US PATENT SUBCLASS 118 / 13
EDIBLE BASE OR COATING TYPE

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118 /   HD   COATING APPARATUS

13EDIBLE BASE OR COATING TYPE {12}
14  DF  .~> Stringing or decorating of coating
15  DF  .~> With cutting of work
16  DF  .~> Plural coating devices
17  DF  .~> With apparatus cleaning or conditioning
18  DF  .~> Solid means acting on coating after application
19  DF  .~> Tumbling particulate work (i.e., rumble)
20  DF  .~> With work drying, cooling, heating or noncoating gas contact {1}
22  DF  .~> With vibration of work
23  DF  .~> Combined
24  DF  .~> Projected of forced flow of coating material {1}
26  DF  .~> Immersion {4}
31  DF  .~> Drain troughs or implements

DEFINITION

Classification: 118/13

(under the class definition) Coating apparatus specialized or adapted to apply a coating to work and wherein the coating and/or work constitutes food for human consumption.

(1) Note. Patents are placed in this and the indented subclasses on the basis of disclosure, i.e., if the device, as disclosed, is for use in coating edible materials classification is here and in the indented subclasses.

(2) Note. This and indented subclasses also take apparatus, except molding apparatus for shaping or reshaping an edible base, to prepare the base material, apparatus to subsequently treat the coated base and other ancillary noncoating apparatus, per se, when there is no other class which specifically provides therefore.

SEE OR SEARCH CLASS

99, Foods and Beverages: Apparatus, and see the notes of the main class definition of that class for apparatus for the preparation, treatment and preservation of foods and beverages.

425, Plastic Article or Earthenware Shaping or Treating: Apparatus,

90+, for coating apparatus combined with molding means for shaping or reshaping an edible base or edible composite and subclasses 110+ for apparatus to make a composite product including an edible by uniting a preform and fluent or bulk material within a shaping cavity.