CPC Definition - Subclass C10F

Last Updated Version: 2016.11
DRYING OR WORKING-UP OF PEAT
Definition statement

This place covers:

Drying, dewatering or working up of peat, including drying using presses, band-presses, rolls, centrifuges etc., including drying or dewatering in the field.

Drying or dewatering of peat combined with a carbonisation step for producing turfcoal.

Working-up of peat concerns peat processing processers and apparatus therefor, e.g. involving disintegration, moulding, briquetting, solubilizing and oxidising peat, etc.

References
Limiting references

This place does not cover:

Baling or bundling peat

B65B 27/12

Extracting wax from peat

C10G

Obtaining fibres from peat

D01B 1/50

Informative references

Attention is drawn to the following places, which may be of interest for search:

Destructive distillation of peat

C10B 53/00

Obtaining peat; Machines therefor

E21C 49/00

Combustion of peat

F23G 7/10

Drying in general

F26B

Special rules of classification

In the absence of an indication to the contrary, classification is made in the last appropriate place ("last place rule").