Solvay Sa

Solvay

Paul Henrard

Claude Dehennau

Dominique Grandjean

A process for manufacturing a plastic-based cellular structure, in which parallel lamellae are continuously extruded through a die having a plurality of parallel slots and upon exiting the die spaces lying between two adjacent lamellae are subjected, in successive alternations and between two sizing units whose length is short enough for the plastic composition to remain molten, to an injection of compressed gas and to a vacuum, the two sides of a given lamella being, in respect of one of them, subjected to the action of the compressed gas and, in respect of the other of them, subjected to the action of the vacuum, and vice versa during the next alternation, so as to deform the lamellae and weld them together in pairs, with formation, in a plane approximately parallel to the extrusion direction, of a cellular structure whose constituent cells extend perpendicular to the extrusion direction.

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Le Roux, Belgium

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