A
SECTION A — HUMAN NECESSITIES
  
FOODSTUFFS AND TOBACCO
 A23
FOODS OR FOODSTUFFS; THEIR TREATMENT NOT INCLUDED IN OTHER CLASSES
 A23N
MACHINES OR APPARATUS FOR TREATING HARVESTED FRUIT, VEGETABLES, OR FLOWER BULBS IN BULK, NOT PROVIDED ELSEWHERE; APPARATUS FOR PREPARING ANIMAL FEEDING-STUFFS (machines for cutting straw or fodder A01F 29/00, A01F 31/00; disintegrating, e.g. shredding, B02C; severing, e.g. cutting, splitting, slicing, B26B, B26D)
 A23N 1/00 - 
A23N 17/00
Treatment of crops of fruits or vegetables
 A23N 1/00
Machines or apparatus for extracting juice (fruit or vegetable juices or their preparation A23L 2/04; for domestic use A47J; extracting presses B30B)
 A23N 1/02
·  combined with disintegrating or cutting
 A23N 3/00
Machines for coring or stoning fruit, characterised by their feeding device (A23N 4/00 takes precedence)
 A23N 3/02
·  with feeder-drums
 A23N 3/04
·  with endless feeder-belts
 A23N 3/06
·  with feeder-tables
 A23N 3/08
( transferred to A23N 4/22 )
 A23N 3/10
( transferred to A23N 4/10 )
 A23N 3/12
( transferred to A23N 4/12 )
 A23N 3/14
( transferred to A23N 4/24 )
 A23N 4/00
Machines for stoning fruit or removing seed-containing sections from fruit, characterised by their stoning or removing device (domestic devices for stoning fruit A47J 23/00, for coring fruit A47J 25/00)  [2]
 A23N 4/02
·  for stoning fruit  [2]
 A23N 4/04
·  ·  for peaches, plums, apricots or the like  [2]
 A23N 4/06
·  ·  for cherries or the like (A23N 4/04 takes precedence)  [2]
 A23N 4/08
·  ·  for dates, olives or the like oblong fruits  [2]
 A23N 4/10
·  ·  for fruit with very small pips e.g. raisins  [2]
 A23N 4/12
·  for coring fruit  [2]
 A23N 4/14
·  ·  for apples, pears or the like  [2]
 A23N 4/16
·  ·  for tomatoes or the like  [2]
 A23N 4/18
·  ·  for citrus fruits  [2]
 A23N 4/20
·  ·  for pineapples  [2]
 A23N 4/22
·  for both splitting and stoning  [2]
 A23N 4/24
·  for removing seed-containing sections from cut fruit  [2]
 A23N 5/00
Machines for hulling, husking, or cracking nuts
 A23N 5/01
·  for peanuts  [2]
 A23N 5/02
( covered by A23N 5/00, A23N 5/01, A23N 5/03 )
 A23N 5/03
·  for coconuts (A23N 5/08 takes precedence)  [2]
 A23N 5/04 - 
A23N 5/06
( covered by A23N 5/00, A23N 5/01, A23N 5/03 )
 A23N 5/08
·  for removing fleshy or fibrous hulls of nuts (for peanuts A23N 5/01)
 A23N 5/10
( covered by A23N 5/00, A23N 5/01, A23N 5/03 )
 A23N 7/00
Machines for peeling vegetables or fruit in bulk (skinning onions A23N 15/08; peeling machines of the household type A47J 17/00)
 A23N 7/01
·  for peeling in caustic solution, e.g. in lye  [2]
 A23N 7/02
·  for peeling potatoes or apples
 A23N 7/04
·  for peeling asparagus
 A23N 7/06
·  for stringing or cutting beans
 A23N 7/08
·  for peeling fruit and removing seed-containing sections
 A23N 7/10
·  Driving mechanisms
 A23N 9/00
Machines for drying, roasting, washing or blanching fruits, e.g. coffee, nuts (coffee roasting methods A23F 1/02; heating devices per se, see the appropriate classes, e.g. F24; drying machines in general F26B)
 A23N 9/02
·  Rotary roasters
 A23N 9/04
·  Auxiliary devices for roasting machines
 A23N 11/00
Removing pith from stems
 A23N 13/00
Machines for washing potatoes, mangos, apples, or like fruit (washing or drying grain B02B; drying arrangements F26B)
 A23N 15/00
Machines or apparatus for other treatment of fruits or vegetables in bulk for human purposes; machines or apparatus for topping or skinning flower bulbs (treatment of coffee, other than drying or roasting, A23F; treatment of cocoa A23G 1/02)
 A23N 15/01
·  for stripping brussels' sprouts from stalks  [2]
 A23N 15/02
·  for stemming, piercing or stripping fruit; Removing sprouts of potatoes
 A23N 15/04
·  Devices for topping fruit or vegetables (topping onions A23N 15/08)
 A23N 15/06
·  Devices for other treatment of fruit, e.g. marking, maturing, polishing
 A23N 15/08
·  Devices for topping or skinning onions or flower bulbs  [2]
 A23N 15/10
·  for shelling peas or beans  [2]
 A23N 17/00
Apparatus specially adapted for preparing animal feeding-stuffs
 A23N 17/02
·  Fodder mashers (household implements for mashing potatoes or other foodstuffs A47J 19/04)