Agitating inventions 08/07

20070201301 - Beverage pouring systems: A system for improved dispensing of partially frozen beverages from a container. The system comprises a mechanical vibrator adapted to contact the outer wall of a container such as a blending pitcher. The interaction of the partially frozen beverage with the vibrating outer wall reduces the effective viscosity of the... Agent: Stoneman Law Offices, Ltd

20070201302 - Vibratory head for a concrete vibrator: A vibratory head for a concrete vibrator includes an eccentric which rotates to convert rotational motion to vibratory motion.... Agent: Barnes & Thornburg LLP

20070201303 - Method and apparatus for making non-staining beverages: A method and apparatus for making non-staining coffee or tea includes an ion exchanger for removing heavy metals from the brewed coffee or tea or from the water used to brew the coffee or tea.... Agent: Hayes Soloway P.C.

20070201304 - Device and installation for injecting particulate matter into an enclosure and associated method: The device for injecting matter into a reaction enclosure in a treatment method using pressurized water comprises a pressurizing capacity (24) having an inner volume in which a mobile assembly (29) is arranged, e.g. a bellows which compartments it sealingly into two variable volumes, namely a pressurizing capacity (32) and... Agent: Anderson, Kill & Olick, P.C.

20070201305 - Method and apparatus for centralized proppant storage and metering: An apparatus for manufacturing well treatment fluid is disclosed that includes a proppant storage and metering unit; a chemical storage and metering unit connected to a blending unit; and an electronic control system connected to the proppant storage and metering unit, the chemical storage and metering unit, and the blending... Agent: John W. Wustenberg

20070201306 - Blender base with food processor capabilities: A blender base that may be used with a food processor container, a blender container, and a single use beverage container. The blender container includes a novel blade unit having a food processor-style blade and blender type blades. Programs with preprogrammed motor commands for desired operations are stored in memory... Agent: Lawrence J. Shurupoff Sunbeam Products, Inc.

20070195639 - Clamping mechanism: A clamping mechanism particularly for clamping a vibrator to a reinforcing bar. The clamping mechanism provides a slot which intersects a channel. The channel is longitudinally open in one direction at one side of said intersecting slot and longitudinally open in the opposite direction at the other side of said... Agent: Ladas & Parry

20070195640 - Device for moving in the longitudinal direction a screw shaft for mixing machines and mixing machine equipped with said device: Device for moving in the longitudinal direction a shaft with screw rotationally driven by a motor, comprising at least one cylinder coaxial with said shaft and provided with at least one rotating piston rigidly connected to the shaft and able to produce a displacement in either direction of the shaft... Agent: Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky And Popeo, P.C.

20070195641 - Mixer with pivotable bowl: A mixer system including a bowl for receiving a material to be mixed, a mixer body having a rotatable output component, and a hinge. The bowl is pivotable about the hinge relative to the mixer body such that the bowl can be pivoted between a loading/unloading position and a closed... Agent: Thompson Hine LLP Intellectual Property Group

20070195642 - Method and apparatus for resonant wave mixing in closed containers: A method and apparatus is provided for non-invasively mixing ingredients in closed containers. Mixing is performed by inducing waves in the liquid to be mixed. This is achieved by rocking the container in precise phase so as to produce resonance. With the waves moving back and forth in resonance, it... Agent: Ge Healthcare Bio-sciences Corp. Patent Department

20070189109 - Improved volumetric cement mixer: An improved volumetric cement mixer has bins, containers, and troughs formed from UHMW material reinforced with expanded metal. A metal skeletal frame supports the UHMW walls of the sand and gravel bins, while mininizing the weight of the mixer. The UHMW troughs for the boot mixer and discharge chute improve... Agent: Mckee, Voorhees & Sease, P.L.C

20070189108 - Auxiliary water tank and pump assembly for a vehicle: A self-purging auxiliary fluid supply system for supplying washout or makeup water or other fluids under pressure to a truck-mounted concrete mixing/dispensing drum is disclosed. The system includes a truck-mounted fluid reservoir for containing a quantity of fluid connected to supply fluid to an air-operated diaphragm pump connected to supply... Agent: Nikolai & Mersereau, P.A.

