To provide a method for efficiently crushing and separating upholsteries largely generated by dismantling scrapped cars or the like and flooring materials or the like of buildings and increasing purities of separated materials.

The separating equipment which separates a mixture 5 of a crushed chip 3 and a floc dust 4 generated by crushing upholsteries of scrapped cars or the like with a crusher 1, wherein the equipment comprises a planar plate body 38 horizontally disposed and provided with an enclosed frame 32 erected at its circumference except for an outlet side E, a bottom of the outlet side E is provided with an aperture 35 and a net 36 which covers the aperture 35 and has a predetermined-sized mesh is disposed over the aperture 35, the equipment comprises a reciprocating plate 31 which sequentially sends forward the mixture 5 supplied by a reciprocation of the plate 31 to and from the outlet side E in a horizontal plane, a blower 53 which blows up an air to the aperture 35 from its lower side and a suction duct 59 where a vacuum suction inlet 58 spaced out at a predetermined distance above and located opposite to the net 36 is disposed.