Plural Screw Conveyors On Separate Shafts Patents (Class 366/83)
  • Patent number: 11465327
    Abstract: A fractional lobe processor comprises a barrel with heating and cooling means having two parallel intersecting bores of equal diameter, wherein the centre distance between the two bores is lesser than the diameter of the bore; a shaft coupled with a plurality of screw elements to form a screw within each bore, wherein the screws are intermeshing and form at least three zones within the barrel, the zones comprising an intake zone comprising at least one deep flighted shovel element on each intermeshing screw for receiving a feed comprising an active substance and/or an excipient, a melt zone consisting of only fractional lobe elements for melting the active substance and/or an excipient to form a viscous mass or melt, and a discharge zone, wherein the melt zone is located before the discharge zone and after the intake zone; and wherein the melt zone has a plurality of fractional lobe elements on each shaft.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2022
    Assignee: STEERLIFE INDIA PRIVATE LIMITED
    Inventors: Indu Bhushan, Vinay Rao, Vijay Kulkarni, Chetan Chincholi, Aravind Kumar Gurram, Babu Padmanabhan
  • Patent number: 10906215
    Abstract: A method and an extrusion device for producing a foamed body. A plastics melt is produced inside the casing of a first extruder. The plastics melt is conveyed to an outlet die of a second extruder. The conveyed plastics melt has a foaming agent and expands after being fed through the outlet die. Before the plastics melt is fed through the outlet die, variations in temperature between different radial positions over the cross-section of the plastics melt are reduced by an extruder screw device which has a number of screw spindles distributed around the periphery. The plastics melt which is thus thermally homogeneous is fed through the outlet die.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2021
    Assignees: GNEUSS GMBH
    Inventors: Detlef Gneuss, Stephan Gneuss, Daniel Gneuss, Frank Van Lück
  • Patent number: 10807277
    Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for fabrication of short-fiber composites. One embodiment is a method for forming a short-fiber composite. The method includes forming a bed of randomly oriented dry fibers on a base, drawing resin into the bed in response to pressure to form a mixture of randomly oriented fibers impregnated with thermoset resin, perturbing the mixture while preserving fiber length at the mixture and degassing the mixture, and extruding the mixture to form a preform.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2020
    Assignee: The Boeing Company
    Inventor: Weidong Song
  • Patent number: 10363532
    Abstract: A coating apparatus having a rotatable drum with at least one moveable separating element arranged on an end side, and granular bodies can be transferred into the drum and/or out of the drum by a movement that leads to release. A separating element can be moved from a closed position into an open position by rotation about an axis of rotation. In the closed position, a subregion lies with its underside against an inner wall of the drum or has a small gap there. In the open position, the subregion on the underside is spaced apart from the inner wall of the drum and there is an opening there through which granular bodies can pass. On the end sides of the drum there are stop elements with which a drum of at least one further module is connectable in order to form a coating apparatus and/or a closure element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2019
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Hans Dieter Cornelius, Ralf Kretzschmar
  • Patent number: 10239233
    Abstract: An element for a co-rotating twin screw processor, the element having a lead ‘L’ and at least one continuous flight helically formed thereon and, wherein the flight transforms at least once from a first non-integer lobe flight into a second non-integer lobe flight in a fraction of the lead ‘L’ and transforms back to the first non-integer lobe flight in a fraction of the lead ‘L’.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2019
    Assignee: STEER ENGINEERING PRIVATE LIMITED
    Inventor: Babu Padmanabhan
  • Patent number: 9572772
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a process for preparing a comestible product comprising xylitol said method comprising: (a) subjecting a composition comprising xylitol in an amount ranging from about 60% to about 100% by weight to extrusion treatment inside an extrusion apparatus under conditions sufficient to form and maintain the xylitol in a slurry and (b) then shaping the extruded slurry and cooling the product to form a solid. The present invention additionally is directed to a product produced therefrom.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2017
    Assignee: The Hershey Company
    Inventors: Steven M. Kumiega, Thomas J. Carroll, Ashley L. Boldt, Paula M. Gibson, Robert J. Huzinec, Burton Douglas Brown, David M. Stumpf
  • Publication number: 20150131399
