Mixer for a food product including a displaceable stator
AssigneeTetra Laval Holdings & Finance S.A.
InventorsHans Henrik Mortensen, Sten Andersen, Frederik Larsen
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Abstract
A mixer for a food product includes a vessel, an stator arranged in the vessel, and a rotor to rotate the food product relative the stator. The stator is displaceable relative the rotor by a movement along a stator guide. The stator guide includes an interior cavity being enclosed by a wall extending into the vessel, and a first magnetizable material is arranged inside the cavity. The stator includes a second magnetizable material, wherein a magnetic field between the first and second magnetizable materials generates a force that moves the stator along the stator guide for displacement of the stator relative the rotor.
Claims15
A mixer for a food product, comprising:
- a vessel,
- a stator arranged in the vessel,
- a rotor to rotate the food product relative the stator,
- the stator is displaceable relative the rotor by a movement along a stator guide,
- the stator guide comprises
- an interior cavity being enclosed by a wall extending into the vessel,
- a first magnetizable material arranged inside the cavity,
- the stator comprises a second magnetizable material,
- wherein a magnetic field between the first and second magnetizable materials generates a force that moves the stator along the stator guide for displacement of the stator relative the rotor;
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- an actuator arranged inside the cavity, the first magnetizable material being fixed to the actuator, whereby the actuator is movable inside the cavity along the stator guide to move the first magnetizable material along the stator guide so that the magnetic field between the first magnetizable material and the second magnetizable material generates the force to move the stator along the stator guide.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.