Abstract: A mixing blade is formed into a spiral shape by disposing blade plates, which are twisted in a predetermined manner in a circumferential direction of the blade, adjacent to each other in the circumferential direction along an inner wall surface of a mixer drum. Each of the blade plates includes a rib extended in the circumferential direction of the blade.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a mixer for concrete and similar mixtures, of the type composed of a parallelepiped tank (2) internally provided with one or more mixing shafts (3), each of them driven into rotation by a corresponding motor unit (UM) in external position with respect to the tank (2), which comprises, with the necessary connections, an electric motor (4), a gear motor (6) and a cascade of intermediate and reducing gears interfaced with the end of the corresponding mixing shaft (3), characterised by the fact that it is provided with a low-power auxiliary motor (10) connected with the main motor (4), designed to be actuated to drive into very slow rotations the mixing shaft, associated to the main motor (4) during the internal cleaning operations of the tank (2).

Abstract: The present invention relates to a mixer for concrete and similar mixtures, of the type composed of a parallelepiped tank (2) internally provided with one or more mixing shafts (3), each of them driven into rotation by a corresponding motor unit (UM) in external position with respect to the tank (2), which comprises, with the necessary connections, an electric motor (4), a gear motor (6) and an intermediate gear (7) interfaced with the end of the corresponding mixing shaft (3), characterised by the fact that the electrical motor (4) and the corresponding gear motor (6) of each motor unit (UM) are fixed to a single bearing frame (8) that is hung to the border of the tank (2) by means of one or more hinges (9).

Abstract: The present invention provides a soil cement manufacturing machine which prevents blades of an impeller from becoming worn and prevents soil cement from becoming stuck to and remaining in a mixing tub. The soil cement manufacturing machine includes an input part (100), which is provided for supplying soil and cement, and a mixing tub (210). The mixing tub (210) has an inlet port (220), an outlet port (230), through which mixed soil cement is discharged, and a nozzle (250) provided above the outlet port (230). The oil cement manufacturing machine further includes impellers (300), which are provided in the mixing tub (210) to mix soil and cement. Each impeller has a circular part (310) and blades (320), which are radially fastened to the circular plate. At least one impeller (300) has at least one blade which is longer than remaining blades thereof, and is provided with a scraping blade 330 having a T-shaped end.

Abstract: The invention relates to a mixing method for preparing silicon-based dental impression paste while using a planetary centrifugal mixer (1) comprising at least one mixing bowl placed in a bowl carrier (6). The method is characterized by a step in which a certain volume of non-reactive liquid is introduced into the bowl before a mixing step in order to assure a cooling of this paste during the mixing and to prevent the paste from sticking to the walls of the bowl. This liquid is, advantageously, water.

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.

Abstract: Magnetoelectronic device structures and methods for fabricating the same are provided. One method comprises forming a first and a second conductor. The first conductor is electrically coupled to an interconnect stack. A first insulating layer is deposited overlying the first conductor and the second conductor. A via is etched to substantially expose the first conductor. A protective capping layer is deposited by electroless deposition within the via and is electrically coupled to the first conductor. A magnetic memory element layer is formed within the via and overlying the second insulating layer and the second conductor.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a cross used in mixers for concrete, mortar and similar materials, characterised in that it has a very light, inexpensive metal structure obtained with oxygen lance cutting technique and basically composed of three spokes projecting at 120° from a central hub; it being provided that the end of each spoke is fixed to a mixing arm by means of a series of bolts with vertical axis in order to prevent the arm from rotating around its axis when moving through the ingredients to be mixed.

Abstract: A twin shaft “compulsory mixer” having a capacity in the range of twelve cubic yards has a static mixing chamber bottom defined from two horizontally disposed and interfering cylindrical shapes. Two centrally disposed elongate rectilinear discharge gates are each defined from an end in the bottom of the static mixing chamber to abut at the middle of the static mixing chamber. At the middle bottom of the static mixing chamber, a tensioning rod is placed extending normally across the abutted ends of the two rectilinear slots. Two eccentrically mounted elongate rectilinear gates are mounted for movement into and out of sealing relation to the rectilinear slot centrally of the static mixing chamber. These gates are mounted centrally of the mixing chamber to a block and spherical bearing arrangement and actuated at the respective static mixer chamber ends by conventional piston drives. Reducing the gates in length, reduces deflection making chamber sealing possible.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method and a device for providing at construction sites paste-like building materials, especially mortar, being delivered in a fixedly pre-determined basic consistency. A conveying and mixing pump with an additional water supply opening is provided below the storage container for the paste-like building material. By means of the water supply opening, additional water is mixed with the mortar in order to produce the desired mortar consistency. For this purpose, a mixing portion having hedgehog-type mixing elements is provided.

