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<classification-item breakdown-code="false" not-allocatable="true" level="6" additional-only="false" sort-key="A24B1/00" date-revised="2013-01-01" status="published"><classification-symbol>A24B1/00</classification-symbol>
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<classification-item breakdown-code="false" not-allocatable="false" level="8" additional-only="false" sort-key="A24B1/02" definition-exists="false" ipc-concordant="A24B1/02" c-set-base-allowed="false" c-set-subsequent-allowed="true" date-revised="2013-01-01" status="published"><classification-symbol>A24B1/02</classification-symbol><class-title date-revised="2013-01-01"><title-part><text>Arrangements in barns for preparatory treatment of the tobacco, e.g. with devices for drying</text></title-part></class-title></classification-item>
<classification-item breakdown-code="false" not-allocatable="false" level="8" additional-only="false" sort-key="A24B1/04" definition-exists="true" ipc-concordant="A24B1/04" c-set-base-allowed="false" c-set-subsequent-allowed="true" date-revised="2021-02-01" status="published"><classification-symbol>A24B1/04</classification-symbol><class-title date-revised="2021-02-01"><title-part><text>Sifting, sorting, cleaning or removing impurities from tobacco</text></title-part></class-title></classification-item>
<classification-item breakdown-code="false" not-allocatable="false" level="8" additional-only="false" sort-key="A24B1/06" definition-exists="false" ipc-concordant="A24B1/06" c-set-base-allowed="false" c-set-subsequent-allowed="true" date-revised="2013-01-01" status="published"><classification-symbol>A24B1/06</classification-symbol><class-title date-revised="2013-01-01"><title-part><text>Stringing tobacco leaves</text></title-part></class-title></classification-item>
<classification-item breakdown-code="false" not-allocatable="false" level="8" additional-only="false" sort-key="A24B1/08" definition-exists="false" ipc-concordant="A24B1/08" c-set-base-allowed="false" c-set-subsequent-allowed="true" date-revised="2013-01-01" status="published"><classification-symbol>A24B1/08</classification-symbol><class-title date-revised="2013-01-01"><title-part><text>Suspending devices for tobacco leaves</text></title-part></class-title></classification-item>
<classification-item breakdown-code="false" not-allocatable="false" level="8" additional-only="false" sort-key="A24B1/10" definition-exists="false" ipc-concordant="A24B1/10" c-set-base-allowed="false" c-set-subsequent-allowed="true" date-revised="2013-01-01" status="published"><classification-symbol>A24B1/10</classification-symbol><class-title date-revised="2013-01-01"><title-part><text>Packing or pressing tobacco</text></title-part></class-title></classification-item></classification-item>
<classification-item breakdown-code="false" not-allocatable="false" level="7" additional-only="false" sort-key="A24B3/00" definition-exists="true" ipc-concordant="A24B3/00" c-set-base-allowed="false" c-set-subsequent-allowed="true" date-revised="2013-01-01" status="published"><classification-symbol>A24B3/00</classification-symbol><class-title date-revised="2013-01-01"><title-part><text>Preparing tobacco in the factory</text></title-part></class-title>
<classification-item breakdown-code="false" not-allocatable="false" level="8" additional-only="false" sort-key="A24B3/02" definition-exists="true" ipc-concordant="A24B3/02" c-set-base-allowed="false" c-set-subsequent-allowed="true" date-revised="2021-02-01" status="published"><classification-symbol>A24B3/02</classification-symbol><class-title date-revised="2021-02-01"><title-part><text>Humidifying packed raw tobacco</text></title-part></class-title></classification-item>
<classification-item breakdown-code="false" not-allocatable="false" level="8" additional-only="false" sort-key="A24B3/04" definition-exists="false" ipc-concordant="A24B3/04" c-set-base-allowed="false" c-set-subsequent-allowed="true" date-revised="2013-01-01" status="published"><classification-symbol>A24B3/04</classification-symbol><class-title date-revised="2013-01-01"><title-part><text>Humidifying or drying tobacco bunches or cut tobacco </text><reference><text><class-ref scheme="cpc">A24B3/12</class-ref> takes precedence</text></reference></title-part></class-title></classification-item>
