(under subclass 531) Subject matter involving gellable mixes and the resulting gel.
(1) Note. Compositions within the purview of the term "gel" are puddings, custards, jams, jellies, and marmalades.
(2) Note. Classification in this subclass is on the base of (1) a claim to a gelled or gellable product, or (2) a teaching in the disclosure that the composition is a gellable material. The gellable material, however, must be in a state where only the gelling need occur or where an aqueous fluid, such as fruit juice, a water solution of sugar or water per se, must be added in order to form a gelled product.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS
516, Colloid Systems and Wetting Agents; Subcombinations Thereof; Processes of Making, Stabilizing, Breaking, or Inhibiting,
98+, for colloid systems of continuous or semicontinuous solid phase with discontinuous liquid phase (gels, pastes, flocs, coagulates) or agents for such systems or making or stabilizing such systems or agents, when generically claimed or when there is no hierarchically superior provision in the USPC for the specifically claimed art.
