Mixer having a closing cover
AssigneeMaschinenfabrik Gustav Eirich GmbH & Co. KG
InventorAndreas Seiler
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Abstract
A mixer includes a mixing container held in a machine stand, with an outlet opening in the bottom of the mixing container, and a closure cover which can be reciprocated between a closed position in which the closure cover closes the outlet opening and an opened position in which the closure cover does not close the outlet opening. The closure cover is connected to the machine stand by way of a four-bar linkage including four rotary joints, wherein a first and a second rotary joint of the four-bar linkage are arranged on the closure cover and a third and a fourth rotary joint of the four-bar linkage are arranged on the machine stand.
Claims14
A mixer comprising:
- a mixing container held in a machine stand, with an outlet opening in the bottom of the mixing container;
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- a closure cover which can be reciprocated between a closed position in which the closure cover closes the outlet opening and an opened position in which the closure cover does not close the outlet opening,
- wherein the closure cover is connected to the machine stand by way of a four-bar linkage comprising four rotary joints, and wherein a first and a second rotary joint of the four-bar linkage are arranged on the machine stand and a third and a fourth rotary joint of the four-bar linkage are arranged on the closure cover,
- wherein the mixing container and the four-bar linkage are arranged such that the mixing container is rotatable about a mixing container axis while the four-bar linkage does not rotate about the mixing container axis.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.