US Patent Class 452
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  DF  CLASS NOTES
1  DF  CRUSTACEAN (E.G., SHRIMP, CRAB, LOBSTER, CRAYFISH)
2  DF  .~ Shrimp processing
3  DF  .~.~ Deveining
4  DF  .~.~ Beheader
5  DF  .~.~ Peeler
6  DF  .~ Hand tool
7  DF  .~ Vibratory meat removal
8  DF  .~ Meat removal by pressure differential
9  DF  .~ Squeezing meat out
10  DF  .~ Meat removal by centrifugal force
11  DF  .~ Claw lock
12  DF  MOLLUSK (E.G., OYSTER, CLAM, SQUID, MUSSEL, OCTOPUS, SNAIL, SLUG, SCALLOP)
13  DF  .~ Bivalve opener
14  DF  .~.~ With heat treatment
15  DF  .~.~ By pressure differential
16  DF  .~.~ Support and wedge
17  DF  .~.~ Hand tool
18  DF  .~ Eviscerating
19  DF  .~.~ Pinching rollers
20  DF  .~.~ By fluid pressure
21  DF  SHIRRING OF CASING
22  DF  .~ Combined with sausage stuffing
23  DF  .~ Multiple shirring devices operating simultaneously
24  DF  .~ Shirring head
25  DF  .~.~ Moves about axis parallel to shirring mandrel
26  DF  .~.~ Combined with twisting of casing
27  DF  .~ Fluid lubrication of casing
28  DF  .~.~ Inflation pressure control
29  DF  .~ Severing into descrete lengths
30  DF  SAUSAGE MAKING
31  DF  .~ Automatic control
32  DF  .~ Casing handling
33  DF  .~.~ Insertion on nozzle
34  DF  .~.~.~ Indexing onto stuffing horn
35  DF  .~ Stuffing
36  DF  .~.~ Multiple head
37  DF  .~.~ Sausage sizing and shaping
38  DF  .~.~.~ Sizing ring
39  DF  .~.~.~ Casing insert (e.g., flat ended sausage)
40  DF  .~.~ Pump type
41  DF  .~.~.~ Rotary piston
42  DF  .~.~.~ Reciprocating piston
43  DF  .~.~.~.~ Fluid motor
44  DF  .~.~.~ Screw
45  DF  .~.~ Nozzle
46  DF  .~ Linking
47  DF  .~.~ By twisting
48  DF  .~.~ By applying constricting member
49  DF  .~ Delinking
50  DF  .~ Peeling
51  DF  .~ Sausage link handling
52  DF  SLAUGHTERING
53  DF  .~ Conveying live animals to slaughtering apparatus
54  DF  .~ Restraint or immobilizer
55  DF  .~.~ Knocking pen
56  DF  .~.~ Fall directing device
57  DF  .~ Stunning
58  DF  .~.~ Electric
59  DF  .~.~.~ Trough or tank
60  DF  .~.~.~ Hand held stunner
61  DF  .~.~ Spring loaded
62  DF  .~.~ Pneumatic
63  DF  .~ Throat slitting or severing
64  DF  .~.~ Beheading
65  DF  .~ Sticking
66  DF  .~ Anesthetizing or gassing
67  DF  .~ Bleeding
68  DF  .~.~ Suction assisted
69  DF  .~.~ Trocar and cannula
70  DF  .~ Tongue protector
71  DF  EPIDERMAL OUTGROWTH REMOVER
72  DF  .~ Wax-type
73  DF  .~ Singeing
74  DF  .~ Scalding
75  DF  .~.~ With simultaneous scraping or defeathering
76  DF  .~.~.~ Spray type scalding
77  DF  .~.~ Spray type scalder
78  DF  .~.~ Tanks
79  DF  .~.~.~ Means for raising or lowering animals into or out of scalding tank (e.g., hoists)
80  DF  .~.~.~ Conveyed through scalding tank
81  DF  .~ By fluid material impingement
82  DF  .~ Gripping type
83  DF  .~.~ And further including rotary type remover
84  DF  .~.~ At least one surface rotates and moves cyclically towards and away from the other gripping surface
85  DF  .~.~.~ Pinched between roller nip
86  DF  .~ Power driven
87  DF  .~.~ Beater (i.e., flexible end)
88  DF  .~.~.~ Rotary
89  DF  .~.~.~.~ Carcass conveyed past beater
90  DF  .~.~.~.~.~ Axis of rotation parallel to work path
91  DF  .~.~.~.~.~ Axis of rotation perpendicular to work path
92  DF  .~.~.~.~ Batch type
93  DF  .~.~.~.~ Beater element structure or mounting
94  DF  .~.~ Rotary scraper (i.e., rigid end)
95  DF  .~.~.~ Carcass conveyed past scraper
96  DF  .~.~.~ Batch (e.g., cradle)
97  DF  .~.~.~ Scraper element structure or mounting
