Abstract: A rotor-stator system for agglomerate mixing apparatus utilizes a unique rotor-stator mixer assembly which combines a high efficiency rotor with unique stator element designs to address the limitations of prior rotor-stator mixer assemblies, including the dispersal of large agglomerate and problem of heat build-up. The stator elements have a variety of slot openings in different sizes and shapes whose inside walls are slanted in an acute attack angle that will generate circumferential, rather than exit flow. These slot configurations enable rapid large agglomerate reduction into smaller and smaller agglomerates and ultimately down to particle size without the need to change stator configuration, which is already built into the device.

Abstract: A macerator includes a housing that defines a chamber, an inlet and an outlet, the inlet to receive a flow of slurry; two or more elongate concentric bodies located within the chamber defining a gap between the surface of the outer body and the inner surface of the housing, at least one of the bodies rotatable about an axis, and each body comprising a plurality of apertures defining a flow path through each body; a baffle(s) that extend substantially the width of the gap to define a first portion containing the inlet, and a second portion containing the outlet, baffle(s) substantially inhibiting passage of slurry between the two portions via the gap such that the slurry is directed through the body apertures; a motor to drive the rotating body(ies); one or more injectors that inject liquid into the gap, at least one injector located in the first portion.

Abstract: A grinding device suitable for operating inside a flotation cell which includes three zones including a collecting zone in which particles are collected though a settling process, a grinding zone in which particles undergo a size reduction process and a pumping zone from which milled particles are recycled to the flotation cell.

Abstract: A stirring device for stirring a particulate material and a grinding media in a grinding mill includes one or more protective elements that extend outwardly from a body to deflect said particulate material and said grinding media from the body.

Abstract: The disclosed invention is a description of the means to create increased mechanical advantage by taking advantage of the rotation of confined liquid matter. The process described uses liquid both as a mass to store rotational energy, and at the same time the rotating liquid is used as a motive force to drive a rotating shaft.

Abstract: A cutting blade assembly establishes a bidirectional and/or multifaceted scissor-type cutting action to efficiently and effectively process various types of debris encountered by the cutting blade assembly. The assembly includes a cutting plate and a cutting hub configured for relative rotation. A cutting slot is formed in the cutting plate and intersects the axial face to define a cutting edge at the intersection of the cutting slot and the axial face. The cutting hub has a cutting arm positioned adjacent to the axial face. When the cutting plate and the cutting hub undergo relative rotation, the cutting arm passes adjacent to the cutting edge to perform a scissor-type cutting action.

Abstract: The present invention provides a disposal splash guard that enables water flowing into the disposal splash guard to be directed through peripheral openings in the disposal splash guard. The disposal splash guard comprises a body and a baffle. A size of the peripheral openings is operable to direct water flowing into the disposal splash guard through the peripheral openings in the baffle. At least one of a shape of the body and a shape of the baffle is operable to direct water flowing into the disposal splash guard through the peripheral openings in the baffle. At least one of a size of the peripheral openings, a shape of the body, and a shape of the baffle is operable to direct at least ten percent of water flowing into the disposal splash guard through the peripheral openings in the baffle.

Abstract: A milling device for implementing a milling operation including a milling unit having a body including a milling chamber that can be filled with a material to be milled, a rotor mounted so as to be able to rotate around a shaft in the body, a screen, and a drive unit controlling the movements of the rotor with respect to the screen during the milling operation. The drive unit is designed to impart an oscillating movement to the rotor around the shaft, the oscillation angle being variable during the milling operation. The milling chamber is configured to direct the product to be milled in a direction substantially parallel to the rotation shaft of the rotor.

Abstract: An impeller assembly with an impeller and a cutter bar plate is used in a chopper pump system which handles liquid material sometimes entrained with large debris and stringy matter. The debris and matter present clogging hazards, which are reduced by a combination of scissoring between sharpened impeller blades and shearing fingers, and between cutting wings and shearing fingers. To make the cutting feature more aggressive, sharpened edges along two of the scissoring edges of the shearing fingers are utilized. Preferably, the sharpened edges are either the result of machined v-notches on the cutting surface of the shearing fingers or of a casted part having a cupped surface. Generally speaking, the impeller assembly comprises an impeller attached to a rotatable pump shaft and includes a back shroud.