    Abstract: Systems and methods for controlling the temperature of a solid-state screw extruder may include providing an extrusion screw that incorporates one or more screw shaft channels. The shaft channels may be configured to conduct a flow of a heat conducting medium along a length of the shaft. The shaft channels may be incorporated into an exterior surface or within the body of the screw shaft. The extruder may include extrusion screw elements in mechanical communication with the shaft. Each of the elements may further include one or more element channels also configured to conduct a flow of the medium. The shaft channels and the element channels may be disposed to permit a flow of the medium therebetween. The temperature of the extrusion screws and/or screw elements may be controlled by circulating the medium from a source, through the shaft and element channels, and back to the source.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 10, 2014
    Publication date: May 14, 2015
    Inventors: Philip BRUNNER, Mark TAPSAK
  • Publication number: 20150118352
    Abstract: Disclosed is a method for manufacturing chewing gum, the method including feeding one or more gum ingredients including at least an elastomer into a continuous extruder including a plurality of screws, rotating screws and mixing the one or more ingredients via the rotating of the screws within the continuous extruder, forming a partial chewing gum base via the mixing of the one or more ingredients, creating a flow of the partial chewing gum base including the one or more ingredients through the continuous extruder towards a downstream extent of the plurality of screws via the rotating, and conveying the flow of the partial chewing gum base to a region of the continuous extruder that is proximate the downstream extent of the plurality of screws, wherein the flow includes a temperature of less than 90 degrees Celsius when the flow reaches the downstream extent of the plurality of screws. Some independent claims relate to a flow reaching two different temperatures that are within 20 degrees Celsius.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 15, 2013
    Publication date: April 30, 2015
    Inventors: Glenn Thompson Visscher, Mandeep Bindra, Jesse John Kiefer, Deiter Stephan Simbuerger, Stephen Malcolm Pearson, Dieter Lutz, Philip Moore
  • Patent number: 8979355
    Abstract: The present invention relates to screw elements for multiscrew extruders with pairs of co-rotating and fully wiping screws, to the use of these screw elements in multiscrew extruders and to a method of generating screw elements according to the invention.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 2009
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2015
    Assignee: Bayer Intellectual Property GmbH
    Inventors: Michael Bierdel, Thomas König, Ulrich Liesenfelder
  • Patent number: 8905623
    Abstract: In a two-shaft extruder, a pair of rotor shafts (1) is rotatably arranged such that the closer to the head end of the pair, the smaller the distance between the pair. The pair of rotor shafts (1) is respectively provided with screw blades (2) mounted on the head end side of the pair. The rotor shafts (1) are adapted such that one screw blade (2a) enters gaps of the other screw blade (2b). Drive devices (M) for rotationally driving the pair of rotor shafts (1) are mounted on the respective base ends of the pair. The extruder has a screw blade contact prevention mechanism (SS) which, when the pair of rotor shafts (1) is driven, prevents the pair from having a phase difference greater than a predetermined level.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 26, 2008
    Date of Patent: December 9, 2014
    Assignee: Moriyama Company Ltd.
    Inventors: Shigeto Saiuchi, Makoto Irie
  • Patent number: 8864486
    Abstract: A twin screw extruder includes a barrel having a chamber, a discharge port, an extrusion molding die coupled to the discharge port of the barrel, axially extending first and second screw shafts, and a screw shaft support. The screw shaft support includes first and second spacer bearings disposed on the first and second screw shafts, and a first cross member including first and second loops slidably coupled to the first and second spacer bearings. A second cross member is spaced apart from the first cross member by a connection member, and also includes first and second loops slidably coupled to the first and second spacer bearings. The connection member is situated between the first spacer bearing and the second spacer bearing, and connected to the first cross member and the second cross member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 21, 2014
    Assignee: Corning Incorporated
    Inventors: Matthew Joseph Dispenza, Christopher John Malarkey, Kenneth Charles Sariego
  • Publication number: 20140291427
    Abstract: Disclosed is an apparatus for the pretreatment and subsequent conveying or plastification of plastics, with a container with a mixing and/or comminution implement that is rotatable around an axis of rotation, wherein, in a side wall, an aperture is formed, through which the plastics material can be removed, a conveyor being provided, with a screw rotating in a housing. The invention is characterized in that the imaginary continuation of the longitudinal axis of the conveyor in a direction opposite to the direction of conveying passes the axis of rotation, there being, on the outflow side, an offset distance between the longitudinal axis and the radius that is parallel to the longitudinal axis, that the L/D ratio of the screw is ?7, and that the compressing format of the screw begins only from a distance (A) of more than 1.5 times the diameter (d) of the screw.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 12, 2012
    Publication date: October 2, 2014
    Applicant: Enema Engineering Recycling Maschinen und Anlagen Gesellschaft M.B.H.
