CLASS 99, FOODS AND BEVERAGES: APPARATUS |
275 | BEVERAGE: |
Apparatus under the definition which is adapted and designed
for making beverages or beverage intermediates and not provided
for below.
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276 | . Primary-alcoholic fermentations with subsequent and/or prior operations: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 275. Apparatus which includes means that is adapted and designed
for carrying out primary (first) ethyl alcoholic fermentations,
combined with means for preparation of the material or treatment
of the product to make a beverage or combined with both material
preparation and product treatment to form a beverage or beverage
intermediate.
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277 | . Post-primary-alcoholic fermentation operations: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 275. Apparatus which includes means for treating products of
primary (first) ethyl alcoholic fermentations for the purpose of
making beverages, or beverage intermediates, therefrom.
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277.1 | .. Aging, refining and purifying: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 277. Apparatus especially adapted for aging, refining, and purifying
alcoholic beverages and potable alcohols.
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277.2 | ... With agitating means: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 277.1. Apparatus wherein means are provided for agitating the liquid
being treated.
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278 | . Hopping, wort-making or ante-primary alcoholic fermentation operations: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 275. Apparatus which includes means for hopping, or preparing
hop-extracts, or making or purifying worts, or otherwise preparing
materials for primary (first) ethyl alcoholic fermentations.
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279 | . Infusors: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 275. Apparatus for subjecting a material containing an extractable
or infusible beverage substance to the action of an extracting or
infusing fluid which is usually at an elevated temperature.
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280 | .. Automatic control: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 279. Infusion apparatus provided with means to initiate, maintain
and/or terminate an operation thereof in accordance with
the functioning of timing means and/or condition responsive means.
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281 | ... Of heat: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 280. Infusion apparatus, wherein a heating operation is controlled
by time and/or condition responsive means.
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282 | .... And infusive contact: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 281. Infusion apparatus wherein the contact of the infusing fluid
and the infusive material is initiated, controlled or terminated
by a time or condition responsive device.
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283 | ... Of infusive contact: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 280. Infusion apparatus wherein the contact of the infusing fluid
and the infusive material is initiated, controlled, or terminated
by a time or condition responsive device.
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284 | .. Convertible: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 279. Infusion apparatus which is adapted for a different use,
either as another type of beverage infuser or as any other device
by means of a modification of its adjustment, assembly, or position.
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285 | .. With signal, indicator or observation means: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 279. Infusion apparatus, including means for gauging, signalling,
indicating, testing, or facilitating the visual inspection, of,
the beverage, the beverage material, or the existence or occurrence
of some condition usually relating to the infusing operation.
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286 | .. With prior handling or treating (e.g., roasting or grinding): |
This subclass is indented under subclass 279. Infusion apparatus combined with means for subjecting the
infusible material or infusing liquid to an operation or manipulation,
other than heating and prior to infusive contact therebetween, which
modifies either the physical or chemical state of the material or
liquid.
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287 | .. With agitating or compacting: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 279. Infusion apparatus, including means for stirring, commingling,
or compressing, the infusible materials during the infusing operation usually
to facilitate formation of the infusion.
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288 | .. With cooking or heating means: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 279. Infusion apparatus including one or more food heating or
cooking devices combined with beverage infusing apparatus.
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289R | .. With infusive material feeding and/or discharging: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 279. Infusion apparatus, including mechanism for delivering infusible
material, i.e., material containing the extractable substances into,
or withdrawing infusible material from the extracting zone.
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289T | ... Tape |
This subclass has no definition. | |
289D | ... Drum brewer |
This subclass has no definition. | |
289P | ... Plate brewer |
This subclass has no definition. | |
290 | .. Combined: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 279. Infusion apparatus, claimed in association with means for
performing some operation other than infusing.
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291 | .. Plural infusors: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 279. Infusion apparatus which includes two or more devices, each
operating to extract a distinct beverage.
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292 | .. Pressure-vacuum or reflex type: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 279. Infusion apparatus of the type in which infusing liquid
is forced from a heating and storage vessel, by the pressure of
the vapor evolved during a heating operation through a suitable channel
into an extraction vessel and is then caused to revert to the heating
and storage vessel, through substantially the same channel, by either
gravity alone or in conjunction with the vacuum produced in the
heating and storage vessel incident to the condensation of the vapors
therein.
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293 | .. Steamer or condenser type: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 279. Infusion apparatus of the type in which (1) the infusible
material is subjected to the action of a vaporized liquid, usually
steam, (2) the infusible material is contacted with condensate of the
infusing fluid, or (3) the infusing device is provided with some
special means to extract the heat of vaporization of, or to receive
the condensate of, either the infusing fluid or a volatile constituent
of the infusible material.
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294 | ... With additional liquid supply means: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 293. Infusion apparatus in which separate means are provided to contact the infusible material with both a liquid and a vapor. | |
295 | .. Cartridge type: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 279. Infusion apparatus modified to accept infusible material
associated in a vendable, disposable, or single use infusing package
or receptacle.
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296 | .. Invertible type: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 279. Infusion apparatus having oppositely disposed vessels communicating through an infusion chamber, and means whereby (1) the apparatus may be selectively positioned with either vessel in the subjacent position, (2) one vessel may be detached from the other vessel and placed, top surface down, on an appropriate support, or (3) the apparatus may be tilted to cause the completed or partially completed beverage to pass or repass through the infusion chamber. | |
297 | .. Plunger type: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 279. Apparatus in which the infusible material is carried by
a piston closely fitted within an elongated chamber containing infusing
fluid so that movement of the piston requires passage of the infusing
fluid through the infusible material.
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298 | .. Plural bed or filter type: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 279. Infusion apparatus, including (1) two or more surfaces,
receptacles, or compartments, for the reception of the infusible
material for a single beverage, or (2) one or more surfaces, receptacles,
or compartments, for the reception of infusible material provided
with additional means for separating solid material from the beverage.
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299 | .. With infusive rate or interval control means: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 279. Infusion apparatus in which means are provided to vary or
adjustably determine the duration or character of contact between
the infusible material and the infusing fluid, other than by manipulation
of the infusible material or the supply of infusing fluid.
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300 | .. With liquid supply or directing means: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 279. Infusion apparatus, including means to conduct or deflect
infusing liquid toward the infusible material for contact therewith.
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301 | ... Liquid trap: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 300. Infusion apparatus wherein a body of liquid is arranged
in the liquid supply so as to prevent escape through the supply
of vapors present in the infusor.
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302R | ... Force feed infusor: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 300. Infusion devices wherein pressure means are provided to
induce flow of infusing liquid through the infusible material.
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303 | .... Underfeed: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 302. Infusion apparatus wherein the direction of flow of infusing liquid through the infusible material is contrary to the action of gravity. | |
302C | .... Centrifugal |
This subclass has no definition. | |
302FB | .... Flexible bulb |
This subclass has no definition. | |
302P | .... Piston |
This subclass has no definition. | |
304 | ... Gravity feed infusor: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 300. Infusion apparatus wherein the flow of infusing fluid through
the infusible material is due to the weight of the liquid which
is in contact with the material.
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305 | .... With supply regulator: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 304. Infusion apparatus wherein means are provided to vary or
adjust the rate of liquid supply or to determine the total quantity
of liquid supplied.
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306 | .... Drip chamber type: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 304. Infusion apparatus, wherein the liquid supply in its entirety consists of a vessel of sufficient size to contain substantially the entire charge of liquid and apertured to permit a restricted gravity discharge thereof upon the infusible material positioned therebelow. | |
307 | .... With force feed supply: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 304. Infusion apparatus, wherein the liquid supply includes means
for elevating or otherwise propelling the liquid.
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308 | ..... Recycling or repercolating: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 307. Infusion apparatus wherein liquid after contact with the infusible material is returned to the liquid supply means for reuse in again contacting the infusible material. | |
309 | ...... Selective supply: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 308. Infusion apparatus, wherein means are provided for supplying
at will either unprocessed liquid or partially infused beverage.
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310 | ...... Fountain type: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 308. Infusion apparatus wherein liquid is delivered upwardly
through a conduit surrounded by a bed of infusible material and
is allowed to gravitate upon the infusible material.
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311 | ....... With overflow: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 310. Infusion apparatus wherein means are provided to discharge
liquid in excess of a desired height above the infusible material.
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312 | ....... With distributor: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 310. Infusion apparatus including means to facilitate the spreading
of liquid over the area of the infusible material, frequently by
means of perforated spreader plates.
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313 | ..... Fountain type: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 307. Infusion apparatus wherein liquid is delivered upward through
a conduit surrounded by a bed of infusible material and is allowed
to gravitate upon the infusible material.
