Arrangement in a mixer, especially for mixing printing color
First Claim
1. Arrangement in a mixer, especially for printing color, which arrangement comprises:
- a plurality of base color containers, each container containing a base color;
a plurality of outlet conduits, each outlet conduit being connected to one of said base color containers enabling said base color to pass through said outlet conduit;
a plurality of valves, each valve having a base color inlet opening, a base color outlet opening, and a flow control element wherein said flow control element regulates a predetermined quantity of base color which passes through said valve, each base color inlet opening being connected to one of said outlet conduits enabling said base color to be received into said valve;
a common mixing vessel for receiving said predetermined quantity of each said base color from said base color outlet openings of said valves; and
a control means for controlling said predetermined quantity of each said base color which is received by said mixing vessel, said control means comprising a valve controller which actuates each flow control element allowing said predetermined quantity of each base color to pass through said outlet opening of said valve and to be received by said mixing vessel.
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Abstract
The present invention relates to an arrangement in a mixer (1), especially for mixing printing color, and for the objective of achieving an automatic process rendering a very accurate mixing result, it is in accordance with the present invention suggested that the arrangement comprises
a plurality of color containers (2a-2n) each containing a base color, and being connected to outlet conduits (3a-3n) through which the base color can be delivered to
a valve carrying color distributor (10) which can be brought in communication with the individual color containers (2a-2n) via the outlet conduits (3a-3n),
and a controller (4) which according to a preset program influences the color distributor (10) to let through a desired quantity of base color from preselected color containers (2a-2n) to a common mixing vessel (6), preferably on a weight basis.
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1. Arrangement in a mixer, especially for printing color, which arrangement comprises:
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a plurality of base color containers, each container containing a base color; a plurality of outlet conduits, each outlet conduit being connected to one of said base color containers enabling said base color to pass through said outlet conduit; a plurality of valves, each valve having a base color inlet opening, a base color outlet opening, and a flow control element wherein said flow control element regulates a predetermined quantity of base color which passes through said valve, each base color inlet opening being connected to one of said outlet conduits enabling said base color to be received into said valve; a common mixing vessel for receiving said predetermined quantity of each said base color from said base color outlet openings of said valves; and a control means for controlling said predetermined quantity of each said base color which is received by said mixing vessel, said control means comprising a valve controller which actuates each flow control element allowing said predetermined quantity of each base color to pass through said outlet opening of said valve and to be received by said mixing vessel. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15)
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