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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7350960 | Dual flight rotors for continuous mixer assembly In the field of continuous mixer apparatus for commingling particulate thermoplastic materials, employing at least one main rotor with a helical profile body configuration, an improved profile for the peripheral threads is provided. It presents a first upstream feed... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7347614 | Split drive apparatus for a vertical mixer A multiple auger vertical mixer with a drive system comprised of a powered driving means and a first gearbox with multiple output shafts. The output shafts supply rotational power for at least two final driven gearboxes which drive the augers. ... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7341142 | Elastomer composite materials in low density forms and methods A bale of elastomer composite is formed of elastomer and filler, the bale having a void volume of at least 3%. In another aspect, a container is provided, at least a portion of the container being occupied by elastomer composite pieces of elastomer and filler, where... | 03/11/2008 |
| 7288229 | Parallel reactor with sensing of internal properties An apparatus and method for carrying out and monitoring the progress and properties of multiple reactions is disclosed. The method and apparatus are especially useful for synthesizing, screening, and characterizing combinatorial libraries, but also offer significant... | 10/30/2007 |
| 7188992 | Kneading element and related articles A modified kneading element for a screw extruder, peripherally congruent, aligned, and contiguous with a cross-sectional profile of a modified conveying element, includes a central portion defining a root diameter having a shaft receiving bore defined therein; and a... | 03/13/2007 |
| 7131765 | Helical-ribbon mixer A helical-ribbon mixer having a rotation-symmetrical inner mixing vessel wall (2), a motor-driven central agitator axis (3) therein, on which, on lateral agitator arms (5), at least one helical ribbon (4) is held close to the vessel wall ... | 11/07/2006 |
| 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 |
| 6988822 | Electric hand mixer An electric hand mixer comprises a housing and a motor mounted with the housing. A gearbox is mounted with the housing and coupled with an output shaft of the motor. A pair of spindles having respective axes are positioned about a shared axis. The spindles are coupl... | 01/24/2006 |
| 6913379 | Closed kneader With conventional closed kneaders, the temperature of the kneaded material remains high at the end of primary kneading because insufficient cooling is made in the interior part of the kneaded material, making it necessary to either provide cooling time between the p... | 07/05/2005 |
| 6902314 | Method and apparatus for mixing a fluid mass Apparatus and method are provided for treating a fluid mass or stock, particularly couch stock in paper making. Stock material is fed into a vessel having a mixing arrangement comprising rotatably arranged processing means. At lest two processing means are caused to... | 06/07/2005 |
| 6846103 | Apparatus for continuous stirring and process for continuous polycondensation of polymer resin An apparatus for continuous stirring comprising a horizontal elongated cylindrical vessel and two rotating blade assemblies rotatable in the direction opposite to each other provided in parallel to each other in the vessel, where a liquid feed is moved from one end ... | 01/25/2005 |
| 6811295 | Batch mixer and a mixing rotor for the same Each mixing rotor for a batch mixer is rotatably insertable into a mixing chamber such that tip clearances are defined between tips of mixing blades and an inner surface of a mixing chamber and is provided on its outer circumferential surface with a plurality of mix... | 11/02/2004 |
| 6623156 | Method for mixing a fluid mass Method and apparatus for treating a fluid mass or stock, particularly couch stock or the like in paper making. Stock material is fed to a vessel having a mixing arrangement comprising rotatably arranged processing means. At least two processing means are ... | 09/23/2003 |
| 6550372 | Food processor A food processing appliance includes a reservoir to receive water, a heater to produce steam from any water in the reservoir and a food-containing vessel positioned to receive steam from the heater. The vessel has a number of apertures that are sized to a... | 04/22/2003 |
| 6550958 | Domestic kitchen appliance with transmission unit A domestic kitchen appliance (1) comprises a container (2) with a central axis (3), a transmission frame (4) positionable on the container (2) and carries a drive element (5), a carrier element (6) which is rotatably journaled relative to the frame (4) ab... | 04/22/2003 |
| 6409376 | Mixer apparatus A mixer apparatus is disclosed for mixing livestock feed and the like. The apparatus includes a container for the reception therein of the feed. The container includes a housing and a wall extending away from the housing. The wall defines an opening which... | 06/25/2002 |
| 6382828 | Apparatus for turning and/or mixing a flat bed compost An apparatus for turning and mixing a flat bed composting mass includes an even number of mixing worms that each rotate about a vertical shaft. The end of each vertical shaft may include a wear-resistant element on its end which serves to protect the shaf... | 05/07/2002 |
| 6367959 | Method and apparatus for blending water with sand A water blending apparatus for use in conditioning foundry sand. The apparatus creates a vertical sand stream flow path which increases the surface area of the sand stream and allows water to be applied to both sides of the sand stream rather than a singl... | 04/09/2002 |
| 6270248 | Mixing apparatus for a molten substance of high temperature A mixing apparatus which prevents erosion of left and right side walls 12a 12b for a flow path 12 for a molten substance of high temperature M and homogenizes the molten substance of high temperature while occurrence of air bubbles is prevented, wherein t... | 08/07/2001 |
| 6267497 | Device for producing feed stuff or organic fertilizer from edible waste material through low temperature, natural fermentation and drying process A method and device for producing feed stuff or organic fertilizer from edible waste material, such as domestic and commercial food waste products in addition to marine, livestock and agriculture by-products resulting from the commercial production of foo... | 07/31/2001 |
