US Patent Class 99
FOODS AND BEVERAGES: APPARATUS



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  DF  CLASS NOTES
275  DF  BEVERAGE
276  DF  .~ Primary-alcoholic fermentations with subsequent and/or prior operations
277  DF  .~ Post-primary-alcoholic fermentation operations
277.1  DF  .~.~ Aging, refining and purifying
277.2  DF  .~.~.~ With agitating means
278  DF  .~ Hopping, wort-making or ante-primary alcoholic fermentation operations
279  DF  .~ Infusors
280  DF  .~.~ Automatic control
281  DF  .~.~.~ Of heat
282  DF  .~.~.~.~ And infusive contact
283  DF  .~.~.~ Of infusive contact
284  DF  .~.~ Convertible
285  DF  .~.~ With signal, indicator or observation means
286  DF  .~.~ With prior handling or treating (e.g., roasting or grinding)
287  DF  .~.~ With agitating or compacting
288  DF  .~.~ With cooking or heating means
289 R  DF  .~.~ With infusive material feeding and/or discharging
289 T  DF  .~.~.~ Tape
289 D  DF  .~.~.~ Drum brewer
289 P  DF  .~.~.~ Plate brewer
290  DF  .~.~ Combined
291  DF  .~.~ Plural infusors
292  DF  .~.~ Pressure-vacuum or reflex type
293  DF  .~.~ Steamer or condenser type
294  DF  .~.~.~ With additional liquid supply means
295  DF  .~.~ Cartridge type
296  DF  .~.~ Invertible type
297  DF  .~.~ Plunger type
298  DF  .~.~ Plural bed or filter type
299  DF  .~.~ With infusive rate or interval control means
300  DF  .~.~ With liquid supply or directing means
301  DF  .~.~.~ Liquid trap
302 R  DF  .~.~.~ Force feed infusor
303  DF  .~.~.~.~ Underfeed
302 C  DF  .~.~.~.~ Centrifugal
302 FB  DF  .~.~.~.~ Flexible bulb
302 P  DF  .~.~.~.~ Piston
304  DF  .~.~.~ Gravity feed infusor
305  DF  .~.~.~.~ With supply regulator
306  DF  .~.~.~.~ Drip chamber type
307  DF  .~.~.~.~ With force feed supply
308  DF  .~.~.~.~.~ Recycling or repercolating
309  DF  .~.~.~.~.~.~ Selective supply
310  DF  .~.~.~.~.~.~ Fountain type
311  DF  .~.~.~.~.~.~.~ With overflow
312  DF  .~.~.~.~.~.~.~ With distributor
313  DF  .~.~.~.~.~ Fountain type
314  DF  .~.~.~.~.~.~ With distributor
315  DF  .~.~.~.~.~ With distributor
316  DF  .~.~ Plural compartment
317  DF  .~.~.~ Inner foraminous receptacle
318  DF  .~.~.~.~ Movable or adjustable
319  DF  .~.~.~.~.~ Vertical
320  DF  .~.~.~.~.~.~ Float
321  DF  .~.~.~.~ Textile type
322  DF  .~.~.~.~ Suspended
323  DF  .~.~ Infusing receptacles
323.1  DF  .~ With gas treating means
323.2  DF  .~.~ Carbonic acid and flavoring material
323.3  DF  .~ Hot beverage means
323.4  DF  CEREAL-PUFFING
323.5  DF  .~ Corn-popper type
323.6  DF  .~.~ Coin control
323.7  DF  .~.~ Automatic control or time means
323.8  DF  .~.~ With addition of flavoring material
323.9  DF  .~.~ With feeding, conveying or discharging
323.11  DF  .~.~.~ Separating discharge
323.12  DF  VINEGAR-MAKING
324  DF  COOKING
325  DF  .~ Automatic control
326  DF  .~.~ Of heat and material
327  DF  .~.~.~ By time
328  DF  .~.~.~.~ And heat responsive means
329 R  DF  .~.~.~ By heat responsive means
329 P  DF  .~.~.~.~ Power operated carriage
329 RT  DF  .~.~.~.~ Relative movement, toast and support
330  DF  .~.~ Of cooking fluid
331  DF  .~.~ Of heat or heater
