Including Screw Conveyor Patents (Class 366/35)
  • Patent number: 11833714
    Abstract: A continuous mixer that is installed in the bed of a dump truck. The mixer has a hopper for cement, a pair of belts to move the other mixing materials, and a chute with an auger for mixing the cement and mixing materials with water and depositing the mixture where desired. The hopper stands upright in the bed when the bed is down and tilted at about 45° when the bed is up. An auger at the bottom of the hopper feeds cement to an opening at the bottom of the hopper, The belts sit below the hopper and are oriented with the belts parallel to the ground during operation, The belts feed mixing materials from the bed to a mixing chute below the belts. An auger combines the dry materials and water to form the concrete as they travel the length of the chute to the discharge end.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2023
    Inventor: Tirso Chavez
  • Patent number: 8882336
    Abstract: A hydro-blender for mixing base fluids and particulates for use in pumping can include a transport device. The hydro-blender can also include a liquid tank connected with the transport device. An inlet manifold can be located within the liquid tank for receiving fluid from one or more fluid sources. The inlet manifold can be in fluid communication with one or more fluid sources. The hydro-blender can also include a mixing tub in communication with one or more hoppers via one or more augurs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 11, 2014
    Assignee: McClinton Energy Group, LLC
    Inventor: Glen Michael Wolford
  • Patent number: 8246240
    Abstract: Improved single screw extruders systems (40) are provided including a single screw extruder (42, 92) as well as an upstream preconditioner (44). The extruders (42, 92) include a single, internal, elongated, helically flighted, axially rotatable screw assembly (52) having one or more improved screw sections (74, 74a, 76). The screw sections (74, 74a, 76) include specially configured flighting (86) wherein adjacent flighting portions (86a, 86b) have smoothly arcuate surfaces (88) extending between the respective flighting portion peripheries (90a, 90b). This flighting design provides smooth, substantially surge-free operation while increasing SME and cook values. The preferred preconditioner (44) has independently controlled mixing shafts (106, 108) allowing the shafts (106, 108) to be rotated at different rotational speeds and/or directions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 3, 2008
    Date of Patent: August 21, 2012
    Assignee: Wenger Manufacturing, Inc.
    Inventor: LaVon Wenger
  • Patent number: 7524386
    Abstract: A process employing a wet mixer having a vertical mixing chamber for forming a wet slurry of a cementitious powder and liquid. The vertical mixing chamber is designed to provide the required amount of mixing to provide thoroughly mixed, uniformly thin slurry within a mixing residence time that allows for adequate supply of slurry to ensure continuous operation of an associated cement panel production line. Gravity feed for supply of cementitious powder and water to the slurry mixing area of the chamber is also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2006
    Date of Patent: April 28, 2009
    Assignee: United States Gypsum Company
    Inventors: Lloyd M. George, Ashish Dubey, Eugene Scott Stivender
  • Patent number: 7513963
    Abstract: A wet mixer apparatus and method for its use, the mixer having a vertical mixing chamber for forming a wet slurry of a cementitious slurry and water. The vertical mixing chamber is designed to provide the required amount of mixing to provide thoroughly mixed, uniformly thin slurry within a mixing residence time that allows for adequate supply of slurry to ensure continuous operation of an associated cement panel production line. Gravity feeding for separate supply of cementitious powder and water to the slurry mixing area of the chamber without pre-mixing of the powder and water is also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2006
    Date of Patent: April 7, 2009
    Assignee: United States Gypsum Company
    Inventors: William A. Frank, Lloyd M. George, Eugene Scott Stivender
  • Publication number: 20080101151
    Abstract: A wet mixer apparatus and method for its use, the mixer having a vertical mixing chamber for forming a wet slurry of a cementitious slurry and water. The vertical mixing chamber is designed to provide the required amount of mixing to provide thoroughly mixed, uniformly thin slurry within a mixing residence time that allows for adequate supply of slurry to ensure continuous operation of an associated cement panel production line. Gravity feeding for separate supply of cementitious powder and water to the slurry mixing area of the chamber without pre-mixing of the powder and water is also disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 1, 2006
    Publication date: May 1, 2008
    Applicant: UNITED STATES GYPSUM COMPANY
    Inventors: William A. FRANK, Lloyd M. GEORGE, Eugene Scott STIVENDER
  • Patent number: 7320539
    Abstract: A concrete batch mixing system and method are disclosed that enable the batch master to measure and control both the water and cementitious ingredient feeds in relation to each other so as to be able to blend the two ingredients in a known, selected, adjustable and repeatable manner, and to agglomerate these ingredients in a counter-rotating twin screw mixing apparatus for use in the preparation of batches of mixed concrete in a concrete batching process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 5, 2004
    Date of Patent: January 22, 2008
    Assignee: McNeilus Truck and Manufacturing, Inc.
