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Class Number: 99
Class Title: FOODS AND BEVERAGES: APPARATUS
Subclass Subclass
Number Title
275 BEVERAGE
276 .Primary-alcoholic fermentations with subsequent and/or prior
operations
277 .Post-primary-alcoholic fermentation operations
277.1 ..Aging, refining and purifying
277.2 ...With agitating means
278 .Hopping, wort-making or ante-primary alcoholic fermentation
operations
279 .Infusors
280 ..Automatic control
281 ...Of heat
282 ....And infusive contact
283 ...Of infusive contact
284 ..Convertible
285 ..With signal, indicator or observation means
286 ..With prior handling or treating (e.g., roasting or grinding)
287 ..With agitating or compacting
288 ..With cooking or heating means
289 R ..With infusive material feeding and/or discharging
289 T ...Tape
289 D ...Drum brewer
289 P ...Plate brewer
290 ..Combined
291 ..Plural infusors
292 ..Pressure-vacuum or reflex type
293 ..Steamer or condenser type
294 ...With additional liquid supply means
295 ..Cartridge type
296 ..Invertible type
297 ..Plunger type
298 ..Plural bed or filter type
299 ..With infusive rate or interval control means
300 ..With liquid supply or directing means
301 ...Liquid trap
302 R ...Force feed infusor
303 ....Underfeed
302 C ....Centrifugal
302 FB ....Flexible bulb
302 P ....Piston
304 ...Gravity feed infusor
305 ....With supply regulator
306 ....Drip chamber type
307 ....With force feed supply
308 .....Recycling or repercolating
309 ......Selective supply
310 ......Fountain type
311 .......With overflow
312 .......With distributor
313 .....Fountain type
314 ......With distributor
315 .....With distributor
316 ..Plural compartmentt
317 ...Inner foraminous receptacle
318 ....Movable or adjustable
319 .....Vertical
320 ......Float
321 ....Textile type
322 ....Suspended
323 ..Infusing receptacles
323.1 .With gas treating means
323.2 ..Carbonic acid and flavoring material
323.3 .Hot beverage means
323.4 CEREAL-PUFFING
323.5 .Corn-popper type
323.6 ..Coin control
323.7 ..Automatic control or time means
323.8 ..With addition of flavoring material
323.9 ..With feeding, conveying or discharging
323.11 ...Separating discharge
323.12 VINEGAR-MAKING
324 COOKING
325 .Automatic control
326 ..Of heat and material
327 ...By time
328 ....And heat responsive means
329 R ...By heat responsive means
329 P ....Power operated carriage
329 RT ....Relative movement, toast and support
330 ..Of cooking fluid
331 ..Of heat or heater
332 ...By time
333 ....And heat responsive means
334 ..Of material
335 ...By time
336 ....Egg boiler or deep fat fryer type
337 .Intercontrol or safety control
338 ..Of heat and material
339 .Diverse cooker types
340 .Convertible
341 .With observation means
342 .With signal, indicator or tester
343 ..Gauge or gauge markings
344 ..Alarm
345 .With basting or solid applying means
346 ..Liquid elevating means
347 ..Condensing or self basting
348 .With stirring
349 .With material pressing means (e.g., ham boilers)
350 ..Band or binder type
351 ..Spring biased
352 .With other treating or handling of material
353 ..Changing form or shape
354 ...Ring or hollow article (e.g., dough-nut)
355 ..Subsequent treating or handling
356 ...Receptacle filling or closing
357 .Combined
358 .Electrode type
359 .Filled receptacle type
360 ..With conveyor
361 ...Successive treating zones or unitss
362 ....Single endless conveyor
363 ...Variable length of path
364 ...Rollway type
365 ....Helical type
366 ...Valved receptacle inlet or outlet
367 ..Plural treating units or zones
368 ...Fluid interchange
369 ..With hold-down or presser
370 ..Plural treating fluids
371 ..Movable retort or support
372 .Opposed heated mold or surface type (e.g., waffle iron)
373 ..With feeding, conveying and/or discharging
374 ..Plural units
375 ..With drip or waste receptor, director or trimmer
376 ..Detachable or convertible surface
377 ..Movably supported surfaces
378 ..Electric feature
379 ..Adjustable separation
380 ..Movably connected mold sections
381 ...Composite article forming or receiving
382 ...Hollow article forming or receiving
383 ....Edible container
384 ...Elongate article forming or receiving
385 .Slice toaster or broiler (e.g., grid types)
386 ..With conveyer
387 ...With magazine supply
388 ..With marking or uniform coloring
389 ..Opposed heater type
390 ...Movable or adjustable heater
391 ...Movable or adjustable carrier or grid
392 ....Removably guided
393 ..Movably or adjustably supported carrier or grid
394 ...Hand-held type
395 ...With turning feature
396 ...Interchangeable position type
397 ...Rotary invertible
398 ....Displaceable pivot
399 ...Removably guided
400 ..With drip or crumb receiving means
401 ..With heat distributor, baffle or enclosure
402 ..Hanged or separable grids
403 .Boiler or deep fat fryer type
404 ..With conveyer
405 ...For buoyant material
406 ....Fluid current
407 ..With feeding and/or discharging
