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Method of manufacturing a hollow porous fiber

US4820460A · kind A · utility

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Filing dateApr 27, 1987
Grant dateApr 11, 1989
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Expiry dateApr 27, 2007

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC B)Performing Operations; Transporting
  • CPC primaryB01D69/08
  • WIPO fieldChemical engineering
  • WIPO sectorChemistry

Abstract

A quench bath, for quenching and solidifying an extruded hollow porous fiber of a liquid polymer solution in a chemical quenching solution, includes a shallow quench bath of a length for the generally horizontal part of the extruded fiber travel in the bath. A vertical extension tube with its lower end beneath the surface of the bath liquid holds a spinneret through which the fiber is extruded. The spinneret is sealed in the tube above the height of the liquid in the shallow bath. A vacuum drawn in the tube raises the liquid up to the spinneret. Also, the vacuum may be drawn by disposing the spinneret in a sealing piston which is raised through the tube to draw the vaccum in the tube behind the piston.

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