(under subclass 35) Methods involving severing or breaking the material.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
6, for apparatus for applying a binder and having means to sever the material bound.
94+, for presses having, additionally, means for cutting, breaking, piercing, or comminuting the material compacted.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS
72, Metal Deforming, 324+, for plastic metal shaping combined with cutting, and see the notes thereunder for other subclasses.
426, Food or Edible Material: Processes, Compositions, and Products, appropriate subclasses, especially 478+ for process of separating edible material including the step of cracking, crushing, squeezing, twisting, or tearing.