CPC Definition - Subclass B02B
This place covers:
- Dry and wet processes for preparing and conditioning grain for milling; apparatus for hulling, husking decorticating, polishing and degerminating grains.
- Combinations of such processes and apparatus and auxiliary devices therefore.
Attention is drawn to the following places, which may be of interest for search:
Preservation of edible seeds, e.g. cereals | |
Animal feeding-stuffs | |
Foods or foodstuffs; Their preparation or treatment | |
Machines for hulling, husking or cracking nuts | |
Peeling vegetables or fruit | |
Machines for cleaning, blanching, drying or roasting fruits or vegetables, e.g. coffee, cocoa, nuts | |
Separating solids from solids by screening, sieving, sifting, sorting in general | |
Preparation of starch | |
Production of fats or fatty oils from raw materials | |
Preparation of oxygen-containing organic compounds Ethanol, i.e. non-beverage | |
Drying apparatus in general |
Japanese documents are very important and the Japanese documentation and classification has to be considered for search, especially for rice.
This place covers:
Processes for the pre-treatment of grain prior to milling.
Specific apparatus suitable for sifting, sorting, drying of grain which are not explicitly in a cooperating relationship with other grain preparing equipment.
This place covers:
All kind of apparatus for hulling, husking, polishing etc. of grains having discs, rollers, screws or worms, beaters, brushes or combinations thereof or having fluid means.
This place covers:
- Systems or sequences of operations, combined processes and apparatus for the preparation of grain for milling.
- Combinations with milling methods or milling devices.
Attention is drawn to the following places, which may be of interest for search:
Other milling methods or mills specially adapted for grain; Systems or sequences of operations; Plant |
This place covers:
- Feeding and discharging devices associated with hulling, husking, polishing etc. machines.
- Sifting and sorting devices associated with hulling, husking, polishing etc. machines.