    Inventors: Ronald E. Christenson, Robert J. Horton
  • Publication number: 20040218462
    Abstract: Concrete is mixed and delivered on-site with slump continuously monitored on a real-time basis. A vehicle 10 having a compartment 11 holding blended aggregate and sand and a compartment 12 holding cement powder. An auger 13 carries the aggregate and sand to a mixer 14 coupled to the rear of the vehicle 10. As the aggregate and sand passes below the compartment 12 cement powder is dispensed by a paddle wheel dispenser 15 where the last stages of the auger 13 pre-coats the aggregate and sand with cement powder before delivering it into the mixer 14 where water is added. A slump indicator on a display shows departure of slump from a preset value so that customer may see that slump is being monitored and maintained on a dynamic basis. Merchant facilities are provided so that the concrete may be paid for in advance. The slump may be monitored on a tipping or non-tipping vehicle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 24, 2004
    Publication date: November 4, 2004
    Inventor: Anthony Leon Stephens
  • Patent number: 6645275
    Abstract: A bag house is mounted on a portable trailer and has a tube sheet with depending filter bags in part defining a first plenum for receiving a gas stream with fines and a second plenum for receiving clean gas from the filter bags. The fines are collected in one or more hoppers below the filter bags. A screw conveyor in each hopper has reverse flighting adjacent opposite ends for conveying separated fines longitudinally along and from adjacent opposite ends toward a central location intermediate the length of the housing. An elevation conveyor having an inlet located in the central location conveys the collected separated fines out of the housing to an external outlet for discharge into a surge operator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 17, 2001
    Date of Patent: November 11, 2003
    Assignee: Gencor Industries, Inc.
    Inventor: David F. Brashears
  • Patent number: 6607298
    Abstract: A concrete mixing plant, with an aggregate storage to which a central part is fixed forms a transportable concrete station. In the concrete mixing plant there is a conveyor that transfers the aggregate to the aggregate mixer component, the mixer component containing the mixing equipment with its batching and weighing devices. A connecting unit is attached to the lower part of the mixer component with a joint, and to the upper side of the central part with a second joint. The jointed frame is attached with the top joint to the upper part of the mixer component and with a bottom joint to the top at the back of the central part. As a result the mixer component can be lifted from the transporting position to the mixing position and lowered to the transporting position, retaining all the cabling connections.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 2002
    Date of Patent: August 19, 2003
    Assignee: Tecwill OY
    Inventor: Viljo Ryhänen
  • Publication number: 20020191482
    Abstract: This invention applies to a concrete mixing plant, with an aggregate storage (1) to which a central part (8) is fixed, forming a whole. In the concrete mixing plant there is a conveyor (2) that transfers the aggregate to the aggregate mixer component (6), the mixer Component (6) containing the mixing equipment with its batching and weighing devices. The characteristics of the invention are the following the connecting unit (70) is attached To the lower part of the mixer component (6) with a joint (7a), and to the upper side (8a) Of the central part (8) with a joint (7b). The jointed frame (4a) is attached with the top Joint (4b) to the upper part of the mixer component (6) and with the bottom joint (4c) to The top at the back of the central part (8). As a result the mixer component (6) can be Lifted from the transporting position to the mixing position and lowered to the Transporting position, retaining all the cabling; connections.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 1, 2002
    Publication date: December 19, 2002
    Inventor: Viljo Ryhanen
  • Publication number: 20020031044
