Method for processing thermoplastics or thermosetting plastics
First Claim
1. In a method of processing plastics comprising supplying a batch comprising a predetermined quantity of material to be processed to a container having mixing members therein, causing the batch of material to be gelled by heat produced by friction as the mixing members are moved through the batch of material, expelling the entire batch of processed material from the container, and, only after said expelling step, repeating the supplying, causing and expelling steps with another batch of material, the improvement by which a batch of material may be continuously formed while another batch is being processed, comprising the steps of:
- continuously providing material to be processed in a continuous, constant, gravimetrically-determined quantity stream, whereby a constant weight of material is provided per unit of time, wherein the rate of material being provided is sufficient to provide said predetermined quantity batch of material in approximately the time necessary to complete said supplying, causing and expelling steps;
temporarily storing the material being continuously provided in said providing step until a batch of approximately said predetermined quantity has been accumulated; and
feeding the entire amount of temporarily stored material to the container at predetermined cyclic time intervals corresponding to the accumulation of a batch of approximately said predetermined quantity during said temporarily storing step, whereby said time intervals will also necessarily approximate the time necessary to complete said supplying, causing and expelling steps, and wherein said feeding step constitutes said supplying step.
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Abstract
A method of processing plastic material uses a device which operates in a batchwise fashion. The device includes a cylindrical container having a shaft disposed coaxially therein. The shaft is provided with mixing tools and can be driven at high speed. Material to be processed, and liquid if desired, is supplied to the container in pre-metered amounts, gelled by resultant frictional heat and granulated, if necessary, then expelled from the container. The material is supplied in a continuous, metered constant quantity stored temporarily and then fed into the container cyclically at predetermined intervals. The apparatus for carrying out the method includes at least one metering device which feeds an intermediate container and instrumentalities for cyclically emptying the intermediate container into the cylindrical container.
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1. In a method of processing plastics comprising supplying a batch comprising a predetermined quantity of material to be processed to a container having mixing members therein, causing the batch of material to be gelled by heat produced by friction as the mixing members are moved through the batch of material, expelling the entire batch of processed material from the container, and, only after said expelling step, repeating the supplying, causing and expelling steps with another batch of material, the improvement by which a batch of material may be continuously formed while another batch is being processed, comprising the steps of:
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continuously providing material to be processed in a continuous, constant, gravimetrically-determined quantity stream, whereby a constant weight of material is provided per unit of time, wherein the rate of material being provided is sufficient to provide said predetermined quantity batch of material in approximately the time necessary to complete said supplying, causing and expelling steps; temporarily storing the material being continuously provided in said providing step until a batch of approximately said predetermined quantity has been accumulated; and feeding the entire amount of temporarily stored material to the container at predetermined cyclic time intervals corresponding to the accumulation of a batch of approximately said predetermined quantity during said temporarily storing step, whereby said time intervals will also necessarily approximate the time necessary to complete said supplying, causing and expelling steps, and wherein said feeding step constitutes said supplying step. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7)
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