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314 | ...... With distributor: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 313. Infusing apparatus including means to facilitate the spreading
of liquid over the area of the infusible material, frequently by
means of perforated spreader plates.
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315 | ..... With distributor: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 307. Infusion apparatus including means to facilitate the spreading
of liquid over the area of the infusible material, frequently by
means of perforated spreader plates.
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316 | .. Plural compartment: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 279. Infusion apparatus wherein there is provided a beverage
vessel having associated therewith a space or support for infusible
material.
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317 | ... Inner foraminous receptacle: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 316. Infusion apparatus in which the support for the infusible
material includes a perforated or otherwise pervious receptacle
within but distinct from the beverage vessel.
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318 | .... Movable or adjustable: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 317. Infusion apparatus wherein the inner pervious receptacle
is arranged so that its position, relative to the outer beverage
vessel or the liquid therein, can be varied.
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319 | ..... Vertical: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 318. Infusion apparatus in which the pervious receptacle can
be moved or adjusted in a straight vertical path.
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320 | ...... Float: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 319. Infusion apparatus in which the means for positioning the pervious receptacle includes a buoyant element. | |
321 | .... Textile type: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 317. Infusion apparatus in which the pervious receptacle includes
a flexible, nonmetallic fabric in its construction.
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322 | .... Suspended: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 317. Infusion apparatus in which means are provided for supporting
the pervious receptacle from the top or sides of the beverage vessel.
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323 | .. Infusing receptacles: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 279. Infusion apparatus consisting of a reusable pervious enclosure
for the infusible material.
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323.1 | . With gas treating means: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 275. Device wherein the beverage or beverage intermediate is
contacted by an aeriform fluent substance (other than ambient atmosphere).
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323.2 | .. Carbonic acid and flavoring material: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 323.1. Device wherein the gas treating means is carbon dioxide
or other carbonating substance; and in addition a liquid or solid
substance is applied which affects the taste of the carbonated beverage.
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323.3 | . Hot beverage means: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 275. Device including means which make a beverage by combining
a mixture which includes a constituent heated above the ambient
temperature, or raises the temperature of a beverage.
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323.4 | CEREAL-PUFFING: |
This subclass is indented under the class definition. Device; including apparatus adapted to subject cereal to
sudden changes in pressure to disrupt the same and produce an expanded
or inflated product.
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323.5 | . Corn-popper type: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 323.4. Device designed to pop corn or other cereal by heat treatment
at substantially atmospheric pressure.
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323.6 | .. Coin control: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 323.5. Device whose operation is effected by the use of a coin,
check, or token.
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323.7 | .. Automatic control or time means: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 323.5. Device provided with means to initiate, maintain or terminate
the operation in accordance with the functioning of timing means
or condition responsive means.
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323.8 | .. With addition of flavoring material: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 323.5. Device including means for contacting the cereal with a
condiment, usually salt or butter, prior to, during, or subsequent
to the popping.
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323.9 | .. With feeding, conveying or discharging: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 323.5. Device, including mechanism for delivering the cereal into,
withdrawing cereal from or transporting the cereal between distinct
points either within or without the heat treating zone.
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323.11 | ... Separating discharge: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 323.9. Device wherein means is provided to select a portion of
the treated cereal having a predetermined size and discharge the
same from the treating zone, independently of, or to the exclusion
of, that portion of the material not selected.
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323.12 | VINEGAR-MAKING: |
This subclass is indented under the class definition. Device including apparatus specifically adapted for the
preparation or treatment of acetic acid derived from fermentation.
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324 | COOKING: |
This subclass is indented under the class definition. Apparatus adapted to receive and support food and subject
it to a heat, or other energy treatment, sufficient to change a
chemical or physical property of the food, the change affecting
the edibility of the food.
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325 | . Automatic control: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 324. Cooking apparatus provided with means to initiate, maintain
and/or terminate an operation thereof in accordance with
the functioning of timing means and/or condition-responsive means.
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326 | .. Of heat and material: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 325. Cooking apparatus, in which both the operations of heating
and of manipulating the material are controlled.
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327 | ... By time: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 326. Cooking apparatus wherein both operations are controlled
by timing mechanism.
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328 | .... And heat responsive means: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 327. Cooking apparatus wherein the operations are jointly or severally under control of both a timing means and a means directly responsive to a thermal condition usually a thermostatic device. | |
329R | ... By heat responsive means: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 326. Cooking apparatus wherein both operations are controlled
by means which is directly responsive to a thermal condition, usually
a thermostatic device. Independently heated thermostats which determine
a time interval for a cooking operation are here classified.
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329P | .... Power operated carriage |
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329RT | .... Relative movement, toast and support |
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330 | .. Of cooking fluid: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 325. Cooking apparatus wherein is controlled the operation of
manipulating the fluid which surrounds the food support or receptacle
and functions as a medium for the conduction of heat to the food
material.
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331 | .. Of heat or heater: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 325. Cooking apparatus in which the operation of heating is controlled
either in the generation of heat or in the application of heat to
the food material.
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332 | ... By time: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 331. Cooking apparatus wherein the heating is under control of
timing mechanism.
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333 | .... And heat responsive means: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 332. Cooking apparatus wherein the heating is additionally controlled
by means directly responsive to a thermal condition, usually a thermostatic
device.
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334 | .. Of material: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 325. Cooking apparatus wherein is controlled the operation of
manipulating the material treated.
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335 | ... By time: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 334. Cooking apparatus wherein the control is by a timing mechanism.
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336 | .... Egg boiler or deep fat fryer type: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 335. Cooking apparatus wherein the food material is withdrawn
from contact with a heated liquid upon the operation of the timing
mechanism.
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337 | . Intercontrol or safety control: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 324. Cooking apparatus having (1) means to insure the concomitant
operation of two or more manually operable controls or operators
each of which control different operations; and/or (2) arrangements
which insure the safety of either the cooking apparatus or the person
operating it by maintaining the apparatus in a passive condition
upon occurrence of a harmful or dangerous condition there within.
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338 | .. Of heat and material: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 337. Cooking apparatus wherein the control or actuation means
for manipulating the food material and the control means for initiating,
terminating and/or modifying the heating operation are interlocked
for dependent control.
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339 | . Diverse cooker types: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 324. Cooking apparatus comprising a unitary assembly of (1) a
plurality of cooking devices, or (2) a cooking device and a food
heating device, each of which devices is adapted to perform a different
type of cooking or heating operation.
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340 | . Convertible: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 324. Cooking apparatus in which a single device, by means of
a modification of its adjustment, assembly, or position, is adapted
for different types of cooking or cooking and food heating operations.
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341 | . With observation means: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 324. Cooking apparatus including means for facilitating visual
inspection of either the food material or some portion of the cooking
apparatus.
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342 | . With signal, indicator or tester: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 324. Combinations cooking apparatus with means for gauging, signalling,
or indicating the existence or occurrence of or testing for some
condition usually relating to the cooking operation.
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343 | .. Gauge or gauge markings: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 342. Combinations wherein the indicating means is (1) a gauge such as a thermometer, pressure gauge, liquid level gauge, et cetera, or (2) is a series of markings to indicate to the operator the degree or extent of a condition usually relating to the cooking operation. | |
344 | .. Alarm: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 342. Combinations wherein the indication is given by means audibly
informing the operator of the existence or occurrence of the condition.
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345 | . With basting or solid applying means: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 324. Combinations of cooking apparatus with means to (1) baste
the material during cooking, or (2) apply solid matter such as bread
crumbs, fat, et cetera, to said material during cooking.
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346 | .. Liquid elevating means: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 345. Combinations having means, such as a pump, for elevating
basting liquid from a sump usually below the material to a discharge
point above said material.
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347 | .. Condensing or self basting: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 345. Combinations having means for condensing vapors resulting
from the cooking, plus means for directing condensate upon the material being
cooked. Here included are the so-called "self-basting" cooking
receptacles having means arranged over the material so that vapors
may condense on said means and the liquid may drip down upon the
material.
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348 | . With stirring: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 324. Combinations of cooking apparatus with means for stirring
the material during cooking.
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349 | . With material pressing means (e.g., ham boilers): |
This subclass is indented under subclass 324. Cooking apparatus combined with means for exerting mechanical
pressure on the food material during heat treatment thereof.
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350 | .. Band or binder type: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 349. Cooking apparatus in which the food support encircles the
article and compresses the food therein, solely by said encirclement
and not by end closures or the like.
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351 | .. Spring biased: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 349. Cooking apparatus in which the means for exerting mechanical
pressure includes a spring or other yielding element for limiting
or maintaining the pressure on the food material.