    Abstract: This invention applies to a concrete mixing plant, with an aggregate storage (1) to which a central part (8) is fixed, forming a whole. In the concrete mixing plant there is a conveyor (2) that transfers the aggregate to the aggregate mixer component (6), the mixer Component (6) containing the mixing equipment with its batching and weighing devices. The characteristics of the invention are the following the connecting unit (70) is attached To the lower part of the mixer component (6) with a joint (7a), and to the upper side (8a) Of the central part (8) with a joint (7b). The jointed frame (4a) is attached with the top Joint (4b) to the upper part of the mixer component (6) and with the bottom joint (4c) to The top at the back of the central part (8). As a result the mixer component (6) can be Lifted from the transporting position to the mixing position and lowered to the Transporting position, retaining all the cabling connections.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 6, 2001
    Publication date: March 14, 2002
    Applicant: Tecwill Oy
    Inventor: Viljo Ryhanen
  • Publication number: 20020001255
    Abstract: A portable concrete plant for producing ready mix concrete proximate to a location where the ready mix concrete is used. The portable concrete plant includes storage regions for storing components used in the ready mix concrete. The portable concrete plant also includes a slurry mixer for preparing slurry that is used in the ready mix concrete. The portable concrete plant further includes conveying systems for conveying the components from the storage regions and from the slurry mixer to a system discharge port.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 5, 2001
    Publication date: January 3, 2002
    Inventors: Jeffrey D. Flood, Daniel J. Zwart
  • Patent number: 6123445
    Abstract: A mixer for dry powder, very fine or granular materials and a liquid, e.g., mortar or cement and water, includes a dynamic input mixing stage, a static output mixing stage and a transition tube connecting the two stages in a manner which isolates the two stages from one another. The input mixing stage includes a hopper for receiving the mortar and a horizontal metering screw having a detachable mixing auger. The auger mixes the dry mortar, while the metering screw moves the mixed mortar through a discharge aperture in the hopper and into the transition tube. The metering screw extends into the transition tube for further displacing the dry mortar into the output mixing stage which includes a mixing tube having a fixed internal baffle assembly and an auger disposed along its length. A source of water is connected to the mixing tube for forming a mortar-water slurry.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 1997
    Date of Patent: September 26, 2000
    Inventor: Frank Grassi
  • Patent number: 5967655
    Abstract: Apparatus for mixing cementing material and mineral aggregate includes a container having a first chamber and a second chamber each having a top and a bottom. Cementing material is in the first chamber. Mineral aggregate is in the second chamber. An auger is attached to the bottom of the first and second chambers to receive and dispense cementing material from the first chamber and mineral aggregate from the second chamber. The mineral aggregate is dispensed at a rate different from that of the cementing material. The container includes extendable legs and is carried on a lift at the rear of a vehicle. The lift is raised to permit the container legs to be extended. After the legs are extended, the lift is lowered and the vehicle is driven away, leaving the container free-standing on its legs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 1996
    Date of Patent: October 19, 1999
    Inventor: A. Wayne Hills
  • Patent number: 5873653
    Abstract: A mobile pugmill accurately mixes an aggregate, an additive and a liquid supplied to a mixing chamber. The pugmill includes a first scale for weighing the aggregate being supplied to the mixing chamber and producing a signal proportional to aggregate weight as the aggregate is being continually conveyed to the mixing chamber. The pugmill also includes a second scale for weighing the additive being supplied to the mixing chamber and producing a signal proportional to additive weight as the additive is being continually conveyed to the mixing chamber. The pugmill further includes a programmable logic controller responsive to the signals proportional to aggregate and additive weights for selectively controlling flow rates into the mixing chamber of the aggregate, the additive and the liquid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 1996
    Date of Patent: February 23, 1999
    Assignee: Excel Machinery Company, Inc.