408 ..With crumb or sediment segregating or handling
409 ..With turning, agitating or inverting
410 ..Elevated, steaming or draining position
411 ...Unilaterally supported
412 ...Bayonet type support
413 ...Rim engaging support
414 ...Bail or flexibly suspended
415 ...Bottom resting support
416 ..Plural food support
417 ...Superposed or steaming
418 ..Bottom resting support
419 .Spit or impaling typee
420 ..With conveyer
421 R ..Movably or adjustably supported
421 A ...Hand held
421 H ...Horizontal axis
421 HH ....Horizontally adjustable
421 HV ....Vertically adjustable
421 M ...Heat actuated motor
421 P ...Planetary
421 TP ...Temperature
421 V ...Non-horizontal axis
422 .Imperforate sheet or griddle type
423 ..With feeding, discharging and/or movably supporting
424 ...Pivoted section
425 ..Drip segregating, receiving or directing
426 .Confining, conforming or molding support
427 ..Movably mounted
430 ..Mold with dynamic scoring or severing means
431 ..Dipping form
432 ..Mold for forming sheet material, e.g., pie crust
433 ...Including pie rim clamp or guard
439 ..Press-couple mold
428 ..Shaping core mold
440 ..For ball or egg shaped article
441 ..For elongate or sausage shaped article
442 ..For ring shaped or hollow article
443 R .With conveyor or movably supported
443 C ..Conveyor
444 .With drip segregating, receiving or directing
445 ..Channelled gridiron
446 ..Subjacent receptacle or director
447 .With heat distributor
448 .Plural food support
449 .Collapsible, expansible or sectional support
450 .Foraminous support
450.1 EDIBLE LAMINATED PRODUCT MAKING APPARATUS
450.2 .Means forming or reshaping plural sheets or webs
450.3 ..Pie machine
450.4 .Means assembling preforms into a sandwich
450.5 ..Manually assisted
450.6 .Shell forming means and filling means
450.7 .Means feeding diverse center material
450.8 ..Puncturing injector
451 ELECTRIC, RADIANT OR VIBRATIONAL TREATING MEANS
452 MECHANICAL, FLUID OR HEAT TREATMENT OF DAIRY FOOD
453 .With temperature or atmosphere modification
454 ..By vacuum
455 ..By lowering temperature
456 .With isolation of a watery constituent
457 ..Including roller-press and drain
458 ..By reticulated member
459 ...With prior mechanical treatment (e.g., churning)
460 .By actuated surface
461 ..Including plural, relatively movable surfaces
462 ...Plural revolving surfaces having parallel axes
463 ....Planetating surfaces
464 ..Including rolling surface
465 ..And reticulated member
466 ..Including revolving surfacee
467 SUBJECTING FOOD TO AN ENCLOSED MODIFIED ATMOSPHERE
468 .Automatic control or time means
469 .With removal of solid foreign matter
470 .With sequential heating and cooling
471 .In gravity-feed enclosure
472 .Vacuum-producing means
473 .Including means to influence movement of gas within enclosure
474 ..By forcing gas to circulate
475 ...By plural means
476 ...Rotary pump
477 ..With means to move food
478 ...Non-rectilinear movement
479 ....Circular movement of food support
480 ..By movable damper
481 ..By static deflector (e.g., smoke)
482 .With separate support for fume-producing material
483 NON-COOKING HEAT TREATMENT OF FOOD
484 COMBINED
485 MEANS TO TREAT FOOD
486 .Automatic control or time means
487 ..Regulating amount of liquid applied to food
488 ..Of grain flow
489 ..By food
490 ...Core-pit detector
491 ...To adjust or position tool
492 ..By safety means
493 .With condition-indicator
494 .By stuffing or applying particulate material
495 .By isolating a fluid constituent
496 ..By separating liquids having distinct characteristics
497 ...Separating egg-white from yolk
498 ....And removing shell
499 ....By receptacle separating one egg-yolk from one egg-white
500 .....Having means to pivotally move receptacle
501 ..By a rotary food-entering member
502 ...With axial actuation
503 ...With a rotating foraminous separator
504 ...With coacting food-holder
505 ...Manually actuated
506 ..By static food-entering member
507 ...And means to move food to member
508 ...And foraminous separator
509 ..With cutting
510 ...By comminuting
511 ....And a centrifugal extractor
512 .....With handling means
513 ....With foraminous separator adjacent comminutor
514 .Recovery of propagative seed
515 .Internal severing by flexable tool or yieldable tool support
516 .By applying fluid
517 ..With cooling
518 ..With disjoining hull from grain
519 ...By projecting grain against surface
520 ...Plural hulling zones
521 ....Including coacting, relatively rotating imperforated
surfaces
522 ....Having plural, rotary, multiperforated surfaces
523 ...With means to vary spacing between hulling surfacess
524 ...And varying flow of grain
525 ...Directing gas adjacent hulling zone
526 ....Internally and externally of hulling zone
527 ....By valved gas passages
528 ....With screen to separate products
529 ....Interrelated drive means for huller and gas-move
530 .....Gas-mover integral with huller
531 .....Gas-mover coaxially separated from huller
