B
SECTION B — PERFORMING OPERATIONS
  
SEPARATING AND MIXING
 B03
SEPARATION OF SOLID MATERIALS USING LIQUIDS OR USING PNEUMATIC TABLES OR JIGS; MAGNETIC OR ELECTROSTATIC SEPARATION (separating isotopes B01D 59/00; crushing or disintegrating B02C; centrifuges or vortex apparatus for carrying out physical processes B04)
 B03B
SEPARATING SOLID MATERIALS USING LIQUIDS OR USING PNEUMATIC TABLES OR JIGS (removing fluids from solids B01D; magnetic or electrostatic separation 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)
 B03B 1/00
Conditioning for facilitating separation by altering physical properties of the matter to be treated (pretreatment of ores in general C21B, C22B)
 B03B 1/02
·  Preparatory heating
 B03B 1/04
·  by additives
 B03B 1/06
·  by varying ambient atmospheric pressure
 B03B 3/00
Washing granular, powdered, or lumpy materials; Wet separating (screens B07B 1/00); Separating by pneumatic tables or jigs
 B03B 3/02
·  Free-settling classifiers
 B03B 3/04
·  on tables, e.g. pneumatic tables
 B03B 3/06
·  ·  which are movable
 B03B 3/08
·  ·  ·  Vanners
 B03B 3/10
·  ·  ·  Revolving tables
 B03B 3/12
·  ·  ·  Reciprocating tables
 B03B 3/14
·  ·  Constructional details of tables, e.g. riffling
 B03B 3/16
·  on jigs, e.g. pneumatic jigs
 B03B 3/18
·  ·  using pulses generated mechanically in fluid
 B03B 3/20
·  ·  ·  Plunger jigs
 B03B 3/22
·  ·  ·  Diaphragm jigs
 B03B 3/24
·  ·  ·  Moving sieve jigs
 B03B 3/26
·  ·  using pulses generated by fluid injection
 B03B 3/28
·  ·  Constructional details of jigs, e.g. pulse control devices
 B03B 3/30
·  by liquid-flow washing or scrubbing (on tables B03B 3/04)
 B03B 3/32
·  ·  Overflow or tilting tanks
 B03B 3/34
·  ·  Upward current classifiers
 B03B 3/36
·  ·  Constructional details of devices, e.g. settling tanks, sluice boxes
 B03B 3/38
·  by sink-float separating, e.g. using dry, dense media
 B03B 3/40
·  ·  using heavy liquids or suspensions
 B03B 3/44
·  ·  ·  and using centrifugal force (centrifuges B04B; cyclones B04C)
 B03B 3/45
·  ·  ·  ·  Applications of hydrocyclones
 B03B 3/46
·  ·  Devices therefor (jigs B03B 3/16; centrifugal apparatus B04)
 B03B 3/48
·  ·  ·  Chance cones
 B03B 3/50
·  ·  ·  Flat separating tanks or troughs
 B03B 3/52
·  ·  ·  Tomblers
 B03B 3/54
·  ·  Media therefor; Preparation and regeneration thereof not otherwise provided for
 B03B 7/00
Combinations of wet processes or apparatus with other processes or apparatus, e.g. for dressing ores or garbage
 B03B 9/00
General arrangement of separating plant, e.g. flow sheets
 B03B 9/02
·  specially adapted for oil-sand, oil-chalk, oil-shales, ozokerite, bitumen, etc.
 B03B 9/04
·  specially adapted for furnace residues, smeltings, or foundry slags
 B03B 9/06
·  specially adapted for refuse
 B03B 11/00
Feed and discharge devices integral with washing or wet-separating equipment (filling or emptying devices per se B65G 65/30)
 B03B 13/00
Control arrangements specially adapted for wet separating apparatus or for dressing plant, using physical effects (detecting, measuring, or analysing devices G01; control devices in general G05)
 B03B 13/02
·  using optical effects (optical devices per se G02)
 B03B 13/04
·  using electrical or electromagnetic effects
 B03B 13/06
·  using absorption or reflection of radioactive emanation (devices for dealing with radioactive emanation per se G21G, G21H)