Manufacture of glass by contiguous float process
CA 1045384 A · Owner: Ppg Industries, Inc. · Inventors: Kunkle, Gerald E.; Edge, Charles K.
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Flat glass having superior optical quality is continuously produced by a contiguous float process and apparatus in which lamellar flows are established in a molten glass conditioner and the flow patterns are maintained in a stream of glass unidirectionally delivered onto a pool of molten metal on which the glass is cooled and unidirectionally attenuated to form a ribbon of glass.
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- Granted January 2, 1979. A Canadian patent filed before October 1, 1989 lasted 17 years from grant, so its term ended January 2, 1996.
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