B29C48/2566

Tyre strip extrusion apparatus for producing tread and/or side strips for tyres, and method for producing a tread or side strip of a tyre
11027472 · 2021-06-08 · ·

A tyre strip extrusion apparatus includes extruders and an extrusion head which includes a head housing having feed openings respectively connected to the extruders for feed of extrusion material. An injection moulding tool is connected to the head housing and includes a profile plate formed with an outlet opening which communicates with the feed openings for extrusion material to flow from the feed openings to the outlet opening for extruding a web from the extrusion material. Bearing against the head housing along a first parting surface is a first distributor plate. A second distributor plate is arranged upstream of the profile plate in flow direction of the extrusion material. The first distributor plate bears along a second parting surface against the second distributor plate. The first and second distributor plates are configured such that at least a majority of the material paths runs through the first and second parting surfaces.

Device for producing plastic pipes
11020891 · 2021-06-01 · ·

A device for producing plastic pipes may include an extruder with a die head and a corrugator, into which a molten plastic tube is introduced by means of the die head to mold the plastic pipe, wherein the corrugator has a molding section, in which molding jaws are guided in pairs in the production direction. In an inlet section of the corrugator, the molding jaws are brought together to form molding jaw pairs towards the start of the molding section, and in an outlet section of the corrugator, the molding jaw pairs are moved apart from each other from the end of the molding section. The guiding apparatus has a guide and/or temperature-control element apparatus having a temperature-control medium channel apparatus through which temperature-control medium can flow, and a guide and/or temperature-control surface apparatus, which faces the outer side of the molding jaws passing through, transferring heat.

EXTRUSION DIE FOR PRODUCING A PLASTIC PROFILE
20210146589 · 2021-05-20 ·

Aspects of the present disclosure are directed to an extrusion die for producing a plastic profile. In some embodiments, the extrusion die includes a first die plate having a flow channel for the plastic profile to be produced, at least one recess configured and arranged for accommodating exchangeable air nozzle inserts, and a connection on the outside of the first die plate. The exchangeable air nozzle inserts have an air channel with at least one air outlet nozzle. The extrusion die further including at least one air supply bore that leads from the connection on the outside of the first die plate into each of the at least one recess.

Microcapillary Wire Coating Die Assembly

Polymeric coatings comprising microcapillary structures are applied to a wire or optic fiber using a wire coating apparatus comprising a die (13) assembly comprising a mandrel assembly (16) comprising: (A) a housing (12) comprising: (1) a housing (12) wire tubular channel extending along (a) the length of the housing (12), and (b) the longitudinal centerline axis of the housing (12); (2) a fluid annular channel encircling the wire tubular channel; (3) a fluid ring (28) in fluid communication with the fluid annular channel, the fluid ring (28) positioned at one end of the housing (12); and (B) a cone-shaped tip having a wide end and a narrow end, the wide end of the tip attached to the end of the housing (12) at which the fluid ring (28) is positioned, the tip comprising: (1) a tip wire tubular channel extending along (a) the length of the tip, and (b) the longitudinal centerline axis of the tip; (2) a tip fluid channel (27) in fluid communication with the fluid ring (28); and (3) one or more nozzles (29A) in fluid communication with the tip fluid channel (27), the nozzles (29A) located at the end and extending beyond the narrow end of the tip; the housing (12) wire tubular channel and the tip wire tubular channel in open communication with one another such that a wire can pass from one to the other in a straight line and without interruption.

Pin cam deflector nut

The present disclosure generally relates to extrusion die systems. In particular, the present disclosure relates to a specialty pin cam nut designed for the ease of assembly and disassembly of extrusion dies.

POLYMERIC TUBE FORMING APPARATUS WITH A MULTI-DIMENSIONAL CONTROL SYSTEM

A tube forming apparatus for forming polymeric tubing includes a housing between rear and discharge ends. The tube forming apparatus includes a core tube assembly with an exterior core tube and an inner core tube positioned partially therein and in an interior area of the housing. The tube forming apparatus includes a die that has an inner die-surface. A diverter tip is mounted in and extends from the inner core tube into the die forming a die opening between the die and the diverter tip. The tube forming apparatus includes a core tube adjustment system mounted proximate the rear end which includes an axial displacement device configured to axially position the core tube assembly for modulating wall thickness of the tube and/or an angular displacement device configured to modulate the inner core tube for modulating concentricity of the tube.

Extrusion device having at least one perforated plate
20210039295 · 2021-02-11 ·

An extrusion device including at least one extruder having a screw cylinder, a screw shaft rotatably supported in the screw cylinder and an extruder outlet, an injection mould having an outlet nozzle determining the cross-sectional contour of the extruder, and an extrusion head arranged between the extruder outlet of the at least one extruder and the outlet nozzle of the injection mould, wherein at least one perforated plate arranged in the extruder head is provided, which has a plurality of passage openings, wherein the passage openings are designed to dam up extrusion material conveyed from the at least one extruder through the passage openings of the perforated plate differently into at least one first region of the perforated plate and at least one second region of the perforated plate, in such a way that the extrusion material is partly diverted from its preferential direction within a central section of the perforated plate, specifically increasingly into at least one edge section of the perforated plate.

Continuous polymeric liner production methods for conformable pressure vessels

A method and apparatus for forming a pressure vessel liner are disclosed. One method includes forming an extruded tube by extruding a parison through a die and a mandrel and forming main body sections and return line sections in the extruded tube according to a first pattern. A cross-sectional area of the return line sections is smaller than a cross-sectional area of the main body sections. The method further includes changing the pattern according to which the main body sections and the return line sections are formed from the first pattern to a second pattern without stopping the forming of the extruded tube and forming the main body sections and the return line sections in the extruded tube according to the second pattern.

NEEDLE ADAPTER AND DEVICE FOR SOFT MATERIAL EXTRUSION OF CORE-SHELL STRUCTURES
20210060328 · 2021-03-04 ·

A two piece adapter for extrusion of cylindrical core-shell structures using conventional biomedical needles includes first and second adapter pieces. The first adapter piece includes first and second (core and shell) inlet ports. The core inlet port leads directly to a male Luer fitting attachable to a core needle and surrounded by a threaded chamber. The shell inlet port is led, via a side chamber, into the side of the threaded chamber. The second adapter piece attaches to the bottom of the threaded chamber and is configured to attach to a shell needle, so that the shaft of the core needle sits inside the shaft of the shell needle.

Extruder head for extruding cord-reinforced extrudate

The disclosure relates to an extruder head for extruding cord reinforced extrudate, wherein the extruder head includes a die and a cord guide, wherein the extruder head further includes a first flow channel that extends along a first flow path through the extruder head at and debouches into the die from a first side of a cord plane and a second flow channel that extends along a second flow path through the extruder head at and debouches into the die from a second side of the cord plane, wherein the first flow path and the second flow path each include a supply section and a coat-hanger section, wherein the first flow path and the second flow path, in their respective coat-hanger sections, extend within a first range of eighty-five to ninety-five degrees with respect to the cord plane along at least seventy percent of the coat-hanger sections.