Various measures increase the cooling effect on a planetary roller extruder section/module. Those measures include a choke being arranged at an outlet of the planetary roller extruder section or module, a distance between centerlines of adjacent planetary spindles being at least equal to an outer diameter of the planetary spindles, providing a pressurized melt supply, having a cooling section composed of several sections/modules, providing at least one section/module in which a flow, during melt supply is converse to the conveying direction of the extruder, and providing cooling tubes arranged within the central spindle.

A complex minute cutting apparatus for a superabsorbent hydrogel is disclosed. The complex minute cutting apparatus includes: a barrel body in which a transfer space through which a hydrogel is transferred is formed and a discharge part is formed at a side surface thereof; a transfer unit installed in the barrel body to transfer the hydrogel in the transfer space; and a plurality of cutting modules installed in the transfer unit to pulverize the hydrogel and discharging it to an outside of the discharge unit in a cut state.

A screw with a spiral blade for extruding a plastic elastomer while kneading the plastic elastomer, the screw includes a kneading region where the spiral blade is provided with cutout portions being configured to pass pins, and a plasticizing region being arranged on a downstream side in an extrusion direction of the kneading region. The plasticizing region includes a barrier extending between portions adjacently in the extrusion direction of the spiral blade.

A screw includes a screw main body, a conveyance portion conveying a raw material, and a passage provided in the screw main body. The passage includes a first passage element, a second passage element, and a third passage element. The screw main body has a plurality of cylindrical bodies arranged in an axial direction of the rotating shaft. At least a portion of the conveyance portion is formed on outer peripheral surfaces of the cylindrical bodies adjacent to each other, and the passage is formed in the cylindrical body so as to cross over between the adjacent cylindrical bodies.

A screw includes a screw main body, a conveyance portion conveying a raw material, and a passage provided in the screw main body. The passage includes a first passage element, a second passage element, and a third passage element. The screw main body has a plurality of cylindrical bodies arranged in an axial direction of the rotating shaft. At least a portion of the conveyance portion is formed on outer peripheral surfaces of the cylindrical bodies adjacent to each other, and the passage is formed in the cylindrical body so as to cross over between the adjacent cylindrical bodies.

The invention relates to a mixing and kneading machine for continuous preparation processes, such as for producing granules, extruded profiles, or molded articles, such as polymer granules, polymer extruded profiles, or polymer molded parts, having a feeding and mixing device (12) and a discharge device (14), wherein the feeding and mixing device includes a housing (18), a screw shaft (34), and a connecting element (24), wherein the connecting element is arranged at a front side of the housing and is also connected to the discharge device, wherein a hollow interior is formed in both the housing and the connecting element, and the screw shaft extends, at least sectionally, in the axial direction through the interior of the housing and, at least sectionally, in the axial direction through the interior of the connecting element, and wherein a plurality of kneading elements (40), which extend from the inner circumferential surface of the housing into the interior, are provided in the housing, and wherein kneading elements (40) are also arranged on the inner circumferential surface of the connecting element and extend into the interior of the connecting element, and the discharge device has a degassing device (26).

A method for producing a rubber member according to the present invention includes the steps of: supplying a rubber composition to a cylinder provided in an extruder; extruding the rubber composition to a downstream side of the cylinder while kneading the rubber composition in an internal space of the cylinder that includes a plurality of protruding members protruding from an inner wall surface of the cylinder; compressing the rubber composition at least once in the step of extruding the rubber composition to the downstream side; discharging a gas generated from the compressed rubber composition to outside of the cylinder; discharging, through a discharge outlet of the cylinder, the rubber composition after the gas has been generated; and molding the rubber composition that has been discharged through the discharge outlet into a predetermined rubber member shape.

A method and apparatus for thermolysing organic material. The method comprises steps of: A) feeding the material in a single-screw extruder (100), the extruder comprising a cylindrical rotor member (1) having diameter (D) and length (L) and comprising a feeding zone (14), the rotor member (1) arranged in a barrel (2), the cylindrical surface of the rotor member (1) carrying cavity/cavities and/or projection(s) (5) arranged in helically extending rows, the helically extending row(s) of the rotor member (1) having a pitch (P) and depth (d) in the feeding zone (14) of the rotor member, wherein the relation of the depth (d) to the diameter (D) of the rotor member, i.e. d:D, is not more than 1:20, and the relation of the pitch (P) of the rotor member to the diameter (D) of the rotor member, i.e. P:D, is not more than 1:4, B) heating the material in the single-screw extruder (100) to a flowable state, and C) thermolysing the material.

The devices relate to the nuclear, metallurgical, mining, machine-building and food industries and may be used in producing semi-finished products and items made via the extrusion of powders of composite, polymer and other plastic masses. A device for producing semi-finished products or items made of composite, or polymer, or plasticized powder materials includes a screw press with a housing and a screw within the housing. The housing and the screw each have at least one deformational portion with protrusions and may each be formed integrally with the protrusions or may be formed compositionally, having special insertable rings which are provided with protrusions. In carrying out all three device variants, the housing and the screw are formed compositionally, and have provided, on the deformational portions of a ring, stators, which are secured to neighboring portions of the housing, and rotors, which are secured to neighboring portions of the screw.

A pump assembly for use in an additive manufacturing system includes a viscosity pump having a first end and a second end wherein the first end has a cross sectional area greater than a cross sectional area of the second end. The viscosity pump has a conical shaped inner surface defining a pump chamber, an inlet proximate the first end and an outlet proximate the second end. The viscosity pump includes an impeller having an axis of rotation, where the impeller has a shaft positioned through the first end of the first housing and into the pump chamber. The impeller includes a distal tip-end at a distal end of the shaft wherein the impeller is configured to be axially displaced within the pump chamber of the viscosity pump parallel to the axis of rotation. An actuator is coupled to a proximal end of the impeller, wherein the actuator is configured to move the impeller parallel to the axis of rotation.