Abstract: A continuously operating mixer for loose or flowable material. The mixer includes a cylindrical mixing drum, a shaft which rotates in the drum and is provided with mixing instruments, a feeding or supply device with an inlet chute, and structure to deflect or reverse the incoming material to be mixed in the direction of the axis of the mixing drum, which in an end region thereof has a mixed material discharge. A nozzle-like air inlet channel, which conveys a compressed air flow, opens into the lower region of the inlet chute; an injection channel is connected to the air inlet channel and is directed toward the inlet opening of the mixing drum; this injection channel is flow-connected with an air suction channel which faces away from the inlet opening of the mixing drum; and these channels are consecutively subjected to the air flow of at least one blower.

Abstract: An apparatus for applying glue to the fibers of material, such as wood and the like, especially to cellulose-containing fibers, in which the fibers are supplied to one end of a substantially horizontal drum and removed from the other end thereof with the fibers being impelled through the drum by impelling elements mounted on a central shaft rotatable in the drum and at the inlet end of the drum. Glue is applied to the material downstream from the impelling elements, and downstream from the region of glue application the material is intensively combed by tapering elements mounted on the central shaft. The glue is applied by radial elements mounted on the central shaft and to which glue is supplied through the shaft.