Machinery

84.35 - Presses, crushers and similar machinery used in the manufacture of wine, cider, fruit juices or similar beverages. 8435.10 8435.90 - Machinery - Parts The heading covers both agricultural and industrial e machines used for making wine, cider, Perry, fruit juices or similar beverages whether or not errnented. The heading includes, inter alia : (A) Juice extracting machines, hand or power operated, for juices not intended for fermentation (e.g., juices of citrus h i t , peaches, apricots, pineapples, berries or tomatoes). (B) Apple or pear crushers, hand or power operated. They consist of a hopper which feeds h t to the grating mechanism or crushing cylinders. (C) Mechanical or hydraulic cider presses, including " mobile " presses mounted on wheeled trolleys. (D) Grape pressing or crushing machines, e.g. : (1) Gra e crushing machines. These usually consist of two grooved cylinders, or of a sing e cylinder fitted with beaters, which extract the uice from the grapes without crushing the seeds or stems. The headin includes pu ping machines incorporating a pump to feed the resultant juices into the ermenting vats. I' f i (2) Machines for separating the juice (must) from the stems of the freshly ressed grapes. These generally consist of a perforated container fitted with revolving eaters. Some models combine the operations of pressing and stemming. T, (3) Presses used to extract the juice remaining in the crushed and strained grape pulp, or f?om the fermenting vat residues. There are two main types : (i) Discontinuous mechanical or hydraulic presses in which the press head crushes the pulp in an interchangeable lattice-work cage (the" claie 3 supported in a container to collect the juice. The Beading includes h draulic portal presses usually mounted on designed so that a succession of containers (" maies trolleys, can be filled with juice. '3: (ii) Continuous presses in which an endless screw mechanism feeds the grapes into the machine and presses them. (E) Crumblin or disintegrating machines fitted with toothed cylinders or revolving blades which bre up cakes of compressed marc before further pressing. f Machines used for the processing ofjuice, must, wine, cider and perry are excluded, for example : (a) Coolers, sterilisers, pasteurisers and concentrating apparatus (heading 84.19). (b) Centrifu es, filter resses and other filtering or clarifying machinery or plant (heading 84.21). (Simple llte h e y s are, however, classified according to the constituent material.) B PARTS Sub'ect to the general provisions regarding the classification of parts (see the General Exp anatory Note to Section XVI), parts of the goods of this heading are also classified here, e.g., : Crushing cylinders for juice extractors; toothed cylinders and graters for a ple crushers; cylinders for $rape pressing or stemming machines; special pulp containers claies ") and ress base plate juice collectors maies ) for wine presses; screw heads, presslng plates and frames for wine presses, etc.; too ed cylinders and blades for marc crumbling mach~nes,etc. L‘ The heading also excludes : (a) Fruit juice extractors of the types falling in heading 44.19,82.10 or 85.09. (b) Wine, fruit juice, cider, etc., pumps, even if specialized (heading 84.13). (c) Centrifuges for separating the wine from the marc (heading 84.21). (d) Bottling, corking or other machinery falling in heading 84.22, incIuding steam jet appliances for cleaning barrels, etc. (e) Conveyors for h i t (heading 8626 or 84.28). (f) Fruit peeling, paring or stoning machines (heading 84.38). 84.36- Other agricultural, horticultural, forestry, poultry-keeping or bee-keeping machinery, including ermination plant fitted with mechanical or thermal equipment; poultry incu ators and brooders. C 8436.10 - Machinery for preparing animal feeding stuffs - Poultry-keeping machinery; poultry incubators and brooders : 843 6.21 - - Poultry incubators and brooders 8436.80 - Other machinery - Parts : 8436.91 - - Of poultry-keeping machinery or poultry incubators and brooders 8436.99 - - Other used on farms to 84.35, which is of the type or testing stations), in forestry, the like. However, it excludes (I) OTHER AGRICULTURAL, HORTICULTURAL OR FORESTRY MACHINERY; GERMINATION