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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7194874 | Screen for fiberizing bushings and method A bushing for fiberizing molten material, such as molten glass, having a screen mounted in the bushing spaced above the tip or orifice plate with a central portion of the screen having a significantly lower percent of hole area than the percent of hole area in end p... | 03/27/2007 |
| 7194875 | Fiberizing bushing with improved screen A bushing for fiberizing molten material, such as molten glass, having a screen mounted in the bushing spaced above the tip or orifice plate with a central portion of the screen having a significantly lower percent of hole area than the percent of hole area in end p... | 03/27/2007 |
| 7003986 | Fiberizing bushings and methods of using Electrical resistant bushings and methods for making fibers such as glass fibers by passing molten glass through these bushings to form fibers wherein the bushings have novel ears for attaching to electrical terminal clamps bringing electrical current to the bushing... | 02/28/2006 |
| 6272887 | Bushing tip plate support assembly for a bushing in a filament forming apparatus A bushing tip plate support assembly for a bushing in a filament forming apparatus is disclosed. The support assembly improves the flatness of the tip section within the spans between the external support and the center support. The filament forming appar... | 08/14/2001 |
| 5935289 | Apparatus for automatic fiber manufacture Apparatus and methods of using the apparatus to automate a labor intensive portion of the process of making continuous fiber products, like chopped glass fiber. In this process many fiberizers are used, each fiberizer forming as many as several thousand f... | 08/10/1999 |
| 4673428 | Method and apparatus for forming glass fibers A feeder for the production of glass filaments is provided with a shallow layer of glass over the discharge wall in combination with a fluid filled cavity capable of being pressure regulated to render the operation dripless or non-dripless as desired. Pre... | 06/16/1987 |
| 4664688 | Method and apparatus for forming glass fibers A feeder for the production of glass filaments is provided with a mechanical valve means to render the operation dripless or non-dripless as desired. Preferably, the feeder is rendered non-dripless when the restart of filament formation from idle orifices... | 05/12/1987 |
| 4624693 | Method and apparatus for forming glass fibers A feeder for the production of glass filaments is provided with a mechanical valve means to render the operation dripless or non-dripless, as desired. Preferably, the feeder is rendered non-dripless when the restart of filament formation from idle orifice... | 11/25/1986 |
| 4612027 | Method and apparatus for forming glass fibers A feeder for the production of glass filaments is provided with dripless and non-dripless fields of stream defining orifices to, in part, have the advantages of dripless as well as non-dripless type feeders.... | 09/16/1986 |
| 4553994 | Method for forming glass fibers The present invention proposes a novel apparatus and method for the manufacture of glass fibers utilizing a bushing confining a body of molten glass over an orifice plate which may or may not have depending tips. Interposed in the glass body is a plate or... | 11/19/1985 |
| 4473386 | Method and apparatus for fiber production from heat softenable material An apparatus and method for forming fibers from thermo-plastic material that can be liquified and drawn into elongated filaments that are subsequently cooled to form the fibers is shown wherein the system automatically accomplishes the substantially insta... | 09/25/1984 |
| 4469499 | Method and apparatus for the manufacture of fibers A process and apparatus is disclosed for forming fibers from attenuable materials, such as molten glass, by attenuating streams of glass from the bottom of a bushing wherein the bottom has downwardly presented wall portions at upper and lower levels. Acco... | 09/04/1984 |
| 4311500 | Method of and means for removal of glass floods from a surface of a glass stream feeder The disclosure embraces a method of and apparatus for removing glass floods that may form on the tip section or orifice plate of a stream feeder, bushing or substrate from which normally flow streams of glass, the method and apparatus involving the applic... | 01/19/1982 |
| 4274853 | Method and apparatus for the production of glass fibers The invention relates to method and apparatus for producing fibers from heat-softened mineral material, such as glass. More specifically, this invention relates to method of and apparatus for glass fiber production using a bushing of the type having an or... | 06/23/1981 |
| 4252550 | Method and apparatus for the integration of newly formed filaments into a continuous strand This invention relates to a method and apparatus for integrating a newly formed continuous filament into a continuous strand. Mechanically complicated prior integration devices are usually expensive to purchase and operate and do not always ensure that th... | 02/24/1981 |
| 4140506 | Method for processing glass in forming fibers The disclosure embraces a method of and apparatus for processing heat-softened mineral material, such as glass, wherein streams of glass flowing from orifices in depending projections of a stream feeder are conditioned for attenuation through the use of m... | 02/20/1979 |
| 4088467 | Process for spinning glass fibers In a process for spinning glass fibers continuously from a nozzle plate having 25- 200 orifices per cm2, a start-up operation is improved by using the nozzle plate made of a material having a contact angle of 60° or more, drawing flooded molte... | 05/09/1978 |
| 4033742 | Method for producing glass fibers A cooling system for establishing and maintaining the running mode of a bushing used in production of glass fibers which embodies a heated orifice plate with closely spaced orifices and a bulk flow of upwardly directed gas (e.g., air), which cooling syste... | 07/05/1977 |
| 3989494 | Method for making glass fibers The disclosure embraces a method of and apparatus for processing heat-softenable material, such as glass, involving treatment of a surface of a substrate or body at which the glass is present such as the surface of a glass stream feeder at the stream deli... | 11/02/1976 |
| 3969099 | Bushing environmental control system A process is described for controlling the air environment around a fiber glass forming station. The process involves the use of high pressure air and an air manifold system to control air supply and velocities around a fiber glass bushing and in the area... | 07/13/1976 |
| 3955951 | Repairing clogged orifices in fiberizing bushings Continuous inorganic fibers such as glass fibers are made by drawing molten material from orifices in the bottom of a refractory bushing. Occasionally during operation one or more tips will become clogged by unmelted particles in the molten material. Thes... | 05/11/1976 |
