Abstract: A method for depositing a metal layer on a component includes applying an electrically conductive coating composition comprising a resin and metal particles on a coating region of the component and partially curing the resin to a gel state to form an electrically conductive coating. The method also includes applying additional metal particles to the partially cured resin in the gel state and depositing, via an electrodeposition process, a metal layer on the electrically conductive coating.

Abstract: Methods for producing single crystal silicon ingots by Continuous Czochralski (CCz) are disclosed. A batch of buffer members (e.g., quartz cullets) is added to an outer melt zone of the crucible assembly before the main body of the ingot is grown. In some embodiments, the ratio of the mass M of the batch of buffer members added to the melt to the time between adding the batch of buffer members to the melt and when the ingot main body begins to grow is controlled such that the ratio of M/T is greater than a threshold M/T.

Abstract: Disclosed herein is a furnace and a method of growing a high temperature oxide crystal. The furnace includes a cylindrical furnace wall, an induction coil disposed within the cylindrical furnace wall, a quartz tube disposed within the induction coil, a refractory lining disposed within the quartz tube, and a crucible disposed within the refractory lining, the crucible including a melt therein. A lid placed on the crucible. An asymmetric configuration of at least one of the crucible, the refractory lining, the quartz tube, the induction coil and the lid within the cylindrical furnace wall creates a thermal gradient that causes a cold spot in the melt to migrate from a first location to a second location of the melt. A rod having a seed crystal at an end thereof is lowered into the crucible to draw a boule from the melt via the seed crystal from the first location.

Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure include techniques related to techniques for processing materials for manufacture of group-III metal nitride and gallium based substrates. More specifically, embodiments of the disclosure include techniques for growing large area substrates using a combination of processing techniques. Merely by way of example, the disclosure can be applied to growing crystals of GaN, AlN, InN, InGaN, AlGaN, and AlInGaN, and others for manufacture of bulk or patterned substrates. Such bulk or patterned substrates can be used for a variety of applications including optoelectronic and electronic devices, lasers, light emitting diodes, solar cells, photo electrochemical water splitting and hydrogen generation, photodetectors, integrated circuits, and transistors, and others.

Abstract: A silicon carbide substrate according to the present disclosure is a silicon carbide substrate that includes a first main surface and a second main surface opposite to the first main surface, and is made of silicon carbide having a polytype of 4H. The first main surface has a maximum diameter of more than or equal to 140 mm. The first main surface is a {0001} plane or a plane inclined at an off angle of more than 0° and less than or equal to 8° relative to the {0001} plane. Half-widths of a peak corresponding to a folded mode of a longitudinal optical branch of a Raman spectrum of the silicon carbide substrate within a plane of the first main surface have an average value of less than 2.5 cm?1, and a standard deviation of less than or equal to 0.06 cm?1.

Abstract: An indium phosphide single-crystal body has an oxygen concentration of less than 1×1016 atoms·cm?3, and includes a straight body portion having a cylindrical shape, wherein a diameter of the straight body portion is more than or equal to 100 mm and less than or equal to 150 mm or is more than 100 mm and less than or equal to 150 mm. An indium phosphide single-crystal substrate has an oxygen concentration of less than 1×1016 atoms·cm?3, wherein a diameter of the indium phosphide single-crystal substrate is more than or equal to 100 mm and less than or equal to 150 mm or is more than 100 mm and less than or equal to 150 mm.

Abstract: A nitride semiconductor substrate that is constituted by a single crystal of a group III nitride semiconductor and includes a main surface for which the closest low index crystal plane is a (0001) plane includes an inclined interface growth region that has grown with inclined interfaces other than the (0001) plane serving as growth surfaces. A ratio of an area occupied by the inclined interface growth region in the main surface is 80% or more. When a dislocation density is determined based on a dark spot density by observing the main surface in a field of view that is 250 ?m square using a multiphoton excitation microscope, the main surface does not include a region that has a dislocation density higher than 3×106 cm?2, and the main surface includes dislocation-free regions that are 50 ?m square and do not overlap each other, at a density of 100 regions/cm2 or more.

Abstract: An RNA probe containing RNA functional structural units is prepared by the following steps: (1) recognizing one or more stem structures contained in the RNA based on RNA sequence information; (2) extracting a motif region with reference to the one or more recognized stem structures; (3) adding an assistive stem region to the extracted motif region; and (4) adding a barcode region, which represents a complementary sequence to a DNA barcode sequence, to the assistive stem region. Also provided is a method for detecting a protein-binding RNA by using an RNA probe containing RNA functional structural units.

