HORIZONTAL FEED MIXER-STEAMER Russian patent published in 2021 - IPC A23N17/00 

FIELD: agriculture.

SUBSTANCE: invention relates to the field of mechanisation of agriculture and processing of agricultural products and can be used for preparation of feed on livestock farms and complexes. The horizontal feed mixer-steamer includes a cylindrical vessel mounted on a frame and equipped with loading and unloading branch pipes, a blade drive shaft and a screw conveyor drive shaft, mounted on supports in the bearing assemblies. The direction of coils of the screw conveyors is made towards each other towards the centre. Two concave-convex blades thickened at the base are mounted on the blade drive shaft inside the vessel. The second blade is installed on the other side of the shaft relative to the first blade and is directed by the peripheral end thereof in the opposite direction. The width of the blades equals half the length of the vessel, wherein the blade drive shaft is made in form of a perforated pipe communicating with the steam supply pipeline. The blades have channels whereby steam is supplied to the conical outlet nozzles located on the convex part of the blades.

EFFECT: invention improves efficiency of the process of feed mixing and steaming.

1 cl, 3 dwg