Flume mixer

Claim 1

A flume mixer, the flume mixer comprising a flume having a bottom, flume side walls affixed to said bottom, the side walls and the bottom defining a liquid-flow channel having a longitudinal axis extending generally parallel to the side walls and bottom, a first mixing element disposed within the flume, the first mixing element comprising at least a bottom baffle and a top baffle, the top baffle and the bottom baffle being of generally elongate configuration, the bottom baffle extending between the side walls and being affixed thereto, the bottom baffle being angularly disposed within the channel, relative to the longitudinal axis of the channel and a plane perpendicular to the longitudinal axis of the channel, a second or upper baffle being generally similarly disposed in the channel above the bottom baffle and affixed to the side walls of the flume with the further limitation that the upper baffle is angularly disposed relative to the lower baffle and vertically projected centers of the upper baffle and the lower baffle are generally adjacent, the upper and lower baffles each being asymmetric about their centers in a projection of the baffles on a cross-section of the flume channel along the axis and that the upper baffle and the lower baffle in such a projection have major areas on opposite sides of a plane containing the longitudinal axis of the channel and extending generally parallel to the side walls to form a first mixing cell, at least a second mixing cell disposed adjacent the first mixing cell, the second mixing cell being of generally like construction to the first mixing cell, the first and second mixing cells having a generally mirror image configuration about a plane normal to the longitudinal axis of the channel and disposed between the first and second mixing cells.