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Conical screw mixers adapt to plastics. (Compounding).


A European line of conical conical /con·i·cal/ (kon´i-k'l) cone-shaped.

con·i·cal or con·ic
adj.
Of, relating to, or shaped like a cone.
 screw mixers for pharmaceuticals was redesigned earlier this year for dryblending plastics. For example, the cone is now internally heated to make it suitable for PVC PVC: see polyvinyl chloride.
PVC
 in full polyvinyl chloride

Synthetic resin, an organic polymer made by treating vinyl chloride monomers with a peroxide.
 dry-blending. The Cycone mixers come from Bolz-Summix, a unit of Multi-Processing Equipment Group in Holland. They are sold here by M.P.E. Group USA in Pennsauken, N.J.

The mixers have a slanted slant  
v. slant·ed, slant·ing, slants

v.tr.
1. To give a direction other than perpendicular or horizontal to; make diagonal; cause to slope:
 mixing auger auger (ô`gər): see drill.
auger

Tool (or bit) used with a carpenter's brace for drilling holes, usually in wood. It looks like a corkscrew and produces extremely clean holes, almost regardless of how large the bit is.
 that is anchored at the top but not at the bottom, so as to eliminate any obstruction to discharging from the bottom of the cone. Sizes range from 250 to 5000 gal.
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Title Annotation:Bolz-Summix
Comment:Conical screw mixers adapt to plastics. (Compounding).(Bolz-Summix)
Publication:Plastics Technology
Article Type:Brief Article
Geographic Code:1USA
Date:Dec 1, 2001
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