|  | B |
SECTION B — PERFORMING OPERATIONS

SEPARATING AND MIXING

|  | B07 |
SEPARATING SOLIDS FROM SOLIDS; SORTING (separation in general Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...B01D; wet separating processes, sorting by processes using fluent material in the same way as liquid Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...B03; using liquids Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...B03B, Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...B03D; sorting by magnetic or electrostatic separation Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...B03C; centrifuges or vortex apparatus for carrying out physical processes Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...B04; sorting peculiar to particular materials or articles and provided for in other classes, see the relevant classes)

|  | B07C |
POSTAL 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 class, e.g. Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...A43D 33/06, Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...B23Q 7/12)

|  | B07C |
Note(s) This sub-class covers sorting of materials or articles by hand or by devices actuated, manually or automatically, as a result of inspection or of detection or measurement of some feature of the material or articles.

|  | B07C 1/00 - B07C 3/00 |
Postal sorting; Similar sorting of documents, e.g. cheques (tube mail systems Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...B65G 51/04; sorting information records, e.g. punched cards, Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...G06F 7/10)

|  | B07C 1/00 |
Measures preceding sorting according to destination

|  | B07C 1/02 |
· | Forming articles into a stream; Arranging articles in a stream, e.g. spacing, orientating

|  | B07C 1/04 |
· · | Forming a stream from a bulk; Regulating the stream, e.g. spacing the articles

|  | B07C 1/06 |
· · | Orientating; Aligning

|  | B07C 1/10 |
· | Sorting according to size or flexibility

|  | B07C 1/12 |
· · | Separating letters from parcels

|  | B07C 1/14 |
· · | Sorting according to length or width

|  | B07C 1/16 |
· · | Sorting according to thickness or stiffness

|  | B07C 1/18 |
· | Orientating articles other than in a stream

|  | B07C 1/20 |
· | Sorting according to orientation, e.g. according to position of stamp

|  | B07C 3/00 |
Sorting according to destination

|  | B07C 3/02 |
· | Apparatus characterised by the means used for distribution

|  | B07C 3/04 |
· · | Drum-type sorting machines

|  | B07C 3/06 |
· · | Linear sorting machines in which articles are removed from a stream at selected points

|  | B07C 3/08 |
· · | using arrangements of conveyers

|  | B07C 3/10 |
· | Apparatus characterised by the means used for detection of the destination (methods or arrangements for reading and recognising printed or written characters or geometric figures Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...G06K 9/00)

|  | B07C 3/12 |
· · | using electric or electronic detecting means (Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...B07C 3/14 takes precedence)

|  | B07C 3/14 |
· · | using light-responsive detecting means

|  | B07C 3/16 |
· · | using magnetic detecting means

|  | B07C 3/18 |
· | Devices or arrangements for indicating destination, e.g. by code marks

|  | B07C 3/20 |
· | Arrangements for facilitating the visual reading of addresses, e.g. display arrangements

|  | B07C 5/00 |
Sorting by switching or other devices actuated manually; Sorting controlled indirectly by devices which detect or measure some feature of the articles or material being sorted

|  | B07C 5/02 |
· | Measures preceding sorting, e.g. arranging articles in a stream, orientating

|  | B07C 5/04 |
· | Sorting according to size

|  | B07C 5/06 |
· · | measured mechanically

|  | B07C 5/07 |
· · · | by calipering using relatively moving article-engaging means, e.g. clamps [2]

|  | B07C 5/08 |
· · | measured electrically or electronically (Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...B07C 5/10 takes precedence)

|  | B07C 5/10 |
· · | measured by light-responsive means

|  | B07C 5/12 |
· · | characterised by the application to particular articles, not otherwise provided for (sorting eggs Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...A01K 43/00)

|  | B07C 5/14 |
· · · | Sorting timber or logs

|  | B07C 5/16 |
· | Sorting according to weight (sorting eggs Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...A01K 43/00; weighing apparatus per se Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...G01G)

|  | B07C 5/18 |
· · | using a single stationary weighing mechanism

|  | B07C 5/20 |
· · · | for separating articles of less than a predetermined weight from those of more than that weight

|  | B07C 5/22 |
· · | using a plurality of stationary weighing mechanisms

|  | B07C 5/24 |
· · | using moving weighing mechanisms, e.g. moving along a circular path

|  | B07C 5/26 |
· · · | wherein the counterbalancing effect of the weighing mechanisms is varied during such movement

|  | B07C 5/28 |
· · | using electrical control means

|  | B07C 5/30 |
· · | with associated counting means

|  | B07C 5/32 |
· · | with associated check-weighing means

|  | B07C 5/34 |
· | Sorting according to other particular properties

|  | B07C 5/342 |
· · | according to optical properties, e.g. colour

|  | B07C 5/344 |
· · | according to electric or electromagnetic properties

|  | B07C 5/346 |
· · | according to radioactive properties

|  | B07C 5/36 |
· | Sorting apparatus characterised by the means used for distribution

|  | B07C 5/38 |
· · | Collecting or arranging articles in groups

|  | B07C 7/00 |
Sorting by hand only

|  | B07C 7/02 |
· | Compartmented furniture, e.g. pigeon-holes (storage racks Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...B65G)

|  | B07C 7/04 |
· | Apparatus or accessories for hand picking

|  | B07C 9/00 |
Sorting, with or without orientating, not otherwise provided for