Apparatus and method for forming a continuous web of fibers
OwnerAnthony Fabbricante, Jack Fabbricante +1inventors
InventorsAnthony Fabbricante, Jack Fabbricante, Thomas Fabbricante
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Abstract
A vacuum draw apparatus for preparing a fiber and/or particle web comprising a means for drawing a vacuum on a mass of fibers and/or particles, said vacuum draw means having an opening for applying a vacuum to said mass of fibers and/or particles, an access gate having a patterned opening located between the mass of fibers and/or particles and opening of said vacuum means, and means for moving said access gate, whereby the vacuum draw system will provide an oscillating pull on a mass of fibers and/or particles to work said mass to redistribute and/or further consolidate the fibers and/or particles.
Claims14
A vacuum draw apparatus for preparing a fiber and/or particle web comprising
- a) a means for drawing a vacuum on a mass of fibers and/or particles,
- b) said vacuum draw means having an opening for applying a vacuum to said mass of fibers and/or particles,
- c) an access gate having a patterned opening located between the mass of fibers and/or particles and said opening of said vacuum means, and
- d) a means for moving said access gate, whereby the vacuum draw system creates an oscillating pull on said mass of fibers and/or particles to work said mass to redistribute and/or further consolidate the fibers and/or particles.
A process for consolidating and/or redistributing the fibers and/or particles in a mass of fibers and/or particles comprising the steps of:
- producing a mass of fibers and/or particles;
- collecting said mass of fibers and/or particles;
- passing said mass of fibers and/or particles over a vacuum draw system;
- said vacuum draw system comprising:
- a) means for drawing a vacuum on a mass of fibers and/or particles,
- b) said vacuum draw means having an opening for applying a vacuum to said mass of fibers and/or particles,
- c) an access gate having a patterned opening located between the mass of fibers and/or particles and said opening for said vacuum means, and
- d) means for moving the access gate, whereby the vacuum draw system provides an oscillating pull on a mass of fibers and/or particles to work said mass to redistribute and/or further consolidate the fibers and/or particles whereby said vacuum draw system provides an oscillating pattern of vacuum draw on the fiber and/or particle mass as it passes over said vacuum draw system to work the mass to redistribute the fibers or particles,
- redistributing and/or consolidating said mass of fibers and/or particles, and
- collecting said mass of fibers and/or particles.
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