HARVESTING; MOWING

Introduced: September 1968

Classification Context

Section:: HUMAN NECESSITIES
Class:: AGRICULTURE; FORESTRY; ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; HUNTING; TRAPPING; FISHING
Subclass:: HARVESTING; MOWING

Description

A01D encompasses machinery and methods for harvesting crops and mowing vegetation. This subclass covers mechanical devices for cutting, gathering, and collecting agricultural products such as grain, hay, grass, and other field crops, including combines, reapers, balers, and forage equipment. It includes both the design of harvesting machines and operational techniques, as well as related auxiliary components for crop processing during harvest. Adjacent classes A01C (planting, sowing) and A01F (processing of harvested produce) represent earlier and later stages of crop production respectively.

Scope Notes

Glossary: Combine (noun) Combines Harvester or mower combined with a threshing device. Fork Forks Hand tool having two or more tines that are used for lifting, digging or pitching. Harvest (verb) Perform one of the methods defined in the definition statement in order to make use of the separated, mown or gathered plantmaterial. Hay Mown forage crop in a dry or partially dry state. Haymaking Working on mown forage crop lying on the ground with the intention to make hay. Mow (verb) Cut down grass, cereals or other standing plants. Thresh (verb) Separate grains or seeds from harvested plants or plant parts (e.g. cereals, maize/corn, peas, beans or pine cones) by mechanical action (e.g. shaking, stamping, rubbing, beating or applying intermittent pressure). | Limiting references: Soil working tools or machines for weeding or thinning e.g. , , Transplanting , Apparatus for cutting sods or turfs from lawns or meadows Cutting implements specially adapted for horticultural purposes, e.g. flower shears, fruit shears, secateurs or hedge shears Delimbing of standing trees Uprooting or felling of trees Tapping of tree juices Apparatus for destruction of unwanted vegetation | Application references: Machines that pick up mown material from the ground and bale it Machines that pick up mown material from the ground and cut it, e.g. field choppers

Related Keywords

harvesting or mowing in AGRICULTUREgathering agricultural CROP(S)GATHERING agricultural produceharvesting of GRAINharversters for agricultural cropsSWATHING[-devices]TWISTING or tying wires togetherharvesting VEGETABLE(S)destroying WEEDS by cutting

48 direct subcodes

Child Classifications

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A01D 1/00 Hand-cutting implements for harvesting
A01D 101/00 Lawn-mowers
A01D 11/00 Other hand implements
A01D 13/00 Diggers, e.g. potato ploughs
A01D 15/00 Digging machines with sieve graters but without conveying mechanisms
A01D 17/00 Digging machines with sieving and conveying mechanisms
A01D 19/00 Digging machines with centrifugal wheels, drums, or spinners
A01D 21/00 Digging machines with potato-picking implements
A01D 23/00 Topping machines
A01D 25/00 Lifters for beet or like crops
A01D 27/00 Machines with both topping and lifting mechanisms
A01D 29/00 Harvesters for peanuts
A01D 3/00 Non-abrasive sharpening devices for scythes, sickles, or the like
A01D 31/00 Other digging harvesters
A01D 33/00 Accessories for digging harvesters
A01D 34/00 Mowers; Mowing apparatus of harvesters
A01D 37/00 Reaper-binders
A01D 39/00 Independent binders, e.g. for hay; Binders attachable to mowers
A01D 41/00 Combines, i.e. harvesters or mowers combined with threshing devices
A01D 42/00 Mowers convertible to apparatus for purposes other than mowing; Mowers capable of performing operations other than mowing