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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7003984 | Hybrid manufacturing process for optical fibers A hybrid method of and apparatus for producing a structure capable of being drawn into an optical fiber. The method includes the steps of conducting vapor-phase reactants into an interior region of a glass tube, conducting aerosol form reactants into the interior of... | 02/28/2006 |
| 6813909 | Reinforcement member for a bushing tip plate and related method A plurality of different structural members for reinforcing a plate-like structure, such as a bushing tip plate for intended use in forming fibers from a fluid material supplied to a bushing assembly, are disclosed. Each reinforcing member includes a body having a f... | 11/09/2004 |
| 5674307 | Hollow mineral fibers using rotary process In a method for producing hollow mineral fibers such as glass fibers, molten glass is supplied to a rotating glass spinner having a peripheral wall. The spinner rotates so that molten glass is centrifuged through a first tube positioned at least mostly in... | 10/07/1997 |
| 5647883 | Apparatus for making hollow multi-component insulation fibers A fiber insulation product comprising hollow fibers. Each hollow fiber may be composed of at least two different thermoplastic insulating materials, such as glasses, having differing coefficients of thermal expansion, with each of the hollow fibers being ... | 07/15/1997 |
| 4941904 | Method and apparatus for forming hollow fibers The instant invention relates to a method and apparatus for the production of hollow glass fibers using a novel tip design. It is believed that the success of the instant invention is due to the injection of pressurized gas to create a central lumen at di... | 07/17/1990 |
| 4846864 | Method and apparatus for producing hollow glass filaments A feeder for the production of hollow glass filaments is comprised of tip assemblies wherein a tube positioned in the stream defining member is in communication with the gas in the fiber forming region immediately below the dischrge wall to form a gas fil... | 07/11/1989 |
| 4758259 | Hollow glass fiber bushing, method of making hollow fibers and the hollow glass fibers made by that method A method and apparatus for producing hollow glass fibers is described in which the glass from a bushing tip and the gas used to provide a lumen in fibers as they are drawn from the tip are fed from passages in the tip sized to provide desired inside to ou... | 07/19/1988 |
| 4735642 | Hollow glass fiber bushing assembly A fiber glass bushing is described which produces hollow glass fibers from a multiplicity of tips having air tubes centered inside of them. Modules for providing a common header for rows of tubes centered in rows of tips on the bushing bottom are shown al... | 04/05/1988 |
| 4704149 | Hollow fiber bushing tip A bushing tip suitable for producing hollow fibers is described which is formed from a centrally disposed gas tube preferably integral with the walls of the tip and constructed such that a gas passage is provided through the tip with at least one glass de... | 11/03/1987 |
| 4698082 | Hollow fiber bushing and hollow fiber tip construction A bushing support system for anchoring hollow fiber forming tips in a fiber glass bushing is described. The truss like support for the air tubes and bushing tips insure minimal movement of the tips during bushing operation and that any movement is accompa... | 10/06/1987 |
| 4372771 | Methods and apparatus for extruding articles A fused silica glass tube (26) is extruded from a melt (21) in a chamber (11) pressurized with an inert gas. A shield is placed in close, spaced, relation to the melt (21) surface during the gas pressure extrusion process to substantially eliminate losses... | 02/08/1983 |
| 4131447 | Crucible for the production of single-material light-guiding fibers A method for the production of single-material light-guiding fibers which have a core supported in a glass sheath in a cantilever manner by glass webs characterized by providing a crucible having an exit nozzle with an opening having a configuration of th... | 12/26/1978 |
| 4050915 | Ferrule and use thereof for cooling a melt spun hollow glass fiber as it emerges from a spinnerette An improvement in the process of melt spinning thin walled, hollow fibers from relatively low melting glasses results if cooling of the emerging fiber is accomplished by use of a thin layer of gas to transfer heat from the fiber to a ferrule which fits cl... | 09/27/1977 |
| 4042359 | Process for production of porous glass membrane tubes The invention relates to a process for producing a tubular glass membrane with wall thicknesses between 5 and 30 microns and reproducible pore sizes between 11 A and 50 A. Alkali borosilicate glass is drawn into discrete hollow tubes and immediately coole... | 08/16/1977 |
| 4022603 | Device for manufacturing hollow profiled bodies by extrusion An extrusion die for forming hollow bodies has a flow-adjusting ring which also defines the outer periphery of the flow gap for the outer portion of the body.... | 05/10/1977 |
| 3979637 | Microchannel plates and method of making same Microchannel electron-multiplying plates formed of large numbers of glass-clad glass fibers all bundled tightly together in side-by-side relationship with each other and having their core sections removed for producing electron multiplying channels throug... | 09/07/1976 |
