Adjustable positioning apparatus for cooling members and method
OwnerThomas Kent Thompson, Terry Joe Hanna +1inventors
InventorsThomas Kent Thompson, Terry Joe Hanna, Russell D. Arterburn
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Abstract
An apparatus for adjusting the cooling members located beneath fiberizing bushings is disclosed having the capability of moving each cooling member, or one portion of each cooling member, in a generally vertical direction, and/or in a lateral and/or tilting direction. Also disclosed is a process of using the apparatus to make fibers from molten material including molten glass.
Claims4
1-37. (canceled)
A process of making fiber from a molten material by flowing the molten material into a fiberizing bushing having at least one generally vertical side wall, an orifice plate having holes therein or a tip plate having a plurality of fiberizing tips thereon, each tip having an orifice therethrough that communicates with the molten glass in the bushing and with the environment external of the bushing, causing the molten material to flow through the orifices in the orifice plate or in the tips whereby a meniscus is formed below each operative orifice or tip and pulling one or more fibers from each meniscus, cooling the molten glass meniscus and just formed fibers using a plurality of cooling members held in place below the orifice plate or tip plate with a mounting apparatus for mounting the plurality of cooling members, the improvement comprising one or more mechanisms on the mounting apparatus to allow vertical adjustment of each cooling member with respect to the orifice or nozzle plate independently from other cooling members.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.