332  DF  .~.~.~ By time
333  DF  .~.~.~.~ And heat responsive means
334  DF  .~.~ Of material
335  DF  .~.~.~ By time
336  DF  .~.~.~.~ Egg boiler or deep fat fryer type
337  DF  .~ Intercontrol or safety control
338  DF  .~.~ Of heat and material
339  DF  .~ Diverse cooker types
340  DF  .~ Convertible
341  DF  .~ With observation means
342  DF  .~ With signal, indicator or tester
343  DF  .~.~ Gauge or gauge markings
344  DF  .~.~ Alarm
345  DF  .~ With basting or solid applying means
346  DF  .~.~ Liquid elevating means
347  DF  .~.~ Condensing or self basting
348  DF  .~ With stirring
349  DF  .~ With material pressing means (e.g., ham boilers)
350  DF  .~.~ Band or binder type
351  DF  .~.~ Spring biased
352  DF  .~ With other treating or handling of material
353  DF  .~.~ Changing form or shape
354  DF  .~.~.~ Ring or hollow article (e.g., dough-nut)
355  DF  .~.~ Subsequent treating or handling
356  DF  .~.~.~ Receptacle filling or closing
357  DF  .~ Combined
358  DF  .~ Electrode type
359  DF  .~ Filled receptacle type
360  DF  .~.~ With conveyor
361  DF  .~.~.~ Successive treating zones or units
362  DF  .~.~.~.~ Single endless conveyor
363  DF  .~.~.~ Variable length of path
364  DF  .~.~.~ Rollway type
365  DF  .~.~.~.~ Helical type
366  DF  .~.~.~ Valved receptacle inlet or outlet
367  DF  .~.~ Plural treating units or zones
368  DF  .~.~.~ Fluid interchange
369  DF  .~.~ With hold-down or presser
370  DF  .~.~ Plural treating fluids
371  DF  .~.~ Movable retort or support
372  DF  .~ Opposed heated mold or surface type (e.g., waffle iron)
373  DF  .~.~ With feeding, conveying and/or discharging
374  DF  .~.~ Plural units
375  DF  .~.~ With drip or waste receptor, director or trimmer
376  DF  .~.~ Detachable or convertible surface
377  DF  .~.~ Movably supported surfaces
378  DF  .~.~ Electric feature
379  DF  .~.~ Adjustable separation
380  DF  .~.~ Movably connected mold sections
381  DF  .~.~.~ Composite article forming or receiving
382  DF  .~.~.~ Hollow article forming or receiving
383  DF  .~.~.~.~ Edible container
384  DF  .~.~.~ Elongate article forming or receiving
385  DF  .~ Slice toaster or broiler (e.g., grid types)
386  DF  .~.~ With conveyer
387  DF  .~.~.~ With magazine supply
388  DF  .~.~ With marking or uniform coloring
389  DF  .~.~ Opposed heater type
390  DF  .~.~.~ Movable or adjustable heater
391  DF  .~.~.~ Movable or adjustable carrier or grid
392  DF  .~.~.~.~ Removably guided
393  DF  .~.~ Movably or adjustably supported carrier or grid
394  DF  .~.~.~ Hand-held type
395  DF  .~.~.~ With turning feature
396  DF  .~.~.~ Interchangeable position type
397  DF  .~.~.~ Rotary invertible
398  DF  .~.~.~.~ Displaceable pivot
399  DF  .~.~.~ Removably guided
400  DF  .~.~ With drip or crumb receiving means
401  DF  .~.~ With heat distributor, baffle or enclosure
402  DF  .~.~ Hanged or separable grids
403  DF  .~ Boiler or deep fat fryer type
404  DF  .~.~ With conveyer
405  DF  .~.~.~ For buoyant material
406  DF  .~.~.~.~ Fluid current
407  DF  .~.~ With feeding and/or discharging
408  DF  .~.~ With crumb or sediment segregating or handling
