CPC Definition - Subclass A21B
This place covers:
Industrial baker's ovens for baking food products;
Parts or accessories for such ovens, e.g. baker's peels and baking forms, tins, sheets or boards used in such ovens;
Baking apparatuses for specials goods, e.g. waffles, cups, cones, pancakes, doughnuts;
Baking plants and baking apparatuses in combination with mixing or kneading devices.
This place does not cover:
Domestic baking equipment |
Attention is drawn to the following places, which may be of interest for search:
Machines or equipment for making or processing dough; handling baked articles made from dough | |
Baking processes | |
General methods of cooking foods | |
Kitchen equipment | |
Combustion apparatus | |
Domestic stoves or ranges being wholly or partly ovens | |
Furnaces, kilns, ovens, retorts | |
Control of temperature | |
Electric heating |
In this place, the following terms or expressions are used with the meaning indicated:
Baking | cooking food by dry heat acting by conduction note: normally in an oven, bus also in hot ashes, or on hot stones; baked food products are dough-based products like pastries, cakes or bread, or baked potatoes, baked apples, baked beans, etc. |
This place covers:
The bakers' ovens are classified according to the following aspects:
- the heating arrangements, e.g. by fire before baking, heated radiators or hot air flowing trough the oven. Ovens comprising radiators with openings to discharge steam into the oven in order to regulate the humidity are classified in A21B 3/04. Domestic ovens with convection means are classified in F24C 15/322;
- means for regulating the temperature;
- the baking surfaces moving during the baking. Movable elements used for charging or discharging ovens are classified in A21B 3/07.
This place does not cover:
Baking apparatus employing high-frequency or infrared heating |
Attention is drawn to the following places, which may be of interest for search:
Electric heating elements |
Roasting apparatus with movable-mounted food supports are classified in A47J 37/04.
Attention is drawn to the following places, which may be of interest for search:
Conveying in general | |
Conveyors having endless load-conveying surfaces |
Attention is drawn to the following places, which may be of interest for search:
Travelling or camp cookers |
This place covers:
- Details of industrial bakers' ovens, e.g. loading or unloading mechanism to bring products to be baked into and out of the baking cavities, doors to provide access to the baking cavities, air-treatment devices for regulating the humidity in the baking cavity and means for illuminating ovens. Furthermore the group comprises machines for cleaning or greasing baking surfaces and machines for discharging baked goods from tins.
- Accessories of ovens, e.g. baking tins, baking boards and baker's peels.
Attention is drawn to the following places, which may be of interest for search:
Devices for gripping or lifting hot cooking utensils |
This place covers:
Details of doors and flap gates that provide access to the baking cavity of industrial baking ovens. A flap gate is an access opening comprising a flap which is pivotable on its upper or lower edge. Such access means are generally used in stacked baking ovens. Furthermore, this group covers details of doors of bakers' ovens, e.g. ovens wherein a movable trolley loaded with food products is rolled into the baking cavity or ovens wherein the baking surfaces move during the baking.
Attention is drawn to the following places, which may be of interest for search:
General features of doors | |
Doors specially adapted for stoves or ranges |
Attention is drawn to the following places, which may be of interest for search:
Cooking-vessels for cooking food in steam | |
Arrangements of ducts for hot gases with air moisturising |
Attention is drawn to the following places, which may be of interest for search:
Discharging baked goods from tins | |
Manipulating tins, pans etc. e.g. charging or discharging conveyors, trolleys or ovens |
Attention is drawn to the following places, which may be of interest for search:
Details of lighting of general application | |
Illumination for domestic oven cavities | |
Lighting devices in microwave cavity |
Attention is drawn to the following places, which may be of interest for search:
Cooking-vessels | |
Vessels uniquely adapted for baking |
Attention is drawn to the following places, which may be of interest for search:
Shelves, racks or trays inside ovens |
Attention is drawn to the following places, which may be of interest for search:
Apparatus for applying oil to bakery products |
Attention is drawn to the following places, which may be of interest for search:
Apparatus for handling baked articles | |
Unpacking of articles or materials |
This place covers:
Baking apparatuses for special goods, e.g. hollow articles, waffles, pastry, biscuits, pancakes, or tortillas. These machines are used to produce a high quantity of baked goods. Domestic kitchen equipment, e.g. waffle-irons comprising hinged moulds are classified in A47J 37/0611.
This place does not cover:
Domestic waffle-irons |
Attention is drawn to the following places, which may be of interest for search:
Apparatus for shaping or moulding baked wafers |
Attention is drawn to the following places, which may be of interest for search:
Frying pans |
Attention is drawn to the following places, which may be of interest for search:
Deep fat fryers wherein the food is transported trough an oil-bath |
This place covers:
Systems comprising a dough rising chamber with handling means to transport dough products into or through a baking cavity;
Systems comprising a (plurality of) baking chamber(s) connected to a central control and monitoring device;
Baking apparatus, e.g. for bread, in combination with mixing or kneading devices
Attention is drawn to the following places, which may be of interest for search:
Coin freed apparatus comprising heating or cooling |