HEADING 84.38 - MACHINERY NOT SPECIFIED OR INCLUDED ELSEWHERE IN THIS CHAPTER FOR THE INDUSTRIAL PREPARATION OR MANUFACTURE OF FOOD OR DRINK OTHER THAN MACHINERY FOR THE EXTRACTION OR PREPARATION OF ANIMAL OR FIXED VEGETABLE FATS OR OILS.
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8438.10 - Bakery machinery and machinery for the manufacture of
macaroni spaghetti or similar products
8438.20 - Machinery for the manufacture of confectionery cocoa
or chocolate
8438.30 - Machinery for sugar manufacture
8438.40 - Brewery machinery
8438.50 - Machinery for the preparation of meat or poultry
8438.60 - Machinery for the preparation of fruits nuts or
vegetables
8438.80 - Other machinery
8438.90 - Parts
This heading covers machinery not specified or included elsewhere in this Chapter for the industrial preparation or manufacture of food or drink (whether for immediate
consumption or preserving and whether for human or animal consumption) but not
including machinery for the extraction or preparation of animal or fixed vegetable fats
or oils (heading 84.79).
It should however be noted that in practice the heading excludes many machines used for these purposes e.g. :
(a)Domestic appliances (e.g. meat mincing machines and bread cutting machines) falling in heading 82.10 or
(b)Industrial or laboratory ovens (heading 84.17 or 85.14).
(c)Cooking roasting steaming etc. machinery and plant (heading 84.19).
(d)Centrifuges and filters (heading 84.21).
(e)Bottling canning packing etc. machinery (heading 84.22).
(f)Machinery for the milling industry (heading 84.37).
(I) BAKERY MACHINERY
Such machinery is used for the manufacture of bread biscuits pastries cakes etc. It
includes :
(1) Dough or pastry mixers. These consist essentially of rotating or stationary
receptacles equipped with fixed or moving arms or blades for kneading the
dough. Certain high speed mixers are often fitted with water-cooled jackets.
(2) Dough-dividing machines consist of receptacles in which the dough delivered
through a hopper is divided mechanically into portions of equal size. These
machines sometimes incorporate devices for weighing or rolling the dough.
(3) Moulding machines for forming the portions of divided dough to the required
shapes ready for baking.
(4) Slicing machines for bread cake etc.
(5) Machines designed for " crumbing " dry bread.
(6) Cutting shaping sawing or filling machines for biscuits cakes etc.
(7) Cake depositing machines designed to deliver given quantities of cake batter
into cake shapes.
The heading excludes :
(a)Bakery ovens (heading 84.17 or 85.14).
(b)Pastry rolling machines of heading 84.20.
(II) MACHINERY FOR THE MANUFACTURE OF MACARONI
SPAGHETTI OR SIMILAR PRODUCTS
This group includes :
(1) Mixing machines for preparing macaroni paste.
(2) Machines for cutting or stamping out special shapes from the rolled pastry in
sheet form. These machines often incorporate devices for rolling the pastry.
(3) Continuous extruding presses for macaroni spaghetti etc. Letters figures
and other special shapes can be produced with extruding machines equipped
with suitably shaped dies; the dough is then cut off to the desired thickness by a
revolving knife fitted on the outside of the dieplate.
(4) Machines for filling ravioli etc.
(5) Machines for twisting macaroni vermicelli etc. in hanks etc.
The heading excludes :
(a)Macaroni pre-drying or drying machines (heading 84.19).
(b)Machines for rolling macaroni dough pastry etc. into sheet form (heading 84.20).
(III) MACHINERY FOR THE MANUFACTURE OF CONFECTIONERY
This group includes :
(1) Grinding or crushing machines for the preparation of icing sugar.
(2) Confectionery mixing machines. These usually consist essentially of
receptacles fitted with mechanical stirrers or grinders and are often fitted with
heating or cooling coils or jackets.
(3) " Pulling " machines used for kneading plastic sugar mixtures by means of
crank-shaped revolving arms.
(4) Dragee pans. These consist of hemispherical pans usually of copper or glass which rotate on an inclined axis and thus coat hard centres (e.g. almonds) with
sugar chocolate etc. The heading covers such dragee pans whether they are
heated from an external source (hot air blast independent gas burner etc.) or
whether the pans themselves incorporate heating elements.
(5) Machines designed for moulding cutting or shaping confectionery.
This heading does not include sugar boilers or other heating plant (heading 84.19) or cooling plant (heading
(IV) MACHINERY FOR THE MANUFACTURE OF COCOA
OR CHOCOLATE
This group includes :
(1) Machines for husking for removing the germ or for crushing the roasted
beans into " nibs ".
