Method of making glass-metal fiber composites
Abstract
Abstract Composites of glass reinforced by metal fibers are made by fusing glass coated metal fibers together. The coated fibers may be made by drawing a fiber through a tube of the glass and softening a narrow band of the glass tube around the fiber as the fiber is pulled from the tube. Glass-metal fibers so produced are arranged next to one another, and the glass is fused together at a temperature above the annealing point of the glass and approximately at the softening point of the glass. In the case of boron fibers, the fibers are kept at a temperature desirably below 1,650*F. as the composite is being prepared. The composites of the invention include boron, tungsten, or molybdenum fibers in glass. Procedures given can also produce composites with stainless steel, or carbon steel fibers.
Inventors
- 👤 A Siefert
- 👤 F Sens
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