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A dispensing machine mixing device has a base fastenable to the chassis of a dispensing machine, a bearing in the base, a shaft rotatably mounted in the bearing, a shaft seal on the front of the base, a mixing impeller on the front of the shaft and to the front of the seal, and a reduced size housin

A dispensing machine mixing device has a base fastenable to the chassis of a dispensing machine, a bearing in the base, a shaft rotatably mounted in the bearing, a shaft seal on the front of the base, a mixing impeller on the front of the shaft and to the front of the seal, and a reduced size housing secured to the base; the housing has an integral tubular wall holding the seal to the base and defining the circumference of a mixing chamber within which is the impeller, a front end wall, a mixed fluid outlet from the bottom of and to the front of the mixing chamber, a fluid inlet conduit generally on the axis of rotation of the impeller, and a funnel to the front of the mixing chamber and above the inlet conduit; a common wall portion forms part of both the funnel and the mixing chamber wall, and part of a lower funnel wall forms part of the inlet conduit and is exposed to the mixing chamber; the inlet conduit to the mixing chamber expands in cross-section toward the mixing chamber.

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A dispensing machine mixing device for the mixing together of concentrate and diluent, comprising: (a) first and second end walls and a tubular wall therebetween, said walls enclosing and defining a beverage mixing chamber therewithin; (b) means within the mixing chamber for effecting turbulent mixi

A dispensing machine mixing device for the mixing together of concentrate and diluent, comprising: (a) first and second end walls and a tubular wall therebetween, said walls enclosing and defining a beverage mixing chamber therewithin; (b) means within the mixing chamber for effecting turbulent mixing motion therein; (c) a funnel having an upright wall, a lower wall extending downward from the upright wall, and an outlet port through the lower wall and in fluid communication with the mixing chamber, and (d) a common wall portion in said mixing chamber first end wall, said common wall portion is common to and is part of said funnel upright wall, said funnel being materially integral with said first end wall and being vertically overlapped against said mixing chamber by virtue of and at said common wall portion.