PLANT These include : (A) Seed dusting machines usually consisting of one or more hoppers feedin a revolving metal drum in which the seeds are coated with insecticidal or fungicidal pow ers. d However, the heading excludes powder spraying machines (heading 84.24). (B) Fertiliser crushing or mixing mills. (C) Machines for cutting slips from vines, h i t trees, etc. @) Hedge cutting machines. (E) Machines and appliances for preparing fodder, etc., such as : (1) Oilcake breakers. (2) Cabbage-cutters and other machines for chopping green-leaf vegetables. (3) Root slicers or crushers for beet, turnips, carrots, fodder, etc. (4) Straw, hay or silage cutters, whether or not incorporating a conveyor for filling the silo. (5) Crushing machines for preparing oats, barley, etc. (6) Farm p e machines for rinding or milling wheat, maize, barley and other feeding stuffs; arm type flour-mi ing machines. ti (7) Fodder mixers. (F) Automatic watering-troughs for cattle, horses, pigs, etc., e.g., those consisting of a metal basin fitted with a lunged plate which, when depressed by the animal's muzzle, permits an inflow of water. (G) Mechanical clippers for animals. Ordinary hand hair clippers are excluded (heading 82.14 or 85.10). (H) Forestry machines, such as : (1) Tree u rooters, equipped with jaws which grip the trunk and uproot it by the action of hydrau!c j scks. (2) Tree-felling machines with hydraGic shears or saws, whether or not equipped with delimbing and buckin devices or wth grapples for handling and piling the trunks,and tree-fellers designed or mounting on tractors, o erating by means of a plough which cuts the roots and a telescoping boom which amp ifies the tractor power. f p. (3) Tree transplanters, equip ed with root-balling blades and capable, if necessary, of transporting the trees over s ort distances. (4) Stump removers which break up stumps to a certain depth below the surface by means of knived discs. (5) Machines for chi pin branches, twi s, etc., following pruning, delimbing, etc., using chipping bla es. T e chips are disc arged by a blower unit. !% h (IT) Germination appliances (e.g. " gerrninators " provided they are fitted with mechanical ? features (e.g., urnps, motors or fans) or t h e m equipment. Simple chests not so equipped are excluded glassifled according to the constituent material). The heading does not cover : (a) Cutting blades and knives for root slicers, straw cutters, etc. (heading 82.08). (b) Machinery and plant o erating by processes involvin a change of temperature (heading 84.19). For example, heading 84. 9 covers such hay driers, autoc aves for-potatoes, fodder, etc., but gemation plant, incubators and brooders with thermal equipment remain In this headmg. P (c) Mechanical appliances for projecting, dispersing or spraying liquids or powders (heading 84.24). (d) Pneumatic or " blower " type elevators; winches for uprooting, dragging or loadin trees, logs, etc.; and other hoisting, handling or conveying equipment (beading 8135,8426 or 84.d). (e) Machines for borin hoIes for planting trees; bulldozers and angledozers for felling or clearing (beading 84.29 or 8&0). (f) Industrial type sugar beet slicing machines (heading 84.38). (g) Wood chip cutting machines of heading 8439. (h) Water-jet bark strippers (heading 84.24) and wood &-barking machinery (heading 84.65 or 84.79). (ij) Machine-tools for working wood (heading 84.65 or 84.67). Q Vacuum cleaner type grooming apparatus for horses or cattle (heading 85.08). (1) Tractors specially designed for hauling logs (log skidders) (heading 87.01). (m) Mechanical calfing aids (heading 90.18). (n) Anti-hail guns (heading 93.03). (II) POULTRY-KEEPING MACHINES, INCUBATORS AND BROODERS These include : (A) Incubators. These machines are fitted with devices permitting eggs, placed in trays, to be automatically turned in an atmos here where temperature, air flow and air humidity conditions can be exactly controlled: They may work in conjunction with a control system which may be linked to a personal ADP machine in order to optimise the incubation result. Some incubators, known as combi-incubators, incorporate hatcher functions. (B) Hatchers. In these machines, which incorporate devices for controlled heating and air circulation, the