With Upstream Screen Or Perforated Plate For Straining, Homogenizing, Or Mixing Material To Be Shaped Patents (Class 425/197)
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Patent number: 5055027Abstract: An extruding apparatus having a reservoir for reserving a treatment-object material including a main raw material, additives or auxiliary materials, a screw disposed within a material-conveying passage and for conveying the material to a terminal end, and an extruding die disposed at the terminal end and for extruding the material into a predetermined shape. The material-conveying passage includes a pair of discs disposed at intermediate positions in the conveying direction of the screw and opposed to each other transverse relative to the passage. Each of the discs defines a plurality of slit pores extending in the material conveying direction, with one disc being operatively coupled with the screw to be rotatable relative to the other disc. The disc pair constitutues a milling-kneading mechanism for milling and kneading the material by causing the material to pass through the slit pores formed by the disc pair.Type: GrantFiled: September 6, 1989Date of Patent: October 8, 1991Assignee: Sato Iron Works Co., Ltd.Inventor: Takuya Sato
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Patent number: 5049056Abstract: A bushing used in an injection molding machine and positioned between the nozzle and the sprue thereof includes an adaptor body having a longitudinal axis, a first end and a second end. A first bore extends in the adaptor body parallel to the longitudinal axis from the second end to the first end for accommodating a flow of relatively viscous fluid such as a molten thermoplastic. A bridge extends transversely across the first bore between opposing walls of the bore adjacent the adaptor body first end. Fluid flow is allowed through the first bore around the bridge. A second bore extends from a surface of the adaptor body to a surface of the bridge for accommodating a flow of a relatively non-viscous fluid such as gas. The second bore terminates on the bridge surface so as to be substantially coaxial with the first bore.Type: GrantFiled: March 14, 1990Date of Patent: September 17, 1991Assignee: Nitrojection CorporationInventors: Indra R. Baxi, Paul Pardy
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Patent number: 5045254Abstract: A process for producing tubular film from a thermoplastic molten material, including supplying an annular stream of thermoplastic material through a passageway substantially free of flow interurptions having a plurality of axially aligned-annularly spaced feed ports, funneling and recombining the annular stream of thermoplastic material after being supplied through the feed ports to evenly recombine the thermoplastic material, and forming a tubular stream of thermoplastic film having a substantially uniform thickness throughout.Type: GrantFiled: March 6, 1990Date of Patent: September 3, 1991Assignee: Amoco CorporationInventors: Paul L. Peelman, Edward A. Malosh
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Patent number: 5035593Abstract: A pressurized slurry casting machine is provided which includes a feed tank with an agitator, a vertical conduit extending from the feed tank to a mold. The machine operates by creating pressure in the feed tank with the agitator propeller whereby the ceramic slurry will be forced to move up the straight conduit into the mold so as to be formed into the desired article. The respective connections of the conduit to the mold and the feed tank are each air-tight connections such that no air bubble-like contamination will result in the finished ceramic product. There is also provided a vacuum system capable of producing a negative pressure in the feed tank.Type: GrantFiled: November 7, 1989Date of Patent: July 30, 1991Assignee: Industrial Technology Research InstituteInventors: Liang Y. Huang, San Y. Chen
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Patent number: 5017118Abstract: A laminated roller die extension assembly (22) for mounting in a die holder (24) including a grooved die member (32) with a grooved surface (34) and a plate die (44) with a flat surface abutting the grooved surface (34) forming a preformer passage (54) in communication with an opening at a cylindrical surface (26) of the roller die extrusion assembly (22), and the plate die (44) having an indented edge (68) for guiding and shaping a strip applied through the opening onto a roller die (28) which is rotated past the opening.Type: GrantFiled: July 31, 1990Date of Patent: May 21, 1991Assignee: The Goodyear Tire & Rubber CompanyInventors: Ernest W. Looman, Harold A. Wolbert
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Patent number: 4973406Abstract: A device for the separation of particulated solids from a pressurized fluid, in particular from a viscous mass of a thermoplastic material, with a cleaning system for the filtration element based on the "return pressure" principle.The device comprises a body having a fluid inlet conduit, two filtration assemblies that are connected to two conduits flowing together into an outlet conduit, and a flow-dividing valve that in rest position connects the inlet conduit with the separation conduits through the filtration assemblies, while in the cleaning position for one of the filtration assemblies the inlet conduit is connected with the other filtration assembly, thus causing part of the fluid that has been separated by this filtration assembly to pass with counterpressure through the filtration unit that is in the cleaning stage and through a discharge outlet housed in a compartment of the valve.In a similar manner the cleaning of the other filtration assembly is performed.Type: GrantFiled: August 21, 1989Date of Patent: November 27, 1990Inventor: Giuseppe Ponzielli
