Class / Patent application number | Description | Number of patent applications / Date published |
065181000 | COMBINED | 7 |
20090277226 | MODULAR MELTER - A method and system that uses a cold wall furnace for melting the materials that are feed into the furnace. In one aspect, at least a portion of the exterior surface of the cold wall furnace is surrounded by at least one jacket configured to transfer heat away from the metal liner of the furnace. This cooling causes the molten glass to solidify on the metal surface of the metal liner of the cold wall furnace, which acts to protect the metal liner of the furnace from oxidation during molten glass evacuation and subsequent exposure to atmosphere. | 11-12-2009 |
20100031703 | CONVECTION HEATING FURNACE FOR HEATING A GLASS SHEET - A convection heating furnace for a glass sheet, into which oven glass sheet ( | 02-11-2010 |
20100031704 | METHOD AND MACHINE FOR THE PRODUCTION OF CONVEX GLASS SHEETS - A method and machine for obtaining bent glass sheets. Glass sheets are brought to their softening temperature, then they are caused to travel over a shaping bed of advancing elements for advancing them which are arranged along a path having a circular arc-shaped profile, the sheets progressively assuming their shape on entering the bed and over a first shaping zone, then being hardened by tempering or cooling in a second zone of the bed until they leave, and then the bent glass sheets thus obtained are recovered. The shaping bed is produced with a profile extending in a circular arc of more than 90°, and, on leaving the shaping bed, the hardened glass sheets are moved in a direction opposite that in which they were fed in. | 02-11-2010 |
20100206009 | APPARATUS FOR MANUFACTURING FLOAT GLASS - An apparatus for manufacturing a float glass, including a float bath for strong a molten metal on which a molten glass flows, wherein the molten metal flows in the float bath, comprises a plurality of discharge slits formed through a wall of a downstream end of the float bath to discharge a molten metal crashing against the wall and dross floating on the molten metal; a flow-back channel formed in a widthwise direction of the float bath and communicated with the discharge slits; and a dross collecting member for collecting the dross flowing through the flow-back channel. | 08-19-2010 |
20110041558 | HEAT TREATMENT APPARATUS FOR TEMPERING GLASS - Provided is a heat treatment apparatus for tempering glass capable of stabilizing quality and increasing productivity by inducing a stability and smoothness between processes during automatically performing of a heat treatment operation for the tempered surface of thin plate type glass, and including a preheating furnace, a main body furnace, and a cooling furnace, the apparatus including: a traveling unit for moving a conveying bogie on a pair of rails installed in parallel on the preheating furnace, the main body furnace, and the cooling furnace; a rack elevating unit for stably performing an up and down motion of a rack in which the thin plate type glass included in the conveying bogie is accommodated; and a muffle disposed on the main body furnace and performing an indirect heating operation. | 02-24-2011 |
20110088432 | MOLTEN GLASS DELIVERY AND REFINING SYSTEM - Methods and apparatus for refining and delivering a supply of molten glass include melting a supply of glass in a melter and discharging a stream of molten glass. A refining section is provided to refine the molten glass discharged by the melter and to deliver the molten glass downstream to a glass forming apparatus. The refining section is mounted for movement into and out of contact with the stream of molten glass to connect and disconnect the glass forming apparatus with the stream of molten glass. | 04-21-2011 |
20140116095 | MELTERS FOR GLASS FORMING APPARATUSES - Melters for glass forming apparatuses and glass forming apparatuses comprising the same are disclosed. According to one embodiment, a melter for melting glass batch materials includes a base portion and a rigid exoskeleton rigidly attached to the base portion and comprising a plurality of upright members interconnected with a plurality of cross members defining an exoskeleton interior volume. Connection nodes formed at intersections of the plurality of cross members with upper ends of the plurality of upright members are constrained from movement relative to the base portion in a longitudinal direction, a transverse direction, and a vertical direction. A tank assembly is positioned on the base portion in the exoskeleton interior volume and coupled to the rigid exoskeleton. In some embodiments, the melter has a dynamic resistance greater than 0.3. | 05-01-2014 |