APPARATUS FOR TAKING IN A BULKWARE-COMPRISING MATERIAL AND METERING DEVICE AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING A MOULDING COMPOUND WITH IMPROVED PROPERTIES
Apparatus for taking in (1) a bulkware-comprising material, more particularly a pulverulent, granular, rolling or flocculent material, which is supplied to the intake apparatus (1) via at least one metering device (22), and which is processed further in a multi-shaft extruder, where the intake apparatus (1) comprises a number N of rotatable shafts (4, 4', 4", 4'",...), where each individual shaft (4, 4', 4", 4'",...) extends in a cavity (2) parallel to the axial direction (A) of the multi-shaft extruder; the intake apparatus (1) is configured to take in at least two substreams (13', 14', 15', 16') of the intake material that are substantially equal and definable in terms of mass flow rate, where each substream (13', 14', 15', 16') can be fed to a respective material feed zone (13, 14, 15, 16) from each of which a rotatable shaft arrangement (4, 4', 4", 4'", 7, 7') branches off, said arrangement being configured to take in the substream (13', 14', 15', 16'), which arrangement houses a processing element (9). Metering device (22) for feeding a bulkware-comprising material, more particularly a pulverulent, granular, rolling or flocculent material, to an intake apparatus (1), the metering device being configured to feed the total material stream to the intake apparatus (1) in at least two substreams (13', 14', 15', 16') of the intake material that are substantially equal and definable in terms of mass flow rate, for each of the material feed zones (13, 14, 15, 16).