Owens Corning Intellectual Capital, LLC

Owens Corning Fiberglas Technology, Inc.

Ocv Intellectual Capital, LLC

Frank MacDonald

Jill A Krueger

Adam Davis

Eugene Galloway

Robert Williams

Anthony Fan

John Graham

Patrick Moireau

Larry J Huey

David R Hartman

Andrew B Woodside

James V Gauchel

Douglas Brian Mann

David L Shipp

Georg Adolphs

Jerome Francois

Tom Wassenberg

Patrick Haller

Peggy M Woodside

David Hartman

Fiber catching device

A non-weft, unidirectional fabric is provided that includes a plurality of substantially parallel reinforcement fiber bundles. The reinforcement fiber bundles have a first surface and an opposing second surface. The non-weft, unidirectional fabric further includes at least one of a non-woven veil bonded to at least one surface and one or more bands of sprayed adhesive spanning across at least a portion of the width of one of the first and second surfaces of the plurality of substantially parallel reinforcement fibers.

Non-weft unidirectional fiber-reinforced fabrics

A method and apparatus are provided for producing composite strands. The apparatus comprises a heated bushing for supplying streams of molten glass to be drawn into continuous first fibers; a drawing device adapted to draw the streams into the first fibers; supply equipment for supplying one or more second fibers of a second material; one or more applicators for applying a size to the first and second fibers; and a device for gathering the first and second fibers into one or more composite strands. The composite stands are made by drawing glass fibers from the bushing; applying sizing to the glass fibers and the second fibers; contacting the fibers with a heated contact plate to dry the fibers; and then commingling the fibers to form one or more composite strands.

Contact drying of fibers to form composite strands

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Granville, OH, United States of America

Frank MacDonald