Abstract: A sanitary mixing tank steady bearing is replaceable without lifting a mixing tank shaft. The steady bearing is insertable into and removable from the bottom of a bearing support attached inside the base of the sanitary mixing tank. The steady bearing may thus be replaced by a service technician working through a man way/man hole on the top of the tank allowing service without lifting the mixing tank shaft. Gaps are provided between the bearing support and steady bearing allowing flushing material from around the steady bearing to easily maintain a sanitary environment.

Abstract: A device mixing ingredients for coloring hair includes a mixing bowl and a housing removably placed atop the mixing bowl so that a pair of agitators rotatably and coaxially mounted within the housing extend downward into the mixing bowl, being driven in opposite directions at the same speed by a mechanism powered by a hand crank, which can be turned in either direction to cause one of the agitators to move a liquid inward within the mixing bowl while the other agitator moves the liquid outward. In an alternative version of the device, the agitators are driven by an electric motor.

Abstract: A blender blade assembly, blade unit, and blade assembly for mixing materials. Blender blade assembly includes a center portion that defines an axis of rotation for the assembly. The assembly includes a lower double-sided blade coupled to the center portion. The lower blade includes blade sections that extend from the center portion. In addition, the assembly includes an upper double-sided blade coupled to the center portion. The upper blade includes blade sections that extend from the center portion. The lower and upper blades are separated by a partition. One blade section of the upper blade has a top sheered portion and the other blade section has a bottom sheered portion. One blade section of the lower blade has a top sheered portion along with a blade tip pointed downwards, while the other blade section has a bottom sheered portion along with a blade tip pointed upwards.

Abstract: A blender blade assembly, blade unit, and blade assembly for mixing materials. Blender blade assembly includes a center portion that defines an axis of rotation for the assembly. The assembly includes a lower double-sided blade coupled to the center portion. The lower blade includes blade sections that extend from the center portion. In addition, the assembly includes an upper double-sided blade coupled to the center portion. The upper blade includes blade sections that extend from the center portion. The lower and upper blades are separated by a partition. One blade section of the upper blade has a top sheered portion and the other blade section has a bottom sheered portion. One blade section of the lower blade has a top sheered portion along with a blade tip pointed downwards, while the other blade section has a bottom sheered portion along with a blade tip pointed upwards.

Abstract: Mixing system comprising: a flexible bag with a mixing device comprising a magnetic impeller; and an alignment facilitation device adapted to facilitate alignment between the magnetic impeller and a magnetic driver located external to the system. Specific flexible bag and hardware therefore.

Abstract: The disclosed apparatus includes a stator and a rotor disposed for rotation within the stator. An inner wall of the stator defines one or more collider chambers. Rotation of the rotor causes movement of fluid disposed between the rotor and stator and establishes a rotational flow pattern within the collider chambers. The fluid movement induced by the rotor increases the temperature, density, and pressure of the fluid in the collider chamber.

Abstract: A draft tube mixing system or reactor wherein the draft tube contains slots, perforations, or cut-out sections that allow cross flow of fluid through the draft tube wall. The perforations or slots can be practically any shape, however, simple geometric shapes such as rectangles and circles are preferred for ease of manufacture. The perforations or slots are typically arrayed in columns along a substantial section of the draft tube. In a preferred embodiment, the quantity and position of the perforations are such that a fluid filling the draft tube is capable of cross flow through the draft tube wall along substantially its entire length.

Abstract: The disclosed apparatus includes a stator and a rotor disposed for rotation within the stator. An inner wall of the stator defines one or more collider chambers. Rotation of the rotor causes movement of fluid disposed between the rotor and stator and establishes a rotational flow pattern within the collider chambers. The fluid movement induced by the rotor increases the temperature, density, and pressure of the fluid in the collider chamber.

