IPC 7 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 B01D 59/00; crushing or disintegrating B02C; centrifuges or vortex apparatus for carrying out physical processes B04) [5]

B 03 B

SEPARATING SOLID MATERIALS USING LIQUIDS OR USING PNEUMATIC TABLES OR JIGS (removing fluids from solids B01D; magnetic or electrostatic separation of solid materials from solid materials or fluids, separation by high voltage electric fields B03C; flotation, differential sedimentation B03D; separating by dry methods B07; screening or sifting B07B; by picking B07C; separating peculiar to particular materials and provided for in other single classes, see the relevant classes)

Subclass Index

PRETREATMENT

B03B 1/00

WASHING, WET SEPARATING, SEPARATING BY PNEUMATIC JIGS; FEEDING AND DISCHARGING PRODUCTS TREATED THEREBY

B03B 4/00, B03B 5/00; B03B 11/00

COMBINATIONS OF PROCESSES OR APPARATUS

B03B 7/00

ARRANGEMENTS OF PLANT

B03B 9/00

CONTROL BY PHYSICAL EFFECTS

B03B 13/00

Conditioning for facilitating separation by altering physical properties of the matter to be treated (pretreatment of ores in general C22B)

Preparatory heating

by additives

by varying ambient atmospheric pressure

Separating by pneumatic tables or by pneumatic jigs (sink-float separation using dry heavy media B03B 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 B07B 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 B03B 4/00) [2]

using shaken, pulsated or stirred beds as the principal means of separation (B03B 5/28, B03B 5/48 take precedence) [2]

on shaking tables (on vanners B03B 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 B04B; cyclones B04C) [2]

Applications of hydrocyclones [2]

Devices therefor, other than using centrifugal force (jigs B03B 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 B03B 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 B03B 5/02; hydraulic classifiers B03B 5/62; water impulse classifiers B03B 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 B03B 5/04; jigs B03B 5/10; hydraulic classifiers B03B 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

11/

Feed or discharge devices integral with washing or wet-separating equipment (filling or emptying devices per se B65G 65/30)

13/

Control arrangements specially adapted for wet- separating apparatus or for dressing plant, using physical effects (detecting, measuring, or analysing devices G01)

13/

using optical effects

13/

using electrical or electromagnetic effects

13/

using absorption or reflection of radioactive emanation