Patent ID: 6361749
Filing Date: 2002-03-26
Classification: B03C,C02F,G01N,Y10S,Y10T

Abstract:
A magnetic separator for separating magnetically responsive particles from a non-magnetic test medium in a test medium in a path through an elongated non-magnetic container having an interior surface, the separator comprising:magnetic means mounted exteriorly of said interior surface so as to generate a magnetic field strength within the container in which the magnetic field strength within the container is stronger in the test medium along the interior surface of the container than in the test medium more distant from the interior surface and is operative upon the magnetically responsive particles within the test medium to attract the magnetically responsive particles toward the interior surface of the container and cause such particles to be adhered to the interior surface, and deflection means within the path in said container to deflect the magnetically responsive particles in said path toward the interior surface, wherein said deflection means comprises: a sprayer placed in said path to deflect the magnetically responsive particles in said path toward the interior surface.