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(11) EP 0 247 844 A3

(12) EUROPEAN PATENT APPLICATION

(88) Date of publication A3:
02.11.1988 Bulletin 1988/44

(43) Date of publication A2:
02.12.1987 Bulletin 1987/49

(21) Application number: 87304681

(22) Date of filing: 27.05.1987
(84) Designated Contracting States:
AT DE ES FR GB IT SE

(30) Priority: 27.05.1986 ZA 863945

(71) Applicant: Anglo American Corporation of South Africa Limited
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(72) Inventors:
  • Tumilty, James Anthony
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  • Kaye, Paul
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(54) An apparatus and a method for separating one solid component from another solid component in suspension in liquid


(57) Undersize and oversize particles are separated by means of a continuous screen cloth (12) that has a horizontal operative separating region. Material is fed onto the cloth from a feedbox at one end of the operative separating region. There are three rows of sprays (36, 40 and 42) located at spaced positions underneath the cloth in the operative separating region. These sprays dislodge oversize particles that block the apertures of the cloth and fluidise the material, allowing undersize particles to pass through the apertures.






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