|  | 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 Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...B01D 59/00; crushing or disintegrating Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...B02C; centrifuges or vortex apparatus for carrying out physical processes Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...B04)

|  | B03B |
SEPARATING SOLID MATERIALS USING LIQUIDS OR USING PNEUMATIC TABLES OR JIGS (removing fluids from solids Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...B01D; magnetic or electrostatic separation Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...B03C; flotation, differential sedimentation Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...B03D; separating by dry methods Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...B07; screening or sifting Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...B07B; by picking Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...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 Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...C22B)

|  | B03B 1/02 |
· | Preparatory heating

|  | B03B 1/04 |
· | by additives

|  | B03B 1/06 |
· | by varying ambient atmospheric pressure

|  | B03B 3/00 |
( transferred to Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...B03B 4/00, Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...B03B 5/00 )

|  | B03B 4/00 |
Separating by pneumatic tables or by pneumatic jigs (sink-float separation using dry heavy media Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...B03B 5/46) [2]

|  | B03B 5/00 |
Washing granular, powdered or lumpy materials; Wet separating (separating by pneumatic tables or by pneumatic jigs Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...B03B 4/00) [2]

|  | B03B 5/02 |
· | using shaken, pulsated or stirred beds as the principal means of separation (Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...B03B 5/28, Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...B03B 5/48 take precedence) [2]

|  | B03B 5/04 |
· · | on shaking tables (on vanners Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...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 Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...B04B; cyclones Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...B04C) [2]

|  | B03B 5/34 |
· · · · | Applications of hydrocyclones [2]

|  | B03B 5/36 |
· · · | Devices therefor, other than using centrifugal force (jigs Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...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 Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...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 Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...B03B 5/02, hydraulic classifiers Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...B03B 5/62, water impulse classifiers Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...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 Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...B03B 5/04, jigs Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...B03B 5/10, hydraulic classifiers Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...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 Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...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 Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...G01; control devices in general Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...G05)

|  | B03B 13/02 |
· | using optical effects (optical devices per se Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...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 Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...G21G, Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...G21H)