Abstract: The present invention relates to the field of proteases. More specifically, the present invention provides compositions and methods useful for profiling protease activity using phage display. In one embodiment, a display vector useful for profiling protease activity comprises a nucleic acid sequence encoding (a) a peptide to be displayed on the surface of the vector; (b) a first affinity tag C-terminal to the peptide; and (c) a second affinity tag N-terminal to the peptide. The display vector can comprise a virus, bacteriophage, yeast, bacteria, retrovirus, ribosome or mRNA. In particular embodiments, the peptide comprises a human peptidome library peptide.

Abstract: Provided herein are methods and compositions relating to prostaglandin D2 receptor 2 (DP2 or CRTH2R) libraries having nucleic acids encoding for a scaffold comprising a CRTH2R binding domain. CRTH2R libraries described herein encode for immunoglobulins including antibodies and single domain antibodies. Libraries described herein include variegated libraries comprising nucleic acids each encoding for a predetermined variant of at least one predetermined reference nucleic acid sequence. Further described herein are protein libraries generated when the nucleic acid libraries are translated. Further described herein are cell libraries expressing variegated nucleic acid libraries described herein.

Abstract: It provides a device for applying nanofibers and/or microfibers onto a substrate (S). It also provides a system comprising a plurality of such devices which are controlled to operate independently. The system allows for depositing of a gradient material in various parameters including material thickness, fiber pore size, fiber diameter, fiber content and the like. It also relates to a method for applying nanofibers and/or microfibers onto a substrate (S).

Abstract: An integrated and improved process for the production of acrylic fibers is described, specifically a process that starts from the comonomers and reaches the spinning step obtaining the final fiber.

Abstract: The present invention is a method for producing carbon fiber, characterized by using a carbon-fiber precursor produced from a polymer having a narrow molecular weight distribution and by applying only a small amount of a smoothing agent, composed of a specific component, to the carbon fiber surface immediately before winding of carbon fiber. According to the present invention, it is possible to stably produce carbon fiber, which has excellent dispersibility and do not deteriorate in quality and quality even when a sizing agent is not attached to the carbon fiber surface. In addition, the produced carbon fiber is suitable for use in a composite material which is produced by high-temperature processing using a thermoplastic resin.

Abstract: Silk woven fabric is known and renowned for its touch. The drawback of silk, however, is its price, its poor washability, and low resistance against certain chemical treatments. It is therefore the object of the invention to provide a silk-like woven fabric which overcomes these problems. According to the invention, this problem is solved by providing a silk-like woven fabric (2) made from weft yarns (4) and warp yarns (6), wherein at least one of the weft yarns (4) and the warp yarns (6) contains or consists of lyocell filaments (8). Especially twisted lyocell filament yarns are used, the resulting material has a touch comparable to silk and physical properties that are equal to or even surpass those of silk. Moreover, the lyocell filament yarns (4, 6) may have a higher twist than silk yarns, other cellulose yarns, or synthetic yarns.

Abstract: A process for manufacturing a composite yarn comprising a continuous multifilament core yarn incorporated in a matrix, comprising at least one step of depositing, by coating or extrusion, a matrix comprising a polymer material and a reinforcing filler formed from functionalized particles, onto a core yarn. A composite yarn obtained by such process. A textile comprising at least one such composite yarn.

Abstract: Stretched filaments based on aromatic polyethers, wherein the filaments have been stretched at a temperature between glass transition temperature and melting point and wherein the filaments are cooled down to below the glass transition temperature under full tensile load and a process for production thereof and use thereof.

Abstract: A shedding assembly with a shedding machine includes an eccentric system which defines an eccentric center distance, a first connecting rod, actuated by the eccentric system to actuate a first lever and defining a connecting rod center distance, and a second connecting rod, making the first lever pivot in conjunction with that of a second lever to actuate a heald frame. To facilitate adjustment, the shedding machine includes an adjustment system, which allows at least one adjustment configuration where one of the center-to-center distances is adjustable, as well as a follower member equipping the second connecting rod. The shedding assembly comprises a flap for moving the second connecting rod by driving the follower member for adjusting the center distance when the adjustment system is in the adjustment configuration.

