VORRICHTUNG ZUM SCHMELZEN UND VERTEILEN VON THERMOPLASTISCHEM MATERIAL

• Main Authors: ELLIOTT, RICHARD MONTGOMERY, NEWTON, ALBERT EUGENE
• Format: Patent
• Language: German
• Published: 12.04.1973
• Edition: 1
• Subjects: AFTER-TREATMENT OF THE SHAPED PRODUCTS, e.g. REPAIRING; APPARATUS FOR APPLYING LIQUIDS OR OTHER FLUENT MATERIALS TOSURFACES, IN GENERAL; APPLYING LIQUIDS OR OTHER FLUENT MATERIALS TO SURFACES, IN GENERAL; MAKING GRANULES OR PREFORMS; PERFORMING OPERATIONS; PREPARATION OR PRETREATMENT OF THE MATERIAL TO BESHAPED; RECOVERY OF PLASTICS OR OTHER CONSTITUENTS OF WASTE MATERIALCONTAINING PLASTICS; SHAPING OF MATERIAL IN A PLASTIC STATE, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDEDFOR; SHAPING OR JOINING OF PLASTICS; SPRAYING OR ATOMISING IN GENERAL; TRANSPORTING; WORKING OF PLASTICS; WORKING OF SUBSTANCES IN A PLASTIC STATE, IN GENERAL

Apparatus for melting and dispensing heat softenable thermoplastic materials such as adhesives including a main body having therein a melt chamber, an inlet passageway leading into one end of said chamber, a discharge passageway in communication with the other end of said chamber, the melt chamber having an initial melting section with a generally round or circular cross section and a melt acceleration section wherein the side walls defining said chamber shift progressively from the round perimeter of said initial section to the subsequent section with a cross section which defines a generally undulating perimeter, means for heating the main body and means for feeding the thermoplastic material through the inlet passageway and melt chamber.