Abstract: A worm extruder for replastifying miscast plastic webs has a cylinder bore communicating with a receiving chamber at a feed opening, the chamber and the bore being provided with a plurality of longitudinal grooves for catching plastic strips wound about the extruder shaft upon feeding to the receiving chamber. Upon being snagged by the grooves, the strips are ground between a worm thread of the extruder shaft and a polished surface of the bore in which the catch grooves are disposed. The receiving chamber is asymmetrically formed with a peripheral sickle-shaped space extending in part into the cylinder bore toward a resin outlet, while the shaft is formed in the region of the chamber with a plurality of worm threads having equispaced notches.

Abstract: A method of replastifying thermoplastic foil strips comprising the steps of: rotating a worm within a cylinder baffel having a chamber, an inlet end, outlet end, and a widened area in the region of the inlet end; winding at least one continuous thermoplastic foil strip in multiple layers completely around the worm in the widened area; compressing the layers of the at least one strip on the worm; snagging the at least one strip wound on the worm on edges of at least one longitudinal groove formed on a wall of the chamber, thereby causing the at least one strip to be cut into pieces; and advancing the pieces from the chamber by rotation of the worm.