Abstract: A method includes forming a multi-pick yarn package through winding multiple oriented yarns onto a spool, with the multiple oriented yarns serving as weft yarns forming adjacent substantially parallel yarns wound together. Each of the multiple oriented yarns is formed through drawing each of multiple yarns from a corresponding supply package. The method also includes, using the multi-pick yarn package, simultaneously inserting the weft yarns in a single pick insertion event of a pick insertion apparatus of a loom apparatus in which the simultaneously inserted weft yarns are to be conveyed through a set of warp yarns to produce an incremental length of a woven textile fabric.

Abstract: A textile upper for an article of footwear includes at least one microclimate modulation structure located at one or more regions of the upper. In an embodiment, a microclimate modulation structure includes a plurality of knitted strands, the knitted strands including a first strand type and a second strand type, the first strand type having a greater thermal conductivity than the second strand type. In another embodiment, the microclimate modulation structure includes an uneven surface that includes a plurality of knitted beams and a plurality of indentations defined between the knitted beams.

Abstract: A needle-holding unit for circular knitting machines has a structure shaped as a hollow solid of rotation developing around a central axis is configured for turning around said central axis and for supporting a plurality of needles moving so as to produce a knitted fabric. The needle-holding unit exhibits on an outer side at least one working surface, on which a plurality of needle seats is defined, which are placed beside one another and arranged around the central axis. Each of the needle seats movably houses at least a portion of at least one respective needle which can be actuated with an alternate motion along the respective needle seat with a motion of extraction and a motion of return, in order to produce knitted fabric. Each needle seat has an inclined longitudinal development with respect to the central axis.

Abstract: The invention relates to a prosthetic porous knit based on a monofilament of a biocompatible polymer material, the pattern followed for the knitting of said monofilament on a warp knitting machine having two guide bars B1, B2 being the following, according to the ISO 11676 standard:—Bar B1: 1.2/4.5/4.3/4.5/4.3/1.0/1.2/1.0//—Bar B2: 1.3/1.0/1.2/1.0/1.2/4.5/4.3/4.5// The invention further relates to a method for producing such a knit and to a hernia prosthesis comprising such a knit.

Abstract: A removal device for removing a knitted tubular manufacture from a circular knitting machine, comprising an annular removal body which supports a plurality of removal members arranged around the axis of the removal body, the removal body being arrangeable coaxially around the needle cylinder of a circular knitting machine, wherein the removal members are supported by a first annular portion and a second annular portion which can rotate with respect to each other about an oscillation axis to pass between a removal condition, in which they are arranged so as to form a circumference that is coaxial with the axis of the removal device, and a sewing condition, in which the annular portions are arranged so as to face each other.

Abstract: In one embodiment, the present invention is a braided filament including a plurality of strands each having at least one ultrahigh molecular weight polyethylene fiber and at least one polyester fiber wherein the quantity of certain types of fibers in a first strand is the same as the quantity of the same type of fibers in a second strand. In a variant, one additional strand of the braided filament is a monofilament strand. In another variant, each strand is homogeneous with respect to the other strands and is made exclusively from ultrahigh molecular weight polyethylene fibers and polyester fibers such that each strand has the same distribution and quantity of fiber types.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a non-woven fabric with improved mechanical strength, and more particularly, to a non-woven fabric exhibiting excellent spinnability, excellent softness, and excellent tensile strength while enabling a weight reduction.

Abstract: A flash spinning method for preparing non-woven fabrics based on microwave thermal fusion, a microwave thermal fusion device, and a non-woven fabric preparation device are provided. The flash spinning method includes: step S1, collecting filament bundles to form a non-woven fabric precursor, adding a microwave heating liquid to the non-woven fabric precursor; the microwave heating liquid being configured to absorb microwave energy and convert the microwave energy into thermal energy; and step S2, performing microwave heating on the non-woven fabric precursor containing the microwave heating liquid obtained in the step S1 to obtain a heated non-woven fabric, and performing a hot press forming treatment on the heated non-woven fabric to obtain a finished non-woven fabric. There is no temperature gradient in layers of the non-woven fabric precursor, thereby significantly improving the peeling strength of the finished non-woven fabric.

