Patent ID: 7967500

Claim:
In apparatus for blending a liquid with solid particle's comprising a housing which has an upper solid particle inlet and a lower liquid inlet, a center drive shaft extending between said inlets, and an outlet in communication with an annular space in outer spaced surrounding relation to said drive shaft, the improvement comprising: a divider plate mounted for rotation on said drive shaft; an upper impeller member including a plurality of split, circumferentially spaced vanes extending upwardly from an upper surface of said divider plate, said vanes being of generally V-shaped configuration and split into a first radially extending side and a second side diverging radially outwardly at an acute angle away from said first radially extending side wherein at least one of said sides extends from an inner radial edge of said divider plate; and a lower impeller member including a series of circumferentially spaced lower vanes extending downwardly from an underside of said divider plate.