Method and apparatus for collecting strands

Claim 1

THE METHOD OF MANUFACTURING, COLLECTING, AND PROCESSING TOW, TWINE OR CORDAGE COMPRISING THE STEPS OF ATTENUATING A PLURALITY OF STREAMS OF MOLTEN GLASS, GROUPING THE FIBERS IN STRAND FORM, CONTACTING THE STRAND BY MEANS COMPRISING AN ARM PIVOTABLE ABOUT ONE END AND HAVING MEANS AT THE OTHER END TO EFFECT THE CONTACT, WINDING THE STRAND BY THE ARM ABOUT A TORUS MEMBER ROTATING CONCENTRICALLY ABOUT AND IN THE SAME PLANE AS THE TORUS, SUCCESSIVELY SEVERING THE STRAND LOPS THUS FORMED UPON RELEASE FROM THE TROUS AT A GIVEN POINT WITH RESPECT TO THE GEOMETRIC DISPOSITION OF THE TORUS, CATCHING THE CUT STRANDS IN A RECEPTACLE, COLLECTING EACH SUCCESSIVE STRAND LENGTH IN LINEARLY STAGGERED RELATION WITH RESPECT TO THOSE ALREADY COLLECTED, AND CONTINUOUSLY TWINING AND PULLING THE BODY FORMED BY THE COLLECTED STRAND LENGTHS FROM A GIVEN POINT OF EMITTANCE OF THE RECEPTACLE.