Abstract: A stain machine including a rotatable drum enclosing a plurality of perforated splint-receiving chambers. The drum is selectively moveable from a soak, or stain-engaging position to a higher spin position, located above the level of the stain in a stain tank. The drum rotates at a first slower speed in its soak position and at a second higher speed in its spin position.

Abstract: The invention concerns a device for the oil treatment of sintered parts consisting of a drum (11, 111) which is mounted so that it can rotate about a vertical axis and which can be driven. It has a drum mantle (11′, 111′) and loading and unloading devices so that it can be loaded and unloaded axially, a floor that tightly closes the opening in the floor (19, 119) against the-drum mantle (11′, 111′), connections (28, 29, 30, 31/128, 129, 130, 131) leading into the drum (11, 111) for liquid and gaseous treatment media for carrying out the treatment phases, and outlets (35, 135) for letting treatment fluids out of the drum (11, 111). The task of the invention is to create a device that not only mechanizes the treatment process but also can be repeated many times, always in the same way.

Abstract: A machine for coating particulate material is provided with a housing and a cylindrical drum rotatably mounted within the housing. The drum includes a frame having opposite end rings and rails extending longitudinal between the end rings. A plurality of screen panels are slidably mounted on the rails to form a perforated drum side wall for holding particulate material. One or more spray nozzles are positioned within the drum for spraying a liquid solution onto the particulate material. An air inlet and outlet is provided to supply heated air for drying the solution on the particulate material.

Abstract: A tablet coating machine for applying a coating to a bed of tablets, the machine comprising a circular drum with frusto-conical ends which is rotated about its axis. The periphery of the drum is perforated to allow air to flow through the bed of tablets disposed in the drum under the action of a suction shoe. In order to be able to optimise the efficiency of the tablet coating process for different quantities of tablets, the volumetric capacity of the drum is adjustable to achieve a desired tablet depth for the quantity of tablets being processed. More particularly an axially adjustable wall portion is provided within the drum to adjust the length of the tablet containing portion of the drum. The wall portion is made up of segments which are dimensioned to fit through an opening into the drum by which tablets are introduced into the drum.

Abstract: A method for coating food pieces with powder material. The apparatus includes a drum having a pair of opposing side openings, and engaging members mounted on a cylindrical inner surface thereof. Powder material is sifted by the engaging members as the drum is rotated. An inlet member extends through one of the openings and deposits food pieces into the drum such that one food piece is deposited onto the powder material located between each adjacent pair of engaging members at a bottom portion of the drum. Rotation of the drum causes the food piece to roll on the powder material, thereby completely coating the food piece, and causes the engaging members to lift the coated food pieces to an upper portion of the drum until the coated food pieces roll or slide off of the engaging members. An outlet member is positioned to receive the coated food pieces as they roll or slide from the engaging members.

Abstract: A drum for holding, moving and treating a particulate material is rotatable about its axis and has a metallic wall enclosing the axis and provided with perforation holes. A wire fabric has wires sintered to one another, rests essentially with its entire outer surface against the inner surface of the wall, is sintered essentially over its entire outer surface to the wall and separates the perforation holes thereof from the free interior space of the drum. Since the wire fabric rests essentially with its entire outer surface against the wall, no particulate material can enter between the wall and the wire fabric. The wire fabric is durable and can be cleaned rapidly and readily together with the rest of the drum.

Abstract: An apparatus and method for sprinkling food pieces with powder material. The apparatus includes a drum having a pair of opposing side openings, and engaging members mounted on a cylindrical inner surface thereof. Powder material is sifted by the engaging members as the drum is rotated. An inlet member extends through one of the openings and deposits food pieces into the drum such that one food piece is deposited onto the powder material located between each adjacent pair of engaging members at a bottom portion of the drum. Rotation of the drum causes the food piece to roll on the powder material, thereby completely coating the food piece, and causes the engaging members to lift the coated food pieces to an upper portion of the drum until the coated food pieces roll or slide off of the engaging members. An outlet member is positioned to receive the coated food pieces as they roll or slide from the engaging members.