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Patent number: 4952132Abstract: A purgeable plastic injection filter nozzle for trapping and eliminating contaminants from molten plastic material in a plastic injection molding apparatus. A nozzle body has an internal main channel therethrough for flow of the molten plastic. A purging hole intersects the main channel and exits the side of the nozzle body. A rotatable housing is mounted in the nozzle body at the intersection of the main channel and the purging hole. A trap is mounted in the rotatable housing for trapping contaminants in the plastic. The housing is rotatable between a first position wherein the trap is in the flow of the molten plastic, and a second position wherein the trap may be purged of contaminants through the purging hole.Type: GrantFiled: August 7, 1984Date of Patent: August 28, 1990Assignee: Nickerson Machinery Co.Inventor: Lynn Lundquist
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Patent number: 4944903Abstract: Method for controlling the processing and output feeding of plastic melt by extrusion, by means of an extrusion plant including a process unit (1) for processing the plastic material, a pump (3) for feeding the plastic melt to a die (4) or the like, and a screen pack assembly positioned between the process unit (1) and the pump (3). In the process unit (1) the melt is imparted a constant level of kinetics of extrusion, and the plastic melt pressure (P2) between the screen pack assembly (2) and the pump (3) is kept above a predetermined level. As a measure of the level of kinetics of extrusion, the pressure (P1) of the melt between the process unit (1) and the screen pack assembly (2), is used, preferably in combination with the melt pressure (P2) after the screen pack assembly (2).Type: GrantFiled: August 17, 1988Date of Patent: July 31, 1990Inventor: Bo Nilsson
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Patent number: 4931237Abstract: An apparatus and process for producing tubular film from thermoplastic molten material including a tubular housing having an axially-aligned interior defined inner surface, an elongated member including an outer surface disposed within the inner surface of the housing and spaced therefrom providing a passageway, and an alignment member having a plurality of annularly-spaced feed ports defining an inside surface, the alignment member securely connecting the elongated member to the housing, wherein the inner surface of the housing, the outer surface of the elongated member and the plurality of annularly-spaced feed ports define an annular-axially aligned passageway for allowing a balanced flow of thermoplastic material therethrough.Type: GrantFiled: January 23, 1989Date of Patent: June 5, 1990Assignee: Amoco CorporationInventors: Paul L. Peelman, Edward A. Malosh
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Patent number: 4921650Abstract: Fibre material is defibrated and dispersed in an air flow and introduced through an inlet (2) into a forming head (1). In the forming head (1) the inlet transforms to a single-curved convex surface (5), which leads all the way to an accept outlet (6). A screen (7) is located at adjustable distance from the curved surface (5) for dividing ingoing fibre/air flow into accept and reject. An outlet (10) for the reject is located behind the screen (7). At a distance of 10-150 mm from the accept outlet (6) a running air-pervious support (27) is located, on which the web precipitates.Type: GrantFiled: July 16, 1987Date of Patent: May 1, 1990Assignee: Sunds Defibrator AktiebolagInventors: Kjell G. Eriksson, Bo R. Ek, Stig G. Wallin, Nils L. Eriksson
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Patent number: 4921414Abstract: The extrusion apparatus used to make a marbled section of a thermoplastic material is connectable to a screw press with at least one screw shaft and an extruder housing. A thermoplastic base material having one color is fed in using the screw press. A thermoplastic marbling material having another color is mixed with the thermoplastic base material. The extrusion apparatus includes an extrusion apparatus housing, a central passage for receiving the thermoplastic base material which encloses the screw shaft and a shaping outlet. The extrusion apparatus housing has at least one injector cavity in which an injection device for feeding in the thermoplastic marbling material is mounted.Type: GrantFiled: March 14, 1988Date of Patent: May 1, 1990Assignee: W. Dollken & Co. GmbHInventors: Wolf D. Schliehe, Mathias Eschbach
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Patent number: 4918017Abstract: A screen assembly for mounting on the outlet end of an extruder for removing foreign particles from an elastomeric material being discharged from the extruder. The assembly includes a screen support member having a plurality of spaced elongated ribs formed integrally with or removably mounted on a surrounding member. The spaced ribs form a plurality of elongated slots therebetween which provide flow paths for the elastomeric material, and preferably are concavely-shaped in the direction of travel of the extruded material. A mesh screen formed of a high tensile strength, work hardened stainless steel wire cloth is formed complementary to the concavity of the ribs and is mounted in juxtaposition to the ribs for removing the foreign particles as the elastomeric material passes through the screen.Type: GrantFiled: February 3, 1989Date of Patent: April 17, 1990Assignee: Bridgestone/Firestone, Inc.Inventors: Arthur W. Greenstreet, Gerardo P. Elia, Charles D. Spragg
