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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 12, 1985
Filed:
Jan. 27, 1984
John East, Highworth, GB;
Ian Maxwell, Reading, GB;
Abstract
In a continuous extrusion machine in which feedstock is admitted to a peripheral groove in a rotating wheel, is enclosed in that groove by a cooperating shoe, is frictionally dragged along an arcuate passageway formed by said groove and a projecting portion of said shoe towards an abutment carried by said shoe, and is continuously extruded as a metal product through a die, is flash extruded through clearance gaps between cooperating wheel and shoe surfaces, is intercepted and broken off periodically in short lengths by teeth which project radially or transversely from the wheel, the arcuate passageway has a radial depth which progressively decreases in the direction of wheel rotation in a zone extending upstream from the abutment.