摘要 |
An extruder for polymer melts, with an extrusion space arranged in an extruder barrel and through which at least one extruder screw shank extends so that it can be rotated by a motor. The screw shank has at least one section in the form of a cylinder casing, the extrusion space having at least one barrel section which surrounds the cylinder casing in an essentially equidistant manner to form an encircling gap as a restricted flow zone (blister), in particular to set the pressure of the melt. The clearance of the encircling gap at the restricted flow zone can be changed in a specifically selective manner by externally adjustable force, with elastic deformation of the inside surface of the extrusion space and/or of the surface of the screw shank, by a hydraulic pressure chamber provided in the region of the restricted flow zone in the wall of the barrel section and/or in the least one screw shank. The pressure chamber has on the side facing the extrusion space a considerably smaller wall thickness (membrane wall) in comparison with the wall thickness of the extrusion space. A hydraulic pressure unit supplies the force for the surface deformation.
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