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Method for encapsulating extruding materials
Assignee: KILLION EXTRUDERS Inc 200 COMMERCE ROAD CEDAR GROVE NEW JERSEY 07009 A CORP OF NJ
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Filing: 1987-12-01
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Granted: 1989-05-09
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Expires: 2007-12-01
Abstract
Abstract The invention provides a method for encapsulating extrudable materials within an extruded stream of another extrudable material. The produced product is an extruded material that contains one or more different materials embedded within the first material. The boundaries between this first encapsulating material and the material or materials thus encapsulated are well-defined and distinct. In the preferred embodiment, the encapsulated and encapsulating materials are plasticized thermoplastic resins. A stream of the encapsulating material is formed in a first extrusion channel. A plasticized stream of the material to be encapsulated, coated by a coextruded layer of the encapsulating material, is simultaneously formed and travels through a second extrusion channel. At any selected time, a cross-sectional segment of the second stream may be removed from its stream and replaces a similar cross-sectional portion of the stream removed from the first channel. The resulting stream of material extruded from the first channel contains discrete and uniformly shaped units of the second material encapsulated within a continuous stream of the first material.
Inventors
- 👤 Keith W. Luker
Bibliographic Details
Application Number
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Jurisdiction
US
Data Source
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Last Synchronized
2026-10-30 14:50
CPC Classifications
B; B29; B29C; B29C48/00; B29C48/03; B29C48/09; B29C48/25; B29C48/36; B29C48/49; B29C48/07; B29C48/16; B29C48/18; B29C48/21; B29C48/30; B29C48/32; B29C48/335; B29C48/08
Claims Analysis
Total Claims: 14
Claim 1
Independent Claim
170 words
A method of producing a product containing encapsulated material by extrusion in an extrusion apparatus, comprising the steps of: (a) extruding a first stream of first material and a second stream of second material in a first channel and a second channel, respectively said first material stream in said first channel is a single material and said second material stream in said second channel is a co-extruded material having a core and an outer layer, which continuously surrounds said core about the longitudinal axis of said core, said outer layer and said first material being of the same composition; (b) removing a first cross-sectional segment of said first material stream from said first channel; and (c) replacing, in said first channel, said first cross-sectional segment removed from said first channel with a second cross-sectional segment of material of said second stream removed from said second channel, said second segment containing said co-extruded material; (d) thereby encapsulating said core within material having the composition of that flowing through said first channel.
Claim 2
Independent Claim
170 words
A method of producing a product containing encapsulated material by extrusion in an extrusion apparatus, comprising the steps of: (a) extruding a first stream of first material and a second stream of second material in a first channel and a second channel, respectively said first material stream in said first channel is a single material and said second material stream in said second channel is a co-extruded material having a core and an outer layer, which continuously surrounds said core about the longitudinal axis of said core, said outer layer and said first material being of the same composition; (b) removing a first cross-sectional segment of said first material stream from said first channel; and (c) replacing, in said first channel, said first cross-sectional segment removed from said first channel with a second cross-sectional segment of material of said second stream removed from said second channel, said second segment containing said co-extruded material; (d) thereby encapsulating said core within material having the composition of that flowing through said first channel.
Claim 3
Dependent Claim
15 words
The method of claim 1 wherein the streams of material are heat plasticized thermoplastic materials.
Claim 4
Dependent Claim
12 words
The method of claim 1 wherein said method is carried out continuously.
Claim 5
Dependent Claim
23 words
The method of claim 3 wherein the steps of removing, replacing, and thereby encapsulating the cross-sectional segments are carried out at predetermined intervals.
Claim 6
Dependent Claim
22 words
The method of claim 3 wherein the steps of removing and replacing of the cross-sectional segments are carried out at random intervals.
Claim 7
Dependent Claim
34 words
The method of claim 2 wherein the product containing the encapsulated core is subsequently extruded from the extrusion apparatus and is cooled below the thermoplastic temperature of each of the first and second materials.
Claim 8
Dependent Claim
24 words
The method of claim 1 wherein the core is one or more non-plasticized materials and the outer layer is a matrix of plasticized material.
Claim 9
Dependent Claim
12 words
The method of claim 7 wherein the non-plasticized materials are particulate metals.
Claim 10
Dependent Claim
23 words
The method of claim 1 wherein the cross-sectional segment removed from the first channel replaces the cross-sectional segment removed from the second channel.
Claim 11
Dependent Claim
28 words
The method of claim 2 wherein the product is extruded from a die of the extrusion apparatus and is subsequently formed into sheets, film, or other shaped forms.
Claim 12
Dependent Claim
118 words
The method of claim 1 comprising the additional steps: (a) removing a cross-sectional segment of material from a third channel; (b) replacing the cross-sectional segment removed from the third channel with a cross-sectional segment of the material from the first channel containing the encapsulated material so that the cross-sectional segment of the material from the first channel containing the encapsulated material flows through the third channel in the oposite direction from its flow through the first channel; and (c) extruding the cross-sectional segment flowing through the third channel from an exit orifice of the third channel after the encapsulated material travels through the third channel, in the direction opposite that in which it flowed in the first channel.
Claim 13
Dependent Claim
28 words
The method of claim 1, wherein said extruding step forms said outer layer to have a circular perimeter about said core to form an annulus about said core.
Claim 14
Dependent Claim
21 words
The method of claim 1, wherein said extruding step forms said outer layer to have a non-circular perimeter about said core.
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