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 C22B)
 B03B 1/02
·  Preparatory heating
 B03B 1/04
·  by additives
 B03B 1/06
·  by varying ambient atmospheric pressure
 B03B 3/00
( transferred to B03B 4/00, B03B 5/00 )
 B03B 4/00
Separating by pneumatic tables or by pneumatic jigs (sink-float separation using dry heavy media B03B 5/46)  [2]
 B03B 5/00
Washing granular, powdered or lumpy materials; Wet separating (separating by pneumatic tables or by pneumatic jigs B03B 4/00)  [2]
 B03B 5/02
·  using shaken, pulsated or stirred beds as the principal means of separation (B03B 5/28, B03B 5/48 take precedence)  [2]
 B03B 5/04
·  ·  on shaking tables (on vanners B03B 5/08)  [2]
 B03B 5/06
·  ·  ·  Constructional details of shaking tables, e.g. riffling  [2]
 B03B 5/08
·  ·  on vanners  [2]
 B03B 5/10
·  ·  on jigs  [2]
 B03B 5/12
·  ·  ·  using pulses generated mechanically in fluid  [2]
 B03B 5/14
·  ·  ·  ·  Plunger jigs  [2]
 B03B 5/16
·  ·  ·  ·  Diaphragm jigs  [2]
 B03B 5/18
·  ·  ·  ·  Moving-sieve jigs  [2]
 B03B 5/20
·  ·  ·  using pulses generated by air injection  [2]
 B03B 5/22
·  ·  ·  using pulses generated by liquid injection  [2]
 B03B 5/24
·  ·  ·  Constructional details of jigs, e.g. pulse control devices  [2]
 B03B 5/26
·  ·  in sluices  [2]
 B03B 5/28
·  by sink-float separation  [2]
 B03B 5/30
·  ·  using heavy liquids or suspensions  [2]
 B03B 5/32
·  ·  ·  using centrifugal force (centrifuges B04B; cyclones B04C)  [2]
 B03B 5/34
·  ·  ·  ·  Applications of hydrocyclones  [2]
 B03B 5/36
·  ·  ·  Devices therefor, other than using centrifugal force (jigs B03B 5/10)  [2]
 B03B 5/38
·  ·  ·  ·  of conical receptacle type  [2]
 B03B 5/40
·  ·  ·  ·  of trough type  [2]
 B03B 5/42
·  ·  ·  ·  of drum or lifting wheel type  [2]
 B03B 5/44
·  ·  ·  Application of particular media therefor  [2]
 B03B 5/46
·  ·  using dry heavy media; Devices therefor  [2]
 B03B 5/48
·  by mechanical classifiers (sink-float separation aspects B03B 5/28)  [2]
 B03B 5/50
·  ·  Rake classifiers  [2]
 B03B 5/52
·  ·  Spiral classifiers  [2]
 B03B 5/54
·  ·  Drag classifiers  [2]
 B03B 5/56
·  ·  Drum classifiers  [2]
 B03B 5/58
·  ·  Bowl classifiers  [2]
 B03B 5/60
·  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]
 B03B 5/62
·  by hydraulic classifiers, e.g. of the launder or tank type  [2]
 B03B 5/64
·  ·  of the free settling type  [2]
 B03B 5/66
·  ·  of the hindered settling type  [2]
 B03B 5/68
·  by water impulse (shaking tables B03B 5/04, jigs B03B 5/10, hydraulic classifiers B03B 5/62)  [2]
 B03B 5/70
·  ·  on tables or strakes  [2]
 B03B 5/72
·  ·  ·  which are movable  [2]
 B03B 5/74
·  ·  ·  ·  Revolving tables  [2]
 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)