EP0182275A2 - Agitateur et appareil d'homogénéisation pour mélanges alimentaires - Google Patents

Agitateur et appareil d'homogénéisation pour mélanges alimentaires Download PDF

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EP0182275A2
EP0182275A2 EP85114428A EP85114428A EP0182275A2 EP 0182275 A2 EP0182275 A2 EP 0182275A2 EP 85114428 A EP85114428 A EP 85114428A EP 85114428 A EP85114428 A EP 85114428A EP 0182275 A2 EP0182275 A2 EP 0182275A2
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Alberto Sig. Cipelletti
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    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B01—PHYSICAL OR CHEMICAL PROCESSES OR APPARATUS IN GENERAL
    • B01F—MIXING, e.g. DISSOLVING, EMULSIFYING OR DISPERSING
    • B01F27/00—Mixers with rotary stirring devices in fixed receptacles; Kneaders
    • B01F27/80—Mixers with rotary stirring devices in fixed receptacles; Kneaders with stirrers rotating about a substantially vertical axis
    • B01F27/81—Mixers with rotary stirring devices in fixed receptacles; Kneaders with stirrers rotating about a substantially vertical axis the stirrers having central axial inflow and substantially radial outflow
    • B01F27/812—Mixers with rotary stirring devices in fixed receptacles; Kneaders with stirrers rotating about a substantially vertical axis the stirrers having central axial inflow and substantially radial outflow the stirrers co-operating with surrounding stators, or with intermeshing stators, e.g. comprising slits, orifices or screens
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B01—PHYSICAL OR CHEMICAL PROCESSES OR APPARATUS IN GENERAL
    • B01F—MIXING, e.g. DISSOLVING, EMULSIFYING OR DISPERSING
    • B01F33/00—Other mixers; Mixing plants; Combinations of mixers
    • B01F33/86—Mixing heads comprising a driven stirrer
    • B01F33/862—Mixing heads comprising a driven stirrer the stirrer being provided with a surrounding stator

