| 209 / | HD | CLASSIFYING, SEPARATING, AND ASSORTING SOLIDS |
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| 509 | DF | SORTING SPECIAL ITEMS, AND CERTAIN METHODS AND APPARATUS (E.G., POCKET TYPE AND LIGHT RESPONSIVE SORTING, ETC.) FOR SORTING ANY ITEMS {11} |
| 606 |  | .~ Separating means {33} |
| 607 | DF | .~.~> Corn silk separator |
| 608 | DF | .~.~> Sorting items according to edge coding {4} |
| 613 | DF | .~.~> Sorting cards, file folders, or like items having coded sorting holes |
| 614 | DF | .~.~> Hand supported implements |
| 615 | DF | .~.~> Brush, flail, or rake used other than as one of opposed pair of gauge elements to separate, or to facilitate separation of, items {1} |
| 617 | DF | .~.~> Item gripped between opposed elements {1} |
| 619 | DF | .~.~> Gauge enters hole in item |
| 620 | DF | .~.~> Gauging passage between orbiting belts |
| 621 | DF | .~.~> Rotating or orbiting carrier having expandable gauging passage passing items of different size at different points along carrier travel path {1} |
| 625 | DF | .~.~> Gauge with clearer other than continuous feeder {3} |
| 629 | DF | .~.~> Diverse {5} |
| 636 | DF | .~.~> Magnet attracts or repels item |
| 637 | DF | .~.~> Items thrown or falling through space strike surface and only some rebound |
| 638 | DF | .~.~> Items separate by following different trajectories through space {4} |
| 643 | DF | .~.~> Suction |
| 644 | DF | .~.~> Fluid jet |
| 645 | DF | .~.~> Sorting items by weight {3} |
| 651 | DF | .~.~> Pusher moving item on separate surface {3} |
| 655 | DF | .~.~> Gravity-type conveyor (e.g., chute, etc.) movable between different discharge positions |
| 656 | DF | .~.~> Movement of items along different paths controlled by passive deflector {2} |
| 659 | DF | .~.~> Sorting items by size {3} |
| 688 | DF | .~.~> Means pierces, or enters preformed hole in, item |
| 689 | DF | .~.~> Items separate by traveling in different directions while contacting drumlike body (e.g., roller, hollow cylinder, etc.) turning about longitudinal axis thereof {1} |
| 691 | DF | .~.~> Items separate by traveling in different directions while contacting same inclined surface of moving support {2} |
| 695 | DF | .~.~> Items separate by traveling in different directions while contacting same horizontal surface of moving support |
| 696 | DF | .~.~> Items separate by traveling in different directions while contacting same inclined surface of static support {1} |
| 698 | DF | .~.~> Means movable between horizontal item-supporting position and gravity discharge position |
| 699 | DF | .~.~> Sorting items according to susceptibility to deform (e.g., malleability, hardness, compressibility, etc.), rupture, or vibrate |
| 700 | DF | .~.~> Sorting items according to roughness or adhesiveness |
| 701 | DF | .~.~> Item turned while traveling |
| 702 | DF | .~.~> Manual sorting {2} |
| 706 | DF | .~.~> Specific compartment of receptacle brought into alignment with feed means by operator |
| 707 | DF | .~.~> Items separated by tipping, rolling, or sliding off support under force of gravity |