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5772719 |
System for detecting and adjusting the position of a burner during the annealing process of a glass sheet
A system for detecting and automatically adjusting the position of a plurality of burners with respect to the edges of a continuous glass sheet is provided. The glass sheet is transported by rolls...
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5746798 |
Control of glass gob delivery for simultaneous arrival at blank molds
A method and apparatus are provided for controlling the delivery of multiple gobs to the blank molds of a glass forming machine having multiple cavities or sections, wherein multiple gobs are...
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5738701 |
Glass gob production device and production method
A glass gob production device for producing a glass gob from molten glass. The glass gob production device has a crucible which accommodates molten glass, a nozzle one end of which is connected to...
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5716425 |
Control system for glass bending platen
A closed loop control system for a hydraulically actuated glass sheet press bending platen. Flow of fluid supplied to the cylinder operating the press platen is controlled through a servo solenoid...
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5711635 |
Apparatus for hazardous waste vitrification
Apparatus (10) and a method for vitrifying hazardous waste includes a melting vessel (12) in which hazardous waste and any other necessary components for forming a glassy mixture upon heating are...
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5697996 |
Mold positioning apparatus and method
A mold positioning apparatus which is used in a pressing apparatus for pressing a work by a plunger and a bottom mold, comprising keys and key guides which are provided on a plunger and a bottom...
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5697995 |
Belt-driven glass gob distribution with broken belt detection
A molten glass gob distributor for a glass article manufacturing system that includes a gob discharge, and at least one scoop for receiving gobs from such discharge and distributing the gobs among...
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5669950 |
Spout forming assembly and method therefor
A spout forming assembly for glassware and a method therefor in which the assembly includes a spout forming device for forming a pour spout on the edge of a piece of glassware, an actuation device...
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5667551 |
Secondary air humidity controller for a glass melting furnace and glass melting furnace with the controller
A secondary air humidity controller comprising a humidity sensor which detects a humidity in secondary air for combustion in a glass melting furnace; and a humidifier which is arranged upstream of...
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5626641 |
Method of manufacturing a glass blank used for optical glass elements
In manufacturing a glass material used for a re-heat press method of manufacturing high-precision optical glass components including a lens, prism or the like, a glass material can be manufactured...
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5611833 |
Method and apparatus for producing spheroidal glass particles
One forms spherical or spheroidal glass particles by entraining a powder of glass particles in a carrier gas and injecting the entrained particles into the center of the flame of an oxygen-fuel...
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5611834 |
Method for controlling the free deformation of thermoplastic material
The invention is directed to a method for controlling the free deformation of thermoplastic material in an automated process for processing the material to form articles. These articles are...
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5599367 |
Process for operating a glass-bending press
Process for operation of a press-bending station for bending glass sheets during the course of automated production of motor vehicle windows, during which manufacture the glass sheets to be bent...
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5573564 |
Glass melting method
A glass melter 30 having a mixing impeller 34 for converting a feed stream 38 supplied to a vessel 32 into a vitrified glass melt 50. Heating means such as electrodes 36 or a gas burner 58 are used...
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5562747 |
Method of distributing molten glass gobs in an IS machine
A method of distributing molten glass gobs in an IS machine whereby gob scoops are positioned beneath associated gob discharges for motion independently of each other. Each scoop is driven by a...
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5512077 |
Test apparatus and testing method for a position sensor in a glassware forming machine
A test apparatus for measuring operating characteristics of a position sensor coupled to a parison mold plunger for glass gob weight control in a press-and-blow individual section glassware...
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5437702 |
Hot bottle inspection apparatus and method
A glass bottle production line comprising a bottle mold which has a plurality of mold cavities arranged in a predetermined order for forming bottles from glass parisons and for transferring the...
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5435818 |
Mold for optical element and a method of molding optical element
A method of molding an optical element numerically analyzes the thermal stress produced on a molded optical element product within a mold in a visco-elastic temperature range or elastic temperature...
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5417733 |
Alignment system and method for splicing of polarization-maintaining single mode optical fiber
Asymmetric stress in the tip of a polarization-maintaining optical fiber is measured using the photoelastic effect to determine the fiber polarization axes of two fibers appointed to be joined. The...
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5387270 |
Method and apparatus for pressing and contact toughening glass sheets
A production installation for the contact toughening of glass sheets comprises a horizontal furnace for heating the glass sheets, a press containing two liquid-cooled pressing plates, a feed...
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5359682 |
Method of adjusting the operation characteristics of integrated optical devices
A method of adjusting the operation of optical networks in terms of propagation constants of guided modes in integrated optical devices, allowing a considerable number of out of tolerance devices...
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5346521 |
Apparatus and method for fabricating optical fiber coupler
An apparatus for fabricating an optical fiber coupler having a well-controlled quality and an improved packaged strength is provided. The apparatus includes a holding device holding thereon a...
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5340374 |
Method for molding optical glass elements
The apparatus for molding an optical glass element is made up of relatively movable upper and lower molds for press molding a glass blank, and a plurality of infrared ray lamps encircling the upper...
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5215566 |
Method of manufacturing optical element
A method of manufacturing an optical element from glass material is accommodated between an upper member and a lower member of mold. The glass material is press-molded in a state and heated to a...
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5016099 |
Process for determining the optical quality of flat glass or flat glass products
For determining the optical quality of float glass, at an appropriate point on the production line a silhouette is produced on the projection screen of the float glass ribbon. The silhouette is...
