| CPC B01F 27/192 (2022.01) [B01F 27/1145 (2022.01); B01F 27/117 (2022.01); B01F 27/722 (2022.01); B01F 2101/18 (2022.01); B01F 2101/33 (2022.01); B01F 2215/0422 (2013.01)] | 19 Claims |

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1. A coned auger for a horizontal feed mixer, the coned auger comprising:
an auger post having a first end opposite a second end;
flighting extending along and about the auger post, with a first pitch section comprising a pitch oriented to move bulk material generally from the first end toward the second end during operation of the auger;
a coned section along the auger post, the coned section comprising a first cone protruding about the periphery of the auger post, the first cone having a tapered end opposite a wide end;
wherein the flighting comprises ribbon flighting;
wherein the pitch of the flighting is greater than a diameter of the flighting; and
wherein the coned section further comprises a second cone protruding from the auger post comprising a tapered end opposite the wide end of the first cone and wherein the second cone has an orientation opposite to the first cone and wherein a wide end of the second cone abuts or is adjacent to the wide end of the first cone; and
wherein a taper angle of the first cone and a taper angle of the second cone are different.
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