Compositions: ceramic – Ceramic compositions – Glass compositions – compositions containing glass other than...
Patent
1980-07-30
1982-06-01
McCarthy, Helen M.
Compositions: ceramic
Ceramic compositions
Glass compositions, compositions containing glass other than...
65 22, C03C 1100
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043329080
DESCRIPTION:
BRIEF SUMMARY
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
Some processes are already known (cf. Swiss Patent Specifications Nos. 426,601 and 473,741 and International Patent Application No. PCT/CH79/00128) for manufacturing foamed granular glass from pulverized glass, with the addition of a blowing agent releasing gas at higher temperatures.
Thereby, for preparing foamed granular glass, it was necessary first to grind the raw material to a powder, to mix this powder with a blowing agent releasing gas in heat, and to form raw granules from the so obtained mixture. The raw granulated material so obtained was then, appropriately together with a parting agent, preheated and blown in a furnace or on a drying belt.
The foamed granulated glass manufactured in this manner had an inhomogeneous structure insofar as the size and the distribution of the cells were different in the surface area of each granule from those in its interior. This fact led to a decrease in compressive strength in the surface area of each granule, and thereby to a decrease in the total compressive strength.
Furthermore, some processes were also described (cf. Luxemburgian Patent Specification No. 79,661, German Published Patent Applications Nos. 2,206,448 and 2,224,009) for manufacturing blocks or plates of foamed glass which, if desired, could be broken down to a granulate. These publications, however, do not contain any indication with respect to the physical or mechanical properties of the granulated material. However, it is clear to the person skilled in the art that by the described processes only relatively coarsely porous products, having a low number of cells and an ununiform size of cells, a relatively high specific weight and a low compressive strength may be obtained.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
It is the object of the invention to create a foamed granular glass having an improved compressive strength while having the same or a reduced specific weight, as well as to create a simple and inexpensive process for manufacturing such foamed granular glass.
The foamed granular glass according to the invention is characterized in that it consists of fragments of a foamed glass element and comprises at least 100,000, appropriately at least 500,000, and preferably at least 1,000,000 of cavities per cm.sup.3 of at least approximately the same size.
The grains may have seamed edges.
A further subject of the invention is a process for manufacturing the foamed granular glass according to the invention, which is characterized in that the raw materials are ground into a powder, that this powder is mixed with an organic and/or inorganic blowing agent releasing gas in heat, that the mixture is blown into a flat strand of foamed glass in a flat bed furnace, that this strand is cooled after blowing and is broken into a granulate immediately after cooling.
DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENT
Appropriately, the blowing agent is applied as homogeneous layer onto the surface of the glass grain.
Appropriately, the mixture of powder and blowing agent is gently pre-dried before blowing, so that the water chemically bound in the blowing agent is not driven off.
If cooling is effected violently, the foamed glass strand, due to internal stress, disintegrates into a granulate practically by itself, otherwise disintegration is effected preferably by mechanical breaking.
Preferably, the foamed glass strand is produced on a circulating, endless, caterpillar-like carrier consisting of a steel band or of individual links which, in its upper trace, is surrounded by a flat bed furnace.
The thickness of the layer of the glass strand to be blown is appropriately dimensioned in such a manner that, per unit of area, its heat capacity is greater than that of the carrier. Cooling of the blown foamed glass strand is appropriately effected by cooling the carrier.
The surface of the carrier is preferably provided with a layer of alumina or of an iron-aluminum alloy.
When manufacturing foamed granular glass having seamed edges, the obtained granulate is mechanically worked in such a manner,
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Kleeman Werner W.
McCarthy Helen M.
Millcell AG
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