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  • This invention concerns a stirring and homogenizing device for alimentary mixtures, particularly adapted to be used in combination with pasteurizers, specially of liquid mixtures for ice-cream.
  • the known pasteurizers of liquid mixtures for ice-cream generally comprise a container or tank for containing and thermally treating the mixture, inside of which a stirring device must keep the mixture in movement in order to improve the thermal exchange between the mixture and the cooled or heated tank walls. Further, said stirring device must perform mixing of different liquid and solid ingredients forming the mixture, which can thus be directly prepared in the pasteurization container.
  • the known stirring devices generally comprise a rotary shaft vertically protruding from the bottom of the pasteurization container and housed in a tubular box sealingly fixed to the tank bottom, said shaft and box extending upwards beyond the highest level of the mixture, as well as stirring means consisting of a tubular element provided with one or more stirring blades, positioned coaxially to the rotary shaft and tubular box, outside the latter and mechanically connected to the shaft upwardly to said box.
  • Another object of the invention is to provide a device which may be used to perform further treatments of the mixture, besides that of stirring and mixing the mixture ingredients, such as for example a homogenization treatment, a treatment for crushing the solid ingredients in the mixture, etc.
  • Still another object of the invention is to provide a device which allows a wide adjustment range as far as intensity of stirring, mixing, homogenization degree, etc. are concerned.
  • a stirring and homogenizing device for alimentary mixtures characterized in that it comprises a centrifugal pump capable of sucking the mixture from a container and pumping it again into the same container, said pump comprising a rotating impeller above the tank bottom and covered by an at least partially removable jacket.
  • said impeller is clutched onto a rotary shaft vertically protruding from the tank bottom and said jacket has axial or radial-axial passages for sucking the mixture and radial passages for delivering said mixture.
  • a the device 1 according to the invention is shown as positioned inside a mixture container 2 of a pasteurizer.
  • a rotary shaft 3 vertically protrudes, housed in a tubular liner 4 which is sealingly fixed to said container bottom wall. Both the liner 4 and shaft 3 have upper free ends coming out from the mixture, even when the latter reaches the highest level inside the container 2.
  • the top end of shaft 3 freely protrudes from liner 4 and has a vertical groove 5 or similar connection means.
  • a tube 6 is provided in its lower section with a series of radial blades 7, the horizontal bottom edges of which are substantially flush with the bottom wall of container 2.
  • the tube 6 can be connected to the shaft 3 for instance by means of a horizontal small pin 8 positioned in the upper section of the tube itself and suitable for being introduced into said vertical groove 5 of shaft 3.
  • the tube 6 is kept coaxial to shaft 3 by means of a bushing 9 made of antifriction plastics material and a cap 10 (see fig. 2).
  • the bushing 9 is integral to the tube 6, placed in correspondence with its bottom end and fills the annular space existing between the liner 4 and the tube 6; the cap 10 is inserted into the top end of tube 6 and has in its lower face an axial hole 11 suitable for receiving the top end of shaft 3.
  • a further tubular element 12 is inserted, said element 12 being provided, in its bottom section, with a jacket 13 so shaped and sized to completely contain the blades 7.
  • the top end of said tubular element 12 comes out from the highest level of the mixture for such an extent as sufficient to allow a manual grasping and is closed by a cap 14.
  • the jacket 13 is fixed to the bottom wall of container 2 for instance by means of a bayonet clutching comprising pins 15 protruding from the container bottom wall and corresponding grooves 16 provided in the bottom edge of said jacket 13.
  • the jacket 13, moreover, has upper axial passages 17 and a couple of radial holes diametrically opposite and communicating with corresponding ducts 18 which protrude in a direction tangent to the side surface of the jacket and are oriented toward opposite directions.
  • the group of blades 7 and jacket 13 forms a centrifugal pump capable of sucking the mixture from the container 2 through the holes 17 and pumping it again into the same container through the ducts 18.
  • the mixture jets coming from the ducts 18 generate a movement in the mixture mass within the container.
  • the mixture sucked by the pump undergoes a treatment which improves mixing of ingredients.
  • One of the main features of the device according to the invention is that the mixture jets coming from the ducts 18 generate a circulation of the mixture itself inside the container, which is a function of the pump rotation speed as well as of the orientation of the ducts themselves with respect to the container side walls. In fact, as shown in figures 3 and 4, according to the orientation of the ducts 18, different mixture circulation paths are created inside the container.
  • a regular circulation of the whole mixture is obtained, which can be more appropriate to improve a thermal exchange between the mixture and the container walls, while by orienting the ducts according to a direction perpendicular to the side walls of the tank, a turbulent movement of the mixture around the pump is produced, which can be more suitable for the dilution and mixing of the solid ingredients with the liquid ones.
  • the possibility of varying the directions of the pump delivery ducts, as well as the rotation speed of the impeller allows to choose within a wide range of values the stirring intensity and the circulation speed of the mixture, which allows to treat mixtures of different compositions and density.
  • Another possibility to control the stirring intensity can be obtained by providing means which can be actuated from the outside and are capable of partializing the sucking passages 17 of the pump.
  • Another feature of the device is to allow it to be used also for performing a homogenising treatment of the mixture.
  • it is sufficient to foresee a jacket 13 provided with axial holes for sucking the mixture and a series of delivering radial holes having a very small diameter, capable of breaking the fat molecules present in the mixture.
  • This particular embodiment allows for example to obtain cream by homogenizing butter.
  • Another particularly advantageous feature of the device according to the invention consists in that it is completely and very easily removable, so to facilitate the cleaning operations.
  • the device of figures 5 to 8 always operates within a container 102 of a pasteurizer, having a rotary shaft (not shown) protruding form the container bottom and having a free end with a vertical groove.
  • a tubular liner 104 partially covers the shaft and is connected to the bottom wall of container 102 by means of a plate 120 having a part 121 adapted to be inserted within a hole in the container bottom wall, and a part 122 lying above said container bottom wall and showing centering and positioning protrusions 123, as well as radially extending pins 124.
  • a covering ring 125 is positioned in such a manner to be centered on protrusions 123 and retained against rotations by insertion of fork-shaped elements 126 onto said pins 124.
  • Said protruding part 122 and said covering ring 125 together define sucking parts 117 having a path which is first radially oriented and then axially oriented with reference to shaft 103.
  • the impeller blades 107 are arranged to rotate flush with said ring 125 and are mounted on a tube 106 which is coaxially mounted on said liner 104 and is connected with the shaft by means of a horizontal pin 108 positioned in the upper section of tube 106 and suitable to be introduced into said vertical groove of shaft.
  • the tube 106 is kept coaxial with the shaft by means of one or more bushings in an antifriction plastics material.
  • a further tubular element 112 is inserted, said element being provided, in its bottom section, with a jacket 113 so shaped and sized to cover the blades 107 and form a pump or mixer scroll.
  • the top end of said tubular element 112 comes out from the highest level of the mixture for such an extent as sufficient to allow for a manual grasping thereof and is closed by a cup 114.
  • Said jacket 113 further comprises two mixture outlet ports 127 and 128, the second of which has a circumferential extent which is at least twice the extent of the other port 127.
  • a further cylindrical jacket 129 is placed, said jacket 129 comprising a hole 130 for the passage of said tubular element 112, a pair of tangentially extending ducts 118, 118' having openings in correspondence with said ports 127 and 128, respectively fork-shaped protrusions 131 for rotationally fixing the jacket 129 to the pump base 122 by means of pins 124, as well as a groove 132 in its upper portion wherein a pin 133 protruding from the jacket 113 is inserted in order to limit the extent of a rotation of jacket 113, as manually controlled by the cap 114.
  • FIG 7 shows a top view of a pasteurizing container 102 inside of which the device 101 is mounted with its duct 118, opening toward the container and duct 118' connected, by means of a removable tube 134, to a special cock 135 as shown in figure 8.
  • This cock has a control handle 136 adapted to be axially shifted in order to conventionally control by a rod 137 the position of a valve 138 which allows the mixture to be evacuated from a duct 139 protruding into the container 102 and connected with tube 134, to a discharge duct 140.
  • a bar 141 Upstream the valve 138, a bar 141 carries a double T-shaped element 142 (see the section at the left) having arc-shaped wing portions slidingly adapted to the inner wall of duct 139, in order to control the opening and closure of ports 143 provided for in the duct wall.
  • the axial length of element 142 and the position thereof with reference to ports 143 are so designed that when the cock is closed (as shown in the drawing) said ports 143 can be partially limited by element 142, or completely opened, in order to assure always a mixture circulation within said tube 134 but to have a possibility of control the mixture flow rate, together with the abovestated control of the flow rate through port 127 and duct 118.
  • This embodiment shows all the features and advantages of the previous one, and moreover allows sucking of mixture from a very low level into the container and pumping said mixture not only within the same container but also outwardly.