    Inventors: Klaus Feichtinger, Manfred Hackl
  • Patent number: 8846816
    Abstract: The invention relates to a process and an apparatus for the preparation of a crosslinkable rubber mixture for vehicle tires, lines, drive belts and other industrial rubber articles, which can be carried out at least semicontinuously. The present invention is based on the discovery that the experiments known from the prior art to carry out the batchwise process usually used at least partly continuously have failed in particular because of the problem that the crosslinking agents have to be mixed rapidly and homogeneously with the base mixture, also referred to as rubber base mixture, without the mixture consisting of the base mixture and the crosslinking agents heating up too strongly. According to the invention, attention was therefore focussed on reliably mixing the base mixture homogeneously with the crosslinking agents and minimizing the mixing time. A first measure for achieving the desired aim consists in first mixing the crosslinking agents with one another before they are mixed with the base mixture.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2009
    Date of Patent: September 30, 2014
    Assignee: Rhein Chemie Rheinau GmbH
    Inventors: Anno Borkowsky, Andreas Schröder, Hans-Martin Issel, Florian Fischer, Reinhard Uphus
  • Patent number: 8753003
    Abstract: The invention relates to novel screw feed elements for multi-shaft screw feed machines having screw feed profiles rotating in the same direction in pairs and precisely abrading in pairs, to the use of the screw elements in multi-shaft screw feeding machines and to a method for extrusion of viscoelastic masses.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2010
    Date of Patent: June 17, 2014
    Assignee: Bayer Intellectual Property GmbH
    Inventors: Jörg Kirchhoff, Thomas König, Michael Bierdel, Ulrich Liesenfelder
  • Publication number: 20140131625
    Abstract: A method for producing an aqueous electrode paste includes charging a powder made of an active material and a thickener and an aqueous solvent inside of a two-shaft kneader, and, using the two-shaft kneader, thickly kneading the powder and the aqueous solvent to generate a mixture; and charging a misty aqueous solvent having an average liquid droplet diameter of 1 ?m or more and an average particle diameter (D50) of the thickener or less inside of the two-shaft kneader by spraying, and using the two-shaft kneader, diluting the mixture with the charged aqueous solvent.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 5, 2013
    Publication date: May 15, 2014
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Tomoyuki UEZONO
  • Publication number: 20140050042
    Abstract: What is described is a twin screw extruder having two extruder screws (10, 34), each extruder screw (10) having a cylindrical core (12) and at least one web (14) running helically over the periphery of the outer cylinder face of the core (12), the surface of the web (14) comprising a peripheral side (18) and two flanks (22, 24), and a channel (30) being formed between adjacent web windings. The flanks (22, 24) of the web (14) have a waved progression in the peripheral direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 16, 2012
    Publication date: February 20, 2014
    Applicant: Hans Weber Maschinenfabrik GmbH
    Inventor: Rainer Viessmann
  • Publication number: 20130161857
    Abstract: A process of manufacturing a rubber compound is disclosed. The process comprises providing a multiple shaft extruder device; feeding the multiple shaft extruder device with at least one polymer raw material or with a mixture of at least two different polymer raw materials; feeding the multiple shaft extruder device with at least one further raw material; mixing the at least one polymer raw material or the mixture of the different polymer raw materials and the at least one further raw material in the multiple shaft extruder device to prepare a rubber compound; and extruding the rubber compound from the multiple shaft extruder device. A plurality of multiple shaft extruder devices may be used in parallel or in sequence.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 22, 2011
    Publication date: June 27, 2013
    Inventors: Marie-Laure Stéphanie Milan, Tom Dominique Linster, Jean-Claude Knepper, Gary Robert Burg, Christian Endres, Patrice De Monte
  • Publication number: 20130163368
    Abstract: A mixing apparatus for manufacturing a rubber compound is disclosed. The mixing apparatus comprises a plurality of multiple shaft extruder devices, each comprising at least one inlet for receiving a plurality of materials to be fed into the extruder device and an outlet for discharging a mixed material extruded by the extruder device. The multiple shaft extruder devices are either arranged in such a way that operatively the extrudate of at least one of the plurality of multiple shaft extruder devices can be fed into the inlet of at least one other of plurality of multiple shaft extruder devices, or are arranged to operate in parallel in such a way that operatively the extrudates of the plurality of multiple shaft extruder devices can be fed together into the inlet of at least one further mixing device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 22, 2011
    Publication date: June 27, 2013
    Inventors: Marie-Laure Stéphanie Milan, Tom Dominique Linster, Jean-Claude Knepper, Gary Robert Burg, Christian Endres, Patrice De Monte
  • Publication number: 20130033956
    Abstract: The invention relates to novel screw feed elements for multi-shaft screw feed machines having screw feed profiles rotating in the same direction in pairs and precisely abrading in pairs, to the use of the screw elements in multi-shaft screw feeding machines and to a method for extrusion of viscoelastic masses.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 13, 2010
    Publication date: February 7, 2013