| 6260995 | Mixing apparatus A description is given of a mixing apparatus for the treatment of viscous substances which comprises a heatable housing 1 with a product inlet 6 on one side of the vessel and a product outlet 8 on the other side of the housing 1 and, if appropriate, an ex... | 07/17/2001 |
| 6224251 | Continuous kneading machine A continuous type kneading machine comprising a chamber formed by a pair of parallel cylindrical cavities communicated with each other at their sides and a pair of rotatable rotors housed in disengaging state in the cavities, wherein each of the rotors is... | 05/01/2001 |
| 6136246 | Screw extruder with improved dispersive mixing elements A screw extruder (10) having a barrel (18) which has a bore (26) defining an inner surface (44) and one or more extruder screws (28), positioned within the bore (26). The extruder screw or screws (28) include a central shaft (34) and one or more screw fli... | 10/24/2000 |
| 6109488 | Apparatus for conditioning and dispensing loose fill insulation material An apparatus capable of conditioning and dispensing high volumes of loose fill insulation material includes a hopper for receiving unconditioned insulation material and for conditioning the insulation material, and an air lock for receiving the conditione... | 08/29/2000 |
| 5993752 | Device for dissolving a coagulant A device 10 for dissolving a coagulant having a rotor chamber 13 supporting rotors 21 around the horizontal axis, wherein a mixture of the coagulant and water is fed to the rotor chamber 13, the liquid level of the mixture is kept at a medium level of the... | 11/30/1999 |
| 5984516 | Enclosed kneading apparatus An enclosed kneading apparatus which can smoothly knead and disperse kneaded products of various kneading conditions without the maintenance of a rotor moving mechanism for a first and second rotors and the operation which sacrifices the handling capacity... | 11/16/1999 |
| 5985347 | Cheese processing vat and method A cheese processing vat of the type having a pair of interconnected generally cylindrical wall portions with agitator panels rotating therein to sweep generally cylindrical volumes includes agitator panels which are driven to rotate in opposite directions... | 11/16/1999 |
| 5932159 | Screw extruder with improved dispersive mixing A screw extruder (10), including a barrel (18) having a bore (26) which defines an inner surface (24). At least one extruder screw (28) is positioned within the bore (26), each screw (28) further including a central shaft (34) and at least one screw fligh... | 08/03/1999 |
| 5918978 | Device for mixing chemicals into a fibrous material suspension The invention refers to a device for mixing chemicals into a pulp suspension, where a high-speed rotor (5) with an open center is mounted inside a mixing chamber (2). It is mainly characterized by at least one further high-speed rotor (5') with open cente... | 07/06/1999 |
| 5897206 | Agitator and agitator assembly An agitator for providing uniform and rapid material mixing is provided comprising a first sweep blade mechanically coupled to a second sweep blade. The first sweep blade extends from a first sweep blade origin to a first sweep blade terminus along a firs... | 04/27/1999 |
| 5882114 | Method of continuous extraction of crude wax and apparatus therefor A method and an apparatus for continuously extracting a wax component contained in a solid residue with a solvent, in which method, the solid residue obtained from the juice of sugar cane is used as a raw material. To make the extraction time uniform and ... | 03/16/1999 |
| 5876115 | Self-cleaning reactor/mixer for highly viscous and cohesive mixing materials The invention relates to a fully self-cleaning reactor/mixer having a large freely usable volume, that cleans itself kinematically, consisting of two or more parallel shafts (2, 2') rotating in opposite directions, on which are located spirally arranged, ... | 03/02/1999 |
| 5873654 | Twin screw extruder type batch mixers A twin screw extruder type batch mixer that is comprised of two screws parallel to each other with the distance between the two screw center lines being larger or equal than the half of the sum of two screw diameters and the two screws conveying material ... | 02/23/1999 |
| 5829649 | Apparatus for conditioning and dispensing loose fill insulation material A machine for conditioning and dispensing loose fill insulation material, such as cellulosic insulation, fiber glass insulation and rock wool insulation. The machine includes a hopper, a conditioning chamber, an air lock and a blower for pneumatically dis... | 11/03/1998 |
| 5791776 | Hermetically closed kneading apparatus A hermetically closed kneading apparatus includes a casing member (1) having a chamber (2) and one pair of counter rotating, parallel rotors (3) (4). Each of rotor has three long blades (18) (19) (20) and of which the central axes (17a) (17b) of the rotor... | 08/11/1998 |
| 5758962 | Continuous kneading machine for doughs A continuous kneading machine for doughs comprises a tub-shaped container, open at the top, which contains at least one pair of identical synchronously counterrotating kneading shafts. A series of U-shaped bracket components are attached to each kneading ... | 06/02/1998 |
| 5672006 | Internal rubber mixer A shearing action of rubber by a rotor wing has a relation to a wing perpendicular component Pz of P (see FIG. 4), and the larger the value of Pz, the larger the shearing action. An agitating action of rubber has a relation to a wing... | 09/30/1997 |
| 5669710 | Completely self-cleaning mixer/reactor A multi-axis mixer/reactor with a large available useful capacity, which is kinematically self-cleaning, comprising at least one housing one, two or more parallel, contrarotating shafts 2, 2', on which intermeshing groups of gear wheels 3, 3' are disposed... | 09/23/1997 |
| 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 |
| 5587298 | Bioreactor A bioreactor which and be used with substrates which are difficult to attain sufficient dispersion is made up of a reaction vessel 1 having a reaction chamber 2 surrounded by a water jacket 3 for maintaining a predetermined constant temperature. The react... | 12/24/1996 |
