Inventors:
Marco H. Lombard - Austin TX
International Classification:
B29B 1102
Abstract:
A process for manufacturing extruded and cut products (70) containing a first material (20), resistant to being severed or sensitive to being severed, and an easily severed second material (16). Includes an extruder apparatus (10) with a first conduit (14) disposed to accept the first material, and a second conduit (18) disposed to accept the second material. And diverter cylinders (22) and (24), opening into the conduits to cyclicly extract or inject the materials from the conduits, producing intermittent flows within the conduits (14) and (18) out of phase of each other, next the materials alternately fill a transverse section of a confluence (42) to form a transversely layered extrusion (35). A conventional cutter is timed to transversely sever the transversely layered extrusion when a transverse layer of easily severed material (16) is exiting.