A squeezing roller granulator that has a squeezing roller pair composed of a toothed pressure roller and a toothed squeezing roller. The teeth of the pressure roller and the squeezing roller have tooth flanks that are situated between a tooth root region and a tooth tip region. The tooth root region has an outer diameter that is smaller than the outer diameter of the tooth tip region, and the tooth tip region of at least one of the rollers of the squeezing roller pair has three squeezing zones including a middle squeezing zone, which define different distances between the tooth tip regions with a minimum distance in the region of the middle squeezing zone, and the contour of the tooth flanks and the tooth root region of the rollers of the squeezing roller pair defines a maximum cross-section of granulate cushions to be formed.

The invention relates to a process for producing an extruded sulfur-crosslinkable rubber mixture, comprising the following process steps: A) producing a sulfur-crosslinkable rubber mixture by means of a mixer or providing a sulfur-crosslinkable rubber mixture, where the temperature of the sulfur-crosslinkable rubber mixture is less than 35° C., B) contactlessly adjusting the temperature of the sulfur-crosslinkable rubber mixture produced or provided in step A) to at least 40° C. in a temperature adjustment unit, C) measuring the temperature of the rubber mixture in the temperature adjustment unit and D) feeding the sulfur-crosslinkable rubber mixture that has been measured in step C) into an extrusion unit at a temperature of 35° C. or more and extruding the fed rubber mixture in the extrusion unit. The invention further relates to an apparatus for performing the process and to the use of the apparatus.

The disclosure is directed to a method for manufacturing a Bowden cable, in particular a Bowden cable of a closure element arrangement of a motorized vehicle, comprising the step of applying a noise dampening sleeve to a Bowden cable housing. It is suggested that the noise dampening sleeve is molded onto the Bowden cable housing.

An improved control apparatus for producing plastic films and an associated improved method are distinguished, inter alia, by the following features: —the control apparatus has two stages or at least two stages, —the control apparatus comprises, for this purpose, a sensor module and/or a sensor model and a process module and/or a process model, —the machine-dependent sensor module and/or sensor model and the production-dependent process module and/or process model are linked or can be linked to one another via production variables, —adjustable machine variables are connected or linked to plant production variables via the sensor module and/or the sensor model.

A system for making a nonwoven nonwoven spun-bond or melt-blown fabric has a spinneret for spinning fibers or filaments, a cooler downstream of the spinneret for cooling the spun fibers or filaments, a stretcher downstream of the cooler for stretching the cooled fibers or filaments, and a conveyor downstream of the stretcher. The stretched and cooled fibers or filaments are deposited as a nonwoven web on the conveyor. Sensors measure input parameters at the spinneret, at the cooler, at the stretcher, and/or at at least one diffuser or at the conveyor. An evaluating unit for determining an output parameter from the measured input parameter with respect to a predetermined reference parameter.

A method of filling a mold comprising filling a majority of a mold cavity with an extrudate from at least one extruder wherein the extrudate, which is conveyed to an inlet of the mold, is at a pressure of 1-500 psi, subsequently isolating the mold cavity from a conduit which conveys the extrudate to the mold cavity, and subsequently using a pressurization member to fill a remainder of the mold cavity with additional extrudate, wherein the pressurization member excepts a pressure above 500 psi on the additional extrudate.

A production line for manufacturing extruded plates, comprises a conveyor for conveying a semifinished product, an edge cutting device for cutting off an edge area of the semifinished product to present a plate-shaped endless base profile, and a separating device for separating individual plates from the endless base profile. A distance (D) between the separating device and the edge cutting device in the conveying direction is dimensioned such that, between an average temperature T.sub.1 of the semifinished product during cutting of the edge area in the edge cutting device and an average temperature T.sub.2 of the endless base profile during separation, there is a temperature difference T.sub.1−T.sub.2 of 2 K≤T.sub.1−T.sub.2≤15 K. Due to distance (D) within an optimum temperature range, further processing of the cut off edge areas is essentially neutral in terms of installation space.

A production line for manufacturing extruded plates, comprises a conveyor for conveying a semifinished product, an edge cutting device for cutting off an edge area of the semifinished product to present a plate-shaped endless base profile, and a separating device for separating individual plates from the endless base profile. A distance (D) between the separating device and the edge cutting device in the conveying direction is dimensioned such that, between an average temperature T.sub.1 of the semifinished product during cutting of the edge area in the edge cutting device and an average temperature T.sub.2 of the endless base profile during separation, there is a temperature difference T.sub.1−T.sub.2 of 2 K≤T.sub.1−T.sub.2≤15 K. Due to distance (D) within an optimum temperature range, further processing of the cut off edge areas is essentially neutral in terms of installation space.

A device may generate a multi-layer stack of sheets that may be adhered into a slab-shaped preform for thermal drawing. The sheets may include sublayers. Stacking the sub-layered sheets results in accumulation of layers in the final fabricated preform. The stacking process may use mechanical translation and conveyance to support placement of the sheets and fabrication of the stack.

Embodiments of the present disclosure are directed to laminates comprising a uniaxially oriented first multilayer film comprising ethylene-based polymer, wherein the uniaxially oriented first multilayer film has a ratio of percent elongation at break in the cross direction to percent elongation at break in the machine direction of at least 2 to 1; and a biaxially oriented second multilayer film adhered to the uniaxially oriented first multilayer film and comprising an ethylene-based polymer, wherein the biaxially oriented second multilayer film has a ratio of percent elongation at break in the machine direction to percent elongation at break in the cross direction of at least 2 to 1.