Patent ID: 7726373

Claim:
A pellet manufacturing apparatus comprising: (a) a pair of bunching rollers for bunching one or more continuously-fed, band-like, long, continuous, synthetic resin material and/or one or more continuously-fed, filamentous, long, continuous, synthetic resin material and feeding bunched continuous material downstream of the bunching rollers; (b) a rotation means for forming a twisted cord material by twisting the bunched, continuous material as the bunched, continuous material exits the bunching rollers; (c) a pair of compressing rollers downstream of the bunching rollers for receiving the twisted cord material, the compressing rollers having an uneven outer surface for forming a cord having dented pressed indentations on its surface by point compression to the twisted cord material; and (d) a cutter provided at an outlet side of the compressing rollers, the cutter forming a pellet having dented pressed indentations in a dot shape on its surface by cutting the cord formed with the point compression at intervals wider than intervals of the dented pressed indentations.