Abstract: A resin application apparatus used in the production of oriented strand board has a rotary atomizer supported within a drum for containing and tumbling wood flakes. A spinning cup is rotatably supported by a housing of the atomizer, with a gap formed between an outer surface of the cup and the housing. A supply line provides resin to the spinning cup for atomization thereof and coating of the tumbling wood flakes. A passageway is formed in the housing terminating in an outlet proximate the spinning cup. Solvent is flowed through the passageway and out of the outlet, sweeping away any accumulated material in the gap and on the spinning cup and housing. The cleaning operation is performed simultaneous with the flow and atomization of the resin, whereby the resin application process continues without interruption.

Abstract: A centrifugal tumbling granulating-coating apparatus for spherically granulating and coating pharmaceuticals, foods and the like. The apparatus is constructed such that an annular outer portion 5b of a rotary disc 5 is formed to provide an inclined portion which is inclined downwardly toward the center, the size (P) of the outer portion 5b in the horizontal direction is within the range of P.gtoreq.0.25D to the diameter (D) and preferably 0.4D.gtoreq.P.gtoreq.0.25D, and the height (H) is within the range of 0.1D.ltoreq.H.ltoreq.0.33D and preferably 0.1D.ltoreq.H.ltoreq.0.25D.

Abstract: A machine system and process for producing attrition resistant, controlled release fertilizer is described. In the process, a prewet solution is used to initially coat the plant nutrient to be coated followed by the separate application of the individual components used in the coating. The machine system provides an improved means for uniformly applying a single layer or multiple layers of polymer coatings to the plant nutrient.

Abstract: An apparatus and process for coating food products with seasoning, powder or other dry or granulated material while the food products are rotated in a drum uses a trough which extends into the drum from outside of the drum. The trough provides a plurality of V-shaped channels having intermittently arranged lengthwise slots along low points of the channels for creating curtains of material falling through the slots onto the food products. The trough is vibrated for inducing flow along its length as well as for preventing clogging of material flowing through the slots. Alternately the material can spill over a tapered wall of the trough rather than through slots. A vibrating inlet feeder which provides a screening surface is located upstream of the trough for screening the material before discharge into the trough and eventual discharge into the drum. A controlled screw feeder can be used to limit and regulate flow of material into the inlet feeder.

Abstract: An apparatus is provided for continuously coating particulate material, such as seeds. The apparatus includes a frame, a cylindrical drum rotatable about an axis tilted with respect to a horizontal plane, and a series of spray nozzles extending into the drum so as to spray one or more coating solutions onto the particulate material which tumbles within the rotating drum. The drum includes a rifling with flighting which carries the material upwardly from approximately 6 o'clock position to a 9 o'clock position, wherein the material falls from the flighting in a curtain spaced apart from the sidewall of the drum. Perforations in the sidewall of the drum allow a flow of air through the drum and curtain of material so as to dry the coating solution on the material substantially instantaneously as the material is coated with solution in the drum. The drum is maintained at a negative pressure during the coating process.

Abstract: A continuous method for the surface treatment of solid particles comprises feeding a powder mixture which consists of solid particles of a given substance and solid particles of another substance into one of a plurality of impact chambers in communication with one another and equipped with a rotating disc having impact pins and also with an impingement ring, subjecting the mixture to an impact striking action, separating an air stream produced by that action from the powder mixture and discharging it continuously from the impact chamber, repeating the impact action while allowing the powder mixture to reside temporarily in the impact chamber, and then causing the mixture to move, in succession, to the next chamber and so forth.

Abstract: A barrel for chemically treating parts having a perforated side panel for retaining the parts within the barrel while permitting passage of a bath solution into the barrel. The panel comprises a base and a plurality of perforated sections on the base, with each perforated section containing a plurality of openings in the base for passage of the solution. A plurality of ribs extends outwardly from one surface of the base, wherein the ribs separate each of the perforated sections from an adjacent perforated section. The ribs are comprised of individual rib segments, with each rib segment separating one perforated section from an adjacent perforated section. Each of the rib segments intersect at a point with at least one other rib segment between adjacent perforated sections.

