Abstract: An apparatus for mixing powdered or coarse-grained bulk materials includes a first mixing device (4) with a second mixing device (11) lying below it, each of them having cylindrical mixing containers (2, 12) with downward tapering mass flow hoppers (3, 13). The bulk material from the upper mixing device (4) is conveyed via gravity pipes (9, 10, 10', 28, 29) into the second mixing device (11), which concentrically surrounds a third mixing device (6). Outlet apertures (27) are provided in the third mixing device (6) to ensure a constant discharge mass flow through the total lower outlet area (25).

Abstract: An appliance for dispensing of bulk material includes a circular-cylindrical stationary cellular housing with individual chambers of a cross-section in the form of a segment of a circle, which are closed in an upper and lower region by respective upper and lower rotating cover plates each having an orifice in the form of a segment of an annulus, the dispensing appliance having in its upper and lower region respective receiving flanges for supporting and guiding the rotating cover plates external of the housing. The upper receiving flange and the lower receiving flange for the respective cover plates are formed by respective flanged plates facing away from the cellular housing and respective flanged plates confronting the cellular housing, between which the respective cover plates are supported and mounted rotatably on bearings provided in each of the respective flanged plates axially opposite one another.

Abstract: A moving bed reactor for the treatment of fluid in a countercurrent process includes a reactor vessel having, in an upper region thereof, an inlet for receiving particulate material and an outlet for discharging treated fluid, the reactor vessel also having, in a lower region thereof, a downward tapering first funnel leading to an outlet, the first funnel guiding the particulate material to the outlet for discharge from the reactor vessel, the first funnel being formed by wall sections which mutually overlap in louvre fashion to create slot-shaped passages for the fluid to be treated to enter the vessel.

Abstract: A rotary slide valve is proposed, in which a cylindrical rotary plug is arranged in a cylindrical bore of a housing. A round passage bore in the rotary plug allows, on the one hand, a connection without jolting in all conveying directions of the likewise aligned first and second connection lines and a connection of the first connection line to a third connection line with a branching off at an angle without a change in terms of area of the passage cross section. In order to achieve a congruent transition of the connection cross sections of the first connection line with the passage bore through the rotary plug even in the case of branching off at an angle, these two bore holes of equal dimensions meet inside the rotary plug on a planar elliptical cutting surface of a median line of the angle.

Abstract: A ring seal on moved machine parts, in particular for use on a rotary slide valve, is proposed, which is formed by a pressurized annular channel (11) with a ring seal (12). In a connection flange (10), for this purpose an annular channel (11), parallel to the center axis (19), is formed with a pressure space (15) for pressurization of the ring seal (12).

Abstract: A device for closing a pipe branch, especially for closing either orifice of a Y-shaped distributor connection, which is to close the inflow of the unoccupied flow-off in a gastight and watertight manner, is proposed. At the same time, there will be the possibility of mixing the medium for all the connections. To achieve this object, for this purpose either branching-off junction connection is made closeable by means of a common rotary plug, the rotary plug being designed as an oblique cylinder section (see the drawing for this).

Abstract: A device for blending dust, powder or coarse particle bulk materials, having a first upper blending device with a cylindrical blending container and a connecting discharge funnel which tapers conically towards a second lower blending device. The second lower blending device having a cylindrical container and a connecting discharge hopper which tapers conically towards the bottom to form an upper and lower mass flow silo. There is a blending pipe installed in the upper blending device which extends approximately to the lower end of the upper discharge funnel. The blending pipe contains inlet openings throughout its whole length for bulk material wherein the concentrically installed blending pipe is vertically subdivided into gravity pipes arranged side by side. Each pipe contains several inlet openings arranged above one another. The blending pipe is constructed cylindrically in the lower end region with the bulk material being transported back via a conveying pipe.

Abstract: A device for metering bulk materials with a vertical axis having a rotor featuring radially extending paddles about the vertical axis, and a cover plate, constructed to prevent especially coarse particle materials from being scraped or squashed between the rotor and the cover plate. For this purpose a ring segment type opening is provided in the cover plate, and a recess is provided in the under surface of the cover adjacent the opening to provide a space for producing material slopes underneath, whereby the limiting edge between the inlet opening of the cover plate and the rotor paddles forms an acute angle.

Abstract: Process and apparatus for pneumatic or hydraulic transport of bulk material in a conveying direction through a pipeline by means of over or underpressure, in which components are provided for monitoring the pressure prevailing at a plurality of successive points along the pipeline, providing a plurality of sources of a pure gas or liquid each at a pressure corresponding to the pressure prevailing at an associated point along the pipeline, and supplying the pure gas or liquid from each source to the point along the pipeline which succeeds, in the conveying direction, the associated point for that source, while preventing any fluid flow from the pipeline to each source.