Abstract: A mixer apparatus for the treatment of a polymer material to generate the Maxwell effect therein, at a rotor-stator interface in a mixer. The mixer comprises an alternating series of stators and rotors arranged along an elongated driveshaft supported within an elongated housing. The stators and rotors each having at least one helically arranged channel extending from an upstream end of the stator to an end location near the downstream end of that stator, those helically arranged channels preferably are arranged on the surface of the bore extending through the stator.

Abstract: A mixing apparatus for the treatment of a plurality of flowable components. The apparatus comprises an elongated housing having an upper component-introduction end and a downstream compound-discharge end. An elongated shaft is rotatably disposed within an elongated bore disposed within the housing. The shaft has a stator and rotor arrangement spaced longitudinally therearound. At least one rotor has an arrangement of fluid channeling conduits spaced apart on an annular surface thereof, wherein the conduit is of tapering narrowing dimension from a first longitudinal side of the rotor to a second longitudinal side of the rotor.