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Class Number: 186 Class Title: MERCHANDISING Subclass Subclass Number Title 35 CUSTOMER SERVICE 36 .Combined services 37 .Banking 38 .Dining room service 39 ..With machine readable means 40 ..In a transport vehicle 41 ..Drive-in 42 ..Dining table structure movable in fixed path 43 ..With conveyor cleaner 44 ..Menu make-up table 45 ..Wheeled carrier 46 ...Track guided 47 ....With food carrier elevating means 48 ....Overhead 49 ..With conveyor (e.g., belt type) 50 ...With food carrier elevating means 51 ..With elevator 52 .Store service 53 ..Drive-in 54 ..With cooling room having transparent access door 55 ..With remote item dispensing 56 ...Machine readable 57 ..Relatively movable selection station and merchandise shelving 58 ..With order carrier movable on track means 59 ..Checkout counter 60 ...With conveyor to vehicle loading station 61 ...With means enabling price reading 62 ...With cart accommodation or handling 63 ....Cart emptying facilitation 64 .....Self-unloading 65 .....With elevating means 66 ...With bag storage or bagging support 67 ...With turntable 68 ...With power driven belt conveyor 69 ..With power driven conveyor 2 ..Gravity systems 3 ...Selective delivery 4 ...Tilting track 5 ....Both ends movable 6 .....Pivoted arms 7 ..Self-propelled car systems 8 ..Single-impulse systems 9 ...Speed increasing 10 ...Spring 11 ....Longitudinally moving line 12 ...Gravity 13 ...Spreaders 14 ..Cable-propulsion systems 15 ...Grip, selective release 16 ...Load release 17 ...Reciprocating 18 ....Drop carr 19 ..Switches 20 ...Selective 21 ....Carrier returned 22 ..Elevators and drops 23 ...Speed-controlled drop 24 ..Buffers 25 ...Slide 26 ..Carriers 27 ...Wheeled 28 ....Self-propelled 29 ....Drop receptacle 30 ....Derailment guards 31 ...Rolling 32 ...Sliding 33 ..Details 34 ...Track