Owens-Corning Fiberglas Corporation

James E Reeves, Jr

John L Patterson

Michael P Dunn

The apparatus includes an air temperature and humidity control chamber, a chopper room, strand choppers in the chopper room, a first controllable pitch fan having an inlet connected to the temperature and humidity control chamber and an outlet connected to the chopper room, a forming hood beneath the choppers, an endless conveyor chain beneath the forming hood, a chopped strand collecting chamber for collecting chopped strands which happen to pass through the conveyor chain, a suction chamber disposed beneath an upper flight of the conveyor chain and partitioned into a plurality of sections each having an inlet communicating with the forming hood through the conveyor chain and being provided with nozzle-forming downstream convergent baffle plates therein and an outlet communicating with the chopped strand collecting chamber through a duct having an adjustable damper therein securable in an adjusted position, a second controllable pitch fan having an inlet connected to the chopped strand collecting chamber and an outlet connected to the temperature and humidity control chamber, a static pressure sensor in the forming hood, and means for controlling the pitch of the fan blades in accordance with the static pressure in the forming hood.

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Anderson, SC, United States of America

James E Reeves, Jr