Cereal Chem 51:592 - 594.  |  VIEW ARTICLE
An Electronic Recording Grain Research Laboratory Mixer.

P. W. Voisey and R. H. Kilborn. Copyright 1974 by the American Association of Cereal Chemists, Inc. 

An electronic attachment to convert a 200-g. mixer to a recording mixer is described. A strain-gage transducer detects the reaction of the motor casing to the mixing torque. The recording system can be calibrated for full-scale torques ranging from 2,000 to 30,000 cm.-g and provides a record of the mixing torque within +/- 2%. A typical result is shown to demonstrate the apparatus. The mechanical efficiency of the mixer mechanism is determined so that the torque and energy used to mix the dough can be accurately determined.