Kneading apparatus
AssigneeToyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsNaoya KAJITA, Junji ASANO, Shota NAGASHIMA
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Abstract
Agitating pins employed in a kneading apparatus extend in the horizontal direction and rotate around a rotation axis of an agitator extending in the horizontal direction, so that the kneading apparatus can repeat a process in which a material is kneaded and beaten against an inner wall surface of a kneading vessel and the material adhering to the inner wall surface of the kneading vessel, especially on the upper side from the rotation axis of the agitator, falls under its own weight through the clearance between the agitating pins. As a result, the material hardly adheres to the inner wall surface of the kneading vessel, so that the kneading efficiency can be enhanced.
Claims6
A kneading apparatus comprising:
- a kneading vessel;
- and
- an agitator configured to be rotatably supported inside the kneading vessel to knead a material inside the kneading vessel, the agitator having a plurality of agitating pins that rotate around a rotation axis of the agitator extending in a horizontal direction and that extend in parallel to the rotation axis of the agitator inside the kneading vessel.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.