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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7401974 | Agitator with finned agitator blade end An agitator includes a hub for attachment to an agitator shaft, and at least two agitator blades which are connected to the hub and extend in a radial direction for rotation about an axis, with the agitator blade angled in relation to the axis. Each agitator blade h... | 07/22/2008 |
| 7374333 | Agitator An agitator for use on an agitator shaft having an axis of rotation. The agitator has a blade mount configured and dimensioned to receive the agitator shaft and being further configured and dimensioned so as to hold a plurality of agitator blades radially with respe... | 05/20/2008 |
| 7296925 | Agitator with improved blade configuration An agitator, in particular for dispersing gases in liquids, includes a plurality of blades, with each blade being constructed to have a blade portion bent forwards in a rotation direction. The blade has a trailing end region, which defines a blade portion bent forwa... | 11/20/2007 |
| 7172337 | Low shear impeller One or more mixing impellers is carried on a driving shaft received in a mixing vessel. Impeller blades are angularly and/or axially distributed on the shaft and can be single staggered axially-spaced blades or groups of two or more placed angularly around the shaft... | 02/06/2007 |
| 7114844 | Aeration apparatus and method The present invention provides an improved aeration impeller for use in a mixing assembly having an axis of rotation. The aeration impeller includes a hub and a first and second blades that are connected to the hub. Each blade has a first portion positioned at an an... | 10/03/2006 |
| 6955461 | Tickler for slurry reactors and tanks The present invention is directed to a tickler impeller and agitation system for use in stirred slurry reactors and storage tanks. The tickler impeller when mounted on a shaft is effective for providing an inward and downward swirl in a slurry medium which directs s... | 10/18/2005 |
| 6896246 | Aeration apparatus and method The present invention provides an improved surface aeration impeller for use in a mixing assembly. The improved surface aeration impeller includes a hub and a first blade that is connected to the hub. The blade has a substantially straight first portion and a substa... | 05/24/2005 |
| 6866414 | Sanitary mixing assembly for vessels and tanks The present invention provides component parts for a mixing assembly adapted to be used with clean in place techniques. The component parts may include an impeller assembly, an adjustable hub assembly and a steady bearing assembly. In one embodiment, the blades of t... | 03/15/2005 |
| 6786631 | Mixing and reducing machine with an upward conveying mixing blade A mixing and reducing machine with an upward-conveying mixing spiral that rotates around a vertical rotational axle. In order to achieve a more intensive mixing of the mixed product a second mixing spiral is connected in the axial direction after a first mixing spir... | 09/07/2004 |
| 6457853 | Impeller device and method An impeller for use in a mixing apparatus having a rotating shaft has at least one longitudinal member extending substantially radially from the shaft; and a plurality of individual impeller segments each having a bore therethrough. The segments are stack... | 10/01/2002 |
| 6250797 | Mixing impeller system having blades with slots extending essentially all the way between tip and hub ends thereof which facilitate mass transfer An axial flow mixing impeller system for efficient mass transfer by control of size of the bubbles of the fluid which is being dispersed, especially gases and liquids with viscosities greater than the liquid into which dispersion occurs, is obtained by cr... | 06/26/2001 |
| 6190033 | High gas dispersion efficiency glass coated impeller A glass coated gas dispersing impeller. The impeller comprises a hub, having a centrally located hole. The hole has a central axis and is sized for passage over a drive shaft having an essentially vertically extending longitudinal axis so that the central... | 02/20/2001 |
| 6082890 | High axial flow glass coated impeller A glass coated high axial flow impeller, including a hub and attached blades. The hub has a centrally located hole, where the hole has a central axis. The impeller has a plurality of angles and edges, all of which have a rounded configuration to permit gl... | 07/04/2000 |
| 6000840 | Rotors and stators for mixers and emulsifiers A rotor-stator assembly having a stator and a rotor for mixing and emulsifying materials in which the rotor includes wedge-shaped rotor blades and the stator includes generally V-shaped openings which together impart additional and increased high speed sh... | 12/14/1999 |