Abstract: A method for coating particulate substrate materials is provided which comprises (a) combining particles and an electrolyte in an imperforate container; (b) vibrating the container to generate a fluidized bed of particles in the electrolyte; and (c) electrochemically depositing a coating on the particles from reactants in the electrolyte. An apparatus for coating particles is also provided which comprises an imperforate container for receiving particles to be coated and an electrolyte and a device for generating a fluidized bed in the container, the device being operatively associated with the container.

Abstract: A centrifugal tumbling granulating-coating apparatus has a rotary disk rotated in the horizontal direction and a stator provided at an outer peripheral position of the rotary disk at a predetermined internal from the rotary disk. The rotary disk is formed therein with a peripheral edge portion having a circularly arcuate-shaped vertical cross-section erected from a flat bottom surface portion and curved upwardly. In the rotary disk, a height (H) from the bottom surface portion to an outer peripheral end is set at a value within a range of 0.30R.ltoreq.H.ltoreq.R to a radius of curvature (R) of the peripheral edge portion, a width (W) of the peripheral edge portion is set at a value within a range of 0.07D.ltoreq.W.ltoreq.0.25D to a diameter (D) of the rotary disk and the radius of curvature (R) of the peripheral edge portion is set at a value within a range of 0.10D.ltoreq.R.ltoreq.0.25D to the diameter (D). A powder contact portion of the stator is formed substantially vertically.

Abstract: A system and apparatus for producing seasoned food products where seasoning is performed at individual packaging lines. The product is conveyed from the preparation area to a packaging area in an unseasoned condition. Upon reaching the packaging lines, which are disposed in packaging departments in the packaging area, the product can be selectively seasoned independent of other packaging lines. After seasoning, the product is packaged and prepared for delivery. At each packaging line, a volumetric feeder includes a feed head that cooperates with a tumbler having helical flights to produce continuous controlled product portions. A seasoning dispenser is positionable within the tumbler and can be adjusted to dispense a given weight of seasoning at a given rate, based on the amount of product passing through the tumbler, to obtain consistent seasoning levels and coverage.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a granulating and coating technique, and more particularly to a technique wherein powder and granules are contained in a drum rotating about a substantially horizontal axis and the rotary drum is rotated for granulation of the granules and (or) coating. There is provided a rotary drum (1) for containing the powder and granules (M) and rotating about the substantially horizontal axis, and also provided a baffle member (12) continuously or intermittently rotating or swinging at the inside of the powder and granules (M) layer in the rotary drum (1). The baffle is turned in the granules, so that the raw materials for the powder and granules can be prevented from adhering to the baffle member and the rotary drum or from peeling off therefrom, thus obtaining products of uniform coating.

Abstract: The rotary drum has a cylindrical portion (tubular body portion) formed therein with vent holes. An annular duct is disposed at the outside of the cylindrical portion of the rotary drum in a manner to surround the cylindrical portion. This annular duct is provided with a gas supply duct and an exhaust duct. In the annular duct, partition walls define a vent path, in which the drying gas which has been supplied from the gas supply duct flows through an accumulated layer, and thereafter, flows to the exhaust duct. The direction of flow of the drying gas in the vent path is changed over by gas supply-exhaust changeover dampers.

Abstract: An apparatus for applying a coating to a powdery or granular material has a rotary drum 20 including a tubular portion 21 formed with air holes 27 and hollow shaft portions 23 and 24 provided at opposite end portions in the axial direction. A coating chamber 26 is defined inside the rotary drum 20. Liquid is sprayed from a nozzle 32 onto an accumulated layer 33 of a powdery or granular material in the coating chamber 26. Drying gas supplied from an air supply duct 45 is introduced into the rotary drum 20 from one of the two hollow shaft portions 23 and 24. A plurality of axially extending air ducts 34 are provided on the outer periphery of the rotary drum 20. When an air duct is positioned downwardly it is communicated with an air exhaust duct 41 through a distributor 35. Air introduced from the air supply duct 45 is biased toward the accumulated layer 33 by louvers 48.

