High current multiterminal bushing controller

• US 4,931,075 A
• Filed: 08/07/1989
• Issued: 06/05/1990
• Est. Priority Date: 08/07/1989
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: PPG Industries Incorporated (Nouryon BV)
• Original Assignee: PPG Industries Incorporated (Nouryon BV)
• Inventors: Kuhn, John J.
• Primary Examiner(s): Lindsay, Robert L.
• Application Number:
  US07/390,054
• Time in Patent Office: 302 Days
• Field of Search: 65/1, 65/2, 65/29, 65/162, 65/DIG. 4, 373/28, 219/494, 219/504
• US Class Current: 65/384
• CPC Class Codes: C03B 37/07 Controlling or regulating C03B37/0253 takes precedence ; controlling or regulating in general G05
• CPC Class Codes: C03B 37/091 Indirect-resistance heating
• CPC Class Codes: H05B 3/0023 for heating by passing the current directly across the material to be heated
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 65/04 Electric heat

Abstract

An improved bushing controller is shown which utilizes an auxiliary transformer in each of the variable impedance circuits in the controller and the bushing tha the controller is connected to increase the current capability of the controller by a significant percentage. Improved performance of fiber glass bushings producing multiple forming packages is realized.

Claims

1. In a fiber glass bushing temperature control circuit which is controlling the temperature of two sections of the bushing which and wherein the bushing is producing two forming packages to provide forming packages of uniform weight and which circuit includes a power source, a bushing controller having two variable impedance circuits in shunt with the bushing for each side of the bushing to be controlled which controls the current fed to each section of the bushing to thereby equalize the temperature in each section to maintain the glass fibers uniform in diameter in each side the improvement comprising connecting a transformer between the controller and the bushing in each of the variable impedance shunts in the controller circuit, each transformer being connected in parallel with the secondary winding of the power transformer and also in parallel with the section of the bushing that it controls, the polarity of the secondary windings of these transformers being selected so that the sum of the transformer voltage and the bushing voltage is greater than each of those voltages individually to thereby maximize the current in the variable impedance shunt of the controller.

2. The bushing control circuit of claim 1 wherein the primary and secondary windings of the transformers in the variable impedance control circuits are sized to provide a wind ratio of 1:

1 to 4;

1, primary winding to secondary winding.

3. The bushing control circuit of claim 2 wherein the wind ratio of primary winding to secondary winding is 2:

1 .

4. In the control of a fiber glass forming bushing which has several sections from which strands are being drawn to produce multiple forming packages therefrom and in which the sections are controlled from multiple bushing controllers, each bushing controller having two variable impedances therein connected to the bushing and to a power source to control two sections of the bushing by controlling the current input to those sections of the bushing, the improvement comprising, placing in the variable impedance circuit of each of the controllers present an auxililary transformer, the auxiliary transformer being connected in parallel with the power transformer and the section of the bushing that its associated variable impedance circuit controls, the polarity of the auxiliary transformers being selected so that the sum of the auxiliary transformer voltage and the bushing is greater than each of those voltages individually.

5. The bushing control circuit of claim 4 wherein the primary to secondary windings of the auxiliary transformers are sized to provide a wind ratio of 1:

1 to 4;

1 .

6. The control circuit of claim 5 wherein the wind ratio is 2:

1.