Johns Manville

Manville Service Corporation

Harvell M Smith

Ray G Brooks

Robert Ronald Coleman

Duane Harold Faulkner

Insulation board feeding apparatus feeds successive boards from a pallet stack to a grooving machine to make pre-formed duct sections. The apparatus includes a cable driven elevator assembly, a reciprocating transfer carriage with a plurality of pivotable board-engaging fingers which is reciprocated by an air cylinder, and a guide assembly comprised of two non-driven rollers. The machine of the present invention is simpler, more reliable and less expensive to manufacture than its predecessors.

Insulation board feeder

A low profile heat sealing iron for use in applying heat activatable tape in areas of very limited access, such as the sealing of periodic joints in air duct is disclosed. The low profile sealing iron requires only a few inches or less of clearance and has a tape guiding means that feeds the tape to the proper location for heat sealing as the iron is slid along the surface of the member on which the tape is being applied. Preferably, the iron has a handle of adjustable length which permits the sealing iron to be used on ducts measuring six to eight feet or more when the handle is extended, but having a handle only about three feet long or less for easy carrying and handling at other times. A method of using the low profile sealing iron to seal joints in air ducts is also disclosed.

Method of using a low profile heat sealing iron

Tool guide for a knife-edged hand tool for use in the fabrication of an air duct transition from a sheet of fibrous material, said sheet having transversely extending folding grooves therein, for cutting from said panel a wedge-shaped piece of material of predetermined size.

Cutting guide tool for fabrication of air duct transitions and method of

Low profile heat sealing iron

By controlling the design and operational parameters in accordance with particular relationships fibers having an average diameter of 7 microns or less can be formed by passing molten material through orifices in a peripheral wall of a rotor without using conventional hot gas blast attenuation externally of the rotor. The primary fibers are broken into finite lengths to produce staple fiber by a plurality of relatively cool and relatively low pressure air streams which are circumferentially spaced about the rotor and which flow in a direction transverse to the direction of travel of the primary fibers as they exit the orifices in the rotor. The rotors utilized in the perferred embodiment of the present invention have a peripheral wall with at least 40,000 orifices having diameters of about 18 mils or less. As one of the design parameters, orifice diameter, changes during the life of the rotor, operational parameters are adjusted to maintain the desired relationships between the various design and operational parameters.

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Conifer, CO, United States of America

Harvell M Smith