US3770249A - Mixing, homogenizing and emulsifying apparatus - Google Patents

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US3770249A
US3770249A US00263316A US3770249DA US3770249A US 3770249 A US3770249 A US 3770249A US 00263316 A US00263316 A US 00263316A US 3770249D A US3770249D A US 3770249DA US 3770249 A US3770249 A US 3770249A
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    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A23—FOODS OR FOODSTUFFS; TREATMENT THEREOF, NOT COVERED BY OTHER CLASSES
    • A23G—COCOA; COCOA PRODUCTS, e.g. CHOCOLATE; SUBSTITUTES FOR COCOA OR COCOA PRODUCTS; CONFECTIONERY; CHEWING GUM; ICE-CREAM; PREPARATION THEREOF
    • A23G1/00—Cocoa; Cocoa products, e.g. chocolate; Substitutes therefor
    • A23G1/04—Apparatus specially adapted for manufacture or treatment of cocoa or cocoa products
    • A23G1/042—Manufacture or treatment of liquid, cream, paste, granule, shred or powder
    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A23—FOODS OR FOODSTUFFS; TREATMENT THEREOF, NOT COVERED BY OTHER CLASSES
    • A23G—COCOA; COCOA PRODUCTS, e.g. CHOCOLATE; SUBSTITUTES FOR COCOA OR COCOA PRODUCTS; CONFECTIONERY; CHEWING GUM; ICE-CREAM; PREPARATION THEREOF
    • A23G1/00—Cocoa; Cocoa products, e.g. chocolate; Substitutes therefor
    • A23G1/04—Apparatus specially adapted for manufacture or treatment of cocoa or cocoa products
    • A23G1/10—Mixing apparatus; Roller mills for preparing chocolate
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B01—PHYSICAL OR CHEMICAL PROCESSES OR APPARATUS IN GENERAL
    • B01F—MIXING, e.g. DISSOLVING, EMULSIFYING OR DISPERSING
    • B01F25/00—Flow mixers; Mixers for falling materials, e.g. solid particles
    • B01F25/40—Static mixers
    • B01F25/42—Static mixers in which the mixing is affected by moving the components jointly in changing directions, e.g. in tubes provided with baffles or obstructions
    • B01F25/421—Static mixers in which the mixing is affected by moving the components jointly in changing directions, e.g. in tubes provided with baffles or obstructions by moving the components in a convoluted or labyrinthine path
    • B01F25/422—Static mixers in which the mixing is affected by moving the components jointly in changing directions, e.g. in tubes provided with baffles or obstructions by moving the components in a convoluted or labyrinthine path between stacked plates, e.g. grooved or perforated plates

