Device for continuously producing seamless plastic tubes
AssigneeUnicor GmbH Rahn Plastmaschinen
InventorGerhard Neubauer
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Abstract
Proposed is a device for continuously producing seamless plastic tubes, wherein provided as a distributor element for the molten material to be fed to an annular gap is a distributor plate which is arranged within the cross-section of the mold cavity and in which the molten plastic material is passed to the peripheral surface of the distributor plate substantially radially with respect to the direction of production by way of distribution passages which branch tree-like, wherein the flow path of the molten plastic material is the same in each of the individual distribution passages between the entry opening and the peripheral surface
Claims6
A device for continuously producing seamless plastic tubes, wherein at least one molten plastic extrusion issuing from an extruder is split up by means of a distributor plate which is arranged within a cross-section of a mold cavity of the device and which has plastic material distribution passages with flow paths of equal length for the molten plastic material, and is fed to an annular gap from which a tubular plastic material flows into the mold cavity, wherein the plastic material distribution passages extend in a plane approximately perpendicular to an axis of the mold cavity and each terminate at an equal angular spacing from each other at a peripheral surface of the distributor plate, the improvement comprises that, at a spacing from the peripheral surface (24), the distributor plate (13a, 13b) has an entry opening (20) for the molten plastic material fed from the extruder (29, 29a, 29b) wherein the entry opening forms an end of a feed passage (17a, 17b) for the molten plastic material, which extends substantially in the direction (2) of production of the tube, the plastic material distribution passages (14 through 14e) branch in a tree-like manner from the entry opening (20), wherein the flow path for the molten plastic material between the entry opening (20) and the peripheral surface (24) of the distributor plate (13a, 13b) is equal in all distribution passages (14 through 14e).
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