Abstract:
An apparatus for filling a screw (7) bearingly supported within a housing (6), in particular of an extruder, for processing of pre-comminuted synthetic plastics material, in particular PET, has a filling opening (5) for the screw housing (6). This filling opening (5) is in flow connection with the lower outflow opening (4) of an upright receptacle 81) for the material to be processed. Within the receptacle (1), tools (30, 31) circulate around a, preferably vertical, axis, which tool act onto the material positioned within the receptacle (1). This material is introduced into the evacuable receptacle (1) through a sluice (60). A quickly circulating tool (30) for creating a mixing cone (71) is disposed between an upper interior portion (68) and a lower interior portion (69) of the receptacle (1). Within the lower interior portion (69) that constitutes a dwell space for the heated plastics material that has reached it for thermal homogenization thereof, also circulating tools (31) are disposed, which, however, are mere mixing tools without substantial introduction of power, so that within this dwell space an agglomeration of the plastics material is avoided.
Abstract:
The invention relates to a device for granulation of an ejected material from at least one nozzle (7), in particular a thermoplastic plastic, with a perforated plate (2) comprising the nozzles (7). A blade head (10) supporting several blades (11) lies opposite the same, fixed to a shaft (9) which is rotatably driven by a motor (13). The motor (13) is suspended such as to be displaced relative to the housing (1) by means of a suspension (15), however the above is suspended in such a manner that displacement is only possible in the direction of the axis (8) of the shaft (9) and not in a radial direction. The suspension (15) comprises at least one membrane (14) which suspends the motor (13) on the granulator housing (1). The motor (13) can be adjusted relative to the perforated plate (2) by means of an adjuster device (27), such that the desired pressure of the blade on the perforated plate (2) is maintained. The excised granulate particles are drawn out of the housing (1) by means of coolant.
Abstract:
A device for filling an extruder, which can optionally be an external extruder, with pretreated thermoplastic plastics material, in particular PET, has at least one evacuatable container (1) in which moving, in particular rotating, tools (7) are provided for pretreatment of the material. This pretreatment comprises drying and, optionally, crystallisation. Each container (1) has a discharge opening (18) for the flowable material (12), which discharge opening (18), with respect to the material, is fluidically connected to the filling opening (35) of the extruder (36). The device preferably has only a single container stage, the outlet of which is fluidically connected to a coupling (69), which is connectable to the filling opening (35) of the extruder (36), via a transfer section (31) maintaining the flowable state of the material (12) pretreated in the container (1) (FIG. 1).
Abstract:
An apparatus for filling a screw (7) bearingly supported within a housing (6), in particular of an extruder, for processing of pre-comminuted synthetic plastics material, in particular PET, has a filling opening (5) for the screw housing (6). This filling opening (5) is in flow connection with the lower outflow opening (4) of an upright receptacle 81) for the material to be processed. Within the receptacle (1), tools (30, 31) circulate around a preferably vertical axis, and they act on the material positioned within the receptacle (1). This material is introduced into the evacuable receptacle (1) through a sluice (60). A quickly circulating tool (30) for creating a mixing cone (71) is disposed between an upper interior portion (68) and a lower interior portion (69) of the receptacle (1). Within the lower interior portion (69) that constitutes a dwell space for the heated plastics material that has reached it for thermal homogenization thereof, also circulating tools (31) are disposed, which, however, are mere mixing tools without substantial introduction of power, so that within this dwell space an agglomeration of the plastics material is avoided.
Abstract:
A device for the preparation of, preferably thermoplastic, plastics material for recycling purposes has a container (1) in which at least one rotating mixing and/or comminuting tool (14) is arranged. The material thus treated is fed through an outlet opening (17) which is arranged at the bottom of the container (1) and to which the feed opening (18) of a housing (19) is fluidly connected. In this housing are arranged at least two screws (21, 22) which are jointly charged with material. The diameter (D) of the container (1) and the diameter (d) of each of the screws (21, 22) are in the relationship D=103{square root over (d2K)}, where D is the inner diameter of the circular cylindrical container (1) or the inner diameter of a hypothetical circular cylindrical container converted to the same capacity and having the same effective height, d is the screw diameter, and K is a constant greater than or equal to 50.
