Abstract: A mixing bit having an elongated shaft configured to fit into a chuck of a drill at a first end also has a second end is provided with a blade assembly having a plurality of specifically shaped and equally-spaced blades. The blades extend perpendicularly from the shaft and then converge onto the shaft at a distal end of the second end. The bit is provided with a rounded spinner feature enabling smooth sliding of the device across a floor portion of a container during mixing.
Abstract: Described is an apparatus useful for mechanically delaying formation of or breaking a pocket and a method of delaying formation of or breaking a gas pocket employing the apparatus.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
April 10, 2012
Date of Patent:
October 21, 2014
Assignee:
Dow Global Technologies LLC
Inventors:
Kishore K. Kar, Madan Somasi, Richard F. Cope, James J. Pressler, David J. Adrian
Abstract: A food mixing machine (10) has a rotatable shaft (18) which is attached to the shaft (21) of an agitator (20). The shaft (21) carries a ring (24) and a disk (23), and the ring (24) carries a cloverleaf-shaped chip (25). The chip (25) has opposed, generally flat lobes (27) with the opposed lobes (29) positioned between the lobes (27). The lobes (29) are inclined relative to the lobes (27). Cutout areas (31) are formed between the lobes (27, 29), and as the agitator (20) is being rotated by the shaft (18), a leading edge (32) on the lobes (27, 29) at the cutout areas (31) contacts the food being mixed. The leading edges (32) have a larger radius of curvature than the trailing edges (33) on each lobe (27, 29).
Type:
Grant
Filed:
November 3, 2006
Date of Patent:
March 9, 2010
Assignee:
Vita-Mix Corporation
Inventors:
Eugene J. Kozlowski, Fred H. Mehlman, Laura L. Manson
Abstract: This invention relates to mixing two substantially immiscible fluids having substantial viscosity differences into a single phase solution. The invention particular includes a mixer comprising a specially designed conveyor flights to provide shear mixing without differential conveying of the fluids or causing excessive back pressure or pressure drop on the solution.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
October 30, 1997
Date of Patent:
January 30, 2001
Assignee:
E. I. du Pont de Nemours and Company
Inventors:
Robert E Albers, Arthur William Etchells, Joseph Daniel Gutmann, Jr., Edgar W. Slocum, Ashok H. Shah