DEVICE THAT HAS SADDLE PORTION FOR ADJUSTING CURRENT OF MATERIAL LOCATED AT VARIOUS KINDS OF POSITIONS AND CONTINUOUSLY PROCESS MATERIAL BY A NUMBER OF MIXING CHAMBER

摘要

An improved system for treating material proceeding continuously through a processing barrel having at least twin interconnected cylinders with saddle portions of generally V cross section at the points of interconnection of the cylinders. Twin rotating parallel mixer shafts, co-axially mounted in the cylinders, have radially interwiping screw or paddle elements between a material charging inlet and a material discharging outlet which are configured to wipe the cylinders including the saddle portions. Sets of paddle elements, each of which includes a cylinder closing paddle, are provided on the shafts at a flow control station between the inlet and outlet, and a movable flow-controlling saddle or valve element is mounted with relation to the cylinder closing paddle sets in a position such that it can be moved from an opened position to a position to restrict or block flow past the sets of paddle elements. A vacuum vent port can be provided for degassing or like purposes in the barrel casing at the flow control station in a position in which its relationship with the elements is such as to avoid the flow of product out the port.