Dual shell blender with intensifier

A blending apparatus comprising a material container including a pair of hollow blending legs joined together at one end along a common plane to form an apex portion, said hollow legs defining an interior blending space and being divergent from said common plane along intersecting axes each of which forms an acute angle with said common plane, means for mounting said container for rotation about a rotation axis in the plane of the intersecting axes of said legs, means for rotating said container about said rotation axis whereby said apex portion repetitively moves between an uppermost position and a lower most position, an intensifier assembly in said interior blending space and located exclusively on one side of said common plane for blending different materials placed in said interior blending space, intensifier drive shaft means for rotating said intensifier assembly about said rotation axis, said intensifier assembly including a disc assembly and at least two L-shaped rods arranged to displace material towards said common plane upon rotation of said assembly such that whenever said apex portion is at an uppermost position, the intensifier assembly throws said displaced material across said common plane, and, whenever said apex portion is at its lowermost position, the intensifier throws said displaced material into contact with a wall of said material container, the contact occurring before the material has reached said common plane and said intensifier assembly is symmetric with respect to the axis of rotation, said disc assembly having a plurality of channel outlets around the circumference thereof and extending radially from said axis of rotation to allow liquid to flow through and mix with material in the material container, said intensifier having one end connected to the intensifier drive shaft means and another end remote therefrom, said L-shaped rods being supported at the end of the intensifier assembly remote from said intensifier drive shaft and said intensifier assembly further including at least first and second straight dispersion rods adjacent the end of the intensifier assembly connected to the intensifier drive shaft, the straight dispersion rods being colinear with each other and coplanar with the shafts of the L-shaped rods.

A blending apparatus for liquids and solids comprising:

• a material container having an interior blending space divided by a common plane, an intensifier assembly located exclusively on one side of said plane, an intensifier drive shaft for rotatably supporting said intensifier assembly within said interior blending space, a container drive shaft for rotating said container about a horizontal axis of rotation, said drive shafts being coaxial, said intensifier assembly being symmetric with respect to the axis of rotation and including at least first and second L-shaped rods each having a shaft extending radially from the axis of rotation and a head at an oblique angle with respect to a plane defined by the axis of rotation and the shaft, the shafts of said L-shaped rods being colinear and perpendicular to said axis of rotation and the heads being arranged on opposite sides of the plane defined by the axis of rotation such that the oblique angle formed by each head has the same absolute value, and said intensifier assembly further including a disc assembly having a plurality of radial channel outlets extending to the periphery thereof for allowing a source of liquid connected to said assembly to flow through and mix with material in the material container, a liquid feed tube extending through said intensifier drive shaft for providing liquid to the inside of the intensifier assembly, said intensifier drive shaft being arranged to extend into said intensifier assembly at one end only, said L-shaped rods being disposed at an end of the intensifier remote from said intensifier drive shaft and said intensifier including first and second straight rods at the end of the intensifier adjacent the intensifier drive shaft, said straight rods being colinear with each other and coplanar with the shafts of the L-shaped rods.