IPC 6 English version
 
Class B07

SECTION B– PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING

B 07SEPARATING SOLIDS FROM SOLIDS; SORTING (separation in general B 01 D; wet separating processes, sorting by processes using fluent material in the same way as liquid B 03; using liquids B 03 B, B 03 D; sorting by magnetic or electrostatic separation of solid materials from solid materials or fluids, separation by high voltage electric fields B 03 C; centrifuges or vortex apparatus for carrying out physical processes B 04; sorting peculiar to particular materials or articles and provided for in other classes, see the relevant classes)

B 07 BSEPARATING SOLIDS FROM SOLIDS BY SIEVING, SCREENING, OR SIFTING OR BY USING GAS CURRENTS; OTHER SEPARATING BY DRY METHODS APPLICABLE TO BULK MATERIAL, e.g. LOOSE ARTICLES FIT TO BE HANDLED LIKE BULK MATERIAL (combinations of dry separating apparatus with wet separating apparatus B 03 B; hand sorting, postal sorting, sorting by switching or other devices actuated in response to detection or measurement of some feature of articles or samples of material B 07 C)

B 07 CPOSTAL SORTING; SORTING INDIVIDUAL ARTICLES, OR BULK MATERIAL FIT TO BE SORTED PIECE-MEAL, e.g. BY PICKING (specially adapted for a specific purpose covered by another class, see the relevant place, e.g. A 43 D 33/06, B 23 Q 7/12)