Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a stirrer for stirring a raw material such as flour or meat. Two rotating shafts are installed inside the stirrer such that stirring blades intersect with each other. The two rotating shafts are controlled to simultaneously rotate symmetrically or to rotate in the same direction, and the stirred raw material is discharged through a side surface of a stirring tank of the stirrer. The rotating shafts having the stirring blades formed thereon are connected to a driving means that can adjust the phase angle of the two shafts, via a position control device. The raw material is stirred while relative positions are adjusted such that the stirring blades formed on the two rotating shafts do not interfere with each other.

Abstract: A dough kneading and feeding system includes a dough barrel that defines a dough handling space in which a screw shaft is provided to extend through a shaft hole and a discharge opening of the dough barrel. An ejection nozzle is coupled with the discharge opening. The screw shaft includes a blade for driving a dough material toward the discharge opening located at the front side to be discharged through the ejection nozzle. At least one assisting screw is arranged, in combination with a bearing, to be parallel with the screw shaft in the dough handling space. The assisting screw includes at least one helical blade, which is rotatable to drive the dough material in a direction opposite to the direction of the dough material driven by the screw shaft and also to drive the dough material toward the screw shaft in a radial direction of the screw shaft.

Abstract: A sealed kneading machine includes a kneading chamber to which a material to be kneaded is supplied, and a rotor disposed in the kneading chamber to be able to rotate about a rotor shaft. The rotor includes a plurality of kneading blades for kneading the material to be kneaded, and the length of all the kneading blades in the rotor shaft direction of each thereof is 45% or less of the total length of the rotor in the rotor shaft direction.

Abstract: A kneading apparatus has a pair of rotary shafts mounted to undergo rotation in different directions of rotation and at different rotational speeds from one another. Stirring members are helically arranged on outer peripheries of the rotary shafts at predetermined helical and angular pitches for kneading an object during rotation of the rotary shafts. The helical pitch of the stirring members of one of the rotary shafts has an inverse helix from that of the stirring members of the other rotary shaft. The stirring members have surfaces with a first phase configured to move the kneaded object in a feed direction or a second phase symmetrical to the first phase and configured to move the kneaded object in a direction reverse to the feed direction. The stirring members are arranged so that the first and second phases cyclically repeat in a predetermined sequence in axial directions of the rotary shafts.

Abstract: The invention concerns a semi-continuous method for preparing an emulsion of droplets of a phase A in a phase B, including the following steps: (i) mixing an amount of phase A and an amount of phase B using a multi-shaft mixing system comprising at least one scraping agitator, so as to obtain a dispersion of phase A in phase B with a volume concentration of phase A higher than 74%; (ii) diluting the dispersion obtained in step (i) by adding an additional amount of phase B, and mixing using said multi-shaft mixing system, so as to obtain an emulsion of droplets of a phase A in a phase B.

Abstract: A mixer having improved axial and radial mixing which retains good mixing time even during large viscosity changes, comprising a housing with at least one helical or anchor agitator located centrally in the housing in combination with at least one eccentrically arranged screw or blade agitator, preferably in mutual engagement, the combination of a helical agitator and a screw agitator enabling a much shorter mixing time as compared to a mixer having only a helical agitator without a screw agitator.

Abstract: An organ transportation device includes a fluid-tight organ container and structure within the organ container for engaging an organ within the organ container. A base assembly is provided, and structure for rotating the organ engaging structure and the organ relative to the base assembly. The base assembly can have a motor and a battery to provide for rotation of the organ container during shipping.

Abstract: The invention concerns a semi-continuous method for preparing an emulsion of droplets of a phase A in a phase B, including the following steps: (i) mixing an amount of phase A and an amount of phase B using a multishaft mixing system comprising at least one scraping agitator, so as to obtain a dispersion of phase A in phase B with a volume concentration of phase A higher than 74%; (ii) diluting the dispersion obtained in step (i) by adding a supplementary amount of phase B, and mixing using said multishaft mixing system, so as to obtain an emulsion of droplets of a phase A in a phase B.

Abstract: A mixing assembly for mixing bone cement includes a housing, a lid, a handle, and two mixing paddles, a first and a second mixing paddle. The lid is removably attachable to the housing. The handle has a portion that extends through the lid and that is rotatable in a first rotational direction. The first mixing paddle is operatively coupled to the portion of the handle. As a result, the first mixing paddle rotates with the portion of the handle in the first rotational direction. The second mixing paddle is operatively coupled to the first mixing paddle for rotating opposite the portion. As such, when the portion of the handle and the first mixing paddle rotate in the first rotational direction, the second mixing paddle rotates in a second rotational direction that is opposite the first rotational direction.

