Abstract: An apparatus and method for extracting water from rubber is provided. The rubber is screw conveyed in a twin screw extruder and alternately compressed between the forward side of the screw conveying threads, the inner extruder chamber wall and the wedge-shaped screw shaft. Water is squeezed out of the compressed rubber particles and drained off. The extruder chamber wall preferably has longitudinal grooves to impede the revolving movement of the rubber particles and to further squeeze the water from the rubber particles.

Abstract: Marbleized cookie dough pieces are formed by independently feeding different color doughs into a common extrusion die, in which a rotating impeller is located. The impeller lards portions of each dough into the flow of the other to produce a spiral pattern in the extrudate which is sliced to produce spirally marbleized dough pieces.

Abstract: An extruder process for blending carbon fiber and tetrafluoroethylene copolymer resins, and laminates from the product of the process.

Abstract: Novel and improved processes and apparatus for processing particulate materials which can be converted to the liquid state. Essentially, the process and apparatus involve feeding a particulate material to an annular processing passage for melting and controlled processing. The annular processing passage is provided by a rotatable element carrying at least one processing channel, and a stationary element which provides a complementary, coaxial surface arranged with the channel to provide the enclosed processing passage. Also associated with the stationary element are an inlet for feeding material to the passage, an outlet for discharging material, a material collecting end wall surface for the passage and a member or members extending into the processing channel providing a material restraining surface between the inlet and outlet and occupying a predetermined portion of the melt pool space between the end wall and the restraining surface.

Abstract: Apparatus for treating powdery rubber mixtures to form processed intermediate products comprises volumetric metering means; a filling extruder; a mixing and plasticizing portion located at the downstream end of the filling extruder and having a central toothed spindle, toothed planetary spindles and an internally toothed housing; and forming out means shown as an extruder cascade connected to the mixing and plasticizing portion and extruding material through a perforated plate with cutting blades. The mixing and plasticizing portion is of only short length and can effect intensive working but does so for only a short period of time on the material passing therethrough so that the material is not damaged by being over-heated.

Abstract: A novel, improved rotary processor comprising a rotatable element carrying a plurality of processing channels and a stationary element having a coaxial closure surface operationally arranged with the channels to provide a plurality of enclosed processing passages. The plurality of passages provide interconnected processing stages including a first processing stage and a second processing stage having inboard and outboard sections separated by a third processing stage.

Abstract: An extruder for thermoplastic or elastomeric materials has a mastication stage with one or more feedscrews preceded by a preheating zone in which the incoming bulk material is circulated and possibly recirculated by two screw-type conveyor members or augers in a loop within a heated extension of the extruder housing. The augers may be counterrotatingly disposed in two juxtaposed cylindrical compartments or may be coaxially nested and corotating with opposite pitch.

Abstract: A barrel assembly for a twin screw mixer or similar device is especially designed for ready access to a replaceable split liquid tight barrel liner which is accurately held in seated position within a housing block by a minimum number of bolts or other detachable connectors. Housing blocks are formed with liner half receiving recesses defined by flat surfaces which include inwardly convergent side walls and a flat inner wall. The liner half is of complementary shape and projects slightly from the recess, when seated in the recess so that closing of the housing blocks engages abutting surfaces on the two liner halves to clamp these surfaces against each other during operation of the machine. The housing blocks are mounted upon the machine frame by brackets for swinging movement about horizontal axes, meshing pinion gears couple the housing blocks to each other so that the weight of one housing block is counterbalanced by the other during opening and closing movements.

Abstract: A pasta extruder for forming strand-like pasta. The extruder housing has a feed hopper and gears for feeding the pasta mixture to be extruded into the apparatus. An extrusion die plate having a plurality of extrusion orifices is mounted in the housing adjacent to a pressure chamber and axially of said gears.