409  DF  .~.~ With turning, agitating or inverting
410  DF  .~.~ Elevated, steaming or draining position
411  DF  .~.~.~ Unilaterally supported
412  DF  .~.~.~ Bayonet type support
413  DF  .~.~.~ Rim engaging support
414  DF  .~.~.~ Bail or flexibly suspended
415  DF  .~.~.~ Bottom resting support
416  DF  .~.~ Plural food support
417  DF  .~.~.~ Superposed or steaming
418  DF  .~.~ Bottom resting support
419  DF  .~ Spit or impaling type
420  DF  .~.~ With conveyer
421 R  DF  .~.~ Movably or adjustably supported
421 A  DF  .~.~.~ Hand held
421 H  DF  .~.~.~ Horizontal axis
421 HH  DF  .~.~.~.~ Horizontally adjustable
421 HV  DF  .~.~.~.~ Vertically adjustable
421 M  DF  .~.~.~ Heat actuated motor
421 P  DF  .~.~.~ Planetary
421 TP  DF  .~.~.~ Temperature
421 V  DF  .~.~.~ Non-horizontal axis
422  DF  .~ Imperforate sheet or griddle type
423  DF  .~.~ With feeding, discharging and/or movably supporting
424  DF  .~.~.~ Pivoted section
425  DF  .~.~ Drip segregating, receiving or directing
426  DF  .~ Confining, conforming or molding support
427  DF  .~.~ Movably mounted
430  DF  .~.~ Mold with dynamic scoring or severing means
431  DF  .~.~ Dipping form
432  DF  .~.~ Mold for forming sheet material, e.g., pie crust
433  DF  .~.~.~ Including pie rim clamp or guard
439  DF  .~.~ Press-couple mold
428  DF  .~.~ Shaping core mold
440  DF  .~.~ For ball or egg shaped article
441  DF  .~.~ For elongate or sausage shaped article
442  DF  .~.~ For ring shaped or hollow article
443 R  DF  .~ With conveyor or movably supported
443 C  DF  .~.~ Conveyor
444  DF  .~ With drip segregating, receiving or directing
445  DF  .~.~ Channelled gridiron
446  DF  .~.~ Subjacent receptacle or director
447  DF  .~ With heat distributor
448  DF  .~ Plural food support
449  DF  .~ Collapsible, expansible or sectional support
450  DF  .~ Foraminous support
450.1  DF  EDIBLE LAMINATED PRODUCT MAKING APPARATUS
450.2  DF  .~ Means forming or reshaping plural sheets or webs
450.3  DF  .~.~ Pie machine
450.4  DF  .~ Means assembling preforms into a sandwich
450.5  DF  .~.~ Manually assisted
450.6  DF  .~ Shell forming means and filling means
450.7  DF  .~ Means feeding diverse center material
450.8  DF  .~.~ Puncturing injector
451  DF  ELECTRIC, RADIANT OR VIBRATIONAL TREATING MEANS
452  DF  MECHANICAL, FLUID OR HEAT TREATMENT OF DAIRY FOOD
453  DF  .~ With temperature or atmosphere modification
454  DF  .~.~ By vacuum
455  DF  .~.~ By lowering temperature
456  DF  .~ With isolation of a watery constituent
457  DF  .~.~ Including roller-press and drain
458  DF  .~.~ By reticulated member
459  DF  .~.~.~ With prior mechanical treatment (e.g., churning)
460  DF  .~ By actuated surface
461  DF  .~.~ Including plural, relatively movable surfaces
462  DF  .~.~.~ Plural revolving surfaces having parallel axes
463  DF  .~.~.~.~ Planetating surfaces
464  DF  .~.~ Including rolling surface
465  DF  .~.~ And reticulated member
466  DF  .~.~ Including revolving surface
467  DF  SUBJECTING FOOD TO AN ENCLOSED MODIFIED ATMOSPHERE
468  DF  .~ Automatic control or time means
469  DF  .~ With removal of solid foreign matter