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4979974 |
Method and apparatus for positioning of a glass sheet travelling on a conveyor
For positioning a glass sheet moving on a conveyor, two substantially identical assemblies are positioned on opposite lateral sides of the conveyor. Each of the assemblies includes an arm carrying...
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4975103 |
Process for producing a planar glass substrate coated with a dielectric layer system
A process is provided for producing a planar glass substrate coated with a dielectric layer system in which the individual layers are formed by a chemical vapor deposition coating process. After...
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4941906 |
Balanced molding of optical elements
Glass optical elements are molded by moving molds toward one another to press the glass and controlling the movement of the molds to balance the complete formation of the molded surfaces. A first...
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4801319 |
Apparatus and associated method for container sampling for inspection
Apparatus for transporting and inspecting containers includes an annealing lehr disposed on one side of a primary conveyor and a stacker having a reciprocating pusher bar adapted to transport...
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4776871 |
Shear blade lockout in an individual section glass machine
An electronics package for automatically inhibiting operation of the shear blades of an individual section glass machine is responsive to periodic signals from an encoder disc indicative of timing...
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4767434 |
Horizontal press bending pickup and delivery system
A travelling vacuum pickup is used to transfer heat softened glass sheets from a heating furnace to between a pair of vertically alignment pressing molds. The downstream movement of the pickup is...
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4753668 |
Method of correcting the attitude of an article being conveyed
A method of correcting the attitude of an article being conveyed in a feed system including two second feed paths for receiving the article from a first feed path and feeding the article so that a...
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4704152 |
Method of and apparatus for press forming cathode ray tube faceplate panels
A cathode ray tube faceplate press having an indexing table rotatable around a column normal to the table and having circular array of female molds concentric with the column. Index speed of the...
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4691830 |
Inspection and sorting of molded containers as a function of mold of origin
A completely automated system for inspection and sorting of molded containers, such as glass bottles, as a function of mold cavity of container origin. In a first system section, finished...
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4666492 |
Method and apparatus for shaping glass sheets
A heat softened glass sheet is lifted within a heating furnace by a vacuum pickup and moved to a shaping station adjacent the furnace where it is deposited on an aligning frame. The location of the...
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4666493 |
Sheet positioning system
A glass sheet positioning system to correctly position a heat softened glass sheet between a pair of vertically aligned upper and lower full surface press faces. A video camera identifies a...
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4617043 |
Method of driving a glass tempering system and a glass tempering system for carrying out the method
The present invention relates to a method of driving a glass tempering system and to a glass tempering system for carrying out the method. The main components of the system are a loading section, a...
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4615719 |
Station indicator
A device for use with machines having plural article fabrication or tooling stations and an exit path remote from the stations indicates the specific fabrication or tooling station upon which a...
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4594763 |
Method and apparatus for inserting a glass rod into a glass tube
Insertion of a lightguide preform (12) into a tube (14) without contacting the sides thereof is accomplished by first roughly aligning the rod in spaced axial alignment with the tube. Thereafter,...
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4594086 |
Method and apparatus for distribution of fibres in a felt
The present invention relates to the formation of fibre felts which are produced on centrifugation wheels, the material to be fiberized being conducted to the periphery of these wheels from the...
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4585343 |
Apparatus and method for inspecting glass
The present invention relates to an inspection apparatus for detecting the surface distortion in a sheet of material such as a sheet of glass, for example, and for indicating whether the level of...
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4579572 |
Method and apparatus for aligning a plunger assembly in a glass feeder
One or more jigs or frameworks are provided at a location remote from the glass feeder so several different plunger assemblies can be made up for ready installation in the feeder. Each jig is made...
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4557743 |
Method of and apparatus for monitoring the redox state of elements in glass
A method of and apparatus for monitoring the redox state of one or more elements in glass are disclosed in which a working electrode 2 and an auxiliary electrode 7 are immersed in the glass 11...
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4539031 |
Apparatus for press shaping hot glass sheets
Apparatus for handling hot glass sheets comprises a rigid ring-like member of a composition that causes rejectable defects in a bent glass sheet when it contacts the hot glass sheet directly....
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4400089 |
Method of and apparatus for determining optical quality of an article
An interlayer material is scanned prior to laminating same with glass sheets to generate a thickness variation signal, a wedge angle signal and an optical power signal. The signals are then...
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4395677 |
Hall Effect tester for heated window grids
An electronic tester for window grid heaters using a Hall Effect handheld probe device for use in detecting breaks in the grid lines. The instrument is intended for fabrication as an integrated...
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4388096 |
Apparatus and process for the alignment of mechanisms and/or arms for the molds changes in machines for the manufacture of glassware, thermoplastic articles or similars
A mold gauging device and a method for gauging a mold is disclosed wherien a false mold having vertically adjustable gauges therein is positioned between a mold hinge in substitution for a mold to...
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4350513 |
Method and apparatus for extruding glass tubes
A glass tube extrusion apparatus (50) is comprised of a chamber (52) having a crucible (72) therein mounted within and spaced from an inductive heating coil (77). As a glass tube (170) is extruded...
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4247320 |
Glass conditioning
In an apparatus for conditioning a supply of molten thermoplastic material, preferably glass, a chamber in flow communication with the supply of glass is mounted for rotation about an axis. The...
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3936188 |
Color sorting of irradiated materials and a calibrated color comparison array
Methods of isolating quartz, quartzite, glass or silicate materials having selected aluminum contents are described. The non-destructive method comprises subjecting the materials to ionizing...
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