(2) Machines for mixing kneading or grinding the crushed beans and resultant
paste to give the " cocoa mass ".
(3) Presses for extracting cocoa butter from the " cocoa mass ". These
machines always incorporate provision for heating the paste to facilitate the
butter extraction.
(4) Machines for preparing cocoa powder by grinding the cakes left after cocoa
butter extraction. Normally these machines also sieve and grade the powder and sometimes mix it with other products to improve the aroma or solubility.
(5) Machines for mixing cocoa butter cocoa powder sugar etc. These
machines often incorporate apparatus for measuring the quantities to be mixed.
(6) Machines for rolling and refining the mixture.
(7) Conches. These consist essentially of containers fitted with heating equipment
and power driven rollers grinders etc. so that the constituents of the mixture
are thoroughly intermingled and heat-treated.
(8) Machines which prior to moulding homogenise the chocolate and deliver
it in regular portions by pressure and extrusion.
(9) Tabletting and moulding machines usually incorporating vibrator devices.
These machines also often contain heating elements in the pouring section and
provision for cooling the moulds.
(10) Enrobing machines consist essentially of a conveyor belt on which biscuits sweets or other centres are coated by passing them through sprays or molten
baths of chocolate or confectionery. These machines always incorporate
heating elements.
(V) MACHINERY FOR SUGAR MANUFACTURE
The type of machinery used for extracting the sugar juices depends on whether sugar
cane or sugar beet is employed. The machines used for extracting the sugar from the
juice are however much the same in each case.
(A) Machines for extracting the juice from sugar cane e.g. :
(1) Cutters or defibrators consisting of a series of double-edged knives
which revolve at high speed and thus reduce the cane to long fibres.
(2) Shredders in which the cane is passed between toothed rollers revolving at
different speeds and is thereby torn to shreds.
(3) Crushers which consist essentially of adjustable corrugated metal rollers.
Some machines combine the operations of shredding and crushing.
(4) Roller mills which usually consist of trains of grooved rollers for extracting
the juice from the crushed cane. They normally incorporate feeding and
conveyor mechanisms equipment for spraying water on to the cane during
rolling and maceration baths.
(B) Machines for extracting the juice from sugar beet e.g. :
(1) Washing machines consisting of agitators or similar mechanisms
operating in large channels tanks etc.
(2) Slicing machines. These may be large cylindrical vessels whose bases
consist of rotating discs fitted with cutting blades or of rotating drums
whose inner surfaces are fitted with knives against which the beet is
projected by specially designed guide plates or by centrifugal force.
(3) Diffusing apparatus for extracting the juice from the sliced beet by
osmosis. Each diffusor consists of a " calorisator " in which the water is
heated by a steam coil and a large diffusor vessel in which the sugar is
extracted from the beet chips by the hot water. The heading also covers the
diffusor vessel presented separately. The " calorisator " presented
separately is however excluded (heading 84.19).
(4) Pulp presses.
(C) Machines for extracting the sugar from the juice or for refining the sugar e.g. :
(1) Sulphiting vessels provided they incorporate mechanical agitators but
not including those with thermal equipment (heading 84.19).
(2) Crystallising apparatus fitted with slow stirring devices. The syrupy mass
(" masse cuite ") from the concentration plant is here cooled by the
surrounding air and the crystallisation begun in that plant is completed.
(3) Machines for sawing or breaking sugar into lumps etc.
The heading excludes :
(a)Defecation vessels juice concentration plant vacuum boiling or crystallising pans and other plant of heading
(b)Centrifugal separators and filter presses (heading 84.21).
(VI) BREWERY MACHINERY
This group includes :
(1) Sprouting or germination machines fitted with slow stirring devices rotating
drums or similar mechanical features.
(2) Rotating cylinders for removing the shoots from the malt after kilning and
screening machines.
(3) Malt crushing machines.
(4) Mashing vats provided they contain mechanical agitators etc. and no heating
equipment. In these the crushed malt is mashed with water so that the starch
content is converted into sugar (saccharification).
(5) Straining vats large containers fitted with stirrers or agitators and with a
perforated double bottom to separate the brewers' grains from the wort.
The heading also includes as functional units within the meaning of Note 4 to Section
XVI brewhouse machinery comprising inter alia sprouting or germination machines malt crushing machines mashing vats straining vats. Auxiliary appliances (e.g. bottling machines label-printing machines) are however not included and should be
classified in their own appropriate heading (see the General Explanatory Note to
Section XVI).
The heading excludes :
(a)Fermenting vats without mechanical or cooling equipment; these are classified according to the constituent
materials.
