Patent ID: 6883953

Claim:
Apparatus for pre-treatment and subsequent plastification or agglomeration of synthetic plastic material comprising a receptacle that has an intake opening for the material to be processed, and in which at least one circulating comminuting and/or mixing tool is disposed, whereby the material preprocessed within the receptacle is fed into a housing of a screw plasticizing or agglomerating the material, the housing bang connected to the receptacle, wherein a diameter (I) of the receptacle is kept in the following relation with respect to a diameter (d) of the screw: D =10 .{square root over (K.d 2 )}, wherein D is the inner diameter of the circular-cylindrical receptacle in mm or the inner diameter in mm of a fictitious circular cylindrical receptacle having the same capacity and the same height, d is the diameter of the screw in mm and K is a constant which is greater than or equal to 190.