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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 6994465 | Mixing assembly for mixing bone cement 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... | 02/07/2006 |
| 5887976 | Continuous kneading machine having at least one rotating shaft and paddles and notched adjusting plates mounted on each shaft 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 ad... | 03/30/1999 |
| 5782560 | Internal mixer 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 chamb... | 07/21/1998 |
| 5658075 | Self-cleaning reactor/mixer for highly viscous and solids-bearing materials to be mixed 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 necessaril... | 08/19/1997 |
| 5630944 | Treatment of sewage sludge 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 compartmen... | 05/20/1997 |
| 5407266 | Mixing kneader with rotating shafts and kneading bars 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 th... | 04/18/1995 |
| 5399012 | Fully self-cleaning reactor/mixer with a large usable volume 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, ... | 03/21/1995 |
| 5354127 | Segmented mixing auger 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 mixtur... | 10/11/1994 |
| 5352035 | Concrete mixing system with cement/water premixer 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... | 10/04/1994 |
| 5332314 | Extrusion apparatus with a backfeed extruder for mixing and extruding of thermo-plastic and thermo-setting materials 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 for... | 07/26/1994 |
| 5292186 | Continuous kneading machine 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 per... | 03/08/1994 |
| 5230562 | Viscous liquid processor 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 t... | 07/27/1993 |
| 5094541 | Mixer apparatus and method of blending various materials 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 ... | 03/10/1992 |
| 5028141 | Mixing machine 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 secti... | 07/02/1991 |
| 4987850 | Apparatus for the wetting of seeds Apparatus whereby seeds, in particular unginned cottonseeds having lint, may be wetted with liquid active ingredients. To achieve this, the cottonseeds are separated in a feeder and metering device having conveyor screws and a baffle, and fitted uniformly... | 01/29/1991 |
| 4797080 | Continuous kneading machine 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 t... | 01/10/1989 |
| 4772434 | Soap making process 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 countercurr... | 09/20/1988 |
| 4752139 | Preconditioning apparatus for extruder 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... | 06/21/1988 |
| 4697929 | Planetary mixers 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 abou... | 10/06/1987 |
| 4650338 | Mixing and kneading machine 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 ha... | 03/17/1987 |
| 4593612 | Upright red wine fermentation tank 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 a... | 06/10/1986 |
| 4515482 | Sterile suspension and solution holding and mixing tank 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 reci... | 05/07/1985 |
| 4474475 | Mixing apparatus 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 bei... | 10/02/1984 |
| 4474683 | Soap making process 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 c... | 10/02/1984 |
| 4397760 | Rapid saponification process 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 countercurr... | 08/09/1983 |
| 4380398 | Dispersion mixer 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... | 04/19/1983 |
| 4361404 | Mixing equipment and agitator therefor for use with granular material and method of producing prepared granular material 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 w... | 11/30/1982 |
| 4298289 | Mixing device 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 trave... | 11/03/1981 |
| 4277181 | Food mixer 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 port... | 07/07/1981 |
| 4176971 | Multi-purpose kitchen appliance 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 turnt... | 12/04/1979 |
| 4153376 | Feed mixer apparatus 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 ... | 05/08/1979 |
| 4091463 | Mixer, especially printing ink mixer A vat or bucket mixer, especially for commingling liquid- and powder components during the production of printing inks, comprising a mixing tool mounted for rotation at a first shaft and extending up to the region of the inner wall of the vat and a dissol... | 05/23/1978 |
| 4053144 | Delta rotor through feed mixer 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 compri... | 10/11/1977 |