Abstract: An apparatus includes a motor having a first shaft extending therefrom. The motor is configured to apply energy to the first shaft. A particle cartridge mechanically is coupled to the motor via the first shaft. The particle cartridge includes a screen separating an internal volume of the particle cartridge from an environment of the apparatus, and a plurality of particles disposed within the internal volume. A particle manipulation element is mechanically coupled to the first shaft and in contact with the plurality of particles. The particle manipulation element moves in response to the energy being applied to the first shaft to force some of the particles through the screen and into the environment of the apparatus.

Abstract: The invention relates to a pump device for operating vacuum drainage systems and for pumping sewage, in particular on watercrafts. This pump device comprises a drive device having a drive shaft that comprises a first shaft end and a second shaft end and can be rotated by means of the drive device. The pump device further comprises a centrifugal pump which has at least one impeller that is connected in a torque-proof manner to the drive shaft in the region of the first shaft end.

Abstract: Disclosed is a method of preparing a hair care composition comprising a step of injecting antidandruff agent, perfume and/or silicone, to an emulsion. The method of the present invention provides reduced agglomeration of the antidandruff agent selected from metal pyrithiones.

Abstract: The present invention is directed to a method and system of processing and removing hydrocarbon sludge from a tank wherein the hydrocarbon sludges are the product of gravity settling in the bottom of the tank to form a sludge consisting of inorganic and organic materials not readily flowable or pumpable for removal in the found state and where a process is used to selectively separate, grind, disperse and suspend these materials with a mechanical classifier system, and where flow agents may be metered to effect a slurry stream directed thru a nozzle system towards the sludge in the tank and by reducing the surface tension and mechanical conditioning of the sludge, create a pumpable slurry that may be removed from the tank with minimal time, cost and environmental impact.

Abstract: A grinder pump basin system is provided which includes a basin; a cover plate; a bracket secured to the cover plate; and a grinder pump with cutter plate with openings and a cutter blade secured to the bracket above a bottom surface of the basin. The openings in the cutter plate have an unique shape which assists in the cutting of material which flows through an inlet of a grinder pump. The shape of the cutter blade cooperates with the openings in the cutter plate such that solids are forced between these respective components and thereby are efficiently cut into small pieces for passing through the openings and for discharge from the grinder pump basin system.

Abstract: A centrifugal pump with a cutter mechanism consisting of a toothed cutter rotor, integral with the impeller wear ring, affixed to the impeller and a toothed cutter stator affixed to the casing, separately from the casing wear ring. A cutter mechanism consisting of a stator and rotor set such that they may be installed on the centrifugal pump impeller and casing as original equipment or as a retrofit. A cutter mechanism such that when installed in a centrifugal pump they prevent stringy materials, garbage and other agglomerated soft wastewater solids from partially restricting or totally blocking the inlet to the pump impeller. A cutter mechanism such that when it prevents solids from restricting or blocking the impeller inlet, it does so without significant decrease of flow throughput or significant increase in absorbed hydraulic horsepower.

Abstract: The invention relates to an apparatus for treating material by cutting, soaking and/or washing of the material, wherein the apparatus comprises a receptacle, a discharge element with a vortex generator and pumping means arranged to pump fluid and material from the receptacle towards the vortex generator, wherein the vortex generator and pumping means in combination are adapted to generate a vortex in the form of a conic helix in the fluid extending into the receptacle.

Abstract: A grinder pump basin system is provided which includes a basin; a cover plate; a bracket secured to the cover plate; and a grinder pump with cutter plate with openings and a cutter blade secured to the bracket above a bottom surface of the basin. The openings in the cutter plate have an unique shape which assists in the cutting of material which flows through an inlet of a grinder pump. The shape of the cutter blade cooperates with the openings in the cutter plate such that solids are forced between these respective components and thereby are efficiently cut into small pieces for passing through the openings and for discharge from the grinder pump basin system.

Abstract: A pulper for comminuting and suspending fibrous material includes a container and at least one rotor arranged in the container for circulating a fibrous material suspension located on the container and at least one rigid sieve. The rotor at least predominantly passes over the sieve surface which is provided with round sieve openings. As high a throughput as possible and as low an energy consumption as possible are to be achieved by limiting the cross-section of the sieve openings exclusively defined by circle segments.

