Patent ID: 8690560

Claim:
An extrusion granulator comprising: a pair of feed rollers configured to grip strands and to feed the strands in a feeding direction, a slideway configured to convey strands having an unguided length on the slideway from the feed rollers to a cutting rotor having an opposing blade, and an air stream ejecting source configured to create an air jet stream directed onto the slideway downstream of the feed rollers and upstream of the cutting rotor, wherein the air jet stream is deflected by said slideway perpendicularly towards the cutting roller and sideways to the feeding direction to result in a deflected air jet stream that impinges said sideways on the strands carried by the slideway with such a speed the strands are held in a parallel orientation by the deflected air jet stream, wherein the air stream ejecting source comprises multiple individual nozzles adjacent to one another and arranged in a first direction perpendicular to the feeding direction to supply the air jet stream from above to the slideway, and wherein each of the nozzles directs the air jet stream onto the slideway, and wherein the extrusion granulator is configured to hold the strands with uniform spacing in a parallel orientation guided perpendicular to the cutting roller.