Manual of U.S. Patent Classification
as of June 30, 2000

Class
099
FOODS AND BEVERAGES: APPARATUS

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Subclass		Title
ClassTitle		===> FOODS AND BEVERAGES: APPARATUS
275		BEVERAGE
276		. Primary-alcoholic fermentations with subsequent and/or prior operations
277		. Post-primary-alcoholic fermentation operations
277.1		. . Aging, refining and purifying
277.2		. . . With agitating means
278		. Hopping, wort-making or ante-primary alcoholic fermentation operations
279		. Infusors
280		. . Automatic control
281		. . . Of heat
282		. . . . And infusive contact
283		. . . Of infusive contact
284		. . Convertible
285		. . With signal, indicator or observation means
286		. . With prior handling or treating (e.g., roasting or grinding)
287		. . With agitating or compacting
288		. . With cooking or heating means
289R		. . With infusive material feeding and/or discharging
289T		. . . Tape
289D		. . . Drum brewer
289P		. . . Plate brewer
290		. . Combined
291		. . Plural infusors
292		. . Pressure-vacuum or reflex type
293		. . Steamer or condenser type
294		. . . With additional liquid supply means
295		. . Cartridge type
296		. . Invertible type
297		. . Plunger type
298		. . Plural bed or filter type
299		. . With infusive rate or interval control means
300		. . With liquid supply or directing means
301		. . . Liquid trap
302R		. . . Force feed infusor
303		. . . . Underfeed
302C		. . . . Centrifugal
302FB		. . . . Flexible bulb
302P		. . . . Piston
304		. . . Gravity feed infusor
305		. . . . With supply regulator
306		. . . . Drip chamber type
307		. . . . With force feed supply
308		. . . . . Recycling or repercolating
309		. . . . . . Selective supply
310		. . . . . . Fountain type
311		. . . . . . . With overflow
312		. . . . . . . With distributor
313		. . . . . Fountain type
314		. . . . . . With distributor
315		. . . . . With distributor
316		. . Plural compartment
317		. . . Inner foraminous receptacle
318		. . . . Movable or adjustable
319		. . . . . Vertical
320		. . . . . . Float
321		. . . . Textile type
322		. . . . Suspended
323		. . Infusing receptacles
323.1		. With gas treating means
323.2		. . Carbonic acid and flavoring material
323.3		. Hot beverage means
323.4		CEREAL-PUFFING
323.5		. Corn-popper type
323.6		. . Coin control
323.7		. . Automatic control or time means
323.8		. . With addition of flavoring material
323.9		. . With feeding, conveying or discharging
323.11		. . . Separating discharge
323.12		VINEGAR-MAKING
324		COOKING
325		. Automatic control
326		. . Of heat and material
327		. . . By time
328		. . . . And heat responsive means
329R		. . . By heat responsive means
329P		. . . . Power operated carriage
329RT		. . . . Relative movement, toast and support
330		. . Of cooking fluid
331		. . Of heat or heater
332		. . . By time
333		. . . . And heat responsive means
334		. . Of material
335		. . . By time
336		. . . . Egg boiler or deep fat fryer type
337		. Intercontrol or safety control
338		. . Of heat and material
339		. Diverse cooker types
340		. Convertible
341		. With observation means
342		. With signal, indicator or tester
343		. . Gauge or gauge markings
344		. . Alarm
345		. With basting or solid applying means
346		. . Liquid elevating means
347		. . Condensing or self basting
348		. With stirring
349		. With material pressing means (e.g., ham boilers)
350		. . Band or binder type
351		. . Spring biased
352		. With other treating or handling of material
353		. . Changing form or shape
354		. . . Ring or hollow article (e.g., dough-nut)
355		. . Subsequent treating or handling
356		. . . Receptacle filling or closing
357		. Combined
358		. Electrode type
359		. Filled receptacle type
360		. . With conveyor
361		. . . Successive treating zones or units
362		. . . . Single endless conveyor
363		. . . Variable length of path
364		. . . Rollway type
365		. . . . Helical type
366		. . . Valved receptacle inlet or outlet
367		. . Plural treating units or zones
368		. . . Fluid interchange
369		. . With hold-down or presser
370		. . Plural treating fluids
371		. . Movable retort or support
