Apparatus for producing rubber mixtures
AssigneesContinental Aktiengesellschaft, Julius Peter
InventorsJulius Peter, Gunter Weckerle
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Abstract
An apparatus for producing rubber mixtures, comprising: as a master batcher, a ram kneader than operates in a batch-type process; a ram-less final mixer that is disposed below the ram kneader, also operates in a batch-type process, and has a greater volume capacity than does the ram kneader, with the final mixer having a mixing chamber that is provided with rotors; an essentially vertically disposed transfer channel for the transfer of a master batch from the ram kneader to the mixing chamber of the final mixer; and one or more withdrawal or exhaust openings disposed above the mixing chamber of the final mixer in walls of at least one of the transfer channel and the mixing chamber of the final mixer.
Claims12
An apparatus for producing rubber mixtures, comprising:
- a master batcher, comprising a ram kneader that operates in a batch process;
- a ram-less final mixer that is disposed below said ram kneader, also operates in a batch process, and has a greater volume capacity than does said ram kneader, with said final mixer having a mixing chamber that is provided with rotors;
- an at least substantially vertically disposed transfer channel that interconnects said ram kneader to said final mixer and serves for the transfer of a master batch from said ram kneader to said mixing chamber of said final mixer;
- at least one exhaust opening disposed above said mixing chamber of said final mixer in wall means of at least one of said transfer channel and said mixing chamber of said final mixer;
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- means for sealingly closing off said transfer channel above said at least one exhaust opening.
An apparatus according to claim 5, which includes means communicating with said at least one exhaust opening for removing volatile constituents from an exhausted volume.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.