Method and apparatus for producing laminated materials

Claim 1

A CONTINUOUS PROCESS FOR PRODUCING A MULTIPLE-LAYER MAT OF GLASS FIBERS THAT COMPRISES, MELTING BATCH MATERIAL, FORMING FROM THE MELTED BATCH MATERIAL A PLURALITY OF INDIVIDUAL MAT-LIKE FILMS OF GLASS FIBERS AT INDIVIDUAL SPACED ALIGNED FORMING STATIONS, MOVING A COMMON SUPPORTING MEMBER PAST ALL OF SAID STATIONS, AND LAYING DOWN EACH OF THE SEPARATELY FORMED MAT-LIKE FILMS INDIVIDUALLY DIRECTLY UPON SAID SUPPORTING MEMBER IN SEQUENTIAL ADVANCING PROGRESSION ONE UPON THE OTHER TO PRODUCE A LAMINATED FIBROUS MAT.

Claim 2

AN APPARATUS FOR PRODUCING A MULTIPLE-LAYER MAT OF GLASS FIBERS IN A CONTINUOUS PROCESS COMPRISISNG, MEANS FORMING A PLURALITY OF INDIVIDUAL STATIONS AT WHICH BATCH MATERIAL IS HEATED AND HELD IN A MOLTEN FORM, EACH OF SAID STATIONS INCLUDING MEANS FOR PRODUCING A MAT-LIKE STREAM OF GLASS FIBERS FROM THE MOLTEN MATERIAL, A CONVEYING SURFACE BENEATH SAID STATION, SAID STATIONS BEING SPACED LONGITUDINALLY OF SAID CONVEYING SURFACE, THE SAID CONVEYING SURFACE BEING MOVABLE PROGRESSIVELY BENEATH SAID STATIONS, EACH OF SAID STATIONS INCLUDING MEANS DELIVERING SAID STREAMS ONTO SAID CONVEYING SURFACE INDIVIDUALLY IN SEQUENCE IN AN ADVANCING PROGRESSION ONE ON THE OTHER TO PRODUCE A LAMINATED MAT, AND HEATING MEANS DISPOSED ADJACENT SAID CONVEYING SURFACE AND BETWEEN ADJACENT STATIONS WHEREBY TO HEAT THE FILM LAID DOWN BY A PRIOR STATION BEFORE THE FILM IS LAID DOWN BY A SUBSEQUENT STATION TO PLASTICIZE THE FIBERS IN THE SO-HEATED FILM TO CAUSE ADHERENCE OF THE FIBERS THEREIN ARE ADHERENCE BETWEEN ENGAGING FILMS.