A01B SOIL WORKING IN AGRICULTURE OR FORESTRY; PARTS, DETAILS, OR ACCESSORIES OF AGRICULTURAL MACHINES OR IMPLEMENTS, IN GENERAL
Introduced: September 1968
Classification Context
- Section:
- HUMAN NECESSITIES
- Class:
- AGRICULTURE; FORESTRY; ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; HUNTING; TRAPPING; FISHING
- Subclass:
- SOIL WORKING IN AGRICULTURE OR FORESTRY; PARTS, DETAILS, OR ACCESSORIES OF AGRICULTURAL MACHINES OR IMPLEMENTS, IN GENERAL
Description
A01B encompasses machines, implements, and their components designed for soil preparation and cultivation in agricultural and forestry operations. This includes plows, harrows, cultivators, tillers, and similar devices that mechanically work, loosen, or turn soil, as well as general-purpose parts and accessories (such as frames, hitching devices, or wear elements) applicable across multiple agricultural machine types. The classification covers both the complete machines and their modular components when these are inventive in their own right, but excludes specialized machines for specific operations like sowing, harvesting, or crop treatment, which are classified elsewhere. A01B serves as the foundational classification for soil-working technology regardless of the power source or scale of operation.
Additional Content
Limiting references
Making or covering furrows or holes for sowing, planting or manuring Mowers convertible to soil working apparatus or capable of soil working Mowers combined with soil working implements Soil working for engineering purposes , ,
Application references
Machines for harvesting root crops
Related Keywords
37 direct subcodes
Child Classifications
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- A01B 1/00 Hand tools
- A01B 11/00 Ploughs with oscillating, digging or piercing tools
- A01B 13/00 Ploughs or like machines for special purposes
- A01B 15/00 Elements, tools, or details of ploughs
- A01B 17/00 Ploughs with special additional arrangements, e.g. means for putting manure under the soil, clod-crushers
- A01B 19/00 Harrows with non-rotating tools
- A01B 21/00 Harrows with rotary non-driven tools
- A01B 23/00 Elements, tools, or details of harrows
- A01B 25/00 Harrows with special additional arrangements, e.g. means for distributing fertilisers; Harrows for special purposes
- A01B 27/00 Clod-crushers
- A01B 29/00 Rollers
- A01B 3/00 Ploughs with fixed plough-shares
- A01B 31/00 Drags
- A01B 33/00 Tilling implements with rotary driven tools
- A01B 35/00 Other machines for working soil
- A01B 37/00 Devices for loosening soil compacted by wheels or the like
- A01B 39/00 Machines specially adapted for working soil on which crops are growing
- A01B 41/00 Thinning machines
- A01B 43/00 Gatherers for removing stones, undesirable roots or the like from the soil, e.g. tractor-drawn rakes
- A01B 45/00 Machines for treating meadows or lawns
Top Applicants
Top 10 applicants by patent filingsfor class A01, 2013–2023, worldwide · Source: EPO PATSTAT
- CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES 6,725
- JOHN DEERE US 6,555
- MONSANTO TECHNOLOGY US 6,280
- DOW AGROSCIENCES US 5,260
- BASF (BADISCHE ANILIN & SODA FABRIK) DE 5,106
- PIONEER HI-BRED INTERNATIONAL US 4,609
- KUBOTA CORPORATION 4,458
- SYNGENTA PARTICIPATIONS CH 4,341
- BAYER CROPSCIENCE DE 4,305
- CNH INDUSTRIAL AMERICA US 4,024