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Patent number: 4906360Abstract: A multi-stage filter for filtering injection molding melt includes an elongate filter element having a filter inlet end, a filter outlet end and a plurality of filter stages axially disposed on the element and adjoining each other. Each filter stage includes a plurality of axial filter grooves in its outer surface which are spaced apart from a filter chamber wall to define a distinct filter clearance for each filter stage. The axial filter grooves are circumferentially spaced apart from each other and alternate with axial grooves axially extending between adjoining filter stages which define melt transfer passages to transfer melt between filter stages.Type: GrantFiled: February 28, 1989Date of Patent: March 6, 1990Inventor: Panos Trakas
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Patent number: 4892473Abstract: An extrusion head for forming a two-part laminated sheet from a single tubular-shaped extrudate stream emitted from the outlet of a single extruder. The stream flow into an enclosed chamber which diverges the stream in width and converges it in thickness. This stream is split by a wedge divider insert which extends across the outlet end of the chamber into multiple parallel, horizontal streams. Each stream then passes through a breaker plate or screen to remove any foreign particles present in the extrudate. A converging preform die in combination with a triangular preform insert converges the upper and lower streams into a single stream at a final die producing the unitary two-part laminate, preferably symmetrical about the horizontal plane. The extrudate preferably is an elastomer and the resulting laminated sheet is used as a tire innerliner.Type: GrantFiled: December 22, 1988Date of Patent: January 9, 1990Assignee: Bridgestone/Firestone, Inc.Inventors: Gerardo P. Elia, Gaetan Arbour, Ivan Z. Podobnik
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Patent number: 4888110Abstract: A filtering device for filtering a thermoplastic material by passing a continuous filter across a passage through which the material is caused to flow at an elevated temperature and pressure. The filter is passed through entry and exit ports flanking the passage. Seals on the filter cooperate in sealing engagement with the walls of the entry port to prevent the flowable thermoplastic material from escaping therethrough. The exit port is larger than the entry port, and is sealed off by a solidified plug of the thermoplastic material bonded to the filter. The pressure of the thermoplastic material in the filter passage forces the plug out of the exit port into contact with an external stop, with that portion of the plug in contact with the stop being selectively heated to accommodate controlled emergence of the plug and the filter bonded thereto.Type: GrantFiled: March 16, 1987Date of Patent: December 19, 1989Assignee: Key Filters, Inc.Inventor: John E. Fogarty, Jr.
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Patent number: 4880374Abstract: A filter exchange device in a molten resin passage in an extrusion molding machine, which includes at least one filter casing for airtightly enclosing a spare filter and having port means for exhausting air out of the filter casing and filling the interior thereof with a gas inactive to molten resin. Fish eyes contained in the molded product after filter exchange reduced in number.Type: GrantFiled: May 20, 1988Date of Patent: November 14, 1989Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.Inventors: Ken Hamamura, Sei Kawahara, Mitsuhiro Goto
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Patent number: 4850840Abstract: A screening device for a melt of plastic material includes a housing provided with a throughflow boring forming a part of a high pressure plastic press. A screen plate is movable transversely across the boring and includes a series of screening openings arranged at the level of the throughflow boring and being separated one from each other by an narrow web. To minimize the formation of pressure gradients in the throughflow boring when a new screening opening is entering the boring, each web has at its interface with the housing a narrow overflow slot which sets up a gradual connection for an inflow current of the melt during the entry of a new evacuated opening into the region of the throughflow boring.Type: GrantFiled: December 2, 1988Date of Patent: July 25, 1989Assignee: Gneuss Kunststofftechnik GmbHInventor: Detlef Gneuss
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Patent number: 4846658Abstract: A flow distributor for use in an extrusion assembly for producing tubing, pipe or blown film from a fluid melt. The distributor is cylindrical with adjacent arcuate channels on both interior and exterior surfaces for respectively forming the inner and outer layers of the extrudate from a fluid melt forced through longitudinal holes into each of the channels. The inner and outer layers are formed in a continuous circular flow so that there is no weld line in each layer; however, when the two layers are merged into a finished extrudate, a single circular weld line is formed at their merged surface and results in a very strong extrudate that resists bursting forces.Type: GrantFiled: June 20, 1988Date of Patent: July 11, 1989Inventor: Ronald D. McMullen
