.~.~> With auxiliary work treating or in critical fluent medium
DEFINITION
Classification: 451/32
Tumbling:
(under subclass 28) Method wherein abrading of one or more workpieces is accomplished during a series of free fall movements, or propulsions, resulting from forces imparted thereon by a work receptacle in motion (generally rotational), and wherein the abrading contact may be: (a) that of mutual attrition between similarly freely moving work bodies; and/or (b) that between a work body and the receptacle wall structure; and/or (c) that exercised by an encompassing fluent particulate mass.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
36, for a process utilizing a fluent abradant.
326+, for corresponding apparatus.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS
99, Foods and Beverages: Apparatus,
485+, for means to treat food by agitating, tumbling, or vibrating.
241, Solid Material Comminution or Disintegration, 5, 22, and 26 for a related process including mutual attrition and having the function of comminuting.