<classification-item breakdown-code="false" not-allocatable="false" level="8" additional-only="false" sort-key="A24B3/06" definition-exists="false" ipc-concordant="A24B3/06" c-set-base-allowed="false" c-set-subsequent-allowed="true" date-revised="2013-01-01" status="published"><classification-symbol>A24B3/06</classification-symbol><class-title date-revised="2013-01-01"><title-part><text>Loosening tobacco leaves or cut tobacco </text><reference><text><class-ref scheme="cpc">A24B3/07</class-ref> takes precedence</text></reference></title-part></class-title></classification-item>
<classification-item breakdown-code="false" not-allocatable="false" level="8" additional-only="false" sort-key="A24B3/07" definition-exists="false" ipc-concordant="A24B3/07" c-set-base-allowed="false" c-set-subsequent-allowed="true" date-revised="2013-01-01" status="published"><classification-symbol>A24B3/07</classification-symbol><class-title date-revised="2013-01-01"><title-part><text>Cutting or removing tie leaves</text></title-part><title-part><text>Cutting-off stem butts</text></title-part></class-title></classification-item>
<classification-item breakdown-code="false" not-allocatable="false" level="8" additional-only="false" sort-key="A24B3/08" definition-exists="false" ipc-concordant="A24B3/08" c-set-base-allowed="false" c-set-subsequent-allowed="true" date-revised="2013-01-01" status="published"><classification-symbol>A24B3/08</classification-symbol><class-title date-revised="2013-01-01"><title-part><text>Blending tobacco</text></title-part></class-title></classification-item>
<classification-item breakdown-code="false" not-allocatable="false" level="8" additional-only="false" sort-key="A24B3/10" definition-exists="false" ipc-concordant="A24B3/10" c-set-base-allowed="false" c-set-subsequent-allowed="true" date-revised="2013-01-01" status="published"><classification-symbol>A24B3/10</classification-symbol><class-title date-revised="2013-01-01"><title-part><text>Roasting or cooling tobacco</text></title-part></class-title></classification-item>
<classification-item breakdown-code="false" not-allocatable="false" level="8" additional-only="false" sort-key="A24B3/12" definition-exists="false" ipc-concordant="A24B3/12" c-set-base-allowed="false" c-set-subsequent-allowed="true" date-revised="2013-01-01" status="published"><classification-symbol>A24B3/12</classification-symbol><class-title date-revised="2013-01-01"><title-part><text>Steaming, curing, or flavouring tobacco</text></title-part></class-title></classification-item>
<classification-item breakdown-code="false" not-allocatable="false" level="8" additional-only="false" sort-key="A24B3/14" definition-exists="true" ipc-concordant="A24B3/14" c-set-base-allowed="false" c-set-subsequent-allowed="true" date-revised="2022-01-01" status="published"><classification-symbol>A24B3/14</classification-symbol><class-title date-revised="2021-02-01"><title-part><text>Forming reconstituted tobacco products, e.g. wrapper materials, sheets, imitation leaves, rods, cakes</text></title-part><title-part><text>Forms of such products </text><reference><text>delustering <class-ref scheme="cpc">A24C1/40</class-ref></text></reference></title-part></class-title></classification-item>
<classification-item breakdown-code="false" not-allocatable="false" level="8" additional-only="false" sort-key="A24B3/16" definition-exists="false" ipc-concordant="A24B3/16" c-set-base-allowed="false" c-set-subsequent-allowed="true" date-revised="2013-01-01" status="published"><classification-symbol>A24B3/16</classification-symbol><class-title date-revised="2013-01-01"><title-part><text>Classifying or aligning leaves</text></title-part></class-title></classification-item>
