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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7562540 | Fiberizing device for producing fibers from molten waste A fiberizing device includes a housing, a receiving seat mounted on the housing, and a drawing device. The receiving seat includes a receiving groove having a discharge port. The receiving groove receives molten fluid formed by heating waste. A heating device is pro... | 07/21/2009 |
| 6536241 | Method and device for drawing out mineral wool fibres by free centrifuging At least two machines placed side by side, including a series of centrifuging wheels arranged in a cascaded manner and driven in rotation about axes all having substantially in a same direction. Two consecutive wheels rotate in opposite directions, and ar... | 03/25/2003 |
| 6156683 | Man-made vitreous fibres Man-made vitreous fibers have a solubility at pH 4.5 of at least 20 nm per day, a liquidus temperature of below 1300° C., a viscosity at the liquidus temperature of about 300 poise, and a composition which includes at least 15% by weight Al2 O... | 12/05/2000 |
| 5891479 | Apparatus for fabricating polychromal segmented balls for twisting ball display A apparatus of fabricating a multisegmented ball for an electrical twisting ball display device, which is made up of spheroidal balls rotatably disposed in an elastomer substrate. The ball is composed of segments arrayed substantially parallel to one anot... | 04/06/1999 |
| 5123941 | Apparatus for producing mineral wool The present invention relates to a method of producing mineral wool, mineral raw material (2) is introduced into a melting unit (3), preferably a cupola furnace, for heating the mineral raw material in such a manner that molten mineral material (4) is for... | 06/23/1992 |
| 5116397 | Fibrillation device for the manufacture of mineral wool In a fibrillation device for the manufacture of mineral wool, the mineral wool melt runs down onto the peripehral surface of a spinning wheel from which it is thrown to further spinning wheels. The melt is thrown out as fibres which are subjected to a str... | 05/26/1992 |
| 4969940 | Apparatus and method for making mineral wool from coal-ash An apparatus and method which provides for controlled melting of both components of coal-ash, as well as the melting of selected additives, the melted coal-ash with additive being immediately available to a conventional fiberizing spinner stage. An arc fu... | 11/13/1990 |
| 4715877 | Apparatuses in the manufacture of mineral wool An apparatus for preventing the solidification and accumulation of material from the tapping jet in and on the tapping spout in the manufacture of mineral wool includes at least one oxy-fuel burner at the discharge section of the tapping spout to the spin... | 12/29/1987 |
| 4664691 | Supply of fiber material in fiber producing techniques The invention relates to the production of mineral fibers from a material melted in a cupola. To regularize the supply of material to the fiber-forming apparatus, the material emanating from the cupola and conveyed to the apparatus passes through a reserv... | 05/12/1987 |
| 4661134 | Method and apparatus for fiberizing molten mineral material A method and an apparatus in a plant for fibrating molten mineral material which in the form of a stream of molten material (4) is discharged to the peripheral surface of a primary spinner wheel (1) and which is formed to mineral fibres by being thrown ou... | 04/28/1987 |
| 4594086 | Method and apparatus for distribution of fibres in a felt The present invention relates to the formation of fibre felts which are produced on centrifugation wheels, the material to be fiberized being conducted to the periphery of these wheels from the outside thereof, and the fibres being carried by gaseous curr... | 06/10/1986 |
| 4541854 | Enhanced surface fiberizer An apparatus for converting thermoplastic molten material stream into fibers to produce fibers, particularly to produce mineral wool from molten mineral raw material. The device combines a slinger cup wheel with a pair of fiberizing rotors. The rotors hav... | 09/17/1985 |
| 4433992 | Process and apparatus for forming mineral fibers The invention relates to a process and apparatus for the manufacture of fibers from attenuable materials, such as glass making materials, by centrifugation. In a process in which the attenuable material is directed onto the peripheral surface of a centrif... | 02/28/1984 |
| 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 |
| 4238213 | Method of operation of a refractory fiber production process An improved process for the centrifugal spinning of refractory fibers is described. In the improved process rotor circumferential speeds of at least about 21,000 linear feet per minute (6,400 linear meters per minute) are used. In a preferred embodiment t... | 12/09/1980 |
| 4197063 | Spinning fibres A method of spinning fibres from a liquid, particularly a liquid urea formaldehyde resin, which comprises the step of supplying the liquid to at least one rotating annular reservoir having an outwardly extending upper and/or lower weir, and causing the li... | 04/08/1980 |
| 4119421 | Arrangement for fibration of molten mineral Apparatus for manufacturing mineral fibers from a mineral melt. Two groups of spinner wheels are arranged symmetrically with respect to each other. Each group includes a primary spinner wheel which receives molten mineral and a secondary spinner wheel to ... | 10/10/1978 |
| 4105425 | Apparatus for manufacture of mineral wool An apparatus for manufacture of mineral wool by which a flow of liquid melt is thrown off fast rotating rotors and cooled and transported to collecting means by means of a flow of air. According to the invention this flow of air besides an axial velocity ... | 08/08/1978 |