372		. Opposed heated mold or surface type (e.g., waffle iron)
373		. . With feeding, conveying and/or discharging
374		. . Plural units
375		. . With drip or waste receptor, director or trimmer
376		. . Detachable or convertible surface
377		. . Movably supported surfaces
378		. . Electric feature
379		. . Adjustable separation
380		. . Movably connected mold sections
381		. . . Composite article forming or receiving
382		. . . Hollow article forming or receiving
383		. . . . Edible container
384		. . . Elongate article forming or receiving
385		. Slice toaster or broiler (e.g., grid types)
386		. . With conveyer
387		. . . With magazine supply
388		. . With marking or uniform coloring
389		. . Opposed heater type
390		. . . Movable or adjustable heater
391		. . . Movable or adjustable carrier or grid
392		. . . . Removably guided
393		. . Movably or adjustably supported carrier or grid
394		. . . Hand-held type
395		. . . With turning feature
396		. . . Interchangeable position type
397		. . . Rotary invertible
398		. . . . Displaceable pivot
399		. . . Removably guided
400		. . With drip or crumb receiving means
401		. . With heat distributor, baffle or enclosure
402		. . Hanged or separable grids
403		. Boiler or deep fat fryer type
404		. . With conveyer
405		. . . For buoyant material
406		. . . . Fluid current
407		. . With feeding and/or discharging
408		. . With crumb or sediment segregating or handling
409		. . With turning, agitating or inverting
410		. . Elevated, steaming or draining position
411		. . . Unilaterally supported
412		. . . Bayonet type support
413		. . . Rim engaging support
414		. . . Bail or flexibly suspended
415		. . . Bottom resting support
416		. . Plural food support
417		. . . Superposed or steaming
418		. . Bottom resting support
419		. Spit or impaling type
420		. . With conveyer
421R		. . Movably or adjustably supported
421A		. . . Hand held
421H		. . . Horizontal axis
421HH		. . . . Horizontally adjustable
421HV		. . . . Vertically adjustable
421M		. . . Heat actuated motor
421P		. . . Planetary
421TP		. . . Temperature
421V		. . . Non-horizontal axis
422		. Imperforate sheet or griddle type
423		. . With feeding, discharging and/or movably supporting
424		. . . Pivoted section
425		. . Drip segregating, receiving or directing
426		. Confining, conforming or molding support
427		. . Movably mounted
430		. . Mold with dynamic scoring or severing means
431		. . Dipping form
432		. . Mold for forming sheet material, e.g., pie crust
433		. . . Including pie rim clamp or guard
439		. . Press-couple mold
428		. . Shaping core mold
440		. . For ball or egg shaped article
441		. . For elongate or sausage shaped article
442		. . For ring shaped or hollow article
443R		. With conveyor or movably supported
443C		. . Conveyor
444		. With drip segregating, receiving or directing
445		. . Channelled gridiron
446		. . Subjacent receptacle or director
447		. With heat distributor
448		. Plural food support
449		. Collapsible, expansible or sectional support
450		. Foraminous support
450.1		EDIBLE LAMINATED PRODUCT MAKING APPARATUS
450.2		. Means forming or reshaping plural sheets or webs
450.3		. . Pie machine
450.4		. Means assembling preforms into a sandwich
450.5		. . Manually assisted
450.6		. Shell forming means and filling means
450.7		. Means feeding diverse center material
450.8		. . Puncturing injector
451		ELECTRIC, RADIANT OR VIBRATIONAL TREATING MEANS
452		MECHANICAL, FLUID OR HEAT TREATMENT OF DAIRY FOOD
453		. With temperature or atmosphere modification
454		. . By vacuum
455		. . By lowering temperature
456		. With isolation of a watery constituent
457		. . Including roller-press and drain
458		. . By reticulated member
459		. . . With prior mechanical treatment (e.g., churning)
460		. By actuated surface
461		. . Including plural, relatively movable surfaces
462		. . . Plural revolving surfaces having parallel axes
463		. . . . Planetating surfaces
464		. . Including rolling surface
465		. . And reticulated member
466		. . Including revolving surface
467		SUBJECTING FOOD TO AN ENCLOSED MODIFIED ATMOSPHERE
