A shaped rubber body with improved uniformity in terms of weight and/or
physical properties is produced by extruding a rubber strip by a positive
displacement extruding system that includes, as seen from an upstream
side of the rubber strip, a screw extruder unit, a gear pump unit and an
extrusion head unit with an extrusion nozzle, which are connected in
series with each other. The rubber strip is fed to a rotating support
along a substantially straight passage extending from the screw extruder
unit to the extrusion nozzle of the extrusion head unit, passed through a
gap defined between a pair of pressure roll, and applied onto an outer
surface of the support by one of the pressure rolls.