eggs are placed in baskets or special trays for hatching. (C) Brooders, larger appliances with heating and cooling devices, used for rearing young chicks. (D) Rearing and laying units or <' batteries ", large installations equipped with automatic devices for filling the feeding troughs, cleaning the floors and collecting the eggs. (E) E g candlers (or testers) with mechanical features (including photo-electric testers), ot er than static testing lamps. fi Those fitted with a sorting or grading mechanism are excluded (heading 84.33). (F) Sexing and vaccination equi ment, enabling hatcheries to separate chicks of different sex and to vaccinate them &ese machines are not designed to be used by veterinary surgeons. The heading does not include machines, known as chick counting and boxing systems, for automatically counting and lacing chicks in boxes (heading 84.22); the handling of the chcks is the primary function, the counting Being merely a secondary funchon permitting to place in a box a fixed number of chicks, predetermined in accordance with the size of the box. (110 BEE-KEEPING MACHINES These include: (A) Honey presses. (B) Machines for forming wax into comb foundations. The heading does not cover : (a) Beehives, classified according to the constituent material (usually heading 44.21). (b) Hot water baths for re-melting honeycombs, including those with pressing screws (heading 84.19). (c) Centrifugal type honey extractors (heading 84.21). (d) Liquid or powder sprayers or smoking-out apparatus of beading 84.24. PARTS Sub'ect to the general provisions regardin the classification of parts (see the General Exp anatory Note to Section XVI), the hea ing also covers parts for the above-mentioned machines. ! d ain or dried leguminous 84.37- Machines for cleaning, sorting or grading seed, vegetables; machinery used in the mmng industry or or the working of cereals or dned leguminous vegetables, other than farm-type machinery. P 8437.10 - Machines for cleaning, sorting or grading seed, grain or dried leguminous vegetables - Other machinery 8437.90 - Parts 8437.80 (I) MACHINES FOR CLEANING, SORTING OR GRADING SEED, GRAIN OR DRIED LEGUMINOUS VEGETABLES This heading covers machines, whether of horticultural, a cultural or industrial , ried leguminous vegeta%sizG kind used for cleaning, sorting or gradin cereal s etc., by winnowing, blowing, sieving, etc. uch mac ines include : P (1) Fanning mills consisting of a feeding hopper, a blower and sieves (usually vibrating). (2) Grading winnowers, rotating winnowers and seed or grain selectors, more complex machines which clean by means of air currents, and grade the seed o r r according to weight, size or shape. Some seed selectors, etc., incorporate auxiliary evices for coating the seeds with insecticide powders, etc. (3) Sievin belts, often used for cleaning beet seed. They consist of a series of rolls operating an end ess inclined belt runnin under a feeding ho per. The seeds roll fieel to the bottom of the belt but the Light vegetab e waste adheres to &e plushy surface of the zelt fabric. f (4) Special machines for selecting and grading seed for planting. This heading also covers machinery used in the milling industry for cleaning, sorting or grading grain prior to milling. Some of these machines are based on the same frinciples as the winnowing, screening and grading machines described above, but are designe for larger output and are specialised for the milling industry, e.g. : (1) Cyclone separators for cleaning the grain. (2) Machines for cleaning and grading by the action of revolving pocketed or perforated drums. (3) Aspirator separators with oscillating sieves. (4) Separators and graders of the magnetic or electro-magnetic types. (5) Washing, stone-removing and " whizzing '' machines, with or without subsidiary drying columns. (6) Grain brushing machines. (7) Grain dampening machines, whether or not incorporating heating or weighing apparatus. The heading also includes combined machines which clean, sort and grade simultaneously, including machines incorporating devices for electro-magnetic separation. (10 MACHINERY USED IN THE MILLING INDUSTRY In addition to machinery for cleaning, sorting or ading grain prior to milling (see Part (I) above), the following are included as machinery use tn the milling industry : P (A) Certain machines for mixing or preparing grain prior to milling, e.g. : (1) Machines for mixing grain in pre-determined quantities. (2) Grain scouring machines consisting of spiked drums turning against rubber cylinders and thus eliminating the softer grains. However, the heading does not cover (a) Plant operating by temperature change (heading 84.19). For example, heading 84.19 coveF such dryin or cooling columns, but grain dampening machines with thermal equ~pmentr e m n in this heafiog. (b) Centrifugal dryers (heading 84.21). (c) Conveyors and elevators (e.g., of the bucket, belt or pneumatic suction types) (heading 84.28). (E3) Grinding or crushing machinery, e.g. : (1) Grinding mills. (2) '' Breaking " rolls or mills composed of several sets of grooved rollers, sometimes internally cooled, which crush the grain into middlings, semolina and flour. (3) Reduction rolls or mills with smoother rollers, specially designed to convert middlings, semolina, etc., into flour. (4) Disintegrators or impact grinders used to grind down into flour, the meal, etc., which adheres to the mill or converter rollers in the preceding processes. (5) Feeders, machines designed to ensure a regular and even flow of grain to the crushing rollers. The heading does not include small farm type grinding mills (heading 84.36). (C) Machinery for the sorting or separation of flour from sharps or middlings. This grou includes machines for separating the flour, meal, middlings, sharps, etc., produced y milling. % This separation is effected by a series of operations carried out on the following types of machines which are often used in series : (1) Sifting machines (cCbolters ") for separating flour fiom groats and meal. Centrifugal sifters (or " reels ") consist of drums fitted internally with beater bars and covered externally with gauze of various mesh sizes. Oscillating sifters or plansifters consist of nests of freeswinging superimposed sieves and collecting trays. (2) Sieving machines or " purifiers ". These ade the middlings, etc., and also blow off the bran by means of vibrating sieves throug which a current of air is drawn. Y (3) Bran cleaners. (4) Blending machines for flour,bran, etc.; aIso machines for adding vitamins to flour. However, the heading does not cover : (a) Flour-drymg machines (heading 84.19). (b) Air filters and " cyclones " used to extract the dust &om the exhaust air issuing from sorting or bolting machines (heading 84.21). (c) "Extraction recorders " for recording the flour extraction rate, and other flour testing apparatus of Chapter 90. (111) MACHINERY USED FOR THE WORKING OF CEWALS OR DRIED LEGUMINOUS VEGETABLES The working referred to is generally preceded by preliminary cleaning, sorting or grading (see Part (I) above). This group includes : (1) Machines for husking cereals or dried leguminous vegetables. (2) Rice hulling or polishing machines. (3) Machines for splitting dried peas, lentils or beans. (4) Machines for preparing rolled or flaked oats, etc., whether or,not incorporating auxiliary heating devices. (5) Special millin and grinding machines for milling cereals (other than bread grains, see Part (I)($above) or dried leguminous vegetables into flour. (6) '' Beardin " machines and cc clipping " machines designed to remove the " beards " or " points " om barley or oat grains. C This part of the heading does not cover : (a) Machinery or plant operating by heat exchange (e.g., steamers drying apparatus or roastin plant for the manufacture of puffed or toasted grain; plant for malting barley, for roasting ifour, etc.) (heading 84.19). (b) Machines for processes beyond the flour-making stage (e.g., bakery, preserving or macaroni-making) (heading 84.38). PARTS Sub'ect to the general provisions regarding the classification of parts (see the General Exp anatory Note to Sectlon XVI), parts of the goods of this heading are also classified here, e.g., : Sieves and sieve frames for the bread g a i n milling indus (other than bolting cloth, whether or not made up - heading 59.11); mixing or separating cy inders, rollers for bread grain mills, or converters, etc. Millstones are, however, excluded (heading 68.04). -