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Back mix drag-flow apparatus

US5372418A · kind A · utility

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Key dates

Filing dateNov 19, 1992
Grant dateDec 13, 1994
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Expiry dateNov 19, 2012

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC B)Performing Operations; Transporting
  • CPC primaryB01F27/722
  • WIPO fieldChemical engineering
  • WIPO sectorChemistry

Abstract

A back mix, drag-flow apparatus that provides both radial and axial mixing of materials comprising at least two worms in screw form and parallel and tangential to one another that are of opposite hands and are rotatable only in the same direction or are of the same hand and are rotatable only in opposite directions; and a barrel casing completely enclosing said worms and containing a feed inlet and a product outlet.

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