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Patent number: 4842750Abstract: The invention relates to an apparatus for cleaning viscous materials, more particularly melted down scrap synthetic materials in a recycling process. The apparatus of the invention comprises a cleaning screen in the form of a strip which can be moved at right angles to the direction of flow of the material to be cleaned, so that the soiled area of the screen may be replaced by a clean area. In order to prevent the synthetic material from escaping when the cleaning screen is advanced, the volume before the screen is enlarged. This reduces or eliminates the pressure upon the screen so that the strip can easily be displaced, with no escape of the viscous material from the gaps in which the cleaning screen is located.Type: GrantFiled: October 3, 1986Date of Patent: June 27, 1989Inventor: Lucian Britchi
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Patent number: 4839120Abstract: A method of extruding a ceramic batch supplied from a vacuum auger machine into a formed body by a plunger molding machine, included the steps of loosening and crushing a supplied ceramic batch in the vacuum auger machine, extruding the loosened and crushed ceramic batch from the vacuum auger machine into a formed columnar body which is of a size able to be inserted into a cylinder of the plunger molding machine, and extruding the formed columnar body from the plunger molding machine to form a formed body of a predetermined shape. An apparatus for extruding a ceramic batch includes a vacuum auger machine having of a vacuum kneading section for kneading a ceramic material to produce a ceramic batch, a columnar body forming section for forming the kneaded ceramic material into a columnar body, and a batch transfer section having an auger for transferring the ceramic batch to the columnar body forming section.Type: GrantFiled: February 18, 1988Date of Patent: June 13, 1989Assignee: NGK Insulators, Ltd.Inventors: Toshio Baba, Hajime Matsushita, Yasuji Katsuragawa
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Patent number: 4814081Abstract: A disc used primarily in extruding machines positioned between a fluid strainer and a forming die. The disc includes multiple adjacent walls which define honeycomb passages for the fluid to flow through. The disc may serve as a support for the strainer, or with modifications, may be used to achieve other functions, such as fluid mixing and flow rate enhancing.Type: GrantFiled: January 19, 1988Date of Patent: March 21, 1989Inventor: Raymond J. Malinowski
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Patent number: 4804510Abstract: A filtering system for use in coextrusion apparatus, and particularly for removing carbon particles from a core extrudate of thermally degradable barrier material which has been preencapsulated with a preencapsular material. The filter includes a casing and a frame mounted to the casing. A coarse filter screen through which the component streams can flow is also provided. The coarse filter screen is mounted to the frame and is composed of a web of woven strands having a sufficiently small diameter so as to permit the preencapsulated core extrudate to pass through and emerge from the coarse filter screen without substantial mixing of the barrier material and the preencapsular material. The fine filter screen is supported by the coarse filter screen upstream of the coarse filter screen.Type: GrantFiled: June 30, 1987Date of Patent: February 14, 1989Assignee: The Dow Chemical CompanyInventors: Robert A. Luecke, Gordon E. Gould, Paul M. Curtin
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Patent number: 4781563Abstract: A filter changing apparatus for use in an extrusion press, comprising a frame, filter support members hydraulically displaceable in the frame, in a direction which is substantially at right angles to the flow of material through the press and filters disposed in each of the filter support members, at least one of the filter support members being detachably mounted in the frame, and a support member for discharging residues of rubber or thermoplastics material from the extrusion press, the support member being detachably mountable in the frame in place of the at least one detachably mounted filter support member, the support member having associated therewith a discharge plate for displacing residual material in the extrusion press to a discharge station.Type: GrantFiled: July 9, 1987Date of Patent: November 1, 1988Assignee: Hermann Berstorff Maschinenbau GmbHInventor: Gerd Capelle
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Patent number: 4768941Abstract: A mold plate is reciprocable between a fill position and a knock-out position and in the fill position has a mold cavity with its center line aligned with an elongate fill slot in a fill plate. A reciprocable ram in its advancing stroke forces ground meat through the elongate fill slot into the mold cavity at the center thereof for flow in opposite directions from the center line of the mold cavity for filling thereof. A pair of plates are interposed between the elongate fill slot and the mold cavity and have a closed position to prevent flow therebetween and an open position providing two rows of holes through which meat is forced into the mold cavity. One of the plates is movable in response to the advancing and retracting movement of the ram to automatically close the flow path to the mold cavity on the retracting stroke of the ram to prevent back-flow of ground meat from the mold cavity.Type: GrantFiled: June 16, 1986Date of Patent: September 6, 1988Assignee: Hollymatic CorporationInventor: Richard C. Wagner
