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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 21, 2012
Filed:
Aug. 23, 2010
Applicants:
W. Novis Smith, Philadelphia, PA (US);
Scott Swoffer, New Castle, DE (US);
Inventors:
W. Novis Smith, Philadelphia, PA (US);
Scott Swoffer, New Castle, DE (US);
Assignee:
Toxco, Inc., Anaheim, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
C22B 9/00 (2006.01); C01F 17/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
The present invention provides a process of recovering ABand/or ABas well as other metals from spent nickel metal hydride batteries from a slury by a series of separation steps utilizing the screening off of larger metal particles, removal of magnetizable small metal particles from a filter and then separating ABand/or ABby passing the filtrate through a froth flotation step to separate ABand/or ABfrom lighter small particles.