20070189110 - Mixing drum blade support: A heavy duty rotary concrete mixing drum (16) for coupling to a vehicle (10) having a powered drivetrain (18) for rotating the drum comprises a wall and at least one projection (32). The wall (33) includes an inner surface (34) defining a volume and an outer surface (36). The at... Agent: Foley & Lardner LLP

20070189111 - System for converting hydrokinetic energy to mechanical energy: A system for converting hydrokinetic energy into mechanical energy. The system includes a holding tank, a housing containing a turbine, and a power take-off connected to the turbine for providing mechanical energy to outside the system. At least one mixing chamber with a discharge opening is connected to the housing... Agent: Gunn & Lee, P.C.

20070189112 - Procedure and device for homogenizing: A process for homogenizing a pumpable product, in which the product is pressurized and homogenized in an homogenization means equipped with a drive which has a drivable rotor rotatably mounted in a housing, and a stator that is stationary or drivable at an adjustable relative speed relative to the rotor,... Agent: Fulbright & Jaworski, LLP

20070189113 - Apparatus for mixing watertreatment agent: Disclosed is a mixer for a water treatment agent. The mixer comprises a motor for providing a rotatory force. A vacuum port is connected to the motor, and has a drawing inlet for feeding the water treatment agent therethrough. A spraying pipe is rotatively connected to a lower part of... Agent: Bell, Boyd & Lloyd, LLP

20070189114 - Multi-chamber supercavitation reactor: The invention relates to a device for the molecular integration or disintegration of solid, liquid and/or gaseous flowing, entrained and/or countercurrent components by means of cavitation in order to modify, build or disintegrate molecular compounds. The invention allows to obtain stable mixtures from immiscible or difficult-to-mix components or to separate... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070189115 - Magnetic stirring arrangement: An enclosed magnetic stirring bar arrangement includes a housing formed by front and rear walls interconnected by a peripheral wall, so as to define a substantially hollow interior chamber within said housing. An operational opening is formed within the front wall and at least one discharging aperture is provided in... Agent: Silber & Fridman

20070189116 - Mixer for dental molding power: A mixer for dental molding powder has a motor to drive a holding cup pivotally located on a chassis to rotate. A regulation means is provided that has a bolt and a screw bar to hold a pulley on the chassis. By means of a plurality of belts, the pulley... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070183253 - Mixing and kneading machine: The mixing and kneading machine (1) for compounding bulk-flowable, plastic and/or pasty masses comprises a working space (9) enclosed by a casing (2), and a working member (3) moving rotatingly and translationally in the casing (2). The working member (3) comprises a plurality of kneader vanes (4). Secured to the... Agent: Maginot, Moore & Beck, LLP Chase Tower

20070183252 - Bladeless mixer: A bladeless mixer/mill for agitating and mixing a compound/product. The mixer/mill comprises a driving shaft rotatable about a first vertical axis of rotation, and a motor unit operatively coupled to the driving shaft for rotating the same. A support plate is mounted onto the driving shaft and is rotatable about... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney PC

20070183254 - Infinitely variable shear mixer apparatus: A mixing apparatus for the treatment of a plurality of flowable components. The apparatus comprises an elongated housing having an upper component-introduction end and a downstream compound-discharge end. An elongated shaft is rotatably disposed within an elongated bore disposed within the housing. The shaft has a stator and rotor arrangement... Agent: Donald N. Halgren

20070183255 - Geometric and perforated paint mixer and paint roller cleaner: The present invention sets forth an implement which enables the user to mix paint, and optionally to perform several other painting related functions. The implement has a perforated paddle with oppositely deflected upper portions to enhance mixing of the paint. The implement may be selectively positionable to either mix paint... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20070183256 - Blender container: A blender system including a mixing base capable of agitating the contents of associated containers. The mixing base includes a rotatable shaft within a recessed well, a pressure-actuated switch positioned about the periphery of the recessed well, and a locking groove. One container that may be used with the mixing... Agent: Cislo & Thomas, LLP