Abstract: A machine for the production of home-made pasta and dough comprises a mixing bowl with a bladed shaft, an extrusion bowl and a feeding-measuring member rotatably supported between said mixing bowl and said extrusion bowl in order to feed said extrusion bowl with the mixture produced in said mixing bowl.

Abstract: A dual worm extruder includes a worm housing having a cavity and a wear resistant insert accommodated in the cavity. The insert has two parallel extruder bores defining, when viewed together in cross section, passages of circular areas having an overlap. The outer surface portions of the insert situated on opposite sides adjacent the overlap are peripherally concave, whereby the cross-sectional outline of the insert has the shape of an hourglass.

Abstract: A pulp refining apparatus of the type in which two intermeshing rotary screws are driven synchronously within a housing provided with a material inlet and a material outlet, the treated material passing from the inlet to the outlet while being compressively treated at a high dry-matter concentration between the intermeshing screw threads, has at least one of the screws arranged for pivotal swinging movement in relation to the other in a way permitting selective adjustment of the width of the treating gap between the intermeshing screw threads and selective control of the treating conditions to which the material is exposed.

Abstract: A pasta making machine is provided with a body portion having a kneading chamber and an extrusion chamber therein with a passageway interconnecting the two chambers. The body portion is mounted on a base and is adapted for rotation about a horizontal axis whereby a conveyor member in the extrusion chamber is located above kneading means located in the kneading chamber during the kneading phase. During the extrusion phase, the conveyor member, by virtue of rotation of the body portion is located below the kneading chamber.

Abstract: An extruder for thermoplastics having a directly motor-driven high-speed feed screw which mechanically force-feeds raw plastic pellets, pushing them forward under high pressure into a heat-transfer zone for melting, and finally through a static mixer, to deliver a pressurized homogeneous melt to an extrusion die. Melt pressurization results entirely from the mechanical force-feeding action of the screw rather than through the viscous shear action found in conventional screw extruders.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for controlling the feed of pieces of rubber or plastics material into the intake opening of an extruder where a feed roller has a control slide mounted thereabove which can be moved to increase or decrease the area of the surface of the roller which engages the material and thus the rate of material intake. Sensing means are provided to indicate to control means the level of material in the intake opening, the control means then operating the control slide to adjust the rate of intake of material.

Abstract: A multi-stage rotary processor for plastic and polymeric materials which are, or become in the course of processing, viscous liquids, including an annular housing, a rotor coaxial with and rotatable with respect to the housing and having a cylindrical surface in slidable sealing relation with the interior of the housing, a plurality of annular channels formed in the cylindrical surface and cooperating with the housing to form annular processing passages, transfer passages, which are preferably channels in the surface of the housing for cooperation with the cylindrical portions of the rotor, to provide passage for transfer of material between processing passages and blocking members extending into the channels to hold material in the processing passages for relative movement with respect to the channel walls for processing.

Abstract: Dough is extruded from a screw extruder through a nozzle, preferably a twin-slot nozzle, and an apertured blocking plate is placed between the tip of the extrusion screw and the nozzle assembly for making the pressure distribution across the dough in a pressure equilization chamber between the blocking plate and the nozzle more uniform and for controlling the rate of flow of the dough towards the extrusion nozzle slots. The blocking plate has two series of parallel channels arranged on two opposed arcs of the same circle centered on the central axis of the nozzle (the axis of the extrusion screw) and the series are symmetrical about a plane of symmetry of the nozzle.

Abstract: A temperable screw extruder for the continuous extrusion of thermoplastics materials wherein to increase the working and cooling of the material in the extruder without excessively increasing the length of the extruder means are provided to convey the material in a direction transverse to the axis of a main screw away from said axis and then to convey it back theretowards. Preferably said means comprises, located between the main screw and an extrusion outlet orifice, a transverse screw disposed in a transverse cylinder chamber to direct the plastics melt outwardly transversely to the axis of the main screw, a connection passage at the end of the transverse chamber to a downstream further transverse chamber having a further transverse screw therein to convey the material back towards the axis of the main screw.