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352 | . With other treating or handling of material: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 324. Combinations of cooking apparatus and means for performing
a noncooking operation or process on or an additional manipulation
of the material cooked, not elsewhere provided for. The operation,
process or manipulation may take place prior, concurrent, or subsequent
to the cooking.
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353 | .. Changing form or shape: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 352. Combinations of cooking apparatus and means for changing
the form or shape of the material.
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354 | ... Ring or hollow article (e.g., dough-nut): |
This subclass is indented under subclass 353. Cooking apparatus in which the article formed is an annulus or other hollow article, frequently a doughnut. | |
355 | .. Subsequent treating or handling: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 352. Combinations wherein the additional treating or handling
follows the cooking operation.
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356 | ... Receptacle filling or closing: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 355. Combinations wherein the subsequent operation comprises
placing the cooked material in receptacles or applying closures
to the filled receptacles.
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357 | . Combined: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 324. Cooking apparatus claimed in association with means for
performing some operation other than cooking.
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358 | . Electrode type: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 324. Cooking apparatus wherein the food material is heated by
the passage of an electrical current therethrough.
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359 | . Filled receptacle type: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 324. Cooking apparatus adapted to heat treat food material within
receptacles which are designed to contain the food until it reaches
the consumer. Included here are can processors, bottle pasteurizers
and food jar canning apparatus.
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360 | .. With conveyor: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 359. Cooking apparatus wherein means is provided to transport
the food containing receptacles from a feeding station to a discharge
station while undergoing heat treatment. The feeding or discharging
may be accomplished either manually or mechanically.
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361 | ... Successive treating zones or units: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 360. Cooking apparatus in which the conveyor transports the food
in turn through a plurality of heat treating devices or areas. The
heat treatment may include either heating or cooling of the food
material, but at least one must be heating.
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362 | .... Single endless conveyor: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 361. Cooking apparatus, in which the food receptacles are transported through the various treating zones or units by the same endless conveyor extending through all. | |
363 | ... Variable length of path: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 360. Cooking apparatus, wherein the course of the food receptacles through the treating zone can be selected to modify the length of travel therein and thereby the duration of the treatment. | |
364 | ... Rollway type: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 360. Cooking apparatus, in which the food receptacles contact
a surface or trackway in such a manner that forward motion of the
receptacles is accompanied by rolling of the receptacle along the
surface or trackway and about the longitudinal axis of the receptacle.
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365 | .... Helical type: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 364. Cooking apparatus in which the rollway is in the form of
a helix.
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366 | ... Valved receptacle inlet or outlet: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 360. Cooking apparatus in which there is provided means to transfer
a food receptacle into or from the treating chamber without release
of fluid pressure existing within the chamber.
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367 | .. Plural treating units or zones: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 359. Cooking apparatus providing two or more devices or two or
more areas of the same device for the heat treatment of food in
receptacles, at least one such treatment being heating.
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368 | ... Fluid interchange: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 367. Cooking apparatus in which a treating fluid is transferred from one unit or zone to another unit or zone usually to modify the character of heat treatment therein. | |
369 | .. With hold-down or presser: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 359. Cooking apparatus in which there is provided means for exerting
a restraining force against the receptacle or its closure, usually
to prevent deformation or dislocation of the receptacle or its closure.
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370 | .. Plural treating fluids: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 359. Cooking apparatus including means for supplying two or more
treating fluids, either simultaneously or in turn, for contact with
the food receptacles, at least one of the fluids heat treating the
food.
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371 | .. Movable retort or support: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 359. Cooking apparatus in which either (1) the treating enclosure
is so mounted that the same may partake of motion, or (2) the support
for the food receptacles is adapted to be moved within the enclosure
during treatment.
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372 | . Opposed heated mold or surface type (e.g., waffle iron): |
This subclass is indented under subclass 324. Cooking apparatus including two imperforate movably connected
heated plates or mold sections adapted to be positioned so as to
confine and contact food material therebetween.
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373 | .. With feeding, conveying and/or discharging: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 372. Cooking apparatus, including in combination at least one
of the following: (1) means for supplying or facilitating the supply
of uncooked material, between the cooking surfaces, (2) means for
bodily transporting both cooking surfaces from a feeding station
to a discharging station, or (3) means for withdrawing or facilitating
the withdrawal of the food material from both cooking surfaces.
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374 | .. Plural units: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 372. Cooking apparatus consisting of two or more pairs of cooking
surfaces.
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375 | .. With drip or waste receptor, director or trimmer: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 372. Cooking apparatus including means for catching, deflecting,
accommodating, or severing excess material from the cooking surfaces.
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376 | .. Detachable or convertible surface: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 372. Cooking apparatus provided with means for readily detaching
the cooking surfaces from their support or for assembling the cooking
surfaces by inversion or substitution so as to present any one of
two or more different surfaces. Apparatus convertible to either
a sandwich grill or a waffle iron are classified here.
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377 | .. Movably supported surfaces: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 372. Cooking apparatus wherein the pair of heated surfaces is
bodily moved as a unit, such as to invert, rotate, or adjust as
to position.
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378 | .. Electric feature: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 372. Cooking apparatus, in which there is included some electrical
structure, over and above an electrical heating element.
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379 | .. Adjustable separation: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 372. Cooking apparatus in which provision is made for accommodating
food materials of different or nonuniform thicknesses between the
heated surfaces.
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380 | .. Movably connected mold sections: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 372. Cooking apparatus in which the opposed heated surfaces are
significantly claimed as portions of a matrix or mold, and are movably jointed
to each other.
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381 | ... Composite article forming or receiving: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 380. Cooking apparatus, in which the mold sections are modified
to receive two or more distinct foods and mold the same into a unitary
food article.
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382 | ... Hollow article forming or receiving: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 380. Cooking apparatus in which the mold sections define an article
having an opening therein or therethrough.
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383 | .... Edible container: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 382. Cooking apparatus in which the food article is a receptacle, usually disclosed to receive additional food material subsequent to the cooking. | |
384 | ... Elongate article forming or receiving: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 380. Cooking apparatus in which the mold sections define a relatively
long, slender article.
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385 | . Slice toaster or broiler (e.g., grid types): |
This subclass is indented under subclass 324. Cooking apparatus peculiarly adapted to support food material
in the form of a slice while undergoing heat treatment. The support
is noncontinuous, such as a grid, to permit direct action of the
heat or heated vapor on the material and usually has portions cooperating
with both sides of the slice.
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386 | .. With conveyer: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 385. Cooking apparatus in which means is provided to transport
the food slice from a feeding station to a discharge station while
undergoing heat treatment.
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387 | ... With magazine supply: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 386. Cooking apparatus in which the food slices are stored in
a stacked condition from which they are delivered to the conveyor,
as required.
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388 | .. With marking or uniform coloring: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 385. Cooking apparatus including either (1) means to produce
a particular design character, or lettering on the slice, such as
by unequal heating of the surface of the slice, through a stencil,
or (2) means to prevent the unequal heating of the surface of the
slice with the consequent color variation. "Anti-shadow" devices
where the slice support is prevented from marking the slice are
here classified.
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389 | .. Opposed heater type: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 385. Cooking apparatus in which both sides of the slice are simultaneously
subjected to like heating from (1) a source of heat individual with each
side of the slice, or (2) a single source of heat with suitable
deflectors or reflectors for directing the heat to both sides of
the slice.
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390 | ... Movable or adjustable heater: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 389. Cooking apparatus including means to move the heat source,
reflector or deflector toward or away from the slice.
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391 | ... Movable or adjustable carrier or grid: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 389. Cooking apparatus, in which the slice support or carrier
is arranged in the device for relative motion.
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392 | .... Removably guided: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 391. Cooking apparatus in which the entire movable slice support
or carrier is adapted to be withdrawn along definite guide means
and separated bodily from the cooking device.
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393 | .. Movably or adjustably supported carrier or grid: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 385. Cooking apparatus in which the slice support or carrier
is so mounted in the device that the support or carrier may be moved
either for adjustment or manipulation of the slice.
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394 | ... Hand-held type: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 393. Cooking apparatus in which the slice carrier or holder is
movably or adjustably mounted on a handled device, which is, or
is adapted to be, hand-held during the cooking operation.
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395 | ... With turning feature: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 393. Cooking apparatus in which means are provided to turn over
the food slice relative to its support or carrier, usually to present
a different surface to the heat source.
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396 | ... Interchangeable position type: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 393. Cooking apparatus in which a series of two or more slice carriers or holders are initially located in a series of two or more heat treating stations and each carrier or holder may be relocated, in an inverted condition relative to the heat source, in a station vacated by another carrier or holder of the series. | |
397 | ... Rotary invertible: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 393. Cooking apparatus in which the food slice support or carrier
is so mounted as to permit bodily rotation through at least 180
degrees, relative to its mounting, about an axis in, or generally
parallel to, the plane of the slice.
