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MAGNETIC CORE HANDLING AND TESTING APPARATUS INCLUDING A PAIR OF ELECTRICAL PROBES; MEANS FOR PLACING A MAGNETIC CORE BETWEEN SAID ELECTRICAL PROBES AND FOR CLOSING SAID PROBES TO HOLD SAID MAGNETIC CORE; MEANS FOR TESTING THE CHARACTERISTICS OF SAID MAGNETIC CORE HELD BETWEEN SAID PROBES AND FOR GENERATING A SIGNAL WHEN SAID CORE IS ACCEPTABLE; MEANS FOR OPENING SAID PROBES SUBSEQUENT TO SAID TESTING TO THEREBY PERMIT SAID CORE TO FALL IN A PREDETERMINED PATH; A SEPARATING MEANS INCLUDING A HOUSING HAVING AN ENTRANCE OPENING ALIGNED WITH SAID PATH; A DISC IN SAID HOUSING MOUNTED FOR ROTATIONAL MOVEMENT ABOUT ITS AXIS; FIRST SECOND ENDS, EXTENDPASSAGEWAYS, EACH HAVING FIRST AND SECOND ENDS, EXTENDING THROUGH SAID DISC PARALLEL TO THE PLANE THEREOF; MEANS NORMALLY ORIENTING SAID DISC FOR POSITIONING SAID FIRST PASSAGEWAY FIRST END IN ALIGNMENT WITH SAID ENTRANCE OPENING; SOLENOID MEANS RESPONSIVE TO SAID SIGNAL FOR ROTATING SAID DISC TO POSITION SAID SECOND PASSAGEWAY FIRST END IN ALIGNMENT WITH SAID ENTRANCE OPENSING; A DEFLECTION MEMBER HAVING FIRST AND SECOND INCLINED SURFACES; MEANS SUPPORTING SAID DEFLECTION MEMBER ADJACENT THE PERIPHERY OF SAID DISC SUBSTANTIALLY IN ALIGNMENT WITH SAID AXIS AND WITH SAID FIRST AND SECOND INCLINED SURFACES BEING RESPECTIVELY DISPOSED ADJACENT SAID SECOND ENDS OF SAID FIRST AND SECOND PASSAGEWAYS WHEN THE FIRST ENDS THEREOF ARE IN ALIGNMENT WITH SAID ENTRANCE OPENING; AND A DUST OPENING DEFINED IN SAID DEFLECTION MEMBER EXTENDING THERETHROUGH BETWEEN SAID FIRST AND SECOND INCLINED SURFACES.