Abstract: A method of and an apparatus for sugar coating, the apparatus comprising: a rotatable vessel for containing a material to be coated; a baffle 9 movable independently of the rotatable vessel; a baffle mounting shaft 10 having a bent construction, for mounting the baffle 9 thereon; and a hydraulic cylinder for rocking the baffle mounting shaft 10 to displace the baffle 9. Load cells 17a and 17b for detecting the position of the baffle 9 relative to an accumulated layer M of a material to be coated are provided on the baffle 9. The load cells 17a and 17b serves for holding the position of the baffle 9 relative to the accumulated layer M of the material to be coated at all times, on the basis of a load imposed due to the presence of the contact with the material to be coated.

Abstract: An arrangement for the application of topical substances to base products. A rotatable star-shaped reel structure is rotated, in which a flowable base product is tumbled while being coated with the topical substance so as to ensure an appropriate uniform distribution of the topical substance on the surfaces of the base product while inhibiting the formation of clump-like agglomerates of coated base product on the internal surfaces of the reel.

Abstract: Particles, such as seeds, are coated with a treatment agent by being introduced into a rotating cylindrical drum into which the treatment agent is supplied. A pair of screw conveyors is disposed within the drum and arranged to rotate about respective axes oriented parallel to the axis of rotation of the drum. One of the screw conveyors rotates in the same direction as the drum, and the other screw conveyor rotates in the opposite direction to achieve a rolling motion of the particles as they are axially advanced along the drum.

Abstract: An apparatus for enabling the agitation of carrier particles utilizing a carrier transporting member with a series of magnets attached, which magnets attract and retain the carrier particles present in a container means. The transporting member is caused to rotate by a roller.

Abstract: Seed is treated with a treatment agent within a rotary drum having rows of circumferentially spaced stirring plates mounted therein. When the drum is rotated about a substantially horizontal axis the plates raise seed from the bottom of the drum. At their uppermost positions the plates are inclined so that seed falls from the plates into a vertical passage defined between adjacent rows of plates. Treatment agent is introduced inside the drum such that the agent is applied to the seed traveling downwardly along the vertical passage.

Abstract: The invention relates to a device for covering lumpy products, especially pills, pellets or tablets, with a coating material, comprising a rotatable drum, a device designed for feeding air into the drum, a device designed for releasing the air from the drum, including at least one releasing air channel provided with at least one air passage opening directed to the interior space of the drum, and further comprising a device designed for spraying the product located in the drum with a coating material. In order to provide a coating device which is easy to operate, especially easy to clean, and the stop periods of which are substantially reduced, the at least one releasing air channel extends along at least one part of the inside wall of the drum and is detachably connected thereto. Thus, the releasing air channels are easy to detach from the drum and may be cleaned outside therefrom.

Abstract: An equipment for discharging treated articles from a barrel in a surface treatment system includes: a carriage movable between a discharging position and a charging position; a water tank supported at the discharging position for vertical movements; and a receiver set at the discharging position above the water tank. The carriage device includes a rotating mechanism for rotating the barrel in water in the tank at the discharging position to discharge the articles from the barrel onto the receiver; a cover operating mechanism for removing a cover from an aperture of the barrel at the discharging position and put it on the aperture at the charging position.

Abstract: The invention is an automatic breader/sifter unit used to facilitate the application of a breading material to a food product. The unit includes a rotatable, horizontally-oriented drum that has an octagonal shape. The sidewalls of the drum include a large number of apertures so that when breading material is within the drum, the material contacts the drum and is sifted as the drum rotates. The drum is motor-driven and is at least partially surrounded by an exterior housing. The housing prevents the sifted breading material from escaping from the unit.

