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US 10,369,535 B2Granted
Rapid stirring machine
AssigneeKubota Corporation
InventorsKoji Takahashi, Takashi Tamura, Ryuji Higashi
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Abstract
A rapid stirring machine including a tank for stirring sludge and a flocculant; a drive shaft disposed in the tank; and an edged turbine blade attached to the drive shaft, the edged turbine blade including turbine blades that are disposed along a virtual circle centered around the axis of the drive shaft, on at least one of the front and back sides of the edged turbine blade in the axial direction of the drive shaft, the turbine blades being raised in the axial direction of the drive shaft.
Claims8
A flocculating-mixing apparatus comprising:
- a slow stirring machine disposed on a rapid stirring machine, the rapid stirring machine including
- a tank for stirring sludge and flocculant,
- a drive shaft disposed in the tank, and
- a shearing stirring blade attached to the drive shaft,
- wherein:
- the tank of the rapid stirring machine is a cylinder that has an inside diameter smaller than an inside diameter of a tank of the slow stirring machine,
- a tank ceiling of the rapid stirring machine communicates with a tank bottom of the slow stirring machine through an opening that has a smaller diameter than the inside diameter of the tank of the rapid stirring machine,
- the stirring blade includes a shearing stirring blade,
- the shearing stirring blade has a rotating plate that integrally rotates with the drive shaft and the turbine blades that are disposed on the rotating plate,
- the turbine blades are disposed along a virtual circle centered around an axis of the drive shaft and at a location, on the rotating plate, in a region below the annular tank ceiling,
- the turbine blades being raised in an axial direction of the drive shaft and having a shape of a blade facing a rotation direction of the rotating plate, and
- the tank of the rapid stirring machine has a sludge inlet port protruding from an inner surface of the tank of the rapid stirring machine and facing the rotating plate.
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