US PATENT CLASS 47
Class Notes
Current as of: June, 1999
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DEFINITION
Classification: 47/
This is the parent class for apparatus and processes employed in treating the earth and its products and includes all inventions relating thereto that have not been especially provided for in other classes.
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30, Cutlery, appropriate subclasses for mere cutting implements adapted for use in plant husbandry, but of more general utility.
83, Cutting appropriate subclasses for the cutting and slicing of material in general including vegetables and other foods.
99, Foods and Beverages: Apparatus, appropriate subclasses for apparatus relating to the preservation and preparation of foods and beverages, including earth products, and for separating one distinguishable portion of a food item from another.
111, Planting, appropriate subclasses for processes and implements for inserting in the ground seed, fertilizer, poison, plants, or other material or objects handled in a similar manner.
118, Coating Apparatus, 13+, for apparatus for coating edible material.
134, Cleaning and Liquid Contact With Solids, appropriate subclasses and the notes thereto for apparatus for applying liquid to solid earth products.
160, Flexible or Portable Closure, Partition, or Panel, for (1) panel units in which a flexible fabric or other flexible sheet material forms the panel portion, (2) in the form of panel units formed of plural strips, slats, or panels interconnected for relative motion (excluding those connected only by a common operator or mounted on a common support), (3) panel units the form of portable partitions and (4) parts (1)-(3) combined with each other or with rigid closures or panels.
172, Earth Working, appropriate subclasses, for subject matter relating only to working the earth. Combinations of earth working means with other means, such as for treating the earth by heating or for plant handling are in Class 47.
241, Solid Material Comminution or Disintegration, appropriate subclasses for the comminution of material in general including vegetables and other foods.
366, Agitating, for apparatus for mixing materials with earth products.
426, Food or Edible Material: Processes, Compositions, and Products, appropriate subclasses for products and processes of perservation and preparation of edible material, including earth products.
427, Coating Processes, appropriate subclasses, especially
4, for processes of coating plant members, including seeds, with compositions which do not affect their growth characteristics.
428, Stock Material or Miscellaneous Articles,
17+, for either simulated or treated nonliving, natural articles having the general appearance and structure of plants.
435, Chemistry: Molecular Biology and Microbiology, 93, and 185 for materials and processes that contain germinated seeds; subclasses 291.1+ for apparatus for malting
or mashing; and appropriate subclasses for materials that contain molds, yeasts, bacteria plant cells or other living organisms, or for processes of making such materials or using such materials in fermentations, or propagating such living organisms, or for compositions or apparatus for use in such processes, or processes of making such compositions.
504, Plant Protecting and Regulating Compositions,
116+, for compositions for treating terrestrial or aquatic plants or their habitat with chemicals which affect the growth characteristics of the plants and processes of mere use of said compositions.
520, Synthetic Resins or Natural Rubbers, appropriate subclasses, particularly Class 523,
123, for a composition containing a synthetic resin or natural rubber having utility as a plant receptacle composition; subclasses 124+ for a composition containing a synthetic resin or natural rubber which is claimed or solely disclosed as having enhanced degradability by exposure to an environmental stimuli or to processes of preparation thereof; and subclasses 132+ for a composition containing a synthetic resin or natural rubber having utility in situ as a soil conditioner or stabilizer or to preparation thereof.
800, Multicellular Living Organisms and Unmodified Parts Thereof and Related Processes, for methods of plant breeding, methods of mutating plants, methods of producing plants using somatic cell fusion, methods of introducing nucleic acid into or rearrangement of genetic material within a plant and for the plants and plant parts per se.