PROCESSING MEAT, POULTRY, OR FISH (preserving A23B; obtaining protein compositions for foodstuffs A23J1/00; fish, meat or poultry preparations A23L; disintegrating, e.g. chopping meat, B02C18/00; preparation of proteins C07K1/00)

Introduced: September 1968

Description

A22C encompasses machinery and methods for processing meat, poultry, and fish after slaughter, including operations such as cleaning, cutting, deboning, portioning, and preservation treatments. This subclass covers equipment like saws, slicers, grinders, and filleting machines used in meat processing facilities, as well as processes for curing, smoking, and other value-added treatments. It excludes the slaughter operation itself (covered by A22B) and general food preservation techniques not specific to meat or fish processing (covered elsewhere in Class A23).

Title

Titles differ between systems:

IPC: PROCESSING MEAT, POULTRY, OR FISH

CPC: PROCESSING MEAT, POULTRY, OR FISH (preserving A23B; obtaining protein compositions for foodstuffs A23J1/00; fish, meat or poultry preparations A23L; disintegrating, e.g. chopping meat, B02C18/00; preparation of proteins C07K1/00)

Full Title

Full titles differ between systems:

IPC:

PROCESSING MEAT, POULTRY, OR FISH

CPC:

PROCESSING MEAT, POULTRY, OR FISH (preserving A23B; obtaining protein compositions for foodstuffs A23J1/00; fish, meat or poultry preparations A23L; disintegrating, e.g. chopping meat, B02C18/00; preparation of proteins C07K1/00)

IPC and CPC are identically structured here. All 11 subcodes exist in both systems.

4 shared codes have differing titles between IPC and CPC.

Child Classifications

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A22C 11/00 Sausage making +3 CPC IPC+CPC Available in IPC and CPC
A22C 13/00 Sausage casings +24 CPC IPC+CPC Available in IPC and CPC
A22C 15/00 Apparatus for hanging-up meat or sausages +4 CPC IPC+CPC Available in IPC and CPC
A22C 17/00 Other devices for processing meat or bones +6 CPC IPC+CPC Available in IPC and CPC
A22C 18/00 Plants, factories, or the like for processing meat (for processing poultry only A22C21/00; for processing fish only A22C25/00) IPC+CPC Available in IPC and CPC
A22C 21/00 Processing poultry +9 CPC IPC+CPC Available in IPC and CPC
A22C 25/00 Processing fish +2 CPC IPC+CPC Available in IPC and CPC
A22C 29/00 Processing shellfish , e.g. oysters, lobsters; +1 CPC IPC+CPC Available in IPC and CPC
A22C 5/00 Apparatus for mixing meat, sausage-meat, or meat products (mixing in general B01F) IPC+CPC Available in IPC and CPC
A22C 7/00 Apparatus for pounding, forming, or pressing meat, sausage-meat, or meat products +4 CPC IPC+CPC Available in IPC and CPC
A22C 9/00 Apparatus for tenderising meat, e.g. ham +5 CPC IPC+CPC Available in IPC and CPC