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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7401973 | Dust-free low pressure mixing system A dust-free mixing system for use with drilling fluids. The dust-free mixing system can have an eductor. The eductor can have a housing with an axial bore for receiving a first suction induction port. The first suction induction port is for receiving a first dry com... | 07/22/2008 |
| 7334936 | Mixing device and method of mixing The present invention is a mixing device and a method of mixing viscous fluids with a mixing device. The mixing device includes a shaft and a support mounted for rotation with the shaft. A plurality of vanes extend from the support and are mounted for rotation with ... | 02/26/2008 |
| 7331702 | Agitation mixer An agitation mixer 10 comprises a casing 12 through which a fluid passes, an agitator body 15 installed inside the casing 12 and connected to rotation means 92, a liquid inlet 22 for feeding a liquid into the casing 12, | 02/19/2008 |
| 7281839 | Turbine cement/water mixer for concrete production A high-speed turbine mixer combines water and cement into a pre-mixed cement paste that is added to aggregates to create a concrete mix. The turbine mixer includes a housing that cooperates with an auger to move dry cement into a mixing chamber where water is added.... | 10/16/2007 |
| 7178976 | Blender for ingredients into soft-serve freezer products An assembly is mounted to a soft serve confection freezer. It includes a set of modules in a circular array and separately replaceable in a magazine. Each module supports a container storing a dry food ingredient in particulate form, and has a motor driven product i... | 02/20/2007 |
| 7178974 | Plural component polymer grout plant A plural component polymer grout plant device for mixing, batching and distributing a multiple component polymer having a filler additive. The polymer grout plant device comprises a frame, at least two primary mixing containers, two batching containers, attached to ... | 02/20/2007 |
| 7070317 | Method of mixing using vaned mixing device The present invention is a mixing device and a method of mixing viscous fluids with a mixing device. The mixing device includes a shaft and a support mounted for rotation with the shaft. A plurality of vanes extend from the support and are mounted for rotation with ... | 07/04/2006 |
| 6979116 | Apparatus for injecting dry bulk amendments for water and soil treatment The present invention is an apparatus for introducing a dry material into a fluid stream in a way that ensures a predictable, highly accurate and consistent application of the material. The invention applies variable amounts of dry material regardless of whether the... | 12/27/2005 |
| 6595681 | Quick change liquid metering device An improved procedure and apparatus for introducing liquids within a thermoplastic or thermoset production system are provided. Such an inventive apparatus comprises a storage tank for the desired liquid, a device which connects to a flow channel (such as... | 07/22/2003 |
| 6481884 | Apparatus and method for mixing a dry chemical contained within a container An apparatus and method for mixing a dry chemical contained within a container. A probe is utilized to puncture an opening in the container and thereafter the probe is extended through the opening. A mixture or liquid is directed to and through the probe ... | 11/19/2002 |
| 6357905 | Apparatus for the blending of materials An apparatus and method for blending dry comminuted materials which is particularly effective for comminuted materials having disparate physical properties such as density and particle size. The dry blending apparatus includes a substantially upright wall... | 03/19/2002 |
| 6290386 | Mobile device for preparing aqueous liquid paints from powdery components and water The present invention relates to a mobile apparatus for the production of water based liquid paints from pulverulent constituents and water. The apparatus comprises a traveling frame, a mixing container, a mixing unit for mixing the pulverulent constituen... | 09/18/2001 |
| 6203184 | Blender A blender for delivery of blend additives to a plastics extrusion device has a mixing chamber for reception of materials to be blended. Batches of blend materials are delivered to the mixing chamber from material supply bins via a weight hopper. Within th... | 03/20/2001 |
| 5913602 | On-the-go mixing system An apparatus and method of continually mixing material in a handling system wherein one delivers first material at a first delivery rate to a mixer and a second material at a second delivery rate to the mixer to allow the mixer to mix the first material a... | 06/22/1999 |
| 5797681 | Batch mixer A batch mixer for mixing a container of concentrate and diluent, the batch mixer comprises a mixing tank; and a drawer assembly for delivering the concentrate to said mixing tank. The drawer includes a multiple position receiving station for permitting th... | 08/25/1998 |
| 5634713 | Pneumatic material transporter and mixer A pneumatic material transporter includes a material hopper (2), a screw conveyor (3) to transport the material (supplied from the hopper) from the rear portion to a front portion of the screw conveyor, a pressure chamber portion (5) to receive the materi... | 06/03/1997 |
| 5609831 | Machine for producing a cross-linked extruded product A machine for producing extruded products of polymers that are cross-linked by adding at least one additive in a polymerization reaction. A feed hopper for plastic granules is coupled to a mixing container which is formed with side ports to admit the desi... | 03/11/1997 |
| 5513911 | Vehicle mixer In a mixing drum (16) of a vehicle mixer is supported a coaxial pipe (24) which together with a closure element (36) and a feeding hopper (42) forms a constructional unit. The pipe (24) is supported by two bearings of the mixing drum (16) so as to be rela... | 05/07/1996 |
| 5368385 | Continuous solution method and apparatus A method is disclosed for preparing a homogeneous solution of a powder, Particularly hard-to-wet polymer powders, which includes: (1) feeding simultaneously a powder and a liquid solvent for the powder to a high-speed in-line mixer minimizing contact between s... | 11/29/1994 |
| 5322357 | Apparatus for blending a powder with a liquid An apparatus has the capacity to satisfactorily blend a liquid with a powder and pump the resultant viscous slurry in a single stage operation. The apparatus has a vertically oriented drive shaft with a bladed impeller attached to the drive shaft. A housi... | 06/21/1994 |
