Abstract: An improved flotation separation apparatus for separating and classifying diverse, liquid-suspended solids having a plurality of high volume air bubble infusers. Each infuser includes a circular cavity defined by an interior circumferential wall. A plurality of stationary impinging plates projecting from the interior circumferential wall into the circular cavity and equally spaced circumferentially in series therealong. An injecting stream of water and air impinges upon the impinging plates in series to repeatedly create, divide and subdivide air bubbles as the injection stream transverses the series of impinging plates.

Abstract: Apparatus for utilizing the flotation separation process employs first and second chambers, the first chamber being positioned above the second chamber so that the tailings from the first chamber may be gravity fed into the second chamber. Both chambers include a plurality of spaced, air bubble infusers, each of which are fed by air and water pipes extending across the corresponding chamber. A plug and throat arrangement in a bulkhead between the first and second chambers allows control over the flow of tailings from the first chamber into the second chamber. Each infuser is designed so as to provide an even spread of the air bubbles emitted therefrom.