Abstract: This invention provides a mixing chamber that utilizes several tined cylinders to convey materials through the mixing chamber for applying liquid additives to the materials. Each of the tined cylinders includes a number of spring biased tines extending from the surface of the cylinder. The tined cylinders are arranged within the mixing chamber such that, as the tined cylinders rotate about an axis, the spring biased tines engage the materials within the mixing chamber and “sweep” them along towards a discharge opening of the mixing chamber. As the materials are conveyed through the mixing chamber, an additive liquid, typically containing various chemicals, colorants, dies, and/or paints, is sprayed onto the materials. In this manner, liquid additives are applied to materials more evenly and more thoroughly, resulting in a more consistent finished product.

Abstract: A machine for continuous kneading, having at least one rotating shaft along which paddles are mounted, wherein notched feed adjusting plates are mounted on each shaft. In some embodiments, each feed adjusting plate is a C-shaped plate having a notch of adjustable width. In other embodiments, the machine has two rotating shafts. One of the shafts rotates at relatively low speed; the other rotates at relatively high speed.

Abstract: An internal mixer and controller enables the phase difference and the speed ratio between two rotors to be changed without stopping the operation of the mixer. The internal mixer comprises: nonintermeshed first and second rotors disposed in a mixing chamber; first and second drive units; first and second phase measuring devices; first and second speed measuring devices; and a control unit for controlling the first and second drive units on the basis of signals from the first and second speed measuring devices and signals from the first and second phase measuring devices. The control unit controls the two rotors so as to synchronously rotate at the same speed on the basis of the signals from the speed measuring devices when the two rotors fixedly rotate at the same speed.

Abstract: A self-cleaning reactor/mixer, in particular a disk reactor, with a large available useful capacity, which cleans itself kinematically, comprising at least two or more parallel shafts rotating in the same direction, on which axially offset, not necessarily circular disks with scrapers distributed on their circumference are situated, and a surrounding housing. The reactor/mixer on account of the special geometry of its rotors, which extensively avoids acute product-side angles, is particularly suitable for processing solids-bearing materials to be mixed.

Abstract: Sewage sludge is mixed with organic material such as woodchips in a three screw mixer so that moving masses are created in the mixing compartment, there being a shearing action at the interfaces between the masses. The mixer includes the mixing compartment and a holding compartment into which dewatered sludge is continuously charged. There is a gate between the compartments which is opened when it is desired to convey sludge from the holding compartment to the mixing compartment. The shearing action results in the organic material being coated with a thin layer of sludge without the formation of dewatered sludge lumps which would rot instead of composting.

Abstract: In a mixing kneader for carrying out mechanical, chemical and/or thermal processes, having at least two rotating shafts (5, 6) with their axes parallel, disk surfaces (21) with kneading bars (25) fitted to their periphery are to be provided at least on the one shaft designated as the main shaft (5). These kneading bars will be swept by a cleaning and/or kneading and transporting elements (7) which are fitted to the other shaft designated as a stripping shaft (6). In this arrangement, the kneading bars (25) of two neighboring disk surfaces (21) on the main shaft (5) maintain a mutual spacing (a), through which passes the cleaning and/or kneading and transporting element on the stripping shaft (6).

Abstract: The invention relates to disc reactors with a large free usable volume which are kinematically self-cleaning, consisting of two or more parallel counterrotating shafts, on which toothed discs with scrapers, which are distributed over their circumference, are disposed, and a surrounding housing. The toothed discs are arranged perpendicularly to the axes of rotation in planes which are echeloned one behind the other such that they mesh with one another.

Abstract: An auger conveyor assembly including a helical auger infeed section having interrupted auger flights which communicate with an offset, commonly driven outfeed section including a helical ribbon auger and whereat both augers simultaneously blend the mixture at a controlled speed differential. A surrounding housing includes a formed length of rubberized channelway and means are provided for varying the tilt angle of the housing, whereby the blending rate and contained volume of mixture are controlled relative to an outlet port.

Abstract: A system for mixing cementitious material, liquid and aggregate to form concrete includes a cementitious material measuring device which provides dry cementitious material to an enclosed screw conveyor assembly. The dry cementitious material is thoroughly mixed with a liquid within the screw conveyor to form a flowable slurry without producing external cement dust pollution. The slurry is output by the screw conveyor into a final product mixing chamber where the flowable slurry is mixed together with aggregate to form concrete. The screw conveyor assembly has an in-line input and output, and space-saving diverging/converging conveyor sections, to facilitate the retrofitting of existing concrete mixing plants. The conveyor assembly includes a cement metering function as well as a slurry mixing function. A selectively openable and closable bypass gate permits the dry cementitious material to be sent directly to the final product mixing chamber in the event of conveyor failure.

