B
SECTION B — PERFORMING OPERATIONS
  
SEPARATING AND MIXING
 B05
SPRAYING OR ATOMISING IN GENERAL; APPLYING LIQUIDS OR OTHER FLUENT MATERIALS TO SURFACES, IN GENERAL (apparatus or processes, restricted to a purpose fully provided for in a single other class, see the relevant class covering the purpose; domestic cleaning A47L; cleaning in general by methods essentially involving the use or presence of liquid B08B 3/00; sandblasting B24C; for secondary classification of forming layered products, see B32B; printing, copying B41; conveying articles or workpieces through baths of liquid B65G, e.g. B65G 49/02; handling webs or filaments in general B65H; paints, varnishes, lacquers C09D; enamelling of metals, applying a vitreous layer to metals, chemical cleaning or de-greasing of metallic objects C23; electroplating C25D; treating of textile materials by liquids, gases or vapours D06B; laundering D06F; treating roads E01C; processing photographic materials G03D)
 B05

Note(s)

In this class, the following terms are used with the meanings indicated:

  1. "Other fluent materials" is to be interpreted as including semiliquids, pastes, melts, solutions, dispersions, suspensions, particulate materials, gases or vapours.
  2. "Particulate materials" is to be intepreted as including powders, granules, short fibres or chips.
  3. "Coating" means the materials applied. The coating may be a liquid having become solid after drying, e.g. paint.

 B05B
SPRAYING APPARATUS; ATOMISING APPARATUS; NOZZLES (spray-mixers with nozzles B01F 5/20; processes for applying liquids or other fluent materials to surfaces by spraying B05D; means for pumping fluids F04; valves, e.g. water-taps F16K)
 B05B

Note(s)

  1. Attention is drawn to the note following the title of class B05.
  2. This sub-class is particularly concerned with apparatus for the release or projection of drops or droplets into the atmosphere or into a chamber to form a mist or the like. For this purpose, the materials to be projected may be suspended in a stream of gas or vapour.

 B05C
APPARATUS FOR APPLYING LIQUIDS OR OTHER FLUENT MATERIALS TO SURFACES, IN GENERAL (spraying apparatus, atomising apparatus, nozzles B05B; plant for applying liquids or other fluent materials to objects by electrostatic spraying B05B 5/08; processes for applying liquids or other fluent materials to surfaces B05D)
 B05C

Note(s)

  1. Attention is drawn to the note following the title of class B05.
  2. This sub-class deals with apparatus or hand tools, in general, for applying liquids or other fluent materials to a surface or a part thereof, by any mechanical or physical method and is particularly concerned with apparatus for obtaining a uniform distribution of liquids or other fluent materials on a surface.

 B05D
PROCESSES FOR APPLYING LIQUIDS OR OTHER FLUENT MATERIALS TO SURFACES, IN GENERAL (apparatus for applying liquids or other fluent materials to surfaces B05B, B05C)
 B05D

Note(s)

  1. Attention is drawn to the note following the title of class B05.
  2. This sub-class deals with processes for applying liquids or other fluent materials to a surface or part of a surface, in general, by any mechanical or physical method and is particularly concerned with processes producing a uniform distribution of liquids or other fluent materials on a surface. It also deals with pretreatment of surfaces to which liquids or other fluent materials are to be applied or with after-treatment of applied coatings.