASSES THROUGH SEPARATOR INTERSTICES
15 .Assorting by size
16 RAILROAD BALLAST REMOVAL AND ASSORTING OR SEPARATING
17 SEPARATION OR ORIENTATION BY FLUID CURRENT OR SUSPENSION
18 SEPARATION BY PHYSICAL CHARACTERISTICS
19 WITH RAKE OR LATERAL DEFLECTOR FOR GROUND CONTACTING RECOVERED
OBJECTS
20 WITH MANUAL OPERATION STATION (E.G., TOPPING, SEPARATION
INSPECTION)
21 HOLDING AND SEVERING PLANT PORTION IN SITU
22 .Plural level cutters
23 WITH SELECTIVE DELIVERY TO ALTERNATE LOCATIONS (E.G., BY-PASS)
24 WITH COMMINUTING OR MULTIPLE CUTTING OF RECOVERED PLANT PART
25 WITH CLEANING OF RECOVERED OBJECT BY BRUSHING OR WIPING
26 WITH ABOVE-GROUND MEANS FOR DETACHMENT OF PLANT PART
27 .Detachment by pulling, beating, shaking or crushing
28 ..By opposed rotary gripping elements
29 .Separate successive topping stations
30 .By non-driven rotatable cutter (e.g., rolling)
31 .Conveyer feed to or from cutter
32 ..Cutter positioned by gauge
33 ..With driven gauge
34 ..With gauge
35 ...Moved into transverse horizontal position for cutting
36 ..Held by conveyer during cutting
37 ...With lateral disposal of cuttings
38 ...Opposed belt conveyers
39 ...Wheel-like conveyer
40 .With deflector or conveyer for detached plant part
41 .Moving topping cutter
42 ..Rotary or endless
43 COMBINED OR CONVERTIBLE
44 POWER MEANS TO SHIFT UNEARTHING UNIT PART
45 TRACTOR POWERED TRAILING UNEARTHING UNIT
46 UNEARTHING UNIT DETACHABLE FROM VEHICLE CHASSIS
47 UNEARTHING UNIT LATERALLY SHIFTABLE ON SUPPORT
48 SEPARATE DRAFT CONNECTIONS TO UNEARTHING UNIT AND UNEARTHING
UNIT SUPPORTT
49 MOVED OBJECT VOID FILLING OR EARTH HOLD DOWN
50 EXTRACTOR
51 .With agitator for extractor or extractor-carried object
52 .With movable stripper
53 .Plant impaling or snagging (e.g., roots or tops)
54 ..Retractible to strip
55 .Opposed plant engagers
56 ..Jaw means relatively movably mounted on carrier means
57 ..Screw
58 ..Disc or roller
59 ..Claw type
60 ..One a belt or belt carrier member
61 ...Opposed belts or belt carried members
62 .With digger or root cutter
63 STONE GATHERING AND/OR UNEARTHING BY IMPELLING ABOVE-GROUND
PLANT OR OBJECT PORTION
64 .With underground stalk or root severing
65 .Impeller inclined to line of draft
66 GROUND ENGAGING CHAIN SEPARATORS
67 WITH PRELIMINARY DEFLECTOR FOR SURFACE MATERIAL
68 .Driven deflector
69 .Moving deflector
70 TRANSVERSELY MOVING SINGLE TINE ROW
71 PLOW OR BLADE CONTINGUOUS TO VIBRATING SEPARATOR
72 .With resilient support or drive connection
73 .Transversely curved or inclined separator
74 .With side walls or guides
75 .Plural separator sets of with articulated elements
76 ..Relatively moving interdigitated sets
77 .Non-circular rolling support for a separator
78 .Ground supported trailing separator
79 .Supported on longitudinally spaced links
80 .Swinging about longitudinal or inclined axis
81 .Shifting laterally
82 UNEARTHING UNIT ROCKING OR FULCRUMED ON GROUND
83 LEADING PLOW OR CUTTER WITH CONTIGUOUS, FIXED INCLINED
SEPARATOR
84 SEPARATING DIGGER (E.G., VERTICAL COLLECTING TINES)
85 .Moving impeller with cooperating circular arcuate guide
86 .Movable on supporting frame (e.g., pivoted)
87 ..With ejector on digger or digger carrier
88 ..Plural cooperating moving diggers
89 ..Moving diggers with intercepting moving stripper or conveyer
90 ..Moving digger with intercepting stripper or chute
91 ..Moving digger carrier with relatively moving digger
92 ..Separator or collector within annular or endless digger
93 ..Rolling or coaxial with traction wheel
94 ..Carried by endless flexible member
95 ..Rotary
96 ...Conical digger portion
97 ...Horizontal axis (e.g., longitudinal axis)
98 ....Transverse axis
99 ..Cyclic
100 ..Pivoted about ground wheel axle
101 .Separating digger intercepted by moving conveyer or impeller
102 .Laterally deflecting diggers
103 .Spaced, inclined shares or guides (pairs)
104 .Inclined lifting surfacess
105 ..Tines (e.g., forks)
106 ..Vertically stepped transverse elements
107 .Tooth or tine arrangements or details
108 TRACTION WHEEL DRIVE DETAILS FOR UNEARTHING UNIT PART
109 UNEARTHING UNIT OR VEHICULAR BREAK-FRAME
110 DIGGER AND MOVING CONVEYER UNIT ADJUSTABLE RELATIVE TO CHASSIS
111 EARTH REMOVAL AND SEPARATION
112 .Rolling screen or sieve (e.g., wheel or belt)
113 .Spiral conveyer for excavator or separator
114 .With impeller or clod breaker for excavator or separator
115 ..Transversely moving rotary member
116 ..Rotary
117 ..Endless belt type impeller or breaker
118 ...Opposed endless members
119 ...Excavator or separator within confines of endless impeller or
breakers
120 ...Endless impeller or breaker above excavator or separator
121 ..Impeller or breaker driven through cyclic path
122 .Clod pulverizer outside separating zone
123 .Conveyer disposed below separator
124 .Moving conveyer, digger or separator
125 ..Rolling nonseparating elevator or conveyer
126 ..Moving open separator or separating conveyer
127 ...Compound motion (e.g., with agitator)
128 ...Rotary cylinder with radially extending separating elements
129 ...Rotary drum type
130 ...Plural, successive, endless belt type
131 ...Plural successive separators, one a belt
132 ...Moving screen or grate (e.g., shaker)
133 ...Relatively moving separator elements (e.g., rollers)
134 ..Moving digger and separate separator
135 .Separator formed in collector receptacle
136 .Digger and fixedly interconnected contiguous separator
137 WITH PROTECTIVE GUARD OR CASING
138 WITH MATERIAL REDIRECTING CONVEYER OR CHUTE
139 UNEARTHING UNIT FIXED ON VERTICALLY SHIFTABLE VEHICLE FRAME
140 UNEARTHING UNIT WITH GAUGE RUNNER OR WHEEL
141 LIFTING OR TILTING MEANS FOR UNEARTHING APPARATUS
142 DRIVE DETAILS (E.G., CLUTCH OR GEARING)
143 FRAMES AND/OR WHEELED CHASSIS
144 MISCELLANEOUS (E.G., HOPPER OR COLLECTOR)
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