Extruder
AssigneeThermo Electron (Karlsruhe) GmbH
InventorsPeter Roberts, Ralf Weber
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Abstract
The invention relates to an extruder which has an extruder housing, in which a delivery channel for a medium to be extruded is formed. At least one screw conveyor is located in the delivery channel and a cooling device is provided for the extruder housing, said device having at least one cooling line in or on the extruder housing, through which line a cooling fluid flows. An electronic device for controlling and/or regulating the operating states of the extruder is accommodated in an electronics housing which can be cooled according to the invention by means of the cooling device for the extruder housing.
Claims7
An extruder comprising an extruder housing, in which is configured a feed channel for a medium to be extruded, which feed channel has at least one screw conveyor arranged therein, comprising a cooling device for the extruder housing, which cooling device has at least one cooling line, configured in or on the extruder housing and is flowed through by a cooling fluid, and comprising an electronics device, accommodated in an electronics housing, for controlling and/or regulating the operating states of the extruder, characterized in that the electronics housing can be cooled by means of the cooling device for the extruder housing.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.