Abstract: A mixer for particulate materials, such as soil, dirt, sand, concrete, lime, fertilizers, aggregate, and water, hitched to a skid steer motor vehicle has a bucket for accommodating the particulate materials. A pair of augers having opposite spiral flights located within the bucket are driven by a hydraulic fluid operated motor to mix the particulate materials. The operator of the vehicle controls the hydraulic motor to reverse the rotational direction of the augers to control the mixing of the particulate materials. A door mounted on the side wall of the bucket is movable with a hydraulic cylinder to an open position to allow the particulate materials to be discharged from the bucket.

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.

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.

Abstract: A cement mixer pivotably mounted on a linkage of an arm assembly of a heavy-duty machine, for example, an excavator or a shovel. The cement mixer includes a barrel, an agitator assembly rotatably mounted on the barrel and used to agitate materials to be mixed in the barrel, a mounting beam connecting the barrel to the linkage, a funnel mounted on the mounting beam and positioned above the barrel and used to receive the materials to be mixed and a weight measuring device provided on the mounting beam and used to measure the weight of the materials received in the funnel.

Abstract: An apparatus for mixing molding sand which comprises a mixing vessel having a mixing tool disposed within the mixing vessel, the mixing tool comprises an elongated shaft having a plurality of blades arranged along the elongated shaft wherein each of the plurality of blades comprises two opposed identical blade portions fitted to each other by a form fitting connection at a location adjacent the elongated shaft. The form fitting connection includes a groove and a lug on each of the opposed blade portions wherein the lug on one of the opposed blade portions engages the groove on the other opposed blade portion. The groove and lug form in part a peripheral surface of a polygonal recess on the form fitting connection which surface abuts the elongated shaft of the mixing tool when the opposed blade portions are secured to the shaft.

Abstract: The mixer includes a cylindrical mixing tube substantially submerged in the liquid asphalt and a paddle assembly extending axially through the mixing tube. An auger drives the ground rubber into an upstream end portion of the mixing tube and into the liquid asphalt therein. The paddle assembly draws the ground rubber and the liquid asphalt from the upstream end portion of the mixing tube and through the mixing tube. In addition, the paddle assembly accelerates the rubber-asphalt mixture as it proceeds through the mixing tube whereupon the mixture is discharged through a downstream end of the mixing tube. The mixing tube is formed with longitudinally spaced openings to allow additional asphalt to enter the mixing tube as the velocity of the mixture increases.

Abstract: One type of plant for transporting, handling and processing materials such as sand, gravel, crushed aggregate, soil, peat and recoverable excavated material. A screening plant for particularly screening of said materials comprises at least one feed station onto or into which material to be screened is brought or fed for discharge onto a screen conveyor which feeds the material to a further station such as a screening device wherein screening is carried out. In order to permit mixing principally everywhere mixing is necessary or convenient, the screening plant is also provided with at least one mixing device positionable in at least one operating position and an inoperative or rest position, when in operating position, the mixing device permits mixing of two or more of the above materials which have been supplied to the screening plant when these materials pass the mixing device.

Abstract: Mixing method and apparatus using two shafts which rotate in a reverse direction with respect to each other, having mixing pins branched in a V shape or Y shape and a mixing bath arranged in such manner that fibrous and powder materials are input to one end, and mixed while being moved along the length of the shafts with the obtained mixture being discharged at the other end. A mixing appratus and mixing method allows for uniformly mixing fibrous material, particularly semi-wetted fibrous material with powder material with high efficiency.

Abstract: Apparatus and method of hydrating a particulated polymer and producing a well treatment gel includes a mixer for spraying the polymer with water at a substantially constant water velocity and at a substantially constant water spray pattern at all flow rates of the water. A centrifugal diffuser is connected to the mixer for receiving the mixture, centrifugally diffusing the motive energy of the mixture, and hydrating the mixture into a gel. A centrifugal separator and constant velocity jet pump may be connected between the mixer and the centrifugal diffuser. A dilution valve is connected to the discharge of the centrifugal diffuser for mixing water with the gel at a substantially constant mixing energy at all flow rates of the gel and producing a diluted gel. A viscometer may be connected to the discharge of the dilution valve for measuring the viscosity of the diluted gel and regulating the flow of gel from the centrifugal diffuser to the dilution valve in order to control the viscosity of the diluted gel.

