In combination with melt spinning means comprising a melt spinning head arranged for extruding vertically downwardly a plurality of molten streams of a thermoplastic and a bath arranged to receive the streams from the head and to contain a liquid to quench and thereby solidify the streams to form filaments, the improvement comprising annular baffle means suspended in the bath in a position to surround the plurality of molten streams or filaments as they move substantially vertically downwardly, ...

The invention relates to a melt launder (1, 9, 10) comprising a bottom and edged, said melt launder being particularly meant to be used for tapping a molten phase, such as slag, from a smelting furnace, which melt launder is manufactured of copper or copper alloy and provided with cooling channels (8), so that at the bottom (2) of the melt launder (1, 9, 10), there is arranged at least one groove (3).

An improved melt rheometer having a power transmission, a plurality of orifice elements, and an improved heater block for increasing the operating range and accuracy of the apparatus.

A melt pump comprises a pump housing having an intake port and a discharge port and a pair of gear rotors. Each of the pair of gear rotors having a gear part and a shaft part integrated with each other, which are arranged within the pump housing in such a manner as to be rotatable in mutually meshing condition. The melt pump further comprises a recovering passage for guiding resin leaking through a clearance between the pump housing and each of the pair of gear rotors into the intake port, a coo...

In a screw mixer, interrupted feed-compression flights radially extending from the root of the screw along helical lines intermesh with interrupted feed-restraining flights radially extending from the barrel along reverse complementing helical lines with respect to the disposition of the feed-compression flights. As the screw is rotated, intensive shearing of the material being axially forwarded is accomplished in alternation with periods of substantially lower or no shearing. The apparatus is q...

In a screw mixer, interrupted feed-compression flights radially extending from the root of the screw along helical lines intermesh with interrupted feed-restraining flights radially extending from the barrel along reverse complementing helical lines with respect to the disposition of the feed-compression flights. As the screw is rotated, intensive shearing of the material being axially forwarded is accomplished in alternation with periods of substantially lower or no shearing. The apparatus is q...

A device for use in a hand held hot melt gun to prevent drool of melted composition from the outlet thereof when the gun is not in use is described and claimed. In one embodiment of the invention the device comprises a melt body 10 having a melt chamber 12, resilient means provided by a coil spring 26 and means 36 for heating the melt body. When in use a rod of composition urged by a feeding force in a direction towards the melt body 10 is melted in the melt chamber 12 and is dispensed in molten...

A melt body (16) for a melt dispenser is disclosed which is particularly suitable for use in a hand held hot melt glue gun for use with rods of hot melt glue. The melt body including a melt chamber (17) provided with a series of fin elements (23) which define passageways terminating at an outlet (21). The fin elements increase in size progressively from an inlet (19) of the melt chamber to the outlet and ensure good transfer of heat to material to be melted. Edge surfaces of the fin elements pro...

A hot melt glue gun is described and claimed having a rod feeding mechanism (14) comprising a trigger (50) arranged to drive clamping means to grip a rod of adhesive and to move the rod towards a melt chamber (17) of the gun. The clamping means comprises a carriage (42) movable towards and away from the melt chamber and having a shaped portion (110) to accept a rod to be fed. The clamping means also comprises, pivoted on the carriage, a clamp member having a clamping arm portion (71) for grippin...

A melt mixer comprises a vessel equipped with heating means, and a pair or more of rotor means including rotors polygonal in cross section and held within the vessel, the rotor means having a heating function. The rotors of each rotor means are angularly staggered to the rotors of the adjacent rotor means. Each rotor means comprises a plurality of rotors axially mounted on a rotating shaft, the rotors being angularly staggered and spaced in succession from one another. Also, the rotor means are ...