摘要:
CONTINUOUS METHOD OF CONSOLIDATING, SHAPING AND SETTING A MOVING, LOW DENSITY LOOSE MASS OF FIVERS CONTAINING BINDER THROUGHOUT TO PRODUCE PERMANENTLY SHAPE RETAINING, SMOOTH SURFACED PRODUCTS, COMPRISING IMPARTING TO THE FIBERS AN INITIAL COMPRESSION AND ADVANCING THE CURE OF THE BINDER IN THE AREA ADJACENT THE SURFACES COMPRESSED, THEREAFTER COMPLETING THE COMPRESSION TO FINAL DENSITY AND CONFIGURATION WHILE IRONING SMOOTH THE COMPRESSED SURFACES AND COMPLETING THE CURE OF THE BINDER THROUGHOUT, AND MOVING THE MASS OF FIBERS THROUGH THE AFORESAID OPERATIONS BY APPLYING A PULLING FORCE UPON THE EMERGING BONDED PRODUCT; AND MEANS THERFOR COMPRISING, FOR EXAMPLE, IN SEQUENCE THE COMBINATION OF OPPOSING HEATED ROLLERS AND FIXED OPPOSING HEATED PLATENS WITH A DEVICE FOR APPLYING A MECHANICAL PULLING FORCE.
摘要:
A sheet of cover material having a heat activated adhesive on one major face is wrapped about and bonded to an outer surface of a duct. The duct is positioned on a pair of rolls, one of which is heated, and is pressed against the rolls through a pressure applicator. The rolls and an endless belt assembly of the pressure applicator are all driven at the same surface speed to effect rotation of the duct while maintaining the duct in a fixed position. As the duct is rotating a finite length of the cover material is fed between the heated roll and the duct whereby the cover is bonded to and wrapped about the duct. Once the duct is wrapped, the duct is ejected from the apparatus by stopping the endless belt assembly of the pressure applicator. With the endless belt assembly stopped, the rolls move the duct out of the apparatus.
摘要:
Tubes are contacted by belts on the upper portion of their outer surface to advance the tubes along a path paralleling their longitudinal axes with the lower well being slit and a guide subsequently being engaged to position the tube with its slot paralleling an edge of a sheet of jacketing material advanced toward the tube and positioned adjacent thereto whereby belts acting normal to the path of the tubes contact the upper portion of their outer surface to roll the tubes about their longitudinal axes to engage the sheet jacketing material wrapping it about the tube being rolled thereover.
摘要:
A duct of thermal insulation is jacketed with a gas impermeable sheet material with a longitudinal seam formed by turning the mating ends of the sheet material outwardly and thermally fusing those ends into a linear nodular bead. In the case of metal foils of a few thousandths of an inch in thickness the bead is of the order of a thirty-second of an inch and is turned into the foil jacket to present a smooth non-cutting surface. Semi-butt welds of foil are made by clamping the foil in face to face relationship along an essentially line contact and moving an arc welding electrode with associated gas jets for a nonoxidizing gas parallel to and in close spaced relation to the clamp line. Jacketing for preformed ducts of glass or other fiber type insulation is drawn from a supply of sheet stock to form a catenary loop in which a preformed duct is placed. Jaws forming unitary clamps and welding electrodes are closed to close the opposite sides of the loop of foil around the duct and upon each other. The foil is severed closely adjacent the clamps and the electrode with its jets for the gas is moved along the exposed edges of foil adjacent the electrode clamps while drawing an arc to fuse the opposed foil surfaces together. The clamps are then released, the jacketed duct removed from the welding apparatus and the radially extending, fused foil bead pressed parallel to the outer face of the duct.