Plastic article or earthenware shaping or treating: apparatus – Control means responsive to or actuated by means sensing or...
Reexamination Certificate
2005-08-09
2005-08-09
Mackey, James P. (Department: 1722)
Plastic article or earthenware shaping or treating: apparatus
Control means responsive to or actuated by means sensing or...
C425S380000, C425S465000, C425S466000
Reexamination Certificate
active
06926509
ABSTRACT:
An extruder apparatus and method for producing an extruded tubing having varying inner dimensions without changing the outer dimensions. The tubing is forced from the die face of an extrusion head having an extruder die and an internal mandrel determining the outer and inner dimensions, respectively, of the extruded tubing. The outer dimensions of the mandrel varied by the user to change the inner dimensions of the extruded tubing. A pressure is maintained in the extruded tubing to prevent its collapse and that pressure is changed based upon the change of the external dimensions of the mandrel and the wall thickness of the tubing. In one embodiment, the mandrel is comprised of a core and a plurality of telescoping sleeves. Each sleeve is movable between a retracted position where the sleeve is displaced away from the die face and an extended position where sleeve is at the die face. There may be multiple mandrels in the case of multi-lumen catheters.
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Havran Geary A.
Nicora Scott W.
Mackey James P.
NDH Medical, Inc.
Rathbun Roger M.
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