Agitating inventions 03/08

20080074944 - Process for mixing a liquid or mixture of a liquid and a fine solid present in an essentially self-containing vessel: A process for mixing a liquid stored in a vessel, in which gas is sucked in from the gas phase present above the liquid interface with a suction apparatus present in the liquid, and released into it again for the gas-induced mixing of the liquid.... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080074945 - Agitation vessel: Provided here is an agitation vessel which enhances energy transmission efficiency in an agitation apparatus and an analysis apparatus, simplifies the structure of the agitation apparatus and the analysis apparatus, and allows for downsizing and improved maintenanceability. An agitation vessel (5) agitates retained liquid by sound waves. A sound wave... Agent: Scully, Scott, Murphy & Presser, P.C.

20080068919 - Method and device for homogenizing and filtering a viscoelastic material using coaxial telescoping screws: A viscoelastic material is extruded by kneading-and-conveying screws of different respective diameters positioned coaxially and telescopingly. A flight trough of a larger-diameter screw has radial orifices allowing a first space swept by the flight of the larger-diameter screw to communicate with a second space swept by a flight of a... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney PC

20080068920 - Gas delivery configurations, foam control systems, and bag molding methods and articles for collapsible bag vessels and bioreactors: Systems for containing and manipulating fluids including systems and methods involving supported collapsible bags that may be used as reactors for performing chemical, biochemical and/or biological reactions contained therein are provided. Generally, a series of improvements and features for fluid containment systems such as gas delivery configurations, foam control systems... Agent: Wolf Greenfield & Sacks, P.C.

20080068921 - Utensils: A range of kitchen utensils having soft polymer surrounding edges is described. These utensils have a body moulding and a softer edge moulding, and can be used with surfaces having TPFE or similar coatings without damaging the coatings.... Agent: Michael Molins Molins & Co.

20080068922 - Device for blending a binder component and a hardener component for producing a ready-made filler: A device for blending at least two components into a mixed substance which has a simple construction and for which it is guaranteed that the containers of the components can be placed without mistake in the device, a mixing device (1) is provided inside which at least two components (A,... Agent: Friedrich Kueffner Suite 910

20080068923 - Mixing pump: Disclosed is a pump for controllably dispensing an additive into a stream of liquid and mixing therewith, the pump comprising: a pump body having a passage into which a liquid stream is introduced, and from which a combination mixture of the additive and the liquid stream is discharged; a turbine... Agent: Arendt & Associates Intellectual Property Group

20080068924 - Mixer with shaking and tumbling motion: A mixer for combining ingredients using a composite shaking and tumbling motion. The mixer includes a base carrier rotating about a primary axis and supporting a container carrier assembly having a clamp retaining a container to be mixed. The container carrier assembly is coupled to the base carrier to oscillate... Agent: Faegre & Benson LLP Patent Docketing

20080068925 - Mixing machine and associated sealing arrangement for bearings: A mixing machine includes a head extending over a bowl receiving location. The head includes a shaft receiving opening extending upwardly therein and a rotatable mixing shaft having a lower portion extending below the head and an upper portion within the shaft receiving opening. An upwardly facing bearing shoulder is... Agent: Thompson Hine LLP Intellectual Property Group

20080062811 - Ultrasonic liquid treatment chamber and continuous flow mixing system: An ultrasonic liquid treatment chamber has an elongate housing through which liquid flows longitudinally from an inlet port to an outlet port thereof. An elongate ultrasonic waveguide assembly extends within the housing and is operable at a predetermined ultrasonic frequency to ultrasonically energize liquid within the housing. An elongate ultrasonic... Agent: Christopher M. Goff (27839) Armstrong Teasdale LLP

20080062812 - Apparatus and method for premixing lost circulation material: There is provided herein a system for premixing LCM with drilling mud for use in drilling. In the preferred embodiment, a hopper will contain pressurized directed apertures which are designed to create a swirling vortex of drilling mud within a central hopper. Adding the LCM to the hopper will mix... Agent: Fellers Snider Blankenship Bailey & Tippens

20080062813 - Method and apparatus for blending process materials: A method and apparatus for blending and supplying process materials. The method and apparatus are particularly applicable to the blending of ultra-high purity chemicals, the blending of abrasive slurries with other chemicals for the polishing of semiconductor wafers, and high-accuracy blending of chemicals. The apparatus may include a dispensing subsystem... Agent: Lowrie, Lando & Anastasi, LLP

20080056058 - Twin screw intake elements for an extruder system: An embodiment of the invention is a twin-screw device for an extruder system that includes a first shaft, a second shaft, a first intake element coupled to the first shaft and including a first flight, and a second intake element coupled to the second shaft adjacent the first intake element... Agent: Schox PLC

20080056059 - Incubating orbital shaker: An orbital shaker which provides a shaking motion that is both stable and accurate to allow repeatability is provided, which allows for ease of cleaning of the shaking platform due to its mounting on a drive platform that keeps the entire drive system in an assembled state even if the... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.C.

20080056060 - Device of electrodes for measuring water content in foundry sand, an apparatus for measuring water content in foundry sand, and a method and an apparatus for supplying water to a sand mixer: To solve this problem, the device of the electrodes for measuring water content in the foundry sand by supplying an electric current to it is comprised of a plurality of conductive elements 2, 3 concentrically disposed with certain intervals between them in a longitudinal direction, wherein the elements form an... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20080056061 - Dynamic mixer: The invention relates to a dynamic mixer for mixing at least two paste components of different volume proportions. Said mixer comprises a housing with at least two inlet openings and at least one outlet opening, a mixer element being rotatably mounted in a mixing chamber of said housing. The housing... Agent: Mueting, Raasch & Gebhardt, P.A.

20080056062 - Food blending apparatus: A food blending apparatus and a method of blending food within a container with the object of providing a hygienic system whereby disposable containers are charged with product at a location remote from consumption. After filling with ingredients the container is sealed and then cooled. Containers include an integral blender... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20080056063 - Method of mixing at least two kinds of fluids in centrifugal micro-fluid treating substrate: Provided is a method of mixing fluids including introducing at least two kinds of fluids to a chamber of a substrate including a microchannel structure; and alternately rotating the substrate clockwise and counter-clockwise until the at least two kinds of fluids are mixed, wherein the rotation is changed from one... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080056064 - Method and apparatus for producing dope, and method for producing film: An inline mixing device (53) is constituted of a sulzer mixer (160) disposed in an upper stream and a static mixer (170) disposed in a downstream. An additive supplied through an orifice (150a) passes through the sulzer mixer (160) disposed in the upstream. As the sulzer mixer (160) is superior... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080056065 - Static mixer: The static mixer for two components comprises a housing with an inlet section and mixing elements that are arranged in the housing. At least one of the mixing elements is designed, in contrast to mixing helixes of the prior art, as a disk-shaped shear plate having a passage in its... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500