Abstract: The present invention is directed to an apparatus for manufacture of a fleece with irregularly erect fiber structure which comprises a chamber attached to a spinning chamber, the first chamber comprising at least one high voltage electrode and a grounded electrode forming a channel, the electrodes forming an electrostatic field for aligning fibers with the grounded electrode serving as an air-permeable base for forming the fleece.

Abstract: Method and filter apparatus for extracting entrained lint particles from an effluent air stream prior to discharge into the atmosphere. The filter apparatus and method are used in combination with a vertical settling chamber for separating relatively dense fiber product from airborne lint entrained in a product stream. The filter apparatus includes a housing forming an air stream inlet, a product discharge outlet and a clean air outlet. A rotatable screen is interposed between the air stream inlet and the clean air outlet for collecting the entrained lint on the screen as the effluent air stream flows through the screen for discharge into the atmosphere. Bulk fiber product which settles to the bottom of the chamber is discharged through a rotary valve in the product discharge outlet. The accumulated lint deposit is presented to the product discharge outlet as the screen turns.

Abstract: Hulls are removed from brewer's spent grain (BSG) by drying and milling the BSG in a roller mill having a differential of about 2.5 to about 4.0 and a tight setting, followed by passing the milled mixture through a No. 36 light wire sieve which retains the hulls and permits the bran to pass through. An improved method of making bread with bran which comprises thoroughly mixing the bran with oil and surfactant before adding the other bread ingredients is also described.

Abstract: This invention relates to a manufacturing method and a hermetic glass-to-metal seal suitable for a component in an electric circuit such as a liquid tantalum electrolytic capacitor. The method comprises the steps of fusing a raw material glass in order to form a glass tube; setting a bead, obtained by cutting the glass tube across the axis, in the opening to be sealed, for example, the opening of a member which forms a circuit component; and heating the assembly of the members which composes the circuit component including the bead, above the melting temperature of the bead, with a longitudinal conductor piercing through the bead. This simplified method of manufacturing a hermetic glass-to-metal seal accomplishes a perfect sealing since the sealing glass includes no undesirable impurities such as binder, and since the thermal expansion coefficient of the sealing glass is close to that of the metals used to construct the circuit components, and the sealing glass is stable to electrolyte.

Abstract: First and second arms for holding a blank mold are pivotable about a shaft between an open position and a closed position by means of a motor. A motor operated cam cooperates with rollers on the arms to apply a clamping force to prevent premature movement of the arms toward an open position.

Abstract: The apparatus disclosed for severing gobs issuing its stream from a glass feeder. The shearing mechanism takes the form of two sets, or pairs, of shear blades mounted from diametrically opposed positions relative to the bowl of the feeder. A single cam drives through multiple linkage mechanisms to operate the two pairs of shear mechanisms and synchronisms so that the gobs will be all sheared at the same instant. The links in the linkage mechanism all are provided with the usual adjustments, as to lengths, in order to provide that adjustment after setup which is normally necessary to assure the proper operation of the shears.

Abstract: A glass batch preheater in one stage of which hot flue gases from a glass melting furnace are passed through a bed of cullet and a bed of glass batch material. The bed of cullet, while being heated, filters dust and other particles from the hot flue gases while the bed of glass batch materials is simultaneously heated and fluidized. An alternative preheater includes a first stage and a second supplementary stage to further heat the glass batch material. A separate stage may also be used for elutriation of glass particles. Steam may be injected to provide moisture to the glass batch and for other purposes.

Abstract: In the method of making hollow glass articles wherein the article is subjected to an operation such that glass particles are deposited and held on the interior of the glass article, the method of removing such particles which comprises contacting the glass article with a resonator of an ultrasonic generator system and subjecting the article to ultrasonic vibrations from the ultrasonic generator.

Abstract: Afterburning is employed with selective, non-catalytic reduction by ammonia injection to reduce NO.sub.x emissions of a process furnace, especially a glass melting furnace.

Abstract: An improved Thermal Regenerative Cracking (TRC) apparatus and process includes: (10) an improved low residence time solid-gas separation device and system; and (2) an improved solids feeding device and system; as well as an improved sequential thermal cracking process; an improved solids quench boiler and process; an improved preheat vaporization system; and an improved fuel gas generation system for solids heated. One or more of the improvements may be incorporated in a conventional TRC system.

Abstract: Glass fiber sizing compositions and methods of making same and glass fibers containing dried residue of the sizing composition are provided that yield improved efficiencies, reduced migration, reduction in drying conditions, reduced cleaning time and improved housekeeping. The sizing composition, method and glass fiber strand involves the use of a high solids sizing composition having a water solubilized, condensation, cross-linkable, unsaturated polyester resin having free carboxyl groups either pendant or terminal or pendant and terminal and an amino-containing silane and an amount of water to yield a sizing composition having an amount of total solids in the range of about 18 to about 40 weight percent. In addition, other additives can be included in the sizing composition such as additional polyester resins, additional coupling agents, thermoplastic polymers, anti-static agents, film-former modifiers, wetting agents, stabilizers and lubricants.

