CPC Definition - Subclass A21D
This place covers:
- Treatment of flour or dough, e.g. by addition of materials;
- Methods for preparing dough or for baking;
- Batters;
- Doughs or mixtures before baking;
- Baking;
- Bakery products.
Pasta is classified in A23L 7/109.
Snacks or chips are classified in A23L 7/117.
Cereal granules or flakes to be cooked and eaten hot are classified in A23L 7/143.
Farinaceous granules for dressing meat, fish or the like are classified in A23L 7/157.
Ready-to-eat cereals are classified in A23L 7/161.
Preservation of flour or dough, e.g. by storage in an inert atmosphere are classified in A23B 40/60.
This place does not cover:
Preservation of flour or dough before baking | |
Preservation of bakery products |
This place covers:
Ingredients for bakery products.
Special chemical leavening composition (e.g. encapsulated chemical leavening composition)
This place does not cover:
Batters, dough, or mixtures before baking |
This place covers:
Treatment of flour or dough before baking or pre-baking.
This place does not cover:
Preservation of flour or dough before baking |
This place covers:
- Special heat treatment step of flour or dough, before baking or pre-baking (this is not a baking step or a step of the baking process);
- Browning flour;
- Caramelized flour;
- Cooking/proofing dough with IR;
- Pre-heating dough ingredients before mixing;
- Sterilisation/pasteurisation of flour;
- Microwave/heat treatment of flour/cereals substances.
Attention is drawn to the following places, which may be of interest for search:
Baking or pre-baking of dough |
This place covers:
- Irradiation of flour or dough, before baking step;
- Radio-frequency/high-frequency treatment;
- Ultrasonic treatment;
- UV/IR treatment;
- Gamma-irradiation of flour;
- Sterilisation with microwave.
This place does not cover:
Irradiation of foodstuffs |
Attention is drawn to the following places, which may be of interest for search:
Improving finished, partly finished or par-baked bakery products by irradiation | |
Physical treatment of food or foodstuffs, e.g. by irradiation |
This place covers:
- Freez-drying of flour or dough, before baking or pre-baking.
- Freeze-drying.
- Lyophilisation.
- Removing moisture with vacuum.
This place covers:
Methods for preparing dough or for baking.
Short-time/No-time dough processing.
This place does not cover:
Treatment of flour or dough by adding materials |
This place covers:
Methods for preparing dough comprising a special step, i.e. non traditional or with traditional steps in a special order, traditional steps for preparing a dough being mixing, kneading, resting and for yeast-leavened dough proofing.
Attention is drawn to the following places, which may be of interest for search:
Machines or equipements; processes with mechanical feature |
This place covers:
Treating dough with gases, before baking or pre-baking.
Whipping.
Introduction of gaz in dough.
Aerating/oxygenating bakery dough.
Aerating/oxygeanting baking mix.
This place covers:
Treating dough with enzymes
This place does not cover:
enzymes |
This place covers:
Sourdough.
Panification ferment.
Starter.
Bread flavor.
Attention is drawn to the following places, which may be of interest for search:
Processes using microorganisms |
This place covers:
Treating dough with special yeast, i.e. other than traditional baking yeast Saccaromyces cerevisiae or Saccaromyces cerevisiae with special features, e.g. cold-tolerant.
Freeze-tolerant yeast.
Special yeast.
It does not include all doughs with normal baker's yeast
This place covers:
Baking step with special features, i.e. with non traditional features, e.g. with non-traditional oven, non-traditional time (e.g. very short), with non-traditional temperature (e.g. very low temperature), with non traditional step (e.g. steam injection during the baking) with non-traditional moulds, etc.
Baking and pre-baking processes.
Baking in 2 or more steps.
Microwave proofing and baking.
In can baking.
Attention is drawn to the following places, which may be of interest for search:
Bakers' ovens |
This place covers:
Ready-for-oven doughs
If claimed as such. Every dough is not classified in this group (except if there is no other A21D class given).
This place does not cover:
Batter for coating fish, meat, vegetables before frying |
If claimed as such. Everybatter is not classified in this group (except if there is no other A21D class given).
B aked or pre-baked products (e.g. breads) are classified in this subgroup if there is no other A21D class given. See also A21D 13/80 for sweet bakery products without another A21D class
This place covers:
Bakery products characterised by the addition of whole meal or bran
This place covers:
Bakery products characterised by the addition of a larger quantity of other flour (rice flour, lupin flour, etc...) than wheat or rye flour
Addition of a minor of other vegetable material other than wheat flour or rye flour are classified in A21D 2/264 or A21D 2/36
This place covers:
Gluten-free or gluten-less products
Bakery products for coeliac patients
Bakery products with flour other than wheat or rye flour are classified in A21D 13/04
This place covers:
Products coated before baking or pre-baking
This place covers:
Products coated after baking or pre-baking
This place covers:
Products filled or stuffed before baking or pre-baking
This place covers:
Products filled or stuffed after baking or pre-baking
Attention is drawn to the following places, which may be of interest for search:
Co-extrusion machines |
This place covers:
Soft tortillas and other flat breads (pita, chapati, etc.)
Attention is drawn to the following places, which may be of interest for search:
Tortilla chips |
This place covers:
Croutons made from bread or bakery products
Pieces of bread or bakery products
Attention is drawn to the following places, which may be of interest for search:
Farinaceous granules |
This place covers:
Foamed bakery products or pastry
This place covers:
Fried bakery products from a dough: doughnuts, beignets
Attention is drawn to the following places, which may be of interest for search:
Fried chips from a dough |
This place covers:
Biscuits, cookies, cake , chocolate cake (without special characteristics)
Sweet baked or pre-baked products are classified here if there is no other A21D class given.
This place does not cover:
Refreshing bakery products |
Attention is drawn to the following places, which may be of interest for search:
Treatment of flour or dough before baking, e.g. cooling, irradiating or heating | |
Preservation of foods or foodstuffs in general | |
Preservation of finished bakery products | |
Packaging or wrapping bakery products | |
Packaging biscuits | |
Packaging bread or like bakery products, e.g. unsliced loaves |
This place covers:
- Refrigerating or freezing baked or pre-baked bakery products;
- Special step of cooling baked or pre-baked bakery products;
- Vacuum cooling;
- Cooling with different steps after baking.
Attention is drawn to the following places, which may be of interest for search:
Cooling flour, raw dough or batters |
This place covers:
- Heat treatment of baked or pre-baked bakery products (after normal baking);
- Pasteurisation or sterilisation of baked or pre-baked products, eventually within packaging.
Attention is drawn to the following places, which may be of interest for search:
Heat treatment of flour or dough | |
Baking of dough (with special characteristics) |
This place covers:
- Irradiation of pre-baked or baked bakery products (after baking);
- Gamma-irradiation, microwave irradiation, ionising irradiation, laser irradiation, IR or UV irradiation.
This place covers:
Coating or treating baked or pre-baked bakery products with microbiocidal agents or protective films or other means.
Attention is drawn to the following places, which may be of interest for search:
Coating with food composition | |
Preservation of finished bakery products by coating |
This place covers:
Refreshing or recycling baked or pre-baked bakery products.
Attention is drawn to the following places, which may be of interest for search:
Improving bakery products | |
Preservation of bakery products |