Abstract: In plastics material extruding installation, a number of layout arrangements of conventional twin-screw extruders with double-feed twin-screw extruders are provided in various combinations in order to solve the problems of a thorough degassing of the plastics material and of an intimate admixture of the several compounding ingredients or raw plastics materials so as to obtain a really homogeneous extrudate.

Abstract: A method for the production of multi-color striped pieces of soap by continuously extruding two strands of colored soap, passing said two strands of colored soap through a die orifice whereby a single strand of parallel stripes is formed having a varied colored aspect in cross-section, passing said single strand through a static mixer having a different configuration from said die orifice, cutting said strand and recovering multi-color striped pieces of soap, as well as the apparatus.

Abstract: A screw extruder for processing rubber or plastics material, comprising a cylinder jacket with a feed hopper, a central geared shaft and geared planet shafts disposed between the central shaft and the cylinder jacket and drivably engaged with the central shaft and the cylinder jacket, wherein parts of at least some of the planet shafts are bare of gearing.Advantageously each alternate planet shaft is only partly geared, the gearing extending for only approximately half the length of the shaft, at one end or the other end or in two quarter length portions at the opposite ends. Alternatively each third planet shaft is only partly geared.Preferably each geared part of a planet shaft which is only partly geared overlaps with a geared part of the planet shaft which follows it in the direction of rotation.

Abstract: A single extruder provided with a hopper at one end and a restricted nozzle at the opposite end and two press-screws arranged coaxially in one another within an outer jacket, each of said screws being provided with a male thread for feeding in the direction of said nozzle, said male threads extending into an outer annular space between said jacket and the outer press-screw and extending into an inner annular space between said two press-screws, said threads being oppositely oriented, means to rotate the outer of said press-screws and means maintaining the inner of said two press-screws stationary, said outer press-screw being provided with window-like openings communicating with said inner press-screw in the area of said hopper and separate feed means in said hopper to separately feed to said outer annular space and to said inner annular space through said window-like openings, the improvement consisting in that a rotating mixing element is positioned between said nozzle and said press-screws and attached to

Abstract: An improved system for treating material proceeding continuously through a processing barrel having at least twin interconnected cylinders with saddle portions of generally V cross section at the points of interconnection of the cylinders. Twin rotating parallel mixer shafts, co-axially mounted in the cylinders, have radially interwiping screw or paddle elements between a material charging inlet and a material discharging outlet which are configured to wipe the cylinders including the saddle portions. Sets of paddle elements, each of which includes a cylinder closing paddle, are provided on the shafts at a flow control station between the inlet and outlet, and a movable flow-controlling saddle or valve element is mounted with relation to the cylinder closing paddle sets in a position such that it can be moved from an opened position to a position to restrict or block flow past the sets of paddle elements.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for conveying particulate material of the type wherein it is desired that the material be simultaneously pre-compacted from a generally loose state to a more or less solid "plug" state. A screw conveyor is arranged to deliver loose particulate material to an intermediate chamber at the end of the screw conveyor means wherein the material is pre-compacted by the action of the screw conveyor. Following the intermediate chamber, a piston reciprocating coaxially with the screw conveyor further urges the material in a direction coaxial with the centerline of the screw conveyor to further advance the material through a straight coaxial conduit within which the material becomes compacted to an increased degree of compactness, solely by the action of the reciprocating piston. The reciprocating piston has preferably an annular face, whose outside diagram is generally the same as that of the Industrial Design of the conduit.

Abstract: The temperature of the molten mixture within a multi-screw extruder is maintained in the range of from the melting point of the macromolecular material up to 20.degree. C above said melting point, by an extruder having at least 2 screws, said extruder being constructed such that the ratio (H/D) of the diameter (D) of the screws to the interlocking depth (H) of the screws is equal to or less than 0.1 and the flow of the mixture of inorganic additive and macromolecular material within the screws can be so controlled that the difference in residence time of more than 90% of said mixture is no more than .+-.10% relative to the prescribed residence time, whereby the dispersion of said inorganic additive is extremely improved.