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  • ABSTRACT An apparatus for mixing, homogenizing and emulsify- Foreign Application y Data ing liquid and liquid/solid mixtures comprises a plural- June 18, 1971 Germany P 21 30 134.8 ity of individual chambers connected in series. Each chamber has the shape of a double frustum and adja- [52] US. Cl. 259/4, 259/D1G. 30 cent chambers are connected to each other by supply [51] Int. Cl B011 15/02 and discharge channels which enter the individual [58] Field of Search 259/4, 18', 36, DIG. 30 chambers tangentially.
  • homogenizing and emulsifying media having a liquid to pasty consistency are widely used. These machines generally function in such a manner that a coarse dispersion prepared in a separate installation and consisting of the ingredients to be mixed is brought to an elevated pressure, e.g., 400 kp/cm with the aid of a volumetrically operating pump.
  • elevated pressure e.g. 400 kp/cm with the aid of a volumetrically operating pump.
  • the dispersion is released again through one or more narrow slot-like cross sections.
  • lf for example a'w ater/oil mixture is subjected to such a treatment then a more or less stable emulsion is obtained.
  • the grease and water particles are so deformedduring this process that they are divided up into a plurality of small globules.
  • Homogenizing machines of the type described only operate with adequate homogenizing action at pressures in the range of approximately 50 and above kp/c'm As the energy used in obtaining the necessary pressures cannot be recovered therunning costs of such machines are unnecessarily high. Therefore nu.- m 'e'rous other designs have been developed which operate according to most varied methods. The homogenizing takes place hereby at pressures up to about 10 kp/cm. Due to the smaller pressures the energy requirements of such machines are correspondingly lower. However the homogenizing action which in these designs is also substantially dependent on the pressure gradient level is reduced. Thus such machines can generally only be used for problemswhichare relatively easy'to-solve. They are not suitable for difficult tasks.
  • the individual chambers are formed in the shape of a double frustum and connecting channels are provided which enter and leave the individual chambers tangentially in such a way that in the flow direction adjacent individual chambers are alternately connected in the area of their largest cross section and then in the area of their smallest cross section.
  • the individual chambers comprise a plurality of superimposed and interconnected frustums.
  • the apparatus according to the invention is also very advantageous from a constructional and manufacturing viewpoint because it can be so developed that the centrifugal chamber comprises a, housing consisting of in- I dividual plates arranged between end plates whereby in the frustum-shaped cavities and connecting channels are cut into the stacked individual plates, and which also leads to the possibility of accommodating this housing in a further housing whereby the space formed between thehousings is providedfiwith'feed and discharge pipes for a cooling-or heating medium, whereby according to the treatment requirements of the ingredients to be mixed an appropriate temperature control of the complete apparatus can take place.
  • Cross sectionally frustum-shaped divisions of the mixing chamber are already known from U.S. Pat. No.
  • FIG. I shows a section through an apparatus in accordance with the invention
  • FIG. 2 is a plan view of the apparatus shown in FIG.
  • FIG. 3 is a section through another embodiment of an apparatus in accordance with the invention.
  • FIG. 4 is a section through a further embodiment of an apparatus in accordance with the invention.
  • FIG. 5 shows schematically one arrangement of the individual chambers of an apparatus in accordance with the invention
  • FIG. 6 shows schematically a further arrangement of the individual chambers
  • FIG. 7 shows partly in section and partly in elevation an arrangement of an apparatus within a thermostatically controlled housing.
  • reference numeral 1 identifies individual chambers which are connected together "by connecting pipes 2.
  • Each chamber '1 comprises two or more frustums 5 having a larger end 3 and a smaller end 4.
  • plates 6 Disposed at either end of the Chambers 1 are plates 6.
  • Between the plates 6 are individual plates 7 into which are cut the frustums 5 as halves of the individual chambers and the connecting pipes 2.
  • Plates 6 and 7 assembled together in a stack and correspondingly held together form the apparatus housing 8 or 8 (FIGS. 5 and 6) to which via supply openings or pipes 13 the material for mixing is supplied under pressure and whereby after traversing the individual chambers 1 it leaves the same again via the discharge opening or discharge pipe 14.
  • FIGS. 1 and 2 the individual chambers l are series connected in such a way that the material for mixing initially flows into the chamber 1 in the area of its smallest cross section and leaves the same again in the area of largest cross section 3, and in the area of largest cross section passes into the next chamber 1 which it then leaves in the area of smallest cross section etc.
  • FIG. 2 shows clearly the course of the connecting pipe.
  • FIG. 3 differs from that according to FIG. I in that the individual chambers l are to a certain degree nested in each other i.e., the largest or smallest cross sections 3, 4 of adjacent chambers are located in common planes.
  • the chambers are also to a certain extent multi-staged whereby however all partial areas of one chamber are directly connected.
  • the chambers according to' FIG. 5 are arranged approximately in two circles parallel to the supply and discharge openings 13, 14 whereas according to FIG. 6 all are series connected in one approximately circular formation.
  • the apparatus housing 8 or 8 is made from individual plates 7 wherein are cut the chamber halves and connecting pipes whereafter the correspondingly worked individual plates are stacked and held together so as to be precisely aligned with the end plates 6.
  • FIG. 7 The arrangement of such a shousing 8 within the thermostatically controlled housing 9 provided with supply and discharge pipes 11, 12 to the inner chamber 10 is shown in FIG. 7.
  • this apparatus also provides the advantages'ofa minimum expenditure for sealing and good cleaning possibilities.
  • apparatus for mixing; homogenizing and emulsifying liquid and liquid/solid mixtures, of the type comprising a plurality of individual chambers series connected in the flow direction connected to one another via supply and discharge channels, the improvement' comprising forming the individual chambers in the shape of a double frustum and providing connecting channels which enter and leave the individual chambers tangentially in such a way that in the flow direction adjacent individual chambers are alternately connected in the area of their largest cross section and then .in the area of their smallest cross section.
  • Apparatus according to claim 1 wherein the individual chambers comprise frustums arranged with their smallest cross sections towards one another.
  • Apparatus according to claim 1 wherein the individual chambers comprise a plurality of superimposed and interconnected frustums.
  • Apparatus according to claim 5 wherein the series connected individual chambers are arranged approximately in a circular formation, wherein said housing consists of individual plates arranged between end plates whereby the frustum shaped halves of the chamber and connecting pipes are cut into the stacked individual plates, and wherein the housing is placed in a further housing whereby the space formed between the housings is provided with supply and discharge pipes 9.
  • Apparatus according to claim 8 wherein-the housing is placed in a further housing whereby the space formed between the housings is provided with supply and discharge pipes for a cooling or heating medium.
  • apparatus for mixing, homogenizing and emulsifying liquid and liquid/solid mixtures, of the type comprising a plurality of individual chambers series connected in the flow direction connected to one another via supply and discharge channels, the improvement comprising forming the individual chambers in ing channels which enter and leave the individual chambers tangentially in such a way that in the flow direction adjacent individual chambers are alternately connected by means of the area of their largest-cross section being in communication with the-area of their smallest cross section.

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US4077756A (en) * 1976-09-08 1978-03-07 Peerless Machine & Tool Corporation Injection molding extrusion mixer
US4374542A (en) * 1977-10-17 1983-02-22 Bradley Joel C Undulating prismoid modules
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US3985607A (en) * 1973-03-19 1976-10-12 J. S. Petzholdt Apparatus for removing contaminents from cocoa and cocoa butter masses
US3881701A (en) * 1973-09-17 1975-05-06 Aerojet General Co Fluid mixer reactor
US4077756A (en) * 1976-09-08 1978-03-07 Peerless Machine & Tool Corporation Injection molding extrusion mixer
US4374542A (en) * 1977-10-17 1983-02-22 Bradley Joel C Undulating prismoid modules
US4573801A (en) * 1983-03-02 1986-03-04 Leschonski K Apparatus for producing a gas solid two phase flow jet having a constant mass or volume flow rate and predetermined velocity
US5236624A (en) * 1987-03-16 1993-08-17 Exxon Chemical Patents Inc. Dispersions and emulsions
US6457854B1 (en) * 1997-10-22 2002-10-01 Merck Patent Gesellschaft Mit Micromixer
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USRE42882E1 (en) * 2001-05-17 2011-11-01 Amalgamated Research, Inc. Fractal device for mixing and reactor applications
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US20080210326A1 (en) * 2004-05-28 2008-09-04 Douglas Goulet Control Valve with Vortex Chambers
US20110274805A1 (en) * 2006-05-03 2011-11-10 Nudi Jr Peter Joseph Wine Decanting Device
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