Johns Manville

Irvin Barnett

Walter B Peters

Frank D Afflerbach

George Paul Reimschussel

A friction disc comprises continuous longitudinally co-extensive generally parallel glass strands wound spirally in the plane of the disc; short, generally parallel glass strands extending normal to the plane of the disc along said spiral; non-ferrous metal chips or wires; and a heat curable cement binding said glass strands and non-ferrous metal chips or wires together. The friction disc is made by forming a glass fabric with warp rovings of continuous parallel glass strands and fill rovings of continuous parallel glass strands; impregnating the fabric with a heat curable cement; winding the glass fabric onto a mandrel to form a spirally wrapped cylinder; slicing the cylinder into disc preforms; and molding the disc preforms under heat and pressure. Either non-ferrous metal wires are included in the fabric or non-ferrous metal chips are deposited on the fabric prior to wrapping the fabric onto the mandrel.

Glass fiber friction element

A wet process for producing continuous strands from discontinuous inorganic fibers by extruding and aligning a dispersion of said fibers in a liquid medium, which medium contains a gelable agent, into a coagulating bath to gel and convert the agent to a binder for the fibers until they are mechanically interlocked, and subsequently removing the binder. A fibrous strand produced in accordance with the process, with and without the binder included.

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Martinsville, NJ, United States of America

Irvin Barnett