Patent ID: 7325969
Filing Date: 2008-02-05
Classification: B01F

Abstract:
1. A container mixer comprising a loadbearing device, a lifting carriage vertically and linearly displaceably mounted on said loadbearing device, a first rotary drive device mounted on said lifting carriage, said first rotary device having a fixed part and a rotatable part with the rotatable part having a horizontal first axis of rotation, a mixer arm non-rotatably fixed to said rotatable part of said first rotary device at a location offset from said first axis of rotation, a second rotary drive device mounted on said mixer arm, said second rotary drive device being driven independently of said first rotary drive device, said second rotary drive device having a fixed part and a rotatable part with the rotatable part having a second vertical axis of rotation, a docking unit for holding a container, said docking unit being mounted on said rotatable part of said second rotary device, said fixed part of said first rotary drive device being mounted on said lifting carriage and said fixed part of said second rotary drive device being mounted on said mixer arm, said first horizontal axis of rotation of said first rotary device and said second vertical axis of rotation of said second rotary device intersect at a point within the container held by said docking unit for mixing material in the container both radially and parallel to said second vertical axis of rotation.