Patent ID: 7946138

Claim:
An apparatus for adjusting the position of a plurality of individual cooling members carrying a liquid or gas and for cooling fiberizing tips, each individual cooling member being close to a row of tips and movable independently of the other cooling members in the plurality of cooling members, the plurality of cooling members mounted close to fiberizing tips on a tip plate of a fiberizing bushing, the apparatus providing for generally vertical movement of each of the plurality of cooling member independently of other cooling members of the plurality of cooling members to allow the maintaining of a desired spacing between each of the cooling members and the fiberizing tips closest to each individual cooling member as the tip plate or the orifice plate sags with use and time, the apparatus comprising one or more supports to be located at a lower level than the fiberizing tips and/or the tip plate of the fiberizing bushing, the one or more supports having a function of supporting one or more adjusting rods, the one or more adjusting rods having a threaded portion and being generally vertically movable and bendable by nudging and each of the one or more adjusting rods being attached to one of the plurality of cooling members and a plurality of devices, one or more of the devices contacting each of said one or more adjusting rods and cooperating with the one or more supports to enable movement of each of said one or more adjusting rods generally vertically and to hold each of said one or more adjusting rods in position with respect to said support.