US 10,017,885 B2 · Method and an apparatus for making mineral fibre products

Abstract

The present invention concerns a method and an apparatus for making mineral fibre products by splitting an incoming primary web, said apparatus comprising a feeding conveyor for providing an incoming primary web of air-laid mineral wool, said feeding conveyor having a first direction of travel; a station for shifting the direction of travel of the primary web by receiving the primary web on a turning table and then transferring the primary web onto a receiving conveyor, where said receiving conveyor has a second direction of travel different to the first direction of travel; wherein a web splitter is provided at the downstream end of said receiving conveyor for dividing the incoming primary web into a first primary web and second primary web and wherein the turning table is shiftable in the first direction of travel.

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Dependent claims

A method of making mineral fibre products, comprising the steps of:

providing an incoming primary web of mineral wool;
dividing the incoming primary web longitudinally into a first primary web and a second primary web for feeding a first production line and a second production line;
and
sideway adjusting the width of the first and second primary webs during the production in such a manner that the first and second primary webs, directly after division are fed to a fixed first primary web conveyor at the first production line and to a fixed second primary web conveyor at the second production line, respectively;
wherein the sideway adjusting of the primary web includes a turning table and a receiving conveyor that are sideways adjustable in relation to the fixed first primary web conveyor and the fixed second primary web conveyor, respectively.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Method and an apparatus for making mineral fibre products

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Method and an apparatus for making mineral fibre products

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Abstract

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