B
SECTION B — PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
  
SEPARATING; MIXING
 B01 - 
B09

Note(s)

The following notes are meant to assist in the use of this part of the classification scheme; they must not be read as modifying in any way the elaborations.

  1. In this sub-section, the separation of different materials, e.g. of different matter, size, or state, is predominantly found in the following subclasses:

    B01D

    B03B, B03C, B03D

    B04B, B04C

    B07B, B07C.

  2. The classifying characteristics of these subclasses are:
    1. the physical state of the matter to be separated;
    2. the principle of the process used;
    3. particular kinds of apparatus.
    The first of these characteristics involves six different aspects, assembled in three groups:
    1. liquid/liquid or liquid/gas and gas/gas;
    2. solid/liquid or solid/gas;
    3. solid/solid.
  3. These subclasses are to be used according to the following general rules:
    It should also be noted that the separation of isotopes of the same chemical element is covered by B01D 59/00, whatever process or apparatus is employed.
  4. The following scheme illustrates the classification according to these rules.

        TABLE A

        LIQUID/LIQUID

        LIQUID/GAS

        GAS/GAS

                                            Subclasses dealing with

     Operations                                 Method    Apparatus

     General                                    B01D      B01D

       by centrifugal force, using centrifuges or

       free-vortex apparatus                    B01D      B04B,

                                                            B04C

       using magnetic or electrostatic effect   B03C      B03C 

        TABLE B

        SOLID/LIQUID

        SOLID/GAS

                                            Subclasses dealing with

     Operations                                 Method    Apparatus

     General                                    B01D      B01D 

       by centrifugal force                     B01D      B01D 

       using centrifuges or free-vortex

         apparatus                              B01D      B04B,

                                                            B04C

       using magnetic or electrostatic effect   B03C      B03C

        TABLE C

        SOLID/SOLID

     Dry methods

                                             Subclasses dealing with

     Operations                                 Method    Apparatus

     General

     material in bulk                           B07B      B07B 

     Individual sorting                         B07C      B07C 

       Screening, sifting, pneumatic sorting    B07B      B07B 

         using pneumatic tables or jigs         B03B      B03B 

       by magnetic or electrostatic effect      B03C      B03C 

       by centrifugal force                     B07B      B07B 

         using centrifuges or free-vortex

         apparatus                              B07B      B04B,

                                                            B04C

     Wet methods

                                             Subclasses dealing with

     Operations                                 Method    Apparatus

     General                                    B03B      B03B 

       flotation, differential sedimentation    B03D      B03D 

       screening                                B07B      B07B

     Combinations Dry methods - wet methods     B03B 

 B02
CRUSHING, PULVERISING, OR DISINTEGRATING; PREPARATORY TREATMENT OF GRAIN FOR MILLING
 B02B
PREPARING GRAIN FOR MILLING; REFINING GRANULAR FRUIT TO COMMERCIAL PRODUCTS BY WORKING THE SURFACE (making dough from cereals directly A21C; preservation or sterilisation of cereals A23B; cleaning fruit A23N; preparation of malt C12C)
 B02B 1/00
Preparing grain for milling or like processes (hulling, husking, decorticating, polishing, removing the awns, or degerming B02B 3/00)
 B02B 1/02
·  Dry treatment (sifting or sorting in general B07)
 B02B 1/04
·  Wet treatment, e.g. washing, wetting, softening
 B02B 1/06
·  ·  Devices with rotary parts
 B02B 1/08
·  Conditioning grain with respect to temperature or water content (air conditioning or ventilating of silos F24F; drying apparatus F26B; hygrometers G01N)
 B02B 3/00
Hulling; Husking; Decorticating (decorticating textile fibres D01B 1/14); Polishing; Removing the awns (in threshing machines A01F 12/42); Degerming
 B02B 3/02
·  by means of discs
 B02B 3/04
·  by means of rollers
 B02B 3/06
·  by means of screws or worms
 B02B 3/08
·  by means of beaters or blades
 B02B 3/10
·  by means of brushes
 B02B 3/12
·  by means of fluid
 B02B 3/14
·  Producing flour or meal directly
 B02B 5/00
Grain treatment not otherwise provided for
 B02B 5/02
·  Combined processes
 B02B 7/00
Auxiliary devices
 B02B 7/02
·  Feeding or discharging devices