Abstract: Methods for manufacturing through-fluid bonded continuous fiber nonwoven webs are provided. The method may include providing a through-fluid bonding oven. The through-fluid bonding oven may have a first porous member and a second moving member. An intermediate continuous fiber nonwoven web may be conveyed into the through-fluid bonding oven intermediate the first and second moving porous members. A first surface of the intermediate continuous fiber nonwoven web may be in face-to-face contact with the first porous member. A second surface of the intermediate continuous fiber nonwoven web may be in face-to-face contact with the second porous member. A heated fluid may be flowed through the first and second porous members and the intermediate continuous fiber nonwoven web to create a continuous fiber nonwoven web.

Abstract: Systems and methods for producing printed goods from textile material to address shortcoming of existing approaches for article production. According to the systems and methods described herein, the harvested and woven cotton may be shipped directly to garment decorators who may perform all remaining steps to provide customers with finished goods. As such, the systems and methods herein may eliminate the steps of the blank goods trade and current manufacturing processes.

Abstract: Systems and methods relate generally to textile patch attachment to a textile material. In an example, a method relating generally to textile patch attachment to a textile material is disclosed. In such a method, design and coloring of a textile patch and the textile material is detected. This detection includes: capturing images of the textile patch and the textile material with a camera; sending the images to a programmed computer system in communication with the camera for image processing; determining thickness and colors of the textile patch and the textile material from the image processing of the images; and determining position of the textile patch relative to a pattern of the textile material from the image processing of the images. After the detecting, data obtained from the detecting is displayed on a display screen of the programmed computer system.

Abstract: A thimble includes a flexible tapered sleeve and a crown. The sleeve has a frustoconical shape with a fluted sidewall. Multiple outwardly convex panels extend entirely around the sidewall. The sleeve has a mounting end opposite an opening for inserting a user's digit. The sleeve has a pitch of from 0.175 mm/mmL to 0.35 mm/mmL. The crown is formed of hard plastic material and is attached to the mounting end of the sleeve. The crown has a cap with an upper textured planar surface. A ridged sidewall extends entirely around the crown. Multiple longitudinal ridges extend from a lower edge of the sidewall to the cap. The thimble accommodates a variety of finger sizes and the crown prevents slippage of a sewing needle.

Abstract: Computerized methods of creating embroidery including capturing embroidery instructions, receiving instructions at an embroidery engine, creating planned patterns of stitches, and outputting instructions for stitching, including instructions for printing colors onto a thread before stitching. Color may be printed in a gradient or gradually faded, for example, from a start color to an end color, or from a start color to an intermediate color and from the intermediate color to an end color. Color may be gradually faded from a start location to an end location or from a start location to an intermediate location and from the intermediate location to an end location. Varying shades of colors may be printed, patterns may be repeated, outlines, segments, and vectors may be used, and intermediate stitch color may be determined based on number of stitches or vector length. Some embodiments allow a user to change embroidery instructions while reapplying unchanged instructions.

Abstract: Apparatus for the controlled withdrawal and dispensing of liquids, comprising a structure (S) with a platform (1) housing a first series of containers (2) containing liquid substances and a second series of containers (3) adapted to receive the substances of the containers of the first series, the apparatus further comprising means for withdrawing the liquids from the containers of the first series and dispensing such liquids into the containers of the second series. On each container of the first series is inserted a half-pipette consisting of a barrel (4), a piston (5) devoid of actuation rod, and a needle (6). The withdrawing and dispensing means comprise a unit (9) provided with a vertical rod (95, 96) for actuating the piston of each half-pipette, said unit being constrained to a carriage (10) that can be moved above the platform. The unit (9) is movable vertically from and towards the platform (1).

Abstract: A dynamic imbalance detection system capable of whether a washing machine is in a dynamically imbalanced position by using big data and executing an AI algorithm or a machine learning algorithm in a 5G communications network environment built for IoT. The system includes a washing machine and a server communicating with the washing machine. The washing machine includes a vibration sensor attached to a washing machine cabinet and a controller receiving a vibration signal detected by the vibration sensor during the operation of the washing machine and processing the vibration signal into vibration data. The server receives the vibration data from the controller and trains a machine learning algorithm on a training dataset that is obtained by processing one or more features among a displacement magnitude, a displacement ratio, and a displacement phase, and determines result values of dynamic balance and dynamic imbalance labeled with the one or more features.