    Inventor: John Paetzold
  • Patent number: 5785420
    Abstract: Portable metering and mixing apparatus includes a trailer having a hopper thereon divided into two compartments, one compartment for sand material and another compartment for cementitious material. Screw conveyor assemblies, or auger assemblies, receive the materials and convey the materials to a mixer assembly. Different embodiments are disclosed. One embodiment includes a mixing chamber aligned with an auger assembly and to which the mixing chamber materials are fed directly. Another embodiment discloses a separate mixer assembly to which the materials are conveyed by a pair of auger assemblies.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 1997
    Date of Patent: July 28, 1998
    Inventor: David A. Schuff
  • Patent number: 5785419
    Abstract: In a first aspect, a lightweight building material for use in above grade construction comprising cement, fly ash, cellulose fiber, and water. In cured form, the material has the appearance and strength of standard concrete, but is lighter in weight and has preferable thermal properties. The material is capable of being sanded, chiseled, drilled, sawed, nailed and bolted in a manner similar to like operations with wood. In a second, separate aspect, the lightweight building material is manufactured into a lightweight aggregate material suitable for use in the construction of pre-cast objects, such as, for example, construction blocks. In a third, separate aspect, a method of manufacturing a lightweight aggregate material includes the steps of providing a lightweight building material in wet pulp form, adding one part of wet pulp to three or more parts of dry aggregate, and mixing the wet pulp and dry aggregate in a mixing screw conveyor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 10, 1995
    Date of Patent: July 28, 1998
    Inventor: Paul A. McKelvey
  • Patent number: 5624183
    Abstract: Portable metering and mixing apparatus includes a trailer having a hopper thereon divided into two compartments, one compartment for aggregate and another compartment for cementitious material. An auger receives aggregate from one compartment and feeds aggregate into a mixing compartment where cementitious material is added, and the resulting mixture is then delivered as required. Metering elements meter the aggregate and the cementitious material as desired, and the metered aggregate and cementitious material are mixed in a mixing chamber. A metering sleeve over the auger insures that only the metered amount of aggregate is conveyed by the auger to the mixing chamber. A second embodiment utilizes only a single hopper which contains premixed aggregate and cementitious material, and the premix is fed to the auger through a metering sleeve. Water is added to the material while in the auger and prior to the mixing chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 17, 1995
    Date of Patent: April 29, 1997
    Inventor: David A. Schuff
  • Patent number: 5609416
    Abstract: A small batch mixer particularly suited for preparing small quantities of mixture blends dry powdered material with an aggregate and a liquid. The ingredients may be cement, sand, and water. The batch mixer has two screw augers. The first auger feeds dry mix into an elongated mixing chamber of constant diameter. The second auger mixes the dry and liquid mix constituents, and conducts blended mixture to a discharge port located at the end of the elongated mixing chamber. The blade of the second auger is formed in three sections. In respective order, these sections include a first section wherein the blade is configured as a screw auger; a second section wherein the blade has intermittent gaps, thereby forming paddles pitched to urge the mixture onward to the third section; and a third section which, like the first section, includes a blade configured as a screw auger. The liquid is metered by a valve controlled in accordance with the feed rate of the solid constituents.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 1996
    Date of Patent: March 11, 1997
    Inventor: Donald L. Duckworth
  • Patent number: 5605397
    Abstract: A system and method for mixing particulate cement with mineral aggregate(s) so as to minimize the formation and escape of dust. The system involves dispensing aggregate(s) downwardly from a hopper and simultaneously dispensing the cement particles from a tube within the aggregate hopper above the hopper opening. The cement particles adhere to moisture on the surface of the aggregate(s).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 29, 1996
    Date of Patent: February 25, 1997
    Assignee: Port-A-Pour, Inc.
    Inventors: Neil G. Oberg, Jerome J. Doherty
  • Patent number: 5580166
    Abstract: In a concrete pump for wet spraying, in which standard concrete is pumped to a mixing jet, compressed air and if necessary a hardening accelerant are mixed into the concrete stream, which is applied with the jet and compressed; it is the purpose of the invention in its initial version on the one hand to minimize the fine dust yield at the jet, on the other hand to guarantee the availability of the amount of compressed air needed for the wet spraying process, characterized by a regulating section (20) in which the capacity of the concrete pump (1) forms a standard volume for monitoring the amount of compressed air flowing to the mixing jet (3) in such a way that the relationship of the amount of compressed air mixed in per unit of time to the amount of concrete pumped in per unit of time corresponds to a desired value which produces the smallest fine dust yield when the concrete is applied.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 1993
