Abstract: The present disclosure relates to industrial equipment for the hot recycling of asphalt mixes. The industrial equipment may comprise a portable bank of hoppers which may be used to meter RAP and unadulterated petrous materials and may be mounted on a supporting structure, along with gear motors which control the metering and send a signal to a flow indicator in a control panel where it may be recorded and controlled. A conveyor belt may be provided below the hopper bank in order to receive the material and transport same to a rotary cylinder comprising an industrial open-flame burner that may be used to transmit heat energy indirectly to the RAP and to the supply of unadulterated petrous material.

Abstract: A mixing apparatus for mixing at least two components comprises a mixing chamber having a first component and at least one component chamber having a further component. The component chamber is connected to the mixing chamber by a feed line. A negative pressure device generates a negative pressure in the mixing chamber in the starting position. By activating the negative pressure device, the pressure is equalized, whereby the further component is transferred into the mixing chamber. A display apparatus is provided at the component chamber to display a pressure change in the component chamber. The display apparatus is preferably formed by elastic bellows provided at one end of the component chamber, which is disposed opposite of the end of the component chamber following the feed line.

Abstract: A microfluidic mixing device includes a body having a base, a sealing cover, and a thermally conductive member. The base includes a compartment. A chip access opening is defined in an end of the compartment. An engagement opening is defined in the other end of the compartment. The base further includes a gas port intercommunicated with the compartment. The sealing cover is detachably mounted to the base to seal the chip access opening. The thermally conductive member is mounted to the base and seals the engagement opening. A gas passage is defined between the thermally conductive member and an inner periphery of the base, is located in the compartment, and intercommunicates with the gas port. A pressure control module is connected to the gas port of the base. A heating module is coupled to the thermally conductive member. A cooling module is coupled to the thermally conductive member.

Abstract: A dough preparing machine operable to mix and divide dough so as to form a plurality of individual loaves of bread in a relatively compact space is provided. The dough preparing machine includes a compressing and dividing device, a bowl, a pivotable mixing arm, a rounder, and a sheeter molder. The dough preparing machine further includes a transfer device having a first arm and an opposable gripper operable to handle the rounded individual balls of dough. The compressing and dividing device configured to press the dough uniformly within the bowl, and divide the compressed dough into individual balls of dough.

Abstract: A nail polish mixing apparatus for stirring the mixing balls and nail polish contained with a nail polish bottle comprises a base, a vertical support column having an opening defined by a slot, and a motor in connection with a first end of a shaft. A linkage includes a top end that is rotatably fixed to a guide pin sized and configured to move up and down within the slot, and a bottom end that is rotatably fixed to a peripheral edge of a wheel that is in connection with a second end of the shaft. A ring on the linkage is provided for securing the nail polish bottle. Upon activation, the motor rotates the wheel, causing the bottom end of the linkage to move in a circular motion and the top end of the linkage to move up and down, thereby mixing the contents in the nail polish bottle.

Abstract: A beverage container for a blender includes one or more vibrating mechanisms coupled to a bottom portion of the beverage container or integrated within one or more walls of the beverage container. After a beverage has been blended, the one or more vibrating mechanisms are activated as the beverage is being poured. Vibrations from the one or more vibrating mechanisms are mechanically transmitted to the beverage container, thereby promoting the pourability of the beverage from the beverage container, including dislodging ingredients in the beverage that became lodged or trapped in crevices of the beverage container during the prior blending process, and freeing up beverage ingredients that accumulated at the bottom of the beverage container during the prior blending process.

Abstract: A system and method for providing a plurality of diluted solutions are disclosed. Successive dilution operations are performed upon mixing vessels substantially simultaneously. Measured source volumes of a source solution are placed into the mixing vessels. First measured volumes of a liquid are added to the mixing vessels. Measured first waste volumes are dispensed from the mixing vessels. Second measured volumes of the liquid are added to the mixing vessels. Measured second waste volumes are dispensed from the mixing vessels. Third measured volumes of the liquid are added to the mixing vessels. Each vessel has an individual target dilution ratio. Measured volumes and number of dilution operations are individual to each of the mixing vessels.

