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Abstract

Rotor zone cooling method for channeling liquid coolant flow in rotors in continuous mixers provides for predetermined zones along the lengths of the rotors to be cooled as may be desired and provides for other predetermined zones to remain neutral. A sequence of alternating cooling/neutral/cooling/neutral/cooling/neutral zones can be provided, including zones of various possible lengths, locations and numbers of such zones for tailoring or customizing these zones to optimize temperature conditions along a rotor depending upon mixing requirements and characteristics of plastic materials being mixed. A central coolant feed tube conveys coolant from an entrance into the bore to a discharge end of the feed tube positioned near the bore terminus in a first cooling zone. Coolant flow is diverted into isolation channels within isolation tubing sections spaced inwardly from the rotor bore wall for creating a neutral zone. Coolant flow is diverted outwardly from an isolation channel through ports into a cooling augmentation channel located closely adjacent to the rotor bore wall being confined outside of a cooling booster tubing sections. Coolant is diverted to flow outwardly from an isolation channel into an augmentation channel and thereafter coolant flow is diverted inwardly from the augmentation channel.

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