Buffer store for polymer melts, especially cellulose solutions

Abstract

The present invention relates to a buffer tank as is substantially used for ensuring a constant supply of the spinning machine with a polymer melt in spinning machines. To this end the buffer tank is provided with a compensation chamber whose volume is variable in response to a pressure prevailing in the polymer melt and to a volume flow variation. The polymer melt flows from a polymer melt entry opening to a polymer melt exit opening through the compensation chamber. It is the object of the present invention to make the flow through the compensation chamber uniform. The residence time of the polymer melt in the compensation chamber shall thereby be prevented from having a wide range, the latter resulting in an irregular quality of the yarns produced by the spinning machine because of the time-dependent, mechanical and chemical properties of the polymer melt. To achieve said object, the compensation chamber is provided for flow optimization with at least to one flow guiding element projecting into the flow of the polymer melt, which is smaller than the flow cross-section of the compensation chamber and by which the velocity profile in the direction of flow through the compensation chamber is made uniform at least in sections.

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