Abstract: A motionless mixer for combining different substances brought into communication therewith. The mixer includes at least two tubular members. Each tubular member has at least one spiral corrugated surface thereon. The members are arranged so that different substances brought into and out of communication therewith including the at least one corrugated surface will be mixed together.

Abstract: A system for manufacturing concrete products comprising: storage apparatus for supplying raw materials; mixer assembly positioned to receive raw materials from the storage means and for mixing the raw materials with liquids to form a wet concrete mixture; receiver assembly adjacent the mixer assembly for receiving wet concrete mixture therefrom; mold assembly positioned to receive wet concrete mixture from the receiver assembly; and cubing assembly adjacent the mold assembly for successively receiving precured products from the mold assembly and stacking them in layers.

Abstract: A method for removing unreacted monomer (or monomers) from an ethylene homopolymer or a copolymer of ethylene and at least one monomer copolymerizable with ethylene during the course of pelletization by use of an extruder, said polymer having been formed by high-pressure polymerization by use of a radiation or a radical initiator, discharged from the reactor by way of a separator, and fed to said extruder to be pelletized, which method comprises injecting into said extruder 0.1 to 10% by weight (based on said polymer) of water or steam intermixing the polymer and the water or steam in the mixing section of the extruder screw, and subjecting the resulting mix to a subatmospheric pressure of 500 mmHg (absolute) or less in the venting zone provided in the extruder. This method permits efficient removal of the unreacted ethylene or the unreacted ethylene and comonomer contained in a homopolymer or copolymer of ethylene.

Abstract: A method for the production of two-color striped pieces of soap by continuously extruding two strands of colored soap, one strand encompassed by the other strand, passing said two strands of colored soap through a die orifice whereby a single strand of parallel strips is formed having a varied colored aspect in cross-section, cutting said strand and recovering two-color striped pieces of soap; as well as the apparatus and the soap pieces so produced.

Abstract: An extruder for synthetic material is disclosed which includes an extruder housing provided with at least two worm conveyer shafts, each having one or more helices thereon. An inlet opening is provided in the housing at the extruder input for introducing the synthetic material and a degassing outlet is provided in the housing downstream of the inlet. Intermediately of the material inlet and degassing outlet, distributing members are arranged on the worm shaft peripheries, the distributing members comprising intermeshing tooth-shaped heightened parts of generally hemispherical configuration.

Abstract: The invention relates to an apparatus for the extrusion of temperature sensitive thermoplastics to form structural rib-free semi-finished products in contra-rotating driven screws.

Abstract: A device for degassing plastic materials comprising an extruder including at least three parallel screws intermeshing in pairs, arranged in a casing which follows the periphery of the screws and arranged around a central stem, the surface of which also follows the periphery of the screws so that the screws are encased over a substantial part of their periphery. The casing is provided with a supply inlet, an end plate through which degassed material is extruded and a degassing outlet through which gases are withdrawn, the degassing outlet being upstream with respect to the supply inlet.

Abstract: An apparatus for manufacturing concrete panels with surface decoration patterns thereon said surface decoration patterns being formed by finishing material containing color cement or pigments or other coloring materials. The apparatus comprises a mortar hopper having a mortar outlet opening and a mortar shoot extending downward from beneath the outlet opening of the hopper. A molding surface is positioned below the mortar shoot and the mortar shoot extends to the molding surface. Color mortar containers are disposed above the mortar shoot to discharge color mortar materials contained therein. A mixing means incompletely mixes the mortar with the color mortar materials on the mortar shoot, a mixed mortar inverting descent guide plate is connected to the lower end of the mortar shoot and a vibrator is attached to the mortar shoot.