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398 | .... Displaceable pivot: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 397. Cooking apparatus in which the rotational axis of the slice
support or carrier is bodily movable or adjustable.
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399 | ... Removably guided: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 393. Cooking apparatus in which the entire movable slice support
or carrier is adapted to be withdrawn along definite guide means
and separated bodily from the cooking device.
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400 | .. With drip or crumb receiving means: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 385. Cooking apparatus including means to catch, direct, or segregate
juice or solid particles released by the food slice while undergoing heat
treatment.
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401 | .. With heat distributor, baffle or enclosure: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 385. Cooking apparatus including means to direct, deflect or
confine heat or heated vapors towards or about a food slice.
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402 | .. Hanged or separable grids: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 385. Cooking apparatus including opposed cooperating grids which are adapted to be relatively displaced. | |
403 | . Boiler or deep fat fryer type: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 324. Cooking apparatus in which food articles or materials are
supported or manipulated for heat treating by contact with a body
of heated liquid.
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404 | .. With conveyer: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 403. Cooking apparatus, wherein means is provided to transport
the food from a feeding station to a discharge station while undergoing
heat treatment by contact with a heating liquid.
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405 | ... For buoyant material: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 404. Cooking apparatus in which the conveyor is modified to accommodate material having a tendency to float in the cooking liquid. | |
406 | .... Fluid current: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 405. Cooking apparatus in which the material while floating in
the cooking liquid is carried at least in part from the feeding
station toward the discharging station solely by flow of the cooking liquid.
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407 | .. With feeding and/or discharging: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 403. Cooking apparatus including means for supplying removing,
or facilitating the supply or removal of food material from the
liquid treating support therefor.
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408 | .. With crumb or sediment segregating or handling: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 403. Cooking apparatus including means for manipulating, accommodating,
or separating debris, usually produced by the reaction of the cooking liquid
and the food material, present in the cooking liquid.
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409 | .. With turning, agitating or inverting: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 403. Cooking apparatus, wherein means are provided to (1) relocate
the food material relative to its treating support, (2) relocate
the food material relative to the cooking liquid, or (3) relocate
the treating support in an inverted position.
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410 | .. Elevated, steaming or draining position: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 403. Cooking apparatus wherein the food treating support is adjustable
or can be assembled in any one of a plurality of superposed positions at
different levels and in which in one position, usually the lowest,
the food material is contacted with the cooking liquid.
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411 | ... Unilaterally supported: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 410. Cooking apparatus wherein the food support, when in an elevated position, is sustained by the cooking liquid containing vessel, cantilever fashion, i.e., at one side only of the food support. | |
412 | ... Bayonet type support: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 410. Cooking apparatus in which the food support is retained in a selected elevated position by reason of a rotary misalignment of normally vertically movably cooperating portions of the food support and cooking liquid containing vessel. | |
413 | ... Rim engaging support: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 410. Cooking apparatus wherein the food support in its elevated position has portions thereof resting on the upper edge of the cooking liquid containing vessel. | |
414 | ... Bail or flexibly suspended: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 410. Cooking apparatus wherein the food support, in an elevated
position, is sustained by a jointed or flexible connection.
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415 | ... Bottom resting support: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 410. Cooking apparatus wherein the food support, when in an elevated position, derives its support from a part thereof, or a device connected therewith which rests on the bottom wall of the cooking liquid containing vessel. | |
416 | .. Plural food support: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 403. Cooking apparatus in which the food support is provided
with a plurality of distinct food receiving portions.
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417 | ... Superposed or steaming: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 416. Cooking apparatus wherein a food receiving portion of the
food support is located in an elevated position relative to another
food receiving portion, and which portions may be either unitary
or separable, but at least one contacts food with the cooking liquid.
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418 | .. Bottom resting support: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 403. Cooking apparatus, wherein the food support or a part connected
therewith rests on the bottom wall of the cooking liquid containing
vessel.
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419 | . Spit or impaling type: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 324. Cooking apparatus including a food support of which portions
thereof penetrate or pierce the food material and retain the food
thereon.
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420 | .. With conveyer: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 419. Cooking apparatus wherein means is provided to transport
the food from a feeding station to a discharge station while undergoing
heat treatment.
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421R | .. Movably or adjustably supported: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 419. Cooking apparatus in which the food support is so mounted
or arranged that the support can be given motion or adjustment.
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421A | ... Hand held |
This subclass has no definition. | |
421H | ... Horizontal axis |
This subclass has no definition. | |
421HH | .... Horizontally adjustable |
This subclass has no definition. | |
421HV | .... Vertically adjustable |
This subclass has no definition. | |
421M | ... Heat actuated motor |
This subclass has no definition. | |
421P | ... Planetary |
This subclass has no definition. | |
421TP | ... Temperature |
This subclass has no definition. | |
421V | ... Non-horizontal axis |
This subclass has no definition. | |
422 | . Imperforate sheet or griddle type: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 324. Cooking apparatus wherein the food receiving support is
an imperforate, although not necessarily continuous, surface.
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423 | .. With feeding, discharging and/or movably supporting: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 422. Cooking apparatus, combined with (1) means supplying food
material to, inverting food material on, or removing material from,
the imperforate surface, or (2) means for supporting or mounting
the imperforate surface so that the same can be adjusted, moved,
transported, or hinged.
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424 | ... Pivoted section: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 423. Cooking apparatus in which the imperforate surface includes
at least one section which is caused to swing relative to another
section about an axis located generally in the plane of the surface.
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425 | .. Drip segregating, receiving or directing: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 422. Cooking apparatus including means for separating the food
and the material exuded therefrom or for accommodating or disposing
of the exuded material.
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426 | . Confining, conforming or molding support: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 324. Cooking apparatus wherein the food receiving support is
shaped or otherwise modified to especially accommodate, shape, or
enclose a food article having a characteristic shape.
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427 | .. Movably mounted: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 426. Cooking apparatus in which the food receiver is so mounted
or supported that the same can be adjusted, moved, or transported.
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430 | .. Mold with dynamic scoring or severing means: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 426. Cooking apparatus, comprising a mold having scoring or severing
means which function by relative movement between said means and
the object being scored or severed.
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431 | .. Dipping form: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 426. Cooking apparatus wherein a form is coated with batter by
dipping prior to the cooking.
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432 | .. Mold for forming sheet material, e.g., pie crust: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 426. Cooking apparatus comprising means for shaping preformed
sheet material.
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433 | ... Including pie rim clamp or guard: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 432. Cooking apparatus in which a pie is the article supported
and means are provided to (1) compress the joint between the upper
and lower crusts, or (2) shield the joint from the direct action
of the heat.
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439 | .. Press-couple mold: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 426. Cooking apparatus having a female mold combined with a dynamic shaping element. | |
428 | .. Shaping core mold: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 426. Cooking apparatus comprising a mold having stationary means
for producing a hollow food product.
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440 | .. For ball or egg shaped article: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 426. Cooking apparatus in which the food support is so modified
as to receive an ovoid or spherical food article.
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441 | .. For elongate or sausage shaped article: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 426. Cooking apparatus in which the food support is so modified
as to receive an elongate cylindrical food article.
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442 | .. For ring shaped or hollow article: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 426. Cooking apparatus in which the food support is so modified
or constructed as to receive an annular cored, or other pre-shaped
hollow article.
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443R | . With conveyor or movably supported: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 324. Cooking apparatus in which a food receiver is so mounted
or supported that the same can be adjusted, moved or transported.
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443C | .. Conveyor |
This subclass has no definition. | |
444 | . With drip segregating, receiving or directing: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 324. Cooking apparatus including food supports having combined
therewith means for separating the food and the material exuded
therefrom or for accommodating or disposing of the exuded material.
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445 | .. Channelled gridiron: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 444. Cooking apparatus including a series of spaced grooved bars or strips adapted to support food thereon and conduct the drip liquid therealong. | |
446 | .. Subjacent receptacle or director: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 444. Cooking apparatus in which the food support has a separate
container or deflecting surface positioned directly thereunder to
receive or collect drip liquid falling through openings in the food
support.
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447 | . With heat distributor: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 324. Cooking apparatus including food supports combined with
means to direct heat or heated vapors in desired amounts to various
portions of the support, usually to promote a more uniform cooking
of the food thereon.
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448 | . Plural food support: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 324. Cooking apparatus in which two or more similar food supports
are associated together to form a unitary device.
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449 | . Collapsible, expansible or sectional support: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 324. Cooking apparatus in which the food support is adapted to
be folded, compacted, or extended or to have one portion thereof
separable.
