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2100873 9221437 PCTABS00017 An apparatus (10) has the capacity to satisfactorily blend a liquid with a powder and pump the resultant viscous slurry in a single stage operation. The apparatus has a vertically oriented drive shaft (17) with a bladed impeller (33) attached to the drive shaft. A housing (20) surrounds a mixing chamber (21) in which the impeller is located. The lower end of a powder inlet tube (41) is disposed in very close proximity to the highest vertical extent of the impeller blades (42). A liquid enters the mixing chamber exterior of the powder inlet tube. The resultant slurry leaves the mixing chamber via a slurry discharge port (22).
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