470  DF  .~ With sequential heating and cooling
471  DF  .~ In gravity-feed enclosure
472  DF  .~ Vacuum-producing means
473  DF  .~ Including means to influence movement of gas within enclosure
474  DF  .~.~ By forcing gas to circulate
475  DF  .~.~.~ By plural means
476  DF  .~.~.~ Rotary pump
477  DF  .~.~ With means to move food
478  DF  .~.~.~ Non-rectilinear movement
479  DF  .~.~.~.~ Circular movement of food support
480  DF  .~.~ By movable damper
481  DF  .~.~ By static deflector (e.g., smoke)
482  DF  .~ With separate support for fume-producing material
483  DF  NON-COOKING HEAT TREATMENT OF FOOD
484  DF  COMBINED
485  DF  MEANS TO TREAT FOOD
486  DF  .~ Automatic control or time means
487  DF  .~.~ Regulating amount of liquid applied to food
488  DF  .~.~ Of grain flow
489  DF  .~.~ By food
490  DF  .~.~.~ Core-pit detector
491  DF  .~.~.~ To adjust or position tool
492  DF  .~.~ By safety means
493  DF  .~ With condition-indicator
494  DF  .~ By stuffing or applying particulate material
495  DF  .~ By isolating a fluid constituent
496  DF  .~.~ By separating liquids having distinct characteristics
497  DF  .~.~.~ Separating egg-white from yolk
498  DF  .~.~.~.~ And removing shell
499  DF  .~.~.~.~ By receptacle separating one egg-yolk from one egg-white
500  DF  .~.~.~.~.~ Having means to pivotally move receptacle
501  DF  .~.~ By a rotary food-entering member
502  DF  .~.~.~ With axial actuation
503  DF  .~.~.~ With a rotating foraminous separator
504  DF  .~.~.~ With coacting food-holder
505  DF  .~.~.~ Manually actuated
506  DF  .~.~ By static food-entering member
507  DF  .~.~.~ And means to move food to member
508  DF  .~.~.~ And foraminous separator
509  DF  .~.~ With cutting
510  DF  .~.~.~ By comminuting
511  DF  .~.~.~.~ And a centrifugal extractor
512  DF  .~.~.~.~.~ With handling means
513  DF  .~.~.~.~ With foraminous separator adjacent comminutor
514  DF  .~ Recovery of propagative seed
515  DF  .~ Internal severing by flexable tool or yieldable tool support
516  DF  .~ By applying fluid
517  DF  .~.~ With cooling
518  DF  .~.~ With disjoining hull from grain
519  DF  .~.~.~ By projecting grain against surface
520  DF  .~.~.~ Plural hulling zones
521  DF  .~.~.~.~ Including coacting, relatively rotating imperforated surfaces
522  DF  .~.~.~.~ Having plural, rotary, multiperforated surfaces
523  DF  .~.~.~ With means to vary spacing between hulling surfaces
524  DF  .~.~.~ And varying flow of grain
525  DF  .~.~.~ Directing gas adjacent hulling zone
526  DF  .~.~.~.~ Internally and externally of hulling zone
527  DF  .~.~.~.~ By valved gas passages
528  DF  .~.~.~.~ With screen to separate products
529  DF  .~.~.~.~ Interrelated drive means for huller and gas-move
530  DF  .~.~.~.~.~ Gas-mover integral with huller
531  DF  .~.~.~.~.~ Gas-mover coaxially separated from huller
532  DF  .~.~ By injecting needle
533  DF  .~.~.~ With means to move needle or work
534  DF  .~.~ Particular liquid
535  DF  .~.~.~ Brine
536  DF  .~.~.~ Water
537  DF  .~ Subdividing into plural products
538  DF  .~.~ Separating one internal portion from another
