De-airing double shaft mixer

Extruder and de-airing double shaft mixer. Thanks to the high throughput capacity, the good mixing properties and the option of steam... 

In the 1960s Messrs. Uniceram SA of Marseille, France, built a hydraulically-driven piston extruder for the stiff extrusion of structural clay products, combined with a de-airing double-shaft mixer, was operated as a combined de-airing extrusion unit (Fig. 5). On the whole however the piston extruder has been of relatively little importance in comparison to the auger extruder within the field of structural ceramics. 

Fig. 5 Combined de-airing extrusion unit with de-airing double-shaft mixer and piston extruder, built by Messrs. Uniceram, Marseille, about 1960...

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