Abstract: Disclosed herein is a laundry treatment apparatus including a cabinet including an upper cover, a first side cover and a second side cover, a cover through hole formed through the upper cover, and an outlet formed in a front surface of the cabinet, a drawer including a drawer body, and a drawer panel fixed to the drawer body, a tub arranged in the drawer body, a drum rotatably arranged inside the tub, an operation part having one end rotatably fixed to the first side cover and a free end, a contact portion exposed to an outside of the cabinet and configured to move toward an inside of the cabinet and toward the cover through hole, a converter configured to move the free end, and a position sensor configured to sense a position of the free end when the outlet is closed to sense closure of the outlet.

Abstract: An apparatus, method and kit for use in the treatment of substrates with a solid particulate material, said apparatus comprising a housing having mounted therein a rotatably mounted drum having an inner surface and an end wall and access means for introducing said substrates into said drum, the drum preferably having and elongate protrusion (1) located on said inner surface of said drum, wherein •(a) said drum comprises storage means for storage of said solid particulate material; and •(b) said drum comprises a first collecting flow path to facilitate flow of said solid particulate material from the interior of said drum to said storage means when said drum rotates in a first collecting direction, characterised in that said drum comprises a second collecting flow path to facilitate flow of said solid particulate material from the interior of said drum to said storage means when said drum rotates in a second collecting direction, wherein said second collecting direction is in the opposite rotational direction

Abstract: A laundry treating appliance having a treating chamber and a bulk dispenser and a user interface configured to provide an indication to the user related to the bulk chemistry dispenser and a controller coupled with the user interface and the bulk treating chemistry dispenser and configured to execute an operating cycle including controlling the treating chemistry meter to dispense the predetermined amount of treating chemistry and determine a number of doses of treating chemistry available in the bulk treating chemistry dispenser and method of determining the number of doses and the types of a treating chemistry available in the bulk dispensing system, and providing an indication of the determination on a user interface.

Abstract: A device for dosing and dispensing a detergent composition has a reservoir wherein the surface of the reservoir comprises a plurality of ball retainers in which a freely rotating ball is seated.

Abstract: A method of dispensing a treating chemistry received in a laundry treating appliance having a laundry treating chamber and a treating chemistry dispenser, the method comprising receiving at least one of a solid or liquid treating chemistry in an open receiving chamber, receiving a liquid in the open receiving chamber, siphoning liquid from a siphon outlet to the treating chamber when the liquid in the receiving chamber reaches a first level, floating a float until a flange abuts an underside of a grid insert when liquid in the receiving chamber reaches a second level, greater than the first level, dispensing the liquid treating chemistry through the siphon outlet when liquid in the receiving chamber reaches the first level, and dispensing the solid treating chemistry through the drain outlet when the liquid in the receiving chamber reaches the second level.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a laundry care apparatus in which an induction module heats the drum uniformly using a magnetic field to dry laundry or heat wash-water, and center and front and rear regions of the drum are uniformly heated.

Abstract: A washing machine appliance includes a wash basket that is rotatably mounted within a wash tub and that defines a wash chamber for receiving a load of clothes. A water supply adds water to the wash tub during a fill cycle and a camera assembly is used to monitor the water level. Specifically, the camera assembly obtains one or more images of the wash chamber during and/or after a fill cycle and a controller analyzes the images using a machine learning image recognition process to determine when the water within the wash tub has reached a predetermined water level, e.g., optimized based on load size or other load parameters. If the water in the wash tub is below or above the predetermined water level, the controller may implement responsive action, e.g., by adjusting at least one operating parameter of the washing machine appliance.

Abstract: An appliance includes at least one chamber accessible via an opening and a cover member for providing selective access to the opening. The cover member includes a flexible portion and a rigid portion. The flexible portion includes a plurality of elongated rib members and a flexible skin covering surrounding the plurality of elongated rib members. The plurality of elongated rib members aligned in a side-by-side configuration and secured together in a spatially consecutive arrangement. Thus, the flexible portion is movable with respect to the rigid portion between a flat, closed position that covers a portion of the opening and a curved, open position that exposes the portion of the opening.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a laundry treating apparatus which can facilitate clothes drying, deodorizing, crumple-removing and sterilizing, thereby preventing the clothes from damage and providing them with improved thermal insulation.

Abstract: An improved locker seat includes a pair of spaced-apart upstanding sidewalls having a pair of lateral edges. A generally horizontal seat is disposed between the lateral edges of the sidewalls. In a first mode, an air source is connected to an airway formed within the seat to create an airflow. The airflow from the air source creates a first temperature differential to cool the seat. In a second mode, an external or internal heat source provides heat to a top surface of the seat, creating a second temperature differential to heat the seat. The first and second temperature differential are distributed across the top surface of the seat. The seat is hinged to be movable about the hinge between an open and a closed position.