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450 | . Foraminous support: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 324. Cooking apparatus in which food is received directly on
an open, perforate support which is adapted to pass heat or heated
vapors through the perforations thereof.
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450.1 | EDIBLE LAMINATED PRODUCT MAKING APPARATUS: |
This subclass is indented under the class definition. Apparatus comprising means to assemble and/or unite
edible preforms or to assemble an edible preform and other edible
material into a laminated product, the assembling operation being
performed outside of a mold cavity.
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450.2 | . Means forming or reshaping plural sheets or webs: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 450.1. Apparatus including means to form or reshape plural sheet or web-type preforms. | |
450.3 | .. Pie machine: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 450.2. Apparatus including means to assemble the preforms in stacked relation with a filling (e.g., fruit, etc.) encased therebetween to form a pie. | |
450.4 | . Means assembling preforms into a sandwich: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 450.1. Apparatus comprising means to handle each of plural preforms individually and to assemble same into a stacked (e.g., laminated, etc.) relationship. | |
450.5 | .. Manually assisted: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 450.4. Apparatus comprising means requiring manual assistance of an operator in the preassembly of assembly operation. | |
450.6 | . Shell forming means and filling means: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 450.1. Apparatus comprising means to form an edible casing or housing
and means to fill the same with an edible.
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450.7 | . Means feeding diverse center material: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 450.1. Apparatus including means to feed a diverse edible material
into an edible casing or housing.
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450.8 | .. Puncturing injector: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 450.7. Apparatus comprising means for penetrating an edible preform
and injecting an edible fluid into the interior thereof (e.g., donut
filler, etc.).
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451 | ELECTRIC, RADIANT OR VIBRATIONAL TREATING MEANS: |
This subclass is indented under the class definition. Devices, including electrostatic means or energy that may
be of the sonic type (including subsonic and ultrasonic), electromagnetic,
or other wave type.
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452 | MECHANICAL, FLUID OR HEAT TREATMENT OF DAIRY FOOD: |
This subclass is indented under the class definition. Device including means to raise or lower the temperature
of milk products or closely allied animal products, such as lard,
shortening, etc. to such a degree that a significant change is produced
(e.g. sterilization or pasteurization, etc.), means to subject such
food to a gaseous treatment, or means to provide for a food manipulating
treatment that changes the character of the food (e.g. separating,
coagulating, etc.).
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453 | . With temperature or atmosphere modification: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 452. Device, including means to change the degree of heat content
of the food or means to create or maintain a gaseous environment
different from ambient air.
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454 | .. By vacuum: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 453. Device including means for withdrawing gaseous matter from
a chamber that encloses the food to produce a sub-atmospheric pressure within
the chamber.
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455 | .. By lowering temperature: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 453. Device provided with means to remove heat from the food.
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456 | . With isolation of a watery constituent: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 452. Device, with means to spatially separate from the food one
of its ingredients having a high water content.
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457 | .. Including roller-press and drain: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 456. Device wherein the food is presented between (1) a compacting
surface that encloses an axis about which the surface rotates and
(2) a fluid-conducting means (e.g., trough, etc.) that permits the
passage of fluid from the compacting area.
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458 | .. By reticulated member: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 456. Device wherein the separating means is a perforated member
that permits passage of fluid.
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459 | ... With prior mechanical treatment (e.g., churning): |
This subclass is indented under subclass 458. Device provided with means to operate on the food before
the food and the water-constituent ingredient are separated by the
reticulated member.
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460 | . By actuated surface: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 452. Device wherein the food treatment is accomplished by a moving element having a face that contacts the food, applies force thereto, and moves one portion of the food relative to another portion thereof. | |
461 | .. Including plural, relatively movable surfaces: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 460. Device wherein the relative movement of the food is accomplished by two or more elements that move relative to one another. | |
462 | ... Plural revolving surfaces having parallel axes: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 461. Device including two or more rotating surfaces, each rotating
about an axis, at least two of the axes being equidistant from each
other and lying in the same plane and not collinear.
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463 | .... Planetating surfaces: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 462. Device wherein two or more of the rotating surfaces also
revolve about a common axis.
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464 | .. Including rolling surface: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 460. Device wherein the moving the moving element has a face
that rotates about an axis and the axis moves in a direction perpendicular
to its extent, whereby the food is subjected to radial forces.
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465 | .. And reticulated member: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 460. Device provided with a perforated member that permits passage
of the food moved by the food-contacting face.
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466 | .. Including revolving surface: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 460. Device wherein the food-contacting face moves in a circular
path.
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467 | SUBJECTING FOOD TO AN ENCLOSED MODIFIED ATMOSPHERE: |
This subclass is indented under the class definition. Device including a chamber surrounding the food, and means
associated with the chamber for exposing the food to contact with
gaseous matter under conditions other than merely ambient or heated
atmospheric conditions.
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468 | . Automatic control or time means: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 467. Device provided with means to initiate, maintain or terminate
the operation thereof in accordance with the functioning of timing
means or condition responsive means.
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469 | . With removal of solid foreign matter: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 467. Device including means to separate matter from the desired
food product.
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470 | . With sequential heating and cooling: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 467. Device including means to reduce the temperature of the
food and means to heat the food before or after the temperature
has been reduced.
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471 | . In gravity-feed enclosure: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 467. Device wherein a chamber is vertically elongated and wherein
the food to be treated flows downwardly through the chamber.
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472 | . Vacuum-producing means: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 467. Devices including means for withdrawing gaseous matter from
a food container to produce a sub-atmospheric pressure within the
container.
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473 | . Including means to influence movement of gas within enclosure: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 467. Device including an element which may change the direction or rate of movement of the gaseous matter inside the chamber. | |
474 | .. By forcing gas to circulate: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 473. Device including means to propel gaseous matter into, within,
or from the chamber.
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475 | ... By plural means: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 474. Device including two or more forced gas circulation means. | |
476 | ... Rotary pump: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 474. Device including a revolving impeller means to move the gas. | |
477 | .. With means to move food: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 473. Device including means to propel food into, within, or from
the chamber.
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478 | ... Non-rectilinear movement: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 477. Device including means to move the food, or its support,
in a generally arcuate, circular, elliptical, or orbital path within
the enclosed modified atmosphere.
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479 | .... Circular movement of food support: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 478. Device wherein the structure which supports the food is
rotatable about a fixed axis, within the chamber.
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480 | .. By movable damper: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 473. Device including a movable member which, by relative movement
with respect to a chamber aperture, will permit an increased or
decreased rate of flow of gases to enter or leave, the chamber.
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481 | .. By static deflector (e.g., smoke): |
This subclass is indented under subclass 473. Device including a stationary element in the enclosure,
which alters the movement of gaseous matter in a given direction.
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482 | . With separate support for fume-producing material: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 467. Device including receptacle-type structure for retaining
material which, when diffused or dispersed (e.g., by heating), modifies
the enclosed atmosphere.
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483 | NON-COOKING HEAT TREATMENT OF FOOD: |
This subclass is indented under the class definition. Device having a heat source, however, the change in the
temperature is so slight, or the application of the heat is of such
short duration, that only a small portion of the mass of any given
food article is affected.
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484 | COMBINED: |
This subclass is indented under the class definition. Device having in addition to or combined therewith structure
which has a function other than preparation or treatment of food.
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485 | MEANS TO TREAT FOOD: |
This subclass is indented under the class definition. Device including means to modify a property of food other
than by elevating the temperature of the food.
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486 | . Automatic control or time means: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 485. Device including means to initiate, maintain, or terminate
a mechanical treatment in accordance with the functioning of timing
means or condition-responsive means.
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487 | .. Regulating amount of liquid applied to food: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 486. Device including means for controlling the quantity of food
treating fluid to which the food is subjected.
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488 | .. Of grain flow: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 486. Device wherein the travel of grain, through a skin, husk,
or impurity removing means or a gas which aids therein is controlled
by a condition responsive means.
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489 | .. By food: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 486. Device including means responsive to the presence, size, weight, or alinement of the food. | |
490 | ... Core-pit detector: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 486. Device including means for ascertaining whether or not a core-pit* has been removed from the food and means in response thereto which guides or moves the core-pit or food (usually, in one of at least two alternative paths). | |
491 | ... To adjust or position tool: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 489. Devices including means which sense the size or position of the food and moves a cutter in response thereto. | |
492 | .. By safety means: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 486. Device wherein a means is provided to relieve, release, or stop the machinery when abnormal operating conditions are encountered. | |
493 | . With condition-indicator: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 485. Device including means for gaging, signalling, or testing
some condition relating to the mechanical treatment of the food.
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494 | . By stuffing or applying particulate material: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 485. Device including means to fill a void in food or apply finely
divided solid matter to food.
