PROCESS AND APPARATUS FOR FORMING MAN-MADE VITREOUS FIBRES

摘要

A melt for use in the production of man-made vitreous fibres may be formed in a circulating combustion chamber (20) by melting particulate material. The material is collected in a base region of the combustion chamber (26), where it can be heated using submerged heating means (40). The submerged heating increases the homogeneity of the melt within the melt pool (30), the coherence of which is maintained by the use of a siphon (50) to extract melt from the combustion chamber.