Patent ID: 7387428

Claim:
A slurry mixing method, the slurry mixing method for mixing slurry components, the slurry mixing method comprising the steps of: containing a slurry in a vertically circular container, the vertically circular container having inferior and superior container portions, a vertical diameter, and circular inner container wall; inletting gas at the inferior container portion into the contained slurry, the inlet gas being upwardly directed; plate-shaping the upwardly directed inlet gas into an initial component-displacing bubble; vertically directing the initial component-displacing bubble toward the superior tank portion along the vertical diameter; slurry-shaping the initial component-displacing bubble, the slurry-shaped bubble for displacing slurry components toward the superior tank portion; and breaking the slurry-shaped bubble at a slurry surface for radially displacing the slurry components relative to the vertical diameter and completing a single bubble action component displacement.