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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7293431 | Apparatus for cooling a filament forming area of a filament forming apparatus A cooling apparatus includes a manifold defining a fluid channel, and also includes a plurality of cooling fins connected to the manifold, wherein at least a portion of a surface of the fins includes porous material. ... | 11/13/2007 |
| 6546758 | Multi-chamber fiber cooling apparatus A method and device for reducing the temperature of an optical fiber wherein a housing body is provided a plurality of inner cooling chambers which are-, partitioned from each other by a plurality of partition walls. An axial through hole extends through ... | 04/15/2003 |
| 6321573 | Process and apparatus for manufacturing a porous SiO2 preform In a known process for the manufacture of an elongated porous SiO2 preform, SiO2 particles are deposited on the mantle surface of a cylindrical carrier rotating about its longitudinal axis. The SiO2 particles are formed by... | 11/27/2001 |
| 6279354 | Cooler of optical fiber draw tower A cooler of an optical fiber draw tower, situated below a melting furnace for melting a preform for an optical fiber, for cooling the optical fiber drawn from the preform melted in the melting furnace, includes at least one heat exchanger installed with a... | 08/28/2001 |
| 6000116 | Advanced fin positioner An advanced fin positioner for operatively mounting a finshield assembly having cantilevered therefrom a plurality of cooling fins and for facilitating selective positioning of the finshield assembly with respect to a bushing tip plate of a glass fiber fo... | 12/14/1999 |
| 5925164 | Finshield assemblies for fiber-forming apparatus A heat-absorbing finshield assembly, which is located adjacent the discharge area of a furnace for producing glass fibers, includes fins spaced along a fluid-cooled manifold such that the fins extend between, but not in contact with, the molten glass fibe... | 07/20/1999 |
| 5749933 | Apparatus and method for producing glass fibers In a method of making fibers in which molten glass is extruded through orifices in a bushing and cooled with cooling apparatus mounted below the bushing to form the fibers, it has been discovered that using new alloys containing a major amount of palladiu... | 05/12/1998 |
| 5693118 | Apparatus for making glass fibers having vacuum cooling fans An apparatus (10) is provided for producing continuous glass filaments (30). The apparatus (10) comprises a bushing (20) for supplying streams of molten glass and a drawing device (40) adapted to draw the streams into continuous glass filaments (30). A co... | 12/02/1997 |
| 4566891 | Fin cooler clamp A fin cooler clamp useable to quickly release and attach a fin cooler to a bushing frame is disclosed. A fin support bracket having a downwardly acing U-shaped channel is attachable to the bushing frame. A fin adjusting housing snap fits into the channel ... | 01/28/1986 |
| 4433991 | Apparatus for the manufacturing of fibers A process and apparatus 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. According to the ... | 02/28/1984 |
| 4398933 | Method and apparatus for the manufacture of fibers A process and apparatus 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. According to the ... | 08/16/1983 |
| 4351656 | High pressure forming bushing A fiber glass bushing is disclosed which is formed with a corrugated bottom which provides a plurality of flat ridges on which are positioned orifices. The ridges are separated by grooves containing ceramic insulation and the bushing provided with means t... | 09/28/1982 |
| 4326871 | Cooling tubes for glass filament production apparatus This invention relates to glass filament production. Conventionally the hollow cooling tubes and/or solid metal bars utilized in the making of continuous glass fibers have been constructed of high temperature corrosion resistant materials whose costs are ... | 04/27/1982 |
| 4310602 | Air fin coolers A thin nickel fin cooler is described which has a plurality of precision holes of equal size formed thereon, the fin being tubular in shape so that air can pass from the interior of the fin outwardly to provide uniform gas flow in all directions from the ... | 01/12/1982 |
| 4013435 | Production of organic fibers with inorganic cores The production of organic fibers with inorganic cores is set forth. Inorganic, such as glass, fibers are attenuated from a bushing and then covered individually or in small groups with organic sheaths. With individual fibers, rows or orifices in a bottom ... | 03/22/1977 |
| 3997309 | Cooling tube support system for fiberizing bushing Improved corrosion resistant cooling tube support members are provided for fiberizing bushings used to make fibers from molten inorganic material such as glass. The support members allow an operator to replace defective cooling tubes relatively easily wit... | 12/14/1976 |
