Light Weight Mixing System
The Even Mix™ offers reliable, easy to handle and light weight mixing system for IBC’s 55 gallon drums and standard mixing containers. The Even Mix™ mixing system design has an integrated approach to the whole system.
This system is made up of three major components:
- a rotary power source
- an efficient power transmission system
- and an efficient mixing blade system
The Even Mix™ power systems use either a high speed air motor or a high speed electric motor running in the range of 20,000 RPM. High speed is necessary for the low weight system as a high motor speed is reduced to a 250 RPM output speed through gear reduction. Let’s compare the Even Mix™ electric motor with electric motors in the market. A ½ horsepower, 120 volt AC electric motor running at 1,750 RPM has a weight of approximately 22 lbs. The Even Mix™ electric or air motor with controller running at 20,000 RPM has a weight of under 2 lbs!
The power transmission system is a multistage high efficiency planetary gearing system which reduces the speed at the same time increasing the torque. The power going into the gearing system is the same as the power leaving the system exchanging speed for torque. Our planetary gearing systems are over 95% efficient therefore input and output power are essentially the same. As an example a three stage planetary gearing system with a four to one gear reduction per stage results in reducing the low load speed from 20,000 RPM to 212 RPM while increasing the stall torque from 1 NM to 64 NM (47 ft. lbs.). The weight of this power transmission system is approximately 2 lbs. […]