IPC 6 English version B03B-B03B 13/06

B03-B03B01306

SECTION B– PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING

B 03

SEPARATION OF SOLID MATERIALS USING LIQUIDS OR USING PNEUMATIC TABLES OR JIGS; MAGNETIC OR ELECTROSTATIC SEPARATION OF SOLID MATERIALS FROM SOLID MATERIALS OR FLUIDS; SEPARATION BY HIGH-VOLTAGE ELECTRIC FIELDS (separating isotopes B 01 D 59/00; crushing or disintegrating B 02 C; centrifuges or vortex apparatus for carrying out physical processes B 04) [5]

B 03 B

SEPARATING SOLID MATERIALS USING LIQUIDS OR USING PNEUMATIC TABLES OR JIGS (removing fluids from solids B 01 D; magnetic or electrostatic separation of solid materials from solid materials or fluids, separation by high voltage electric fields B 03 C; flotation, differential sedimentation B 03 D; separating by dry methods B 07; screening or sifting B 07 B; by picking B 07 C; separating peculiar to particular materials and provided for in other single classes, see the relevant classes)

Conditioning for facilitating separation by altering physical properties of the matter to be treated (pretreatment of ores in general C 22 B)

Preparatory heating

by additives

by varying ambient atmospheric pressure

Separating by pneumatic tables or by pneumatic jigs (sink-float separation using dry heavy media B 03 B 5/46) [2]

using swinging or shaking tables [6]

using rotary tables or tables formed by travelling belts (separating solids from solids using gas currents and revolving drums B 07 B 4/06) [6]

using fixed and inclined tables [6]

Washing granular, powdered or lumpy materials; Wet separating (separating by pneumatic tables or by pneumatic jigs B 03 B 4/00) [2]

using shaken, pulsated or stirred beds as the principal means of separation (B 03 B 5/28, B 03 B 5/48 take precedence) [2]

on shaking tables (on vanners B 03 B 5/08) [2]

Constructional details of shaking tables, e.g. riffling [2]

on vanners [2]

on jigs [2]

using pulses generated mechanically in fluid [2]

Plunger jigs [2]

Diaphragm jigs [2]

Moving-sieve jigs [2]

using pulses generated by air injection [2]

using pulses generated by liquid injection [2]

Constructional details of jigs, e.g. pulse control devices [2]

in sluices [2]

by sink-float separation [2]

using heavy liquids or suspensions [2]

using centrifugal force (centrifuges B 04 B; cyclones B 04 C) [2]

Applications of hydrocyclones [2]

Devices therefor, other than using centrifugal force (jigs B 03 B 5/10) [2]

of conical receptacle type [2]

of trough type [2]

of drum or lifting wheel type [2]

Application of particular media therefor [2]

using dry heavy media; Devices therefor [2]

by mechanical classifiers (sink-float separation aspects B 03 B 5/28) [2]

Rake classifiers [2]

Spiral classifiers [2]

Drag classifiers [2]

Drum classifiers [2]

Bowl classifiers [2]

by non-mechanical classifiers, e.g. slime tanks (using shaken, pulsated or stirred beds as the principal means of separation B 03 B 5/02; hydraulic classifiers B 03 B 5/62; water impulse classifiers B 03 B 5/68) [2]

by hydraulic classifiers, e.g. of launder, tank, spiral or helical chute concentrator type [2]

of the free settling type [2]

of the hindered settling type [2]

by water impulse (shaking tables B 03 B 5/04; jigs B 03 B 5/10; hydraulic classifiers B 03 B 5/62) [2]

on tables or strakes [2]

which are movable [2]

Revolving tables [2]

Combinations of wet processes or apparatus with other processes or apparatus, e.g. for dressing ores or garbage

General arrangement of separating plant, e.g. flow sheets

specially adapted for oil-sand, oil-chalk, oil-shales, ozokerite, bitumen, or the like

specially adapted for furnace residues, smeltings, or foundry slags

specially adapted for refuse

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Feed or discharge devices integral with washing or wet-separating equipment (filling or emptying devices per se B 65 G 65/30)

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Control arrangements specially adapted for wet- separating apparatus or for dressing plant, using physical effects (detecting, measuring, or analysing devices G 01; control devices in general G 05)

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using optical effects

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using electrical or electromagnetic effects

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using absorption or reflection of radioactive emanation