Improvements in or relating to kneading and mixing machines
384,627. Kneading &c. machines. AESCHBACH AKT.-GES., F., 20, Industriestrasse, Aarau, Switzerland. Sept. 23, 1932, No. 26503. Convention date, Aug. 2. [Class 86.] In a kneading-machine comprising converging stirrer shafts rotating in a rotary trough, the shafts are driven at different speeds. The trough 2 is mounted to rotate in a frame 3 which is supported in standards 1 and is provided with a toothed sector 5 in mesh with a pinion 6 on a hand-operated shaft for tilting the container, a locking pawl 9 engaging a slotted disc on the shaft being provided. The stirrers 11 are mounted on inclined shafts 10 carried by the frame and are driven in opposite directions, at different speeds, by worm gearing 17, 17<1> from a shaft 15 driven, in turn, through a two-speed belt drive 13 from a motor 12 carried by the frame. The trough is driven from the shaft 15 by chain and worm gearing 19, 22.