Abstract: Disclosed herein is a non-clog shredder that is used to shred solid matter entrained in a non-homogenous liquid-solid feed. In one embodiment of the invention, the shredder is located at the bottom of a toilet bowl and is used to shred solid disposable products such as napkins and diapers that are discarded in the toilet bowl. The shredder comprises a generally cylindrical cup that is open at one end, with a circular end-cap at the other end. The end-cap has an axial opening that allows the feed to pass through the cup. In one embodiment of the invention, the opening has recesses and/or teeth on the periphery of the opening. An impeller disposed against the circular end plate creates suction for transfer of the waste through the shredder. A cutting blade on the impeller assembly projects axially through the opening in the end-cap.

Abstract: In a pulverization/dispersion processing system using a medium agitating type wet pulverization/dispersion machine, a system capable of judging the progress of pulverization/dispersion processing successively and objectively during the pulverization/dispersion processing is provided. A pulverization/dispersion processing system 10 including a medium agitating type wet pulverization/dispersion machine 20, a holding tank 40 of a material to be processed, a circulating pump 30, and circulating lines 50 connecting these components to each other is equipped with a particle size distribution measuring instrument and/or a zeta potential measuring instrument 60 in one of the circulating lines 50. These measuring instruments 60 perform measurement by means of an ultrasonic wave, and can use an ultrasonic attenuation method or an electronkinetic sonic amplitude method.

Abstract: A stirring or dispersing device (1), has a hermetically sealed mixing chamber (5), a tool (2), and a drive mechanism (4) located outside of the mixing chamber (5). The tool (2) can be driven around a central shaft in the mixing chamber (5) which has a rod-shaped element (3) for force transmission from the drive mechanism (4) to the tool (2). The rod-shaped element (3) is connected at the entry to the mixing chamber (5) with a diaphragm (6), which is a part of the wall (7) of the mixing chamber (5), and the rod-shaped element (3) can be put into a wobbling movement by the drive mechanism (4), so that its end located in the interior of the mixing chamber (5) performs a rotating movement. The tool is constituted by a number of grinding elements (22) or balls to be introduced into the mixing chamber (5).

Abstract: A weeder for a pond, it mainly has a handle unit provided on one end of a long pipe, and has thereon a switch and a set of power source equipment; the other end the long pipe is provided sequentially with an electric device, a knife/blade device and a sucking mouth piece unit. The electric device is provided with a motor to make rotation of the blade and the knife, thereby a sucking mouth piece of the sucking mouth piece unit can suck in weeds or dirt in water of the pond, the matter sucked in is minced by the rotating knife and then is removed by exhausting outwards.

Abstract: A two-stage sewage grinder pump (10) having two impellers (30, 32) and a grinder (60) attached to the motor shaft (24). Preferably, both impellers are vortex impellers and are positioned between the grinder and the motor. The motor housing includes a discharge conduit (70) that is monolithic with the motor housing (20). An anti-siphon valve (71) is integral with the discharge conduit. An integral discharge flange (75) and check valve (78) are attached to the discharge conduit to connect the sewage grinder pump to a sewage outlet.

Abstract: A pulper having a tank for receiving materials to be shredded and a drive having a rotating hub within the tank. A rotor is fixed to the rotating output of the drive, the rotor comprising an annular rotatable hub and a plurality of vanes projecting generally axially from the hub. Each of the vanes has a contour that is swept back from the direction of rotation, at least adjacent the radially outermost portion thereof. The vanes have a side edge facing an axial direction and a plurality of teeth are provided on the side edge of the vanes adjacent the radially outermost portion thereof for providing rapid shredding of material with a reduced energy requirement.

Abstract: Apparatus and method for dispersing solid constituents into a liquid vehicle employ an immersion mill operating in combination with a low shear mixer blade assembly which sweeps the walls of a tank containing a batch of solid constituents in a liquid vehicle to circulate the batch through the immersion mill to carry out a milling operation to establish a relatively high viscosity mixture having a high degree of uniformity. The immersion mill includes an improvement wherein a helical screw impeller is placed within a tubular inlet passage for moving the batch longitudinally through the tubular inlet passage into the immersion mill, the helical screw impeller including a helical flight extending along the length of the tubular inlet passage and having a diameter complementary to the diameter of the tubular inlet passage and a pitch less than the length of the tubular inlet passage such that the helical flight spans the diameter of the tubular inlet passage along plural turns of the helical flight.

