US3084525A - Manufacture of fibers from thermoplastic material, particularly glass fibers - Google Patents

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US3084525A
US3084525A US4085A US408560A US3084525A US 3084525 A US3084525 A US 3084525A US 4085 A US4085 A US 4085A US 408560 A US408560 A US 408560A US 3084525 A US3084525 A US 3084525A
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    • C03B37/00—Manufacture or treatment of flakes, fibres, or filaments from softened glass, minerals, or slags
    • C03B37/01—Manufacture of glass fibres or filaments
    • C03B37/04—Manufacture of glass fibres or filaments by using centrifugal force, e.g. spinning through radial orifices; Construction of the spinner cups therefor
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  • the present invention relates to a process of manufacturing fibers from thermoplastic material, particularly glass fibers, in which the material in the melted state, contained in a hollow rotating body provided with orifices on its periphery, is projected through these orifices in the form of threads by the action of centrifugel force. It is already known that in order to produce fibers of great fineness, the threads should be subjected to gaseous currents at high speed, in particular gaseous currents resulting from the expansion of gases leaving a combustion chamber.
  • the centrifuge body may have one or several rows of projection orifices in its peripheral wall or band.
  • the number of rows of orifices which, of course, tends to increase the height of the peripheral wall of the centrifuge.
  • the number of these rows is considerable, for example, exceeding twenty, various difficulties in obtaining fibers of good quality are encountered.
  • This improvement consists in introducing a combustible element, in the gaseous, solid or liquid state, into the gaseous current which passes along the peripheral band to effect with certainty the drawing out of the threads of thermoplastic material.
  • This introduction of the combustible element is effected in a manner to attain a combustion in the zone surrounding the rotating body and along a predetermined height of the latter.
  • the combustible element may be in a solid state, for example, in the form of non-combustibles in the combustion chamber wherein is produced the attenuating gaseous current, these particles being carried along by said gaseous current.
  • the combustible element is constituted by a certain quantity of combustible gas which may be introduced into the cornbustion chamber and which is carried along by the burned gases through the expansion orifices.
  • FIG. 1 is a vertical sectional view of the left end of a rotary centrifuge with the overlying combustion chamber for directing a blast of gaseous current transversely to fibers discharging from the centrifuge to efiect the at tenuation thereof, and which includes an arrangement for introducing a non-combustible element into the gaseous blast for combustion at a later time;
  • FIG. 2 is a vertical sectional view of an assembly similar to that shown in FIG. 1 illustrating a different mode of introducing the non-combustible element into the gaseous stream;
  • FIG. 3 is a vertical sectional view of a still different embodiment of the invention as applied to a rotary centrifuge and overlying combustion chamber.
  • the combustion chamber 1 is preceded by a chamber 2 for mixing the combustible and the comburent, said chambers communicating by a grid 3.
  • the combustion chamber is annular and its orifice 4, which may be a continuous slot or made up of orifices close together, is placed in the usual manner so that the gaseous current 6 at high temperature which escapes from it traverses across band 5 of the rotating body C along its entire height.
  • the band 5 is provided with a plurality of superposed rows of orifices for projecting therethrough molten ther which is thrown against the inner face of this wall by centrifugal force and other Ways known in the art.
  • a supplementary combustible inlet feeder F in the form of a conduit, is provided near grid 3.
  • the combustible may be fed in the form of solid particles such as carbon.
  • This combustible may also be a gas of high heating power, with a hydrocarbon base, such as propane, ethane, butane, for example.
  • This contribution of supplementary combustible carries a non-uniform mixture of combustible-comburent into the combustion chamber. Under the effect of the combustion temperature in said chamber, cracking is produced leading to the formation of particles of carbon which leave orifice 4 unburned. These carbon particles are carried along by the combustion gas and burn during the passage along band 5, and particularly toward its lower part.
  • the supplementary introduction of combustible material is efiected near the exit of the combustion chamber through channel 8.
  • the combustion chamber 1 is not preceded by a mixture chamber.
  • the combustible arrives by a discharge tube 9 and the primary air arrives itself under pressure through an annular passage 10 concentric with discharge tube 9.
  • a space 11 is provided between passage 10 and the inlet orifice of the combustion chamber so as to permit the admission of induced air through this space.
  • the jet of combustible mixes very rapidly with the primary air. This mixture carries along the secondary air coming from 11 which mixes only very progressively.
