Patent ID: 7367792

Claim:
An arrangement comprising (a) an extrusion die of an extruder for granulating plastic material, the extrusion die having (1) several pass-through openings allowing the passage of plastic melt; (b) a granulating die plate having holes and arranged on an end face of the extrusion die, (1) the pass-through openings each opening into a separate nozzle-shaped projection protruding beyond the end face of the extrusion die, (2) a free cross section of the holes being larger than an outside circumference of the projections to form a clearance for the contactless reception of the projections in the holes, and (3) the projections comprising a web at an inside thereof, the web projecting beyond an end face of the projections and delimiting the pass-through openings; and (c) an elastic sealing material arranged between the end face of the projections and a supporting element connected to the granulating plate.