539  DF  .~.~.~ Removing external portion
540  DF  .~.~.~.~ Skin
541  DF  .~.~.~.~.~ By paring
542  DF  .~.~.~.~.~.~ And removing cylindrical core
543  DF  .~.~.~.~.~.~.~ And slicing
544  DF  .~.~.~.~ Removing cylindrical core
545  DF  .~.~.~.~.~ And slicing
546  DF  .~.~.~.~ By cutting stem-end or blossom-end
547  DF  .~.~.~ Removing core-pit
548  DF  .~.~.~.~ By separator moving with moving food (e.g., flying)
549  DF  .~.~.~.~ And orienting core-pit axis relative to separator
550  DF  .~.~.~.~.~ By irregularity in outer surface of food
551  DF  .~.~.~.~ By gripping and twisting
552  DF  .~.~.~.~ Severing and pitting simultaneously
553  DF  .~.~.~.~.~ By arcuate cutter separating pit
554  DF  .~.~.~.~.~ By removing severed portion from immobilized pit
555  DF  .~.~.~.~.~ By forcing pit
556  DF  .~.~.~.~.~.~ Through orifice
557  DF  .~.~.~.~ By plural impaling means
558  DF  .~.~.~.~.~ By parallel, cooperating cylinders, one resilient, one impaling
559  DF  .~.~.~.~ By incision-type-punch and die
560  DF  .~.~.~.~.~ And food handling means
561  DF  .~.~.~.~.~.~ Apertured, orbitally traveling, handling means
562  DF  .~.~.~.~ By pitting severed food
563  DF  .~.~.~.~.~ Severing followed by pitting
564  DF  .~.~.~.~ By arcuate cutter or gripping means
565  DF  .~.~.~.~ By forcing flesh or pit through opening
566  DF  .~.~.~.~.~ Ribbed rotating disc or cylinder
567  DF  .~.~ Separating one external portion from the remaining food
568  DF  .~.~.~ Removing shell
569  DF  .~.~.~.~ With sorting
570  DF  .~.~.~.~.~ By fluid
571  DF  .~.~.~.~ By sudden-impact
572  DF  .~.~.~.~ By means to set, look and actuate separating means according to shell size
573  DF  .~.~.~.~.~ Including pawl and ratchet lock means
574  DF  .~.~.~.~ By rotating separating means
575  DF  .~.~.~.~.~ Relative movement between adjacent irregular surfaces
576  DF  .~.~.~.~.~ Disc or saw separating means
577  DF  .~.~.~.~ By biased breaking member
578  DF  .~.~.~.~.~ Biased away from shell-contacting position
579  DF  .~.~.~.~ With adjustment of a separating member
580  DF  .~.~.~.~ With discharge feature
581  DF  .~.~.~.~ By relatively movable shell contacting means
582  DF  .~.~.~.~.~ With means to restrain food prior to or during shell-breaking
583  DF  .~.~.~.~.~ With means to fasten apparatus to support
584  DF  .~.~.~ Removing skin
585  DF  .~.~.~.~ By pinching roller
586  DF  .~.~.~.~ By resilient conduit
587  DF  .~.~.~.~ By gripper means
588  DF  .~.~.~.~ By paring tool
589  DF  .~.~.~.~.~ And means to move food past stationary or vibrating tool
590  DF  .~.~.~.~.~ Arcuately shaped tool
591  DF  .~.~.~.~.~ Plural tool means
592  DF  .~.~.~.~.~.~ With sectioning means
593  DF  .~.~.~.~.~ Tool rotates about its own axis
594  DF  .~.~.~.~.~ With means to hold and rotate food
595  DF  .~.~.~.~.~.~ And means to translate food past tool
596  DF  .~.~.~.~.~.~ Cutter has arcuate path around food
597  DF  .~.~.~.~.~.~.~ Tool pivots transversely on reciprocating carrier
598  DF  .~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~ Tool pivots in plane perpendicular to food axis
599  DF  .~.~.~.~.~.~.~ Tool arm pilots on rotatable carrier