Abstract: A mixing system with a vessel for supplying a liquid and a device for supplying solid pieces to mix with the liquid. The system has an elongate enclosure with a first end opposing a second end. The enclosure defines a chamber in fluid communication with the vessel to receive the liquid. The chamber also has a inlet and an outlet with the inlet being closer to the first end than the outlet. The chamber receives the pieces from the device through the inlet and issues the pieces through the outlet. A motor driven mixing auger positioned in the chamber between the first and second ends rotates a selected direction about a rotational axis to intermix the liquid and pieces. The auger includes a first helical flight between the inlet and the outlet to convey the pieces from the inlet to the outlet when the shaft is rotated the selected direction. The auger also includes a second helical flight between the first flight and the second end to urge the solid pieces in a direction opposite the first flight.

Abstract: A food processor especially a home food processor, which includes a bottom part on the housing on which can be mounted a work holder carrying a work device. A cover for the process which can be rotated into a locked position, includes a detachable connection between it and the housing. A drive device having an electric motor arranged in a separate housing can be positioned to form a detachable connection with gearing provided in the bottom part of the housing. A controllable safety device is provided so that by means of the cover of the work holder and the gearing, actuation occurs only when the cover is placed on the work holder and is found in its locked rotary setting.

Abstract: A portable agitator is provided for fluidizing contents of a tank car that has settled during shipment. The agitator includes a column that can extend into a tank car through a manway, a wedging assembly for holding the column in place in the tank between the manway and the bottom wall of the tank, and a pivotable impeller platform appended to a distal end of the column. A pair of impellers are mounted on opposite ends of the impeller platform and are operable to stir and fluidize the contents of the tank car.

Abstract: A portable agitator is provided for fluidizing contents of a tank car that has settled during shipment. The agitator includes a column that can extend into a tank car through a manway, a wedging assembly for holding the column in place in the tank between the manway and the bottom wall of the tank, and a pivotable impeller platform appended to a distal end of the column. A pair of impellers are mounted on opposite ends of the impeller platform and are operable to stir and fluidize the contents of the tank car.

Abstract: An improved mixing apparatus for mixing a liquid and a particulate solid material within a container such that the pigments and/or other solid particulate materials, which are initially precipitated out and usually accumulated at the bottom of the container, are rapidly and thoroughly mixed and dispersed throughout the liquid in a uniform manner such that substantially all of the particulate material is dispersed within the liquid. In one embodiment, a flow pattern in the form of an inverted vortex rising from the bottom center of the container is created by a rotating frusto-conically shaped impeller to pull the particulate material away from the bottom of the container. In another embodiment, the apparatus includes a cover mechanism, which is made to function integrally with the mixing apparatus, and which covers the container during the mixing operation to prevent the escape of fumes or spray.

Abstract: A stirring mechanism, with a plurality of hollow, at least partially conically shaped stirring elements, which are provided with two openings, are symmetrically offset and are fixed on the stirring shaft (2) at least approximately tangential to an imaginary circular cylinder coaxial to the stirring shaft.In the starting phase, the stirred substance flows laminarly through the stirring elements 8. However, as soon as they have reached a predetermined minimum velocity of about 1.3 m/s, the flow inside the stirring elements 8 is forced to reverse by dynamic pressure. The resultant counterflow (11, 12, 13) brings about an outstanding, extensive and nevertheless extremely gentle stirring effect with low power consumption. Also, an effective and uniform gassing can be obtained with simple means, without the stirring velocity having to be increased.

Abstract: An apparatus for mixing liquid paint colorant in a plurality of containers. Flexible cables are rotated about their length by a drive motor to rotate agitators in each container. The cable ends which drive the agitators are aligned with the rotational axes of the agitators. Each container has an open upper end which is closed by a cover having an attached mechanism for imparting rotation from the cables to the agitators. The agitators are disabled by disengaging one end of the cable from the drive motor, disengaging the other end of the cable from the mechanism on the container cover, or removing the cover with the cable intact to separate the mechanism from the agitator. The cables are bowed in an inverted U-shape between the drive motor and container covers. A lid extends over the bowed cables and has a rim that bears against the container covers to maintain them in closed position on the container during operation.

