B07B 13/003
Separation of articles by differences in their geometrical form or by difference
Official title: {Separation of articles by differences in their geometrical form or by difference in their physical properties, e.g. elasticity, compressibility, hardness}
B07B13/003 (Separation of articles by differences in their geometrical form or by difference) appears on 225 US grants and 178 published applications in this corpus.
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By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
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Most cited
By later US patents
- Method of treating solid waste, recovering the constituent materials for recycling and reuse, and producing useful products therefrom60US 5,649,785 A1997
- Apparatus and method for sorting articles59US 4,317,521 AResource Recovery Limited · 1982
- Solid waste sorting system45US 5,101,977 A1992
- Nonferrous material sorting apparatus37US 5,462,172 ASenko Kogyo Co., Ltd. · 1995
- Refuse sorting apparatus33US 4,760,925 AMaschinenfabrik Bezner GmbH & Co. KG · 1988