CATEGORY 15: MACHINES AND PARTS THEREOF, INCLUDING INDUSTRIAL, AGRICULTURAL, HOME AND OFFICE MACHINES; ELECTRICAL EQUIPMENT

TABLE OF DIVISIONS IN CATEGORY 15

Machines for industry or agriculture; industrial installations; motors; engines; various mechanical appliances	15.01
Household machines, appliances	15.03
Office and business machines	15.05
Wheels, bearings	15.07
Electrical equipment	15.09

15.01    Machines for industry or agriculture; industrial installations; motors; engines; various mechanical appliances

15.01.01    Pressing, grinding, distilling or excavating machines, including printing presses and clothes presses

15.01.02    Other machines for industry; industrial installations

Excluding:    Industrial establishments, factory smokestacks (07.03.08)

Note 1:    This section includes parts of machines. Parts are coded in 15.01.02 when the part is not a representational component of the machinery as a whole.

Note 2:    For similar designs, see also 15.01.25.

15.01.03    Conveyor belts

15.01.04    Motors, engines, generators

15.01.05    Propellers of all kinds, ventilators, blowers, turbines

Excluding:    Propellers for land, air, or sea vehicles in 18.11.04.

15.01.06    Pulleys

15.01.07    Sprayers, including paint spray guns, fire extinguishers and pump sprayers

Excluding:    Bottles or jugs with pumps or sprayers, including atomizers (19.09.12)

15.01.08    Machines for agriculture, including power and manual lawn mowers

Excluding:    Non-motorized agricultural or horticultural implements 14.07; tractors, threshers, combines, tillers (18.05.08); riding lawn mowers (18.05.06)

15.01.09    Gasoline pumps

15.01.10    Vending machines

15.01.25    Other mechanical appliances for industry, including door closers

Excluding:    Drills are coded in 14.05.07; jackhammers are coded in 14.05.08.

Note:    For similar designs see also 15.01.02.

15.03    Household machines, appliances

Excluding:    Small electric kitchen appliances are coded in 11.05; small electric cooking appliances are coded in 13.03; sewing machines are coded in 09.09.08

15.03.01    Vacuum cleaners, floor polishers, rug shampooers

15.03.02    Washing machines, including dishwashers, clothes dryers

15.03.25    Other household machines, including trash compactors

15.05    Office and business machines

15.05.01    Typewriters

15.05.02    Computer keyboards, numeric keypads

Excluding:    Keyboards accompanied by a video screen (15.05.03)

15.05.03    Desktop computers, laptop computers and computer monitors

Specific Guideline:    Video screens accompanied by a keyboard are in 15.05.03. Also video monitors, absent keypads, are in this section if it is otherwise clear from the content of the drawing that the video monitor is a part of a computer terminal.

15.05.04    PDAs, printers and other computer devices including tape drives, CPUs, mainframes and servers, excluding computer mouse

Excluding:    Computer cards (punched cards) and bar code labels in 20.03.05.

15.05.05    Photocopying machines

15.05.06    Calculators, adding machines

15.05.07    Cash registers

15.05.08    Computer mouse

15.05.25    Other office machines and accessories, including fax machines

15.07    Wheels, bearings

15.07.01    Cog wheels (wheels with teeth), gears, several wheels in juxtaposition

Note:    Many gear designs are double coded in 15.07.01 and 26.01.07.

15.07.02    Paddle wheels

15.07.03    Wheels with spokes

15.07.04    Ball bearings and other bearings

15.07.25    Other wheels including vehicular wheels without spokes; hubcaps
Excluding:    Vehicular wheels fitted with tires are coded in 18.11.01.

15.09    Electrical equipment

Excluding:    Lighting equipment (13.01); electric cables or cords (14.01.03; 14.01.04)

15.09.01    Batteries

15.09.02    Spark plugs

15.09.03    Electrical outlets and switches

15.09.25    Other electrical apparatus, including fuses, fuseboxes and electrical connectors