    Date of Patent: December 3, 1996
    Assignee: Friedrich Wilh. Schwing GmbH
    Inventors: Gunter Schmittchen, Karl E. von Eckardstein
  • Patent number: 5470147
    Abstract: A portable continual mixer blends dry powdered material with an aggregate and a liquid. The ingredients may be cement, sand, and water. The batch mixer has two screw augers. The first auger feeds dry mix into an elongated mixing chamber, and has its own electric motor and speed control. The second auger mixes the dry and liquid mix constituents, and conducts blended mixture to a discharge port located at the end of the elongated mixing chamber. The blade of the second auger is formed in three sections. In respective order, these sections include a first section wherein the blade is configured as a screw auger; a second section wherein the blade has paddles pitched to urge the mixture onward to the third section; and a third section which, like the first section, includes a blade configured as a screw auger. The liquid is metered by a valve controlled in accordance with the feed rate of the solid constituents. A predetermined proportion of dry and liquid constituents is thus maintained.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 1994
    Date of Patent: November 28, 1995
    Inventor: Donald L. Duckworth
  • Patent number: 5433520
    Abstract: A controlled method of, and apparatus for, continuously processing initially dry, particulate, cementitious material and fly ash solids and mixing them with a liquid to provide a liquid slurry of consistent proportions. The method and apparatus are concerned with a bin system for the fly ash solids and dry cementitious solids, opposed conveyor flight elements within the bin system leading to a metering valve system, a conveyor system for receiving the fly ash and cementitious material solids in metered proportions and then mixing them with a liquid to form a slurry, a conduit for pneumatically supplying solids entrained in an airstream to the bin system, a pressure controlled system for egressing air from the bin system and separating remaining solids from the air while maintaining the bin system under less than atmospheric pressure, and controls for monitoring the volume of material in the bin system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 1993
    Date of Patent: July 18, 1995
    Assignee: Michigan Ash Sales Company
    Inventors: Michael J. Adams, Alan G. Falls
  • Patent number: 5383725
    Abstract: A closed, pressurized apparatus for introducing aggregate dust and rubber into a stream of liquid asphalt is provided. Aggregate dust and rubber are dispensed through a valve from a receiving chamber into a mixing housing. The aggregate dust and rubber enter the mixing housing at an intermediate location therein. The liquid asphalt is introduced into the mixing housing through a separate conduit at a location thereon above the point of entry of the aggregate dust and rubber. The liquid asphalt, the aggregate and the rubber combine within the mixing housing to form a slurry composition. A heating jacket substantially surrounds the mixing housing and a system for preventing liquid asphalt from backing up into the receiving chamber is also provided. The apparatus is particularly useful in an asphalt plant using a bag house.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 1990
    Date of Patent: January 24, 1995
    Assignee: CMI Corporation
    Inventors: George W. Swisher, Jr., Stuart W. Murray
  • Patent number: 5375925
    Abstract: A material blender mixer is mounted to a chassis of a vehicle. The mixer includes a first material holder bin mounted to the vehicle chassis, a second material holder bin mounted to the chassis positioned reawardly of the first material bin, a device for dispensing the second material from the second material holder bin, a cross auger attached to the chassis and disposed beneath the dispensing device and a mixing auger in fluid communication with the cross auger. A conveyor extends through the first material holder bin and has a dispensing end in fluid communication with the cross auger. A device for agitating the first material in the first material holder bin is provided and includes a vertical agitator and a horizontal agitator, wherein fingers are disposed in both of the agitators adapted to agitate material held in the first material holder bin. Further, a method for preparing a settable material is disclosed, including use of a moist class F fly ash and a dry class C fly ash.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 1993
    Date of Patent: December 27, 1994
    Inventor: Luther V. Elkin
  • Patent number: 5213414
    Abstract: The apparatus allows mixing of a solid and a fluid continuously to facilitate downhole operations, especially gravel packing. The apparatus comprises a solids hopper, with preferably an internal auger, to meter the solids flowrate. The solids drop into a second feeder which empties into a mixing chamber. Liquid can be directed into an annular space formed in the mixing chamber around the periphery of the second auger, or could be piped into the second auger itself. A triplex pump is connected to the mixing chamber and draws the mixed solid and fluid and pumps it to sufficient pressures for use in a wellbore.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 1990
    Date of Patent: May 25, 1993
    Assignee: Baker Hughes Incorporated
    Inventors: Bennett M. Richard, Michael H. Johnson
  • Patent number: 5209563
