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US 6,354,727 B1Granted
Mixing device
AssigneeKao Corporation
InventorsKouji Toyoda, Hiroyuki Yamashita, Hideichi Nitta, Kenji Tanaka
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Abstract
A mixing method and apparatus in which, a gas for conditioning the physical properties o the material being mixed is ejected forwardly of the direction of rotation of a stirring member from within the material being mixed, when stirring the material to be mixed with the stirring member which rotates around an axis inside a vessel.
Claims6
An apparatus for mixing granular material of fine particle size which comprises:
- a vessel for containing the granular material to be mixed;
- a stirring member rotatably disposed within the vessel;
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- pipe means for ejecting a gas into the granular material for conditioning the physical properties of the granular material being mixed in the vessel, said pipe means having an open end portion which defines a gas jet, said open end portion being inclined relative to the horizontal plane so as to extend rearwardly of the direction of rotation of the stirring member and downwardly, the angle formed by the end portion of the pipe and the horizontal plane being less than the angle of repose of the material being mixed,
- wherein the gas jet is provided in a fixed location relative to the vessel so as to enable the gas to be ejected from within the material being mixed, and enable the gas to be ejected forwardly of the direction of rotation of the stirring member.
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An apparatus for mixing granular material of fine particle size which comprises:
- a vessel for containing the granular material to be mixed;
- a stirring member rotatably disposed within the vessel;
- pipe means for ejecting gas into the granular material for conditioning the physical properties of the granular material being mixed in the vessel, said pipe means having an open end portion which defines a gas jet which is provided in a fixed location relative to the vessel so as to enable the gas to be ejected from within the material being mixed and enable the gas to be ejected forwardly of the direction of rotation of the stirring member;
- means for supplying a liquid inside the vessel;
- a dispersing member for dispersing the supplied liquid;
- wherein the location of the dispersing member in the axial direction of the rotating shaft corresponds to the location of the gas jet in the axial direction of the rotating shaft.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.