532 ..By injecting needle
533 ...With means to move needle or work
534 ..Particular liquid
535 ...Brine
536 ...Water
537 .Subdividing into plural products
538 ..Separating one internal portion from another
539 ...Removing external portion
540 ....Skin
541 .....By paring
542 ......And removing cylindrical core
543 .......And slicing
544 ....Removing cylindrical core
545 .....And slicing
546 ....By cutting stem-end or blossom-end
547 ...Removing core-pit
548 ....By separator moving with moving food (e.g., flying)
549 ....And orienting core-pit axis relative to separator
550 .....By irregularity in outer surface of food
551 ....By gripping and twisting
552 ....Severing and pitting simultaneously
553 .....By arcuate cutter separating pit
554 .....By removing severed portion from immobilized pit
555 .....By forcing pit
556 ......Through orifice
557 ....By plural impaling means
558 .....By parallel, cooperating cylinders, one resilient, one
impaling
559 ....By incision-type-punch and die
560 .....And food handling means
561 ......Apertured, orbitally traveling, handling means
562 ....By pitting severed food
563 .....Severing followed by pitting
564 ....By arcuate cutter or gripping means
565 ....By forcing flesh or pit through opening
566 .....Ribbed rotating disc or cylinder
567 ..Separating one external portion from the remaining food
568 ...Removing shell
569 ....With sorting
570 .....By fluid
571 ....By sudden-impact
572 ....By means to set, look and actuate separating means according
to shell size
573 .....Including pawl and ratchet lock means
574 ....By rotating separating means
575 .....Relative movement between adjacent irregular surfaces
576 .....Disc or saw separating means
577 ....By biased breaking member
578 .....Biased away from shell-contacting position
579 ....With adjustment of a separating memberr
580 ....With discharge feature
581 ....By relatively movable shell contacting means
582 .....With means to restrain food prior to or during
shell-breaking
583 .....With means to fasten apparatus to support
584 ...Removing skin
585 ....By pinching roller
586 ....By resilient conduit
587 ....By gripper means
588 ....By paring tool
589 .....And means to move food past stationary or vibrating tool
590 .....Arcuately shaped tool
591 .....Plural tool means
592 ......With sectioning means
593 .....Tool rotates about its own axis
594 .....With means to hold and rotate food
595 ......And means to translate food past tool
596 ......Cutter has arcuate path around food
597 .......Tool pivots transversely on reciprocating carrier
598 ........Tool pivots in plane perpendicular to food axis
599 .......Tool arm pilots on rotatable carrier
600 ....Grain hulling
601 .....With means to segregate diverse materials
602 ......By hulling means
603 .......Moving perforated surface
604 ........With nonperforated hulling surface area
605 .......Cylindrical or conical perforated enclosure
606 ........With axially extending nonperforated hulling portion
607 ........With additional hulling surface characteristics on
enclosure
608 ........Enclosing a rotating, yieldably hulling element
609 .....With mechanism to feed or discharge material
610 ......Integral with moving hulling member
611 ......With discharge control
612 .....By plural hulling zones
613 ......Serial zones
614 .......Axially spaces zones
615 ........With interior partition
616 .....By endless-belt hulling surface
617 .....By rotating surface
618 ......Adjustably or yieldably mounted hulling surface
619 .......Including a screw-threaded mounting
620 ......Deformable hulling surface
621 ......With additional rotating surface
622 ......Radial hulling surface
623 ....By abrading or resilient separating means
624 .....Two elements move at different speeds
625 ......Adjacent separating elements
626 .....Including brush means
627 ......With rotating container
628 .....Relatively moving adjacent surfaces
629 .....Including tumbling means
630 ......Having a container which rotates, or has internal rotating
abrading
631 .......Vertical container with rotating bottom
632 ........With agitator or flow control means
633 .........Having irregularly shaped bottom
634 .......With food deflectorr
635 ...Removing stem-end or blossom-end
636 ....Including blossom-end
637 ....Stemming
638 .....And cluster breaking
639 .....By means adjacent apertured handling means
640 .....By rollers
641 .....By relative motion of irregularly shaped element
642 ....By penetrating cutter
643 ....With conveyor and positioning means
644 INCLUDING MEANS TO PERMIT INVERSION OF FOOD
645 SHIELD OR SPACING ELEMENT
646 R MISCELLANEOUS
646 S .Silos
646 C .Container
646 LS .Liquid-solid
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* DIGESTS
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DIG 10 Temperature responsive
DIG 11 Conductivity control
DIG 12 Supersonic
DIG 13 Electrical deposition
DIG 14 Induction heating
DIG 15 Pie pans