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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 31, 1978
Filed:
Jan. 31, 1977
Applicant:
Inventor:
Lee K Brewton, Carrollton, GA (US);
Assignee:
Southwire Company, Carrollton, GA (US);
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B44D / ; B29H / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
428379 ; 1741 / ; 260-23 ; 264 37 ; 264174 ; 2641 / ;
Abstract
A process for recovering solid scrap thermosetting plastic compounds such as crosslinkable polyethylene compound and the like, by immediately hot-granulating the fresh thermosetting scrap before it has time to fully cure and then reducing the granules to a fine powder. The powdered scrap compound may be reused directly or blended with virgin material, and recompounded into granules for reuse in molding or extrusion processes.