Double Helical Spiral Mixer

Recently in advance mixer and blender designs have contributed to the growing success of food companies, meeting their requirement for consistency and developing new products, with lowering production costs. This paper discusses both traditional and new specialty mixing technologies available to food manufacturers today. Phases and viscosity are used to classify different mixing categories. Sample applications are presented as well to illustrate certain processing challenges and the mixing technologies used to resolve them. In conventional method of mixing the metal oxide powder and vehicle mixing is perform on ‘Unidirectional Stirring Machine’. The stirrer of conventional machine rotates in only one direction which creates a particular flow pattern in the fluids. Hence the particles tend to stick to the walls of container owing to the centrifugal force rather than mixing thoroughly in mixture of paint, ultimately results into poor quality mixture of paints there by poor quality output of paint.

Modification of Planetary Mixer with Strainer Arrangement

The stirrer of conventional machine rotates in one direction only which creates a specific flow pattern within the fluids hence the particles tend to stay to the walls of container owing to the force instead of mixing thoroughly in mixture of paint, ultimately results into poor quality mixture of paints there by poor quality output of paint . In order to possess a through mixing of metal oxide powder it might be appropriate to possess a stirrer that rotates such rotates about own axis also revolves about another fixed axis which helps it reach all parts of the container. This ensures that turbulence required for thorough mixing is provided all over the container. It would be advantageous to vary pattern of flow, which avoids vortex formation, i.e. motion of particles in a spiral path. Also if a wiper is added that brings the particles adhering to walls of container back to main flow or mixing area, good quality mixture are going to be ensured. The planetary mixer with strainer may be a perfect solution that has all the above mentioned features. This machine involves a rotating stirrer that revolves about the fixed container axis also as incorporates an strainer that changes the flow pattern and also acts as a wiper. Machine has variable mixing speed feature at an equivalent time delivers heavy torque to the stirrer for proper mixing.