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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7690836 | Mixer blade attachment with flexible fins The present invention is an attachment to a mixer blade for wiping the sides of a container and producing a mixture that is uniform and consistent. The attachment is placed onto the mixer blade either temporarily or permanently. After the attachment is on the mixer ... | 04/06/2010 |
| 7314308 | Mixing bowl with attachment A food mixing attachment includes two mixing arms extending down from an engagement member that is configured for engaging a mixer. A respective flexible blade is on each arm and has a contour generally like that of a bowl. During the mixing process the blades scrap... | 01/01/2008 |
| 7273314 | Seed treater A drum for hanging from the ceiling constituting the floor of the second story of a grain elevator. The device is self-contained, and has top closure elements with a central feedhole, and a bottom closure element with a central discharge hole. It includes a rotary s... | 09/25/2007 |
| 7222725 | Pin conveyor for pasty materials such as animal waste A pin conveyor for pasty materials such as animal waste including a housing with a cylindrical inner surface extending along and about an axis. Within the housing surface, a shaft is mounted for rotation about the axis and has a plurality of pins attached to it in a... | 05/29/2007 |
| 7137730 | Electrographic ribbon blender and method According to the various aspects of the invention, a method and apparatus for mixing electrographic developer is provided. An elongate shaft having two ends and an intermediate location between the two ends is rotated. Developer is moved away from the intermediate l... | 11/21/2006 |
| 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 |
| 6468066 | Wear resistant insert for balling drum assembly The present invention relates to a balling drum assembly including a wear resistant insert. The balling drum assembly includes an inclined rotary drum member having an inlet at its one end for receiving agglomerative material and at its other end an outle... | 10/22/2002 |
| 6290383 | Apparatus mixing, filtering, reacting and drying materials The present invention is an apparatus for processing material having a chamber (100), a rotatably driven shaft (104) extending within the chamber to which is attached at least one element (110) which engages the material (102) in the chamber during rotati... | 09/18/2001 |
| 6280076 | Apparatus for processing dispersions of solids in a fatty phase An apparatus for processing dispersions of solids in a fatty phase has at least two parts (1, 4) which can be driven with the aid of at least one drive and caused to rotate relative to one another, form a processing gap (6, g1, g2, g1', g2') between one a... | 08/28/2001 |
| 6227698 | Apparatus for processing dispersions of solids in a fatty phase An apparatus for processing dispersions of solids in a fatty phase has at least two parts (1, 4) which can be driven with the aid of at least one drive and caused to rotate relative to one another, form a processing gap (6, g1, g2, g1', g2') between one a... | 05/08/2001 |
| 6149296 | Mixer blade assembly for medium and high viscosity liquid A mixer blade assembly is provided for medium and high viscosity liquid which does not cause the generation of an insufficiently mixed region of a doughnut-shaped configuration within the liquid to be mixed and therefore has excellent mixing performance. ... | 11/21/2000 |
| 6039469 | Mixing kneader A kneader mixer comprises at least two axial-parallel rotating shafts, each of the shafts having a plurality of kneading-transporting elements axially spaced on the shaft and separated from each other on the shaft by a tubular section.... | 03/21/2000 |
| 6022137 | Conditioner for processing raw grain composition to produce pelletized feed This invention relates to an apparatus and a method for hydrothermally processing a raw grain composition with steam in a conditioner as a preliminary step in the production of a pelletized feed product. More specifically, this invention is directed to an... | 02/08/2000 |
| 5975753 | Mixing tool with overlapping sweep rods A mixing tool 10 can be mounted within a drum 20. A mixing arm 12 of the ing tool 10 can be held by a shaft borne in a rotatable fashion. A mixing body 11 is mounted to the mixing arm 12 and directed towards the inner surface of the drum. One or more rod... | 11/02/1999 |
| 5934801 | Mixing and kneading apparatus In the case of a mixing and kneading apparatus for the, in particular, thermal treatment of products in the liquid, pasty and/or pulverulent state, with or without the supply and discharge of gases and vapors, in a housing (1), a shaft (2) rotating in sai... | 08/10/1999 |
| 5835827 | Stirrer and toner cartridge equipped with the stirrer A toner cartridge including a container having a toner discharge port, a toner contained in the container and a stirrer for stirring the toner existing in the container. The stirrer includes a rotary shaft rotatably mounted between both side walls of the ... | 11/10/1998 |
| 5823673 | Apparatus for processing dispersions of solids in a fatty phase An apparatus for processing dispersions of solids in a fatty phase has at least two parts (1, 4) which can be driven with the aid of at least one drive and caused to rotate relative to one another, form a processing gap (6, g1, g2, g1', g2') between one a... | 10/20/1998 |
| 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 |
| 5615952 | Stirrer for machines for making ice cream or the like A stirrer for machines for making ice cream includes a section of a rotary drive shaft, a first hub supporting a plurality of angularly equidistant radial spokes integral with the drive shaft section and a second hub supporting the same number of spokes a... | 04/01/1997 |
| 5611619 | Mixing machine A mixing machine including a machine base, a horizontal suspension arm horizontally suspending above the machine base, a lifting mechanism controlled to move the horizontal suspension arm vertically relative to the machine base, a transmission mechanism m... | 03/18/1997 |
