Abstract: A process for mixing synthetic materials and complemental raw materials in a fixed ratio. The synthetic material is fed under the pressure of its own weight to a mixing vessel through a feed conduit having an opening arranged to feed below the top of the vessel. The opening of the conduit is also arranged such that synthetic material will only feed to the vessel when the materials therein fall below the level of the conduit opening. The complemental raw materials are fed over the top of the materials in the vessel at a mass rate of flow proportional to the mass rate of flow of the materials withdrawn from the bottom of the vessel. The synthetic materials are thereby also fed to the vessel in a fixed ratio to the mass rate of flow of the materials to be withdrawn.

Abstract: Mixing means in the form of a torpedo for an injection molding machine having a plurality of alternately isolated and intersecting flow paths for repeatedly dividing and recombining material flow streams to achieve uniform properties throughout the material. The paths are formed as right and left-hand helical channels on the circumference of the torpedo body, with the helixes of one hand having a pitch different from that of the other such that the flow paths intersect in a pattern which is bilaterally asymmetrical with respect to an axial net flow direction. The nonsymmetrical arrangement is formed to provide substantially greater mixing action than that obtainable with similar symmetrical arrangements.

Abstract: Method for homogeneously mixing relative dry particulate material such as detergent with liquid material which may be viscous or sticky or otherwise difficult to admix with the particulate material comprising a spinning disc for receiving and forming by centrifugal action a continuous annular free falling curtain layer of particulate material and a lower spinning disc within the curtain layer for forming and centrifugally directing a continuous annular film or spray of liquid material into intersecting relation with the curtain layer.

Abstract: A method for using an array of bar accessories to facilitate preparation of the sort of drink which is made by shaking together liquor and ice with a suitable premix. Several shaker shells are hung by their pedestal bases from C-shaped racks. Each shaker shell carries indicia which match indicia carried on a rack. The glass in which the drink is served cooperates with the shaker shell. Ice, liquor and premix are combined in such proportion as to fill precisely the type of glass appropriate to each drink.

Abstract: A continuous mixing vessel for polymer processing materials characterized in that the progress of the materials being mixed through the mixing volume is substantially vertical so as to permit natural subsidence of the materials, whereby mixture of the materials is caused by the effects of the different subsiding speeds of the materials and the gradient in the subsiding speed between the center and wall portions of the mixing vessel. Horizontal agitators are preferably provided, but they must induce no vertical movement of the materials. A hot wind may be introduced into a lower portion of the mixing vessel and be exhausted from an upper portion of the mixing vessel after having dried the materials as it moves through them in counterflow.

Abstract: A device for mixing and/or apportioning of pulps and similar liquids comprises a receiving chamber housing to the bottom end of which a pulp outlet housing is attached which is provided with discharge nipples. Said receiving chamber housing has an inlet and a bottom member provided with a plurality of apertures in communication with a plurality of outlet chambers in said outlet housing in such a manner that each of said outlet chambers is connected with said receiving chamber through at least one of said apertures.

Abstract: An apparatus for producing a wafer biscuit, wherein a plurality of cream dispensers are provided in side-by-side relationship, each coupled to a wafer feed magazine, the cream dispensers being operable selectively, simultaneously or separately, thus automatically to dispense one or more creams onto a respective wafer or wafers, the latter being then transferred in line to a wafer builder.

Abstract: A mold for processing a food material, including a plug and ratchet take-up mechanism for accommodating expansion and contraction of the food product. The plug is provided with ratchet arms having ratchet teeth and the take-up mechanism includes spring biased pins or pawls coacting with the ratchet teeth.

Abstract: Transport processes such as emulsification, mass transfer, dissolution, washing or chemical reaction are carried out by admixing two substantially immiscible fluid phases with a rotary agitator having thereon filamentary elements that occupy 0.1% to 20% of the space to be swept thereby, whose thickness is 10-5000 .mu.m and whose thickness-to-length ratio is 1:5 to 1:5000, there being several thousand such elements on the rotor, that rotates at several thousand rpm, the elements having peripheral speed of at least 30 m/s.-- The operation is improved by also including in the fluid medium solid particles of a size 1-1000 .mu.m.

Abstract: A mixer for particulate solid material including a hollow casing of polygonal e.g. square or triangular cross-section, the casing having two or more materials fed to it and having disposed therein at least one set of partitions which divide the casing up into a plurality of channels also of polygonal cross-section, the shape of the channels generally being the same as the shape of the casing, some, but not all, of the channels, having a redistributor therein which will allow the material flowing therethrough to be redistributed across the cross-section of that channel. The redistributor disclosed is a generally helical element which is shaped so as to fill the polygonal section of the channel into which it is fitted.

Abstract: An apparatus for canning fruit and the like. The apparatus of the present invention comprises a platform having a plurality of legs thereon for placing it in a frying pan or other pan with the platform extending contiguous to the sides of the frying pan so that water placed in the frying pan will generate steam which will pass through holes in the platform. The platform is provided with a removable chamber which encloses a plurality of containers within the chamber and the chamber is provided with an outlet opening in the bottom thereof. The legs extending from the platform may also be passages for the admission of condensed steam back to frying pan and the holes in the platform may be provided with tubular passage means extending into the steam chamber.