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Patent number: 4728279Abstract: An extrusion head comprising at least one fixed head portion and at least one displaceable head portion pivotable into and out of an operative position includes means for filtering material being extruded and means for effecting change-over of the filter. The means for effecting the change-over includes at least two perforated plates displaceable on guide means in a direction generally at right angles to that of the extruded material. The at least one pivotable head portion includes a pressure surface which, in the operative position, abuts against the perforated plates thereby retaining the plates in position and sealing them against leakage of the extruded material.Type: GrantFiled: September 25, 1986Date of Patent: March 1, 1988Assignee: Hermann Berstorff Maschinenbau GmbHInventor: Klaus Bellmer
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Patent number: 4720365Abstract: A method and apparatus for preparing multicolored soap bars by injecting a colored liquid phase into a soap mass wherein(i) The soap mass is passed through an apertured plate to form rods,(ii) The liquid phase is introduced between the rods in at least one position,(iii) The rods are compressed inwardly to form a continuous mass having striations of the liquid phase therein, and(iv) The mass is extruded into a bar.Type: GrantFiled: May 6, 1986Date of Patent: January 19, 1988Assignee: Lever Brothers CompanyInventors: Erich Schonig, Hans Bruckel
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Patent number: 4710288Abstract: A rotatable disc having an annularly arranged screening zone includes a plurality of like cavities separated by spacing webs. A housing for the disc includes a first plate with a front and rear side and a second plate with a front and rear side. The disc is rotatably mounted between the rear side of the first plate and the front side of the second plate. A first flow-through bore in the first plate has a front side and a rear side and a second, aligned flow-through bore in the second plate also has a front side and a rear side. The disc is mounted in the housing such that at least one of the cavities is in alignment with the first flow-through bore and the second flow-through bore, the first flow-through bore, the second flow-through bore and the at least one cavity forming a flow-through channel. The second flow-through bore has a preselected outer contour at the front side thereof.Type: GrantFiled: April 17, 1987Date of Patent: December 1, 1987Inventor: Hubert Patrovsky
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Patent number: 4708616Abstract: In the extrusion apparatus for plastics foil, a smoothing rolling mill (2) is allocated to a device (1) for extruding a soft, warm plastic, in the plasticizing cylinder (3) of which, the plastic is brought to processing temperature and from this conveyed out through a fishtail die (6) by means of a conveyor screw (5), whereby a displaceable filter band (8) is inserted before the fishtail die. In this connection, the filter band (8) has a width of at least approximately the inlet-side width of the fishtail die (6) and is displaceably situated at right angles to the longitudinal extension of the die (6).Through these measures, an extension apparatus for manufacturing foil out of plastic results, which permits with low filter consumption and optimal and functionally reliable control, the manufacture of a high-quality foil.Type: GrantFiled: April 30, 1986Date of Patent: November 24, 1987Inventor: Franz X. Huemer
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Patent number: 4696575Abstract: A single-screw extruder for producing thermoplastic and elastomeric products includes a hollow cylindrical barrel, which is provided with radially inwardly protruding mixing elements, which are adapted to move through recesses formed in one or more helical lands of a screw, which is rotatably mounted in the barrel. To facilitate the assembly of the screw extruder and to permit repair thereof without a need to replace the entire housing, the mixing elements (9) are provided on split rings (9), which are held axially spaced apart by interposed spacing rings, or which are clamped in position in grooves formed in adjacent annular sections of the barrel.Type: GrantFiled: October 18, 1985Date of Patent: September 29, 1987Assignee: Windmoller & HolscherInventor: Hartmut Upmeier
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Patent number: 4681721Abstract: An annular extrusion die for the production of a tubular thermoplastic film web material, such as an annular extrusion die including a filtering arrangement for the formulation of a more consistently or uniformly distributed polymer melt conveyed to the die orifice of the extrusion die which will impart improved properties to the extruded thermoplastic film material. Also disclosed is a method of producing an improved extruded thermoplastic film web material through the utilization of the inventive extrusion die arrangement. A cavity or die flow chamber within the body of the annular extrusion die is filled with a particulate inert material of either uniform granular size or of random sizes, so as to force the polymer melt being conveyed towards the die orifice to randomly flow through the interstices which are present between the particles of the granular material, and thereby uniformly fill the cavity.Type: GrantFiled: November 6, 1985Date of Patent: July 21, 1987Assignee: Mobil Oil CorporationInventors: Gordon L. Benoit, Dana M. Boyd