<classification-item breakdown-code="false" not-allocatable="false" level="8" additional-only="false" sort-key="A24B3/18" definition-exists="false" ipc-concordant="A24B3/18" c-set-base-allowed="false" c-set-subsequent-allowed="true" date-revised="2013-01-01" status="published"><classification-symbol>A24B3/18</classification-symbol><class-title date-revised="2013-01-01"><title-part><text>Other treatment of leaves, e.g. puffing, crimpling, cleaning</text></title-part></class-title>
<classification-item breakdown-code="false" not-allocatable="false" level="9" additional-only="false" sort-key="A24B3/182" definition-exists="true" ipc-concordant="A24B3/18" c-set-base-allowed="false" c-set-subsequent-allowed="true" date-revised="2013-01-01" status="published"><classification-symbol>A24B3/182</classification-symbol><class-title date-revised="2013-01-01"><title-part><CPC-specific-text><text>Puffing</text></CPC-specific-text></title-part></class-title>
<classification-item breakdown-code="false" not-allocatable="false" level="10" additional-only="false" sort-key="A24B3/185" definition-exists="false" ipc-concordant="A24B3/18" c-set-base-allowed="false" c-set-subsequent-allowed="true" date-revised="2013-01-01" status="published"><classification-symbol>A24B3/185</classification-symbol><class-title date-revised="2013-01-01"><title-part><CPC-specific-text><text>by impregnating with a liquid and subsequently freezing and evaporating this liquid</text></CPC-specific-text></title-part></class-title></classification-item>
<classification-item breakdown-code="false" not-allocatable="false" level="10" additional-only="false" sort-key="A24B3/187" definition-exists="false" ipc-concordant="A24B3/18" c-set-base-allowed="false" c-set-subsequent-allowed="true" date-revised="2013-01-01" status="published"><classification-symbol>A24B3/187</classification-symbol><class-title date-revised="2013-01-01"><title-part><CPC-specific-text><text>by electrical treatment</text></CPC-specific-text></title-part></class-title></classification-item></classification-item></classification-item></classification-item>
<classification-item breakdown-code="false" not-allocatable="false" level="7" additional-only="false" sort-key="A24B5/00" definition-exists="true" ipc-concordant="A24B5/00" c-set-base-allowed="false" c-set-subsequent-allowed="true" date-revised="2013-01-01" status="published"><classification-symbol>A24B5/00</classification-symbol><class-title date-revised="2013-01-01"><title-part><text>Stripping tobacco</text></title-part><title-part><text>Treatment of stems or ribs</text></title-part></class-title>
<classification-item breakdown-code="false" not-allocatable="false" level="8" additional-only="false" sort-key="A24B5/02" definition-exists="false" ipc-concordant="A24B5/02" c-set-base-allowed="false" c-set-subsequent-allowed="true" date-revised="2013-01-01" status="published"><classification-symbol>A24B5/02</classification-symbol><class-title date-revised="2013-01-01"><title-part><text>by plucking out the stem</text></title-part></class-title></classification-item>
<classification-item breakdown-code="false" not-allocatable="false" level="8" additional-only="false" sort-key="A24B5/04" definition-exists="false" ipc-concordant="A24B5/04" c-set-base-allowed="false" c-set-subsequent-allowed="true" date-revised="2013-01-01" status="published"><classification-symbol>A24B5/04</classification-symbol><class-title date-revised="2013-01-01"><title-part><text>by cutting out the stem</text></title-part></class-title></classification-item>
<classification-item breakdown-code="false" not-allocatable="false" level="8" additional-only="false" sort-key="A24B5/06" definition-exists="false" ipc-concordant="A24B5/06" c-set-base-allowed="false" c-set-subsequent-allowed="true" date-revised="2013-01-01" status="published"><classification-symbol>A24B5/06</classification-symbol><class-title date-revised="2013-01-01"><title-part><text>by stripping leaf-parts from the stem</text></title-part></class-title></classification-item>
