A device for processing thermoplastic plastic includes a storage container for receiving pieces of plastic particles or a conveying line for conveying the pieces of plastic particles, and a conveying screw following the storage container/the conveying line at a transfer opening. The device also includes an extruder following the conveying screw and an air outlet arranged opposite the transfer opening and directed at this opening. In a method for operating the device, an air stream is aligned with the transfer opening. The strength and/or the direction of the air stream is adjusted or controlled as a function of a load on the extruder.

An extruder includes an extruder barrel module, an extruder feeder module, a screw motor module, and an electronics module. The extruder barrel module includes an axially extending barrel in which an extruder barrel screw is removably receivable. The extruder feeder module is removably connectable to the extruder barrel module, and has an axially extending flow passage having a feedstock outlet end and a screw motor module mounting end. The screw motor module is removably connectable to the extruder feeder module, and has a motor drivingly connectable with a screw in the flow passage of the extruder feeder module. The electronics module is electrically connectable with the screw motor module and mechanically removably mounted as part of the extruder.

To provide a heated cylinder for resin melting in a molding machine which realizes high material supply/transport performance, cost reduction, and more favorable maintenance performance, while making the plan view/plan sectional view shape of a resin charging port into a circular shape. A the resin charging port of the heated cylinder is formed to include is formed to include: an upper charging path section formed in a circular shape in a plan sectional view, and in a vertical shape of constant width direction in a longitudinal sectional view orthogonal to an axis line of the heated cylinder, and provided at a portion on an outer side in a radial direction to a center in the axis line of the heated cylinder to open at an outer surface of the heated cylinder; a lower charging path section which is formed in a square shape or oblong hole shape in a plan sectional view, in a vertical shape of constant width dimension or in a tapered shape in which gradually a width direction becomes larger or smaller as approaching towards an inner side in the radial direction in a longitudinal sectional view orthogonal to the axis line of the heated cylinder, and is provided at a portion on an inner side in the radial direction to the center of the axis line of the heated cylinder to open at an inner surface of the heated cylinder; and an intermediate charging path section which smoothly links an inner surface of the upper charging path section and an inner surface of the lower charging path section.

Disclosed is an apparatus for the processing of plastics, with a container with a rotatable mixing, where, in a side wall, an aperture is formed, where a conveyor is provided, with a screw rotating in a housing, wherein the imaginary continuation of the longitudinal axis of the conveyor in a direction opposite to the direction of conveying passes the axis of rotation, and wherein the ratio (V) of the active container volume (SV) to the feed volume (BV) of the container or of the cutter compactor (1), where V=SV/BV, is one where 4?V?30, where the active container volume (SV) is defined by the formula $\mathrm{SV}=D^3\frac{?}{4}$
and D is the internal diameter of the container, and where the feed volume (BV) is defined by the formula $\mathrm{BV}=D^2\frac{?}{4}.Math.H,$
where H is the height of the intake aperture.

Described herein are various embodiments of a valve that may be opened and closed using a thixotropic or stress yield material, or other material that temporarily changes phase upon application of energy to the material. More particularly, some embodiments may include a valve that is opened and closed using a granular gel that is a temporary phase change material.

The present disclosure relates to a plank with anti-slip function and a method preparing the same; it belongs to the technical field of plank manufacturing. The plank with anti-slip function includes a support body and an anti-slip body clamped on the support body; the anti-slip body has a clamping member; the support body is provided with a plurality of clamping grooves that cooperate with the clamping member; the clamping groove is provided with at least one limiting part that restricts the clamping member from escaping from the clamping groove; the support body is made of thermoplastic material, and the anti-slip body is made of elastomer material. In the present disclosure, by replacing the material of the support body with thermoplastic polyolefin, the cost of the support body is significantly reduced, and the strength is improved; the present disclosure will also provide a matching structure between the support body and the anti-slip body to make the anti-slip body firmly clamped on the support body, so that the present disclosure simultaneously exerts the advantages of the thermoplastic support body and the elastic anti-slip body, thereby the plank has the advantages of high compressive strength and good surface contact.

An improved extruder apparatus is disclosed and which includes a cylindrical barrel having a feed end and a discharge end, the feed end having an inlet in fluid communication with a hopper. The extruder screw is mounted in the cylindrical barrel, and the screw has an outer surface having one or more helical flights mounted thereon. wherein the inlet end of the cylindrical barrel has a support frame mounted thereto, wherein an upper surface of the support frame is connected to a throat of a hopper, wherein an insert is mounted to the support frame and has a lower end which extends down into the cylindrical barrel, wherein the insert has an internal passageway having a first opening on the lower end and a second opening upstream of the screw for relieving the pressure.

A machine for applying hot-melt products having a structural body (1) provided longitudinally on the inside with a recess (2) extending between a supply inlet (3) for the product in solid state and a discharge outlet (4) through which the product exits in fluid state for its application, the recess (2) having a spindle (5) fitted with a helical blade (9) for conveying the product through a feeding zone, a melting zone and/or a compression zone, wherein the recess (2) has a conical zone (2.1) with a narrowing separating the feeding zone from the melting zone for compacting the hot-melt product, and on the inner periphery of the conical zone (2.1) having a plurality of indentations (8).

Described herein are various embodiments of a valve that may be opened and closed using a thixotropic or stress yield material, or other material that temporarily changes phase upon application of energy to the material. More particularly, some embodiments may include a valve that is opened and closed using a granular gel that is a temporary phase change material.

A system for extrusion of material, for example chopped waste plastic, comprises a treatment device (101) for extruding the material and a feeder device (102) comprising a screw conveyor (103) for supplying the material to the treatment device. A screw element (104) of the screw conveyor has: a) a conical profile so that a diameter of the screw element decreases in a moving direction of the material and/or b) a thread-pitch decreasing in the moving direction of the material and/or c) an axial thickness of a screw thread crest increasing in the moving direction. The conical profile of the screw element and/or the thread-pitch decreasing in the moving direction and/or the axial thickness of the screw thread crest increasing in the moving direction improve the ability of the screw conveyor to compact the material and thereby to supply a sufficiently uniform material flow to the treatment device.