US PATENT SUBCLASS 99 / 574-- .~.~.~.~ By rotating separating means

US PATENT SUBCLASS 99 / 574
.~.~.~.~ By rotating separating means

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99 /	HD	FOODS AND BEVERAGES: APPARATUS

485	DF	MEANS TO TREAT FOOD {8}
537	DF	.~ Subdividing into plural products {2}
567	DF	.~.~ Separating one external portion from the remaining food {3}
568	DF	.~.~.~ Removing shell {8}
574		.~.~.~.~ By rotating separating means {2}
575	DF	.~.~.~.~.~> Relative movement between adjacent irregular surfaces
576	DF	.~.~.~.~.~> Disc or saw separating means

DEFINITION

Classification: 99/574

(under subclass 568) Device including a shell disjoining* means which turns more than 360 deg. about an axis.

(1) Note. The separating means of this subclass may be of the cutting, crushing, tumbling, or shearing type.

(2) Note. Separating means, otherwise proper for placement in this subclass, may accomplish shell separation from a single nut in less than 360 deg. rotation (e.g., a circularly-configured multiple-toothed cutting means may complete a desired cut in less than one revolution; or, two rotating adjacent drums, having sharp-edged pockets therein, may grasp a nut therebetween and completely sever a single shell in but a few degrees of rotation); when plural nuts are fed to such a device, the eventual rotation is more than 360 deg., and thus, placement in this, or in the indented subclasses, is proper.