Abstract: The only methods hitherto available for the production of mineral wool from materials such as basalt either utilize a stationary nozzle (blast drawing method) or external centrifuging whereby unsatisfactory yield and/or a not entirely satisfactory fiber quality, particularly with regard to a high content of unfiberized components, are achieved. By way of the invention, application of a fiberization method is suggested which, in spite of a high fluidity of the molten mineral material such as basalt, arrives at high quality fibers with a low bead proportion at good yield. This is made possible by selection of specific materials and their fiberization in specific conditions. Whereas fiberization of these fluid materials is carried out in external centrifuging at viscosities of a few tens of poises, fiberization by internal centrifuging at viscosities of more than 100 poises is required, according to the: invention, in order to achieve a mineral wool for insulation purposes with a low bead content.

Abstract: The present invention furnishes a device for fiberizing molten mineral materials in order to produce mineral fiber products by means of a spinner (2) having a multiplicity of orifices (6; 8) provided in the peripheral wall (4) thereof, for centrifuging molten mineral materials (10; 12) supplied to the spinner (2), with the spinner (2) comprising on the inside (14) of the peripheral wall (4) compartments (18; 20) arranged in sections and delimited by baffles (16) for separately feeding and separately receiving a respective molten material (10; 12) to at least one associated orifice (6; 8), with the orifices (6; 8) extending at least approximately in a radial direction through the peripheral wall (4). In the present invention a method for producing this device is moreover proposed.

Abstract: The invention relates to a material based on inorganic fibres at least a proportion of which are multicomponent fibres and the cohesion and/or the geometry of which is (are) ensured, at least partially, by a sizing.It also relates to the use of this material for thermal and/or acoustic insulation.

Abstract: Mineral material, particularly of the basalt type, is fiberized by internal centrifuging in a spinner having a peripheral wall with a plurality of orifices. A heated gas flow attenuates into fibers the filament cones emanating from the orifices. To produce mineral wool with good fiber fineness and largely free of unfiberized particles, the length of the filament cones and the configuration of the heated gas flows generated around the spinner are adjusted so that the majority of the filament cones emanating from the spinner orifices intersects the isotherm corresponding to a viscosity of 100 poises to enter into a zone cooled down to a temperature corresponding to a viscosity of more than 100 poises. The configuration of the heated gas flow is produced by an annular external burner in conjunction with an annular external blower that produces jets of cool air. The cool air brings low-temperature isotherms in close vicinity to the peripheral wall of the spinner.

Abstract: A method for producing mineral wool of a material which is highly fluid at an elevated liquidus temperature in particular above 1,200.degree. C., with a viscosity of less than 5,000 poises at liquidus temperature, is proposed wherein the molten mineral material, after having destroyed all nuclei of crystallization, is supplied into a spinner (1') the peripheral wall (19) of which comprises a multiplicity of orifices with small diameters wherethrough said molten material is centrifuged to form filaments which, in a given case, are subjected to a supplementary attenuating effect of a preferably hot gas flow flowing along said peripheral wall (19) of said spinner (1') and generated by a concentric annular external burner (13). If fiberization of such a material is effected in the traditional way, a great proportion of unfiberized particles in the product will result.

Abstract: Discontinuous fibers are manufactured from a thermoplastic material having an elevated melting point by feeding molten thermoplastic material into a centrifugal chamber. The chamber includes a plurality of orifices through which the molten thermoplastic material is forced, thereby forming molten thermoplastic jets. Hot streams of gas are directed at these jets to convert the jets into thermoplastic fibers. Sizing agents including an emulsion or suspension in water, or an aqueous solution of active substances is sprayed onto the fibers. These sizing agents comprise no more than three active substances including a lubricating agent and an antistatic agent.

Abstract: Fibers are drawn out by maintaining a temperature gradient between the interior and exterior walls of the peripheral band of a centrifuge. The peripheral band is made from a material having a thermal conductivity below 20 Wm.sup.-1 C.sup.-1 at 1000.degree. C. Application to the drawing out of fibers from glasses having a working range less than 100.degree. C. wide.

Abstract: The invention concerns the improvement of the fiber distribution in a web or mat, the attenuation of the fibers being effected by means of gas currents.The material delivered in the form of filaments is attenuated in a channel between two gas jets. At the outlet of the channel, the gas current carrying the fibers entrains the ambient air and passes through a guide apparatus containing two walls. The circulation of the air induced between the channel and the guide apparatus is modified by the interposition of baffles.The modification provides for improvement in the uniformity in the fiber web being made.