CLARIFICATION MIXER Russian patent published in 2002 - IPC

FIELD: food engineering, in particular, sugar industry and chemical industry. SUBSTANCE: clarification mixer has trough-shaped heated housing with covers equipped with openings for supplying sugar to be solved. Housing is divided by partition wall into large and small sections. Mixing auger mounted in large section has shaft and coils comprising pairs of screw-type members and attached to shaft. One of screw-type members has helical surface oriented in direction of shaft rotation and other screw-type member has helical surface oriented in direction opposite to direction of shaft rotation. Blades are secured between screw members. Blade-type mixing device is mounted in small section. Juice or syrup supplying branch pipes are arranged in pairs above each auger coil. One pair of branch pipes is positioned above screw-type member, whose surface is oriented in direction of shaft rotation and other pair is positioned above screw-type member, whose surface is oriented in direction opposite to direction of rotation of shaft. Juice or syrup supplying branch pipes are equipped with widened nozzles. Such construction increases yellow sugar and juice or syrup contact surface due to delivery of the latter through widened nozzles, which facilitate increased impact and penetrating effect of solving liquid upon yellow sugar surface. EFFECT: increased efficiency and enhanced reliability in operation. 3 dwg