Abstract: The invention is an automatic breader/sifter unit used to facilitate the application of a breading material to a food product. The unit includes a rotatable, horizontally-oriented drum that has an octagonal shape. The sidewalls of the drum include a large number of apertures so that when breading material is within the drum, the material contacts the drum and is sifted as the drum rotates. The drum is motor driven and is partially surrounded by an exterior housing. The housing prevents the sifted breading material from escaping from the unit.

Abstract: Apparatus for drying galvanized mass-produced parts (3) in an immersion-type perforated (30) drum (1) includes a container (2) having a cavity for accommodating the drum, and a chamber for guiding a stream of drying-air (22) which passes through the drum (1) and charge (3) of mass-produced parts, the chamber being divided into two separated regions one of which is upstream of the drum of guiding the stream of dry air (22) to the drum, and the other of which is downstream of the drum for guiding the stream of humid air from the drum. The flow region for the humid air stream forms an approximately V-shaped flow path, whereby an angle of < 90.degree. is formed between the entry direction of the humid air stream in one leg (ABSR) of the V-shaped and the exit direction of the humid air stream in the other leg (CDVT) of the V.

Abstract: An automatically opened and closed barrel is disclosed for use in plating treatments, chemical conversion coating treatments, etc. This barrel is provided with an opening and closing cam having a groove at a top part thereof and a slidable supplementary plate which covers the groove of the cam. A lid is pivoted relative to the barrel for covering an opening therein. A lever is fixed for pivotal movement with the lid, and only when the lid is required to be opened, the supplementary plate is slid so as to expose the groove in the cam. When this occurs, a free end of the lever is dropped into the groove of the cam such that the lid uncovers the barrel opening. The lever is prevented from dropping into the groove of the cam at every rotation of the barrel because the supplementary plate covers the groove at the cam which it is unnecessary to have the barrel opening uncovered, with the result of a longer usable life of the barrel.

Abstract: A granulating and coating apparatus in which a rotary drum containing powdery or granular material is rotated about the substantially horizontal axis for granulating and/or coating the powdery or granular material. The apparatus is provided with a disk valve mechanism for switching a gas supply or exhaust path to the rotary drum on the operating side of the rotary drum. The rotary drum is provided inside of itself with a baffle means for stirring powdery or granular material and a baffle displacing means for displacing the baffle means. Inside of the rotary drum is provided a temperature sensor for directly measuring a temperature of powdery or granular material. The rotary drum is composed of porous polygonal. Each side of the polygonal drum includes an outer enclosure mounted thereon and individual detachable.

Abstract: Residue produced by incineration of commercial, industrial or municipal waste is treated on-site at the point of generation or storage. Moist residue, such as incinerator bottom ash, is mixed in a multi-segment rotary drum with a heavy metals treatment agent in a first section of the drum. An aggregation agent is added to the mixture, and the mixture separates under the shearing force imposed by the rotating drum into individual pieces which are rolled into balls. A cementitious coating material is added to coat the balls, and the coated balls are classified by size. The classified coated balls are conveyed to a bagging plant, where they are packaged in flexible containers formed from material selected to retard water loss, and tagged with identifying information. Toxic contaminants such as cadmium, lead and mercury are immobilized in the cured balls, which can be used as a construction aggregate. Leaching of heavy metals from the incinerator residue is strongly inhibited by the process.

Abstract: A granulating and coating apparatus comprising a rotary drum to be charged therein a powdery or granular material, and a baffle plate provided in the rotary drum and not rotatable together with the rotary drum. The rotary drum is formed to be a polygonal shape. This polygonal shape may be, for example, a pentagon, a hexagon, an octagon or a decagon. The baffle plate may be positionally fixedly supported. Or, the baffle plate can be made to change a position in a rocking direction, a position of the rotary drum in the axial direction, a depth of insertion into a layer of a powdery or granular material or an angle of insertion by use of plurality of actuators.

