System for agglomerate mixing having a rotor and angular slotted stator
OwnerHerman Hockmeyerinventor
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Abstract
A rotor-stator system for agglomerate mixing apparatus utilizes a unique rotor-stator mixer assembly which combines a high efficiency rotor with unique stator element designs to address the limitations of prior rotor-stator mixer assemblies, including the dispersal of large agglomerate and problem of heat build-up. The stator elements have a variety of slot openings in different sizes and shapes whose inside walls are slanted in an acute attack angle that will generate circumferential, rather than exit flow. These slot configurations enable rapid large agglomerate reduction into smaller and smaller agglomerates and ultimately down to particle size without the need to change stator configuration, which is already built into the device.
Claims6
A rotor-stator system for an agglomerate mixing apparatus, said system comprising:
- an agglomerate mixing tank;
- a driveshaft for rotating a rotor element positioned in the mixing tank and located within a stator element, the rotor element and the stator element comprising a rotor-stator assembly, wherein said stator element comprises:
- a circular stator body having an inside open area, a top surface, an inner circumference, an outer circumference, an interior surface extending around the entire inner circumference of the body, an exterior surface extending around the entire outer circumference of the body, and a plurality of individual slot opening patterns extending through the body from the interior surface to the exterior surface, each of the individual slot opening patterns comprising a large slot opening in lateral alignment with and adjacent to a small slot opening which itself is in lateral alignment with and adjacent to a smallest slot opening, the plurality of slot opening patterns circumscribing the outer circumference of the stator body, with each of the individual slot opening patterns laterally adjacent to and sequentially following another of the individual slot opening patterns, each of the slot openings having inside walls which are slanted inward towards the open area at an acute attack angle in relation to the top surface of the stator body.
A rotor-stator system for an agglomerate mixing apparatus, said system comprising:
- an agglomerate mixing tank;
- a driveshaft for rotating a rotor element positioned in the mixing tank and located within a stator element, the rotor element and the stator element comprising a rotor-stator assembly, wherein said stator element comprises:
- a circular stator body having an inside open area, a top surface, an inner circumference, an outer circumference, an interior surface extending around the entire inner circumference of the body, an exterior surface extending around the entire outer circumference of the body, and a plurality of slot openings extending through the body from the interior surface to the exterior surface, each of the slot openings having inside walls which are slanted inward towards the open area at an acute attack angle in relation to the top surface of the stator body and each of the plurality of slot openings is shaped as a stylized “H,” the plurality of said “H” shaped slot openings being located in uniform alignment around the outer circumference of the stator body.
A rotor-stator system for an agglomerate mixing apparatus, said system comprising:
- a driveshaft for rotating a rotor element positioned in the mixing tank and located within a stator element, the rotor element and the stator element comprising a rotor-stator assembly, wherein said stator element comprises:
- a circular stator body having an inside open area, a top surface, an inner circumference, an outer circumference, an interior surface extending around the entire inner circumference of the body, an exterior surface extending around the entire outer circumference of the body, and a plurality of slot openings extending through the body from the interior surface to the exterior surface, each of the plurality of slot openings having inside walls which are slanted inward towards the open area at an acute attack angle in relation to the top surface of the stator body, each of the plurality of slot openings comprising elongated apertures, and “H” shaped slot openings in parallel alignment around the outer circumference of the stator body.
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