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495 | . By isolating a fluid constituent: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 485. Device including means to spatially separate a specific
and distinguishable liquor portion of the food.
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496 | .. By separating liquids having distinct characteristics: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 495. Device including additional means for spatially separating
one distinguishable liquid portion of food from another.
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497 | ... Separating egg-white from yolk: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 496. Device including means to separate the albumen and vitellus
which are (or, previously were) contained in a naturally produced
outer shell* encapsulation.
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498 | .... And removing shell: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 497. Device, having additional means to separate the food shell* from
the internal liquid portions of the egg.
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499 | .... By receptacle separating one egg-yolk from one egg-white: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 497. Device including a container which has a volume essentially
that of the vitellus of a single egg, the album draining through
apertures in the container or overflowing the container to accomplish
the separation.
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500 | ..... Having means to pivotally move receptacle: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 499. Device having additional means movable relative to the container
for tipping the container in order to discharge at least a part
of its contents.
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501 | .. By a rotary food-entering member: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 495. Device having a member with a contoured profile which rotates
or is capable of being rotated about a center-line axis and engages
the food along its axis to produce a void in the food corresponding
in profile to the contour of the member.
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502 | ... With axial actuation: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 501. Device including means to move the member in the direction of its axis and towards the food. | |
503 | ... With a rotating foraminous separator: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 501. Device having a perforated or screened member which revolves about an axis, and which permits the liquid to pass through while retaining the more solid portions of the food. | |
504 | ... With coacting food-holder: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 501. Device including means to immobilize the food article against
the forces of the rotary food entering member while the food article
is being acted on by it.
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505 | ... Manually actuated: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 501. Device wherein a human operator supplies the power which
rotates the contoured member.
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506 | .. By static food-entering member: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 495. Device having a stationary member with a contoured profile,
engaged by the food to produce a void in the food corresponding
in profile to the contour of the member.
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507 | ... And means to move food to member: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 506. Device including means to force the food toward the food
engaging means.
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508 | ... And foraminous separator: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 506. Device having in addition a perforated or slotted means
which permits the liquid to pass through while retaining substantially
all of any solid portions of the food which may be present.
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509 | .. With cutting: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 495. Device having means to comminute cut, or pierce the food to aid in the separation of the liquid portion. | |
510 | ... By comminuting: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 509. Device wherein the subdividing means is a crushing, tearing
or pulverizing means which subdivides the food into small particles
or a pulp.
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511 | .... And a centrifugal extractor: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 510. Device having in addition a rapidly rotating means which
effects separation of the liquid portion from the solid portions
of the food by tending to force or impel the food away from the
center of rotation, after receiving the food from the subdividing
means, the liquid portion being separated from the solid portion
of the food by allowing the liquid portion to pass (a) through a
perforated portion of the device, or (b) over the edge of an imperforate
container portion of the device; or, both (a) and (b).
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512 | ..... With handling means: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 511. Device including relatively movable means which force a separated portion of food to or from the centrifugal separator. | |
513 | .... With foraminous separator adjacent comminutor: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 510. Device including a perforated member which force a separated
portion of food to or from the centrifugal separator.
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514 | . Recovery of propagative seed: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 485. Device including means to receive and retain that part of
a naturally occurring plant that is used for reproducing the plant.
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515 | . Internal severing by flexable tool or yieldable tool support: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 485. Device including a resilient tool which flexes or a tool
support which is based so that there may be movement of the tool
during cutting while the tool is within the interior of the food.
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516 | . By applying fluid: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 485. Device wherein gaseous or liquid matter contacts the food
for modifying the food for immediate, or ultimate, consumption.
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517 | .. With cooling: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 516. Device including means for refrigerating either the food
or the fluid applied thereto.
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518 | .. With disjoining hull from grain: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 516. Device including means for disjoining a hull* portion
of grain* from the remainder of the grain, the disjoining
occurring in one or more hulling zones.
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519 | ... By projecting grain against surface: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 518. Device including means to propel the grain through space
against an element which does not form part of the propelling instrumentality.
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520 | ... Plural hulling zones: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 518. Device in which the grain is treated in a plurality of distinct
and separate grain-hulling* areas.
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521 | .... Including coacting, relatively rotating imperforated surfaces: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 520. Device wherein at least one of the plural hulling zones
includes two or more hulling elements (one of which revolves about
an axis) that cooperates to perform a hulling operation and these
cooperating elements are not multi-perforated.
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522 | .... Having plural, rotary, multiperforated surfaces: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 520. Device including two or more hulling elements that each
have plural apertures therein and each element revolves about its
own respective axis.
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523 | ... With means to vary spacing between hulling surfaces: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 518. Device including plural hulling elements, and means to adjustably
position one hulling element with respect to another hulling element.
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524 | ... And varying flow of grain: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 518. Device including means to increase or decrease the rate
at which the grain passes a given point in the device.
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525 | ... Directing gas adjacent hulling zone: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 518. Device including (A) dynamic means to forcibly propel gas to or from the device, (B) static means to direct the flow of gas to or from the device, or both (A) and (B). | |
526 | .... Internally and externally of hulling zone: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 525. Device including means to force or guide gas to the interior of a hulling zone, and, means to force or guide gas at another point in the device (usually adjacent the entrance or exit for the grain) exterior of the hulling zone. | |
527 | .... By valved gas passages: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 525. Device including a relatively movable member that stops
or varies the flow of gas through a gas entrance or gas exit.
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528 | .... With screen to separate products: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 525. Device including a multi-perforated member which (a) retains
the grain and allows nongrain material to pass through or (b) allows
the grain to pass through and retains nongrain material.
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529 | .... Interrelated drive means for huller and gas-move: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 525. Device including a single driving mechanism, or drivetrain, for moving both (A) one or more hulling elements and (B) one or more gas-propelling elements. | |
530 | ..... Gas-mover integral with huller: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 529. Device wherein at least one of the rotating internal elements which contacts the grain during the hulling operation has rigidly attached thereto, or formed as a part thereof, structure which acts to propel gas. | |
531 | ..... Gas-mover coaxially separated from huller: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 529. Device including distinct gas-moving and hulling elements
that are supported on a single revolving driveshaft or that are
supported on two such shafts in such a manner that the centerline
of one shaft constitutes an extension of the centerline of the other
shaft (both having a common driving means).
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532 | .. By injecting needle: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 516. Device including a hollow, generally sharp-pointed device
having at least one aperture allowing passage of the liquid from
the hollow device to the interior of the food.
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533 | ... With means to move needle or work: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 532. Device including means to propel the needle toward and from the food, or to propel the food toward and from the needle. | |
534 | .. Particular liquid: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 516. Device wherein the applied fluid is a nongaseous, nonsolid substance. | |
535 | ... Brine: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 534. Device including means for immersing, or otherwise wetting
the food with salt-containing water.
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536 | ... Water: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 534. Device including means for immersing, or otherwise wetting,
the food with water.
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537 | . Subdividing into plural products: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 485. Device comprising means to disjoin* one portion
of food from another portion of food.
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538 | .. Separating one internal portion from another: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 537. Device including means to separate one recognizable interior
portion of a food article from another interior portion of the same
food article.
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539 | ... Removing external portion: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 538. Device wherein means are provided to spatially remove an
external portion from an internal portion.
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540 | .... Skin: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 539. Device including means to remove the outer integument of
food.
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541 | ..... By paring: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 540. Device including an elongated sharpened cutting edge which removes the skin as it is moved relative to the food. | |
542 | ...... And removing cylindrical core: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 541. Device including a curved food entering means which is rotated, or which is formed of a circumferential surface, which removes an elongated section from the food including the seed portion. | |
543 | ....... And slicing: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 542. Device including additional means which further subdivide the food. | |
544 | .... Removing cylindrical core: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 539. Device including a curved food entering means which is rotated, or which is formed of a circumferential surface, which removes an elongated section from the food including the seed portion. | |
545 | ..... And slicing: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 544. Device including additional means which further subdivide the food. | |
546 | .... By cutting stem-end or blossom-end: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 539. Device having a severing means for detaching a stem-end* or blossom-end* from the food. | |
547 | ... Removing core-pit: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 538. Device including means to disjoin* the core-pit*.
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548 | .... By separator moving with moving food (e.g., flying): |
This subclass is indented under subclass 547. Device including means to move a cutter, knife, severer,
tearer, twister, (or, similar core-pit removing device), simultaneously:
(A) in the direction of food movement, and; (B) relative to the
moving food; such combined movements effecting the separation* of
the core-pit from the remaining "flesh" or edible
portion.
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549 | .... And orienting core-pit axis relative to separator: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 547. Device including means to cause relative movement between
the food and separating means so that the center lines of the core-pit and
the separating means coincide.