    Abstract: A closed, pressurized dust return system for introducing aggregate dust into a stream of liquid asphalt is provided. Aggregate dust is dispensed through a valve from a receiving chamber into a mixing housing. The aggregate dust enters the mixing housing at an intermediate location therein. The liquid asphalt is introduced into the mixing housing through a separate conduit at a location thereon above the point of entry of the aggregate dust. The liquid asphalt and the aggregate combine within the mixing housing to form a slurry composition. A heating jacket substantially surrounds the mixing housing and a system for preventing liquid asphalt from backing up into the receiving chamber is also provided. The dust return system is particularly useful in an asphalt plant using a baghouse.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 2, 1989
    Date of Patent: May 11, 1993
    Assignee: CMI Corporation
    Inventors: George W. Swisher, Jr., Stuart W. Murray
  • Patent number: 5100239
    Abstract: Method for manufacturing concrete by mixing concrete materials including a cement, aggregate, admixture and at least one of water and ice. The aggregate is moved prior the mixing and a low-temperature liquid is sprayed on the aggregate for cooling while the aggregate is being moved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 1990
    Date of Patent: March 31, 1992
    Assignee: Shimizu Construction Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Sadamu Ono, Sadao Goto, Koji Minegishi, Kenichi Oshita, Daisuke Ishikura, Yoshiaki Negami, Kazuya Kamezaki, Katsuhiko Kimura, Takashi Kuwahara, Yasuo Kajioka
  • Patent number: 4865227
    Abstract: A material dispensing apparatus in combination with a tipping body, such as a tipping truck, the body of which is tiltable between a horizontal position and an inclined position includes at least one removable module mounted on the tipping body and provided with two passages. The tipping body includes a container filled with a material and divided into two storage regions communicating with the two passages, respectively, of the container. The module also includes a storage tank and two screw conveyors located at the ends of the passages to convey the material in the passages to respective outlets.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 1988
    Date of Patent: September 12, 1989
    Inventor: Anthony L. Stephens
  • Patent number: 4810097
    Abstract: A dispensing apparatus is located in the rear of a tip truck body. When the tipping body of the truck is inclined gravity causes bulk material held in the tipping body at either side of a partition to feed augers. The dispensing apparatus includes at least one tank preferably a central tank holding powdered material such as cement powder dispensed through a chute by virtue of a paddle wheel dispenser. Water tanks which dispense water through an outlet are located at either side of the cement powder tank. A common drive shaft drives the augers and the paddle wheel. The dispensing of material is controlled by controllers such that a predetermined ratio of material can be dispensed into, for example a mixer. The dispenser can be used for dispensing the constituents of concrete and may be removable from the tip truck body so that the tip truck can function as a normal tip truck.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 1987
    Date of Patent: March 7, 1989
    Inventor: Anthony L. Stephens
  • Patent number: 4795264
    Abstract: A concreting train consists of a plurality of wagons supporting a mixer, a multiple conveyor arrangement and separate containers for cement and aggregate. A container for cement has at least one integrated conveyor worm. All container wagons are provided with inclined conveyor belts which extend below the containers and overlap one another. On separate pathes aggregate and cement are supplied into a housing of the mixer wagon. The housing is supported on a weighing frame in order to additively weigh the mixing components. The housing contains a mixing shaft operatively connected with a drive motor. The housing is mounted for reciprocating movement along an inclined angled track in order to lift the housing on a higher level for discharging the concrete into a hopper of a concrete pump.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 1987
    Date of Patent: January 3, 1989
    Assignee: Messrs. Stetter GmbH
    Inventor: Rudolf Riker
  • Patent number: 4624575
    Abstract: A cement mobile mixer for mixing concrete from sand, aggregate, cement and water.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 1985
    Date of Patent: November 25, 1986
    Assignee: Lantz Construction Company
    Inventor: Alpheus D. Lantz
  • Patent number: 4548507
    Abstract: Mixing apparatus is provided for the production of mixtures of particulate solids and in particular, for the production of various mortar mixtures. The apparatus includes metering means, control means and transfer means for metering out and introducing predetermined quantities of components into a mixer and thereupon, after mixing, delivering the mixed product into means for loading transportation vehicles. The apparatus has no intermediate containers for storing various mixtures of building materials. A mixer is provided which can be emptied residue-free. A self-cleaning conveying system from the mixer to each transfer device is further provided. The lower wall zone of the mixer can be completely opened for residue-free emptying, the opening angle being greater than the angle of slide of the mixing material or residues thereof in the mixer. Such an opening prevents appreciable residues from being left in the mixer and from contaminating subsequent mixtures.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 1983
