A01D 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.
Additional Content
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
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
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