Class 8: Hand tools, cutlery

Class heading

• Hand-operated hand tools and implements
• cutlery
• side arms, except firearms
• razors

What class 8 covers

Class 8 includes mainly hand-operated tools and implements for performing tasks, such as drilling, shaping, cutting and piercing.

This class includes in particular:

• hand-operated agricultural, gardening and landscaping tools
• hand-operated tools for carpenters, artists and other craftspersons, for example, hammers, chisels and gravers
• handles for hand-operated hand tools, such as knives and scythes
• electric and non-electric hand implements for personal grooming and body art, for example, razors, implements for hair curling, tattooing, and for manicure and pedicure
• hand-operated pumps
• table cutlery, such as knives, forks and spoons, including those made of precious metals

This class does not include in particular:

• machine tools and implements driven by a motor (Class 7)
• surgical cutlery (Class 10)
• pumps for bicycle tyres (Class 12), pumps specially adapted for use with balls for games (Class 28)
• side arms being firearms (Class 13)
• paper knives, paper shredders for office use (Class 16)
• handles for objects that are classified in various classes according to their function or purpose, for example, walking stick handles, umbrella handles (Class 18), broom handles (Class 21)
• serving utensils, for example, sugar tongs, ice tongs, pie servers and serving ladles, and kitchen utensils, for example, mixing spoons, pestles and mortars, nutcrackers and spatulas (Class 21)
• fencing weapons (Class 28)

Class heading and explanatory note adapted from WIPO’s Nice Classification explanatory notes (NCL 13-2026), © WIPO, CC BY. Changes: shortened layout; references to other classes turned into links. CC BY 4.0 (opens in a new tab) · WIPO terms of use (opens in a new tab)

Turkish list (Tebliğ 2026/2) for class 8

Unofficial English translation. Filings in Türkiye use the official Turkish text of TÜRKPATENT Communiqué 2026/2.

• Cutlery, forks, spoons and knives, including those of precious metal, and non-electric hand-operated kitchen tools for cutting, chopping and peeling
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  Değerli madenlerden olanlar dahil çatallar, kaşıklar, bıçaklar ve kesme, doğrama, soyma amaçlı elektrikli olmayan kesici mutfak aletleri.

• Side arms (bladed and pointed weapons), other than firearms
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  Kesici ve dürtücü silahlar.

• Implements for beauty and personal care included in this class; shaving, depilation, manicure and pedicure implements, hand implements for straightening and curling hair, scissors
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  Güzellik amaçlı ve kişisel bakım için kullanılan bu sınıfa dahil aletler; tıraş, epilasyon, manikür, pedikür aletleri, saç düzleştirme ve kıvırma amaçlı el aletleri, makaslar.

• Hand tools and implements, hand-operated (non-electric and non-motorised), for repairing machines, apparatus and vehicles, for construction, agriculture, horticulture and forestry
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  Makine, cihaz ve taşıt onarımı, inşaat, ziraat, bahçecilik ve ormancılıkla ilgili elle çalışan (elektrikli olmayan ve motorsuz) aletler.

• Irons, electric and non-electric, steam irons
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  Elektrikli - elektriksiz, buharlı ütüler.

• Handles for tools, of any material
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  Her türlü malzemeden mamul alet sapları.

Example terms in class 8

A selection of 100 terms from the 1,107 USPTO ID Manual terms in this class.

• Adjustable spanners
• Awls
• Battery-powered animal nail grinders
• Bezel rollers for making jewelry
• Biodegradable spoons being tableware
• Blades for hand-operated planes
• Bludgeons
• Branding irons
• Bulk rice scoops
• Cake forks
• Candle wick trimmers being scissors
• Cases for razors
• Cheese planes
• Clamps for carpenters or coopers
• Compostable knives
• Crimping pliers
• Cuticle pushers
• Depilation appliances
• Disposable forks being tableware
• Dog clippers
• Drywall hawks being hand tools
• Electric and battery-powered hair clippers
• Electric clothes irons
• Electric fingernail polishers
• Electric hair curling irons
• Electric irons for crimping the hair
• Electric nail files
• Electric pedicure tools
• Embroidery scissors
• Engraving needles
• Eyebrow trimmers
• Fertilizer scoops
• Fireplace shovels
• Fish skinning knives
• Fishing tackle pliers
• Flexible head wrenches
• Fruit knives
• Gardening trowels
• Golf shoe spike wrenches
• Hair clippers for babies
• Hand jacks
• Hand tools for decanting liquids
• Hand-operated banana slicers
• Hand-operated carpenters' augers
• Hand-operated chisels
• Hand-operated cutting tools
• Hand-operated food processor
• Hand-operated grease guns
• Hand-operated lasts for shoemaking
• Hand-operated mandoline slicers
• Hand-operated percussion hammer drills
• Hand-operated pumps
• Hand-operated sanders
• Hand-operated ski sharpening instruments
• Hand-operated sprayers for insecticides
• Hand-operated tools for bending pipes
• Hand-operated vegetable shredders
• Harpoons for commercial fishing
• Hookah tongs
• Iced tea spoons
• Japanese thread clippers
• Knife sheaths of leather
• Knuckle dusters
• Manicure sets
• Manually operated sharpeners
• Manually-operated lifting tools for installing doors
• Manually-powered motorcycle lift
• Metal vice jaws
• Miter cutters being hand tools
• Mountaineering ice hammers
• Nail files
• Nightsticks
• Non-electric cheese slicers
• Non-electric fingernail polishers
• Non-electric nail buffers
• Oil filter wrenches
• Pedicure implements
• Pickaxes
• Pitchforks
• Pocket shears
• Punching dies
• Razor blades
• Roll-up bags for knives
• Sanding blocks being hand tools
• Scissors for kitchen
• Scythe handles
• Sharpening steels
• Shedding blades
• Snail forks
• Spading forks
• Spoons being tableware
• Sterling silver table knives
• Strawberry hullers
• Table forks
• Taps being hand tools
• Throwing axes
• Tool belts
• Tweezers
• Wallpaper seam rollers
• Whet steels

Example terms: Source: USPTO ID Manual (public domain), retrieved 18 October 2026.

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