IPC 6 English version

Class C21

SECTION C– CHEMISTRY; METALLURGY

METALLURGY

C 21

METALLURGY OF IRON

C 21 B

MANUFACTURE OF IRON OR STEEL (preliminary treatment of ferrous ores or scrap C 22 B 1/00; electric heating H 05 B)

C 21 C

PROCESSING OF PIG-IRON, e.g. REFINING, MANUFACTURE OF WROUGHT-IRON OR STEEL (refining or remelting metals in general C 22 B 9/00); TREATMENT IN MOLTEN STATE OF FERROUS ALLOYS

C 21 D

MODIFYING THE PHYSICAL STRUCTURE OF FERROUS METALS; GENERAL DEVICES FOR HEAT TREATMENT OF FERROUS OR NON-FERROUS METALS OR ALLOYS; MAKING METAL MALLEABLE BY DECARBURISATION, TEMPERING, OR OTHER TREATMENTS (cementation by diffusion processes C 23 C; surface treatment of metallic material involving at least one process provided for in class C 23 and at least one process covered by this subclass C 23 F 17/00; unidirectional solidification of eutectic materials or unidirectional demixing of eutectoid materials C 30 B)