Methods and apparatus for forming glass articles
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    Methods and apparatus for forming glass articles 失效
    用于形成玻璃制品的方法和装置

    公开(公告)号:US4840656A

    公开(公告)日:1989-06-20

    申请号:US259465

    申请日:1988-10-17

    IPC分类号: C03B9/38 C03B11/10 C03B11/12

    摘要: A system for forming hollow pressed glass articles utilizes a flow of cryogen that is mixed with air to provide a cooling gas that enables newly pressed articles to be removed from their molds after a thin skin of solidified glass has been formed on internal surfaces of the articles to strengthen the newly formed articles and to give them shape stability. Two flows of cryogen are used, one being a gentle, substantially continuous flow of cryogen gas from a low pressure source, the other being a controlled intermittent flow of cryogen vapor in liquid and/or gaseous form from a high pressure source. To assure a proper introduction of cryogen vapor, and to prevent debilitating accumulations of ice within and about the tube that is used to inject high pressure cryogen, the high pressure injector tube is surrounded by a low pressure cryogen flow tube, through which a flow of low pressure cryogen gas is maintained on a substantially continuous basis. By this arrangement, when the high pressure flow of cryogen is shut off between bursts of flow into mold cavities that are brought sequentially into a cooling gas injection station, the discharge end of the high pressure injector tube is kept purged of moisture laden ambient air. Because the system of the present invention hastens cooling and solidification of newly formed glass articles, the time during which the articles must be retained in their molds is significantly reduced.

    摘要翻译: 用于形成中空压制玻璃制品的系统利用与空气混合的冷冻剂流,以提供冷却气体,使得在物品的内表面上形成薄的固化玻璃之后,能够使新冲压制品从其模具中移除 加强新​​形成的物品,形成稳定。 使用两个冷冻剂流,一个是来自低压源的温和,基本上连续的冷冻剂气体流,另一个来自高压源的液体和/或气态形式的受控的间歇流动的冷冻剂蒸气。 为了确保冷冻剂蒸汽的适当引入,并且为了防止在用于注射高压冷冻剂的管内部和周围的冰的衰弱的积聚,高压注射管被低压制冷剂流管围绕,通过该低压制冷剂流 基本上连续地维持低压制冷剂气体。 通过这种布置,当冷却剂的高压流动在顺序地进入冷却气体注入站的模腔中的流入脉冲之间被切断时,高压注射管的排出端保持被潮湿的环境空气吹扫。 因为本发明的系统加速新形成的玻璃制品的冷却和固化,所以制品必须保持在其模具中的时间显着减少。