(b)Malt drying plant; macerating vessels and mashing vats with heating equipment; vessels for the decoction of
the hops or for boiling the hop decoction with the wort (heading 84.19); fermenting vats with cooling coils
and beer coolers (heading 84.18 or 84.19).
(c)Filter presses (heading 84.21).
(VII) MACHINERY FOR THE PREPARATION OF MEAT OR POULTRY
This group includes :
(1) Machinery for the slaughter and subsequent treatment of animals.
(2) Hog de-hairing machines. These consist of a revolving cradle which holds the
carcass and of a number of belt scrapers turning in the opposite direction to the
cradle.
(3) Meat cutting or chopping machines for cutting up carcasses etc. by the
action of circular saws rotating knives etc.
(4) Machines for sawing or chopping bones.
(5) Meat beating machines to make the flesh more tender by the action of pointed
or bladed combs which sever the nerve fibres.
(6) Meat mincing or dicing machines.
(7) Gut cleaning machines.
(8) Sausage stuffing machines. These consist essentially of a cylindrical container
from which the meat is forced by a piston into the sausage casing.
(9) Meat or bacon slicing machines.
(10) Meat or fat moulding presses.
(11) Machines and appliances for killing plucking or drawing poultry (electric
stunning and bleeding knife high-output poultry pluckers eviscerating apparatus gizzard strippers and lung extractors).
(12) Meat pickling machinery comprising hand-operated brine injection guns
connected to a pump or a fully automatic conveyor device which feeds the meat
to a grid consisting of brine injection needles.
The heading excludes boilers autoclaves heating cupboards and similar plant or machinery of heading 84.19.
(VIII) MACHINERY FOR THE PREPARATION OF FRUITS
NUTS OR VEGETABLES
This group includes :
(A) Peeling machines e.g. :
(1) Abrasive peelers (e.g. for potatoes) consisting of a rotating container
with abrasive inner walls.
(2) Peelers (e.g. for apples and pears) in which adjustable knives remove
the peel in spirals. These machines often also incorporate devices for
coring removing pips etc.
(3) Peelers for citrus fruit. These usually remove the peel in quarters or
scoop the fruit from the peel of fruit previously cut into halves.
(4) Chemical peelers. These usually consist of a conveyor band or rotating
drum on which the fruit or vegetables are passed through sprays or baths of
hot water lye etc. The fruit or vegetables are then vigorously tumbled in a
washer vessel to remove the skins. These peelers are classified in this
heading whether or not they incorporate provision for heating the water or
lye.
(B) Machines for shelling peas or similar vegetables. These usually consist of a
revolving perforated drum fitted with beaters.
(C) Machines for cutting off the ends of green beans.
(D) Machines for removing the stalks etc. from currants gooseberries cherries grapes etc.
(E) Machines for removing the stones pips etc. from fruit.
(F) Machines for shelling nuts etc.
(G) Machines for grating or cutting fresh or dried fruit vegetables manioc etc.
(H) Machines for cutting or salting cabbage for sauerkraut.
(IJ) Machines for pulping fruit or vegetables for the preparation of jams sauces tomato pur‚e etc. but not including presses for fruit juices (e.g. peaches grapefruit and tomatoes) (heading 84.35).
The heading excludes :
(a)Flame or radiant heat peelers (heading 84.17).
(b)Fruit blanching plant heating plant for the preparation of potato flakes and other plant of heading 84.19.
(c)Fruit or vegetable grading machines (heading 84.33).
(IX) MACHINES FOR PREPARING FISH SHELL FISH ETC.
This group includes :
(1) Machines for scaling skinning gutting or for removing heads tails bones etc.
(2) Machines for opening the fish slicing or cutting it into fillets etc.
(3) Machines for shelling or cutting up shell fish.
(4) Grinding machines for preparing fish flour from dried fish.
The heading does not cover frying smoking or curing plant or other machinery or plant of heading 84.19.
(X) OTHER MACHINERY FOR THE INDUSTRIAL PREPARATION
OR MANUFACTURE OF FOOD OR DRINK
This group includes :
(1) Mechanical appliances for acetification (used in vinegar-making).
(2) Coffee bean husking or hulling machines (cylinder disc or blade types).
(3) Extracting machines of the spiked roller type for extracting the essential oil
from oranges.
(4) Tea-leaf cutting or rolling machines.
PARTS
Subject to the general provisions regarding the classification of parts (see the
General Explanatory Note to Section XVI) the parts of the machinery of this heading are
also classified here (for example moulds (pans) used in continuous process bread-
making moulds for confectionery moulding machines moulds for chocolate moulding
machines and extrusion dies of bronze or brass for use in extruding presses for the
manufacture of macaroni spaghetti or similar products).
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