A23N MACHINES OR APPARATUS FOR TREATING HARVESTED FRUIT, VEGETABLES OR FLOWER BULBS IN BULK, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR; PEELING VEGETABLES OR FRUIT IN BULK; APPARATUS FOR PREPARING ANIMAL FEEDING- STUFFS (machines for cutting straw or fodder A01F29/00; disintegrating, e.g. shredding, B02C; severing, e.g. cutting, splitting, slicing B26B, B26D)
Introduced: September 1968
Description
A23N encompasses machines and apparatus for post-harvest bulk treatment of fruits, vegetables, and flower bulbs, including specialized peeling equipment for removing skins or outer layers from produce at industrial scale. This classification also covers apparatus designed for mechanical preparation and processing of animal feed and feedstuffs. Excluded are specific treatment processes already covered in other A23 subclasses (such as washing, sorting, or preservation methods with dedicated classifications) and machines for initial agricultural harvesting operations.
Title
Titles differ between systems:
IPC: MACHINES OR APPARATUS FOR TREATING HARVESTED FRUIT, VEGETABLES, OR FLOWER BULBS IN BULK, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR; PEELING VEGETABLES OR FRUIT IN BULK; APPARATUS FOR PREPARING ANIMAL FEEDING-STUFFS
CPC: MACHINES OR APPARATUS FOR TREATING HARVESTED FRUIT, VEGETABLES OR FLOWER BULBS IN BULK, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR; PEELING VEGETABLES OR FRUIT IN BULK; APPARATUS FOR PREPARING ANIMAL FEEDING- STUFFS (machines for cutting straw or fodder A01F29/00; disintegrating, e.g. shredding, B02C; severing, e.g. cutting, splitting, slicing B26B, B26D)
Full Title
Full titles differ between systems:
MACHINES OR APPARATUS FOR TREATING HARVESTED FRUIT, VEGETABLES, OR FLOWER BULBS IN BULK, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR; PEELING VEGETABLES OR FRUIT IN BULK; APPARATUS FOR PREPARING ANIMAL FEEDING-STUFFS
MACHINES OR APPARATUS FOR TREATING HARVESTED FRUIT, VEGETABLES OR FLOWER BULBS IN BULK, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR; PEELING VEGETABLES OR FRUIT IN BULK; APPARATUS FOR PREPARING ANIMAL FEEDING- STUFFS (machines for cutting straw or fodder A01F29/00; disintegrating, e.g. shredding, B02C; severing, e.g. cutting, splitting, slicing B26B, B26D)
IPC and CPC are identically structured here. All 9 subcodes exist in both systems.
6 shared codes have differing titles between IPC and CPC.
Child Classifications
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- A23N 1/00 Machines or apparatus for extracting juice (preparation of non-alcoholic beverages, e.g. by adding ingredients to fruit or vegetable juices, A23L2/00; apparatus for making beverages A47J31/00 ; extracting presses B30B) +2 CPC IPC+CPC Available in IPC and CPC
- A23N 12/00 Machines for cleaning, blanching, drying or roasting fruits or vegetables, e.g. coffee, cocoa, nuts (methods for treating, e.g. roasting, coffee or cocoa, A23F, A23G; cleaning, e.g. washing, or drying grain B02B1/00; separating solids from solids for cleaning B07B; cleaning in general B08B; heating devices per se, see the relevant classes, e.g. F24; drying machines in general F26B) since 1980 +1 CPC IPC+CPC Available in IPC and CPC
- A23N 15/00 Machines or apparatus for other treatment of fruits or vegetables for human purposes; Machines or apparatus for topping or skinning flower bulbs +5 CPC IPC+CPC Available in IPC and CPC
- A23N 17/00 Apparatus specially adapted for preparing animal feeding-stuffs +6 CPC IPC+CPC Available in IPC and CPC
- A23N 3/00 Machines for coring or stoning fruit, characterised by their feeding device (A23N4/00 takes precedence ) IPC+CPC Available in IPC and CPC
- A23N 4/00 Machines for stoning fruit or removing seed-containing sections from fruit, characterised by their stoning or removing device (for peeling fruit and removing seed-containing sections A23N7/08; domestic devices for stoning fruit A47J23/00, for coring fruit A47J25/00) since 1974 IPC+CPC Available in IPC and CPC
- A23N 7/00 Peeling vegetables or fruit (devices for skinning onions A23N15/08; ; peeling machines of the household type A47J17/00) +3 CPC IPC+CPC Available in IPC and CPC