Agitating inventions 06/08

20080151681 - Slurry flow divider: A slurry dividing apparatus is configured to divide a main slurry stream into smaller constituent slurry streams, wherein each stream contains a desired proportion of suspended solids. The dividing apparatus includes a main flow channel and a plurality of branch flow channels extending upward from a flow divider that terminates... Agent: Intellectual Property Group Fredrikson & Byron, P.a.

20080151682 - Method and apparatus for mixing dough: The invention provides an apparatus and method for improved mixing of yeast-raised and yeast-raised type dough. The device and method keep the dough cool by an improved structure and method for circulating coolant around a jacketed bowl, and by circulating cooled air through the spinning agitator roller bars. Better aeration... Agent: Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP Attn: Patent Docket Dept.

20080151683 - Stir-bag system with stand and turbulence member: A flexible container is used in conjunction with a magnetic mixer. The flexible container is in the form of a bag, and is designed to rest on top of a magnetic mixer. The bag is comprised of a flexible, but impermeable-film material. A stand may be used in conjunction with... Agent: Robert R. Axenfeld Montgomery, Mccracken, Walker & Rhoads

20080151684 - Method and apparatus for reservoir mixing: The invention provides a system and method for filling a reservoir through one or a plurality of inlet nozzles to encourage mixing. The inlet nozzles include a specifically designed size reduction between the main line or branch to which the inlet nozzle is attached and the nozzle pipe itself; a... Agent: Hodgson Russ LLP The Guaranty Building

20080151685 - Guarding structure for a mixer of molding material: A guarding structure for a mixer of molding material that has a shock absorbing chassis containing a detention board and a mixer body held in the shock absorbing chassis and run through the detention board includes an anchor member between the mixer body and the detention board. The anchor member... Agent: Joe Mckinney Muncy

20080151686 - Mixing bag for use with nonabrasive stir bar: A flexible container is used in conjunction with a magnetic mixer. The flexible container is in the form of a bag, and is designed to rest on top of a magnetic mixer. The bag is comprised of a flexible, but impermeable-film material. The bag is flat with no seams on... Agent: Robert R. Axenfeld Montgomery, Mccracken, Walker & Rhoads

20080151687 - Method for minimizing erosion of refractory metal vessels in a glass making system: A method of reducing metal loss from the refractory metal of a stirring apparatus for stirring molten glass, and the apparatus therefore are disclosed. The method includes stirring a molten glass with a stirrer comprising a layer containing at least about 50% iridium. An apparatus comprising an iridium-containing layer is... Agent: Corning Incorporated

20080144424 - Automatic drum rotation control concrete transit mixer truck: A concrete transit mixer truck includes a control system that automatically controls rotation of the mixer drum at a constant drum speed when the mixer truck is traveling. When sensed speed of the truck exceeds a threshold, the control system automatically causes a hydraulic system to rotate the drum at... Agent: Kinney & Lange, P.a.

20080144425 - Device and method for admixing liquids into flowable bulk material: A device for admixing a liquid into flowable dry materials has a housing with a mixing chamber having an inner wall with an impact area and an exit opening at a bottom end of the mixing chamber. Dry material is supplied from above into the mixing chamber and falls downwardly... Agent: Gudrun E. Huckett Draudt

20080144426 - Mixing and dispensing curable multi-component materials: Methods, apparatus, devices and systems for mixing and dispensing multi-component materials. The mixing and dispensing may be performed using a mobile, enclosed dispenser that can be used to supply a mixed multi-component material at the point of use. In some embodiments, the components to be mixed into the multi-component material... Agent: 3m Innovative Properties Company

20080144427 - Method and apparatus for continuous liquid stream blending: A method and apparatus for combining and mixing together a plurality of liquids to form a blend. The invention discloses reservoir supplied intermittently operated servo driven pumps, and optionally discrete liquid flow meters, and precise, encoded, fast-acting flow shut-off devices to create and define repeated time synchronized ratio defined doses... Agent: John C. Thompson Patent Attorney

20080144428 - Method and apparatus for mixing bone cement: A method and apparatus is disclosed for forming a mixed material. For example, two components of a bone cement may be positioned in the apparatus and mixed under vacuum. An increase in pressure on one side of a movable piston can move the material for ease of access and reducing... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20080144429 - Dry chemical feeder system: A feeder system comprising a hopper for holding dry chemical. A feed tube extends from the hopper and is for delivering dry chemical to a mixing tank. A first solenoid actuator is provided for controlling the opening and closing of a first solenoid actuated gate that is disposed in the... Agent: Hodgson Russ LLP The Guaranty Building

20080144430 - Annular fluid processor with different annular path areas: The disclosure is directed to a high pressure fluid processing device for mixing, reacting, or otherwise combining fluids. The fluid processing device includes opposing, annular flow channels of different annular path areas. A first fluid enters the fluid processing device and flows through the first annular flow channel while the... Agent: Attention: Eric D. Levinson Imation Corp.