Abstract: A device for mixing and homogenizing materials, especially infectious or chemically aggressive materials, which can be inserted into a laboratory test container. A disposable lid is provided to hermetically seal said laboratory test container. A stirring element is provided in the disposable lid for processing the material that is introduced into the laboratory test container. Said stirring element is fitted with a cutting element that rotates about the longitudinal axis of the laboratory test container, said cutting element processing the material together with additional cutting edges. Complete homogenization of tissue fragments can be securely achieved by hermetically closing the laboratory test container.

Abstract: An improved mechanism is provided for adjusting the clearance between the outer edges of impeller vanes of a centrifugal pump and the interior surface of an adjacent intake plate. The impeller having the vanes is mounted as an assembly to a back plate that can be secured to a casing or housing to which the intake plate is mounted. Threaded adjusters allow adjustment of the clearance between the impeller vanes and the intake plate. Additional modifications include a modified seal design to prevent material from clogging relatively rotatable seal components, a modified intake plate with a shallow recess to increase chopping effectiveness and pump efficiency, impeller vanes with a unique shape to achieve a high head, and a self-priming pump.

Abstract: The present invention provides an apparatus for dispersing pigment in a water-based or oil-based intermediate mixture for producing a coating composition comprising a mixer and a dispersing device, the mixer having a vacuum pump and capable of conducting a primary mixing of a pigment component and resin-containing liquid medium to form an intermediate mixture, the dispersing device capable of conducting the secondary mixing of the intermediate mixture, the mixer and the dispersing device being connected by pipes to form a circulation channel for the intermediate mixture, one of the pipes being provided with a seal-less pump, the intermediate mixture capable of circulating between the mixer and the dispersing device through the circulation channel.

Abstract: A sanitary shredder includes at least a channel feeding water into a caisson (1), an electric motor whereof the axis has at its end a rotor pump (5) with blades (6), and shredding elements opposite the shredding chamber (3) provided with an inlet. The front surface (5a) of the rotor (5) is substantially planar and comprises a plurality of passages for water arranged substantially radially and emerging on the circumference of the rotor (5), each passage of the rotor (5) is extended by a channel delimited by the helical blades (6), the rotor (5) is housed in the pump body (8), its front surface (5a) being substantially in the plane of the pump body opening, shredding members (9) being arranged in axial projection relative to said front surface (5a).

Abstract: A centrifugal sewage pump with two impellers includes a motor, a first impeller housing, a second impeller housing and a transfer tube. The first impeller housing is attached on one end of the motor and the second impeller housing is attached to the other end of the motor. A first impeller is attached to one end of a motor shaft of the motor and a second impeller is attached to the other motor shaft. Sewage is drawn into the first impeller chamber and pushed into the transfer tube with the first impeller. Sewage from the transfer tube enters the second impeller chamber through a transfer cavity and is pushed out with the second impeller. In a second embodiment, a grinder wheel and shredder ring are added to an inlet of the first impeller housing. A discharge head height is nearly twice that of a single impeller pump.

Abstract: An agitator (10) with a rotatable axial shaft (24) with a plurality of grinding discs (22) connected generally perpendicular to the shaft (24) is provided having at least one grinding disc (22) with an axially extending pin (32) spaced radially outwardly from the shaft (24) and radially inwardly from a peripheral edge of the disc (22). The pin (32) is aligned with a smooth surface on a next adjacent disc (22).

Abstract: A pump and grinder assembly is provided for use with a steam producing device having a housing defining a water chamber. The assembly includes a motor having a rotatable output shaft and a pump and grinder shaft coupled to the output shaft for rotation therewith. A blade assembly, having a plurality of blades, is secured to the pump and grinder shaft for rotation therewith. A housing is interconnected to a stationary portion of the motor and defines a grinding chamber housing the blades therein. The assembly is mountable on a steam producing device so that the grinding chamber communicates with the water chamber of the steam producing device. The pump and grinder assembly is operatively effective for pumping water and loose scale contained within the water out of the steam producing device and grinding the scale into relatively smaller pieces.

Abstract: Rotor for a paper stock processing machine, an anti-wear element for protecting a leading front surface of a rotor blade, and a paper stock processing apparatus. The rotor includes at least one rotor blade having a leading front surface to be protected, and an anti-wear element comprising a base body and at least one wear-resistant surface. The anti-wear element is coupled to the leading front surface. The anti-wear element includes a base body with a back side, and at least one wear-resistant working surface. The back side is formed to correspond to a shape of, and to be coupled to, the leading front edge. The apparatus includes a tank, a screen, and a rotor rotatably coupled adjacent the screen. The rotor includes at least one rotor blade having a leading front surface, relative to a rotational direction of the rotor, and an anti-wear element coupled to the leading front edge. The anti-wear element includes a base body and a wear-resistant working surface.