Abstract: An apparatus and method for mixing and dispensing bone cement is provided. The apparatus includes a mixing vessel for mixing bone cement attached to a syringe body. The syringe body having a lumen that is connected to the mixing vessel by a passageway between the mixing vessel and the lumen of the syringe body. A separator is provided between the mixing vessel and the syringe body and includes an orifice therein so that when the opening in the separator is misaligned with the lumen the passageway is blocked and when aligned the passageway is continuous with the lumen so that bone cement can pass into the syringe body. A plunger is provided and is slideably movable along the longitudinal axis of the syringe body so as to advance the bone cement out of the distal end of the syringe.

Abstract: A nail polish mixing apparatus for stirring the mixing balls and nail polish contained with a nail polish bottle comprises a base, a vertical support column having an opening defined by a slot, and a motor in connection with a first end of a shaft. A linkage includes a top end that is rotatably fixed to a guide pin sized and configured to move up and down within the slot, and a bottom end that is rotatably fixed to a peripheral edge of a wheel that is in connection with a second end of the shaft. A ring on the linkage is provided for securing the nail polish bottle. Upon activation, the motor rotates the wheel, causing the bottom end of the linkage to move in a circular motion and the top end of the linkage to move up and down, thereby mixing the contents in the nail polish bottle.

Abstract: A high-shear melt-kneader includes a high-shear unit (20) having an internal feedback-type screw (23) configured to apply high-shear stress to a melted resin, resin pressure sensors (33) for configured to detect a front portion resin pressure in the vicinity of an inlet of the internal feedback-type screw and a rear portion resin pressure in the vicinity of an outlet, and a control device configured to appropriately control a material supplying amount, a material temperature, a kneading time, and a screw rotation speed according to pressure values detected by the sensors. The control device controls the conditions such that waveforms with the lapse of time of the front and rear portion resin pressures are similar to each other and show variation to a steady state after formation of a predetermined peak value, and the front and rear portion resin pressures form a predetermined pressure difference with the lapse of time.

Abstract: A hand mixer includes an outer casing and a mixing element coupled to an electric motor. The hand mixer includes a cord guide that is configured to pivot about a pivot axis, an electrical cord extending through the cord guide, and a retaining clip that engages the cord guide to couple the cord guide to the outer casing. The hand mixer also includes a locking mechanism operable to retain the cord guide in a first position about the pivot axis.

Abstract: A method of preparing a blended food product includes the steps of: introducing a composition of food product(s) into a container, providing a closure for the container, the closure carrying an impeller; inverting the container so that the closure with its blending element lies lowermost; and driving the blending element to blend the composition to form a blended food product. Prior to blending, the container is mounted in a holder and clamped in place between the closure and the holder, to prevent leakage during blending. The holder may be in the form of a sleeve. A drive master is also provided for use with two sets of blending lids.

Abstract: A linear motion mixer having a reciprocating drive assembly of the Scotch yoke type, wherein the yoke assembly is mounted on first and second column bearing shafts (i.e., Thomson shafts) by two or more contoured bearing shaft rollers. The way shafts of the yoke assembly are preferably mounted for rotation about their longitudinal axis so as to accommodate misalignment of the roller wheel of the crank assembly which drivingly interacts therewith. A cylinder rod end alignment coupler is preferably interconnected between the yoke assembly and the downstream components of the drive assembly to substantially prevent unbalanced tortional and shear forces from being transmitted into the yoke assembly from the mixing shaft. These and other improvements are disclosed, all of which reduce production costs, lost energy, excessive wear and binding or racking of a reciprocating drive assembly incorporating same.

