Abstract:
Methods of processing a viscous ribbon include supplying a molten material from a supply vessel. Methods include forming the molten material into the viscous ribbon. The viscous ribbon travels along a travel path. Methods include receiving thermal light energy produced from the viscous ribbon. Methods include generating an image of the viscous ribbon from the thermal light energy. Methods include detecting a defect of the viscous ribbon from the image.
Abstract:
Methods of fabricating formed glass articles are described herein. In one embodiment, a method for fabricating a formed glass article may include forming a glass ribbon, forming a parson, and shaping the parson to form a glass article. The glass article may be attached to the glass ribbon at an attachment region defining an edge of the glass article. The process may also include contacting the attachment region with a focal line of a laser beam and separating the glass article from the glass ribbon at the attachment region. The attachment region may be perforated by the laser beam and the focal line may be substantially perpendicular to the plane of the glass ribbon.
Abstract:
A roll (10) of glass ribbon (20) and an interleaf material (40) disposed in alternating layers, wherein a layer of the interleaf material is pinned to an adjacent layer of the glass ribbon by an electrostatic force that is of a value so that a shear force required to cause slip between the interleaf material and the glass ribbon is greater than or equal to 10 times that required to cause slip between them when not electrostatically pinned together. Methods for winding and unwinding the roll, as well as an apparatus for winding the glass ribbon and interleaf material into a roll, are also disclosed.
Abstract:
One objective of the present invention was to provide a method of continuously forming crystallized glass, so as to reduce the thermal treatment time necessary for crystallizing a belt-shaped glass plate; and to provide an apparatus of continuously forming crystallized glass, so as to shorten the thermal treatment zone necessary for crystallizing a belt-shaped glass plate. A method of continuously forming crystallized glass according to the present invention includes: a melting step of melting a raw glass material to obtain molten glass; a shaping step of rolling the molten glass to form a belt-shaped glass plate; a crystallizing step of retaining the belt-shaped glass plate at a temperature necessary for nuclei formation and crystal growth, thereby forming nuclei and crystallizing the belt-shaped glass plate to a belt-shaped crystallized glass plate, and then slowly cooling the belt-shaped crystallized glass plate; and a cutting step of cutting the belt-shaped crystallized glass plate.
Abstract:
Disclosed are systems and methods for forming glass sheets. Methods and systems are provided that comprise a refractory body configured to receive glass-based material and means for transmitting energy to selectively heat at least a portion of the refractory body through the glass-based material. In one aspect, the energy transmitted is of a selected frequency that is not fully absorbed by the glass-based material and is at least partially absorbed by the refractory body. The energy can be transmitted by a laser beam array, a scanning laser beam, a microwave generator, a radio frequency generator, or other means.
Abstract:
A continuous method for manufacturing crystallized glass plates includes the steps of melting a raw crystallizable glass material to form molten glass, adjusting the molten glass to have a predetermined viscosity, rolling the molten glass to form a belt of crystallizable glass, and passing the belt of crystallizable glass through a crystallization tunnel so as to form a belt of crystallized glass.
Abstract:
A process for forming a glass sheet, which is a process for continuously forming a glass sheet, and which comprises a step of introducing a vapor film-forming agent, which is not vapor at least around room temperature and which is vapor at a temperature above the glass transition point of the glass, into a support composed of a structure or a material capable of internally containing liquid, and a step of sliding the support and the glass of which temperature is above the glass transition point against each other via a thin layer of a vaporized vapor film-forming agent.
Abstract:
For the production of white devitrified glass material, there is melted a melt having the composition thereof within a CaO - MgO Al2O3 - SiO2 system, whereafter there is used for working the melt opacified by phase demixing, and the formed glass band is crystallized in a single-stage process in accordance with which the glass is heated up at a rate of 5*C. to 10*C. to a temperature of 1050*C. to 1080*C., cured at this temperature for no more than an hour, and then cooled down to the vitrification point.
Abstract translation:为了生产白色失透玻璃材料,将其组成熔融在CaO-MgO-Al 2 O 3 -SiO 2体系内,然后用于对通过相分层不透明化的熔体进行加工,并将形成的玻璃带结晶 将该玻璃以5℃-10℃的温度加热至1050℃至1080℃的单阶段方法,在该温度下固化不超过一 小时,然后冷却至玻璃化点。
Abstract:
Drawing sheet glass from a mass of molten glass through a body of protective material. The surface of the mass of molten glass from which the sheet is being formed is covered, and the surfaces of the newly formed sheet are surrounded by, a relatively dense fluid to protect the sheet from adverse temperature and atmospheric conditions in this area. The fluid is inert and noninjurious to the glass at the forming temperatures, and may be either a heavy gas or a light liquid.
Abstract:
A ribbon 16 of low-viscosity vitreous material, e.g. barium titanate glass, is formed by passing a stream of the molten material into a closedsided recess formed as the bite of a pair of co-operating rollers 10, 101. One or both of the rollers is formed with a groove a, a1, which may be of curved or of rectangular cross-section, the groove in each roller registering with a complementary groove on the surface of the other roller. Molten low viscosity glass is fed from a melting pot to an electricallyheated, U-shaped wire guide 13 whence it passes to the bite between the rollers where it forms a shallow pool 15. A plurality of grooves may be provided in each roller. The rollers are water cooled.