Abstract: A mixing apparatus has a housing containing a pair of apertured stators permitting flow therethrough respectively in different directions, and a bladed rotor having first and second rotor blades each cooperating with a respective stator. Rotation of the rotor blades forces material to be mixed through the stators and, because of the arrangement of the rotor blades relative to the stator apertures, produces a shearing action on the material in two different non-parallel planes.

Abstract: The apparatus serves for the continuous mixing and suspending of material to be extracted, particularly seed material, such as soy material, with solvent or extractant, particularly hexane and other suitable hydrocarbons, provision being made for preventing the influence of atmospheric oxygen on the extraction material as well as the formation of solvent vapors throughout the entire plant.

Abstract: Methods and apparatus for continuously mixing fluid processing media with pulp suspensions are disclosed. The method includes supplying pulp suspensions to the central portion of the substantially planar radial face of a cylindrical rotor, feeding a fluid processing medium to the pulp suspension as it approaches the rotor face, forming an annular gap at the axial outer surface of the rotor, so that the rapid rotation of the rotor causes the pulp suspension and fluid processing medium to flow radially outward along the planar face and to pass axially through the annular gap, and effecting turbulence between the pulp suspension and the fluid processing medium at the entrance to that gap.

Abstract: Apparatus for mixing viscous, curable liquid materials in which the compots to be mixed are fed at high pressure (up to 5000 psi) into the central longitudinal chamber of a mixing head. The inlet ducts are on opposing sides of the chamber and displaced longitudinally so that there is no mixing of the components in the upstream end of the chamber where the drive shaft enters the mixing head. The two components are forced from the chamber through rotating apertures into a rotating inner tube (rotating at up to 500 RPM). The end of the rotating inner tube is closed so that the high pressure forces the material through a multiplicity of apertures in the wall of the tube. The rotating tube is enclosed in a concentric stationary tube having a multiplicity of apertures in its walls. The material is forced through the second group of apertures into an annular outer chamber which leads to the output of the mixer.

Abstract: An apparatus for continuously preparing starch milk is disclosed. The apparatus comprises a dosing means for supplying starch to a homogenizing tank. The homogenizing tank has an upper in-flow hopper provided with a flushing means, an agitating means, and a lower section. The dosing means has an outlet that opens into the upper in-flow hopper. A fall pipe is disposed between the outlet of the upper in-flow hopper and the lower section. The apparatus requires less energy than prior art apparatus and is not prone to operational disruptions as a result of variations in the starch milk concentration.

Abstract: A mixer-cooler device for the extrusion of thermoplastic foams comprising: a pair of radially foraminous tubular cylindrical blocks, clamped in axial alignment against opposite faces of a barrier disk by means of a headplate for connection with an extruder barrel and a headplate for connection with an extrusion head, the disk having an axial circular aperture; an advancement screw sealingly rotatable within the blocks, connectable with a screw of the extruder to constitute an extension of this latter screw, the advancement screw having an intermediate barrier section sealingly rotatable in the aperture of the disk; a tubular casing sealingly connecting the two headplates to form a tubular collector channel embracing from the outside the foraminous zones of the two blocks; and a system of passages in the headplates, blocks and disk for the circulation of a coolant liquid for the two blocks.

Abstract: The instant invention is directed to a method of producing a reaction mixture for forming solid or cellular materials from flowable reactants and, optionally, fillers, comprising premixing the components and, optionally, fillers in a first mixing zone and after-mixing in a second mixing zone, the improvement wherein said after-mixing is carried out in a slit-like annular zone which extends radially from the center, the surface boundaries of said annular zone are not parallel and one of said surface boundaries is rotated while the opposite facing surface boundary remains stationary.

Abstract: Method and apparatus for continuous preparation of an acrylonitrilebutadienestyrene copolymer comprises on-stream mounted: a prepolymerization reactor, a polymerization reactor, a reactor for the final polymerization and an apparatus for the removal of the non-polymerized monomers from the reaction mass. The polymerization reactor contains a stirring means which has a tube fixedly mounted coaxially with a shell and a mixing member disposed inside the tube. The stirring member is embodied in the form of a closed cylinder. At least one slot is provided in the tube wall. This slot is extending over the entire length of the tube. In the reactor there is also a partition positioned between the reactor shell wall and the stirring member. The partition is passing through the middle of the slot and intended for division of the reactor shell cavity into a suction zone and a pumping zone.

Abstract: Method and apparatus for processing solid and viscous plastic material or polymeric material and the like in which plastic or polymeric material is fed through an inlet into an enclosed passage of which opposed side walls are moving simultaneously toward an outlet and the material is processed and dragged forward by the moving side wall against a channel block and with progressive build up of pressure along said passage for discharging the processed material through the outlet from the enclosed passage. Rotary apparatus for practicing the method includes one or more annular channels having opposed side walls and carried by a drive rotor member for movement relative to a housing of which an annular surface coaxial with the rotor cooperates with the walls of the channel or channels to form an enclosed annular passage or enclosed annular passages.

Abstract: A process and apparatus are disclosed for mechanically mixing two immiscible liquids and one or more other substances by creating in the upper portion of the apparatus a continuous dual-layer liquid film composed of upper and lower layers of immiscible liquids such as oil and water, into which film one or more substances in the gas, liquid, powder, or a combined phase are dispersed and the resulting dispersed mixture is further mixed and emulsified in the lower portion of the apparatus under the action of shearing forces. A portion of the oil to be mixed may be fed directly into the lower portion of the apparatus for mixing with the pre-emulsified mixture.

Abstract: An apparatus for creating acoustic oscillations in a running liquid medium comprising a stator in the form of a hollow cylinder and a rotor mounted coaxially therewith and comprising a cylinder with closed ends. One of the ends of the rotor has an opening for admitting the liquid medium into the internal space of the rotor which is closed. Rows of apertures are made in the peripheral surface of the rotor and stator, the width of the apertures in the cross-section being selected on the basis of the relationship ##EQU1## wherein .omega. IS THE ANGULAR SPEED OF THE ROTOR,R is the external radius of the rotor,C is the speed of propagation of sound in the liquid medium.

Abstract: An apparatus for the mixing of materials such as synthetic polymers and their additives. The apparatus comprises a casing which surrounds a cylindrical rotor. A series of groove rings and spacer rings are axially arranged on the rotor and in the casing. The grooves formed on the peripheral surface of the groove rings are circumferentially separated by shearing lands and are bound along their longitudinal side faces by the side faces of the alternately arranged spacer rings. In assembly, the grooves formed in the rotor groove rings are arranged in a partially overlapping, axially displaced relationship with respect to the radially opposed grooves formed on casing groove rings.

Abstract: A sanitary pipeline mixer with a rotor and a stator disposed along a common axis within a turbine housing having an internal mixing chamber that communicates with an inlet port and a discharge duct. An inlet duct is removably connected to the turbine housing at the inlet port by means of a swing clamp for quick disassembly. The rotor is threaded to a shaft which extends through the mixing chamber, through a seal housing and is journaled in a bearing housing, the shaft being coupled to a motor shaft. A double flushed mechanical seal is provided about the rotor shaft at the interface of the turbine and seal housings. The turbine housing is removably mounted to the seal housing by means of a swing clamp for quick disassembly, the mechanical seal being exposed when the housings are disassembled.