Claims
- 1. A process for producing pellets comprising the steps of:
- A. aligning strands to be cut into pellets parallel to each other on a conveyor by the steps of:
- 1. passing the strands along a conveyor slanted downwardly in a direction of an advancement of the conveyor, wherein the strands are flexible resin strands that will, when laid on a table such that their ends when pulled to extend over an edge of said table by 10 cm, will, upon release, hand down by their weight at 20.degree. C. to a length measured from the end of said strands to a horizontal plane of said table of from 3 to 9 cm., and
- 2. passing the strands between a press roll mounted on the conveyor and the conveyor surface; then
- B. introducing the thus aligned advancing strands between upper and lower feed rolls,
- C. causing the strands to come in contact with a support having a fixed blade on a head thereof, wherein a tangential plane at the contact point of the upper and lower feed rolls crosses an upper surface of the support having the fixed blade of the head thereof; and
- D. cutting the strands with a rotary blade while simultaneously spraying a liquid onto the strands from above the support so that said liquid impinges upon the strands in a region between the feed rolls and the fixed and rotary blades.
- 2. A process as defined in claim 1 wherein said resin strands are formed from ethylene-vinyl alcohol copolymer.
- 3. A process for producing pellets comprising the steps of:
- aligning strands to be cut into pellets parallel to each other on a moving conveyor belt by passing strands to be cut into pellets along a conveyor slanted downwardly in a direction of an advancement of the conveyor, wherein said strands are flexible resin strands that will, when laid on a table such that their ends when pulled to extend over the edge of said table by 10 cm, will, upon release, hang down by their weight at 20.degree. C. to a length measured from the end of the strands to a horizontal plane of the table of from 3 to 9 cm., and then
- passing the strands between a press roll mounted on the conveyor and a conveyor surface; then
- introducing the thus aligned advancing strands between upper and lower feed rolls, then
- causing the strands to come in contact with a support having a fixed blade on the head thereof; wherein a tangential plane at a contact point of the upper and lower feed rolls crosses an upper surface of the support having the fixed blade of the head thereof, and
- wherein the distance between the contact point of the upper and lower feed rolls and a head of the fixed blade of the support is not more than 70 mm; and
- cutting the strands with a rotary blade while simultaneously spraying a liquid onto the strands from above the support so that said liquid impinges upon the strands in the region between the feed rolls and the blades.
- 4. A process as defined in claim 3 wherein said resin strands are formed from ethylene-vinyl alcohol copolymers.
Priority Claims (1)
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Parent Case Info
This application is a continuation of application Ser. No. 07/557,599, filed Jul. 25, 1990, now abandoned.
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Continuations (1)
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