US PATENT SUBCLASS 99 / 324
COOKING

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99 /   HD   FOODS AND BEVERAGES: APPARATUS

324COOKING {25}
325  DF  .~> Automatic control {4}
337  DF  .~> Intercontrol or safety control {1}
339  DF  .~> Diverse cooker types
340  DF  .~> Convertible
341  DF  .~> With observation means
342  DF  .~> With signal, indicator or tester {2}
345  DF  .~> With basting or solid applying means {2}
348  DF  .~> With stirring
349  DF  .~> With material pressing means (e.g., ham boilers) {2}
352  DF  .~> With other treating or handling of material {2}
357  DF  .~> Combined
358  DF  .~> Electrode type
359  DF  .~> Filled receptacle type {5}
372  DF  .~> Opposed heated mold or surface type (e.g., waffle iron) {8}
385  DF  .~> Slice toaster or broiler (e.g., grid types) {7}
403  DF  .~> Boiler or deep fat fryer type {7}
419  DF  .~> Spit or impaling type {2}
422  DF  .~> Imperforate sheet or griddle type {2}
426  DF  .~> Confining, conforming or molding support {9}
443 R  DF  .~> With conveyor or movably supported {1}
444  DF  .~> With drip segregating, receiving or directing {2}
447  DF  .~> With heat distributor
448  DF  .~> Plural food support
449  DF  .~> Collapsible, expansible or sectional support
450  DF  .~> Foraminous support

DEFINITION

Classification: 99/324

(under the class definition) Apparatus adapted to receive and support food and subject it to a heat, or other energy treatment, sufficient to change a chemical or physical property of the food, the change affecting the edibility of the food.

(3) Note. The Search Notes below are identified as either (a) article heating, (b), liquid heating, (c) For the treatment of solid material with a gas, (d) for the treatment of solid material with a liquid; (e) for the handling of articles; (f) for the shaping of articles; (g) for supports or containers appropriate for the reception of food material.

SEE OR SEARCH CLASS

34, Drying and Gas or Vapor Contact With Solids, will take other than cooking apparatus,

329+, for a process of contacting treated material with a solid or liquid agent.

65, Glass Manufacturing, 349+, for glass annealing or tempering apparatus.

68, Textiles: Fluid Treating Apparatus, appropriate subclasses.

118, Coating Apparatus,

13+, for apparatus to coat an edible material.

122, Liquid Heaters and Vaporizers, appropriate subclasses, for heating confined bodies of liquid.

126, Stoves and Furnaces,

1+, for a cooking stove, subclasses 19+ for a cooking oven, subclasses 34+ for a cooking stove having a steam or hot water generator, subclasses 273+ for a domestic oven or subclasses 344+ for a water heater, especially subclasses 369+ for a steam box or receptacle designed for steaming or cooking a food product.

134, Cleaning and Liquid Contact With Solids.

159, Concentrating Evaporators, appropriate subclasses.

165, Heat Exchange, appropriate subclasses, for apparatus for transferring heat between two or more fluids.

198, Conveyors: Power-Driven,

343.1+, for a load supporting conveyor portion that is retarded or stopped with a load at station without being disconnected from a remainder of a continuously moving conveyor or subclasses 373+ a conveyor for changing attitude of an item relative to its conveyed direction. 202, Distillation: Apparatus,

105+, for distillation apparatus.

206, Special Receptacle or Package,

.5, for infusible material containing receptacles and packages or subclasses 139+ for a carrier, for potable beverage containers (e.g., cans, bottles, etc.), having means to space the containers in a desired arrangement, and additionally having hand or finger engaging means to pendulously support the containers.

211, Supports: Racks,

14, 71.01+ for food support racks.

215, Bottles and Jars, appropriate subclasses, for food receptacles.

219, Electric Heating,

385+, for a heating device combined with a container, enclosure or support for material to be heated, especially subclasses 391+ for an oven heating device.

220, Receptacles,

426+, for a metallic vessel having a heating jacket (i.e., double boilers), but including no heat transfer feature. 229, Envelopes, Wrappers, and Paperboard Boxes,

3.1, 3.5 and 406 for a paper food receptacle.

248, Supports, appropriate subclasses.

249, Static Molds, for a static mold for shaping material of any composition (e.g., glass, butter, etc.).

266, Metallurgical Apparatus,

114, for treating of solid metal with a liquid or subclass 249 for treating solid metal with heat.

294, Handling: Hand and Hoist-Line Implements,

5, for ear corn holders, subclasses 7+ for pancake turners, and subclass 26.5 for a hand manipulable discharging receptacle, frequently used to poach an egg, and subclass 137 for a hand-held article carrier, especially subclasses 144 and 172 for a tray or rack having hand-held portions for transporting the tray or rack.

312, Supports: Cabinet Structure, appropriate subclasses for food supports involving a cabinet.

392, Electric Resistance Heating Devices,

341, 394, and 441+ for an apparatus to electrically heat a liquid.

406, Conveyors: Fluid Current, appropriate subclasses for conveying solid material by a liquid current. 414, Material or Article Handling,

147+, for the combination of a chamber of a type utilized for a heating function and material charging or discharging means therefor, subclasses 217+ for apparatus to move material

between zones having different pressures and inhibiting change in pressure gradient therebetween, or subclass 287 for the combination of a material conditioning static receptacle and means to move, or facilitate the movement of, material to, within, or from the receptacle.

422, Chemical Apparatus and Process Disinfecting, Deodorizing, Preserving, or Sterilizing,

243+, for a cottonseed cooker, subclasses 261+ for apparatus to extract a nonbeverage substance from a solid material, or subclasses 292+ for apparatus for sterilizing an article by heat.

425, Plastic Article or Earthenware Shaping or Treating: Apparatus, appropriate subclasses for apparatus without working means for shaping or reshaping edible material into a self-sustaining product, especially

110+, for such apparatus to make a composite edible from a preform and fluent material or for a meat briquette making means.

432, Heating, appropriate subclasses for a residual heating process or structure.

454, Ventilation, appropriate subclasses, for apparatus for supplying, circulating, or removing gas or vapors present in an enclosure.