    Date of Patent: October 22, 1985
    Assignee: Mathis System-Technik GmbH
    Inventors: Paul Mathis, Max Zimmer
  • Patent number: 4506982
    Abstract: An apparatus for continuously blending a viscous liquid, such as hot asphalt, with particulate solids, such as ground rubber, includes a vertical cylindrical tank in which is disposed a smaller vertical vessel defining therein a blending chamber. Open lower side regions of the vessel feed the blended slurry to a holding chamber defined between the vessel and tank. A shaft rotatably mounted through the blending chamber has fixed thereto a blending disc and two hollow blending cones coaxially mounted on opposite sides of the disc to form two shear-type blending regions. Hydraulically driven pumps and motors feed the viscous liquid and solids to the blending chamber, rotate the blender shaft and withdraw slurry from the holding region for use. Hydraulic flow control valves enable selectively variable feeding, blending and slurry discharge rates. The relative feed rates of the liquid and solids are preferably continuously monitored to assure the desired liquid/solid blend ratio.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 16, 1983
    Date of Patent: March 26, 1985
    Assignee: Union Oil Company of California
    Inventors: Richard Smithers, Carl B. May
  • Patent number: 4487507
    Abstract: A processing apparatus for sludge and liquid waste comprising a wheeled vehicle having a frame, a drum type mixer mounted for rotation on said frame, motive power means including a hydraulic pump, a hydraulic motor for rotating said drum type mixer mounted on said frame operable in response to output from said hydraulic pump, waste feed means mounted on said frame, a hydraulic motor for said waste feed means on said frame operable in response to the output of said pump for feeding waste into the input end of said mixer, storage means on said frame for storing a supply of processing agent for said waste, processing agent feed supply means on said frame a hydraulic motor for said processing agent feed means on said frame operable in response to output of said pump for feeding processing agents from said storage means to said mixer, delivery means mounted on said frame for delivering output from said drum type mixer for conveyance to a remote location, valve control means for supplying output of said pump to sai
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 1983
    Date of Patent: December 11, 1984
    Assignee: London Machinery Company Limited
    Inventor: George Van Wyngaarden
  • Patent number: 4395128
    Abstract: A mixing tower for concrete or the like has a series of superimposed prefabricated modules which are connected to one another and include a cylindrical lowermost module, a frustoconical intermediate module with several outlets which is integral with the top of the lowermost module, and several larger-diameter cylindrical modules above the intermediate module. The modules contain prefabricated mixers, controls, scales and/or analogous aggregates which are assembled with the respective modules at the manufacturing plant and are coupled to each other at the locus of erection of the tower, preferably by coupling devices each of which is disposed at the level of connection between the respective modules.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 1981
    Date of Patent: July 26, 1983
    Assignee: Mathis System-Technik GmbH
    Inventors: Paul Mathis, Max Zimmer
  • Patent number: 4304493
    Abstract: A foundry sand mixer for mixing and dispensing silica or green sand and their additives through the enclosed longitudinal belt conveyor mechanism having a plurality of openings in the top communicating with a first feeder disposed above the enclosed longitudinal belt conveyor mechanism and including a pair of openings in the bottom. The first feeder includes an auger-type conveyor and a sand weir communicating with the most upstream opening in the first feeder. A first hopper for containing silica sand and a second hopper for containing green sand are disposed over the first feeder. A selective valve is disposed at the bottom of each of the first and second hoppers permitting the flow of sand through only one of the hoppers at any time or preventing the flow of any sand from the hoppers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 1980
    Date of Patent: December 8, 1981
    Inventor: Donald M. Frankie
  • Patent number: 4298288
    Abstract: A mobile concreting apparatus and method which may be used, in particular, for on-site construction of swimming pools. It includes a vehicle supporting a plurality of containers, each adapted to contain one of the ingredients of concrete. Each container is provided with its own ingredient feeder which feeds the ingredients to a mixing device mounted on the vehicle to create a concrete slurry. The slurry is transferred from the mixing device to the surface to be coated by a structure including a slurry pump, a hose and a nozzle. Each ingredient feeder can be individually varied in the rate at which it feeds its ingredient so that the relative composition of the slurry, and the flow rate of the slurry, can be rapidly and selectively varied on the job site to meet the particular requirements for each job. In addition, feed rate settings which provide a desirable composition and overall feed rate can be noted and reproduced on subsequent occasions when the same composition and feed rate are desired.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 1980
    Date of Patent: November 3, 1981
    Assignee: Anthony Industries, Inc.