468		. Automatic control or time means
469		. With removal of solid foreign matter
470		. With sequential heating and cooling
471		. In gravity-feed enclosure
472		. Vacuum-producing means
473		. Including means to influence movement of gas within enclosure
474		. . By forcing gas to circulate
475		. . . By plural means
476		. . . Rotary pump
477		. . With means to move food
478		. . . Non-rectilinear movement
479		. . . . Circular movement of food support
480		. . By movable damper
481		. . By static deflector (e.g., smoke)
482		. With separate support for fume-producing material
483		NON-COOKING HEAT TREATMENT OF FOOD
484		COMBINED
485		MEANS TO TREAT FOOD
486		. Automatic control or time means
487		. . Regulating amount of liquid applied to food
488		. . Of grain flow
489		. . By food
490		. . . Core-pit detector
491		. . . To adjust or position tool
492		. . By safety means
493		. With condition-indicator
494		. By stuffing or applying particulate material
495		. By isolating a fluid constituent
496		. . By separating liquids having distinct characteristics
497		. . . Separating egg-white from yolk
498		. . . . And removing shell
499		. . . . By receptacle separating one egg-yolk from one egg-white
500		. . . . . Having means to pivotally move receptacle
501		. . By a rotary food-entering member
502		. . . With axial actuation
503		. . . With a rotating foraminous separator
504		. . . With coacting food-holder
505		. . . Manually actuated
506		. . By static food-entering member
507		. . . And means to move food to member
508		. . . And foraminous separator
509		. . With cutting
510		. . . By comminuting
511		. . . . And a centrifugal extractor
512		. . . . . With handling means
513		. . . . With foraminous separator adjacent comminutor
514		. Recovery of propagative seed
515		. Internal severing by flexable tool or yieldable tool support
516		. By applying fluid
517		. . With cooling
518		. . With disjoining hull from grain
519		. . . By projecting grain against surface
520		. . . Plural hulling zones
521		. . . . Including coacting, relatively rotating imperforated surfaces
522		. . . . Having plural, rotary, multiperforated surfaces
523		. . . With means to vary spacing between hulling surfaces
524		. . . And varying flow of grain
525		. . . Directing gas adjacent hulling zone
526		. . . . Internally and externally of hulling zone
527		. . . . By valved gas passages
528		. . . . With screen to separate products
529		. . . . Interrelated drive means for huller and gas-move
530		. . . . . Gas-mover integral with huller
531		. . . . . Gas-mover coaxially separated from huller
532		. . By injecting needle
533		. . . With means to move needle or work
534		. . Particular liquid
535		. . . Brine
536		. . . Water
537		. Subdividing into plural products
538		. . Separating one internal portion from another
539		. . . Removing external portion
540		. . . . Skin
541		. . . . . By paring
542		. . . . . . And removing cylindrical core
543		. . . . . . . And slicing
544		. . . . Removing cylindrical core
545		. . . . . And slicing
546		. . . . By cutting stem-end or blossom-end
547		. . . Removing core-pit
548		. . . . By separator moving with moving food (e.g., flying)
549		. . . . And orienting core-pit axis relative to separator
550		. . . . . By irregularity in outer surface of food
551		. . . . By gripping and twisting
552		. . . . Severing and pitting simultaneously
553		. . . . . By arcuate cutter separating pit
554		. . . . . By removing severed portion from immobilized pit
555		. . . . . By forcing pit
556		. . . . . . Through orifice
557		. . . . By plural impaling means
558		. . . . . By parallel, cooperating cylinders, one resilient, one impaling
559		. . . . By incision-type-punch and die
560		. . . . . And food handling means
561		. . . . . . Apertured, orbitally traveling, handling means
562		. . . . By pitting severed food
563		. . . . . Severing followed by pitting
564		. . . . By arcuate cutter or gripping means
565		. . . . By forcing flesh or pit through opening
566		. . . . . Ribbed rotating disc or cylinder
567		. . Separating one external portion from the remaining food