Abstract: The present invention embraces apparatus for the production of mineral fibers such as glass fibers. In particular, the apparatus comprises a guide member for gathering filaments into side-by-side strands wherein the guide member has a locating hole and support means for holding the guide member normal to the side-by-side strands. The support means comprises a supporting member, a pin member extending upwardly from the support member for positioning the guide member thereon at the locating hole, and an adjustable member extending from the support member and adapted to support the guide member so that the guide member is held above the support member by the pin and the adjustable member.

Abstract: A method for producing decorative glass objects in which the decoration is created by blisters formed by air bubbles within solid glass and/or by a pattern on the outer surface of the glass. When producing glass objects provided with air bubbles by means of known methods the bubbles remain on the surface of the objects which then easily break. In addition, the bubbles are formed at random, which may make them appear as dim impurities. When, in accordance with the invention, molten glass is poured from above in the shape of a band into a hot mould, the molten glass is spread into the mould in layers between which microscopic air bubbles remain. As the glass surface cools, the air enclosed within the bubbles expands in the molten glass which, while cooling, leaves the bubbles as clear pearls inside the glass. As the molten glass is spread in layers towards the wall of the mould, a pattern is formed as the glass surface cools.

Abstract: A threading member secured to an end of a cot roll of a strand chopping apparatus and having a cam surface for laterally moving a strand to the periphery of the cot roll as the cot roll is rotated at normal speed and the strand is held in engagement with the cam surface.

Abstract: A process for producing mineral wool having a chemical composition comprised of between about 50 and 70 weight percent silica plus alumina, about 20 and 35 weight percent lime plug magnesia and about 5 and 15 weight percent iron oxides is described.The process includes feeding a first particulate waste material having a particle size of 100 weight percent -200 mesh and containing organic combustibles having heating values of about 10 mega J per kilogram of slag and inorganic non-combustibles, a second particulate waste material having a particle size of 100 weight percent -200 mesh and containing fluxstone, and preheated air at a velocity of between about 30 meters to 60 meters per second at a temperature of about 500.degree. C. into a high temperature cyclone-like furnace. The combustibles are substantially instantaneously burned and the non-combustibles and the fluxstone are melted and reacted to form a molten slag which can be fiberized into mineral wool.

Abstract: The method is characterized by moulding at least one slab of a thermoplastic, normally solid material under heat treatment against a matrix having a form substantially matching that of the final mirror to form a shell (6) introducing into the shell a material selected from the group consisting of; (1) glass bubbles of a thermoplastic, normally solid material; (2) a composition of a powder of a thermoplastic, normally solid material together with an expanding agent, and; (3) mixtures thereof, and bringing the glass bubbles and the powder particles of the composition resp., the latter after expansion, to adhere, on one hand to each other, and on the other to the shell to form a porous supporting structure. The mirror blank according to the invention comprises a shell (6) of a thermoplastic, normally solid material and a supporting structure of the material in said group filling the shell, the glass bubbles and the powder particles resp. being attached to each other and to the shell.

Abstract: A method for producing fibers from molten mineral material in which the heat sink provided by air induced to flow in the direction of the bushing by the moving fibers is replaced during a period of fiber forming interruption by a secondary flow of air directed toward the bushing during the interruption.

Abstract: Apparatus for fixation, dessication, and embedding of biologic specimens for microscopic, especially electron microscopic studies having compartment for treating specimens held in liquid permeable specimen holders, a supply of treatment liquid connected to the compartment, to introduce liquid from the supply, and remove liquid from the compartment, a chamber (14c) in the compartment for holding a quantity of fluid, a passage connected to the chamber, pump (15) located in the chamber for moving fluid through the passage, at least one tubular cell (14a) for supporting a plurality of specimen holders (10, 10a) is an end to end relationship, one end of said cell being connected to said passage, the other end of each of said chamber and said cell being connected to a common portion of said tank to permit liquid to be circulated by said pump.

Abstract: Relatively long microfilaments made from a low heat conductivity glass composition are described. The microfilaments are used to make insulation and/or filler materials.The microfilaments are made by forming a liquid film of molten glass across a coaxial blowing nozzle 5, applying a blowing gas 10 at a positive pressure on the inner surface of the glass film to blow the film and form an elongated hollow tube or cylinder 12 of molten glass.Means are provided for forming a thinned wall or weakened portion of the forming elongated tube or cylinder. A transverse jet 13 is used to direct an entraining fluid 14 over and around the blowing nozzle 5 at an angle to the axis of the blowing nozzle.

Abstract: Apparatus and method of producing glass fibers employing a tipped or tipless annular bushing plate from which fibers are drawn as an annular array. A cooling gas, such as air, is directed into contact with the bushing plate and with either, or both, the exterior and interior of the annular array.