Means for treating mineral wool fibers

Claim 1

IN A FIBERIZATION UNIT FOR FIBERIZING MOLTEN FIBERFORMING MATERIAL BY SUBJECTING SAID MATERIAL TO A SPINNING OPERATION AND ENCOMPASSING BLASTS OF STEAM FROM WHICH UNIT THE FIBERS ARE EJECTED ABOUT A SUBSTANTIALLY HORIZONTAL AXIS IN THE FORM OF AN ANNULAR WOOL STREAM, AN APPLICATOR FOR TREATING THE FIBERS SO PRODUCED INCLUDING A CONDUIT PROJECTING THROUGH THE ANNULUS OF THE WOOL STREAM INTO THE INTERIOR THEREOF WITH ITS OUTLET DISPOSED AT APPROXIMATELY THE CENTER OF THE ANNULAR WOOL STREAM FOR SUPPLYING A TREATING SUBSTANCE TO THE ENCOMPASSING FIBERS OF THE STREAM, AND A CONDUIT ENCOMPASSING THE FIRST MENTIONED CONDUIT AND HAVING A SUBSTANTIALLY HORIZONTALLY ARRANGED DISCHARGE NOZZLE FOR SUPPLYING FLUID UNDER PRESSURE TO THE DISCHARGED TREATING SUBSTANCE AS IT LEAVES THE OUTLET FOR EFFECTIVELY ATOMIZING THIS TREATING SUBSTANCE, DIRECTING IT WITHIN AND GENERALLY ALONG THE PATH OF THE ENCOMPASSING WOOL STREAM FOR AND DISPERSING IT INTO THE ENCOMPASSING WOOL STREAM FOR TREATING THE FIBERS IN THE STREAM.