Patent ID: 9447273
Filing Date: 2016-09-20
CPC Classification: B29B,B29C,C08J,C08K,C08L

Claim Text:
1. A particulate polymeric composition produced according to a process that prepares expandable granules based on thermoplastic polymers, through a granulation die, comprising: i) bringing a stream of molten vinyl aromatic polymer to a selected temperature, wherein said selected temperature ranges from a critical temperature of an expanding system minus 25° C. and a critical temperature of the expanding system plus 25° C.; ii) incorporating into a second stream of molten polymeric material, from 0 to 60% by weight, with respect to the weight of a resulting stream of step ii), of inorganic and organic additives containing less than 10 percent by weight of particles having a size larger than half of the diameter of holes of the die; iii) incorporating an expanding system in a polymeric composition in a molten state (ii) at a selected pressure, wherein said selected pressure is higher than a critical pressure of the expanding system; iv) incorporating the polymeric composition (iii) in the stream of vinyl aromatic polymer (i); vii) granulating the expandable polymeric composition thus obtained in a cutting chamber of a device for hot granulation of thermoplastic polymers, comprising: and in which the stream of gas coming from said inlet (d) prevents flooding of the device for hot granulation,