Mixing systems and methods including disk assemblies
AssigneeVermeer Manufacturing Company
InventorsAndy Strobel, Nathan Meyer, Thor Anderson, Conner Converse, James W. Skinner
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Abstract
Mixing systems and methods that include a mixer housing and one or more disk assemblies for mixing and processing materials is disclosed. The disks rotate to mix an additive into the material and to carry agglomerated solids toward a discharge of the mixing system. The disks may have a plurality of fingers or lobes which extend from a central portion of the disks.
Claims19
A method for aggregating a slurry in a mixing system, the mixing system comprising a mixer housing having a front wall, a mixer housing discharge opposite the front wall, a floor that extends from the front wall to the mixer housing discharge, and an additive feed system including a feed vessel for holding a solidifying additive and an additive discharge connecting the feed vessel to the mixer housing, the method comprising:
- adding a slurry to the mixer housing;
- adding, by the additive feed system, the solidifying additive to the mixer housing;
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- rotating a plurality of disks disposed in the mixer housing to mix the solidifying additive with the slurry, the disks having at least one of fingers and lobes, the at least one of fingers and lobes extending radially outward from a central axis of the disk, the solidifying additive causing the slurry to aggregate into particles, wherein the disks cause a portion of the aggregated particles to be propelled toward the mixer housing discharge and at least a portion of the slurry to be propelled toward the front wall.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.