|  | 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. In this sub-section, the separation of different materials, e.g. of different matter, size, or state, is predominantly found in the following subclasses: Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...B01D Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...B03B, Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...B03C, Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...B03D Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...B04B, Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...B04C, Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...B07B, Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...B07C. The classifying characteristics of these subclasses are: the physical state of the matter to be separated; the principle of the process used; particular kinds of apparatus. The first of these characteristics involves six different aspects, assembled in three groups: liquid/liquid or liquid/gas and gas/gas; solid/liquid or solid/gas; solid/solid. These subclasses are to be used according to the following general rules: Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...B01D is the most general class as far as separation other than solids from solids is concerned. Apparatus for separating solids from solids are covered by Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...B03B when the process concerned is regarded as the equivalent of "washing" in the sense of the mining art, even if such apparatus is a pneumatic one, especially pneumatic tables or jigs. Screens per se are not covered by this subclass but are classified in Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...B07B, even if they are being used in a wet process. All other apparatus for the separation of solids from solids according to dry methods are classified in Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...B07B. If the separation takes place as a result of the detection or measurement of some feature of the material or articles to be sorted it is classified in Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...B07C. It should also be noted that the separation of isotopes of the same chemical element is covered by Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...B01D 59/00, whatever process or apparatus is employed. The following scheme illustrates the classification according to these rules.

|  | B03 |
SEPARATION OF SOLID MATERIALS USING LIQUIDS OR USING PNEUMATIC TABLES OR JIGS; MAGNETIC OR ELECTROSTATIC SEPARATION OF SOLID MATERIALS FROM SOLID MATERIALS OR FLUIDS; SEPARATION BY HIGH-VOLTAGE ELECTRIC FIELDS (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) [5]

|  | B03B |
SEPARATING SOLID MATERIALS USING LIQUIDS OR USING PNEUMATIC TABLES OR JIGS (removing fluids from solids Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...B01D; magnetic or electrostatic separation of solid materials from solid materials or fluids, separation by high voltage electric fields 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 |
Subclass index
PRETREATMENT | 1/00
WASHING, WET SEPARATING, SEPARATING BY PNEUMATIC JIGS; FEEDING AND DISCHARGING PRODUCTS TREATED THEREBY | 4/00, 5/00; 11/00
COMBINATIONS OF PROCESSES OR APPARATUS | 7/00
ARRANGEMENTS OF PLANT | 9/00
CONTROL BY PHYSICAL EFFECTS | 13/00

|  | 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 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 4/02 |
· | using swinging or shaking tables [6]

|  | B03B 4/04 |
· | using rotary tables or tables formed by travelling belts (separating solids from solids using gas currents and revolving drums Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...B07B 4/06) [6]

|  | B03B 4/06 |
· | using fixed and inclined tables [6]

|  | 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 launder, tank, spiral or helical chute concentrator 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, or the like

|  | B03B 9/04 |
· | specially adapted for furnace residues, smeltings, or foundry slags

|  | B03B 9/06 |
· | specially adapted for refuse

|  | B03B 11/00 |
Feed or 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

|  | B03B 13/04 |
· | using electrical or electromagnetic effects

|  | B03B 13/06 |
· | using absorption or reflection of radioactive emanation