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Patent number: 4629411Abstract: Apparatus is disclosed for the separation of admixtures from contaminated thermoplastic materials. The apparatus has a distributor screw, a retainer chamber and return flow holes for contaminated materials to pass from the retainer chamber into an annular space formed between the distributor screw and the screening element within the pressure chamber. The materials circularly travel around saw-like teeth of the distributor screw and back through the flow holes into the retaining chamber. The retainer chamber and the annular space are openly connected to each other at the inlet side of the pressure chamber. Purified materials exit through one outlet exit and admixtures exit through a second exit.Type: GrantFiled: June 18, 1984Date of Patent: December 16, 1986Inventor: Eberhard Bucheler
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Patent number: 4627916Abstract: A dirt filter for thermoplastic media has a barrier member within a filter chamber which, in case of an axially symmetrical arrangement with respect to the flow axis, has the basic shape of a double cone. The barrier member defines a barrier gap for the flowing media within the filter chamber. The barrier gap can be widened to a cleaning gap as a result of a displacement of the barrier member. An adjusting member, can be provided which includes an adjusting element, which is mounted in a reception member so as to rotate around its longitudinal axis. The rear end of the adjusting member can be constructed with hexagon wrench faces, which are accessible from the outside of the housing.Type: GrantFiled: October 1, 1985Date of Patent: December 9, 1986Assignee: Odenwalder Kunststoffwerke GmbHInventor: Karl-Heinz Dorsam
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Patent number: 4619600Abstract: A sieve device for cleaning plastic melts in a high-pressure press consists of a known plate-like housing. The housing has a flowthrough bore that constitutes part of the flow channel of the press. The housing also has a sieve disk positioned in the flowthrough bore. A sieve-cleaning mechanism rests against the sieve disk. The mechanism consists of a plate, which has several perforations and which projects to some extent out of the housing. It is mounted upstream of the disk inside the housing and can move in such a way that at least one perforation is always in the flow channel and at least one perforation is always outside the housing. Contamination on the upstream side of a disk is removed by shifting the perforation being employed at a given moment out of the housing.Type: GrantFiled: November 15, 1984Date of Patent: October 28, 1986Inventor: Detlef Gneuss
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Patent number: 4511472Abstract: A polymer filtration system comprises plural passages each having therein a filter selectively removable for cleaning and replacement. A single valve controls the closing off of the passages from an inlet to the filters, and check valves in each of the passages downstream of the filters prevent backflow. By adapting the system to permit simultaneous flow in plural passages between filter changes, the filters may be changed in staggered sequence at intervals chosen to attain optimum system performance.Type: GrantFiled: March 30, 1983Date of Patent: April 16, 1985Assignee: Beringer Co., Inc.Inventor: Delano B. Trott
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Patent number: 4511625Abstract: A process of spinning a pitch having less than 40% by weight mesophase into a pitch fiber having at least 70% by weight mesophase is described.Type: GrantFiled: September 30, 1982Date of Patent: April 16, 1985Assignee: Union Carbide CorporationInventors: Faramarz Nazem, Rostislav Didchenko, David Fink
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Patent number: 4509907Abstract: An extrusion head for producing hollow profiles such as thick-wall large diameter PVC pipe has its flow channel divided by a hollow mandrel into two coaxial portions of a flow cross section greater than that of the common portion of the flow channel downstream of these coaxial portions and running through the mouth of the head. According to the invention, the flow channel progressively diminishes the flow section over the length thereof at least from the plate at which the coaxial portions start to eliminate structural defects caused by failure of the streams of synthetic resin to adequately merge.Type: GrantFiled: May 13, 1983Date of Patent: April 9, 1985Assignee: American Maplan CorporationInventor: Heinz Ratheiser
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Patent number: 4510110Abstract: A method for extruding and/or refining soap, which comprises supplying soap to one end of a helix disposed in a casing and rotating the helix to move the soap lengthwise along the casing and out of the casing. The helix rotates at a speed between 20 and 50 rpm. The length of the helix is 5 to 15 times its diameter. The winding angle of the helix is between 15.degree. and 25.degree.. The helix has a diameter of about 150 mm and a helix depth between 30 and 35 mm.Type: GrantFiled: September 28, 1983Date of Patent: April 9, 1985Assignee: Costruzioni Meccaniche G. Mazzoni S.p.A.Inventor: Aldo Mazzoni
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Patent number: 4507072Abstract: A diverting plate having the same external configuration as a changeable strainer in a flow line for a molten polymer. Contamination is removed by substituting the plate for a strainer.Type: GrantFiled: October 25, 1982Date of Patent: March 26, 1985Assignee: E. I. DuPont de Nemours and CompanyInventor: Milton U. Gaul, Jr.
