Method and apparatus for fiberizing molten mineral material

Details Method and apparatus for fiberizing molten mineral material Method and apparatus for fiberizing molten mineral material

Filed on

1985-07-02

Date issued

1987-04-28

Examiner

Lindsay, Robert

Patent Class

Glass manufacturing

SubClass

Processes

SubSubClass

Forming product or preform from molten glass

Other Related Categories

65 8, 65 14, 65 15, 264 8, 425 8, C03B 3705

Type

Patent

Status

active

Patent number

046611347

Description

ABSTRACT:
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 out from the spinner wheel or from several cooperating spinner wheels. The distribution of the stream of molten material (4) over the width or length of the primary spinner wheel is improved in that a force is applied to the incoming stream of molten material (4), especially from rear side thereof as seen in the rotation direction of the spinner wheel, which force is acting in a plane substantially perpendicular to a generatrix to the peripheral surface of the spinner wheel (1) and in a blunt angle to the stream of molten material (4). The force acts on a stream of molten material a short distance in advance of the place where the material comes into contact with the spinner wheel (1), and the force provides a widening of the stream of molten material without breaking same up into small fragments. The force may be provided by a gas flow (5) or by different mechanical deflector means.

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patent: 4356017 (1982-10-01), Ankersson
patent: 4541854 (1985-09-01), Schonhaar et al.

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