Abstract: A drum mixer for heating and drying stone aggregate as part of a process of continuous production of asphalt paving composition, the drum mixer including: an elongate hollow rotatable drum having a length and an outer surface, the elongate hollow rotatable drum defining a central axis, a sleeve having an inner surface, the sleeve being mounted coaxially with the elongate hollow rotatable drum about the central axis and around at least a portion of the length of the elongate hollow rotatable drum and so as to define an annular chamber having an entire distance between the outer surface of the elongate hollow rotatable drum and the inner surface of the sleeve, and structure for mixing hot mix asphalt in the annular chamber including rake flights mounted on the outer surface of the elongate hollow rotatable drum and in the annular chamber including scouring structure for lifting hot mix asphalt up from a lower portion of the annular chamber along the inner surface of the sleeve through the annular chamber and on

Abstract: An asphalt drum mixer includes a rotating drum within a fixed sleeve which defines an annular chamber, and mixing tips mounted on the drum and in the annular chamber. The mixing tips pass through the hot mix asphalt laying in the bottom of the annular chamber and mix and shear the hot mix asphalt and increase its residence time in the drum mixer. In one preferred embodiment, the mixing tips may comprise curved scoop-like elements which lift the hot mix asphalt higher than conventional paddles and greatly increase residence time of the mix in the drum over conventional paddles. The quality of the mix is thus greatly improved. In another preferred embodiment the mixing tips may comprise curved scoop-like elements having slots which greatly increase sheering of the hot mix asphalt, thereby further improving the quality of the mix.

Abstract: The invention is directed to a method and an arrangement for continuously producing a rubber base compound and a rubber end compound in a single stage for vehicle tires, drive belts, conveyor belts as well as for industrial rubber products. The rubber base compound and the rubber end compound are produced continuously in one and the same mixing arrangement which includes a twin-screw extruder.

Abstract: By rotating mixing blade units having blades inclined in opposite directions, pulverulent materials such as cement can be effectively mixed with a liquid under the most suitable condition to produce a desirable mixture. The blades of the mixing blade units are in spaced opposed relation to each other and formed so as to have their front edges spaced at a larger distance than their rear edges relative to the direction of rotation, thereby to cause the parts of the mixture around the respective mixing blade units to come into collision with each other between the mixing blade units. A mixture of high quality in which the pulverulent materials are uniformly dispersed without being left in the form of immiscible lumps with the liquid can be obtained.

Abstract: An auger conveyor assembly including a helical auger infeed section having interrupted auger flights which communicate with an offset, commonly driven outfeed section including a helical ribbon auger and whereat both augers simultaneously blend the mixture at a controlled speed differential. A surrounding housing includes a formed length of rubberized channelway and means are provided for varying the tilt angle of the housing, whereby the blending rate and contained volume of mixture are controlled relative to an outlet port.

Abstract: A mixer having an elongated housing with an upper wall, a curved lower wall, an inlet end and a discharge end. A rotatable shaft within the housing extends from the inlet end to the discharge end of the housing. A plurality of blades are attached to the shaft in a discontinuous helical pattern. An injection tube is located at the inlet end of the housing to spray bituminous liquid into the housing. Recycle aggregate and bituminous liquid are introduced into the inlet end of the housing. Asphalt mix is removed from the discharge end of the housing. Each blade has a curved outer end which is in near contact with the lower wall of the housing as each blade moves through a lower part of its rotation. The upper wall of the housing is spaced a distance from the blades to define an open slinging area between the blades and the housing. The blades both mix and move material from the inlet end to the discharge end of the housing.

Abstract: The present invention aims to evenly and surely knead a concrete material comprising less water amount. Concrete material layer entered into a kneading tank is cut in an up-and-down direction and divided into a plurality of layer sections arrayed side by side along a right-and-left direction,, and one of the divided layer sections is piled up another one of the divided layer sections in the up-and-down direction, then the piled up concrete layer sections are compacted, in other words are pressed in the up-and-down direction and extended in a horizontal direction, and further these steps are repeated.