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Patent number: 4490104Abstract: A two-stage, screw-fed vertical mechanical separator for separating a low viscosity material from a high viscosity material, wherein the bulk of the low viscosity material is removed in the first stage and the high viscosity material is heated as a result of mechanical working through a restriction into a second stage and subjected to a vacuum to flash off residual low viscosity material.Type: GrantFiled: November 22, 1982Date of Patent: December 25, 1984Assignee: Borg-Warner Chemicals, Inc.Inventor: John M. Lantz
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Patent number: 4486304Abstract: Apparatus is disclosed for continuously filtering a flow of melted plastic which includes a mechanism for purging the filter without interrupting continuous operation. A filter screen is disposed in a circular chamber within the filter housing. A collector plate including a plurality of radially oriented, triangularly shaped passages is disposed on the upstream side of the filter screen, defining triangular pockets for collecting contaminants that cannot pass through the filter screen. A collector head is rotatably disposed for selective registration with the collector pockets, and an indexing mechanism is included for sequentially stepping the collector head around the collector plate for momentary registration with each collector pocket. The collector head communicates with a contaminant discharge passage that is opened and closed in timed sequence with movement of the collector head.Type: GrantFiled: June 17, 1982Date of Patent: December 4, 1984Inventors: Clayton L. Neuman, Donald J. Reum
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Patent number: 4480977Abstract: A mesophase pitch derived fiber having a predetermined cross-sectional structure is produced by passing mesophase pitch being spun into a pitch fiber through a porous body positioned in the spinnerette channel of a spinnerette.Type: GrantFiled: March 11, 1983Date of Patent: November 6, 1984Assignee: Union Carbide CorporationInventor: Faramarz Nazem
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Patent number: 4455761Abstract: A water-wet polymer is extruded through a die plate. Free water formed by extruding action at the die plate is atomized and/or evaporated into an air stream. The die plate assembly discharges the rubber/moisture into a closely adjacent cone/funnel-receiver openly surrounding the die plate, and connecting to and discharging into a lesser diameter conveying tube. The die plate and surrounding funnel are enclosed by a chamber so that air, input tangentially into the enclosure, provides a swirling vortex air flow at the die plate assisting in severing and stripping rubber particles from the die plate.Type: GrantFiled: November 12, 1981Date of Patent: June 26, 1984Inventors: Robert D. Terhune, George L. Bazin, II, James H. Long, Linh V. Nguyen
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Patent number: 4453905Abstract: Plastics recycling apparatus in which an elongated tubular body has a core member therein and in which the core member has leading and trailing conical heads for directing the flow of molten material through the elongated tubular body. Inner and outer annular chambers are provided for the flow of material through a wall between the chambers while the material is being heated by energized coils about one of the chambers. The material flows to the discharge under pressure and passes through discharge orifices to form plastic ribbons which are cooled and then cut into pellets for reuse.Type: GrantFiled: June 1, 1983Date of Patent: June 12, 1984Inventor: Bobby B. Bennett
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Patent number: 4416605Abstract: In an extruder of the type including an extruding cylinder with an outlet at one end thereof and an extruding screw rotatably disposed in the cylinder and circumferentially formed with a feed flight member for forwarding a plasticized material through the outlet of said cylinder for extrusion through a screen located at the fore end of the extruding cylinder, a screen/diverter changing mechanism including a retainer box fixed to the fore outlet end of the extruding cylinder and internally defining a flow passage of the plasticized material to be extruded; a slide body movable transversely in a guide bore of the retainer box across the flow passage thereof; a screen unit detachably fitted in the slide body and having a screen and a plurality of nozzles; a diverter unit detachably fitted in the slide body and having a diverting flow passage for diverting the flow of the plasticized material from the cylinder; a drive mechanism linked to the slide body for selectively positioning either the screen unit or divertType: GrantFiled: May 4, 1982Date of Patent: November 22, 1983Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Kobe Seiko ShoInventors: Masashi Konno, Osamu Ikeda
