Claims
- 1. A fiber insulation product consisting essentially of:
- a collection of fibrous material bound together by a binder dispersed throughout said fibrous material, said binder consisting essentially of an inorganic binder having thermoplastic properties.
- 2. The insulation product as claimed in claim 1 wherein said fibrous material comprises glass fibers.
- 3. The insulation product as claimed in claim 1 wherein said binder comprises a low-melting glass composition or an inorganic glass-forming material.
- 4. The insulation product as claimed in claim 3 wherein said binder comprises a glass forming phosphate compound or a glass forming boron compound.
- 5. The insulation product as claimed in claim 4 wherein said binder comprises a glass-forming boron compound selected from the group consisting of boric acid, borax, perborates, metaborates, borohydrides, borates and combinations thereof.
- 6. The insulation product as claimed in claim 5 wherein said binder is boric acid.
- 7. The insulation product as claimed in claim 1 wherein said binder comprises from about 0.1% to about 7% by weight of said fibrous material.
- 8. The insulation product as claimed in claim 7 wherein said binder comprises from about 0.5% to about 3% by weight of said fibrous material.
- 9. A fiber insulation product consisting essentially of:
- a collection of glass fibers having a boric acid binder dispersed throughout said glass fibers.
- 10. The insulation product as claimed in claim 9 wherein said binder comprises from about 0.1% to about 7% by weight of said glass fibers.
- 11. The insulation product as claimed in claim 10 wherein said binder comprises from about 0.5% to about 3% by weight of said glass fibers.
- 12. A fiber insulation product consisting essentially of:
- a collection of glass fibers bound together by a binder dispersed throughout said fibrous material, said binder consisting essentially of an inorganic binder having thermoplastic properties.
- 13. A fiber insulation product comprising:
- a collection of glass fibers having a binder consisting essentially of boric acid dispersed throughout said glass fibers.
CROSS-REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICATION
This is a division of U.S. patent application Ser. No. 08/473,644, filed Jun. 7, 1995, now U.S. Pat. No. 5,591,505.
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