Abstract: An extrusion apparatus having a rotor member rotatable within a barrel member longitudinal and cross-sectionally mixes and extrudes thermo-plastic and thermo-setting materials. The apparatus is articulated into sections including a barrel entrance and forcing section, a blending section, and an end discharge section. The barrel entrance and forcing section consists of helical extrusion grooves which terminate at an abrupt rotor to barrel and barrel to rotor material transfers. The blending section recognizes that blending is volumetric i.e. three-dimensional and therefore longitudinal displacement of the material in relation to itself is one of the dimensions. Longitudinal displacement is accomplished in the blending section by providing a double extrusion capacity main extrusion rotor and a single capacity backfeed rotor arranged to recirculate half of the material processed by the main stream rotor.

Abstract: A continuous kneading machine capable of achieving selfcleaning, improvement in kneading efficiency, and reduction in abrasion of paddles is provided. This continuous kneading machine is characterized in that sectional shape of one paddle in a section perpendicular to a rotation shaft is formed of n (where n is an integer, and n.gtoreq.2) pairs of major radius parts and minor radius parts which are alternately arranged with equal angle and formed by a gentle curve, and that sectional shape of another paddle is formed of m (where m is an integer, m.gtoreq.2, and n.noteq.m) pairs of major radius parts and minor radius parts which are formed by an escribed envelope curve drawn by rotation in cooperation with the one paddle, and in which rotation of another paddle is performed in a direction different from the one paddle at a different ratio of rotation frequency.

Abstract: A viscous liquid processor includes a low-speed shaft and a high-speed shaft extending in parallel within a casing, and a plurality of agitator blades fixed on each of the shafts and spaced along its axial direction so that the blades on one shaft enter the spaces between the blades on the other shaft. Each of the agitator blades is generally formed in a thick disk-like configuration having a plurality of thick blade members, such a thick blade member having a parallelogrammic cross section. With this simple arrangement, delivery and shearing of highly viscous liquid can be performed to improve the agitation and stirring effects.

Abstract: A mixing apparatus for mixing materials of various consistencies includes a pair of mixer shafts having radially extending blades thereon for mixing the material as the shafts rotate. Each shaft is driven by a hydraulic motor and the hydraulic motors are located in separate hydraulic fluid circuits. The relative rotational orientation of the shafts to each other is controlled by appropriate control of the separate hydraulic fluid circuits. In addition, a mixer body incorporating the mixer shafts is suspended from a frame of the apparatus by means of cables such that the mixer body may be lifted and lowered relative to the frame. The mixer body is provided with an aperture through which material may be loaded into the body and through which material may be emptied out of the body by actuating the cables to rotate the body to an inverted position.

Abstract: An upright mixing machine has one or more rotary vertical mixing tools having blades beneath a gear case for transmissions which orbit and/or rotate the tools. The gear case has an upper section which is rotatably installed in a housing, and a lower section which can be separated from the upper section to be thereupon lowered by an elevator for the purpose of convenient inspection of bearings, seals, gears and/or other parts which necessitate frequent inspection, cleaning, other maintenance or replacement. The elevator also serves to raise and lower a vessel for batches of material or materials to be mixed by the mixing tool or tools. At least one section of the gear case has one or more observation windows which are accessible for observation and manipulation of parts within the respective section not later than upon detachment of the lower section from and its lowering beneath the upper section.

Abstract: A kneading machine with a charging opening leading to a kneading chamber, in which two axially parallel kneading tools can be driven in opposite directions at different rotational speeds, has at least three such kneading chambers which are disposed next to each other and an aperture which connects their internal spaces. The material to be kneaded can be conveyed through this aperture, which extends transversely of the shafts of the kneading tools from one kneading chamber to the next, so that the material is continuously treated until it reaches in the last kneading chamber an evacuating opening and preferably an evacuating worm which is mounted at such location and by means of which the material is ultimately evacuated from the machine. In this manner, the advantages of a kneading machine with shafts for kneading tools which are journalled at both ends are combined with the advantages of continuous treatment of the material to be kneaded.