20070183257 - Submersibly operable high volume and low pressure liquid transfer equipment: Submersibly installable and operable high volume and low pressure stirrer type liquid transferring equipment (10) comprises a rotor type stirrer (12) driven via a drive shaft (16) passing without making contact along a sleeve (18) rooting centrally in a housing (14) having a downwardly facing inlet (22) and a tangentially... Agent: Wyatt, Tarrant & Combs, LLP

20070183258 - Capsule with foam conditioning feature: A device for preparing a whipped food, including a container portion that contains a food component and that is configured for receiving a fluid for mixing with the food component to produce a fluid mixture. A film conditioning conduit is associated with the container portion to receive the fluid mixture... Agent: Bell, Boyd & Lloyd LLP

20070177450 - Keel type ram for use in internal batch mixers with tangential rotors: This invention provides a ram for use in a mixer with counter-rotating non-intermeshing rotors on which the central portion of the ram utilizes a apex, either a point or a line produced by a “V” or similar shape, that protrudes a given distance into the mixing chamber and on which... Agent: George W. Rauchfuss, Jr. Ohlandt, Greeley, Ruggiero & Perle, L.L.P.

20070177451 - Serrated kneading disk and kneading block: A serrated kneading disk including a body having a perimeter that is an ellipse having truncated ends, the curved elliptical portions forming flanks and the truncated ends forming crests. The crests are curved to form the arc of a circle having a radius substantially the same as the radius of... Agent: Robert E. Howard

20070177452 - Flow homogenizer: A flow homogeniser for insertion in a pipeline conveying a particulate material carried by a carrier fluid comprising a pipe having an inlet end and an outlet end and including a core defined by one or more core pipe sections connected in series between the inlet end and the outlet... Agent: C. Robert Von Hellens Cahill, Von Hellens & Glazer P.L.C

20070177453 - Immersion mixer: The invention concerns an immersion mixer with an electric motor, a drive shaft, a tube, a bell-shaped housing and a rotary tool. To ease the assembly or disassembly of such a mixer, a cartridge is assembled in the bell-shaped housing so as to be removable. This cartridge includes a shaft... Agent: Patterson, Thuente, Skaar & Christensen, P.A.

20070177454 - Apparatus and method for storing, mixing, metering, and injecting polymeric slurries into pipelines: The present invention generally comprises a storage vessel for the polymeric slurry chemical, a vapor recirculation system, a chemical recirculation system, a means for chemical temperature control, a means for measuring storage vessel level, a means for metering and pumping chemical, and a means for controlling apparatus. The vapor recirculation... Agent: Robert R. Hyatt

20070177455 - Mixing apparatus and method: A mixing apparatus having a mixing impeller affixed to the end of a mixer shaft which is reciprocably and rotatably or non-rotatably mounted thru mixer seal structure which has surface portions adapted to be brought into sealing engagement with the open filler end of a retail off-the-shelf tube of viscous... Agent: Donald W. Spurrell

20070177456 - Method and apparatus for on-site mixing of liquid deicer: An apparatus and method for preparing and dispensing a liquid deicer. The apparatus and method allow deicer ingredients or precursors to be combined in an exothermic reaction to produce a heated deicer at the location where it will be used. In one implementation, potassium hydroxide and acetic acid are combined... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd.

20070177457 - Shaker: An apparatus for mixing of liquid substances or distribution of solid substances in liquid substances in a plurality of sample containers arranged in a microplate (7) is supported on a horizontally displaceable support plate (2). A motor (3) that is provided with an unbalance is held via its stator (3A)... Agent: Browdy And Neimark, P.l.l.c. 624 Ninth Street, Nw

20070177458 - Method for mixing fluid streams, microfluidic mixer and microfluidic chip utilizing same: A method for mixing fluid streams, microfluidic mixer and microfluidic chip utilizing same utilize a topological mixing scheme that exploits the laminarity of the flow to repeatedly fold the flow and exponentially increase the concentration gradients to obtain fast and efficient mixing by diffusion (FIG. 1a). It is based on... Agent: Brooks Kushman P.C.