Patent ID: 6540831
Filing Date: 2003-04-01
Classification: A61F,B05B,B05C

Abstract:
A system for dispensing material in a fibrous form onto a moving substrate while impacting the material with pressurized air, comprising:a die block having a first face, a material passage opening on said first face and adapted to communicate with a supply of the material, and an air passage opening on said first face and adapted to communicate with a supply of the pressurized air, and a die coupled to said die block and including an upper end, a lower end, a first face coupled to said first face of said die block, a material passage including a channel opening on said first face of said die and communicating with said material passage of said die block, and an air passage opening on said first face of said die and communicating with said air passage of said die block, said air passage of said die block communicating with said air passage of said die at a location above the location at which said material passage of said die block communicates with said material passage of said die, and said die further including respective pluralities of air discharge passages and material discharge passages at said lower end, and a second face having a channel on an opposite side of said die from said first face thereof, said air passage of said die further opening on said second face and communicating with said air discharge passages through said channel on said second face, and said material passage communicating with said material discharge passages through said channel on said first face of said die.