IPC 6 English version A23N-A23N 17/02

A23N-A23N01702

SECTION A– HUMAN NECESSITIES

A 23

FOODS OR FOODSTUFFS; THEIR TREATMENT, NOT COVERED BY OTHER CLASSES

A 23 N

MACHINES OR APPARATUS FOR TREATING HARVESTED FRUIT, VEGETABLES, OR FLOWER BULBS IN BULK, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR; PEELING VEGETABLES OR FRUIT IN BULK; APPARATUS FOR PREPARING ANIMAL FEEDING-STUFFS (machines for cutting straw or fodder A 01 F 29/00; disintegrating, e.g. shredding, B 02 C; severing, e.g. cutting, splitting, slicing, B 26 B, B 26 D)

Machines or apparatus for extracting juice (preparation of non-alcoholic beverages, e.g. by adding ingredients to fruit or vegetable juices, A 23 L 2/00; apparatus for making beverages A 47 J 31/00; extracting presses B 30 B)

combined with disintegrating or cutting

Machines for coring or stoning fruit, characterised by their feeding device (A 23 N 4/00 takes precedence) [2]

with feeder-drums

with endless feeder-belts

with feeder-tables

Machines for stoning fruit or removing seed-containing sections from fruit, characterised by their stoning or removing device (for peeling fruit and removing seed-containing sections A 23 N 7/08; domestic devices for stoning fruit A 47 J 23/00, for coring fruit A 47 J 25/00) [2,3]

for stoning fruit [2]

for peaches, plums, apricots or the like [2]

for cherries or the like (A 23 N 4/04 takes precedence) [2]

for dates, olives or the like oblong fruits [2]

for fruit with very small pips e.g. raisins [2]

for coring fruit [2]

for apples, pears or the like [2]

for tomatoes or the like [2]

for citrus fruits [2]

for pineapples [2]

for both splitting and stoning [2]

for removing seed-containing sections from cut fruit [2]

Machines for hulling, husking, or cracking nuts

for peanuts [2]

for coconuts (A 23 N 5/08 takes precedence) [2]

for removing fleshy or fibrous hulls of nuts (for peanuts A 23 N 5/01)

Peeling vegetables or fruit (devices for skinning onions A 23 N 15/08; peeling machines of the household type A 47 J 17/00) [3]

using chemical substances, e.g. lye [2,3]

Peeling potatoes, apples or similarly shaped vegetables or fruit (A 23 N 7/01 takes precedence) [3]

Peeling asparagus (A 23 N 7/01 takes precedence) [3]

for peeling fruit and removing seed-containing sections

Driving mechanisms

11/

Removing pith from stems

12/

Machines for cleaning, blanching, drying or roasting fruits or vegetables, e.g. coffee, cocoa, nuts (methods for treating, e.g. roasting, coffee or cocoa A 23 F, A 23 G; cleaning, e.g. washing, or drying grain B 02 B 1/00; separating solids from solids for cleaning B 07 B; cleaning in general B 08 B; heating devices per se, see the relevant classes, e.g. F 24; drying machines in general F 26 B) [3]

12/

for washing or blanching (A 23 N 12/06 takes precedence; blanching methods A 23 B 7/06) [3]

12/

for blanching [3]

12/

for washing or blanching, combined with subsequent drying [3]

12/

for drying or roasting (A 23 N 12/06 takes precedence) [3]

12/

Rotary roasters [3]

12/

Auxiliary devices for roasting machines [3]

15/

Machines or apparatus for other treatment of fruits or vegetables for human purposes; Machines or apparatus for topping or skinning flower bulbs [2]

15/

for stripping brussels' sprouts from stalks [2]

15/

for stemming, piercing or stripping fruit; Removing sprouts of potatoes

15/

Devices for topping fruit or vegetables (topping onions A 23 N 15/08) [2]

15/

Devices for other treatment of fruit, e.g. marking, maturing, polishing

15/

Devices for topping or skinning onions or flower bulbs [2]

15/

for shelling peas or beans [2]

15/

for snipping or stringing beans [3]

17/

Apparatus specially adapted for preparing animal feeding-stuffs

17/

Fodder mashers (household implements for mashing potatoes or other foodstuffs A 47 J 19/04)