<classification-item breakdown-code="false" not-allocatable="false" level="8" additional-only="false" sort-key="A24B5/08" definition-exists="false" ipc-concordant="A24B5/08" c-set-base-allowed="false" c-set-subsequent-allowed="true" date-revised="2013-01-01" status="published"><classification-symbol>A24B5/08</classification-symbol><class-title date-revised="2013-01-01"><title-part><text>by cutting-off, shaving off, pressing flat the thick parts of stems or ribs</text></title-part></class-title></classification-item>
<classification-item breakdown-code="false" not-allocatable="false" level="8" additional-only="false" sort-key="A24B5/10" definition-exists="false" ipc-concordant="A24B5/10" c-set-base-allowed="false" c-set-subsequent-allowed="true" date-revised="2013-01-01" status="published"><classification-symbol>A24B5/10</classification-symbol><class-title date-revised="2013-01-01"><title-part><text>by crushing the leaves with subsequent separating</text></title-part></class-title></classification-item>
<classification-item breakdown-code="false" not-allocatable="false" level="8" additional-only="false" sort-key="A24B5/12" definition-exists="false" ipc-concordant="A24B5/12" c-set-base-allowed="false" c-set-subsequent-allowed="true" date-revised="2013-01-01" status="published"><classification-symbol>A24B5/12</classification-symbol><class-title date-revised="2013-01-01"><title-part><text>Auxiliary devices for stripping</text></title-part></class-title></classification-item>
<classification-item breakdown-code="false" not-allocatable="false" level="8" additional-only="false" sort-key="A24B5/14" definition-exists="false" ipc-concordant="A24B5/14" c-set-base-allowed="false" c-set-subsequent-allowed="true" date-revised="2013-01-01" status="published"><classification-symbol>A24B5/14</classification-symbol><class-title date-revised="2013-01-01"><title-part><text>Flattening machines for leaves or stems</text></title-part></class-title></classification-item>
<classification-item breakdown-code="false" not-allocatable="false" level="8" additional-only="false" sort-key="A24B5/16" definition-exists="false" ipc-concordant="A24B5/16" c-set-base-allowed="false" c-set-subsequent-allowed="true" date-revised="2013-01-01" status="published"><classification-symbol>A24B5/16</classification-symbol><class-title date-revised="2013-01-01"><title-part><text>Other treatment of stems or ribs, e.g. bending, chopping, incising </text><reference><text>humidifying <class-ref scheme="cpc">A24B3/04</class-ref></text></reference></title-part></class-title></classification-item></classification-item>
<classification-item breakdown-code="false" not-allocatable="false" level="7" additional-only="false" sort-key="A24B7/00" definition-exists="true" ipc-concordant="A24B7/00" c-set-base-allowed="false" c-set-subsequent-allowed="true" date-revised="2021-02-01" status="published"><classification-symbol>A24B7/00</classification-symbol><class-title date-revised="2021-02-01"><title-part><text>Cutting tobacco</text></title-part></class-title>
<classification-item breakdown-code="false" not-allocatable="false" level="8" additional-only="false" sort-key="A24B7/02" definition-exists="false" ipc-concordant="A24B7/02" c-set-base-allowed="false" c-set-subsequent-allowed="true" date-revised="2013-01-01" status="published"><classification-symbol>A24B7/02</classification-symbol><class-title date-revised="2013-01-01"><title-part><text>by machines with reciprocating knives</text></title-part></class-title></classification-item>
<classification-item breakdown-code="false" not-allocatable="false" level="8" additional-only="false" sort-key="A24B7/04" definition-exists="false" ipc-concordant="A24B7/04" c-set-base-allowed="false" c-set-subsequent-allowed="true" date-revised="2013-01-01" status="published"><classification-symbol>A24B7/04</classification-symbol><class-title date-revised="2013-01-01"><title-part><text>by machines with revolving knives</text></title-part></class-title>
