Abstract: A method of decreasing the water load needed to form a fibrous panel. The process includes admixing a mineral wool, a cellulose, and a binder to provide a pre-mixed slurry, admixing a mineral filler with water to provide a mineral filler slurry, admixing the pre-mixed slurry and the mineral filler slurry to form a dispersion, flowing the dispersion onto a foraminous support wire to provide a green board, dewatering the green board to form a dewatered green board and drying the dewatered green board to provide a fibrous panel.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
August 17, 2017
Date of Patent:
November 5, 2019
Assignee:
USG INTERIORS, LLC
Inventors:
Thomas M. Mayers, Wei Xu, Martin W. Brown