20080144431 - Device for dispersing a solid, liquid or gaseous substance in a liquid: The disclosed device disperses a substance in a liquid. The device has at least one dispersing chamber, which has at least one liquid inlet, at least one substance inlet, and at least one outlet. At least one driving means is placed inside the dispersing chamber while serving to set the... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20080144432 - Mixfix: fine-tuned graded mixing/entropic alphabet for chemical and visual encoding, efficient processing, and decorative painting: MIXFIX is an mixing apparatus featuring fine tuned mixing applicable as efficient and inexpensive in-line process mixing that also doubles as a regulatory valve. The controlled mixing degree allows for creating an alphabet where the degree of mixing (entropy) indicates different letters so that a computer controlled MIXFIX will generate... Agent: Gideon Samid

20080144433 - Multi-chambered fluid mixing apparatus and method: A method and apparatus for substantially simultaneously mixing two fluids to form a mixture for application to a substrate.... Agent: Luedeka, Neely & Graham, P.c.

20080137473 - Method for cavitating fluids within a cavitation chamber using a hydraulically actuated driver: A method for forming and imploding cavities within a cavitation chamber is provided. The method uses a cavitation piston, coupled to a hydraulically actuated piston, to form the desired cavities during piston retraction and then implode the cavities during piston extension. The cavitation fluid is degassed prior to hydraulically driving... Agent: Ross Tessien C/o Impulse Devices, Inc.

20080130398 - Base and disposable bowl and method: A combination of a durable base and a disposable bowl for mixing of ingredients by a cosmetician. The base provides for the base and bowl to be free-standing so that the cosmetician can conveniently mix ingredients for hair coloring preparation, for example, and can also access the mixed hair coloring... Agent: Law Office Of Terry L. Miller

20080130399 - Methods and apparatus for handling or treating particulate material: An improved draft tube spout fluid bed (DTSFB) mixing, handling, conveying, and treating apparatus and systems, and methods for operating are provided. The apparatus and systems can accept particulate material and pneumatically or hydraulically conveying the material to mix and/or treat the material. In addition to conveying apparatus, a collection... Agent: Heslin Rothenberg Farley & Mesiti Pc

20080130400 - Method, an apparatus and a rotor for homogenizing a medium: The present invention relates to a method, an apparatus and a rotor for homogenizing a medium. The invention may be utilized in all areas of industry where mere homogenisation of a medium or mixing of at least two flowing media is needed. A preferred application of the invention can be... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20080130401 - Dosing system for loose compressible materials having heterogeneous granulometry and/or density: A dosing system for loose compressible material having heterogeneous granulometry and/or density and outputting the material though a main outlet is disclosed. The dosing system comprises a receiving structure for receiving the material to be dosed. A homogenizing system closes the receiving structure outlet and normalizes the material. A first... Agent: The Nath Law Group

20080130402 - Microchannel chip and converging device: A microchannel chip, includes: a first channel where a first liquid is transported from one end side to an opposite end side; a port section to which a second liquid is supplied from outside for accumulating the second liquid; and a second channel connecting the first channel and the port... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080130403 - Soil mixer: The invention is a device for mixing nursery dirt, peat moss and wood shavings into a marketable soil mixture. The device is made of a housing, a conveyor, a motor, a scalloped cylinder, a metal blade, at least seven metal cylinders, sprockets that turn the scalloped cylinder and at least... Agent: Ruben Alcoba, Esq.

20080130404 - Tank mixing system and valve therfor: A mixing system and valve(s) are provided for a tank or other container of liquid to be mixed. A directional flow control valve is secured within the tank. The directional flow control valve includes a plate secured adjacent an inlet supply opening or an outlet supply opening in the tank.... Agent: Jeanne E. Longmuir

20080130405 - Disposable mixing system: The present invention uses one or more bags that are capable of being selectively pressurized and deflated in conjunction with a disposable bio bag such as a fermenter, mixing bag, storage bag and the like. The pressure bag(s) may surround a selected outer portion of the bag or may be... Agent: Millipore Corporation

20080130406 - Mixer for viscous materials: A mixer is provided that is configured for attachment to a power tool for mixing a viscous material, and includes a shaft defining a shaft axis, and a plurality of paddles attached to the shaft and extending radially from the shaft. All of the paddles have generally the same axial... Agent: Greer, Burns & Crain, Ltd.