Abstract: Disclosed is a rapid mixing reactor, comprising a first feed-in passage housing, a reactor housing, a second feed-in passage, a hollow blade-wheel feed distributor, a rotation shaft, and a first feed distributor, wherein the first feed-in passage housing and the reactor housing are constructed coaxially and communicated with each other; the second feed-in passage, the hollow blade-wheel feed distributor and the rotation shaft each are fixed in connection with each other in the sequence along the central axis of the reactor; the hollow blade-wheel feed distributor is located within the reactor housing and rotates axially under the driving force of the rotation shaft; the second feed-in passage is connected with the hollow blade-wheel feed distributor; the first feed-in passage housing is set up with at least one first feed-in inlet therein; the reactor housing is set up with at least one reaction liquid outlet at its distal end; and the first feed distributor and the hollow blade-wheel feed distributor are pro

Abstract: The invention may provide a microfluidic mixer having a droplet generator and a droplet mixer in selective fluid connection with the droplet generator. The droplet generator comprises first and second fluid chambers that are structured to be filled with respective first and second fluids that can each be held in isolation for a selectable period of time. The first and second fluid chambers are further structured to be reconfigured into a single combined chamber to allow the first and second fluids in the first and second fluid chambers to come into fluid contact with each other in the combined chamber for a selectable period of time prior to being brought into the droplet mixer.

Abstract: An apparatus for mixing fluids can provide at least three times a volumetric flow of a volumetric flow rate of a pump to have a specific volumetric flow rate. The apparatus can include a mixing housing, an inner cavity, and an inlet nozzle adjacent a first end of the mixing housing and at least partially extending into the inner cavity. The apparatus can also include a radial inlet formed through a portion of the mixing housing and an outlet adjacent a second end of the mixing housing. The apparatus can form a portion of a system for mixing fluids, separating fluids, or both.

Abstract: The invention relates to a beverage maker, which comprises a container (10) that is open at the top thereof and a lid (20) that covers the container. A removal opening (29) is formed in the lid. A vertical actuation rod (41) passes through the lid. Inside the container, a preparing element (42), for example, a mixing element, is attached to the actuation rod. Outside the container, a grip element (45) is attached to the actuation rod. The grip element can be moved together with the actuation rod between a lower position and an upper position. A closure (30) can be swiveled about a horizontal swivel axis between a closed position that doses the removal opening and a retaining position that releases the removal opening, wherein in the retaining position, the closure fixes the grip element in the lower position thereof. The actuation rod is thereby effectively prevented from sliding out through the removal opening when the beverage is removed.

Abstract: A concrete vibrator head includes an elongated body having a front end and a back end. The back end of the vibrator head is attached to a rotating shaft which causes the vibrator head to vibrate at a desired vibration frequency. The elongated body is tapered from the front end to approximately halfway towards the back end. This taper may be defined by a continuous straight line slope of the outer surface of the elongated body, or a stepped slope formed from a series of interconnected cylindrical portions of the elongated body which increase in diameter from the front end to approximately midway on the elongated body of the vibrator head.

Abstract: The present invention provides a chemical-liquid mixing method and a chemical-liquid mixing apparatus capable of sufficiently generating a peroxomonosulfuric acid that is effective in removing a resist from a substrate, when a sulfuric acid and a hydrogen peroxide solution are mixed with each other. At first, an inner tank 10 is filled up with a sulfuric acid and the sulfuric acid overflowing from the inner tank 10 is allowed to flow into an outer tank 12. Then, a hydrogen peroxide solution is supplied into the inner tank 10 and the hydrogen peroxide solution is allowed to flow into the outer tank 12 whereby the two kinds of liquids of the hydrogen peroxide solution and the sulfuric acid are stored in the outer tank 12. Simultaneously when the hydrogen peroxide solution flows into the outer tank 12, a return pump 16 is activated.

Abstract: A blender base is generally described. The blender base includes a base frame. An outer shell may be connected to the base frame. A motor housing is supported by the base frame and positioned inside the outer shell. The motor housing is isolated from direct connection with the outer shell to reduce the transfer of noise and vibration from the motor to the outer shell.