| 摘要 |
A snow guard comprising a body having a wall of a mesh structure, said body made from a flexible material, said body defining a substantially cylindrical geometry and a length-wise direction, said body being non-flexible in a direction parallel to the length-wise direction and a flange integrally formed on a surface of the body, and a method of producing a snow guard using an apparatus comprising a reservoir for storing granulate material, the reservoir having a first inlet and a first outlet, a heating and pressurising unit including a chamber having a second inlet and a second outlet, the second inlet in communication with the first outlet, a path of travel defined from the second inlet to the second outlet, the heating unit comprising heating and pressurising elements distributed along the path of travel, an extruder unit mounted downstream relative to the heating and pressurising unit at the second outlet, the extruder unit further including an extruder heating unit, the extruder defining an extruder outlet, the extruder unit generating a mesh-type tubular structure. |
