Patent · US Expired

Granulating device with a cutting rotor

US6386469B1 · kind B1 · utility

13Cited by

3References

8Claims

0Family size

Assignee

Rieter Automatik GMBH · DE

Inventors

Peter C. Meister · Lake Park, US
Juergen Klaus Seifert · Elsenfeld, DE

Key dates

Filing date	Sep 21, 2000
Grant date	May 14, 2002
Priority date	—
Expiry date	Sep 21, 2020

Classification

Technology area (CPC B)Performing Operations; Transporting
CPC primaryB02C18/186
WIPO fieldChemical engineering
WIPO sectorChemistry

Abstract

Pelletizing device for cutting plastic fiber strands into pellets, having a strand-feeding device and a cutting rotor, which is driven by a drive system and has cutting blades distributed over its rotor circumference, the root areas of which blades are arranged in grooves in the rotor body, each cutting blade having at least one recess parallel to the cutting edge, which recess is covered by the groove and interacts with a clamping element which is supported against the rotor body, in which device the clamping element is a slotted clamping sleeve, the cylindrical outer contour of which is of the same shape as the recess in the cutting blade.

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