568		. . . Removing shell
569		. . . . With sorting
570		. . . . . By fluid
571		. . . . By sudden-impact
572		. . . . By means to set, look and actuate separating means according to shell size
573		. . . . . Including pawl and ratchet lock means
574		. . . . By rotating separating means
575		. . . . . Relative movement between adjacent irregular surfaces
576		. . . . . Disc or saw separating means
577		. . . . By biased breaking member
578		. . . . . Biased away from shell-contacting position
579		. . . . With adjustment of a separating member
580		. . . . With discharge feature
581		. . . . By relatively movable shell contacting means
582		. . . . . With means to restrain food prior to or during shell-breaking
583		. . . . . With means to fasten apparatus to support
584		. . . Removing skin
585		. . . . By pinching roller
586		. . . . By resilient conduit
587		. . . . By gripper means
588		. . . . By paring tool
589		. . . . . And means to move food past stationary or vibrating tool
590		. . . . . Arcuately shaped tool
591		. . . . . Plural tool means
592		. . . . . . With sectioning means
593		. . . . . Tool rotates about its own axis
594		. . . . . With means to hold and rotate food
595		. . . . . . And means to translate food past tool
596		. . . . . . Cutter has arcuate path around food
597		. . . . . . . Tool pivots transversely on reciprocating carrier
598		. . . . . . . . Tool pivots in plane perpendicular to food axis
599		. . . . . . . Tool arm pilots on rotatable carrier
600		. . . . Grain hulling
601		. . . . . With means to segregate diverse materials
602		. . . . . . By hulling means
603		. . . . . . . Moving perforated surface
604		. . . . . . . . With nonperforated hulling surface area
605		. . . . . . . Cylindrical or conical perforated enclosure
606		. . . . . . . . With axially extending nonperforated hulling portion
607		. . . . . . . . With additional hulling surface characteristics on enclosure
608		. . . . . . . . Enclosing a rotating, yieldably hulling element
609		. . . . . With mechanism to feed or discharge material
610		. . . . . . Integral with moving hulling member
611		. . . . . . With discharge control
612		. . . . . By plural hulling zones
613		. . . . . . Serial zones
614		. . . . . . . Axially spaces zones
615		. . . . . . . . With interior partition
616		. . . . . By endless-belt hulling surface
617		. . . . . By rotating surface
618		. . . . . . Adjustably or yieldably mounted hulling surface
619		. . . . . . . Including a screw-threaded mounting
620		. . . . . . Deformable hulling surface
621		. . . . . . With additional rotating surface
622		. . . . . . Radial hulling surface
623		. . . . By abrading or resilient separating means
624		. . . . . Two elements move at different speeds
625		. . . . . . Adjacent separating elements
626		. . . . . Including brush means
627		. . . . . . With rotating container
628		. . . . . Relatively moving adjacent surfaces
629		. . . . . Including tumbling means
630		. . . . . . Having a container which rotates, or has internal rotating abrading
631		. . . . . . . Vertical container with rotating bottom
632		. . . . . . . . With agitator or flow control means
633		. . . . . . . . . 0Having irregularly shaped bottom
634		. . . . . . . With food deflector
635		. . . Removing stem-end or blossom-end
636		. . . . Including blossom-end
637		. . . . Stemming
638		. . . . . And cluster breaking
639		. . . . . By means adjacent apertured handling means
640		. . . . . By rollers
641		. . . . . By relative motion of irregularly shaped element
642		. . . . By penetrating cutter
643		. . . . With conveyor and positioning means
644		INCLUDING MEANS TO PERMIT INVERSION OF FOOD
645		SHIELD OR SPACING ELEMENT
646R		MISCELLANEOUS
646S		. Silos
646C		. Container
646LS		. Liquid-solid
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		DIGESTS
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DIG 10		Temperature responsive
DIG 11		Conductivity control
DIG 12		Supersonic
DIG 13		Electrical deposition
DIG 14		Induction heating
DIG 15		Pie pans

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