Abstract: A curdling tank includes two upright, mutually intersecting, circular tank sections, each of the circular tank sections having a concentrically operated stirring system. The bottom portions of each of the circular tank sections are shaped to include sloping sides to form respective concentric bottom grooves with a downwardly pointed cross section, the lowermost portions of the grooves meet or overlap each other midway between the two shafts. The grooves are arranged in the shape of a figure of eight and the grooves achieve an effective emptying through a single outlet.

Abstract: Process for manufacturing walls from earth and sand mortars includes making a mortar mixture containing a dry aggregate mass of between 15 and 50% by mass of earth and between 85% to 50% by mass of sand, bonding materials in a mass of at most 10% of the dry aggregate mass, and water in a mass of at most 22% of the total dry mass of earth, sand and bonding materials, stirring the mixture continuously and transferring while stirring the mixture by force into an inlet of a pump, and pumping the mixture from the pump and projecting the mixture within a framework against a vertical projection support and allowing the mixture to set.

Abstract: A mixing apparatus comprises two or more tubs in which mixtures can be mixed to obtain averaging of a particular property, such as density. Two recirculation lines are used. One recirculates between an initial mixing tub and a mixing inlet, and the other recirculates from the additional, secondary averaging tub(s) and the mixing inlet. Computer control responds to densities of fluids recirculated through both of the recirculation lines. In a preferred embodiment, the computer is also responsive to pressure of one of the inlet substances. In response to these measured inputs and other data entered through a data entry terminal, the computer generates control signals for controlling the inputs of both of two inlet substances. In a preferred embodiment, the apparatus and a corresponding method utilize displacement tanks both as averaging tubs and as conventional displacement tanks.

Abstract: The invention is directed to an improved mixing arrangement for securing the blade to the shank of a mixing apparatus. The blade includes a borehole which overlies and surrounds a substantial portion of the shank so as to substantially reduce direct abrasive contact of the shank. Accordingly, the shank has longer life. Further the blade is mounted and secured by a single bolt which when unsecured allows the blade to be axially moved off the shank from an upright position which is most easily accessible by a person performing maintenance on the mixing apparatus.

Abstract: A continuous process aggregate drying and mixing plant for producing a hot asphaltic material, such as is used for paving highways or the like, includes a combination of a drum drier and a pugmill. Both the drum drier and the pugmill are supported by a common trailer frame. The pugmill is coextensively mounted at the discharge end of the drum drier towards the rear of the frame. The drum drier discharges dried and heated virgin aggregate material through a feed and transfer chute directly into a first, pre-mix region of the pugmill. The feed and transfer chute also provides for the addition of recycled pavement to the heated and dried aggregate and for the side discharge of such heated and dried aggregate. A second region of the pugmill within which liquid asphalt is added to the mixed aggregate is substantially separated from the first, pre-mix region. The space above the second region of the pugmill is substantially enclosed and coupled directly to a secondary air supply of a burner for the drum drier.

Abstract: A casing string is cemented in a borehole of a well. The cement is prepared by introducing water and dry cement material into a mixing vessel. The water and dry cement material are mixed in the mixing vessel to form a cement slurry. The mixing is accomplished by agitating the slurry to cause the slurry to circulate within the vessel, and while agitating the slurry, transmitting vibrational energy into the slurry and thereby aiding in the wetting of the dry cement material in the slurry. This also aids in removing entrained air from the slurry. The slurry is then pumped into an annulus between the casing string and the boreholes.

Abstract: A machine for conditioning granular materials includes a dual section chamber through which a transport belt travels and in the first chamber of which are a pair of closely spaced counter-rotating heads so driven that the material is moved toward the narrow gap between the heads. The shafts on which the heads are mounted extend upwardly, are parallel and also are inclined upwardly at a minor angle to the vertical in an upstream direction with respect to the direction of movement of material through the equipment. Each head is equipped with blades of two different designs to perform different functions.