| 5421651 | Mixing kettle The present invention discloses a mixing kettle which utilizes magnetic force to maintain contact between the scraper blades and the interior surface of the kettle. A series of scraper blades are pivotally mounted within pivot brackets carried on horizont... | 06/06/1995 |
| 5407273 | Double bladed mixing instrument with axially displaced blades A mixing instrument for the treatment of solids or individual solid components is attached to a shaft concentrically arranged in a horizontally positioned container. The shaft is mounted in the container in a rotatable fashion. A plurality of mixing instr... | 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 |
| 5334358 | Self-cleaning reactor/mixer with large useful volume Disc reactors with large free useful volume which clean themselves kinematically, consisting of two or more parallel shafts, rotating in the same or opposite directions, on which are located axially staggered, circular discs with scrapers distributed over... | 08/02/1994 |
| 5312184 | Ice-cream stirring device with stirring blades and scraping vanes Stirring device for machines for the manufacture of ice-cream, of the type with a whipping cylinder (1) with a horizontal axis, provided with a device for extraction of the ice-cream at one head side. The stirrer consists of two stirring blades (7) of hel... | 05/17/1994 |
| 5106199 | Mixer tool for an ice-cream maker A mixer tool (8) for an ice-cream maker is provided which is insertable centrally into a cylindrical container (1) of the ice-cream maker and is operable there in rotation and which has at least one scraper (12, 13) projecting from a central shaft (6) and... | 04/21/1992 |
| 5106456 | Method and apparatus for facilitating the discharge of pulp A method of facilitating the discharge of high consistency pulp from a pulp containing space such as a mass towe or the like and for treating pulp therein, includes a rotor (10) arranged in a high consistency pulp containing space (2) for breaking up pulp... | 04/21/1992 |
| 5022840 | Agglomeration device An agglomeration device having a rigid cylindrical casing in which a shaft rotates having outer end portions of reduced diameter. The larger diameter portion of the shaft has relatively small rotating rings at the ends thereof which rotate in notched out ... | 06/11/1991 |
| 4950081 | Multi-spindle kneading mixer The invention relates to a multi-spindle kneading mixer with at least two axis-parallel agitator shafts engaging into one another, one of which is designed as a disk shaft, into which kneading elements of a kneading shaft engage, wherein these kneading el... | 08/21/1990 |
| 4941130 | Multi-spindle kneading mixer with fixed kneading counterelements A multi-spindle kneading mixer with at least two intermeshing shafts, one of which is equipped with disk elements which are cleaned by a second agitator shaft,with intensive full mixing and kneading taking place at the same time, characterized in that fix... | 07/10/1990 |
| 4909634 | Stirring device A stirring device having a casing for forming a stirring chamber, a driving rotary shaft disposed in the casing, a plurality of stirring paddles fitted on the rotary shaft as being dispersed axially of the shaft and a plurality of projections attached to ... | 03/20/1990 |
| 4881887 | Agglomeration device An agglomeration device having a driven shaft and a plurality of pins extending radially outwardly thereof of such length as to sweep closely to the inner surface of the casing of the device. The improvement therein is a layer of high density plastic mate... | 11/21/1989 |
| 4854720 | Disperser apparatus with two coaxial drive shafts A mixing machine for dispersing finely divided solid particles in a liquid vehicle including a pair of coaxially extending shafts, one shaft being longer than the other, an impeller disposed at the end of the longer shaft, and an impeller assembly connect... | 08/08/1989 |
| 4829890 | Counterflow washer and cooler apparatus A counterflow washer and cooler for processing cottage cheese curd and whey material comprising a horizontal housing, and a material and fluid blender rotatable mounted in the housing. The blender includes a rotatable shaft having at least one material li... | 05/16/1989 |
| 4826324 | Kneader-mixer A kneader-mixer performs mechanical, thermal and/or chemical processes with products which are in the liquid, viscous-pasty and/or free flowing state and includes an elongated hollow casing having an axis of elongation and having axially separated product... | 05/02/1989 |
| 4824257 | Kneader-mixer Kneader-mixers for mechanical and thermal treatment of products in different state forms, comprising a heatable cylindrical casing and a kneader shaft with heatable disk elements revolving therein and on which are arranged kneading blades scraping the inn... | 04/25/1989 |
| 4777138 | Scoop wheel fermentation unit A fermentation unit comprising a scoop wheel equipped with scoops on the periphery thereof, and which moves between bunker silos. The bunker silos are equipped with aeration ducts at the base thereof. Flexible scrapers located around the periphery of the ... | 10/11/1988 |
| 4775243 | Mixing and kneading apparatus A mixing and kneading apparatus with a kneading shaft bearingly supported in a cylindrical housing, a plurality of disk elements mounted perpendicularly and axially spaced apart on the kneading shaft. The disk elements carry scraper edges arranged essenti... | 10/04/1988 |
| 4756626 | Fluent and nonfluent material mixer A feed mixer includes a main chamber in which a rotor is located. The rotor includes at least one elongated wiper rigidly connected to a rotor bar for wiping contact with a curved wall portion of the chamber. The rotor bar is prevented from incurring any ... | 07/12/1988 |
| 4669966 | Pelletizing apparatus with mixing blades for compacting powdered and fibrous raw materials to a pellet product Apparatus for compacting powdered and fibrous raw materials to a pellet product, comprising a mixing chamber with an inlet, a driven mixing shaft coaxially with respect to the mixing cylinder and which is provided with radially projecting blades. A pellet... | 06/02/1987 |