600  DF  .~.~.~.~ Grain hulling
601  DF  .~.~.~.~.~ With means to segregate diverse materials
602  DF  .~.~.~.~.~.~ By hulling means
603  DF  .~.~.~.~.~.~.~ Moving perforated surface
604  DF  .~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~ With nonperforated hulling surface area
605  DF  .~.~.~.~.~.~.~ Cylindrical or conical perforated enclosure
606  DF  .~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~ With axially extending nonperforated hulling portion
607  DF  .~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~ With additional hulling surface characteristics on enclosure
608  DF  .~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~ Enclosing a rotating, yieldably hulling element
609  DF  .~.~.~.~.~ With mechanism to feed or discharge material
610  DF  .~.~.~.~.~.~ Integral with moving hulling member
611  DF  .~.~.~.~.~.~ With discharge control
612  DF  .~.~.~.~.~ By plural hulling zones
613  DF  .~.~.~.~.~.~ Serial zones
614  DF  .~.~.~.~.~.~.~ Axially spaces zones
615  DF  .~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~ With interior partition
616  DF  .~.~.~.~.~ By endless-belt hulling surface
617  DF  .~.~.~.~.~ By rotating surface
618  DF  .~.~.~.~.~.~ Adjustably or yieldably mounted hulling surface
619  DF  .~.~.~.~.~.~.~ Including a screw-threaded mounting
620  DF  .~.~.~.~.~.~ Deformable hulling surface
621  DF  .~.~.~.~.~.~ With additional rotating surface
622  DF  .~.~.~.~.~.~ Radial hulling surface
623  DF  .~.~.~.~ By abrading or resilient separating means
624  DF  .~.~.~.~.~ Two elements move at different speeds
625  DF  .~.~.~.~.~.~ Adjacent separating elements
626  DF  .~.~.~.~.~ Including brush means
627  DF  .~.~.~.~.~.~ With rotating container
628  DF  .~.~.~.~.~ Relatively moving adjacent surfaces
629  DF  .~.~.~.~.~ Including tumbling means
630  DF  .~.~.~.~.~.~ Having a container which rotates, or has internal rotating abrading
631  DF  .~.~.~.~.~.~.~ Vertical container with rotating bottom
632  DF  .~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~ With agitator or flow control means
633  DF  .~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~ Having irregularly shaped bottom
634  DF  .~.~.~.~.~.~.~ With food deflector
635  DF  .~.~.~ Removing stem-end or blossom-end
636  DF  .~.~.~.~ Including blossom-end
637  DF  .~.~.~.~ Stemming
638  DF  .~.~.~.~.~ And cluster breaking
639  DF  .~.~.~.~.~ By means adjacent apertured handling means
640  DF  .~.~.~.~.~ By rollers
641  DF  .~.~.~.~.~ By relative motion of irregularly shaped element
642  DF  .~.~.~.~ By penetrating cutter
643  DF  .~.~.~.~ With conveyor and positioning means
644  DF  INCLUDING MEANS TO PERMIT INVERSION OF FOOD
645  DF  SHIELD OR SPACING ELEMENT
646 R  DF  MISCELLANEOUS
646 S  DF  .~ Silos
646 C  DF  .~ Container
646 LS  DF  .~ Liquid-solid
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DIGESTS
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DIG 10  DD  Temperature responsive
DIG 11  DD  Conductivity control
DIG 12  DD  Supersonic
DIG 13  DD  Electrical deposition
DIG 14  DD  Induction heating
DIG 15  DD  Pie pans