A pulverizing method comprising: pulverizing a polymer porous body; and removing electricity from the polymer porous body during the pulverization. A method for producing a polymer block, comprising: pulverizing a polymer porous body; and removing electricity from the polymer porous body during the pulverization. A pulverization device comprising: a pulverizing portion which pulverizes a polymer porous body; and an irradiating portion which irradiates at least a part of the pulverizing portion with a radiation, wherein electricity is removed from the polymer porous body during the pulverization in the pulverizing portion by the radiation radiated from the irradiating portion.

A thermoplastic pelletizer providing enhanced pellet yields with reduced fines contamination. The pelletizer includes a cutting rotor and a feed assembly for feeding plastic to the cutting rotor. The pelletizer further includes two chutes, wherein a first chute arranged to collect pellets, and a second chute arranged to collect fines. A vacuum is drawn on both chutes to assist in the collection of both pellets and fines in their respective chutes. Compressed air is directed past the cutting rotor to the first chute to assist in moving pellets from the cutting rotor to the first chute.

An apparatus for cutting polymer includes a rotor having a base with a first side and a second side opposite the first side. The rotor includes an outer annular wall extending from the first side and defining a number of slots, an inner annular wall defining a number of slots and extending from the first side and surrounded by, and spaced apart from, the outer annular wall. The rotor also includes blades extending from the first side and positioned within the inner annular wall. A circular-shaped stator also defines a number of slots. At least a portion of the stator is positioned in a space between the outer annular wall and the inner annular wall of the rotor.

The invention relates to a crushing tool for plastic materials drivable to a rotary motion, comprising a carrier (1), which can be rotated about a rotational axis (B) centrally located on it and on the surface (3) of which tools (4) for the processing and crushing of the plastic materials are arranged. It is provided according to the present invention, that in the area of the rotational axis (B) of the carrier (1) a deflector (5) is arranged, wherein in an area of the carrier (1) connecting radially to the deflector (5) web- or strip-shaped conveyor wings (6) are arranged and in the area of the carrier (1) connecting to the conveyor wings (6) radially towards the edge (7) the tools (5) are arranged.

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.

A device for dispersing a water-soluble polymer includes a primary water inlet circuit that feeds an overflow, at the bottom end of the cone, an assembly including a chamber for grinding and draining the dispersed polymer, having a rotor driven by a motor provided with knives, a stator, over all or part of the periphery of the chamber, a ring fed by a secondary water circuit, the ring communicating with the chamber by way of slots for spraying pressurized water onto the stator The slots of the stator and/or the knives of the rotor are tilted at an angle of between 20 and 80 relative to the horizontal plane of the stator and the lateral face of the blade next to the stator is curved in such a way as to make the distance separating the two components substantially constant.

An apparatus for recycling synthetic thermoplastic waste material combining heretofore multiple stage processing steps in a single stage shredder grinder pulverizer device. The apparatus has multiple interchangeable material processing blade sets on respective effacing engageable rotating and fixed blade mounts within a cooled material infeed and blade containment enclosure with multiple vacuum outlet ports and communicating vacuum ducts to draw off and transport processed material therefrom for separation and classification, as required. Each replaceable interchangeable processing blade set includes registerable shredding and grinding blades and annular pulverizing blade sets on fixed and movable mediums for progressive processing of waste material into uniform recyclable material.

A film treatment system includes a mill tank, a shaft, and a milling blade. The mill tank contains coated polymeric material in comminuted form, and further contains an aqueous solution for removing coating material from the polymeric material. The shaft is supported for rotation about a vertical axis in the tank. The milling blade is supported on the shaft for rotation with the shaft, and has a leading surface reaching radially outward with a convex contour facing in a rotationally forward direction.

The invention relates to an apparatus for the pretreatment and subsequent conveying or plastification of plastics, with a container with a mixing and/or comminution implement that is rotatable around an axis of rotation, wherein, in a side wall, an aperture is formed, through which the plastics material can be removed, a multiscrew conveyor being provided, with at least two screws 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, where, on the outflow side, there is an offset distance between the longitudinal axis of the screw closest to the container, on the outflow side, and the radius that is parallel to the longitudinal axis, and in that the screws co-rotate.

The invention at hand relates to a rotor disk (1) to be inserted into a receptacle (2) for the treatment of polymers, having a disk body (3) on whose top side (4) mixing and/or comminuting tools (5) are providable and on whose opposite underside (6) a number of conveying ribs (7) extending from the interior to the exterior are provided with which during operation polymer particles are transportable towards the exterior or, respectively, that during operation exert a force directed from the center (8) of the rotor disk (1) towards the exterior on the polymer particles grasped by the conveying ribs (7). In accordance with the invention it is provided that the conveying ribs (7) are curved concavely in the direction of rotation or, respectively, of movement.