Kobe Steel, Ltd.

Bridgestone Tire Company Limited

Minoru Miyaoka

Kimio Inoue

Tsugushi Fukui

Toshihiro Asai

Akimasa Kuriyama

Norimoto Sato

Shin Yamasaki

Kazuhiko Nakagawa

Tatuo Masaki

An internal mixer includes a pair of rotors each having spiral vanes adapted to advance materials in the axial direction of the rotors. More particularly, each of the respective rotors has a long vane and a short vane and each of the vanes is of a spiral direction. The spiraling or screwing direction of the long vane is the same as the screwing direction of the short vane on the respective rotors. The flow of the materials along the axial direction differs from one rotor to another. Also disclosed is a mixing and kneading machine including a pair of parallel rotors each having a long vane and a short vane, the long vane extending spirally about the center lines of the rotors and the short vane extending along the center lines of the rotors. Flowing behavior of material to be mixed and kneaded occurs in opposing directions between both rotors.

Mixing and kneading machine

A mixing and kneading machine including a pair of parallel rotors each having a long vane and a short vane, both of which extend spirally about the center line of the rotors. A length ratio of the short vanes to the long vanes is selected within a range of 0.48 to 0.1. Also described is a mixing and kneading device which has a pair of parallel rotors rotating in opposite directions within a mixing chamber defined by a casing and an end frame. Each of the rotors comprises a long vane and a short vane, both of which extend spirally about the center line of the rotor, the spiral direction thereof being selected such that material to be mixed flows from the edges of the rotors into the central portion thereof. The ratio of the length of the short vane to that of the long vane is determined within the range of 0.48 to 0.1 and a ratio of axial thrust exerted on the material by the short vane to that by the long vane is determined between 0.7 and approximately 0.

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Hachioji, Japan

Minoru Miyaoka