Erema Engineering Recycling Maschinen Und Anlagen Gesellschaft M.b.h.

Suntory Holdings Limited

S.i.p.a. Societa' Industrializzazione Progettazione Automazione S.p.a.

Kyoei Industry Co., Ltd.

Manfred Hackl

Klaus Feichtinger

Gerhard Wendelin

Georg Weigerstorfer

James Donaldson

Helmuth Schulz

Helmut Bacher

Shigenobu Kishi

Peter Pauli

Andreas Rössler-Czermak

Walter Reisinger

Josef Arbeithuber

George Weigerstorfer

Yoshihiro Saito

Ernst Jost

Andreas Roessler-Czermak

Gerald Weis

Enrico Gribaudo

Christoph Woess

Munehiko Takada

Naoya Ogasawara

Christian Eckhart

Eiichi Furusawa

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 (), where V=SV/BV, is one where 4≤V≤30, where the active container volume (SV) is defined by the formula and D is the internal diameter of the container, and where the feed volume (BV) is defined by the formula where H is the height of the intake aperture.

Apparatus for processing plastic material

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

Comminuting tool

A method and a device for introducing and/or adding non-dry-powder additive materials and/or coating materials with a liquid, solid, semi-solid, or paste-like consistency or in suspended or emulsified form, for example, peroxides, fats, waxes, IV improvers, polymers, or similar materials, to an existing lumpy or particulate material which is moved and mixed, and optionally warmed and reduced to small pieces in a receptacle and/or compressor, said material being in particular polymer particles and/or flakes, wood fibers, paper cuttings, or similar materials. According to the invention, the additive material is introduced below the level of the material and/or material particles already in the receptacle.

Process and device for introducing additive materials in a receptacle at the area of highest pressure

Disclosed is a device and a method for processing plastic material with at least one receiving container, wherein at least one mixing and/or comminution tool, rotatable about a rotation axis, is arranged, for mixing and warming the plastic material, and with at least one conveyor for discharging the plastic material from the receiving container, with at least one screw rotating in a housing, where the conveyor is connected, at its material inlet side via an opening which is formed in a side wall of the receiving container, with the interior of the receiving container. An imaginary extension of the central longitudinal axis of the conveyor extends, against the conveyance direction of the conveyor, past the rotation axis of the receiving container, without intersecting this axis, where the longitudinal axis of the conveyor is offset by a separation relative to the radial ray of the receiving container on the discharge side.

Device for processing plastic material

The present invention concerns a method for processing and detoxification of a material, especially a thermoplastic material, and for removal of contaminants or impurities from this material, wherein the material is heated under vacuum in at least one receiving tank, mixed and possibly comminuted, and wherein a rinsing medium is introduced into the receiving tank beneath the material level, conducted through at least a partial region of the material, and the rinsing medium enriched or saturated with contaminants is brought out from the receiving tank once more. According to the invention, the quantity of rinsing medium introduced into the receiving tank is less than 0.1 liter per hour per kilogram of material or material throughput per hour, while at the same time the vacuum in the receiving tank is kept constantly below 100 mbar.

Method for preparing and detoxifying using liquid rinsing medium

The invention relates to a method and to an assembly for recycling plastic materials, comprising the following processing steps: a) reprocessing the raw material, wherein the material, if necessary, is comminuted and brought into a fluid-like form and heated and permanently mixed, while preserving the lumpiness and pourability thereof, and optionally the viscosity thereof is increased and/or it is degassed, softened, dried and/or crystallized; b) melting the reprocessed material, at least so much that filtration is possible; c) filtering the melt in order to remove impurities; d) homogenizing the filtered melt; e) degassing the homogenized melt; and f) discharging and/or subsequently processing the melt, such as by granulation, blown film processing, with said processing steps being carried out consecutively in the order listed (FIG.).