    Inventor: Alvin J. Weisbrod
  • Patent number: 4231664
    Abstract: The specification discloses a method and apparatus for combining high speed horizontal and high speed vertical continuous mixing of sand and binder ingredients for mold making purposes. Sand supplied by a hopper assembly and liquid binder ingredients supplied by injection assemblies are fed into the rearward ends of a pair of side-by-side, horizontally extending cylindrical mixing chambers. They are rapidly mixed and conveyed forwardly by blade assemblies which extend centrally through the horizontal mixing chambers and are rotated at from about 300 rpm to about 1500 rpm. The mixtures are then discharged into a vertically extending cylindrical mixing chamber where they are rapidly mixed by a blade assembly which extends centrally through the vertical mixing chamber and is rotated at from about 300 rpm to about 800 rpm. The final mixture is then discharged from the vertical mixing chamber downwardly into a mold box.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 1979
    Date of Patent: November 4, 1980
    Assignee: Dependable-Fordath, Inc.
    Inventors: Steven D. Flock, Roger A. Hayes
  • Patent number: 4223996
    Abstract: Apparatus for mixing metered quantities of cement with metered quantities of water has a horizontal housing with a first section having an inlet for admission of cement, a cylindrical intermediate section which receives cement from the first section, and a mixing chamber which receives cement from the intermediate section and further receives metered quantities of water by way of a pipe. A feed screw is rotatably mounted in the first and intermediate sections to convey cement toward and into the mixing chamber. The thread of the feed screw carries radially outwardly extending paddles which are located in the first section and prevent accumulations of cement in the space around the corresponding portion of the feed screw. The mixing chamber is connected to the intermediate section by a hinge and contains a rotary mixing element whose shaft is separably coupled to the core of the feed screw.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 1978
    Date of Patent: September 23, 1980
    Assignee: Mathis Fertigputz GmbH
    Inventors: Paul Mathis, Max Zimmer
  • Patent number: 4219279
    Abstract: A mobile gunnite material mixer comprising a vehicle having a first load carrying portion for housing a supply of sand, a second load carrying portion separate from the first load carrying portion for housing a supply of cement, a mixing apparatus spaced outboard of the second load carrying portion, conveying belt disposed beneath the first and second load carrying portions and extending to the mixing apparatus, the belt being in constant linear motion during use of the apparatus whereby a quantity of sand is initially deposited on the moving belt and a quantity of cement is deposited on the moving belt over previously deposited sand, and the sand-cement mixture is discharged into the interior of the mixing apparatus wherein the sand and cement are thoroughly mixed and discharged into the usual gunnite delivery apparatus. The gunnite is mixed with water in the delivery apparatus whereupon the fluid mixture may be sprayed onto a surface in the usual manner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 1979
    Date of Patent: August 26, 1980
    Inventor: Paul M. Haws
  • Patent number: 4075710
    Abstract: Apparatus for producing hot mix asphalt utilizing new aggregate and a previously manufactured and layed asphalt mix which has been reduced to form recyclable aggregate, comprising a cylindrical mixer drum supported for rotation about its longitudinal axis, a burner assembly for producing a flame in the drum extending from a first end of the drum to a medial portion thereof, a conveyor assembly extending from a second end of the drum to a medial portion thereof for feeding the recyclable aggregate into a medial portion of the drum, means for feeding the new aggregate into the first end of the drum and for injecting asphaltic oil into the drum, the drum being provided with a plurality of mixing flights for mixing the asphaltic oil, new aggregate and recyclable aggregate for discharge as a hot mix asphalt from the second end of the drum.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 1977
    Date of Patent: February 21, 1978
    Assignee: CMI Corporation
    Inventors: Herbert E. Jakob, David L. Garbelman
  • Patent number: 4071226
    Abstract: A portable proportioning mixer, adaptable to mix concrete or other material, such as fertilizer and plastics, including a plurality of separate hoppers with discharges at their lower ends; a conveying and mixing trough adapted to receive materials from the hoppers, and a transporting vehicle for carrying the hoppers and mixing trough. The mixing trough is adapted to be carried on the vehicle in a non-receiving position during transportation, the trough being pivotally mounted on the vehicle to be rotated from the non-receiving position to a receiving position to receive materials from the hoppers; the mixing trough having a lower end positioned under the hopper discharges when in the receiving position and having receiving openings complementary to the hopper discharges.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 1976
    Date of Patent: January 31, 1978
    Inventor: Charles R. Miller