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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20120040078 | Extruder Die and Resultant Food Product An extruder die designed to produce a spiral corn-based snack food product with consistent, tight spiral pitch and the resultant food product. The extruder die has a center post parallel to the flow path along with three cone-shaped receiving ports arranged in a cloverl... | 02/16/2012 |
| 20110095450 | Extrusion Head With High Volume Reservoir An extrusion head for an extrusion apparatus can include a spider for supporting a central mandrel. A high volume reservoir can be mounted to the spider on a downstream side of the spider. The central mandrel can extend longitudinally into the high volume reservoir. The... | 04/28/2011 |
| 20110095449 | Multiple Spider Head The extrusion head including a conduit with a central mandrel extending within the conduit for supporting an inner die portion of a set of dies that has inner and outer die portions. An upstream spider and a downstream spider are included, and each have webs supporting ... | 04/28/2011 |
| 20110081438 | EXTRUDER DIE AND CUTTER ASSEMBLY HAVING AN EXTRUSION DIE WITH A SHAPED EXTRUSION PORT AND A FILLING TUBE A die and cutter assembly for an extruder includes an elongated extrusion member having a first, open end and a second, closed end. The first, open end is attachable in fluid communication with a first manifold of the extruder, and the second, closed end is formed by a ... | 04/07/2011 |
| 20100215879 | MULTILAYER STRUCTURES HAVING ANNULAR PROFILES AND METHODS AND APPARATUS OF MAKING THE SAME Disclosed are multilayer film structures having annular profiles, and methods and apparatus of making the structures disclosed. The annular multilayer articles have a uniform thickness, at least four layers and comprise overlapped and non-overlapped circumferential area... | 08/26/2010 |
| 20100209562 | CO-EXTRUSION OF FOOD MATERIAL AND PRODUCT RESULTING THEREOF The invention proposes a system for dosing a food product onto an object comprising a dosing device (1) for co-extrusion of at least 2 food materials at the same time to form a multi-component food product (30), said dosing device (1) comprising a c... | 08/19/2010 |
| 20100209580 | PRODUCT SHAPING METHOD AND APPARATUS This invention provides apparatus and methods for producing cooked material having a desired shape that varies in cross-sectional dimension.... | 08/19/2010 |
| 20100203181 | EXTRUSION APPARATUS FOR MAKING MULTILAYER ARTICLES In certain aspects of the invention, an extrusion apparatus for making a multilayer article includes multiple discs, each of which has at least one passageway configured to permit fluid flow therethrough in a flow direction. At least one of the discs includes a cone sha... | 08/12/2010 |
| 20100189838 | INJECTION HEAD FOR A CORRUGATOR FOR THE PRODUCTION OF PLASTICS PIPES An injection head (10) is described for a corrugator which is intended for the production of plastics pipes. The injection head (10) has a main head (12), a nozzle body (14) and a mouthpiece means (16) with at least one mouthpiece (... | 07/29/2010 |
| 20100112111 | DEVICE FOR THE PRODUCTION OF MULTI-LAYER TUBES A device for the production of multi-layer tubes (A), in particular foam core tubes, with an extruder arrangement (1), wherein the extruder arrangement (1) includes at least two extruders (2,3) for the production of melt, with at least one tube head... | 05/06/2010 |
| 20100055274 | APPARATUS AND METHODS FOR FABRICATING FOOD ITEMS Apparatus and methods for fabricating food items include extruding a first hot plastic food mass through multiple passages (14) and co-extruding a second hot plastic food mass through a feed stem (22) received in each of the multiple passages (14) a... | 03/04/2010 |
| 20100007048 | METHOD FOR THE PRODUCTION OF A MULTI-LAYER PREFORM AND NOZZLE THEREFOR A melt feed device for an injection molding apparatus having at least one nozzle element connected both to a first hot runner and a second hot runner for feeding both the first melt and the second melt into an injection molding mold. The nozzle has three substantially c... | 01/14/2010 |
| 20090074899 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR EXTRUDING AND BLOW MOLDING MULTICOLORED PLASTIC ARTICLES Cylindrical extrusions having multiple colors, capable of serving as parisons for subsequent blow molding operation, are formed in an apparatus in which plastics of each color to be incorporated in the finished product are fed by separate extruders to an extruding head ... | 03/19/2009 |
| 20090035381 | ELECTROSPRAYING METHOD FOR FABRICATION OF PARTICLES AND COATINGS AND TREATMENT METHODS THEREOF Electrospray systems and modified electrospray systems for the fabrication of core-shell particles for controlled-release and/or sustained-release treatment and delivery are herein disclosed. The electrospray system may include between one and a plurality of co-axially ... | 02/05/2009 |
| 20080237917 | Plastics Pipe A method for the production of a plastics pipe (9) comprising an inner core and an outer removable skin bonded thereto, which method comprises co-extruding molten polymeric materials forming the inner core and the outer removable skin layer from one or more extru... | 10/02/2008 |
| 20080203607 | Pipe Extrusion Die Flow Path Apparatus and Method A method and apparatus is provided for distributing material through a multilayer pipe extrusion die. A first flow passageway, having a first cross-sectional area and extending along a first flow direction, may be connected to a second flow passageway, having a second c... | 08/28/2008 |
| 20080203608 | Defined Ratio Dual-Wall Pipe Die A pipe extrusion die may be provided having an inner flow passageway having a first cross-sectional area, and an outer flow passageway having a second cross-sectional area, both being in communication with an inlet flow passageway. A ratio adjusting tube may be movably ... | 08/28/2008 |
| 20080193583 | Extrusion Molding Apparatus for Resin Multi-Layer Tube The respective wall thicknesses of inner and outer layers in a multi-layer tube molded by an extrusion molding apparatus are made more accurate. The extrusion molding apparatus (1) comprises a plurality of extruders (6, 7) for thermally melting and extrudi... | 08/14/2008 |
| 20080183262 | Elastomeric Tube and Method of Making Same In an elastomeric tube and a method for making such a tube, two medical-grade silicone rubber compositions are coaxially coextruded to form a tube. The compositions respectively differ in at least one physical property and respectively have similar curing conditions. Th... | 07/31/2008 |