98  DF  .~.~ Scaler (i.e., serrated or toothed end)
99  DF  .~.~.~ Rotary
100  DF  .~.~.~.~ Driven behind boat
101  DF  .~.~.~.~ Hand held
102  DF  .~ Hand tool
103  DF  .~.~ Diverse tool
104  DF  .~.~ Scraper
105  DF  .~.~ Scaler
106  DF  VISCERA PROCESSING
107  DF  .~ Eviscerating including means to remove external portion of animal
108  DF  .~.~ Removal of head with viscera
109  DF  .~.~ Removal of vent with viscera
110  DF  .~ Roe or ova
111  DF  .~ Gizzard
112  DF  .~.~ Harvesting
113  DF  .~.~ Opener
114  DF  .~.~.~ With cleaning
115  DF  .~ Oil gland removers
116  DF  .~ Pressure differential type
117  DF  .~ Gripper or hook type eviscerator
118  DF  .~ Spoon type eviscerator
119  DF  .~ Rotary scrubber type eviscerator
120  DF  .~ Venting or opening preparatory to eviscerating
121  DF  .~.~ Of fish
122  DF  .~.~ By tubular rotary cutter
123  DF  .~ Viscera cleaner
124  DF  .~ Giblet inserter
125  DF  SKINNING
126  DF  .~ Temperature modification perfects skinning operation
127  DF  .~ Peeling by movement of workpiece past cutter
128  DF  .~ Gripper or hook type
129  DF  .~.~ Drum skinner type
130  DF  .~.~ Skin pinching roller type
131  DF  .~ Fluid pressure type
132  DF  .~ Skinning implement (e.g., hand tool)
133  DF  .~.~ Power type
134  DF  DEFATTER
135  DF  DEBONING
136  DF  .~ Plow type
137  DF  .~.~ Hand-held tool
138  DF  .~ Pressure type
139  DF  .~ Beater or abrader type
140  DF  .~ Fluid impingement type
141  DF  TENDERIZERS
142  DF  .~ Coacting rolls
143  DF  .~ Roll and plate
144  DF  .~ Coacting toothed plates
145  DF  .~ Hand roll
146  DF  .~ Hand manipulated pounder
147  DF  .~.~ With chopper
148  DF  SCORING CUTTERS
149  DF  CARCASS SUBDIVISION
150  DF  .~ Automatic control
151  DF  .~.~ Of cutters in series
152  DF  .~.~ Of splitting
153  DF  .~.~.~ Carcass oriented relative to cutter
154  DF  .~.~ Of extremity cutter
155  DF  .~.~ Of subdivision into portions
156  DF  .~.~.~ Movement of cutter controlled
157  DF  .~.~.~.~ By sensed dimensions of carcass
158  DF  .~.~.~.~ By sensed color variation
159  DF  .~.~.~.~.~ By manually placed markings
160  DF  .~ Cutting longitudinally through body or body portion (i.e., splitters)
161  DF  .~.~ Fish filleting
162  DF  .~.~.~ Coacting rotary disc cutters
163  DF  .~.~ Means repositioning carcass relative to cutter
164  DF  .~.~ Portable cutter
165  DF  .~ While internally supported on a mandrel
166  DF  .~ Extremity remover
167  DF  .~.~ Carcass suspended during removing
168  DF  .~.~.~ Neck puller
169  DF  .~.~ Wing remover
170  DF  .~.~ Carcass conveyed to cutter in horizontal position
171  DF  .~ Loin remover
172  DF  SINEW REMOVER
173  DF  WASHER
174  DF  MODELLING (E.G., SHAPING)
175  DF  .~ Bacon stretcher
176  DF  .~ Visceral cavity closure
177  DF  CONVEYER
178  DF  .~ Elevating
179  DF  .~ Orienting
180  DF  .~ Registering (i.e., aligning)
181  DF  .~ Metering (e.g., from bulk supply)
182  DF  .~ Transfer from one conveyor to another
183  DF  .~ Loading or unloading
184  DF  .~ Sorting
185  DF  SUPPORT
186  DF  .~ Smoke stick
187  DF  .~ Carcass or portion suspended (i.e., hanger)
188  DF  .~.~ Fowl
189  DF  .~.~ Gambrel
190  DF  .~.~.~ Grappling
191  DF  .~.~.~ Weight of suspended carcass spreads carcass engaging means apart
192  DF  .~.~.~ Foldable to facilitate transport
193  DF  .~.~ Bacon hanger
194  DF  .~ Underlying support
195  DF  .~.~ With clamp (clipboard type)
196  DF  .~.~ With prong (e.g., impaling means)
197  DF  .~ Carcass spreader
198  DF  MISCELLANEOUS