Owens-corning Fiberglas Corporation

John L Patterson

Robert O Slonaker

Richard H Pierce

Michael P Dunn

James E Reeves, Jr

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.

Mat forming apparatus

The strand guide device includes a generally vertical base plate, a pair of vertically spaced strand guide rolls secured to the base plate in cantilever fashion, and a generally vertical strand guide plate extending from the base plate parallel to and principally adjacent the upper one of the rolls and having a contoured upper edge defining a generally U-shaped strand guide portion adapted to confine moving strands and a slot portion inclined upwardly toward the strand guide portion and adapted to hold a stationary standby strand in readiness for insertion into a group of moving strands.

Strand guide device

Method of and apparatus for producing roving with a controlled number of strands including means for advancing a linear element along a given path; means for directing light to the element for reflection therefrom; means for sensing changes in the reflected light as an indication of changes in the speed of the elements advancement; means for supplying a signal in response to the changing reflected light; and means for controlling the advancement of the element in response to the signal.

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Granville, OH, United States of America

John L Patterson