Method of preparing glass strand and novel glass strand packages

A method of winding fiber glass strand comprising drawing glass filaments from a molten glass feeding means, gathering said filaments into a strand, passing said strand over a godet to impart a thrust to the strand thereby reducing tension carried by the drawing force, introducing the tension reduced strand through a fluid turbulence means, passing a gaseous fluid at high speed tangential to the curved wall of the means and at high velocity to thereby microtraverse the strand and also produce a rounded strand and winding the strand on a rotating surface at high speed as it emerges from said fluid turbulence means while further traversing the strand across the winding surface by relative movement with the winding surface.

A method of forming glass fiber strand comprising drawing a plurality of glass filaments from a molten glass feeding means, contacting said filaments with an applicator to apply a size thereto, gathering said filaments into a strand, tension reducing said strand, passing the tension reduced strand into a fluid turbulence means, passing a gaseous fluid at a high velocity tangential to the curved wall of the fluid turbulence means to impart a false twist to said strand and create a curvilinear wave form in said strand and also microtraverse the strand and winding the strand immediately upon emergence from said fluid turbulence means on the surface of a winding collet at high speed while in proximity to said means to thereby further traverse the strand across the winding surface.

A method of preparing several packages of fiber glass strand simultaneously comprising drawing a plurality of filaments from each of several molten glass feeding means from a unitary attenuator winding means, gathering the plurality of filaments from each molten glass feeding means into a strand, passing each strand so formed through a separate tension reducing zone and reducing the tension thereon, passing each strand from said tension reducing zones into a separate fluid turbulence means for each strand, passing a high velocity gaseous fluid tangential to the curved wall of each of said fluid turbulence means to impart a curvilinear wave and a false twist to each of said strands and also microtraverse the strands, removing each of said strands from each of said means and winding each strand on a separate surface associated with a reciprocating rotating high speed winder in proximity to the fluid turbulence means to thereby further traverse each of the strands across the length of the surface associated therewith during winding.

A method of forming fiber glass strand comprising drawing glass filaments from a molten glass feeding means at high speeds, applying moisture to said filaments, gathering said filaments into strand, passing said strand over a surface that moves the strand at a speed in excess of the speed of a winding means used for attenuating and winding said strand to thereby reduce the tension in said strand, passing the strand into a high fluid turbulence means, contracting the wall of said fluid turbulence means tangentially with a gaseous fluid to thereby impart a curvilinear wave and microtraverse to the strand and also produce a rounded strand and winding said strand on a rotating winding surface in proximity to the fluid turbulence means to thereby further traverse the strand as the strand emerges from said high fluid turbulence means.