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550 | ..... By irregularity in outer surface of food: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 549. Device including means which engage the food-stem indent
or other natural nonspherical external portion of the food to align
the core-pit axis.
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551 | .... By gripping and twisting: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 547. Device including: (A) means to hold or restrain the core-pit, plus (B) means to hold or restrain the flesh or edible portion, plus (C) means to oscillate or rotate (A) with respect to (B). | |
552 | .... Severing and pitting simultaneously: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 547. Device including at least one cutter which separates the
food into at least two parts as it, or another means, separates
the pit from the food.
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553 | ..... By arcuate cutter separating pit: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 552. Device including a curved severing edge, the line of curvature
of the edge being rotatable about an axis of rotation; and, the
contour of curvature being essentially that of the profile of the
pit or core to be removed.
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554 | ..... By removing severed portion from immobilized pit: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 552. Device including a gripping or seizing means which restrains the pit as a severed portion of the food is removed therefrom. | |
555 | ..... By forcing pit: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 552. Device wherein the cutting means, or means rigidly attached thereto, removes the pit by pushing it away from the flesh. | |
556 | ...... Through orifice: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 555. Device including a relatively moving pressure means which
cooperates with the severing means; and, either the severing means
or the pressure means has a passage through which the pit is pushed.
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557 | .... By plural impaling means: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 547. Device including a multiplicity of sharp tines or pins which
pierce the food, engage the pit, and alone or in combination with
adjacent structure of the device, remove the pit from the food.
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558 | ..... By parallel, cooperating cylinders, one resilient, one impaling: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 557. Device having at least two revolving drums, the axes of each being parallel, one drum having tines or pins and the other having a yieldable surface, the drums coacting to cause the tines or pins to pierce or penetrate the food or pit. | |
559 | .... By incision-type-punch and die: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 547. Device including a support for the food having an opening
(e.g., cavity, pocket or unobstructed passage), the opening being
of lesser diameter than the food, but larger than the pit, or smaller than
the pit but yieldable about the opening, to permit the pit to pass
therethrough upon being contacted by a sharp-pointed or edged impaling means.
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560 | ..... And food handling means: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 559. Device including means for conveying the food to or through the pit separating means. | |
561 | ...... Apertured, orbitally traveling, handling means: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 560. Device wherein the conveying means is an endless belt, cylinder or disc having recesses or openings in the surface thereof for receiving food articles and delivering such articles to the impaling means. | |
562 | .... By pitting severed food: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 547. Device including a severing means which removes the pit,
or portion thereof, from food which has been previously subdivided.
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563 | ..... Severing followed by pitting: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 562. Device including at least one cutting means which subdivides the food, after which the pit is removed. | |
564 | .... By arcuate cutter or gripping means: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 547. Device including a curved severing edge or member which
enters the food and either pulls or forces the pit from the food;
the contour of curvature being essentially that of the profile of the
pit or core to be removed.
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565 | .... By forcing flesh or pit through opening: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 547. Device including means which causes the meat or pulp to
pass through an orifice or slot that is too narrow to permit passage
of the pit; or, means which causes the pit to pass through an orifice
or slot that does not accommodate the meat or pulp.
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566 | ..... Ribbed rotating disc or cylinder: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 565. Device wherein the flesh and pit are separated by means of threads, grooves, or elongated projections on a turning surface or drum. | |
567 | .. Separating one external portion from the remaining food: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 537. Device including means to spatially remove one recognizable
external portion from the remaining food.
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568 | ... Removing shell: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 537. Device including a compressing, impacting, or severing means
that disjoins* the relatively brittle outer covering of
the food.
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569 | .... With sorting: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 568. Device including means to classify diverse portions of food according to their characteristics, and means to remove* one portion of the food (or foreign matter) from the remaining food portion. | |
570 | ..... By fluid: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 569. Device wherein the means to sort the food, or foreign matter
from the food, includes means to contact part of the food with a
gas or liquid.
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571 | .... By sudden-impact: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 568. Device including means to utilize kinetic energy by: (A)
rapidly propelling an element into contact with a relatively stationary
article of food, either the element or the food having no substantial
support; or, (B) rapidly propelling the food against a stationary
or movable solid element; or, (C) both (A) and (B).
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572 | .... By means to set, look and actuate separating means according to shell size: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 568. Device wherein the shell disjoining* means is regulated
(releasably positioned), in relation to the shell size, and operated
in three distinct movements: (A) the shell disjoining means is moved
into contact with the food; (B) upon contact, a regulatable portion
of the disjoining means is locked; and, (C) the shell disjoining means
is then moved further to effect separation of the shell from its
contents.
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573 | ..... Including pawl and ratchet lock means: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 572. Device wherein the adjustable shell separating means of movement (B) is locked by the interengagement of a tooth-type rack gear and a securing means (e.g., a pawl, a pin, or a second toothed gear means). | |
574 | .... By rotating separating means: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 568. Device including a shell disjoining* means which
turns more than 360° about an axis.
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575 | ..... Relative movement between adjacent irregular surfaces: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 574. Device including a first surface spaced from a second surface
a distance less than the diameter of the food to be treated, one
of the surfaces having projections or depressions; and, one surface
is stationary, rotating at a different speed, or rotating in a different
direction, than that of the other surface; in which device a food portion
is separated as the food passes between the surfaces.
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576 | ..... Disc or saw separating means: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 574. Device wherein one disjoining member rotates and has a sharp
or irregular edge which cuts a slot or incision in the food to separate,
or aid in separating, the shell from its contents.
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577 | .... By biased breaking member: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 568. Device including means tending to urge the shell breaking
member to or from shell-contacting position or resiliently supporting
a breaking member.
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578 | ..... Biased away from shell-contacting position: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 577. Device wherein the spring device moves, or tends to move, a shell-breaking member away from the shell. | |
579 | .... With adjustment of a separating member: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 568. Device including at least two members and means to position
the members relative to one another independent of the actuating
means.
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580 | .... With discharge feature: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 568. Device including means which accomplish, or assist in accomplishing
removal of a subdivided portion of food away from the separating* means.
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581 | .... By relatively movable shell contacting means: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 568. Device including at least one pair of separating means,
and means to propel at least one member of a pair into contact with
the shell.
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582 | ..... With means to restrain food prior to or during shell-breaking: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 581. Device including means to constrain the food as the shell-contacting means is moved into contact with the shell. | |
583 | ..... With means to fasten apparatus to support: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 581. Device including means for attaching, or fixing the position
of, the entire device with respect to a disclosed stable structure.
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584 | ... Removing skin: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 567. Device including means to disjoin* the skin* from
the remaining portion of food.
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585 | .... By pinching roller: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 584. Device including generally cylindrically-shaped means which
cooperate with another surface of the same or dissimilar shape to
initially grip a protruding portion of the skin; and, subsequent
to the gripping, relative movement between the cylindrically-shaped
surface and the other surface pulls or withdraws the skin from the
remaining portion of the food.
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586 | .... By resilient conduit: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 584. Device including a flexible material or a plurality of flexible
members which cooperate to form a flexible tube pocket, or passage,
the skin being removed from the food as the food is passed or forced
through the conduit.
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587 | .... By gripper means: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 584. Device including a pulling or tearing means which contact
the skin and separate it by causing internal stresses.
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588 | .... By paring tool: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 584. Device including an elongated sharpened cutting edge which removes the skin as the cutting edge is moved relative to the food. | |
589 | ..... And means to move food past stationary or vibrating tool: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 588. Device including a fixed blade or a blade that has a reciprocating
motion longitudinally of the blade and a means to transport the
food by the blade.
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590 | ..... Arcuately shaped tool: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 588. Device including a curved severing edge, the contour of
curvature being essentially that of the food surface to be removed.
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591 | ..... Plural tool means: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 588. Device including an additional severing means, or more than
one paring means for a single food item.
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592 | ...... With sectioning means: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 591. Device wherein the additional cutting means subdivides the food. | |
593 | ..... Tool rotates about its own axis: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 588. Device wherein the paring means rotates more than 360° about an axis within its physical confines while severing the skin from the food. | |
594 | ..... With means to hold and rotate food: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 588. Device including means which grasp or pierce and turn the
food about an axis as it is pared.
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595 | ...... And means to translate food past tool: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 594. Device including means which feed the food past the paring means. | |
596 | ...... Cutter has arcuate path around food: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 594. Device including a means associated with the paring means which causes the paring means to travel in a curved path about the periphery of the food. | |
597 | ....... Tool pivots transversely on reciprocating carrier: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 596. Device wherein the paring means is supported on an arm which pivots, toward and away from the center line of the rotating food, on a means that moves the pivot point of the arm in a path parallel with the center line of the rotating food. | |
598 | ........ Tool pivots in plane perpendicular to food axis: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 597. Device wherein the paring support arm pivots at a right angle with respect to the axis of rotation of the food. | |
599 | ....... Tool arm pilots on rotatable carrier: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 596. Device including a rotatable arm or disc which supports, and gives an arcuate motion to, the pivot point of the paring means support arm. | |
600 | .... Grain hulling: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 584. Device including grain hulling*.
