Method and means for making a glass fiber product

Claim 1

THE METHOD OF FORMING A GLASS WOOL SHEET HAVING HAPHAZARDLY DISARRANGED GLASS FILAMENTS THEREIN, SAID METHOD INCLUDING PLACING A PLURALITY OF GENERALLY RECTLINEAR GLASS FILAMENTS IN A HOPPER, DISCHARGING SAID FILAMENTS DOWNWARDLY FORM SAID HOPPER, ONTO AN INCLINED CONVEYER, VIBRATING SAID FILAMENTS ON SAID CONVEYOR TO INITIALLY DISARRANGE SAME WHILE SIMULTANEOUSLY CONVEYING SAID FILAMENTS GENERALLY HORIZONTALLY FROM SAID HOPPER, CAUSING SAID DISARRANGED FILAMENTS TO FALL DOWNWARDLY FROM SAID VIBRATING CONVEYOR INTO A STREAM OF AIR UNDER PRESSURE WHEREIN SAID FILAMENTS ARE SUSPENDED AND FURTHER DISARRANGED, PROJECTING SAID FURTHER DISARRANGED FILAMENTS AGAINST AN INCLINED BAFFLE STRUCTURE DISPOSED IN THE FLOW PATH OF THE STREAM OF AIR TO DIVERT THE SUSPENDED FILAMENTS GENERALLY DOWNWARDLY ONTO A SUBSTANTIALLY HORIZONTALLY DISPOSED CONVEYER WHEREON SIAD FILAMENTS COME TO REST IN HAPHAZARD DISARRANGEMENT, SPRAYING THE HAPHAZARDLY DISARRANGED FILAMENTS WITH A BONDING MATERIAL, AND THEN PROGRESSIVELY COMPRESSING THE HAPHAZARDLY DISARRANGED FILAMENTS WHILE SIMULTANEOUSLY HEATING AND CONVEYING SAME TO ANCHOR THE FILAMENTS IN HAPHAZARD DISARRANGEMENT TO CREATE A SHEET OF GLASS WOOL.

Claim 2

THE METHOD OF FORMING A GLASS WOOL SHEET HAVING HAPHAZARDLY DISARRANGED GLASS FILAMENTS THEREIN, SAID METHOD INCLUDING PLACING A PLURALITY OF GENERALLY RECTLINEAR GLASS FILAMENTS IN A HOPPER, DISCHARGING SAID FILAMENTS DOWNWARDLY FORM SAID HOPPER, ONTO AN INCLINED CONVEYER, VIBRATING SAID FILAMENTS ON SAID CONVEYOR TO INITIALLY DISARRANGE SAME WHILE SIMULTANEOUSLY CONVEYING SAID FILAMENTS GENERALLY HORIZONTALLY FROM SAID HOPPER, CAUSING SAID DISARRANGED FILAMENTS TO FALL DOWNWARDLY FROM SAID VIBRATING CONVEYOR INTO A STREAM OF AIR UNDER PRESSURE WHEREIN SAID FILAMENTS ARE SUSPENDED AND FURTHER DISARRANGED, PROJECTING SAID FURTHER DISARRANGED FILAMENTS AGAINST AN INCLINED BAFFLE STRUCTURE DISPOSED IN THE FLOW PATH OF THE STREAM OF AIR TO DIVERT THE SUSPENDED FILAMENTS GENERALLY DOWNWARDLY ONTO A SUBSTANTIALLY HORIZONTALLY DISPOSED CONVEYER WHEREON SIAD FILAMENTS COME TO REST IN HAPHAZARD DISARRANGEMENT, SPRAYING THE HAPHAZARDLY DISARRANGED FILAMENTS WITH A BONDING MATERIAL, AND THEN PROGRESSIVELY COMPRESSING THE HAPHAZARDLY DISARRANGED FILAMENTS WHILE SIMULTANEOUSLY HEATING AND CONVEYING SAME TO ANCHOR THE FILAMENTS IN HAPHAZARD DISARRANGEMENT TO CREATE A SHEET OF GLASS WOOL.