Abstract: 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.

Abstract: An apparatus for melt-spinning a polymer such as a polyamide or polyester has a heating jacket provided with a cavity which accommodates a spinning assembly. Preferably, the spinning assembly is exchangeable in the jacket from above and includes a housing adapted to contain a molten polymer and a spinnerette plate near one end thereof. The opposite end of the housing is closed with a lid which extends partially within the housing and partially outside the housing. That portion of the lid which extends outside the housing has a peripheral surface which slopes radially outwardly from the wall of the housing in the direction moving longitudinally from the housing. In a cylindrical vessel the sloping portion of the lid is frusto-conically shaped. The jacket is provided with a portion of gradually increasing diameter to accommodate the lid.