Simultaneous production of plurality of filament winding packages

Claim 1

An arrangement for the simultaneous production of a large number of endless bundled profile strands of flat, round or profiled cross section of thermoplastic materials which comprises an extrusion press having an extrusion nozzle unit for simultaneously extruding a plurality of said profile strands perpendicularly downwardly, a cooling shaft therebelow with means for running extruded strands downwardly and then upwardly through the shaft, said means including at least one deflecting device for the deflecting of the downwardly running, cooled profile strands into the upward running direction, at least one further deflecting device for the deflecting of the profile strands into the approximately horizontal on a higher plane, a space saving arrangement of a plurality of said after-treatment means with contiguous paths for individual strands or sub-groups of said strands, said means including a large number of adjacently arranged, strand-processing units allocated in each case to a strand or bundle of profile strands, each of which units includes at least a draw-off mechanism, a heating device, a stretching mechanism, and a winding device, and said after-treatment means and said winding devices being positioned separate from but near the nozzle unit and cooling device for after-treating and winding individual strands or sub-groups of strands extruded simultaneously from said nozzle unit.