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601 | ..... With means to segregate diverse materials: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 600. Device provided with means to set apart from one another
grain, nongrain or separated grain portions.
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602 | ...... By hulling means: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 601. Device wherein the segregating takes place in the hulling zone and is accomplished by a hulling surface (e.g., wire mesh). | |
603 | ....... Moving perforated surface: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 602. Device wherein the segregating-hulling surface is a driven member with reticulations or apertures or foraminae. | |
604 | ........ With nonperforated hulling surface area: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 603. Device provided with a hulling surface through which no segregating can take place in addition to the segregating hulling surface. | |
605 | ....... Cylindrical or conical perforated enclosure: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 602. Device wherein the segregating-hulling means is a portion of a surface of revolution generated by a nonperpendicular line revolving about an axis at least 360°, said surface consisting of apertures or foraminae, the hulling action taking place on its inner surface. | |
606 | ........ With axially extending nonperforated hulling portion: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 605. Device wherein the surface of revolution includes segments extending in the direction of the axis of revolution from one axial end of the hulling portion to the other which do not include apertures or foraminae but which hull the grain. | |
607 | ........ With additional hulling surface characteristics on enclosure: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 605. Device wherein the enclosure has surface features (e.g.,
radially extending barbs, undulations, radially-extending nonperforated segments)
in addition to perforations which participate in the grain-hulling.
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608 | ........ Enclosing a rotating, yieldably hulling element: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 605. Device wherein the cylindrical or conical perforated enclosure
contains an inner hulling member which revolves about an axis substantially
coincident with the axis of the cylinder or cone, with which the
cylinder or cone cooperates to hull the grain, said inner hulling
member having a relatively movable surface, or projection on its
surface.
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609 | ..... With mechanism to feed or discharge material: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 600. Device including dynamic means to move or to control movement
of grain to or from the hulling zone.
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610 | ...... Integral with moving hulling member: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 609. Device wherein the feeding or discharging means partakes of all the motion of at least one hulling member which is in motion during the hulling operation. | |
611 | ...... With discharge control: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 609. Device including a device to vary the rate of discharge
of the grain from the final hulling zone.
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612 | ..... By plural hulling zones: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 600. Device which includes two or more separated areas in which
hulling takes place, the separation consisting of an area where
no hulling takes place or a district change in the characteristics
of two contiguous-hulling means.
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613 | ...... Serial zones: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 612. Device including a communication between the zones and means to move or to permit movement of grain from one zone to another. | |
614 | ....... Axially spaces zones: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 613. Device wherein two or more of the hulling zones include hulling means which revolve about axes which are colinear and in which the coaxial hulling zones are spaced from each other in the direction of their axes. | |
615 | ........ With interior partition: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 614. Device including a nonhulling member, fixed or moving in the space between two hulling zones which, because of its presence, alters the flow of grain from one hulling zone to the next. | |
616 | ..... By endless-belt hulling surface: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 600. Device wherein the hulling surface is a surface of a flexible
strip forming a closed loop and moving in a path defined by said
loop during hulling.
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617 | ..... By rotating surface: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 600. Device wherein the hulling surface moves, during the hulling operation, about an axis. | |
618 | ...... Adjustably or yieldably mounted hulling surface: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 617. Device wherein the hulling surface as a whole or a portion of it is attached to its supporting structure (rotating or stationary) in such a way that the attached surface is movable relative to its support. | |
619 | ....... Including a screw-threaded mounting: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 618. Device wherein the attachment of the adjustably or yieldably mounted member to its supporting structure includes a spiral cam and cam follower between which relative movement produces relative movement between the adjustable member and its supporting structure. | |
620 | ...... Deformable hulling surface: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 617. Device wherein a hulling surface consists of a material
that will yield locally under force transmitted by a grain.
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621 | ...... With additional rotating surface: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 617. Device including at least one other surface rotating, about a noncolinear axis or a concentric colinear axis, to hull the grain. | |
622 | ...... Radial hulling surface: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 617. Device wherein the rotary hulling surface faces the axial
direction.
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623 | .... By abrading or resilient separating means: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 584. Device having a rough or yielding surface that (A) wears, grinds, or scrapes or (B) holds and twists the skin from the food. | |
624 | ..... Two elements move at different speeds: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 623. Device having at least two traveling separating means which move relative to each other at different surface velocities. | |
625 | ...... Adjacent separating elements: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 624. Device wherein the abrading or resilient separating means are closely spaced and simultaneously contact the food. | |
626 | ..... Including brush means: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 623. Device wherein a multiplicity of elongated resilient elements
protrude from a surface and form abrading means.
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627 | ...... With rotating container: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 626. Device including a rotating cylinder or drum having the brushes secured thereon or adjacent thereto. | |
628 | ..... Relatively moving adjacent surfaces: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 623. Device including at least two cooperating surfaces, one of which is movable, spaced to permit passage of the food as the surfaces simultaneously contact it. | |
629 | ..... Including tumbling means: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 623. Device wherein the separating means moves or is adjacent
to a moving means which causes the food to randomly contact the
separating means.
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630 | ...... Having a container which rotates, or has internal rotating abrading: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 629. Device including a drum or vessel which rotates or has therein a rotating means, the abrading means being on the drum, vessel, or rotating means. | |
631 | ....... Vertical container with rotating bottom: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 630. Device wherein the drum or vessel center line is essentially vertical and the bottom of the drum or vessel is formed by a rotating means that agitates or abrades. | |
632 | ........ With agitator or flow control means: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 631. Device including additional means in the drum or vessel
which influences the path of travel of the food.
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633 | ......... Having irregularly shaped bottom: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 632. Device wherein the path of travel of the food is influenced
by ribs, depressions, projections or curves on the surface of the
rotating bottom.
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634 | ....... With food deflector: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 630. Device including means to direct the food through the container or into contact with the abrading means. | |
635 | ... Removing stem-end or blossom-end: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 567. Device wherein a portion of the food, which is distinct
from but naturally attached to the food, is detached; or, wherein
the stem-end* or blossom-end* of the food is detached.
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636 | .... Including blossom-end: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 635. Device including means to spatially remove both the blossom-end* and the stem-end* from an article of food. | |
637 | .... Stemming: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 635. Device wherein means is provided for stemming* food. | |
638 | ..... And cluster breaking: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 637. Device including means to subdivide bunches or masses of
naturally-connected food products into single food products; and,
means to remove the stem* from a single, naturally-produced,
food product.
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639 | ..... By means adjacent apertured handling means: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 637. Device including a food containing or conveying means having perforations or openings which are so dimensioned or positioned as to permit only a stem to protrude therethrough; and, means in close proximity to the containing or conveying means to disjoin* the stem from the food. | |
640 | ..... By rollers: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 637. Device including two or more revolving cylinders which coact
to grasp and pull off a stem while the food is in contact with the
cylinders.
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641 | ..... By relative motion of irregularly shaped element: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 637. Device including a perforated or roughened surface which
moves relative to the food and strikes the stem* of the
food attached thereto to effect separation.
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642 | .... By penetrating cutter: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 635. Device including a severing means which enters the food
in a nonplanar cut.
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643 | .... With conveyor and positioning means: |
This subclass is indented under subclass 635. Device including means to transport food to or past a cutting means and means to gauge, stop, or adjust the depth of cut. | |
644 | INCLUDING MEANS TO PERMIT INVERSION OF FOOD: |
This subclass is indented under the class definition. Device including elements which move, or allow movement
of, discrete food articles supported thereby through at least 90° of
rotation.
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645 | SHIELD OR SPACING ELEMENT: |
This subclass is indented under the class definition. Device including a rigid or pliable sheet or web-like structure
which contacts an exposed portion of food.
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646R | MISCELLANEOUS: |
This subclass is indented under the class definition. Device not provided for above.
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646S | . Silos |
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646C | . Container |
This subclass has no definition. | |
646LS | . Liquid-solid |
This subclass has no definition. | |
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DIG10 | TEMPERATURE RESPONSIVE |
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DIG11 | CONDUCTIVITY CONTROL |
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DIG12 | SUPERSONIC |
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DIG13 | ELECTRICAL DEPOSITION |
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DIG14 | INDUCTION HEATING |
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DIG15 | PIE PANS |
This subclass has no definition. | |