Abstract: An apparatus for the continuously recycling of synthetic plastics material, preferably polyester, has a first receptacle (2) for the material in which movable tools (9) are disposed which comminute and/or mix the material. Pre-processed material is conveyed from this receptacle (2) through a vacuum-tightly closable conduit (18) into a second receptacle (19), the interior of which can be evacuated. Within this second receptacle (19) are movable tools (22) for processing the material. The material is conveyed from the second receptacle (19) by means of a screw (30). Another screw (15) is bearingly supported within the channel (18) and the screw volutions of this screw convey the material from the first receptacle (2) into the second receptacle (19). Between the screw volutions (52) of this further screw (15) and the second receptacle (19) there is at least one damming element (39) in the channel (18), which is disposed in the flow of the conveyed material.

Abstract: An inline type pump in which a rotor having an axial flow vane is arranged inside the cylindrical stator. The fluid is discharged from the discharging port after a rotating kinetic energy of the fluid transferred by the axial flow vane toward the discharging port is changed into a static pressure energy at the pressure chamber. With such an arrangement as above, it is possible to increase a fluid supplying efficiency after satisfying a small-sized structure and further it is possible to increase an output of the pump as well as its efficiency.

Abstract: An apparatus for mixing, grinding, dispersing or emulsifying including a rotatable drive, a rotor body connected for rotation with the drive and having at least one aperture for fluid flow through the rotor body and a flow divider plate structure extending within the rotor body for preventing conglomeration of particulates contained within the fluid in the rotor body. Preferably, a stator body is secured outside of the rotor body and each of the rotor and stator bodies include respective apertures for allowing fluid flow therethrough. The flow divider plate structure prevents the usual swirling action of liquid and solid particulates within the rotor body such that the mixture has a more desirable flow pattern and so that particulates do not conglomerate to form a mass that clogs the rotor body. Further aspects and embodiments of the invention provide advantageous seal structure and structure for increasing productivity.

Abstract: A pulper has a circular rotor that carries a set of peripheral blades that rotate within a stator having a set of peripheral lobes that interact with the peripheral blades as they rotate to reduce and defiber materials, e.g., to produce pulp slurries for paper-making. A cone assembly is mounted over the center of the rotor on a base plate. The cone assembly includes a blade that extends across the common axis of rotation of the base plate and the rotor and projects into a tank beyond the height of the peripheral blades and the stator lobes. A support structure, preferably in the form of a “cone”, supports the blade. The cone preferably has a pyramidal structure and in one form extends sufficiently far up the blade so that, typically, no more than 2 to 3 inches of the blade project above the outer surface of the cone. The blade has a triangular structure terminating in a central apex for use in reducing slabs of large sheet materials such as reel broke.

Abstract: A pulper includes a rotor (5) mounted in a tube adjacent to a screening plate (4) having holes (4a). The rotor (5) includes helical vanes (5a) whose diameter decreases towards the outer end of the rotor. The rotor vanes (5a) carry in the vicinity of the screening plate a radially and outwardly projecting shoulder-like element (10) having a leading surface (10b) which is generally flat and inclined relative to the screening plate (4) at an angle of 55°-85°, and a trailing part having a reversed wing-profile shape as seen in the direction of rotation. The element forms a pressure-generating and subpressure-generating device which exerts an alternating effect on the pulp as the rotor rotates, therewith counteracting clogging of the holes (4a) in the screening plate. The shoulder-like element (10) may comprise a completely or partially separate element in relation to the rotor, and may be detachable therefrom and replaceable, and also optionally reversible.

Abstract: The comminution and distribution device according to the invention can be used to crush comminutable, pumpable materials, in particular mechanically dewatered slurry, into roughly the same sized pieces, and feed them in controllable quantities to a downstream device, e.g., a dryer. To this end, the slurry is conveyed through a gap formed by two oppositely rotatable parts. In preferred embodiments of the device according to the invention, both parts exhibit recesses on the side facing the gap, which are designed in such a way that, when the two parts are turned opposite each other in the preset rotational direction, slurry strands with periodically alternating areas with smaller and larger cross sections are formed, transported outside and split at locations exhibiting smaller cross sections.