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Class Information
Number: 440
Name: Marine propulsion >
Description: This class includes and is limited to devices that relate to and have for their object means other than sails for moving a vessel through the water. Included are all types of propellers acting or reacting upon the water or atmosphere and all inventions for moving tows not otherwise classified.


Class Number Class Name No. of Patents
440/37

Air propelled boat

48
440/98

Buoyant propelling means

12
440/99

Rotating outer hull

4
440/100

Wheellike

24
440/3

Diverse engine means

47
440/6

Electric drive for propelling means

383
440/7

With foot control

72
440/84

Engine, motor, or transmission control means

197
440/87

For engine speed

198
440/85

For starter means

32
440/86

For transmission

158
440/95

Flexible endless propelling means

12
440/96

With paddle

7
440/97

Foldable or retractable to nonpropelling position

2
440/48

Helical screw

19
440/5

Hydraulic fluid drive for propelling means

44
440/111

Inboard engine mount

84
440/112

Having thru-hull sealing means

116
440/38

Jet drive

425
440/39

Auxiliary use of propulsive fluid

35
440/40

Direction control for fluid jet

94
440/42

Pivoted outlet

133
440/43

Pivoted vane

66
440/41

With bucket or clamshell-type reversing means

105
440/47

Having means to increase fluid drive means efficiency

150
440/46

Having means to prevent clogging

53
440/44

Propulsion fluid is pressurized gas

19
440/45

Produced by combustion

13
440/88R

Means for accomodating or moving engine fluids

476
440/88A

Air intake for engine

123
440/88C

Cooling for engine

104
440/88D

Auxiliary use of cooling fluid

18
440/88G

Water cooling exhaust

24
440/88J

Jackets for pipe, exhaust manifold or expansion chamber

35
440/88K

Within drive shaft housing

13
440/88M

Cooling water intake

52
440/88N

Engine flushing, purging, draining or winterizing equipment

41
440/88HE

Heat exchanger

38
440/88P

Pump

23
440/88T

Tell-tale outlet

7
440/88F

Fuel for engine

50
440/88L

Lubricant for engine

110
440/89R

Means for handling exhaust gas

492
440/89G

High and low speed exhaust pressure relief or outlet location condition responsive

14
440/89E

Preventing reverse flow of exhaust

14
440/89J

Silencer, expansion chamber, muffler

56
440/89A

Through hub outlet

21
440/89H

Treating exhaust with a catalyst

29
440/89B

Water cooling exhaust

36
440/89C

Jackets for pipe, exhaust manifold or expansion chamber

41
440/89D

Within drive shaft housing

15
440/89F

Watertrap

19
440/1

Means to control the supply of energy responsive to a sensed condition

369
440/113

Miscellaneous

126
440/101

Oar or paddle

98
440/102

Articulated sectional oar or paddle

22
440/103

Having gear

7
440/104

Support

42
440/110

Having guard for oar

1
440/105

Having outrigger

21
440/106

Oarlock

28
440/107

Having oar shaft restraining means

5
440/108

Separate mounting means

1
440/109

Socket type

8
440/21

Operator powered drive for propelling means

77
440/23

Fluid pump

7
440/24

Having reciprocating pull cable

12
440/32

Lever with connecting linkage

13
440/22

Rocking watercraft

6
440/26

Rotary cranking arm

40
440/29

Having endless drive member

21
440/30

Chain and sprocket

47
440/28

Having flexible drive shaft

12
440/31

Including gear means

31
440/27

Plural-crank type

49
440/25

Sliding handle or pedal

17
440/13

Oscillating propelling means

38
440/14

Fishtail motion propelling means

27
440/15

Flexible

25
440/17

Having nonpropelling cycle segment

17
440/18

Piston and cylinder

6
440/19

With means to move propelling element to nonpropelling position

3
440/20

With reversing means

6
440/16

Moving wave propeller

11
440/90

Paddle wheel

59
440/91

Having means to reposition paddle wheel assembly

14
440/92

Having means to retract paddle or change paddle attitude

10
440/93

Having means to provide cyclic change of paddle attitude (e.g., voith schneider)

