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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7481076 | Apparatus for making fibers A duct assembly is employed for directing a central air flow upwardly toward the rotating spinner assembly of a rotary-type fiberizer that produces a downwardly flowing column of fibers. The central air flow eliminates the low-pressure zone that normally occurs bene... | 01/27/2009 |
| 7021084 | Insulation shielding for glass fiber making equipment An energy-efficient inductive heater operable to heat a rotary glass fiber discharging spinner. The heater includes shielding disposed between the induction coil and the metal guard plates of the heater. The shielding may comprise any electrically insulative or diel... | 04/04/2006 |
| 6453703 | Spinner disc and rotary fiberization process A spinner disc for a rotary fiberization process, includes a base plate and an annular peripheral sidewall extending upward from the base plate which has a plurality of rows of fiberizing holes therein for fiberizing molten thermoplastic fiberizable mater... | 09/24/2002 |
| 6170298 | Glass spinner with partitioned spinning head A fiberizer has a spinning head that is partitioned to create separate extrusion zones for fiber formation. Molten feed stock is allocated between the zones to promote a greater formation of fiber of having a narrow spectrum of fiber diameters.... | 01/09/2001 |
| 6128929 | Multi-component fiberizing disk A multi-component fiberizing disk for fiberizing a molten fiberizable material in a rotary fiberization process includes: an annular sidewall having fiberizing holes therein through which a molten fiberizable material passes to fiberize the molten fiberiz... | 10/10/2000 |
| 6125658 | Glass furnace and installation comprising same The invention relates to the electric melting technique, in which the melting energy is dissipated in the bath of melted glass as a result of the Joule effect by means of electrodes which dip through the surface of the bath. According to the invention, th... | 10/03/2000 |
| 5906669 | Man-made vitreous fiber products and processes and apparatus for their production The invention relates to an arrangement for cleaning a wool chamber in the manufacture of mineral wool. In the manufacture of mineral wool a binder is added to the stream of fibers which is deflected towards the wool chamber and the binder deposits itself... | 05/25/1999 |
| 5743157 | Method for making a strengthened spinner having integrally formed ribs A method of forming a spinner for centrifuging fibers from molten material is disclosed. A dispersion strengthened metal is warm worked at a temperature above the minimum warm working temperature and below the recrystallization temperature of the metal to... | 04/28/1998 |
| 5620497 | Wool pack forming apparatus using high speed rotating drums and low frequency sound distribution Methods, apparatuses, and devices are disclosed for collecting a veil including long fibers with high speed conveyor surfaces to produce a web of loosely related fibers, and further forming a wool pack by distributing the web of fibers with low frequency ... | 04/15/1997 |
| 5582841 | Fiber manufacturing spinner and fiberizer A fiber manufacturing apparatus including a spinner, fixed to one end of a rotatable shaft and equipment for supplying at least one molten thermoplastic material to the spinner is provided. The spinner includes a radial wall and an outer peripheral wall. ... | 12/10/1996 |
| 5468274 | Process and apparatus for making mineral wool fibres The invention relates to fiberizing apparatus for forming mineral wool and a process using that apparatus. The apparatus comprises a set (1) of at least three rotors mounted for rotation about respective horizontal axes. Melt is poured onto the top rotor ... | 11/21/1995 |
| 5460498 | Centrifugal spinning Centrifugal spinning apparatus includes an annular, usually cup-shaped, spinning member which has a smooth interior surface extending towards the spinning end thereof which has spinning points formed thereon and grooves which extend across the end from th... | 10/24/1995 |
| 4668267 | Apparatus for the formation of mineral fibers by means of centrifuging wheels An apparatus for the manufacture of mineral fibers from a drawable material such as glass products, poured in the molten state onto a first centrifuging wheel before being conducted to a following wheel, each wheel transforming part of the molten material... | 05/26/1987 |
| 4244720 | Fiber waste and cullet collection process and apparatus therefor A process and apparatus therefor are described for reclaiming waste material from a fiberizing system and for converting a molten stream of material into reclaimable cullet when the system is not fiberizing. When the system is fiberizing the waste is coll... | 01/13/1981 |
| 4061485 | Method of and apparatus for controlling the distribution of fibers on a receiving surface A method and system for controlling the deposition of fibers issuing from a fiberizing unit in a veil which displaces portions of the veil with fluid streams, e.g., air blasts. A moving continuous collector screen receives the veil to form a mat of fibers... | 12/06/1977 |