Abstract: Successive charges of grain cereals and a pressurized gaseous fluid are directed into the inlet of a pressurized puffing chamber by a charging valve having a rotor with passageways extending therethrough. The charges are quickly and forcibly fed into the passageways by centrifugal force produced by a rotatable disk having peripheral pockets which receive the grain from a supply source.

Abstract: A system and Hot Cabinet server therefor to condition pre-packaged foods and to maintain them at serving temperature during storage and for customer access. A structural relationship of means is provided in cooperatively related bin type cabinets to combine the inherent principles of convection, conduction and recirculation to maximum advantage and to the end that heat loss is minimized despite the completely open and accessible bin configuration. The cabinets are each a self-sufficient entity when supplied with power such as an electrical plug in, and each is completely mobile while in operation; and being of the same height and width configuration, they are adapted to be quickly assembled in service lines that are readily modified or broken down for storage.

Abstract: A machine for automatically making pancakes, includes a heated cooking drum which is rotatable about a horizontal shaft by drive means and which has, on its periphery, at least one raised surface area having a contour corresponding to the shape of the pancakes to be made, and which is disposed above a batter pan in such manner that the raised surface area is enabled, during rotation of the drum, to move into contact with batter contained in the pan, means for supplying the batter pan with pancake batter from a supply container, the pan having on at least one side a lateral wall, which is of lesser height than the height of the other walls of the pan and the exterior face of which is disposed vertically above an opening in the batter supply container, and means for detaching and removing the cooked pancakes from the drum and comprising a brush rotatable in the same direction as the drum and at a peripheral speed greater than that of the drum, the brush having flexible radial bristles which are arranged to come

Abstract: A tubular housing of a vibratory compactor has an end portion and vibration-producing structure located within the housing so as to effect vibrating of the housing and thereby of storable concrete or like materials into which the housing is partially or completely immersed. A protective sleeve surrounds the housing over at least part of the axial length thereof so that immersion of this part does not cause ware of the housing but instead causes only ware of the replaceable sleeve. An end cap is mounted on the end portion of the housing and holds the sleeve in place.

Abstract: A machine for producing a high viscosity dyeing sizing. A sizing boiler is provided in the upper portion of the machine body for boiling an initially provided liquid with steam while agitating it sufficiently with stirring frames, stirring rods and a plurality of blades to produce a high viscosity sizing. The boiler is connected with a cylinder in the lower portion of the machine body, and a piston is movable in the cylinder for sucking the sizing from the size boiler into the cylinder and discharging it therefrom. The piston forces the sizing to pass through a straining screen provided in the front end of the cylinder thereby eliminating impurities and producing a sizing paste of good quality.

Abstract: A whitening, polishing or pearling machine for grains and cereals and more particularly for rice, vertically disposed, composed of an integral chamber which has an entry or grain feeder, said grain being transported to a section where it is treated in order to whiten or polish it, the grain once treated being passed through a centrifugal extractor to collect the product, or to a regulating hopper which is connected directly to another machine exactly like the first in order to complete the treatment or to another process if the grain has now been totally polished.The grain is treated by centrifuging by means of a rotor which casts it toward screens, raising it by the thrust of a feed screw which rubs the grains against each other, against the screens and also against work-intensifying knives located within the treatment section or chamber, driving out the particles of the flour produced during treatment to a discharge where they are collected.

Abstract: Support means is provided for mounting an ultrasonic oscillator for engaging washing water in a conventional sink, for use in cleaning medical instruments. One form of support means is an overflow pipe adapted to be inserted at its lower end in the drain opening of a conventional sink and stabilized at its upper end by an arm extended pivotally from the oscillator power supply control positioned adjacent the sink, the oscillator being mounted on the upper end of the overflow pipe and the overflow pipe having a water inlet opening intermediate its ends for establishing the maximum level of washing water in the sink. Another form of support means is a float structure adapted to float on washing water contained in a conventional sink, the float structure mounting an ultrasonic oscillator for engaging the washing water.

Abstract: Apparatus and method are disclosed for continuously handling sodium hydrosulfite for use in textile dyeing including means for receiving the pure dry chemical in semi-bulk returnable containers, for dissolving the same in a caustic solution and for storing the resulting solution in low inventory automatic make-up tanks. The novel resulting solution is stabilized against decomposition and may be metered to specified locations in the textile mill.

Abstract: Improvement and greater efficiency in pumping-mixing of several non-miscible liquids and adequate flow rate control of liquids to be mixed are obtained through the use of centrifugal rotors and suction tubes which are independent for each liquid and connected to separate flow boxes. Efficient flow rate control of each liquid is obtained by regulating the inflow inlet section of each flow box and also by the extension of the screwable suction tube into the flow box and also by properly and adequately dimensioning the rotors.