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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 19, 1978
Filed:
May. 20, 1977
Applicant:
Inventors:
Ronald W Hendrix, Columbus, OH (US);
Jerome P Klink, Granville, OH (US);
John W Dunn, Sylvania, OH (US);
Assignee:
Owens-Corning Fiberglas Corporation, Toledo, OH (US);
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B65H / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
242 / ; 65 1 / ; 242 42 ; 242 / ;
Abstract
The disclosure embraces a method of and apparatus for producing a roving package of strands of attenuated glass fibers or filaments, the method and apparatus involving segregating the fibers or filaments into bundles or strands in spaced relation and the bundles or strands wound into a package with the bundles or strands advanced toward the package in a plane substantially normal to the longitudinal axis of the package whereby the individual bundles or strands engage the package at peripherally spaced surface regions and are collected in side-by-side or waywound relation.