Abstract: A steady bearing for supporting the extended end of an impeller shaft at the bottom of a mixing vessel provides adjustment for the alignment of the position of the shaft within the vessel and includes a bearing support stand with legs extending to the bottom of the tank or vessel, and a plate which is supported off of the bottom. A steady bearing housing has a bearing sleeve which receives the end of the shaft and has a mounting flange which extends radially of the housing and is mounted or received in abutting relation to the bearing support plate. Couplers in the form of slotted circular discs are received in recesses in the bearing housing mounting flange. The slots have threaded fasteners which extend therethrough and into the support plate, so that the radial position of the steady bearing housing with respect to the support stand may be made accompanied by rotational movement of the coupler discs within their respective recesses.

Abstract: A device inter alia for uniformly distributing solid and/or liquid particles. It comprises, on the one hand, a hollow vertical primary shaft (1) driven in rotation, the bottom end of the shaft comprising a primary ring (4), the bottom surface of which bears vertical teeth (5) disposed in concentric circles, the device also comprising a hollow vertical secondary shaft (2) driven in rotation in the opposite direction to the primary shaft (1) and at its bottom end comprising a cylindrical cage (10) comprising a secondary ring (11) and a disc (12) connected to the bottom surface of the secondary ring (11) by at least three bars (13), the top surface of the disc (12) comprising vertical teeth (14) disposed concentrically and staggered with respect to the teeth (5) in the primary ring (4), and at its center the disc comprises a circular anvil (15) coaxial therewith and at least equal in diameter to the primary shaft (1).

Abstract: A fluid agitator and pump assembly for thoroughly mixing fluids with heavier materials that settle to the bottom of the chamber. The chamber is tubular and stands vertical with two motors on the top surface; one motor rotates an axial tube having radial mixing blades at the chamber bottom, the second motor drives a coaxial shaft running through the tube to a pump. In one embodiment, the pump is a piston pump and the second motor reciprocates a piston on the bottom of the coaxial shaft. In a second embodiment, the second motor rotates the drive shaft for driving a rotary pump.

Abstract: The invention relates to a mixer having a mixing vessel composed of two vessel parts and which can be pivoted through 180.degree. about a horizontal axis. The stirrer shaft is coaxial with the axis about which the vessel is pivoted and the drive motor of the stirrer is stationary. Such a mixer is distinguished by a simple and light transport facility for the product to be mixed, the use of the same mixer for different products, simple cleaning of the second vessel part, and a good mixing effect.

Abstract: Processing of certain foodstuffs in a high speed food processing apparatus is facilitated through the use of a flexible, non-ductile food basket, the shape of which is restored by the bowl when the basket is inserted into the bowl.

Abstract: The lid support member for the lid of a high speed food processing apparatus supports a mixing baffle blade through the center of the lid. The mixing baffle blade and its rotatable support are counterbalanced to help prevent the mixing baffle blade from freely rotating when its axis of rotation is not vertical.

Abstract: The lid support member for the lid of a high speed food processing apparatus supports a mixing baffle blade through the center of the lid. The mixing baffle blade drive shaft is hollow for introducing liquids into the mixing bowl directly over the food processing blades.

Abstract: The lid support member for the lid of a high speed food processing apparatus supports a mixing baffle blade through the center of the lid. The mixing baffle blade assembly carries a lid scraper which rotates with the mixing baffle blade in contact with the inner surface of the lid to remove foodstuffs from the inner surface of the lid. Friction from the lid scraper helps present the mixing baffle blade from freely rotating when its axis of rotation is not vertical.

Abstract: The center portion of the lid for a high speed food processing apparatus is flexible, preferably transparent and is supported by a rigid lid support member. The outer portion of the lid is stiff so that the center portion acts as a spring when compressed by the support member onto the edge of the bowl of the food processing apparatus.

Abstract: The lid support member for the lid of a high speed food processing apparatus supports a mixing baffle blade through the center of the lid. The mixing baffle blade drive shaft is hollow for introducing liquids into the mixing bowl directly over the food processing blades.