Patent ID: 11911930
Assignee: ALADDIN MANUFACTURING CORPORATION
Field: Other special machines (Mechanical engineering)
Classification: CPC B  C  D  Y | IPC B  C  D

Claim 0:
1. A method of manufacturing a PET comprising product, the method comprising:
providing a PET crystallizer;
passing a plurality of flakes of recycled PET through the PET crystallizer to at least partially dry at least a portion of a surface of the plurality of flakes;
after passing the plurality of flakes through the PET crystallizer, at least partially melting the plurality of flakes into a polymer melt;
increasing a surface area of the polymer melt by dividing the polymer melt into at least eight streams;
passing the at least eight streams of polymer melt into an interior of a chamber such that a respective surface area of each of the at least eight streams is exposed to a chamber pressure below atmospheric pressure;
recombining the at least eight streams into a single polymer stream; and
forming the single polymer stream into said PET comprising product.