(under the class definition) Apparatus in which an object or some portion thereof which has been previously unearthed is pulverized into discrete particles or reduced to a series of pieces as by severing at a number of spaced points.
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22, for organizations in which means is provided to hold a standing plant while vertically spaced cutters cut the plant into several portions.
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56, Harvesters,
53+, for devices which comminute standing stalks.
172, Earth Working, 39+, for a driven earth working tool or cleaner comprising a
cleaner or comminutor spaced from the ground surface, and subclasses 63+ for a nondriven earth working tool combined with a driven comminuting means. In these devices the earth and any objects contained therein are comminuted without separating the objects and the earth.
241, Solid Material Comminutions or Disintegration, for a comminutor of that class (241) type which may comminute of chop vegetable material.