Equipment of forming layering structure of plastic flooring contains: a co-extrusion unit, a first rolling mechanism, a second rolling mechanism, and a roller unit. The co-extrusion unit includes a first extruder, a second extruder, a third extruder, and a material distributor. A respective one of multiple guide tubes is defined between an opening of each of the first, second, third extruders and the material distributor, and the material distributor has multiple conduits configured to gather melted plastic materials from the first, second, third extruders, and a substrate is extrusion molded from a supply head of the material distributor. The roller unit is mounted on a support frame and includes a first delivery roller, a second delivery roller, a contact roller, two pattern rollers, a first guide roller, a second guide roller, and a third guide roller which are arranged along a horizontal direction of the support frame.

A fiber reinforced polymer part is fabricated by rastering a deposition head over a substrate, and additively forming part features by extruding a polymer having an entrained continuous reinforcement from the deposition head onto a substrate.

A polymer melt candle filter having a support which comprises a hollow cylindrical body defined by a first end, a second end, and a cylinder wall having a first end portion and a second end portion. The first end portion includes a screw thread on its outside surface and optionally a hex fitting on its inside surface for receiving a hex wrench. The second end portion includes a plurality of holes in the cylinder wall. The area of the openings of the holes on the outside surface of the cylinder wall may be larger than the area of the openings of the corresponding holes on the inside surface of the cylinder wall. The shape of the openings of the holes on the outside surface may be non-circular. A polymer melt filter plate assembly which comprises (a) a support plate comprising a plurality of threaded holes; (b) at least one filter which is screwed into at least one of the threaded holes via the screw thread on the outside surface of the first end portion of the filter support; (c) a tie rod with (i) a first end extending through a hole in a cone insert and a cap located at the second end of the filter support, and (ii) a second end extending through a threaded hole in the support plate; and (d) a cross bar which is attached to the second end of the tie rod for holding the support plate inside a shaft of an apparatus for filtering a polymer melt.

The invention relates to a filter device comprising an inlet chamber, an outlet chamber, a filter system which separates the inlet chamber and the outlet chamber. The filter device is characterised in that the inlet chamber comprises at least one liquid supply line and at least one liquid discharge line and the outlet chamber does not comprise a liquid supply and comprises at least one liquid discharge line. The invention also relates to a corresponding filter method.

Calibration basket having exchangeable air guiding elements composed of porous material. The invention relates to a guiding device and to methods for guiding a plastic film, wherein the plastic film can be guided by means of an air cushion, wherein the guiding device comprises a plurality of blower elements (31) each having the foil owing features: at least one supporting element (35), at least one film-guiding element (34), which is at least partially porous, preferably microporous, and which is connected to the supporting element (35). At least one fastening element is provided, by means of which the supporting element (35) and the film-guiding element (34) can be detachably fastened to each other.

Disclosed are systems and methods for mixing a plurality of materials for fused deposition modeling printing. The systems and methods can both mix and extrude FDM printer filaments. The mixing can be accomplished via a mixing element rotating in a heated chamber of the extruder's hot-end in order to achieve the shear forces to induce mixing of the molten plastics. Further, the mixing element can provide a secondary driving mechanism to assist with extruding the extrudate.

A device (1) for filtering plastic melt having an inlet valve (14), an outlet valve (15) and a filter canister (2), wherein a cavity (3) closable by means of a cover (4) is formed and into which a melt channel (20) opens. In the filter canister (2) there is arranged a plurality of filter cartridges (5), which are each formed by a filter substrate (6) and a filter lattice (7). The filter substrate (6) comprises a wall having openings, said wall defining an internal space (8), which opens through an outlet (9) into a collection channel (10). The filter lattice (7) covers the openings of the filter substrate (6). The melt channel (20) is adjacent to the inlet valve (14) and may be brought into fluid communication with an outlet channel (16) via the inlet valve (14). The collection channel (10) is adjacent to the outlet valve (15) and may be brought into fluid communication with an outlet channel (18) via the outlet valve (15). The cover (4) fixes the filter lattices (7) onto the filter substrates (6).

An extruder has a valve assembly configured to move pins to open and close the nozzles in a multi-nozzle extruder head independently. The pins of the valve assembly that are driven by actuators into and out of engagement with nozzles in the extruder head are positioned within sleeves that extend between the valve assembly and the extruder head. A gap is provided between the extruder head and the end of the sleeves proximate the extruder head to enable thermoplastic material leaking from the extruder that contacts the pins to remain in a melted or plastic state so the thermoplastic material does not interfere with the movement of the pins.

A coextrusion feedblock is disclosed having a housing, a central extrusion channel, a coextrusion channel, a rotatable combining plane, a rotatable profile actuator, and a profiled bar mounted removably on the rotatable profile actuator. The central extrusion channel and the coextrusion channel pass through the housing. The rotatable combining plane and the rotatable profile actuator are positioned on opposite sides of the coextrusion channel so as to confront each other.

Equipment of forming layering structure of plastic flooring contains: a co-extrusion unit, a first rolling mechanism, a second rolling mechanism, and a roller unit. The co-extrusion unit includes a first extruder, a second extruder, a third extruder, and a material distributor. A respective one of multiple guide tubes is defined between an opening of each of the first, second, third extruders and the material distributor, and the material distributor has multiple conduits configured to gather melted plastic materials from the first, second, third extruders, and a substrate is extrusion molded from a supply head of the material distributor. The roller unit is mounted on a support frame and includes a first delivery roller, a second delivery roller, a contact roller, two pattern rollers, a first guide roller, a second guide roller, and a third guide roller which are arranged along a horizontal direction of the support frame.