Process for spinning glass fibers
US4088467A · kind A · utility
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| Filing date | May 23, 1977 |
| Grant date | May 9, 1978 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | May 23, 1997 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC Y)Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
- CPC primaryY02P40/57
- WIPO fieldOther special machines
- WIPO sectorMechanical engineering
Abstract
In a process for spinning glass fibers continuously from a nozzle plate having 25- 200 orifices per cm.sup.2, a start-up operation is improved by using the nozzle plate made of a material having a contact angle of 60.degree. or more, drawing flooded molten glass which has spread over the whole undersurface of the nozzle plate at a greater speed than the flowing speed of the molten glass by its own weight from each orifice, while maintaining the normal spinning temperature, and finding the ends of the individual filaments.
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