Abstract: A laundry treatment apparatus includes: a housing defining a reception space, a first through-hole in communication with the reception space and defined at a first surface of the housing, a second through-hole in communication with the reception space and defined at a second surface facing the first surface, a driver including (i) a driving shaft rotatably fixed to the second through-hole and defining a concentric shaft and (ii) a motor configured to rotate the driving shaft, a connection shaft fastening portion disposed at the driving shaft, defining a space, and configured to transmit rotational motion of the driving shaft, and a support configured to be elastically deformed between a second connection body and the second surface and configured to press the second connection body toward the first connection body such that the first connection body is coupled to a fastening body.

Abstract: A clothes treatment apparatus includes a cabinet defining a treatment chamber configured to accommodate hanging clothes and a cycle chamber configured to house machinery, the cycle chamber being positioned vertically below the treatment chamber. The clothes treatment apparatus also includes a partition plate that partitions the treatment chamber from the cycle chamber, a door configured to open and close the cabinet, a door liner disposed at an inside of the door and configured to guide condensed water generated in the treatment chamber to an upper side of the partition plate, a condensed water guide member disposed at the partition plate and configured to guide the condensed water from the door liner into the treatment chamber.

Abstract: A laundry drying machine includes: a cabinet, a drum rotatably disposed in the cabinet and configured to accommodate a target object, and an electric field generator spaced apart from the drum and configured to, based on power being applied to the electric field generator, generate an electric field. The electric field generator includes an anode electrode spaced apart from the drum, fixed to the cabinet, and configured to apply the electric field to the target object, a power supply unit configured to supply the power to the anode electrode, and a matcher configured to match a source impedance of the power and an impedance of a load side. The drum is configured to rotate at an agitating rotation speed in a state in which the power supplied to the anode electrode is stopped, the agitating rotation speed being (i) greater than 0 rpm and (ii) less than 50 rpm.

Abstract: A segmented hamper with motion activated lids is a plurality of laundry hampers having a plurality of motion sensor which lift an individual hamper lid when activated. The plurality of hampers is disposed upon a base having four caster wheels. The hamper is provided with a control panel and battery operated power source.

Abstract: The present invention relates in part to a method of fabricating a ceramic-polymer composite by contacting a polymer material with an acid solution and depositing a ceramic on the polymer material. The invention also relates in part to ceramic-polymer composites produced using said method and ballistic resistant materials comprising said ceramic-polymer composites.

Abstract: A welding process may be configured to convert a substrate into a welded substrate by applying a process solvent to the substrate, wherein the process solvent interrupts one or more intermolecular force between one or more component in the substrate. The substrate may be configured as a natural fiber, such as cellulose, hemicelluloses, and silk. The process solvent may be configured as an ionic-liquid based solvent and the welded substrate may be a congealed network after the process solvent has been adequately swollen and/or mobilized the substrate. A welding process may be configured such that individual fibers of a substrate are not fully dissolved such that material in the fiber core may be left in the native state by controlling process variables. The welding process fibers may have a tenacity 10% or 20% greater or a diameter 25% less than that of a cellulosic-based yarn substrate.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides an artificial leather structure, comprising a woven layer, a porous elastomer layer disposed on the woven layer and a nonwoven layer disposed on the porous elastomer layer. The porous elastomer layer is adhered to the woven layer and the nonwoven layer.

Abstract: The invention relates to a discharge screw arrangement (12) for discharging lignocellulosic material (7) from a lignocellulosic treatment reactor (1) and comprises a discharge screw (10), a feeder pipe (11) and a blow pipe (5), the discharge screw being accommodated in and rotatably arranged inside the feeder pipe and being configured to mechanically transport the lignocellulosic material in a longitudinal direction along a rotational axis of the discharge screw through the feeder pipe towards a downstream end (14) of the feeder pipe, which discharge screw arrangement is configured to allow steam to flow through the feeder pipe to help transporting the lignocellulosic material in the longitudinal direction along through the feeder pipe and out of the feeder pipe through an outlet nozzle (24) arranged in a side wall of the feeder pipe (11) at the downstream end of the feeder pipe and into the blow pipe, wherein the discharge screw arrangement further comprises a material spreader (20), which is rotatably arran