<classification-item breakdown-code="false" not-allocatable="false" level="9" additional-only="false" sort-key="A24B7/06" definition-exists="false" ipc-concordant="A24B7/06" c-set-base-allowed="false" c-set-subsequent-allowed="true" date-revised="2013-01-01" status="published"><classification-symbol>A24B7/06</classification-symbol><class-title date-revised="2013-01-01"><title-part><text>with two co-operating sets of knife discs</text></title-part></class-title></classification-item>
<classification-item breakdown-code="false" not-allocatable="false" level="9" additional-only="false" sort-key="A24B7/08" definition-exists="false" ipc-concordant="A24B7/08" c-set-base-allowed="false" c-set-subsequent-allowed="true" date-revised="2013-01-01" status="published"><classification-symbol>A24B7/08</classification-symbol><class-title date-revised="2013-01-01"><title-part><text>with several knives which act one after the other</text></title-part></class-title>
<classification-item breakdown-code="false" not-allocatable="false" level="10" additional-only="false" sort-key="A24B7/10" definition-exists="false" ipc-concordant="A24B7/10" c-set-base-allowed="false" c-set-subsequent-allowed="true" date-revised="2013-01-01" status="published"><classification-symbol>A24B7/10</classification-symbol><class-title date-revised="2013-01-01"><title-part><text>with cutter axes parallel to the feeding direction</text></title-part></class-title></classification-item>
<classification-item breakdown-code="false" not-allocatable="false" level="10" additional-only="false" sort-key="A24B7/12" definition-exists="false" ipc-concordant="A24B7/12" c-set-base-allowed="false" c-set-subsequent-allowed="true" date-revised="2013-01-01" status="published"><classification-symbol>A24B7/12</classification-symbol><class-title date-revised="2013-01-01"><title-part><text>with cutter axes transverse to the feeding direction</text></title-part></class-title></classification-item></classification-item></classification-item>
<classification-item breakdown-code="false" not-allocatable="false" level="8" additional-only="false" sort-key="A24B7/14" definition-exists="false" ipc-concordant="A24B7/14" c-set-base-allowed="false" c-set-subsequent-allowed="true" date-revised="2017-02-01" status="published"><classification-symbol>A24B7/14</classification-symbol><class-title date-revised="2017-02-01"><title-part><text>Feeding or control devices for tobacco-cutting apparatus</text></title-part></class-title></classification-item></classification-item>
<classification-item breakdown-code="false" not-allocatable="false" level="7" additional-only="false" sort-key="A24B9/00" definition-exists="true" ipc-concordant="A24B9/00" c-set-base-allowed="false" c-set-subsequent-allowed="true" date-revised="2013-01-01" status="published"><classification-symbol>A24B9/00</classification-symbol><class-title date-revised="2013-01-01"><title-part><text>Control of the moisture content of tobacco products, e.g. cigars, cigarettes, pipe tobacco </text><reference><CPC-specific-text><text>final drying of cigars <class-ref scheme="cpc">A24C1/383</class-ref>, of cigarettes <class-ref scheme="cpc">A24C5/603</class-ref></text></CPC-specific-text><text>; devices for use by the smoker for controlling the moisture content of tobacco products <class-ref scheme="cpc">A24F25/00</class-ref></text></reference></title-part></class-title></classification-item>
<classification-item breakdown-code="false" not-allocatable="false" level="7" additional-only="false" sort-key="A24B11/00" definition-exists="true" ipc-concordant="A24B11/00" c-set-base-allowed="false" c-set-subsequent-allowed="true" date-revised="2013-01-01" status="published"><classification-symbol>A24B11/00</classification-symbol><class-title date-revised="2013-01-01"><title-part><text>Tobacco-twisting machines</text></title-part></class-title></classification-item>
