Battenfeld-cincinnati Germany Gmbh

Markus Bornemann

Juergen Huegelmeyer

A single-screw extruder for conveying and plasticizing a meltable material, including a screw and a heated cylinder, wherein the screw is rotatably held in the heated cylinder, the screw has a core and a helical main flight, which is at a first distance from the internal wall of the cylinder, a region of a transition zone and a melting zone has at least two successive, non-overlapping barrier portions, and a cylinder-side outside flight surface of one or more overflow flights is chamfered in full or in part over a flight width such that a conical gap that gets narrower in an overflow direction is formed between the internal wall of the cylinder and the cylinder-side outside flight surface.

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Paderborn, Germany

Markus Bornemann