Paul Troester Maschinenfabrik

Wolfgang Ruger

Hans-Joachim Gohlisch

Klaus Becker

The invention relates to an extruder apparatus for the extrusion of caoutchouc mixtures and plastics, having a gear extruder consisting of a housing in which a pair of gears that mesh with one another, and two intake rollers, are housed, and there is also provided in the apparatus two intake channels and one extrusion channel. It is the task of the invention, by simple means, and in a simple manner, to improve material intake and to better fill the tooth spaces with the material to be extruded, and by doing so, to reduce inclusions of air that are brought along as well. The invention resides in the fact that one pushes in the material to be processed, as far as possible into the tooth spaces of the gears by means of the intake rollers, which are arranged at a point at which the teeth of the gears constitute, together with the inner wall of the housing, an intake slot, and in so doing, one expels, at least in part, the air that is situated in the tooth spaces. The extruder apparatus is distinguished by the fact that an intake roller is allotted directly to each gear and that the intake rollers are arranged in recesses of the housing at a point at which the teeth of the gears, together with the interior wall of the housing, constitute an intake slot. In this way, it is possible to fill the gear spaces to a more perfect degree with the material to be extruded, and to avoid, in large measure, the inclusion of air.

Gear extruder for a caoutchouc mixture

An extrusion head having a stationary part fixed on an extrusion installation having a plurality of extrusion cylinders supplying an extrudate formed from several components. The stationary part has extrudate flow channels each in communication with a respective extrusion cylinder and a common extrusion die. Two pivotable outer parts pivotally hinged on the stationary part are selectively swingable individually between open and closed positions by respective piston-cylinder units. The two outer parts define an extrusion orifice for the die in their closed position. A pair of locking piston-cylinders provided with hammerhead piston rods hold the respective outer parts clamped against the stationary during an extrusion. Actuator piston-cylinder units selectively swing the piston rods of the locking piston-cylinder units clear of the outer parts for opening them for cleaning extrudate channels or for an extrusion die change. Two pivotable inner parts between the outer parts and the stationary part define extrudate channels jointly with outer parts and stationary part and are selectively swingable by a respective piston-cylinder unit and exposing corresponding flow channels of the stationary part for cleaning when the outer parts are open. The inner parts have lateral flanges with a respective recess into which is inserted a retainer piston rod of a corresponding piston-cylinder unit to retain the respective inner part closing a respective stationary part flow channel against residual extrudate in the absence of extrusion of extrudate therethrough.

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Alfeld/Leine, Germany

Wolfgang Ruger