18
440/4

Plural engines with single propelling means

19
440/11

Powered from land vehicle supported by vessel

23
440/12

Land vehicle is two-wheel type

27
440/49

Screw propeller

102
440/51

Combined with rudder

55
440/66

Having means to control flow around propeller

130
440/68

Hull channel

15
440/69

With open bottom

54
440/70

Hull concavity

11
440/67

Nozzle (kort-type)

92
440/75

Having transmission

318
440/79

Propeller arrangement

60
440/82

Supporting strut

23
440/80

Tandem

65
440/81

On single shaft

44
440/71

Propeller guard

84
440/72

Cage or screen

33
440/76

Propulsion unit casing

114
440/77

Cowl

216
440/78

Propeller shaft housing

86
440/73

Self-clearing

40
440/74

Shaft braking or locking

18
440/83

Shafting

194
440/50

Variable pitch

56
440/53

With means effecting or facilitating movement of propulsion unit or a segment of the propulsion unit (e.g., tilting or steering)

360
440/61R

Having fluid motor to move propulsion unit or a segment of the propulsion unit

369
440/61S

Steering

54
440/61A

Control valve

16
440/61B

Flexible or pliant member assisted by fluid motor

11
440/61C

Working cylinder traveling along rod

10
440/61T

Tilt and/or trim

58
440/61E

And linear lift

4
440/61J

And separate fluid motor for trim

6
440/61D

Having integral pump, cylinder, motor, reservoir located together

5
440/61G

With hydraulic control valve or electrical control circuit

30
440/61H

And separate fluid motor for trim

5
440/61F

Working with pivoting linkage to effect movement

12
440/57

Having gimbal or universal joint support

78
440/63

Having link or lever to move propulsion unit or a segment of the propulsion unit

161
440/62

Having pliant member to move propulsion unit or a segment of the propulsion unit

78
440/55

Having restraining means

66
440/56

With releasing means when propulsion unit hits obstruction

49
440/64

Having shaft with releasable coupling

7
440/58

Having toothed or threaded member to move propulsion unit or a segment of the propulsion unit

51
440/60

Rack and pinion

36
440/59

Screw type

31
440/54

With means limited to vertical movement within hull cavity

38
440/65

With means to lift propeller when an obstruction is hit

19
440/52

With vibration dampening

116
440/12.5

Self-propelled vehicle having land and water propulsion means (e.g., amphibious vehicle)

66
440/12.63

Flexible endless track propulsion means

26
440/12.64

Driven by sprocket-type wheel

11
440/12.51

Having separated propulsion means for land and water

40
440/12.56

Flexible endless track propulsion means

11
440/12.57

Motor driven screw propeller shaft

10
440/12.58

By flexible endless member (e.g., belt, chain)

1
440/12.59

By gearing

6
440/12.6

Bevel gearing

1
440/12.61

Spur gearing

3
440/12.55

Operator powered drive for propulsion means

3
440/12.52

Propulsion means moveable to stowed position

17
440/12.53

Water propulsion means is moveable

5
440/12.54

And land propulsion means is moveable

12
440/12.65

Helical screw propulsion means

4
440/12.62

Operator powered drive for propulsion means

13
440/12.66

Wheel-type propulsion means

27
440/12.67

Drum type

2
440/12.68

Having integral spoke and propelling blade means

1
440/12.7

Having peripherally mounted cleat means

7
440/12.69

Having propelling blade extending from side of wheel

8
440/33

Towing

14
440/34

Cable system

9
440/36

Ground wheel or poler

14
440/35

Track system

1
440/94

Upright remaining orbiting paddles

3
440/9

Wave powered propelling means

23
440/10

By oscillating weight

2
440/8

Wind driven motors

30
440/2

With indicator

130
 
 
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