<classification-item breakdown-code="false" not-allocatable="false" level="7" additional-only="false" sort-key="A24B13/00" definition-exists="true" ipc-concordant="A24B13/00" c-set-base-allowed="false" c-set-subsequent-allowed="true" date-revised="2021-02-01" status="published"><classification-symbol>A24B13/00</classification-symbol><class-title date-revised="2021-02-01"><title-part><text>Tobacco for pipes, for cigars, e.g. cigar inserts, or for cigarettes</text></title-part><title-part><text>Chewing tobacco</text></title-part><title-part><text>Snuff </text><reference><text>reconstituted tobacco products <class-ref scheme="cpc">A24B3/14</class-ref></text></reference></title-part></class-title>
<classification-item breakdown-code="false" not-allocatable="false" level="8" additional-only="false" sort-key="A24B13/02" definition-exists="false" ipc-concordant="A24B13/02" c-set-base-allowed="false" c-set-subsequent-allowed="true" date-revised="2013-01-01" status="published"><classification-symbol>A24B13/02</classification-symbol><class-title date-revised="2013-01-01"><title-part><text>Flakes or shreds of tobacco</text></title-part></class-title></classification-item></classification-item>
<classification-item breakdown-code="false" not-allocatable="false" level="7" additional-only="false" sort-key="A24B15/00" definition-exists="true" ipc-concordant="A24B15/00" c-set-base-allowed="false" c-set-subsequent-allowed="true" date-revised="2020-01-01" status="published"><classification-symbol>A24B15/00</classification-symbol><class-title date-revised="2020-01-01"><title-part><text>Chemical features or treatment of tobacco</text></title-part><title-part><text>Tobacco substitutes, e.g. in liquid form </text><reference><text><class-ref scheme="cpc">A24B3/00</class-ref> takes precedence</text></reference></title-part></class-title><notes-and-warnings><note type="note"><note-paragraph> In groups <class-ref scheme="cpc">A24B15/30</class-ref> - <class-ref scheme="cpc">A24B15/42</class-ref>, the last place priority rule is applied, i.e. at each hierarchical level, in the absence of an indication to the contrary, classification is made in the last appropriate place for a substance.<CPC-specific-note>This Note corresponds to IPC Note (1) relating to <class-ref scheme="cpc">A24B15/30</class-ref> - <class-ref scheme="cpc">A24B15/42</class-ref>.</CPC-specific-note> </note-paragraph></note></notes-and-warnings>
<classification-item breakdown-code="false" not-allocatable="false" level="8" additional-only="false" sort-key="A24B15/10" definition-exists="false" ipc-concordant="A24B15/10" c-set-base-allowed="false" c-set-subsequent-allowed="true" date-revised="2013-01-01" status="published"><classification-symbol>A24B15/10</classification-symbol><class-title date-revised="2013-01-01"><title-part><text>Chemical features of tobacco products or tobacco substitutes</text></title-part></class-title>
<classification-item breakdown-code="false" not-allocatable="false" level="9" additional-only="false" sort-key="A24B15/12" definition-exists="false" ipc-concordant="A24B15/12" c-set-base-allowed="false" c-set-subsequent-allowed="true" date-revised="2013-01-01" status="published"><classification-symbol>A24B15/12</classification-symbol><class-title date-revised="2013-01-01"><title-part><text>of reconstituted tobacco</text></title-part></class-title>
<classification-item breakdown-code="false" not-allocatable="false" level="10" additional-only="false" sort-key="A24B15/14" definition-exists="false" ipc-concordant="A24B15/14" c-set-base-allowed="false" c-set-subsequent-allowed="true" date-revised="2013-01-01" status="published"><classification-symbol>A24B15/14</classification-symbol><class-title date-revised="2013-01-01"><title-part><text>made of tobacco and a binding agent not derived from tobacco</text></title-part></class-title></classification-item></classification-item>
<classification-item breakdown-code="false" not-allocatable="false" level="9" additional-only="false" sort-key="A24B15/16" definition-exists="true" ipc-concordant="A24B15/16" c-set-base-allowed="false" c-set-subsequent-allowed="true" date-revised="2019-05-01" status="published"><classification-symbol>A24B15/16</classification-symbol><class-title date-revised="2013-01-01"><title-part><text>of tobacco substitutes</text></title-part></class-title>
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