    Applicant: BAYER INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY GMBH
    Inventors: Jörg Kirchhoff, Thomas König, Michael Bierdel, Ulrich Liesenfelder
  • Publication number: 20120320702
    Abstract: A treatment element to treat material in a multi-shaft worm machine has an outer contour with at least one outer contour portion, the associated evolute of which is a quantity of at least three points, each of the points lying outside the longitudinal axis and within the outer radius of the treatment element and two respective adjacent points having a spacing from one another, which is less than half the core radius. The treatment element ensures high flexibility during the adjustment of shear and/or extensional flows on the material to be treated.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 31, 2010
    Publication date: December 20, 2012
    Inventor: Ulrich Burkhardt
  • Patent number: 8246240
    Abstract: Improved single screw extruders systems (40) are provided including a single screw extruder (42, 92) as well as an upstream preconditioner (44). The extruders (42, 92) include a single, internal, elongated, helically flighted, axially rotatable screw assembly (52) having one or more improved screw sections (74, 74a, 76). The screw sections (74, 74a, 76) include specially configured flighting (86) wherein adjacent flighting portions (86a, 86b) have smoothly arcuate surfaces (88) extending between the respective flighting portion peripheries (90a, 90b). This flighting design provides smooth, substantially surge-free operation while increasing SME and cook values. The preferred preconditioner (44) has independently controlled mixing shafts (106, 108) allowing the shafts (106, 108) to be rotated at different rotational speeds and/or directions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 3, 2008
    Date of Patent: August 21, 2012
    Assignee: Wenger Manufacturing, Inc.
    Inventor: LaVon Wenger
  • Patent number: 8231375
    Abstract: An apparatus for wet granulating a powder material comprises:—a barrel having a granulation chamber and being provided with a first inlet (1) for receiving said powder material and for supplying it to said granulation chamber and with a second inlet (2) for receiving a granulating liquid and for supplying it to said granulation chamber, said granulation having an aperture (9) for discharge of granules from said barrel, and—a transporting means (S) for advancing said powder material toward the end of said granulation chamber while granulating it with the aid of said granulating liquid, said transporting means (S) comprising a first transport zone (4) at its rear end, an agglomeration zone (5) downstream from the first transport zone (4) and a second transport zone (8) at its front end, said first inlet (1) and said second inlet (2) being positioned above the first transport zone (4), wherein said aperture (9) has a shape tightly fitting the terminal portion of the transporting means (S) for directly dischargin
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 19, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 31, 2012
    Assignee: Universiteit Gent
    Inventors: Jean-Paul Remon, Chris Vervaet, Eseldin Keleb, An Vermeire
  • Publication number: 20120182823
    Abstract: A treatment element to treat material in a multi-shaft worm machine has an outer contour with at least one outer contour portion, the associated evolute of which is a quantity of at least three points, each of the points lying outside the longitudinal axis and within the outer radius of the treatment element and two respective adjacent points having a spacing from one another, which is less than half the core radius. The treatment element ensures high flexibility during the adjustment of shear and/or extensional flows on the material to be treated.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 29, 2009
    Publication date: July 19, 2012
    Inventor: Ulrich Burkhardt
  • Publication number: 20120135098
    Abstract: An extruder screw segment has opposed end faces disposed at a non-orthogonal angle with respect to a rotation axis of the body.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 15, 2011
    Publication date: May 31, 2012
    Inventor: Conor James Walsh
  • Patent number: 8172450
    Abstract: In an extruder wherein the slip-on elements (1) have a cross-sectional profile comprising circular arcs corresponding to the maximum slip-on element diameter, the slip-on element core diameter and the center distance of the slip-on elements (1), the slip-on element (1) has no shaft-to-hub connection in the area of the circular arc corresponding to the slip-on element core diameter and/or it is provided at its ends with reinforcement segments (13, 14).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 2006
    Date of Patent: May 8, 2012
    Assignee: Blach Verwaltungs GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventor: Josef A. Blach
  • Patent number: 8142066
    Abstract: A mixing device for synthetic leather to joint with a solid powder material includes a material mixing unit and a stirring and conveying unit. The material mixing unit includes a mixing body and two feeders. The mixing body is connected with the two feeders and has a mixing chamber therein which is intercommunicated with the two feeders. The stirring and conveying unit is connected with the material mixing unit and has a stirring and conveying chamber therein which is intercommunicated with a solid material container and the mixing chamber. Thereby, a solid powder material, a first material and a second material are respectively disposed in the solid material container and the feeders, and then guided into the mixing chamber to be well mixed for forming a mixture. The mixture is manufactured to form synthetic leather containing the solid powder material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2009
    Date of Patent: March 27, 2012
