B02C 7/00
Crushing or disintegrating by disc mills
Official title: Crushing or disintegrating by disc mills (apparatus specially adapted for manufacture or treatment of cocoa or cocoa products exclusively A23G1/04)
B02C7/00 (Crushing or disintegrating by disc mills) appears on 501 US grants and 343 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in B02C- Granted patents
- 501
- Published applications
- 343
- Assignees
- 226
- Inventors
- 708
- Latest grant
- 7 Jul 2026
Filings by year
| Year | Granted patents | Published applications |
|---|---|---|
| 1976 | 11 | 0 |
| 1977 | 18 | 0 |
| 1978 | 12 | 0 |
| 1979 | 4 | 0 |
| 1980 | 13 | 0 |
| 1981 | 9 | 0 |
| 1982 | 4 | 0 |
| 1983 | 5 | 0 |
| 1984 | 7 | 0 |
| 1985 | 4 | 0 |
| 1986 | 9 | 0 |
| 1987 | 8 | 0 |
| 1988 | 7 | 0 |
| 1989 | 15 | 0 |
| 1990 | 6 | 0 |
| 1991 | 4 | 0 |
| 1992 | 3 | 0 |
| 1993 | 11 | 0 |
| 1994 | 4 | 0 |
| 1995 | 8 | 0 |
| 1996 | 11 | 0 |
| 1997 | 10 | 0 |
| 1998 | 9 | 0 |
| 1999 | 18 | 0 |
| 2000 | 7 | 0 |
| 2001 | 15 | 0 |
| 2002 | 9 | 8 |
| 2003 | 7 | 8 |
| 2004 | 2 | 11 |
| 2005 | 8 | 7 |
| 2006 | 8 | 19 |
| 2007 | 6 | 12 |
| 2008 | 14 | 8 |
| 2009 | 5 | 14 |
| 2010 | 11 | 12 |
| 2011 | 15 | 9 |
| 2012 | 10 | 8 |
| 2013 | 5 | 14 |
| 2014 | 11 | 23 |
| 2015 | 12 | 13 |
| 2016 | 8 | 12 |
| 2017 | 13 | 28 |
| 2018 | 13 | 20 |
| 2019 | 16 | 15 |
| 2020 | 16 | 18 |
| 2021 | 17 | 19 |
| 2022 | 12 | 17 |
| 2023 | 19 | 16 |
| 2024 | 16 | 15 |
| 2025 | 9 | 11 |
| 2026 | 7 | 6 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
- B02C 7/11Details396
- B02C 7/02Crushing or disintegrating by disc mills: with coaxial discs195
- B02C 7/18Disc mills specially adapted for grain35
- B02C 7/175Disc mills specially adapted for paste-like material11
- B02C 7/005Crushers with non-coaxial toothed discs with intersecting axes10
- B02C 7/10Crushing or disintegrating by disc mills: with eccentric discs6
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