CENTRIFUGES

**Definition:** This place covers:

Centrifuges that are intended for separating, drying, extracting, purifying or other ways of treating mixtures composed of matter in the following physical states:

Such centrifuges may comprise centrifuges with rotary bowls provided with solid jackets for separating predominantly liquid mixtures with or without solid particles; centrifuges with rotary bowls in which solid particles or bodies become separated by centrifugal force and simultaneously sifted or filtered; or other centrifuges including radial chamber apparatus such as butyrometers or counter-current apparatus.

Elements or accessories of centrifuges such as casings, lids, rotary bowls, drives, gearing, suspending or balancing of rotary bowls, feeding, charging or discharging of bowls, control arrangements, heating, cooling or suppressing the formation of foam.

**Limiting references (this place does not cover):** - High-speed drum mills -> B02C19/11 - Cyclone separators -> B04C - Centrifugal casting machines -> B22D - Domestic spin dryers -> D06F