Device for producing strand-shaped products
AssigneeOerlikon Textile GmbH & Co. KG
InventorJens Weinhold
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Abstract
The invention relates to a device for the production of strand-shaped products such as synthetic bands, fiber strands, monofilaments, or films, which are extruded from a polymer melt. The device includes an extrusion device, a cooling device, several rolling feed units and several processing devices mounted between the rolling feed units. In order to obtain short control paths and compact machine units, the processing devices according to the invention are arranged in tiers one above the other, wherein the rolling feed units face each other at both ends of the processing devices so that the product passes through the processing devices in the opposite direction.
Claims8
A device for the production of strand-shaped products such as synthetic bands, fiber strands, monofilaments or films, which are extruded from a polymer melt, comprising:
- an extrusion device;
- a cooling device located downstream of the extrusion device;
- two or more thermal processing devices located downstream of the cooling device and disposed between a plurality of powered roller feed units wherein all of the thermal processing devices are disposed one above another in a multi-level manner, with the roller feed units located opposite one another at both ends of the thermal processing devices such that product passes through adjacent thermal processing devices in opposing directions,
- each thermal processing device including a heating channel disposed between an input opening and an output opening to guide strand shaped products;
- each heating channel including a separate heating device for independently heating the respective heating channel;
- each separate heating device including a heating element and a blower to generate hot air within the heating channel, the heating element and the blower configured to be controlled independently of the other heating elements and blowers;
- a thermal insulating layer disposed between adjacent heating channels.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.