Glass manufacturing – Processes – Forming and fire polishing or product
Patent
1977-08-03
1978-03-28
Kellogg, Arthur D.
Glass manufacturing
Processes
Forming and fire polishing or product
65 32, 65 99A, 65182R, C03B 1802
Patent
active
040812626
ABSTRACT:
A curtain of reducing gas is established across the entrance end of a glass forming chamber which employs a pool of molten metal to support glass during forming in order to impinge reducing gas along a line across a refractory delivery piece and molten metal region of the forming chamber in order to insure that molten glass is initially delivered onto molten tin free of contaminants, such as metal oxide.
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Fuhrman Philip K.
Greiner, Jr. Robert A.
Kellogg Arthur D.
Pollock E. Kears
PPG Industries Inc.
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