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Patent number: 4410477Abstract: A first continuously operating extruder for an extrudable material is fed with filtered such material from a second extruder through a filter and a storage tank having means for applying pressure to the material in the tank. During replacement of a filter, the second extruder is stopped, and the flow of material out of the continuously operating extruder is maintained constant by blocking the passageway between the second extruder and the tank and by applying suitable pressure to the material in the tank until the filter is removed and replaced by a new filter. The blocking device may be separate from a holder for a pair of filters, both the blocking device and the holder being movable by a fluid operable piston and cylinder. Alternatively, a separate blocking device may be omitted, and the filter holder may carry a single filter and have an impermeable portion which provides the blocking function.Type: GrantFiled: December 15, 1981Date of Patent: October 18, 1983Assignee: Treficable PirelliInventor: Marcel S. Claude
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Patent number: 4382969Abstract: A method is disclosed for treating cheese, preferably cheese offcuts, to form a reconstituted block of cheese. The offcuts are first cut into small chips and then repressed in an evacuated environment to form the reconstituted block of cheese which may then be cut to commercially saleable sizes and packaged.Type: GrantFiled: April 9, 1981Date of Patent: May 10, 1983Assignees: Schreiber Foods, Inc., Butland Industries, Ltd.Inventor: Frederick J. Sadler
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Patent number: 4373895Abstract: Method for producing an extrusion die and resulting die for making a honeycomb structure provided with axially extending separate passages. Feed passages and interconnected pooling slots are formed in a metallic die body respectively from opposed end surfaces so as to be communicated with each other. A metallic plate is secured to the end surface provided with the interconnected pooling slots and formed in that plate to communicate with the pooling slots are narrower interconnected extrusion slots having the same shape and size as those of walls of the desired honeycomb structure.Type: GrantFiled: September 11, 1980Date of Patent: February 15, 1983Assignee: Nippon Soken, Inc.Inventors: Shinichi Yamamoto, Toshihiko Ito
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Patent number: 4364888Abstract: Elimination of shearing flow, having an inwardly radial flow and velocity gradient, of extrudable material entering a die for forming a honeycomb structure with a plurality of thin-walled cells, thereby avoiding irregularities in the extruded structure. The shearing flow, resulting from reducing cross-sectional area of a Bingham plastic material (e.g. a cordierite-forming, plastically moldable ceramic batch material) passing through a funnel section tapering inwardly from an extrusion barrel, is changed to plug flow by maintaining constant the reduced cross-sectional area through a straight-walled portion of an entrance cavity feeding the material to the die, which has passageways including a plurality of feed holes communicating with interconnected discharge slots sequentially in the extrusion detection for forming the honeycomb structure.Type: GrantFiled: May 4, 1981Date of Patent: December 21, 1982Assignee: Corning Glass WorksInventor: Philip S. Levin
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Patent number: 4361489Abstract: A device for filtering a liquid, particularly molten polymer, removes incompletely molten polymer, foreign matter, aggregates of various additives and the like from the molten polymer prior to further processing of the liquid such as extrusion through a spinneret plate. The device comprises a housing provided with a liquid inlet and a liquid outlet and, positioned between the inlet and the outlet, a filter pack built up of a number of filtering disks and supporting disks. The disks are so arranged the liquid to be filtered is caused to flow between a center portion and an outer surface of the filter pack. On the filter pack there is placed a piston for applying a compressive pressure to the pack. The piston is displaced and acts to compress the filter pack on a liquid supply side under the influence of the pressure of the liquid to be filtered.Type: GrantFiled: June 17, 1980Date of Patent: November 30, 1982Assignee: Akzona, IncorporatedInventors: Harley Kilsdonk, Frits Linde, Petrus L. Schippers
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Patent number: 4358262Abstract: In a screw extrusion device used for extruding plastics materials, a filter or tool-carrier is disposed at the downstream or outlet end of the extruder, an annular pressure element bearing on the carrier so as to secure and seal the carrier in its operative position. The carrier is displaceable perpendicularly to the flowpath of the plastics material so as to permit facile changing of the filter element. The annular pressure element is acted upon by hydraulic fluid, the hydraulic circuit including an annular pressure chamber. The inner and outer walls of the chamber are formed, respectively, by concentric metal bellows. One end of each bellows is mounted on the pressure element and the other end thereof on a housing.Type: GrantFiled: November 10, 1981Date of Patent: November 9, 1982Assignee: Hermann Berstorff Maschinenbau GmbHInventor: Adolf Herbert