A food and beverage paste preparation is formed by delivering a flour derived from nuts, seeds, grain or beans into a shear mixer. The flour may have a mean particle size between about 0.002 and 0.012 inches and a moisture content between about 4 to about 6 percent. The flour is sheared without adding water for mixing to form a food and beverage paste. The temperature during shearing does not exceed 120 degrees Fahrenheit and the food and beverage paste after shearing has a mean particle size of about 1 to about 40 microns.

A mixer for synthetic quartz includes a mixing barrel (1), a power transmission system (2), a mixing system (3), and multiple material receiving receptacles (4). The power transmission system is provided above the mixing tank. The mixing system is provided inside the mixing tank. The power transmission system is used to drive the mixing system to move. An opening is arranged at each of two ends of the material receiving receptacle. The multiple material receiving receptacles (4) are arranged at a top portion of the mixing tank, and end portions of two adjacent material receiving receptacles are spaced apart from each other without contact there between. A resin experiences low flow resistance in the material receiving receptacle, and thus can fall smoothly without accumulating in the material receiving receptacle. Moreover, the material receiving receptacle can be cleaned easily.

A mixer, particularly a dual planetary mixer, for mixing a liquid with a dry material in a mixing vessel has improved fluid introduction. The mixer includes a drive shaft rotatable about a main axis of rotation and at least a first mixing element rotatable about a first mixing element axis. The mixer further includes drive means for driving the first mixing element about the first mixing element axis in response to rotation of the drive shaft about the main axis of rotation and at least one injection nozzle for injecting a liquid. A fluid path extends between a liquid inlet and the at least one injection nozzle. The fluid path extends longitudinally through the drive shaft.

A stand mixer includes: a lower assembly comprising a base and a lower support arm extending upwardly from the base; an upper assembly comprising a generally horizontal head positioned above the base and an upper support arm extending downwardly from the head, the lower and upper support arm assemblies forming a generally vertical support arm, the head configured to provide a mounting location for a beater; and a head-raising mechanism that moves the head relative to the base between raised and lowered positions, the head remaining generally horizontal in the raised position.

The disclosure discloses a bevel planetary gear mechanism applied to a stand mixer, including a center bevel gear (2), a first bevel planetary gear (10), a second bevel planetary gear (3), a third bevel planetary gear (4), an internal bevel gear (5) and a bevel planetary gear bracket (11), wherein, the center bevel gear (2) is mounted on a spindle (1); the first bevel planetary gear (10), the second bevel planetary gear (3) and the third bevel planetary gear (4) are all engaged with the center bevel gear (2); the internal bevel gear (5) surrounds the first bevel planetary gear (10), the second bevel planetary gear (3) and the third bevel planetary gear (4) and are engaged with such three gears. By using the bevel planetary gear mechanism provided by the disclosure, the stand mixer has a pitched kneading hook, thereby improving the kneading effect of the stand mixer.

An apparatus for transferring a viscous material comprising: a) a first container capable of containing a viscous material; b) a transfer piston insertable in the first container so that the piston forms a circumferential seal with respect to the container, the transfer piston including a hole; and c) a mechanism for attaching an aperture of a second container to the hole in the transfer piston wherein insertion of the transfer piston into the first container causes the viscous material to pass through the aperture into the second container.

A device and method for aerating a food substance. The device includes: an aerator, a vessel, a drive unit and a mounting. The aerator includes a plurality of filaments attached at their proximal ends and being free at their distal ends. Every filament has a first state and a second state. The filament undergoes a reversible elastic deformation when being bent by a transverse force from the first state to the second state. The filament performs a spring-back action from the second state to the first state, lowering the spring tension, when the transverse force acting on the filament drops to zero. The aerator is attachable to and rotatable by the drive unit thereby defining an axis of rotation. The vessel defines a space for holding the food substance being bordered at the sides by an inner wall. The vessel and the drive unit are attachable to the mounting. The mounting defines a spatial relationship between the axis of rotation and the inner wall of the vessel such that the distal ends of a fraction of the filaments contact the inner wall of the vessel, wherein the inner wall bends the fraction of the filaments by applying the transverse force.

A production plant for processing a suspension and a method for dispersing suspensions. The production plant comprises an extractor or a planetary roller mixer (1), a conveying device and a metering device. The planetary roller mixer (1) comprises at least one central spindle (2) with a toothing (3), at least one planetary spindle (4) with a toothing (5) and a housing (6) with an inner toothing (7) or a housing comprising at least one bushing (8) with an inner toothing (7). The planetary roller mixer (1) further comprises at least one product inlet (9) and at least one product outlet (10). During normal operation, the product outlet (10) is above the product inlet (9) and/or comprises an overflow (14) in the product discharge line (13) provided at the product outlet (10) so that the processing zone of the planetary roller mixer (1) can be substantially completely filled with the suspension.

A stand mixer includes a motor output shaft and a locking planetary output. The locking planetary output has a center shaft operably connected with the output shaft for driven rotation about a fixed axis, an agitator shaft mounted to the center shaft such that the agitator shaft moves around the fixed axis of the center shaft in a planetary arrangement, and a planetary gear centrally arranged about the fixed axis of the center shaft. A gear unit is rotatably fixed on the agitator shaft and is slidably mounted therewith to be moveable between a first position, in which the gear unit is engaged with the planetary gear, and a second position in which the gear unit is disengaged from the planetary gear and is engaged with a locking member.

A main extruder and a side arm extruder are used in the extrusion of plastics with small amounts of additives or other small substances to be admixed. A minor portion of the plastic material is premixed with small quantity additive substances in a side arm extruder. The premixed material is discharged from the side arm extruder into the main extruder and there mixed with a major portion of feed material.