  • the formation of non-combustible solids takes place at the inlet of the combustion chamber which leave by orifice 4 with the mixture of burned gases and air, which solids burn subsequently adjacent the lower end of the peripheral wall 5.
  • the method of manufacturing fibers from heated viscous thermoplastic material which comprises projecting the heated viscous material by centrifugal force from the peripheral wall of a rapidly rotating body having a plurality of rows of orifices therein through which the viscous material issues in filamentary form, directing hot combustion gases into the atmosphere transversely to planes of emission of the fibers in contact with the peripheral wall along the entire height thereof from the topmost to the lowermost row of orifices, to entrain therein the fibers issuing from all the rows of orifices, and intermixing combustible material with said combustion gases before said gases enter the atmosphere, said combustible material adapted to travel with said gases past said peripheral wall and to burn in the course of such travel to maintain the temperature of said gases substantially constant along the entire height of said peripheral wall.
  • An apparatus for producing fibers from thermoplastic material comprising a centrifuge having a peripheral wall provided with a plurality of rows of orifices for discharging the material therethrough by centrifugal force, a. combustion chamber adjacent to and surrounding said peripheral well, said combustion chamber having means for supplying thereto a combustible mixture and provided with an annular outlet opening located in the immediate vicinity of the topmost row of orifices for directing hot combustion gases into contact with the peripheral Wall, along the entire height of said wall, and separate means connected to said combustion chamber for feeding additional combustible material thereinto for intermixture with said hot combustion gases before said gases leave the outlet opening of said combustion chamber to form combustible particles adapted to travel with said combustion gases past said peripheral wall for progressive combustion therealong to maintain the temperature of said gases substantially constant along the entire height of said peripheral wall.
  • the method of manufacturing fibers from heated viscous thermoplastic material which comprises projecting the heated viscous material by centrifugal force from the peripheral wall of a rapidly rotating body having a plurality of rows of orifices therein through which the viscous material issues in filamentary form, directing an annular blast of hot combustion gases into the atmosphere transversely to planes of emission of the fibers in contact with the peripheral wall along the entire height thereof from the topmost to the lowermost row of orifices, to entrain therein the fibers issuing from all the rows of orifices, and intermixing combustible material with said combustion gases before said gases enter the atmosphere to form combustible particles adapted to travel with said gases past said peripheral wall for progressive combustion therealong to maintain the temperature of said combustion gases substantially constant along all levels of the orifices through which the filaments are projected.
  • said last-mentioned means comprises a conduit for hydrocarbon fiuid subject to cracking having the outlet thereof in said combustion chamber, to form a carbonaceous residue discharged with said combustion gases for subsequent combustion adjacent to said peripheral wall.
  • An apparatus for producing fibers from the thermoplastic material comprising a centrifuge rotating on a vertical axis and having a peripheral wall provided with a plurality of superposed rows of orifices for discharging the material therethrough by centrifugal force, a combustion chamber above said centrifuge, an inlet for comburent and combustible in the lateral Wall of said combustion chamber comprising an inner tube for the combustible material surrounded by an annular conduit for primary air both having the discharge ends thereof spaced from the lateral wall of the combustion chamber for the induction of secondary air through said space, an annularly shaped outlet opening in said combustion chamber surrounding said peripheral wall and located in the immediate vicinity of the topmost row of orifices for discharging the resulting hot combustion gases from said chamber downwardly into contact with said peripheral wall to attenuate the fibers issuing therefrom, said combustible material fed into said inlet being in excess of that required for the production of the hot combustion gases within said combustion chamber so that unburned solids are interspersed

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FR785099A FR1228094A (fr) 1959-01-27 1959-01-27 Perfectionnement à la fabrication de fibres de verre, ou autres fibres obtenues à partir de matières thermoplastiques
FR785098A FR1229753A (fr) 1959-01-27 1959-01-27 Perfectionnement à la fabrication de fibres à partir de matières thermoplastiques, notamment de fibres de verre
FR785100A FR1228095A (fr) 1959-01-27 1959-01-27 Perfectionnement aux procédés pour la fabrication de fibres en matières thermoplastiques, notamment de fibres de verre

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