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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 25, 1980
Filed:
Apr. 13, 1979
Ernest N Martin, Escondido, CA (US);
Other;
Abstract
A beverage mixer comprising a housing defining a chamber with an outer cylindrical surface and a radial front surface, an impeller rotatably arranged in the chamber and having outside and forward surfaces in close, opposing running clearance with said front and rear surfaces, a fluid material inlet opening in the housings opening at the lower portion of the front surface in the chamber and a fluid material outlet opening, opening at the lower portion of the outside surface in the chamber, said impeller has a plurality of circumferentially spaced radially extending axially forward and radially outwardly opening slots on an annular space rearward of and communicating with the slots, said slots and space allow for circulation of fluid materials within the chamber into and out of the spaces between said opposing outer and outside and said front and forward surfaces, between which said materials are mixed by the surface effect of and between those surfaces when the impeller rotates; the mixer further includes air inlet means metering air into said space to mix with fluid material therein.