| 5951162 | Mixing impellers and impeller systems for mixing and blending liquids and liquid suspensions having efficient power consumption characteristics A mixing process may be carried out in a tank of a certain diameter. The process may also be constrained to the use of an impeller of certain diameter in order to obtain the flow pattern desired to carry out the process. The power consumption of the syste... | 09/14/1999 |
| 5813837 | Axial-flow impeller for mixing liquids An axial-flow impeller having a maximum blade width less than 20% of the impeller diameter, the pitch angle at the radial position 0.6 is 12°-22°, the width at the tip end portion of the blade is 12-75% of the width at the radial position 0.6, the pitch... | 09/29/1998 |
| 5813761 | Agitator paddle rotor for mash kettles An agitator paddle rotor for mash kettles in brewing, the rotor being rotatingly arranged above the bottom of the mash kettle, comprising at least two radially extending agitator paddles of which each comprises at least one obliquely oriented paddle secti... | 09/29/1998 |
| 5810476 | Shearing and mixing tool An apparatus for shearing and mixing a product in an at least partially cylindrical trough has a shaft which is rotatably and concentrically supported in the trough. At least one support extends radially from the shaft and supports a tool which forms a ro... | 09/22/1998 |
| 5791780 | Impeller assembly with asymmetric concave blades An impeller assembly for agitating a fluid contained in a vessel and dispersing a gas introduced therein. The impeller assembly includes an impeller having a plurality of generally radially extending blades. Each of the blades includes diverging upper and... | 08/11/1998 |
| 5297938 | Hydrofoil impeller A hydrofoil impeller includes three impeller blades attached to a hub. Each impeller blade includes a flat section and a curved section which terminates in a tip portion. The flat section has a root portion proximate the hub and which forms a predetermine... | 03/29/1994 |
| 5061319 | Process for producing cement building material A process produces a paste with improved workability. At least 30% by volume of the paste when cured under ASTM conditions crystallizes into monolithic crystals of calcium silicate hydrate exhibiting a unique crystalline structure and having improved comp... | 10/29/1991 |
| 4944595 | Apparatus for producing cement building material A cement paste generator produces a paste with improved workability. The cement paste generator includes a housing, a shaft and a series of blades and baffles which have critical dimensions.... | 07/31/1990 |
| 4941749 | Hub for an agitator having hollow blades and an internal heat-conveying fluid flow circuit In apparatus for mixing or kneading various substances, hollow blades are connected to an agitator hub of the invention which comprises: a fluted ring (9) threaded over the shaft (11) and carrying the roots (20) of hollow blades (2); an axial fastening liner (... | 07/17/1990 |
| 4941750 | Moving agitator member for apparatus for mixing substances in powder, paste, or granular form A moving agitator member for mixing various different substances. In accordance with the invention is characterized in that said blade segment (17) is in the form of a half-crescent and tapers away from the blade root (16), and is twisted, at least in its... | 07/17/1990 |
| 4729878 | Vertical autoclave A vertical autoclave for carrying out operations involving a medium having a liquid phase and/or a solid phase includes: (a) a concave autoclave bottom; (b) a shaft along a vertical axis of said autoclave, said shaft passing through said bottom of said autocla... | 03/08/1988 |
| 4552463 | Method and apparatus for producing a colloidal mixture A method and apparatus for producing a colloidal mixture of a high degree of hydration comprising a hollow enclosure having a feed inlet to receive at least two dissimilar products to be colloidalized and a discharge outlet to dispense the colloidal mixtu... | 11/12/1985 |
| 4480926 | Powdered food product mixing device A device for mixing an individual serving portion of powdered food product with liquid includes an upwardly open container having a wide screw neck and a cover formed to threadably mount on the neck to form a sealed chamber within the container. A motor i... | 11/06/1984 |
| 4260267 | Power driven fluid displacement apparatus The improved apparatus has, in combination with a relatively long shaft and a two-blade propeller means fixed at one end thereto, a kicker bar in the form of a flat longitudinal bar also fixed to the same end of the shaft and disposed perpendicularly ther... | 04/07/1981 |
| 4054272 | Paint and bedding blender A blender for mixing slurries, suspensions and the like that include particulate solids in a liquid characterized by a plurality of blades disposed along a bottom mixing zone of an elongate central shaft, the blades being fixedly connected with the shaft ... | 10/18/1977 |
