A01C PLANTING; SOWING; FERTILISING
Introduced: September 1968
Classification Context
- Section:
- HUMAN NECESSITIES
- Class:
- AGRICULTURE; FORESTRY; ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; HUNTING; TRAPPING; FISHING
- Subclass:
- PLANTING; SOWING; FERTILISING
Description
Subclass A01C covers machinery, devices, and methods for planting seeds, sowing crops, and applying fertilizers to soil. This includes mechanical seeders, planters, drills, transplanters, and equipment for distributing fertilizers, manure, or soil amendments. Technologies for precision agriculture, seed spacing control, and depth adjustment mechanisms fall within this scope, as do implements drawn by animals or tractors for large-scale agricultural operations. Related classification A01B addresses primary soil preparation (ploughing, tilling), while A01D covers harvesting and post-harvest processing.
Scope Notes
Limiting references: Parts, details or accessories of agricultural machines or implements, in general
Related Keywords
13 direct subcodes
Child Classifications
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- A01C 1/00 Apparatus, or methods of use thereof, for testing or treating seed, roots, or the like, prior to sowing or planting
- A01C 11/00 Transplanting machines
- A01C 13/00 Machines or apparatus for consolidating soil around plants
- A01C 14/00 Methods or apparatus for planting not provided for in other groups of this subclass
- A01C 15/00 Fertiliser distributors
- A01C 17/00 Fertilisers or seeders with centrifugal wheels
- A01C 19/00 Arrangements for driving working parts of fertilisers or seeders
- A01C 21/00 Methods of fertilising
- A01C 23/00 Distributing devices specially adapted for liquid manure or other fertilising liquid, including ammonia, e.g. transport tanks or sprinkling wagons
- A01C 3/00 Treating manure; Manuring
- A01C 5/00 Making or covering furrows or holes for sowing, planting, or manuring
- A01C 7/00 Sowing
- A01C 9/00 Potato planters