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Patent No. 5273766

Tenderizing Meat

A method to tenderize meat with an explosive shockwave.

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Class 56 - Harvesters

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Definition

This class includes means for severing crops which grow above the surface of the ground, without disturbing the soil, and means for gathering the same from the field after they are severed. Subject matter relating to cutting crop material lying on the ground without disturbing the soil is also included.

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Cutting implements carried in the hand or by the body and capable of general application are classified in Class 30, Cutlery.

The raking devices in this class are limited to the type that are designed to gather hay, straw, grass, leaves, or the like. Intermittent loaders, which may travel over the ground and which have forks which gather a load and then swing upwardly to lift the same and dump it, are classified in Class 414, Material or Article Handling.

Beet crop harvesters, such as beet harvesters, potato-diggers, and the like, and means for uprooting and recovering stalks or weeds are classified in Class 171, Unearthing Plants or Buried Objects.

Stone gatherers which gather stones by impelling the above ground portions of partially buried stones are found in Class 171, Unearthing Plants or Buried Objects, subclasses 63+. See the Notes to this subclass for other types of gatherers.

Machines for scooping up manure are classified in Class 37, Excavating, subclasses 118+.

(1) Note. See (19) Note of the class definition of Class 30, Cutlery. (2) Note. See (5) Note of the class definition of Class 294, Handling: Hand and Hoist-Line Implements.

 
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