US PATENT SUBCLASS 99 / 516
.~ By applying fluid


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99 /   HD   FOODS AND BEVERAGES: APPARATUS

485  DF  MEANS TO TREAT FOOD {8}
516.~ By applying fluid {4}
517  DF  .~.~> With cooling
518  DF  .~.~> With disjoining hull from grain {5}
532  DF  .~.~> By injecting needle {1}
534  DF  .~.~> Particular liquid {2}


DEFINITION

Classification: 99/516

(under subclass 485) Device wherein gaseous or liquid matter contacts the food for modifying the food for immediate, or ultimate, consumption.

(1) Note. In a device where the gas and/or liquid is to handle (move, transport, etc.) the food bodily; or, to clean the food of inedible material; or, to both clean and handle, as above described, classification is in a handling or cleaning class, as appropriate. See paragraphs (c) and (d) under "Search Class" of Class 99, subclass 324.

SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:

323.1, for apparatus for treating a beverage with a gas.

453+, for apparatus for atmospheric modification of a dairy food.

467+, for apparatus for subjecting food to an enclosed modified atmosphere. SEE OR SEARCH CLASS

15, Brushing, Scrubbing, and General Cleaning,

3.1+, for fruit washers.

68, Textiles: Fluid Treating Apparatus, for bleaching apparatus for textile materials.

83, Cutting,

169, for applying a fluid to a cutter or material, and see the search notes thereunder.