Apparatus for separating slag from a molten metal

An apparatus suitable for separating a molten metal from a non- or weakly-magnetizable material floating on said molten metal supported by a container suitable for melting or refining solid metals and producing a molten metal and delivering said molten metal by tilting comprising:

• a receiver having sides, a bottom, and an open upper end and adapted to receive a mixture of said molten metal and non- or weakly-magnetizable material, having an overflow weir at a level below the open upper end on at least one side and adapted to maintain said overflow weir in a substantially horizontal position as said container is tilted;
• and
• a trough having a lower end at the lowest point in the receiver and ascending to a discharge point above the level of the overflow weir and having an inductor positioned beneath said trough to inductively pump molten metal up a flow path in said trough and out said discharge point,
• whereby molten metal may be pumped from the receiver and up the trough and said non- or weakly-magnetizable material may overflow the overflow weir.