Patent ID: 7281843
Filing Date: 2007-10-16
Classification: A01K,B01F,Y10S

Abstract:
1. In a vertical agricultural mixer having a mixing tub defined by a pair of opposing end walls, first and second opposing sidewalls, a bottom wall and an open top, and first and second vertical mixing augers mounted in the mixing tub and rotatably driven in the same direction therein for lifting and mixing agricultural materials together within the mixing tub, the improvement comprising: first and second agricultural material-engaging transfer protrusions adjacently disposed along each opposed sidewall between the mixing augers in the mixing tub, the transfer protrusions having asymmetrical, upwardly tapering shapes with tips that are vertically spaced from each other and lie along a common vertical line on each of the sidewalls to permit agricultural material to continuously and more efficiently transfer between the rotating mixing augers in order to improve mixing action in the tub.