Hermann Berstorff Maschinenbau Gmbh

Siegfried Chszaniecki

Wilhelm Brand

Manfred Dienst

Heinz Brinkmann

A multi-shaft thin-layer reactor for treating fluid materials in which gaseous material is present during such treatment. The treatment involves the addition of gas to the fluid material or the removal of gas therefrom. The reactor includes a housing in which a plurality of axis-parallel conveying shafts are disposed. The housing is cylindrical and the shafts are disposed around the inner periphery thereof in such a manner that each shaft meshes with the two shafts adjacent thereto. The meshing shafts jointly define the outer periphery of a treatment chamber within the housing. At least one sun-and-planet roller extrusion assembly rotates the shafts and is adjacent at least one end of the shafts in a form-locking manner. The conveying shafts also scrape against the internal wall of the housing so that thin layers of the fluid materials fed into the reactor are formed and these thin layers become disposed on the conveyor shafts. Since the treatment chamber is connected to a vacuum source or to a source of gas, the material is readily gassed or degassed as desired. The material itself seals the treatment chamber.

Multi-shaft thin-layer reactor

A back-pressure bearing arrangement for a twin-screw extrusion device which prevents any back-pressure forces from affecting a gear arrangement used for driving the screws. By disposing the back-pressure bearings between the gear arrangement and the housing of the extrusion device and by providing a bearing plate, which is supported by adjustment bolts or tension rods, the bearings are frictionally disconnected from the gear arrangement housing and the back-pressure forces of the screw shafts are effectively prevented from adversely affecting the gear arrangement.

Back-pressure bearing arrangement for twin-screw extrusion devices

An apparatus for measuring the material pressure in a twin-screw extrusion device, wherein adjustment bolts are employed as deformation components for returning the axial back-pressure of the screws to the housing of the extrusion device, the deformation components having strain gauges affixed thereto.

Apparatus for measuring the material pressure in a twin-screw extrusion

A temperable screw casing for a twin screw extruder for processing plastics comprises a supporting member and wear resistant liner disposed therein. The liner has a spectacle shaped bore accommodating both screws of the extruder. The supporting member, which engages around the liner, takes over the reinforcing function of the screw casing. Low technical manufacturing cost and satisfactory tempering of the screw casing is achieved by providing the liner with a circular external cross section, surrounded by a supporting member which has a circular internal recess. Axial tempering holes are provided in wedge shaped projections which extend into the spectacle shaped bore of the liner. Axial tempering holes are disposed opposite one another in the supporting member, at the sides of the spectacle shaped bore of the liner. These result in individual tempering systems, by which the liner and supporting member can be tempered independently.

Twin screw extruders

Each screw shaft of a twin screw extruder with power branching gearing is driven by a gear train comprising a driven pinion, a first pair of intermediate gears meshing with the driven pinion from opposite sides, a second pair of intermediate gears each meshed with a respective one of the first pair of intermediate gears and a drive pinion meshed on its opposite sides with the second pair of intermediate gears and coupled to a power shaft. The first and second pairs of intermediate gears are capable only of rotation in a gear casing in which they are mounted but the drive pinion and the driven pinion are capable of radial movement in the casing. As shown the driven pinion has an axial extension with curved teeth engaged in one end of a coupling sleeve with internal curved teeth and a portion of the shaft has curved teeth engaged with the curved teeth in the other end of the sleeve, the shaft being mounted in bearings.

Twin screw extruder with power branching gearing

Drive means for a twin screw extruder has a pair of drive shafts mounted in a housing and each to be connected to a drive and to a respective one of the screws of the extruder. A thrust bearing to absorb the axial thrust applied to the screws comprises a thrust ring surrounding both drive shafts and supported in the housing by an axial roller bearing, a pair of coaxial butting rings inserted in and secured against rotation with respect to the thrust ring, off-set from one another in an axial direction and surrounding the two drive shafts and a respective shaft thrust ring for each drive shaft secured thereon against relative rotation. The two shaft thrust rings are off-set from one another in an axial direction with each shaft thrust ring bearing against a respective one of the butting rings. The surfaces of each thrust ring and associated butting ring facing towards one another are preferably of tapered construction to facilitate lubrication.

Drive means for a twin screw extruder

A transmission for two driven shafts which are parallel to and at a small spacing from one another and which drive the twin screws of the extruder wherein each shaft has a respective driven pinion thereon with the two pinions axially displaced with respect to one another and for each pinion there is a respective drive each comprising three intermediate gears equiangularly disposed around the pinion and meshed therewith, a ring gear surrounding and meshed with the three intermediate gears and drive means to rotate the ring gear, the pinion and two of the three intermediate gears not having any mountings, i.e. floating, and the third intermediate gear being free to move in directions radially of the pinion thereby to obtain equal division of drive power between the three intermediate gears and avoid forces tending to move the pinion radially.

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Hanover, Germany

Siegfried Chszaniecki