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Underwater cutting granulating device

US6537050B1 · kind B1 · utility

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Filing dateOct 24, 2000
Grant dateMar 25, 2003
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Expiry dateOct 24, 2020

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC Y)Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
  • CPC primaryY10T83/9401
  • WIPO fieldOther special machines
  • WIPO sectorMechanical engineering

Abstract

In a knife used in an underwater cutting granulating device for cutting and granulating a fused resin extruded from a die to a water chamber by a cutter rotated in the state where the knife is opposed to the die, the knife of the cutter has a convex guide surface for guiding a water flow in the direction of drawing it toward the die, which is formed on the surface opposite to the surface facing the die and a curved concave guide surface on the side facing the die.

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