Polyethylene terephthalate coloring systems and methods
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Aug 25, 2020
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May 10, 2018
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Nov 10, 2016
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Nov 10, 2016
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A method of manufacturing a plurality of colors of bulked continuous carpet filament from a single multi-screw extruder which, in various embodiments, comprises: (A) passing PET through an extruder that melts the PET and purifies the resulting PET polymer melt; (B) splitting the extruded polymer melt into a plurality of melt streams and adding a colorant to each of the plurality of melt streams; (C) using one or more static mixers (e.g., thirty six static mixers) to substantially uniformly mix (e.g., homogeneously mix) each of the plurality of melt streams with its respective added colorant; and (D) feed each of the uniformly mixed and colored plurality of melt streams into a respective spinning machines that turns the polymer into filament for use in manufacturing carpet, rugs, and other products.
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- D01D:MECHANICAL METHODS OR APPARATUS IN THE MANUFACTURE....
- B29C:SHAPING OR JOINING OF PLASTICS; SHAPING OF SUBSTAN....
- B29B:PREPARATION OR PRETREATMENT OF THE MATERIAL TO BE ....
- B29K:INDEXING SCHEME ASSOCIATED WITH SUBCLASSES B29B, ....
- B29L:INDEXING SCHEME ASSOCIATED WITH SUBCLASS B29C, RE....
- D01F:CHEMICAL FEATURES IN THE MANUFACTURE OF ARTIFICIAL....
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