    Inventor: Lung-Wen Chou
  • Patent number: 8087815
    Abstract: One object of the present invention is to provide a kneader which can diminish wear of screws and a barrel while preventing the manufacturing process for the screws and barrel from becoming complicated. In this kneader, a pair of screws are rotated about respective axes thereof to knead a material to be kneaded which is introduced into a kneading space formed within a barrel. Each screw has such a shape generating deflection in a predetermined direction perpendicular to an arranged direction of the axes of the pair of screws during kneading of the material to be kneaded, and the kneading space has a shape such that a pair of accommodating spaces which accommodate each of the screws respectively are connected together so as to overlap each other partially in the radial direction, each accommodating space being formed in such a manner that the diameter thereof in the predetermined direction in which there occurs deflection of each screw is larger than in any other direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2008
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2012
    Assignee: Kobe Steel, Ltd.
    Inventors: Kazuhisa Fukutani, Sayaka Yamada, Shigehiro Kasai, Kazuo Yamaguchi, Yasuaki Yamane
  • Publication number: 20110182132
    Abstract: A processing installation for devolatilization of polymer melts comprises a first extruder and a second extruder arranged downstream thereof in a direction of conveyance. The first extruder comprises several rotatably drivable first shafts which are provided with first treatment members and several devolatilization zones with associated devolatilization ports. Correspondingly, the second extruder comprises several rotatably drivable second shafts which are provided with second treatment members and several second devolatilization zones with associated devolatilization ports. The first treatment members have an external diameter which is smaller than or equal to that of the second treatment members. A devolatilization unit is arranged in a transfer zone which interconnects the extruders. The devolatilization unit comprises a perforated plate and a clearance arranged downstream in the direction of conveyance.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 25, 2011
    Publication date: July 28, 2011
    Applicant: Coperion GmbH
    Inventors: Frank LECHNER, Ulrich Conrad
  • Publication number: 20110128812
    Abstract: An improved multiple-screw extruder, in particular a twin-screw extruder comprises a housing. Several housing bores are located in at least one section within the housing. The housing bores overlap at least along a partial axial length of the housing. One extruder screw is arranged in each of the several housing bores. At least two motors are provided for the at least two extruder screws. A synchronizing and torsion transmitting device, by means of which both cooperating extruder screws can be synchronized, is provided on both the inlet side and the discharge side.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 27, 2009
    Publication date: June 2, 2011
    Inventors: Ludwig Eckart, Werner Bamberger, Michael Baumeister, Gunter Oedl
  • Publication number: 20110082244
    Abstract: The invention provides a golf ball material which is a resin mixture composed of (a) an olefin-unsaturated carboxylic acid copolymer and/or an olefin-unsaturated carboxylic acid-unsaturated carboxylic acid ester copolymer having a weight-average molecular weight (Mw) of from 120,000 to 200,000 and a weight-average molecular weight (Mw) to number-average molecular weight (Mn) ratio of from 4.3 to 6.6 or a metal neutralization product thereof, (b) an olefin-unsaturated carboxylic acid copolymer and/or an olefin-unsaturated carboxylic acid-unsaturated carboxylic acid ester copolymer having a weight-average molecular weight (Mw) of from 120,000 to 200,000 and a weight-average molecular weight (Mw) to number-average molecular weight (Mn) ratio of from 6.8 to 9.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 30, 2010
    Publication date: April 7, 2011
    Applicant: BRIDGESTONE SPORTS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kae Iizuka, Eiji Takehana
  • Publication number: 20110051545
    Abstract: There is provided a multi-screw extruder for reclaiming foam made of cross-linked polymer material into reusable material by causing the foam to pass through a kneading zone, wherein the kneading zone is divided into at least preceding and subsequent two kneading zones and a temperature equalizing transfer zone for equalizing temperature of the material passing through the zone is provided between the preceding kneading zone and the subsequent kneading zone.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 5, 2008
    Publication date: March 3, 2011
    Inventors: Michihiro Fujimoto, Koji Yoshimura, Masaaki Sahara
  • Patent number: 7857499
    Abstract: A viscoelastic material is extruded by kneading-and-conveying screws of different respective diameters positioned coaxially and telescopingly. A flight trough of a larger-diameter screw has radial orifices allowing a first space swept by the flight of the larger-diameter screw to communicate with a second space swept by a flight of a smaller-diameter screw. A fixed cylindrical tube arranged coaxially with the screws is disposed radially between the first and second spaces within the region in which the screws telescope. The tube has radial apertures therethrough to conduct material from the orifices to the second space. The first space is closed off at an axial end thereof by a wall where foreign substances accumulate that do not pass through the orifices. A passage through the wall can be opened to remove the accumulated substances without interrupting the extrusion operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2007
    Date of Patent: December 28, 2010
    Assignee: Michelin Recherche et Technique S.A.