Abstract: A continuous process aggregate drying and mixing plant for producing a hot asphaltic material, such as is used for paving highways or the like, includes a combination of a drum drier and a pugmill. Both the drum drier and the pugmill are supported by a common trailer frame. The pugmill is coextensively mounted at the discharge end of the drum drier towards the rear of the frame. The drum drier discharges dried and heated virgin aggregate material through a feed and transfer chute directly into a first, pre-mix region of the pugmill. The feed and transfer chute also provides for the addition of recycled pavement to the heated and dried aggregate and for the side discharge of such heated and dried aggregate. A second region of the pugmill within which liquid asphalt is added to the mixed aggregate is substantially separated from the first, pre-mix region. The space above the second region of the pugmill is substantially enclosed and coupled directly to a secondary air supply of a burner for the drum drier.

Abstract: The invention relates to mixing apparatus in which the drive motor and the stirrers are each coupled to the three revolving elements of a planetary gear. In such apparatus the speed of the two stirrers is automatically adapted to the prevailing counter-moment.

Abstract: A mixer comprises a housing having charging and discharge pipes, and arcuate working members fashioned as rods coiled to form cylindrical springs and attached by ends thereof to drive shafts. The working members are disposed inside the housing one above the other, the upper working member having a diameter substantially less than the diameter of the lower working member, the working members being coiled in the opposite directions.

Abstract: Disclosed are a method of and an apparatus for producing a heated reproduction asphalt mixture, in which a new material and a normal-temperature waste material, the water content of which is set at a limited range of values, are adapted to be mixed together in the ratio of (90 to 40):(10 to 60) in terms of weight. The temperature of heating the new material by means of a dryer is controlled to range from 190.degree. C. to 350.degree. C. so as to be in conformity with the above mixing weight ratio. Both the materials are mixed and kneaded together in a mixer at a kneading temperature of 150.degree. C. or more. The gas generated within the mixer is exhausted toward a chimney in a state wherein the amount exhausted is made adjustable.

Abstract: A double-shaft forced-feed mixer, for example for building material mixtures, is proposed which is assembled according to the principle of movement of the batch-type mixer and is usable both for continuous and discontinuous operation.

Abstract: A dual shaft pan mixer comprises a mixing vessel (1) having a first and a second pan section (3 and 4), a pair of paddle assemblies (10) having drive shafts (13) which are disposed horizontally and in paralllel relationship with each other within the mixing vessel (1) and adapted to rotate in mutually opposite directions, and a drive source (20) for synchronously driving the pair of paddle assemblies (10). The mixing vessel (1) includes a substantially triangular space (22) below an area intermediate the first and the second pan section and displaced out of the loci of rotation of the paddle assemblies (10), and also includes a discharge port (5) which is disposed adjacent to the space (22). The mixer also comprises a rod-shaped vibration generator (30) disposed within the space (22) and extending in a direction parallel to the drive shafts (13).

Abstract: The invention relates to a mixer having a mixing vessel composed of two vessel parts and which can be pivoted through 180.degree. about a horizontal axis. The stirrer shaft is coaxial with the axis about which the vessel is pivoted and the drive motor of the stirrer is stationary. Such a mixer is distinguished by a simple and light transport facility for the product to be mixed, the use of the same mixer for different products, simple cleaning of the second vessel part, and a good mixing effect.

Abstract: An apparatus for uniformly spreading and mixing coating ingredients deposited on a traffic surface, such as a road, includes a maneuverable, wheeled support carriage, a frame and a power driven finishing assembly. The finishing assembly is provided with a plurality of working tools which are rotated about a central axis to bring the tools sequentially into contact with a traffic surface area being treated to efficiently spread and apply a surface treatment composition. Radially extending arms connect with the working tools and with a central support disc. The arms independently urge the tools toward the traffic surface to maintain the tools in contact with the surface despite surface variations. Adjustable couplings connect the tools to the arms to enable the tools to assume a range of operating angles relative to the arms to further enhance the maintenance of good tool-to-surface contact.

Abstract: Foundry apparatus for mixing sand with binder ingredients to produce a composite mixture suitable for foundry molds includes a first premixing chamber enclosing a first bladed shaft mounted for rotation about a substantially horizontal first axis operable for conveying and commingling sand with a first binder ingredient to produce a first sand/binder ingredient mixture. A second premixing chamber, separate from the first premixing chamber, encloses a second bladed shaft mounted for counterrotation about a second axis, substantially parallel to the first axis, for conveying and commingling sand with a second binder ingredient to produce a second sand/binder ingredient mixture. A final mixing chamber includes agitators for receiving the sand/binder ingredient mixtures and blending them into a composite mixture while simultaneously transporting the composite mixture to a final discharge station.

