Oscillatory mixer and method
AssigneeEnergy Research & Generation, Inc.
InventorGlendon M. Benson
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Abstract
A material processing device and method for milling, emulsifying, dispersing, blending, polymerizing and hydrogenizing flowable materials. The device includes a processing chamber through which flowable material flows, an oscillating surfacing of the processing chamber which produces an oscillatory squeezing action on the flowable material within the chamber, an oscillating motor which drives the oscillating surface, a chamber inlet for dispersing the flowable material into the chamber and a chamber outlet for discharging and displacing the flowable material from the chamber.
Claims9
A material processing device comprising means for introducing and dispersing flowable material into a disc-shaped processing chamber defined at least partially by two substantially fluid impervious end plates and a peripheral margin, means for rotating at least one of said end plates of said chamber, means for driving only one of said end plates in oscillatory motion to produce high shear rates within said material contained in said chamber, and means for removing and displacing processed said material from said chamber.
Apparatus for intermixing at least two flowable constituents comprising first and second members having confronting spaced apart substantially fluid impervious surfaces bounded by a peripheral margin thereby to define a chamber, means for introducing said constituents at said peripheral margin so that the constituents flow radially inwardly into said chamber, means for driving said first member in oscillatory motion to impart to said constituents corresponding oscillatory agitation, means for rotating at least one of said members to impart to said constituents corresponding rotary shearing action, and a portion of said second member inward of the periphery thereof defining an outlet at the surface thereof for discharging said constituents from said chamber.
A method for the processing of flowable material comprising the steps of:
- providing a chamber having opposed spaced apart substantially fluid impervious walls bounded by a peripheral margin, continuously introducing flowable material at the peripheral margin of said chamber so that said material flows radially inwardly into the chamber;
- driving only one of the opposed walls in an oscillatory squeezing action which imparts to said material a corresponding oscillatory agitation;
- rotating at least one of the opposed walls which imparts to said material a rotary shearing action superimposed on said oscillatory agitation;
- providing an opening in one of the opposed walls inward of the periphery thereof;
- and continuously removing said processed material from said chamber through the opening.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.