Abstract: A process for the preparation of soap and soap/synthetic detergent products from raw materials normally employed in the manufacture of such products including fatty acids, triglycerides and caustic by subjecting such raw materials to intensive countercurrent mixing whereby saponification takes place in a relatively short time, and whereby cooling and moisture removal of the soap mass is accomplished by making the mixing vessel substantially air tight and applying a vacuum to the soap mass within the vessel to yield a product, preferably in granular form, which requires no further drying for most uses. The resulting product can, if desired, can then be subjected to plodding, extrusion and stamping to form soap in bar form. The starting material can also be a mixture of such raw materials where neutralization has already proceed to some degree, preferably to the neat soap stage.

Abstract: A conditioning device for an extruder includes two juxtaposed, frustocylindrical, intercommunicated chambers, one chamber of which has a greater cross sectional area than the other chamber. A mixing shaft centrally located within the small chamber carries a number of radially extending beaters which rotate at a speed twice that of the rotational speed of paddles mounted on a second mixing shaft located in the large chamber and material introduced into the vessel is passed from side-to-side between the two chambers while being advanced along the length of the vessel. The use of relatively fast moving beaters within a small mixing chamber in combination with relatively slow moving paddles in a larger mixing chamber enables flour-like materials to be properly blended with water with both sufficient agitation and proper retention times within the vessel.

Abstract: An epicyclic mixing system for materials held in a tank is provided having dual concentric sun shafts which both orbit a pair of planetary drive shafts having mixing implements at their bottom ends and act to rotate the pair of planetary drive shafts about their own axes. The two concentric shafts are connected to dual drivers through separate drive systems so that the shafts can be selectively operated at different rotating speeds.Another epicyclic mixing system includes upper and lower housings driven about a central axis that extends through the upper housing by a sun drive shaft. The lower housing is adjustably secured to the upper housing. A first planetary drive shaft extends through the upper housing and a second planetary drive shaft extends through the lower housing. The first drive shaft is driven by a fixed sun gear about which the lower housing rotates so as to rotate the first drive shaft, which rotates the second drive shaft by way of a gear train.

Abstract: A mixing and kneading machine comprises a rotating shaft with four circumferentially juxtaposed kneading members, which have an angle of inclination bringing about an axial feed action. Another shaft rotates four times faster. The faster rotating shaft has kneading members with a four times greater slope than the kneading members on the slower shaft. A faster axial product feed in the casing part surrounding the more rapidly rotating shaft is prevented by baffle plates provided in said casing part, so that a narrower residence time distribution for the product is obtained.

Abstract: An upright red wine fermentation tank has a substantially circular cross-section taken vertically to its cenhter plane (24). An agitator is arranged in the tank 10. The agitator can be rotated about at least one preferably horizontal shaft (20), and its agitator elements sweep at least through a substantially spherical volume.

Abstract: An apparatus for the preparation of sterile suspensions and solutions is disclosed which includes a container wherein a starting mixture is subjected to high intensity mixing by means of a high speed, high shear external mixer disposed in an external recirculation loop. The mixer used in the present invention is a revolving hollow cylinder open at the bottom thereof and having grooves in the sides thereof, such that the mixture is drawn through the bottom of the mixer head and forced radially outwardly through the grooves. The mixer head is preferably disposed in the upper leg of a T-shaped fitting of the recirculation loop, and a special shaft seal is used to prevent leakage of the materials being treated along the drive shaft used to rotate the mixer head.

Abstract: A process for the preparation of soap and soap/synthetic detergent products from raw materials normally employed in the manufacture of such products including fatty acids, triglycerides and caustic or alkali by subjecting such raw materials to intensive countercurrent mixing whereby saponification takes place in a relatively short time to yield a product, preferably in granular or powder form, which requires no further drying for most uses. The resulting product can, if desired, be then subjected to plodding, extrusion and stamping to form soap in bar form. The starting material can also be a mixture of such raw materials where neutralization has proceeded to some degree, preferably the neat soap stage.

Abstract: A mixing apparatus for blending one or more relatively viscous liquids into a homogeneous mixture, the apparatus including a fixed vessel, a pair of rotors rotatively housed in the vessel, each rotor rotating on its own rotary shaft, the rotary shafts being rotated in opposing directions, the rotors having helical mixing vanes thereon wound oppositely in directions and differently in number, wherein the outside diameters D.sub.1, D.sub.2 of the rotors, the distance A between the rotary shafts, the rotating angular velocities of the rotors, and the number of the helical vanes are defined by the numerical criterion: A is smaller than 1/2(D.sub.1 +D.sub.2), and the ratio between velocities of the rotors is equal to the inverse number of the ratio between the numbers of the helical mixing vanes.