| 5275662 | Flooring material applicator A flooring material applicator having a frame and wheels rendering it moveable about a floor, a mixer chamber and agitator to mix flooring material, a first component receptacle movably mounted adjacent the mixer chamber and moveable between a first loadi... | 01/04/1994 |
| 5261743 | Apparatus and methods for feeding a substantially uniform quantity of a mixture of materials having variable individual densities Apparatus and methods for mixing plastic materials having different densities to supply a substantially uniform quantity of the mixture of such materials to an extruder or other processing machine. The mixture of materials is fed forcibly from the mixer t... | 11/16/1993 |
| 5230476 | Vertical grinding and mixing tower A portable feed mill system consists of a housing containing a primary constituent tank, a mill positioned to receive output from the primary constituent tank and a mixer. The mixer is positioned to receive the output from the mill and also a secondary fe... | 07/27/1993 |
| 4978228 | Mixing bin Described is a mixing bin for mixing bulk goods, particularly by pure gravity flow, comprising a mixing pipe disposed at a substantially central location in an outer container and provided with a plurality of intake ports disposed at different levels for ... | 12/18/1990 |
| 4937034 | Apparatus and method for cofeeding additives with polymer flake A method and apparatus for cofeeding additive concentrates in the form of pellets with a polymer flake stream flowing in a supply chute to a melt extruder. The pellets are introduced through an opening in the chute which is covered by an umbrella-like hou... | 06/26/1990 |
| 4890929 | Method and apparatus for manufacturing coagulated grains from polymer latex The present invention provides a method of manufacturing coagulated grains from polymer latex and apparatus for exercising this method, said method being characterized in that a swirl of polymer latex is produced in tank, while holding it at a temperature... | 01/02/1990 |
| 4846582 | Polymer dissolver The present invention relates to a method for dissolving a solid polymer in a solvent, in which the polymer in a fine-particulate state is introduced into a jet of solvent at substantially right angles thereto, such that the polymer particles are captured... | 07/11/1989 |
| 4790666 | Low-shear, cyclonic mixing apparatus and method of using A low-shear mixing apparatus comprising a cyclone separator and a cyclone mixer wherein underflow from the cyclone separator passes into the cyclone mixer and is combined therein with a downwardly spiraling vortex of a second component.... | 12/13/1988 |
| 4778280 | Mixing apparatus The mixing apparatus includes a centrifugal pump having a casing and an impeller located therein. The casing has a axially extending tubular inlet located centrally on its end wall, the discharge being a tubular projection on the side wall's casing. A sec... | 10/18/1988 |
| 4767217 | Mixer apparatus and method for sanitary mixing of solids with other solids and/or liquids A method and apparatus for mixing two substances under sanitary conditions in which a solid particulate substance is introduced into an inlet chamber with radial and downward velocity components and is mixed with a second substance in a mixing chamber bel... | 08/30/1988 |
| 4729663 | Cyclone mixer for the continuous mixing of pulverulent substances with liquids In a cyclone mixer for the continuous mixing of pulverulent substances with liquids, with a charging mechanism for the pulverulent substances and with a mixing chamber positioned below it and into whose upper region issues a tangential suction tube and wh... | 03/08/1988 |
| 4695167 | Apparatus for mixing and pumping slurry An apparatus for mixing and pumping slurry which is mixed with a refractory aggregate material in a gunning nozzle, characterized in that the apparatus is provided at its upper portion with a slurry mixing apparatus and its lower portion with a pumping ap... | 09/22/1987 |
| 4629328 | Gravity blending apparatus and methods of gravity blending A gravity blending apparatus and methods of gravity blending involving an improved venting arrangement, by means of which an increase in the "thru-put" flow rate of a gravity blender apparatus is provided by venting the underside of an inverted cone withi... | 12/16/1986 |
| 4565451 | Method and apparatus for combining granular components A method and apparatus for combining granular components. The granular material, in finely divided form, is moved from spaced-apart locations into flight paths or trajectories which overlap or cross one another. The mixing of the components first takes pl... | 01/21/1986 |
| 4548507 | Mixing apparatus for the production of mixtures Mixing apparatus is provided for the production of mixtures of particulate solids and in particular, for the production of various mortar mixtures. The apparatus includes metering means, control means and transfer means for metering out and introducing pr... | 10/22/1985 |
| 4511256 | Apparatus for the continuous mixing of pulverulent substances with liquids An apparatus for the continuous mixing of pulverulentsubstances with liquids is described which, in a mixing chamber, makes it possible to obtain a particularly intense wetting of pulverulent particles in that in the feed zone for the pulverulent substanc... | 04/16/1985 |
| 4467969 | On-line reclaim system An improved method and machine for reclaiming in an on-line configuration both oriented and unoriented film produced on an extrusion line, in general, and an improved means within an on-line reclaim system for transferring both virgin resin and chopped re... | 08/28/1984 |
| 4459028 | Apparatus for weighing and blending fluent materials The apparatus has a plurality of fluent-material-receiving chambers arrayed about a central, vertical pipe, and each chamber has a load beam extending therefrom. Gusset-type brackets, projecting from the pipe have slotted limbs through which the load beam... | 07/10/1984 |
| 4453832 | Apparatus for trouble-free and continuous charging of extractors with extraction feedstock to be treated and with extractant or solvent The apparatus serves for the continuous mixing and suspending of material to be extracted, particularly seed material, such as soy material, with solvent or extractant, particularly hexane and other suitable hydrocarbons, provision being made for preventi... | 06/12/1984 |
| 4435081 | Concrete mixing plants with elevator wheel The invention relates to concrete mixing plant suitable for weighing and mixing at least two aggregate materials and cement inside a concrete mixer comprising a container to collect aggregate, weighing and/or dosing scale, a worm-screw to deliver cement, ... | 03/06/1984 |