    Inventors: Serge Nicolas, Gérard Crosnier, Bruno Dussardier
  • Publication number: 20100296360
    Abstract: There is provided a melting kneading devolatilizing extruder in which the surface renewability of a molten raw material is improved. The melting kneading devolatilizing extruder of the invention includes at least one surface renewable screw segment each including a plurality of discs that are arrayed such that a phase angle E, which is a deviation angle between the discs around an axis of a screw, is 0°<E<90° within a surface renewal region, and the surface renewable screw segment includes a void portion between the discs so that the discs are arranged at intervals in a direction of the axis of the screw.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 9, 2008
    Publication date: November 25, 2010
    Applicant: THE JAPAN STEEL WORKS, LTD.
    Inventors: Kenji Inagawa, Seiji Takamoto, Hiroaki Shintani, Shigeki Inoue
  • Patent number: 7717609
    Abstract: A digital video recording apparatus and an editing method for recorded broadcast programs are disclosed. In accordance with the disclosed apparatus and method, information of recorded broadcast programs is extracted from a broadcast stream which includes the broadcast programs. The extracted information is displayed on a display in the form of a program record list. Accordingly, the user can easily edit recorded broadcast programs by simply editing the program record list.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2005
    Date of Patent: May 18, 2010
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventor: Dae Young Lim
  • Patent number: 7674413
    Abstract: A process for producing a cycloolefin resin composition comprising a cycloolefin resin and an additive by using a twin-screw extruder is provided, in which loss of the additive caused by volatilization through a vent during kneading is reduced and kneading of resin material with the additive can be sufficiently carried out. When the cycloolefin resin and the additive are kneaded by using a vented twin-screw extruder (10) to produce the cycloolefin resin composition containing the additive, an additive introduction opening (3) is disposed downstream of a vent (2) located nearest to a discharge opening (13) of the twin-screw extruder, and the additive is charged through the additive introduction opening located at a distance from the discharge opening of the twin-screw extruder in the range between longer than 10D and not longer than 30D.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2005
    Date of Patent: March 9, 2010
    Assignee: Mitsui Chemicals, Inc.