Abstract: A process for the preparation of soap and soap/synthetic detergent products from raw materials normally employed in the manufacture of such products including fatty acids, triglycerides and caustic by subjecting such raw materials to intensive countercurrent mixing whereby saponification takes place in a relatively short time to yield a product, preferably in granular form, which requires no further drying for most uses. The resulting product can, if desired, be then subjected to plodding, extrusion and stamping to form soap in bar form.

Abstract: A dispersion mixer is disclosed for breaking up and dispersing agglomerated particles in a liquid medium. The mixer has the capability of causing high speed particles to strike each other in such a manner as to develop their maximum shear energy potential and thus be more efficient than existing dispersion mixers. The mixer operates in a container and has a first rotor shaft extending downwards at the approximate center of the container, a second rotor shaft substantially parallel to the first rotor shaft, spaced from the first rotor shaft, at least one mixing rotor disc mounted on the first rotor shaft, and at least one mixing rotor disc mounted on the second rotor shaft, a first drive for rotating the first rotor shaft about its own axis, and the second rotor shaft about its own axis, and a second drive for moving the second rotor shaft in a circumferential path about the first rotor shaft.

Abstract: Mixing equipment includes a mixing compartment and at least one mulling assembly for dispersing therein material, including granular material, such as foundry sand. An agitator is provided for improving the mulling and aerating of the dispersed material within the compartment. The agitator includes a rotor rotated about an upright axis disposed within a cavity opening into the mixing compartment. The rotor includes a hub disposed within the cavity and having a plurality of fingers extending outwardly therefrom. Upon rotation of the rotor, the fingers move forcibly out of the cavity and into the mixing compartment to impact the material moving therepast, for mixing and aerating the material. An overflow discharge opening in a side wall of the compartment permits the prepared material to be discharged continuously from the mixing compartment. The supply of material to the compartment and the discharge of material are under the control of door, material consistency sensing, and timing apparatus.

Abstract: A mixing device for bulk materials, particularly an agricultural trailer for mixing and dispensing silage, concentrates and other animal feedstuffs, includes a non-tipping body (10) within which rotates a main agitator (12) having members (14) which travel closely along the walls (11) of a lower zone of the body to carry material therein upwardly during part of their travel, and a secondary rotating agitator (16) towards the top and to one side of the body which operatively intercepts material carried towards it by the main agitator, separates it therefrom and returns it thereto. A part (15) of the body containing the secondary agitator can be opened for discharge of material under the same action of the agitators, in the case of a feed trailer discharge being at sufficient height to clear the feed fence of a stockyard.

Abstract: A food mixer having a stand with a mixer head pivotally mounted thereon for mixing foods is disclosed herein. The mixer includes means for cooling a drive assembly by drawing air in through a forward portion of the head and exhausting it out a bottom portion of the stand. The mixer is provided with a locking latch interconnecting the head and the stand in order to mix or knead properly heavy or viscous foods, such as bread dough. A pair of dough hooks, which are adapted to force dough away from the head during kneading, are detachably connectable to the head. A high outer wall turntable is rotatably supported on a base of the stand by a peripheral thrust bearing to provide a stable platform for a mixing bowl. Each mixing bowl used with the mixer has the same diameter bottom and lower contour regardless of bowl volume. A mechanical governor is connected to an electronic control to provide accurate motor speed regulation throughout the range of motor speed operation.

Abstract: A multi-purpose kitchen appliance having two pairs of output spindles with each pair being driven at different preselected speeds, one pair of said spindles having dough hook receiving bores and the other pair having mixing beater receiving bores, a turntable-supported bowl with said dough hooks and said mixing beaters being selectively disposed in said bowl for mixing material therein, interlock means preventing simultaneous driving engagement of said dough hooks with their spindles and said mixing beaters with their spindles, and means for selectively ejecting said dough hooks and said mixing beaters from said pairs of spindles.

Abstract: Improved feed mixer apparatus, wherein interconnected, auger mixing conveyors are operatively connected to a crank arm driven by a pair of pivotably mounted hydraulic cylinders which are in turn driven by a hydraulic power source providing for smooth and timed transition from low pressure to high pressure in the retraction and extension chambers thereof, thereby to avoid damage and/or excessive wear to the crank arm and/or cylinder components.

Abstract: A through feed mixer for mixing and plasticizing a variety of materials has a pair of coaxially disposed rotors in a mixing chamber. The rotors are without helical twist but each have a mixing section which is derived from a regular n-sided polygon comprising n similar peripheral portions, n preferably being 3. Each rotor may have a gradual taper to its body portions. The mixer also includes a feeding device adapted to supply material to be mixed to an inlet portion of the mixing chamber under substantially constant pressure, and an outlet end portion transferring mixer material to an extrusion device.