IPC 6 English version
 
C12-C12C01310

SECTION C– CHEMISTRY; METALLURGY


C 12BIOCHEMISTRY; BEER; SPIRITS; WINE; VINEGAR; MICROBIOLOGY; ENZYMOLOGY; MUTATION OR GENETIC ENGINEERING


C 12 CBREWING OF BEER (cleaning of raw materials A 23 N; pitching or depitching machines, cellar tools C 12 L; propagating yeasts C 12 N 1/14; non-beverage ethanolic fermentation C 12 P 7/06)


 Note

 In this subclass, it is desirable to add the indexing codes of subclass C 12 R. The indexing codes should be linked. [6]



1/

00Preparation of malt

1/

02.Pretreatment of grains, e.g. washing, steeping

1/

027.Germinating [6]

1/

033..in boxes or drums [6]

1/

04(transferred to C 12 C 1/027, C 12 C 1/067)

1/

047..Influencing the germination by chemical or physical means [6]

1/

053...by irradiation or electric treatment [6]

1/

06(transferred to C 12 C 1/027, C 12 C 1/067, C 12 C 1/13)

1/

067.Drying [6]

1/

073..Processes or apparatus specially adapted to save or recover energy [6]

1/

08(transferred to C 12 C 1/033, C 12 C 1/10 to C 12 C 1/125)

1/

10..Drying on fixed supports

1/

12..Drying on moving supports

1/

125.Continuous or semi-continuous processes for steeping, germinating or drying [6]

1/

13..with vertical transport of the grains [6]

1/

135..with horizontal transport of the grains [6]

1/

14(transferred to C 12 C 1/15)

1/

15.Grain or malt turning, charging or discharging apparatus [6]

1/

16.After-treatment of malt, e.g. malt cleaning, detachment of the germ

1/

18.Preparation of malt extract or of special kinds of malt, e.g. caramel, black malt (malt products for use as foodstuffs A 23 L)


3/

00Treatment of hops

3/

02.Drying

3/

04.Conserving; Storing; Packing

3/

06..Powder or pellets from hops [6]

3/

08..Solvent extracts from hops [6]

3/

10...using carbon dioxide [6]

3/

12..Isomerised products from hops [6]


5/

00Other raw materials for the preparation of beer

5/

02.Additives for beer

5/

04..Colouring additives


7/

00Preparation of wort (malt extract C 12 C 1/18)

7/

01.Pretreatment of malt, e.g. malt grinding [6]

7/

02(covered by C 12 C 7/04)

7/

04.Preparation or treatment of the mash

7/

047..part of the mash being unmalted cereal mash [6]

7/

053..part of the mash being non-cereal material [6]

7/

06..Mashing apparatus

7/

08(covered by C 12 C 7/06)

7/

10(covered by C 12 C 7/06)

7/

12(transferred to C 12 C 7/26)

7/

14.Clarifying wort (Läuterung)

7/

16..by straining

7/

165...in mash filters [6]

7/

17...in lautertuns [6]

7/

175..by centrifuging [6]

7/

18(transferred to C 12 C 7/28)

7/

20..Boiling the beerwort (brew kettles C 12 C 13/02) [6]

7/

22...Processes or apparatus specially adapted to save or recover energy [6]

7/

24.Clarifying beerwort between hop boiling and cooling [6]

7/

26.Cooling beerwort; Clarifying beerwort during or after the cooling [6]

7/

28.After-treatment [6]


9/

00to

9/

08(transferred to C 12 C 3/08, C 12 C 3/12, C 12 C 7/20 to C 12 C 7/28, covered by C 12 C 7/00)


11/

00Fermentation processes for beer

11/

02.Pitching yeast

11/

04(covered by C 12 C 11/00)

11/

06.Acidifying the wort

11/

07.Continuous fermentation [6]

11/

09.Fermentation with immobilised yeast [6]

11/

11.Post-fermentation treatments, e.g. carbonation, concentration (C 12 H takes precedence) [6]


12/

00Processes specially adapted for making special kinds of beer [6]

12/

02.Beer with low calorie content (C 12 C 12/04 takes precedence) [6]

12/

04.Beer with low alcohol content (removal of alcohol C 12 H 3/00) [6]


13/

00Brewing devices, not covered by a single group of C 12 C 1/00 to C 12 C 12/04 [3,6]

13/

02.Brew kettles [3]

13/

04(transferred to C 12 C 13/08, covered by C 12 C 13/02)

13/

06..heated with fire [3]

13/

08..with internal heating elements [6]

13/

10.Home brew equipment [6]