Werner & Pfleiderer Gmbh

Arno Knoll

Gerhard Weihrich

Wolfgang Worz

Hans Wobbe

Gerhard Pfaff

Wolfgang Woerz

A screw-type extrusion machine has a housing with at least one housing bore, in which a screw shaft is arranged. The housing has outer surfaces, which have a non-constant distance to the wall of the at least one bore. The outer surfaces are provided with heating elements. In order to attain an approximately constant temperature along the circumference of the wall of the at least one bore, heating elements of a different specific heating capacity are arranged sectionally on the outer surfaces of the housing, the heating elements being such formed that the heating temperature at the wall of the at least one bore is approximately constant.

Screw-type extrusion machine with heating elements

A twin screw extruder for processing plastic material having a housing provided with a plurality of juxtaposed housing segments arranged axially in succession and defining two longitudinal, overlapping bores respectively containing two coaxially arranged extruder screws, rotatable about respective longitudinal axes, and having intermeshing threads. One of the housing segments serves as a degassing housing segment for degassing the plastic material and it is connected to a degassing chamber. The degassing housing segment has a transverse, radial opening in which an insert member is fitted, the insert member having a degassing opening providing communication between the degassing chamber and the bores in the housing. The degassing opening tapers in widening fashion in the direction from the longitudinal bores to the degassing chamber, and the degassing opening has a longitudinal axis disposed in a plane passing through the longitudinal axes of the screws. The insert member can be mounted at either or both sides of the housing and a sealing insert member is inserted in the opening in the housing segment which is to be blocked. The degassing opening is rectangular in cross-section.

Degassing means for a twin screw extruder for plastic materials

An extractor for removing worm elements which are fastened for rotation on the worm shaft of a worm extruder wherein a frame formed of longitudinal and cross members has a locking device in one of the cross members for holding the worm elements and an opposed, displaceable, pneumatic piston-cylinder unit on another cross member. The piston-cylinder unit has a pressure piston which is extendable axially towards the worm shaft. Between the worm shaft and the piston-cylinder unit is a slide which is displaceable longitudinally and can be engaged by the piston of the piston-cylinder unit. The slide carries an impact device which is pneumatically actuatable and includes an impact shaft for engaging the worm shaft. The locking device includes two clamp jaws which are axially aligned with the impact shaft and the piston and engage the worm profile with an inner profile surface of identical type.

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Stuttgart, Germany

Arno Knoll