Abstract:
A device for controlling the flow of plastics material, heated until flowable, through a housing, in particular a filtering device or a direction-control device for the plastics material, comprises a flow channel extending through the housing, and a plunger of circular cross-section longitudinally displaced in a bore of the housing transversely to the longitudinal direction of the flow channel. The plunger crosses the flow channel. An unslotted scraper ring is mounted outside the housing on a portion of the plunger projecting from the housing and is held by a stop so that the plunger is displaceable relative to the scraper ring. The inner diameter (d2) of the scraper ring is smaller than the diameter (d0) of the bore of the housing and also smaller than the diameter (d1) of the end of the plunger portion remote from the housing in the coldest operating state of that plunger portion. The scraper ring is always pretensioned on the plunger portion and therefore reliably scrapes off leaked material adhering to and carried by the plunger when the latter moves out of the housing.
Abstract:
An apparatus and a method for controlling a degree of attrition or wear of a sealing screw conveying plasticized material are provided. The apparatus includes an opening which intersects the wall of a housing of the screw in the region of the screw threads or in the region immediately neighboring the screw threads. Another opening intersects the wall of the housing. The two openings are spaced apart axially from each other and the pressure sensors connected to both openings. The process involved conveys a plasticized material against a resistance, the resistance being a sealing screw bearing supported within the screw housing. The pressure of the conveyed material is measured at two locations spaced apart from each other in the direction of conveyance. The two locations are disposed on both sides of a resistance body towards which the sealing screw conveys the material. The difference between the two measured values is used to indicate the degree of wear of the screw or its housing, respectively.
Abstract:
A filter apparatus for thermoplastic synthetic plastics material melts comprises a housing (2) in which two filter disks (5,6) are disposed in parallel to each other and spaced apart from each other. The melt to be filtered is supplied to these filter disks (5,6) via an upstream channel (19). The impurities gathering on the upstream side of the filter disks (5,6) are continuously scraped off by a scraper (8) that carries a plurality of scraper elements (10) disposed along curved lines spaced apart from each other so that they convey the impurities towards the center of the filter disks (5,6). There, the impurities reach a conveyance channel (22) in which they are conveyed off by at least one worm (23,24).
Abstract:
An apparatus for pre-treatment of thermoplastic synthetic plastics material, for example polyester waste, comprises at least two receptacles (1,13) disposed in series following each other, in each one of which receptacles a comminuting or mixing tool (5) rotates around a vertical axis (4) in the bottom region of the receptacle (1 or 13). At least the downstream receptacle has an evacuation line (18) through which, optionally also a protective gas can be introduced. The receptacles (1,13) are connected to each other by a tube piece (12) in which a shut-off means (20) is disposed so that the vacuum in the downstream receptacle (13) can be maintained without any problem until the shut-off valve (20) is opened, whereupon the vacuum in the receptacle (13) sucks on the material positioned in the upstream receptacle (1). Therefore, in the upstream receptacle (1)--when seen in flowing direction of the synthetic plastics material--the synthetic plastics material is pre-comminuted, pre-heated, pre-dried and pre-compressed, what is still assisted by the turbulence when sucked-in into the downstream receptacle (13). In such a manner, completely homogeneous material is conveyed by a worm (16) connected to the last receptacle (13) to further processing (FIG. 1).
Abstract:
The invention relates to a device for processing material by mixing and/or plasticating, comprising at least two conical screws (2, 3) which are arranged next to each other in a common screw casing (1) and the flights of which engage with one another and are driven to rotate in the same direction of rotation about the respective screw axis (4, 5) by at least one motor, with the material that is to be processed being fed to the screws (2, 3) through at least one feed opening (6) in the screw casing (1) which is arranged in the feed zone (E) of one end face of the screws (2, 3), and with the material that has been processed by the screws (2, 3) leaving the screw casing (1) through at least one outlet opening (7) in the screw casing (1) that is arranged in the discharge zone (A) of the other end face of the screws (2, 3). In order to provide advantageous plasticating conditions it is proposed that the ratio of the numerical values of the screw outside diameter (c, d) to the profile overlap, i.e. to the overlapping area of the two screws (2, 3), both in the feed zone (E) and in the discharge zone (A) is in the range of between one to one and one to two.