Abstract: A patty machine for forming successive patties of a predetermined size from a quantity of a bulk product, such as ground meat. The machine includes a charging chamber in which the product is pressure-fed into a patty mold cavity by means of intermeshing, positive displacement, self-wiping compressor screws. The product is delivered from a feed hopper to the entrance of the charging chamber by means of intermeshing, self-wiping conveyor screws which operate on a demand basis to convey the product to the compressor screws only as needed to thereby avoid unnecessary working or kneading of the product. Shafts for driving and supporting the conveyor and compressor screws extend throughout the length of the machine and each carries one conveyor and one compressor screw. The compressor screws are keyed positively to their respective shafts while only one conveyor screw need be so keyed, the unkeyed conveyor screw or screws being driven through intermeshing relationship with the keyed conveyor screw.

Abstract: This invention relates to multi-shaft screw extruders in which the screw shafts are arranged to intermesh in pairs and rotate pairwise in the same sense, each shaft of a pair having at least one double threaded or triple threaded pressure build-up section corresponding to that of the other shaft. This invention also relates to a method of using such an extruder to build up pressure within a material with a minimum pressure build-up section and a minimum power input. The extruder and its method of operation are characterized by the fact that at least a portion of the pressure build-up section satisfies ##EQU1## WHEREIN T IS THE SCREW PITCH, D IS THE INTERNAL DIAMETER OF THE HOUSING, Q IS THE VOLUMETRIC THROUGHPUT OF MATERIAL OF A SCREW PAIR AND N IS THE SPEED OF ROTATION OF THE SCREW SHAFTS AND: ##EQU2## WHEREIN IN TRIPLE THREAD PRESSURE BUILD-UP SECTIONS A = 0.1082;a = 15.316;b = 69.111;Andc = 261.85And in double thread pressure build-up sectionsA = 0.206;a = 8.8212;b = 18.414;Andc = 31.668.

Abstract: A system for manufacturing concrete products including: mixing apparatus for continuously mixing liquid and raw materials to form a wet concrete mixture; receiver apparatus adjacent the mixing apparatus for receiving the wet concrete mixture and maintaining therein at least a predetermined static head; and mold apparatus positioned to repeatedly receive precompacted wet concrete mixture charges from the receiver apparatus.

Abstract: A screw housing with a wearing insert for a two-shafted screw machine wherein the wearing insert has two spaced parallel bores to accommodate screw shafts located with their mutually parallel longitudinal axes in the principal plane of symmetry of the wearing insert. These shafts are spaced apart so as to form saddles at the connecting point of the bores. The insert housing has an external cross-section which is substantially constant along its axial length and is arranged in a cavity of the screw housing having the same cross-section.

Abstract: A continuous extruder for thermosetting resins comprising two screws received in a cylinder so as to rotate in opposite directions. Each of these screws is successively divided into a feed portion, a rotor portion and a discharge portion from the end of the cylinder where one or more material supply orifices are located. The cylinder is opened at the opposite end so as to mount a die. The outside of the cylinder is surrounded by jackets for controlling temperature.

Abstract: A bimetal multiple cylinder for extruders in plastics processing machinery is formed of a plurality of cut-away bimetal tubes having each a base material supporting an internal lining. The bimetal tubes are each cut-away by a pair of longitudinal cuts extending from the tube exterior to the tube interior to expose a pair of cut faces, and the cut faces are each arranged to face a respective cut face of an adjacent cut-away bimetal tube. Adjacent cut-away bimetal tubes are joined to one another by welding at their facing cut faces.

Abstract: The invention relates to an apparatus and process for producing striated soap bars using a high intensity mixer extruder. A soap mass is levigated and homogenized in a high intensity mixer barrel and forced into a dye injection assembly wherein dye is injected into the soap mass. The soap mass with the injected dye is then forced through conically tapered nozzles to form a striated soap bar.