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  2. /A · Human necessities
  3. /A23 · Foods or foodstuffs
  4. /A23N · Machines or apparatus for treating harvested fruit, vegetables or flower bulbs in
  5. /A23N 4/00 · Machines for stoning fruit or removing seed-containing sections from fruit, characterised by
  6. /A23N 4/12 · Machines for stoning fruit or removing seed-containing sections from fruit, characterised by
  7. /A23N 4/18
A23N 4/18

For citrus fruits

Official title: for citrus fruits

A23N4/18 (For citrus fruits) appears on 23 US grants and 2 published applications in this corpus.

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Where it sits

  1. AHuman necessities
  2. A23Foods or foodstuffs
  3. A23NMachines or apparatus for treating harvested fruit, vegetables or flower bulbs in
  4. A23N 4/00Machines for stoning fruit or removing seed-containing sections from fruit, characterised by
  5. A23N 4/12Machines for stoning fruit or removing seed-containing sections from fruit, characterised by
  6. A23N 4/18For citrus fruits
Granted patents
23
Published applications
2
Assignees
9
Inventors
35
Latest grant
6 Dec 2016

Filings by year

Granted patentsPublished applications
A23N 4/18: granted patents and published applications per publication year
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By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001.

Recent patents

  • Juice extracting device6 Dec 2016US 9,510,618 B2
  • Specification7 Dec 1999US 5,996,482 ASunkist Growers, Inc.
  • Apparatus and method for coring and sectionizing fruit4 Aug 1998US 5,787,801 ASunkist Growers, Inc.
  • Method of peeling and segmenting fruits16 Apr 1996US 5,508,052 AClassic Fresh Cuts, Inc.
  • Method for removing pulp from fruit15 Feb 1994US 5,286,508 AState of Israel, Ministry of Agriculture
  • Juice extracting device12 Mar 2015US 2015/0068411 A1
  • Peeler and Slicer Apparatus27 Aug 2009US 2009/0211462 A1Viapak Pty Ltd

Most cited

By later US patents
  • Cutting device28US 5,101,718 A1992
  • Method of and apparatus for extracting juice and meat from a fruit20US 4,885,182 AThe Proctor & Gamble Company · 1989
  • Citrus fruit peeling machine15US 4,729,299 A1988
  • Juicing apparatus15US 4,917,007 AThe Automatic Orange Juicer Corporation · 1990
  • Feeder for fruits and the like13US 4,343,393 AFMC Corporation · 1982

Top assignees

Documents
  • SIState of Israel, Ministry of Agriculture3
  • SGSunkist Growers, Inc.2
  • PGThe Procter & Gamble Company2
  • CFClassic Fresh Cuts, Inc.1
  • FMC Corporation1
  • NSNippon Sanso Corporation1
  • AOThe Automatic Orange Juicer Corporation1
  • PGThe Proctor & Gamble Company1
  • VPViapak Pty Ltd1

Often classified with

  • B26DCutting6
  • A47JKitchen equipment4
  • Y10TTechnical subjects covered by former us classification3
  • A23BPreservation of foods, foodstuffs or non-alcoholic beverages1
  • B65GTransport or storage devices1
  • F25DRefrigerators1
  • Y10STechnical subjects covered by former uspc cross-reference art collections [xracs] and digests1

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