Continuous extrusion apparatus includes a rotatable wheel, the rotatable
wheel including a circumferential groove. Continuous extrusion apparatus
includes a shoe including an arcuate tooling bounding a radially outer
portion of the groove provided with an exit aperture in a die body and an
abutment displaced in the direction of rotation from the exit aperture.
The shoe includes a heater body assembly including an electrical
induction heating coil assembly arranged to be energisable to co-act with
a magnetisable element to effect electrical induction heating thereof;
and an element is provided to thermally induce movement of co-acting
members for one of expanding and contracting to adjust clearances between
the rotatable wheel and the abutment and the shoe within requisite
limits.