Owens Corning Fiberglas Technology, Inc.

Andrew Lawrence Snedden

David Herman Wolf

Guang Gao

Seshadri Srinivasan

Richard Alan Green

David Lynn Molnar

Patrick John Prescott

Jeffrey Coon

Tom Orin Matteson

Douglas Scott Boessneck

A filament forming apparatus and cooling apparatus for and method of inducing a uniform air flow between a filament forming area beneath a bushing and the cooling apparatus are disclosed. The cooling apparatus includes an air housing extending beneath the bushing. The air housing has a top wall and side walls defining an air chamber therebetween.

Filament forming apparatus and a cooling apparatus for and method of inducing a uniform air flow between a filament forming area and the cooling apparatus

A roll for applying a sizing composition to a fan of one or more fibers, providing a shaft having a curved central axis and a sleeve covering at least a portion of the shaft, the sleeve being rotatable relative to the shaft. Each fiber of the fan of one or more fibers contacts the sleeve at an axial location of the sleeve such that each fiber of the fan of one or more fibers lies substantially in a plane perpendicular to the curved central axis of the shaft at the axial location.

Radial contact applicator roll

An apparatus (10) is provided for producing continuous glass filaments (30). The apparatus (10) comprises a bushing (20) for supplying streams of molten glass and a drawing device (40) adapted to draw the streams into continuous glass filaments (30). A cooling device (50) is also provided and is located adjacent to the bushing (20) for drawing in heated air from a filament forming area beneath the bushing such that heat is convectively transferred away from the filament forming area.

Apparatus for making glass fibers having vacuum cooling fans

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Mt. Perry, OH, United States of America

Andrew Lawrence Snedden