US PATENT SUBCLASS 460 / 123
FRUIT OR VEGETABLE PROCESSING APPARATUS

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460 /   HD   CROP THRESHING OR SEPARATING

123FRUIT OR VEGETABLE PROCESSING APPARATUS {13}
124  DF  .~> Pre-stripper
125  DF  .~> Declustering
126  DF  .~> Including picking or plucking (peanuts, hops or similar material) {3}
130  DF  .~> Pressure roller (e.g., snapping-cucumber)
131  DF  .~> Shelling pressure roller (e.g., peas, beans, per se)
132  DF  .~> With adjusting means for roller or cylinder
133  DF  .~> Including agitator
134  DF  .~> Stripper or stemmer {6}
141  DF  .~> With cylinder and concave (for nongrain products)
142  DF  .~> Drum and beater
143  DF  .~> Blower assisted
144  DF  .~> Endless separating conveyer
145  DF  .~> Shaker or shaking table (for nongrain products) {3}

DEFINITION

Classification: 460/123

FRUIT OR VEGETABLE PROCESSING APPARATUS:

(under the class definition) Subject matter which separates vegetables or fruits from plant stalks, pod or vine.

(1) Note. Device separates vegetables from the plant stalk such as Brussels sprouts; pods from the plant stem such as peas, beans; vegetables from the vine such as peanuts, cucumbers, potatoes, tomatoes; leaves from the stalk such as

tobacco, sugarcane, broom-corn, hops from the branches and clusters.

SEE OR SEARCH CLASS

56, Harvesters,

54, which include mechanism for trimming or cleaning broom-corn; subclasses 126+ for seed gatherers or strippers.

99, Foods and Beverages: Apparatus,

546, and 635 which include severing means for detaching a stem-end or blossom-end from the food material. 171, Unearthing Plants or Buried Objects,

26+, for apparatus and method for detachment of plant parts by pulling, beating and shaking; subclasses 111+ which includes means for earth removal and separation of plant objects.

209, Classifying, Separating, and Assorting Solids,

283, for stationary sifters having concave and convex material receiving surfaces including rotating agitators; subclasses 288 and 299 which include cylindrical and drum sifters mounted with their axes in horizontal or inclined position having rotary motion and having devices for lifting and dropping material and means for beating the material.