Abstract: A fluid distribution bar, such as for applying a liquid or other fluent medium to a tumbling bed of material to be coated, has concentrically mounted inner and outer tubes in the described embodiment. The inner tube has a plurality of outlets along a length of the tube which are alignable with corresponding openings formed in the outer tube by relative movement of the tubes. A plurality of slidable seals each corresponding to an inner tube outlet are mounted in the interior of the outer tube to overlie and seal the inner tube outlets in a first position, with the relative movement of the tubes unsealing the outlets in a second position for fluid distribution. The described embodiment uses seals comprising an elongated flexible resilient sealing strip mounted at each end in apertures formed in the outer tube such that the flexible strips are elastically deformed to slidably bear against the exterior surface of the inner tube for a good sealing engagement.

Abstract: A co-deposit of aluminum, zinc and tin can be deposited onto metallic substrates including small metal parts, and the co-deposit is strongly adherent to the substrate and exhibits improved corrosion resistant properties. The co-deposits are plated onto metallic substrates by a process which comprises the steps of a. preparing the substrate to receive the co-deposit, b. forming a slurry comprising a soluble source of stannous ions, impact media, and aluminum and zinc in particulate form in a liquid medium maintained at a pH below about 4, c. mechanically impacting the slurry against the surface of the metallic substrate in a plating container to plate a co-deposit of tin, aluminum and zinc on a metal surface, d. renewing the stannous ions, aluminum and zinc in the slurry while maintaining the pH of the slurry below about 4 throughout the plating process until a co-deposit of the desired thickness is obtained.

Abstract: A barrel plating apparatus in which a barrel accommodating a large number of works is successively soaked in a plurality of baths filled with treatment liquid, the barrel comprising a peripheral wall, a pair of end walls at opposite ends of the peripherial wall, an opening provided at a central portion of the end wall without a cover or a cap, and a space for accommodating the works which is formed by a space lower than the opening inside the barrel when the central longitudinal axis of the barrel is horizontal.

Abstract: A basket for tumbling workpieces is positioned in a carrier. The carrier is rotatably mounted on a carrier rotation axis between two legs of a stage assembly and is rotated by a carrier rotation motor mounted on the stage assembly. A basket cover supported on the carrier is driven between open and closed position with respect to the carrier mounted basket by a container cover drive motor mounted on the stage assembly, a double-acting lead screw shaft rotatably supported in the carrier in parallel relation to the carrier rotation axis, a drive train between the lead screw shaft and the basket cover, and a drive train, including sprockets rotatable on the carrier rotation axis, between the cover drive motor and the lead screw shaft.

Abstract: Objects molded of synthetic resin such as slide fastener sliders are dyed with a dye liquor having a bath ratio appropriate for an actual amount of dyestuff to be applied to the objects which has been determined from the outer surface area of the objects and the thickness of a dye layer to be formed thereon. The dye liquor is brought into contact with the objects while the dye liquor is being supplied in circulation through a dyeing tank or contained together with the objects in the dyeing tank.

Abstract: Coating device whose coating vessel is driven simultaneously with a rotary motion on itself around an axis of rotation and with a planetary motion around this axis of rotation. The device makes it possible to coat various products, especially kernels, seed, fruit, confectionery products, dragees, sweets, pharmaceutical products, and the like.

Abstract: Apparatus for coating pharmaceutical tablets in which a drum having a perforated periphery is provided with an adjustable insert which divides the drum into an inactive zone and a coating zone, thus permitting a relatively small quantity of tablets to be coated under conditions equivalent to those used for coating a bed of particles in a completely loaded drum.

Abstract: Apparatus for cleaning, plating and/or coating articles comprising a container adapted to contain a liquid cleaning, plating or coating material. A barrel is at least partially submerged in the container and supported for rotation about its longitudinal axis. A novel support for the barrel comprises a pair of rings concentric with the barrel and suspended by a plurality of rollers. Laterally spaced stationary end walls are mounted in fixed positions covering the ends of the barrel. The barrel has end openings and the stationary end walls fit within the end openings. A novel discharge chute extends from inside the barrel to the exterior thereof.

