Industrial mixing and storage container
AssigneeLake Asphalt of Trinidad and Tobago (1978) Ltd.
InventorBarry Antonio REGIS
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Abstract
A heatable storage tank includes a storage chamber arranged to hold a material. The storage tank may include a heating element disposed in the storage chamber to heat the material. The storage tank may also include a jet mixing device to mix the material in the storage chamber. The jet mixing device may include an array of nozzles configured to eject the material from the nozzles and into the storage chamber to agitate and mix the material in the storage chamber. The nozzles may be positioned in a lower half of the storage chamber and oriented to eject the material downwardly toward the bottom wall.
Claims20
A heatable storage tank, comprising:
- bottom wall;
- at least one side wall;
- the bottom wall and the at least one side wall forming a storage chamber configured to hold a material;
- at least one heating element disposed in the storage chamber and configured to heat the material;
- and
- a jet mixing device configured to agitate and mix the material in the storage chamber, the jet mixing device including:
- an array of nozzles configured to eject the material from the nozzles and into the storage chamber to agitate and mix the material in the storage chamber,
- wherein the nozzles are positioned in a lower half of the storage chamber, and the nozzles are oriented to eject the material downwardly toward the bottom wall.
A system for mixing and storing a material, comprising:
- a tank having an interior portion forming a storage chamber configured to hold a material, the tank including a bottom wall;
- a recirculation pump disposed outside of the storage chamber and configured to suction the material from the storage chamber and then return the material to the storage chamber;
- a supply manifold disposed in the storage chamber and fluidly connected to the recirculation pump;
- and
- a plurality of nozzles disposed in the storage chamber and configured to receive the material from the supply manifold,
- wherein the nozzles are configured to eject the material from the nozzles into the storage chamber to agitate and mix the material in the storage chamber, and
- wherein the nozzles are disposed within a range of 3 inches to 10 inches from the bottom wall.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.