    Inventors: Kimiyoshi Miura, Sadao Yoshimoto, Noboru Koga, Takeshi Suzuki, Atsushi Shibuya
  • Patent number: 7607818
    Abstract: An extruder for viscous masses, and including an extruder screw and a positive-displacement gear pump disposed downstream of the extruder screw as viewed in the conveying direction. The positive-displacement gear pump has at least one conveying gear and at least one positive-displacement gear. The axis of the conveying gear is disposed essentially at right angles to the axis of the extruder screw, and the axis of the positive-displacement gear is disposed essentially in the same direction as the axis of the extruder screw.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 18, 2008
    Date of Patent: October 27, 2009
    Assignee: VMI-AZ Extrusion GmbH
    Inventor: Reinhard Uphus
  • Publication number: 20090215959
    Abstract: Fluoroplastics containing fluorocarbon resins and silicones are prepared by first mixing a fluorocarbon resin with a compatibilizer, then adding a curable organopolysiloxane with a radical initiator, and vulcanizing the organopolysiloxane in the mixture. The fluoroplastics can be processed by various techniques, such as extrusion, vacuum forming, injection molding, blow molding or compression molding, to fabricate plastic parts. The resulting fabricated parts can be re-processed (recycled) with little or no degradation of mechanical properties.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 7, 2009
    Publication date: August 27, 2009
    Inventors: Mark Hartmann, Igor Chorvath, Lauren Tonge, Robert Oldinski, James Thompson, David Romenesko, Kermit Kwan, Stephen Warren
  • Publication number: 20090175117
    Abstract: A conveying screw member for a plastic granule cutting and transporting mechanism includes a plastic granule collector, a heating conduit, a conveying screw, a plastic granule molding structure and a power transmission device. The plastic granule collector is a hollow cylinder which has an outlet being positioned thereon. The heating conduit is a longitudinal hollow tube which has a round hole being respectively positioned at both ends. The conveying screw member which has the conveying screw being set thereon, and the reversing screws and two supporting bases being respectively set at both ends is installed in the heating conduit. The plastic granule molding structure is equipped near the edge of the end of the heating conduit. The power transmission device is installed near the plastic granule collector and attached to the supporting base of one end of the conveying screw member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 3, 2008
    Publication date: July 9, 2009
    Inventor: Chun-Jung Lin
  • Patent number: 7556419
    Abstract: A machine for the mixing and extrusion of rubber-based and silicone-based plastic materials and method thereof is disclosed, comprising a dump extruder with conical converging twin screws (10) arranged in a batching chamber (12) in which the outlet of the dump extruder is temporarily closed by a removable blind flange (11), the batching chamber also acting as a compounding chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2003
    Date of Patent: July 7, 2009
    Assignee: Colmec S.p.A.
    Inventor: Ubaldo Colombo
  • Patent number: 7531126
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a powder fabricating apparatus. It is an object of the present invention to provide the powder fabricating apparatus, which is capable of obtaining metal powder in a rapid and continuous fashion, various kinds of oxide, or alloy powder. The powder fabricating apparatus for achieving the object of the present invention comprises a barrel wherein an inlet and an outlet are formed at both opposite ends thereof, respectively; a screw which is rotationally mounted in the barrel and by which reactant supplied from the inlet moves toward the outlet; a driving portion for causing a relative rotational motion between the screw and the barrel; reaction control means for controlling reaction conditions of the reactant which moves in the barrel; and a controller for controlling the driving portion and the reaction control means.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2003
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2009
    Inventor: Jae-Wan Oh
  • Patent number: 7513677
    Abstract: The invention concerns an extruder for producing molted plastic materials from plastic granules available on the market, by heating and mixing granules, with heated single- or double-screw extruders, and for carrying out polycondensation or polymerization using part of a multiple-screw extruder and by means of vacuum chambers for removing the constituents of low molecular weight and/or foaming agents or the like, for obtaining larger molecules and hence a higher viscosity, and for increasing the mechanical strength of plastic materials produced from said molten material. The invention aims at designing said extruder such that the molten material can be processed in thin layers enabling exposure of large surfaces in contact with the vacuum, and hence a molten plastic material ensuring desired levels of degassing and polymerization using simple means.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 11, 2002
    Date of Patent: April 7, 2009
    Inventors: Detlef Gneuss, Wieslaw Walach
  • Publication number: 20080198687
    Abstract: An extruder for viscous masses, and including an extruder screw and a positive-displacement gear pump disposed downstream of the extruder screw as viewed in the conveying direction. The positive-displacement gear pump has at least one conveying gear and at least one positive-displacement gear. The axis of the conveying gear is disposed essentially at right angles to the axis of the extruder screw, and the axis of the positive-displacement gear is disposed essentially in the same direction as the axis of the extruder screw.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 18, 2008
    Publication date: August 21, 2008
    Inventor: Reinhard Uphus
  • Patent number: 7350960
    Abstract: In the field of continuous mixer apparatus for commingling particulate thermoplastic materials, employing at least one main rotor with a helical profile body configuration, an improved profile for the peripheral threads is provided. It presents a first upstream feed flight having a plurality of Lowenherz profile outer threads and second downstream feed flight having a plurality of screw-type outer threads, both being adjacent and integral with the periphery of the main rotor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 2004
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2008
    Assignee: Tech. Process & Engineering, Inc.
