Glass manufacturing – Processes – Forming product or preform from molten glass
Patent
1981-11-27
1982-12-14
Lindsay, Jr., Robert L.
Glass manufacturing
Processes
Forming product or preform from molten glass
65 16, 264 12, 425 7, C03B 3704
Patent
active
043636462
ABSTRACT:
Relatively long microfilaments made from a low heat conductivity glass composition are described. The microfilaments are used to make insulation and/or filler materials.
The microfilaments are made by forming a liquid film of molten glass across a coaxial blowing nozzle 5, applying a blowing gas 10 at a positive pressure on the inner surface of the glass film to blow the film and form an elongated hollow tube or cylinder 12 of molten glass.
Means are provided for forming a thinned wall or weakened portion of the forming elongated tube or cylinder. A transverse jet 13 is used to direct an entraining fluid 14 over and around the blowing nozzle 5 at an angle to the axis of the blowing nozzle. The entraining fluid 14 as it passes over and around the blowing nozzle 5 fluid dynamically induces a pulsating or fluctuating pressure field at the opposite or lee side of the blowing nozzle in the wake or shadow of the coaxial blowing nozzle and produces a laminar flow of entraining fluid in the vicinity of the forming elongated tube or cylinder. The continued movement of the entraining fluid 14 over the elongated cylinder 12 produces asymmetric fluid drag forces on the cylinder, and at the thinned walled or weakened portion longitudinally breaks the cylinder to form a multiplicity of microfilaments, and detaches the microfilaments from the elongated cylinder and from the coaxial blowing nozzle and the detached filaments are carried away from the blowing nozzle.
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patent: 2982991 (1961-05-01), Karlovitz
patent: 3357808 (1967-12-01), Eberle
patent: 3885940 (1975-05-01), Levecque
patent: 4303432 (1981-12-01), Torobin
patent: 4303433 (1981-12-01), Torobin
Carvellas Perry
Lindsay, Jr. Robert L.
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