Abstract: Carbon black pellets are covered with rubber to prevent dusting problems. In a process and apparatus for covering carbon black pellets with rubber the carbon black pellets are introduced into a coating chamber comprising a porous cylinder into which fluid rubber containing material is injected, which material is picked up by the individual carbon black pellets while they are coated by this material.

Abstract: A plating barrel is constructed of a perforated cylindrical side section clamped between a pair of end plates. The end plates are provided with positioning grooves that receive edge portions of the side section. Each end plate includes a plurality of concentric grooves so that the same end plates may be used with side sections of different diameters. The barrel is rotatably mounted on a support disposed within a seamless tank containing a plating bath. The support has adjustable upstanding arms which rotatably support the barrel and permit the height thereof to be adjusted for controlling the extent to which the barrel is immersed in the plating bath, with such adjustment being dictated in part by the extent of the areas to be plated and the number of work pieces in the barrel.

Abstract: A seed coating machine comprising an upper mixing drum wherein a liquid adhesive coating is applied to seed and where the rate of application is regulated by a valve controlled by the seed feeder. Coated seed is dried to a state of tackiness and passed to a second, lower mixing drum. A variety of powders are applied onto the tacky seed after being mixed and sifted in a screen distributor. The resulting coated seed has an outer powder layer which adheres to the inner adhesive coating.

Abstract: In a drum which is rotatable about a horizontal axis of rotation, inlet and outlet lines for a gas, for drying a material contained in the drum, are connected to an immersion body. The immersion body has inlet and outlet openings for the gas and is disposed within the drum to be immersed in the material. The immersion body contains a tunnel through which the material can flow and has arranged in its interior at least some of the inlet and outlet openings for the gas.

Abstract: To uniformly and economically disperse liquids, via sprays of droplets, on surfaces of particles, a method moving the particles involves their rotary lifting, followed by their free falling, with a spray of droplets originating from a central area of the overall motion path of the particles. In a preferred embodiment of the blending apparatus, a hollow drum is rotated about a near horizontal axis. Inside the drum, commencing at each end are cantilevered non-rotating shafts, each positioning one or more powered slightly conical discs selectively tiltable to ultimately disperse respective sprays of droplets from a central area.

Abstract: A dragee-making drum cooperating with a partition wall in order to promote cleanliness, particularly during the manufacture of medical preparations, by increasing the isolation between the clean "grey" zone in front of the partition wall and the dirtier "black" zone behind it. This increased isolation is accomplished by providing a flanged rim at the mouth of the drum to fit within a corresponding U-shaped seal disposed at the opening of the partition wall. An opening is provided at the bottom of the seal for removal of debris.

Abstract: The invention relates to methods and apparatus for treating work pieces, and particularly to electroplating small metal articles such as nuts, bolts, arms, hangers and the like. The apparatus, with little variation, could also be used for cleaning, pickling, tumbling, blackening, dying, etc. The apparatus comprises a plurality of horizontally disposed cylinders, each having an inlet and an outlet, with the outlet of the first cylinder in communication with the inlet of a succeeding cylinder. The cylinders are rotatable about their axes in opposite directions and each has a spiral rib in the body thereof pitched in a certain direction, and a spiral rib in the outlet also pitched in said certain direction. Each cylinder also has a spiral rib in its inlet and this spiral is pitched in a direction opposite to that of the ribs in the cylinder body and the outlet thereof.

Abstract: An arrangement for processing ligno-cellulose containing particles for the manufacture of wood-product plates. These have layers of oriented chips, and a chipper comminutes raw material. The fine material and dust are separated by a sifting device, and the sifted chips are provided with binder material by a gluing device. The chipper produces more chips of as great a length as possible than are required for forming of at least one cover layer of a mat. Behind the chipper, there are provided a wet-chip bunker and a dryer. The sifter separates the chips, obtained after removal of the fine material and the dust, into two fractions. The chip composition of one of these fractions, during the processing time, constantly contains chips which are as long as possible and which are more than that required for forming the mat layer. The other fraction has shorter chips obtained during chipping, and both fractions are present each in at least one bunker.