    Inventors: Kelly A Ziegenfus, H. Slayton Altenburg, Donald E. Woodring, Harold L. Schafer, Jr., James Hower
  • Patent number: 7322738
    Abstract: In a conical twin-screw extruder in which two rotor shafts having flights on the outer peripheral surfaces thereof and being adjacent to each other in the lateral direction are accommodated in a barrel having a raw material supply port on one side and a raw material discharge port on the other side, and the distance between the rotor shafts and the outside diameters of the flights thereof are gradually reduced from the supply port side to the discharge port side, characteristically, the barrel is provided with a water-removing port for removing water contained in a raw material supplied through the raw material supply port, out of the barrel. The extruder can be applied to raw materials various shapes, sizes, and properties.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2005
    Date of Patent: January 29, 2008
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Kobe Seiko Sho
    Inventors: Yasuaki Yamane, Koichi Miyake, Hideo Funahashi, Masao Murakami
  • Patent number: 7296920
    Abstract: The invention provides an improved mixer section for a screw for a molding machine. The improved mixer section includes at least one conveying flight and at least one spill flight intersecting with the conveying flight. At least one notch is formed in the conveying flight to enable mixing between adjacent flow channels. The spill flight terminates near the output of the mixer to create a trap zone for any unmelts that reach that area of the mixer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 2004
    Date of Patent: November 20, 2007
    Assignee: Husky Injection Molding Systems Ltd.
    Inventors: Raymond W. Zhang, Denise D. Craig
  • Patent number: 7290923
    Abstract: An extruder/gear pump assembly is provided having an extruder screw connected to the gear pump. The relative speed of the extruder screw and the gear pump are adjustable by the use of a shaft housed in a cavity of the extruder screw.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2005
    Date of Patent: November 6, 2007
    Assignee: Berstorff GmbH
    Inventors: Florian W. Fischer, Uphus Reinhard
  • Patent number: 7264460
    Abstract: A material processing plant comprises a first screw-type extruding machine (1) and a second screw-type extruding machine (2) which is disposed downstream thereof. Between the two screw-type extruding machines (1, 2), provision is made for a delivery zone (28) where a delivery orifice is provided, extending radially of the axes (12a, 13a) of the casing bores (12, 13) of the first screw-type extruding machine (1) and being directed towards the second screw-type extruding machine (2). The at least one casing bore (12, 13) of the first screw-type extruding machine (1) is lockable in the direction of its axis (12a, 13a) by means of a sealing element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2005
    Date of Patent: September 4, 2007
    Assignee: Coperion Werner & Pfleiderer GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Rainer Munz, Jürgen Strecker
  • Patent number: 7182504
    Abstract: A drive apparatus for an extruder with at least two co-rotating extruder screws having driveshafts includes a housing and a drive motor which is received in the housing and including a stator and a rotor. The rotor is operatively connected to driveshafts of the extruder screws and has arranged thereon a toothed surface in direct engagement with complementary toothed surfaces of at least two of the driveshafts of the extruder screws.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 3, 2004
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2007
    Assignee: Krauss-Maffei Kunststofftechnik GmbH
    Inventor: Walter Wohlrab
  • Patent number: 7115187
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for continually producing a suspension of cellulose in an aqueous tertiary amine oxide. The method includes (a) mixing cellulose and an amine oxide-free aqueous phase to form a cellulose suspension in a mass ratio in the range of 1:3 to 1:40, (b) dehydrating the cellulose suspension, wherein the dehydrated cellulose suspension has a cellulose content in the range of 20 to 80 percent-by-mass; (c) mixing the cellulose suspension with an aqueous amine oxide while the cellulose suspension is falling through a vertical fall zone to obtain an aqueous amine oxide-cellulose suspension with an amine oxide content in the range of 70 to 80 percent-by-mass; and (d) conveying the aqueous amine oxide-cellulose suspension through a horizontal shear zone. The invention also relates to a device for carrying out this method.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2000
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2006
    Assignee: Alceru Schwarza GmbH
    Inventors: Ralf-Uwe Bauer, MUwe Kind
  • Patent number: 7101165
    Abstract: An extrusion molding apparatus comprises a shaping die for producing a ceramic molded product, and a screw extruder having built therein an extruding screw (40) for mixing while leading a ceramic material forward. The extruding screw (40) includes a pressing screw portion (410) having a first lead (411) and a dispersing screw portion (420) having a second lead (421) adjacent to a forward end (412) of the pressing screw portion (410). The second lead (421) is formed in such a manner that the rear ends of all the second lead surfaces (426) at the rear end (422) of the dispersing screw portion (420) and the forward end of the first lead surface (416) at the forward end (412) of the pressing screw portion (410) are displaced from each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2003
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2006
    Assignee: Denso Corporation
    Inventors: Satoru Yamaguchi, Yasunao Miura, Hiromi Katou