Apparatus for making carbon electrodes or neutronic reactor core bars

Claim 1

AN APPARATUS SUITABLE FOR ACTING UPON AN EXTRUDABLE MATERIAL AND CAUSING PREFERENTIAL ORIENTATION THEREIN WHILE IT IS BEING EXTRUDED COMPRISING A COMBINATION A FORMING ZONE CONSISTING OF A TRANSITION SECTION HAVING AN INLET WHICH IS SUBSTANTIALLY INSCRIBALE BY A CIRCLE AND A SUBSTANTIALLY RECTANGULAR OULET ONE DIMENSION OF WHICH A SUBSTANTIALLY LESS THAN THE DIAMETER OF THE INLET AND THE OTHER DIMENSION OF WHICH IS AT LEAST EQUAL TO THE DIAMETER OF THEINLET, AND A FINAL FORMING SECTION HAVING A SUBSTANTIALLY RECTANGULAR INLET WHOSE DIMENSIONS ARE THE SAME AS THE OULET OF THE TRANSITION SECTION AND A SUBSTANTIALLY RECTANGULAR OULET THE LARGER DIMENSION OF WHICH IS SUBSTNATIALLY THE SAME AS AND CORRESPONDS TO THE LARGER DIMENSION OF THE INLET, AND THE SMALLER DIMENSION OF WHICH IS SUBSTANTIALLY LESS THAN THE SMALLER DIMENSION OF SAID INLET, SAID FINAL FORMING SECTION HAVING TWO SUBSTANTIALLY PARALLEL WALLS AND TWO WALLS WHICH CONVERGE FOR A PORTION OF THEIR LENGTH AND WHICH ARE ADAPTED TO COMPRESS A MASS AS IT PASSES THERETHROUGH FROM THE TRANSITION SECTION.