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EP0709623A3 (fr) * 1994-10-28 1997-11-12 Norsk Hydro Asa Dispositif pour le combustion de liquides à forte teneur en particules
FR2831469A1 (fr) * 2001-10-31 2003-05-02 Dito Sama Outil de machine de traitement de produits alimentaires a elements demontables, et machine equipee d'un tel outil
ES2213414A1 (es) * 2000-12-07 2004-08-16 Jose Luis Gascon Merino Difusor para caldos y pastas.
CN104942995A (zh) * 2015-07-01 2015-09-30 嘉善星窑新型建材有限公司 琉璃瓦浆料搅拌机构
WO2022246914A1 (fr) * 2021-05-25 2022-12-01 浙江瀚光环保科技有限公司 Dispositif d'agitation de médicaments pour traitement des eaux usées industrielles

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US2619330A (en) * 1949-09-09 1952-11-25 Willems Peter Mixing and dispersing device
US3820759A (en) * 1972-06-05 1974-06-28 Hege Avanced Syst Corp Centrifugal mixing apparatus and method
DE2413452B2 (de) * 1974-03-20 1976-01-22 Brogli + Co Ag, Allschwil, Baselland (Schweiz) Homogenisier-ruehrer
GB2031292A (en) * 1978-09-22 1980-04-23 Carpigiani Bruto Mach Apparatus for homogenization and thermal treatment of liquids
EP0036067A2 (fr) * 1980-03-14 1981-09-23 Haagen & Rinau Dispositif de mélange et d'homogénéisation d'au moins deux matières

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US2619330A (en) * 1949-09-09 1952-11-25 Willems Peter Mixing and dispersing device
US3820759A (en) * 1972-06-05 1974-06-28 Hege Avanced Syst Corp Centrifugal mixing apparatus and method
DE2413452B2 (de) * 1974-03-20 1976-01-22 Brogli + Co Ag, Allschwil, Baselland (Schweiz) Homogenisier-ruehrer
GB2031292A (en) * 1978-09-22 1980-04-23 Carpigiani Bruto Mach Apparatus for homogenization and thermal treatment of liquids
EP0036067A2 (fr) * 1980-03-14 1981-09-23 Haagen & Rinau Dispositif de mélange et d'homogénéisation d'au moins deux matières

Cited By (6)

* Cited by examiner, † Cited by third party
Publication number Priority date Publication date Assignee Title
EP0709623A3 (fr) * 1994-10-28 1997-11-12 Norsk Hydro Asa Dispositif pour le combustion de liquides à forte teneur en particules
ES2213414A1 (es) * 2000-12-07 2004-08-16 Jose Luis Gascon Merino Difusor para caldos y pastas.
FR2831469A1 (fr) * 2001-10-31 2003-05-02 Dito Sama Outil de machine de traitement de produits alimentaires a elements demontables, et machine equipee d'un tel outil
CN104942995A (zh) * 2015-07-01 2015-09-30 嘉善星窑新型建材有限公司 琉璃瓦浆料搅拌机构
CN104942995B (zh) * 2015-07-01 2017-09-29 新沂市鼎丽塑胶制品有限公司 琉璃瓦浆料搅拌机构
WO2022246914A1 (fr) * 2021-05-25 2022-12-01 浙江瀚光环保科技有限公司 Dispositif d'agitation de médicaments pour traitement des eaux usées industrielles

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