Process for recycling plastic materials

The invention relates to a method and to an assembly for recycling plastic materials, comprising the following processing steps: a) reprocessing the raw material, wherein the material, if necessary, is comminuted and brought into a fluid-like form and heated and permanently mixed, while preserving the lumpiness and pourability thereof, and optionally the viscosity thereof is increased and/or it is degassed, softened, dried and/or crystallized; b) melting the reprocessed material, at least so much that filtration is possible; c) filtering the melt in order to remove impurities; d) homogenizing the filtered melt; e) degassing the homogenized melt; and f) discharging and/or subsequently processing the melt, such as by granulation, blown film processing, with said processing steps being carried out consecutively in the order listed.

Method for recycling plastic materials

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 and the radius that is parallel to the longitudinal axis, and in that the two screws closest to the intake aperture are counter-rotating relative to one another.

Apparatus for the pretreatment and subsequent conveying, plastification, or agglomeration of plastics

The present invention relates to a filtering device for fluids, in particular thermoplastics, comprising a screen carrier () which has a rotationally cylindrical outer face () and is mounted rotatably in a rotationally cylindrical recess (), adapted to its circumference, of a stationary housing () and in which a number of screening nests () having filter arrangements () are formed along its circumference. According to the invention, there is provision whereby the screen carrier () is penetrated by a rotationally cylindrical core part () and is mounted rotatably on this, the core part () and the housing () being designed to be stationary and fixed in terms of rotation with respect to the rotatable screen carrier ().

Filtering device for fluids

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 () to be inserted into a receptacle () for the treatment of polymers, having a disk body () on whose top side () mixing and/or comminuting tools () are providable and on whose opposite underside () a number of conveying ribs () 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 () of the rotor disk () towards the exterior on the polymer particles grasped by the conveying ribs (). In accordance with the invention it is provided that the conveying ribs () are curved concavely in the direction of rotation or, respectively, of movement.

Rotor disk

The present invention concerns a method for processing and detoxification of a material, especially a thermoplastic material, and for removal of contaminants or impurities from this material, wherein the material is heated under vacuum in at least one receiving tank (), mixed and possibly comminuted, and wherein a rinsing medium is introduced into the receiving tank () beneath the material level, conducted through at least a partial region of the material, and the rinsing medium enriched or saturated with contaminants is brought out from the receiving tank () once more.

Method for preparing and detoxifying

Disclosed is an apparatus for the processing of plastics, with a container with a rotatable mixing and/or comminution implement, where, in a side wall, an aperture is formed, and a conveyor being provided, with a screw rotating in a housing, where 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 radial distance (mb) between the implement and the inner surface of the side wall of the container is in the range from 15 mm to 120 mm, and complies with the following relationship: mb=k*D, where Dis the internal diameter of the container in mm and k is a constant in the range from 0.006 to 0.16.

Disclosed is an apparatus for the processing of plastics, having a container with a rotatable mixing implement, 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, where, on the outflow side, there is an offset distance between the longitudinal axis and the radial that is parallel to the longitudinal axis, wherein on the internal wall area of the container, there is at least one bar-shaped deflector which is directed into the interior of the container, and the height profile of which decreases in the direction of rotation of the mixing implement, seen from above, and the angle included thereby, over its length, with a plane (E) perpendicular to the axis of rotation of the mixing implements is an acute angle (&#x3b1;).

Disclosed is 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. In a side wall, an aperture is formed, through which the plastics material can be removed, a conveyor being provided, with a screw rotating in a housing. The apparatus is characterized in that the imaginary continuation of the longitudinal axis of the conveyor in a direction opposite to the direction of conveying passes the axis of rotation, there being, on the outflow side, an offset distance between the longitudinal axis and the radius that is parallel to the longitudinal axis, that the L/D ratio of the screw is greater than or equal to 7, and that the compressing format of the screw begins only from a distance (A) of more than 1.5 times the diameter (d) of the screw.

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Linz-Urfahr, Austria

Manfred Hackl