| 摘要 |
An apparatus including an air blower; a rotary airlock; a receptacle having an inner chamber supplied with a plurality of colorant particles; a water supply; and a mixing chamber. The air blower blows air into a bottom section of the rotary airlock, and the rotary airlock receives colorant particles from an output of the receptacle. A rotor shaft of the rotary airlock rotates to cause colorant particles to be transported to the bottom section of the rotary airlock. Air blown into the bottom section of the rotary airlock mixes with colorant particles transported into the bottom section of the rotary airlock to form an air and colorant particles mixture, which is blown out of a first output of the rotary airlock and combined with water to form a water, air, and colorant particles mixture, which is mixed with material in a mixing chamber. The material may be natural mulch. |
| 主权项 |
1. An apparatus comprising:
an air blower having an output; a first rotary airlock having a rotor shaft, and a plurality of vanes fixed to the rotor shaft, wherein each pair of adjacent vanes of the plurality of vanes form a chamber, the first rotary airlock further including a first input, a second input, a bottom section, and a first output; a first receptacle having an input and an output, and having an inner chamber in which is located a plurality of first colored colorant particles; a water supply having an output; a mixing chamber having an input and an output; and wherein the air blower is configured to blow air out of its output and through the first input of the first rotary airlock, into the bottom section of the first rotary airlock; wherein the first rotary airlock is configured to receive a portion of the plurality of first colored colorant particles from the output of the receptacle at the second input of the first rotary airlock, and the rotor shaft of the first rotary airlock is configured to rotate to cause the portion of the plurality of first colored colorant particles to be transported by a chamber of the first rotary airlock from the second input of the first rotary airlock to the bottom section of the first rotary airlock wherein the first rotary airlock is configured to allow the air blown into the bottom section of the first rotary airlock to mix with the portion of the plurality of first colored colorant particles transported into the bottom section of the first rotary airlock to form an air and first colored colorant particles mixture; wherein the first rotary airlock is configured to cause the air and first colored colorant particles mixture to be blown out of the first output of the first rotary airlock; wherein the output of the water supply is configured so that water from the water supply is mixed with the air and first colored colorant particles mixture from the first output of the first rotary airlock to form a water, air, and first colored colorant particles mixture; and wherein the mixing chamber is configured to receive a material and the water, air, and first colored colorant particles mixture at its input and to produce a mixture of the material and the water, air, and first colored colorant particles at its output. |