Abstract: The invention relates to a mixer with a fixed drum.According to the invention, the mixer comprises a central opening (6) which makes it possible to carry out measurements or operations directly in the mixture during mixing. The entire driving device (8) is located around a central pipe (7). It comprises inter alia a movable ring (9) set in rotation by a drive member (5), the mixing arrangement (3) being fixed to the ring (9) and is set in rotation through the intermediary of a receiving pinion (17) meshing with a fixed wheel (15) connected to the central pipe (7).The invention will be used in particular for mixing wet or dry constituents such as concrete, silica sand and the like.

Abstract: The percentage of entrapped air in mortar, plaster, concrete or a like building material which is prepared on a continuous basis is increased, preferably by at least 100 percent, by providing a mixing chamber with one or more barriers which oppose the progress of a mixture of solid and liquid constituents toward the outlet so that each increment of the mixture dwells in the mixing chamber for a relatively long interval of time which exceeds 15 seconds and can even exceed 40 or 50 seconds. The mixing chamber defines a sump for a supply of the mixture, and the rate at which the material leaves the chamber equals or approximates the rate of admission of constituents into the chamber so that the quantity of material which forms the supply is constant. Such supply is agitated by blades, paddles, vanes, grates, lattices or like devices to ensure continuous penetration of air into the material which dwells in, as well as the material which advances through, the mixing chamber.

Abstract: A mixing device for preparing wet mix cementitious products comprised of large aggregates includes a pair of generally tubular, horizontally disposed casings which form a mixing chamber, and which share common, open sides. An open top of the chamber receives raw materials to be mixed. Elongated central impeller shafts extend longitudinally, generally coaxially within each of the casings, rotatably terminating in appropriate bearings. A pump impeller assembly removably mounted to each of the impeller shafts includes rigid, spaced-apart spiders having three, integral, radially spaced-apart outwardly extending arm segments. The spider arm segments support a pair of spiralled, spaced-apart mixing rods.

Abstract: Mixing equipment includes a mixing compartment and at least one mulling assembly for dispersing therein material, including granular material, such as foundry sand. An agitator is provided for improving the mulling and aerating of the dispersed material within the compartment. The agitator includes a rotor rotated about an upright axis disposed within a cavity opening into the mixing compartment. The rotor includes a hub disposed within the cavity and having a plurality of fingers extending outwardly therefrom. Upon rotation of the rotor, the fingers move forcibly out of the cavity and into the mixing compartment to impact the material moving therepast, for mixing and aerating the material. An overflow discharge opening in a side wall of the compartment permits the prepared material to be discharged continuously from the mixing compartment. The supply of material to the compartment and the discharge of material are under the control of door, material consistency sensing, and timing apparatus.

Abstract: A method for making a slurry containing particulate matter and fibers for a preformed insulation product comprises mixing dry particulate matter with a binder which is a liquid containing dispersed fibers. An apparatus suitable for practicing the method comprises a means for disposing the particulate matter in the form of a falling curtain and a means for spraying the binder on the particulate matter.

Abstract: A unique chassis arrangement for the mounting of equipment thereon and a unique equipment arrangement for a ground fed type blender means which is trailer mounted for use in well servicing operations.

Abstract: The present mixer for construction materials, such as a bituminous sludge, has a trough with an inlet and an outlet and two mixing shafts equipped with blades rotatably supported in the trough in parallel to each other. The blades are uniformly spaced along both shafts and staggered by 90.degree. around each shaft whereby the blades of each shaft follow one another in helical succession. Simultaneously the blades form four in line rows on each shaft. The arrangement of the blades is identical on each shaft except that the helix formed by the blades on one shaft has preferably a pitch direction opposite to that formed by the blades on the other shaft since the shafts rotate in opposite directions but convey in the same direction. The spacing between adjacent blades on both shafts is the same. However, blades located in the same plane extending perpendicularly to the longitudinal axes of the shafts are always spaced by 90.degree.

Abstract: A method for making a slurry containing particulate matter and fibers for a preformed insulation product comprises mixing dry particulate matter with a binder which is a liquid containing dispersed fibers. An apparatus suitable for practicing the method comprises a means for disposing the particulate matter in the form of a falling curtain and a means for spraying the binder on the particulate matter.