FSG 36 | Special Industry Machinery

Includes industrial food products equipment. Excludes kitchen and galley equipment.

Includes offset presses; typesetting machinery; bookbinding machinery; photoengraving machinery; printing type; rules; leads; slugs; line gages; quoins; plate hooks; gelatine process machines; spirit process machines; stencil process machines; offset process machines; photostat machines; blueprint printing and developing machines; print shop furniture. Excludes microfilm machines.

Note-marking machines which make permanent indentations in metal are classified in group 34. Excludes marking machines, laundry; printing machine, label; printing press, label; embossing machines, office type; and marking machines, office type.

Includes chippers; digestors; beaters; bleaching equipment; paperboard manufacturing machinery. Excludes paperboard box, case and tray making machines.

Includes plasticators; presses; synthetic rubber working machinery; thread extruding machinery; vulcanizing machinery. Excludes protective covering laminating presses; tire maintenance and repair equipment.

Includes cotton ginning machinery; looms; button covering machines; rope laying machines; lace machines.

Includes brickmaking machinery.

Includes optical goods manufacturing machinery. Excludes ophthalmic lens cutting, drilling, edging, and grinding machines; specialized semiconductor, microcircuit, and printed circuit board manufacturing machinery.

Includes crushers and mills for chemical materials; pharmaceutical briquetting and tabletting presses; chemical explosive manufacturing machinery. Excludes construction materials crushers, mills and pulverizers; plastic products manufacturing machinery; pharmaceutical products wrapping and packaging machinery; laboratory and shop type mills and mixers.

Note-included in this class are gaseous dispensing systems, both mobile and installed. includes liquefied gaseous storage tanks, mounted on a common base with, or integral to, gas generating equipment included in this class. also includes those liquefied gaseous storage tanks, either trailer mounted or skid mounted, used to store liquefied gaseous products until needed. excluded from this class are those storage tanks designed to be used as an integral part of guided missile propellant servicing trailers, rocket power plants or test stations, and aircraft oxygen converters which are classified as specified by the indexes and structure of the fsc. Excludes meteorological equipment.

Note-this class includes general use machinery related to two or more manufacturing industries. Excludes chemical products and construction and mining type crushing, pulverizing, screening and mixing machinery; maintenance and repair shop type mixers.

Note-this class includes, and is restricted to, equipment specifically designed for manufacturing semiconductor devices (fsc 5961), microcircuits (fsc 5962), and printed circuit boards (fsc 5998). excludes items for which more suitable classes are specifically prescribed by the indexes and structure of the fsc. Includes substrate preparation equipment; circuit pattern forming equipment; interconnecting and packaging equipment. Excludes assembly machines for mounting discrete components on printed wiring boards.

Includes molding machines; tumbling mills, foundry dextrine; core paste. Excludes crucible furnaces; cupola furnaces; foundry hand tools.

Note-this class includes only those machines specifically designed for manufacturing metal containers. closing machines designed to seam the tops of filled containers will be classified in class 3540. Includes drum and jerrican manufacturing machinery; specially designed container leak testing machines; can making machinery.

Includes ammunition and explosive loading (filling and assembling) specialized machinery; small arms ammunition manufacturing machinery; artillery and anti-aircraft shell manufacturing machinery. Excludes ammunition and weapons maintenance and repair shop specialized equipment; nonspecialized or standard machinery not designed exclusively for manufacturing or assembling ammunition and ordnance equipment.

Note-this class includes equipment specifically designed to assemble prefabricated components without further design machining of the components. equipment designed to perform combined machining and assembling operations which result in material removal are classified in classes other than this class. also excluded are items for which more specific classifications are suitable. Includes industrial production type power screwdriving machines; circuit card assembly machines. Excludes specialized ammunition and ordnance assembly machines; wrapping and packaging machinery; metalworking machinery; hand tools.

Includes laminar and nonlaminar flow enclosures; dust controlled facilities; air showers.

Includes communication wire dispenser fabricating machinery; specialized logging equipment; petroleum refinery machinery; shoemaking machinery; production type impregnating equipment. Excludes opthalmic lens cutting and grinding machinery; clothing impregnating equipment.