Method and apparatus for producing fibers from glass
Abstract
Abstract The disclosure embraces a method of and apparatus for producing fibers from heat-softenable materials, particularly glass, be centrifuging streams of heat-softened glass delivered through passages of equal diameters, differing lengths and differing flow resistances in the peripheral wall of a rotating spinner into a gaseous attenuating blast and establishing high temperature and other environmental conditions achieving relationship between glass flow of the streams and heat and attenuating energy at different regions with respect to the spinner wall to control the range of size or diameters of the fibers attenuated by the blast and for producing fibers of substantially uniform diameters within a comparatively narrow size range.
Inventors
- 👤 D Kleist
- 👤 C Buchanan
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