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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8074473 | Method for quenching formed glass sheets A three step method and apparatus for quenching a formed glass sheet in a manner that reduces cycle time without excessive temporary surface tension that can cause excessive breakage. ... | 12/13/2011 |
| 7805962 | Device and method for thermally pre-stressing elongated hollow objects A device and a method for thermal pre-stressing lengthy hollow objects, in particular glass tubes, are disclosed. The device comprises a heating device, a fixture for receiving an object, and a coolant feed device comprising an outer coolant feed unit with a plurali... | 10/05/2010 |
| 7694532 | System and method for tempering glass containers A system and method is provided for tempering a glass container. The method includes the steps of pre-heating the glass container to a first predetermined temperature. The method also includes the steps of applying radio-frequency energy to the pre-heated glass cont... | 04/13/2010 |
| 7363777 | Closed cassette and method for heat treating glass sheets A convection compatible closed cassette and method are described herein where the closed cassette is used to heat treat (compact) one or more glass sheets in a uniform manner and in a clean environment. In the preferred embodiment, the closed cassette includes multi... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7316131 | Air-cooling and tempering apparatus and air-cooling and tempering method for a glass sheet An air-cooling and tempering apparatus for a glass sheet includes an upper air-blowing unit, which blows cooling air to an upper surface of a bent glass sheet having a high temperature; and a lower air-blowing unit, which blows cooling air to a lower surface of the ... | 01/08/2008 |
| 7308806 | Air-exhausting lehr for laminated glass sheets The invention relates to an air-exhausting lehr for laminated glass sheets, including a tunnel-like lehr, a conveyor, including elements for carrying laminated glass sheets in a substantially upright position through the lehr, and air circulation ducts, having fans ... | 12/18/2007 |
| 7287401 | System and method for cylindrically forming glass sheets A system (10) and method for cylindrically forming and quenching glass sheets includes a furnace (12), a bending station (16) at the exit end of the furnace for providing cylindrical bending, a roll bending station (18) located externally... | 10/30/2007 |
| 7281623 | Transport system including vertical rollers A transport system for conveying articles along conveyance paths including straight, curvilinear, horizontal, inclined and declined conveyance sections. The articles are conveyed between a pair of vertical belts while being supported by protrusions extending from th... | 10/16/2007 |
| 7231787 | Apparatus and method for bending and/or tempering glass An apparatus and method for bending and/or tempering glass substrate(s) are provided. The amount of near-IR radiation which reaches the glass to be bent and/or tempered is limited (e.g., via filtering or any other suitable technique). Thus, the IR radiation (used fo... | 06/19/2007 |
| 7228717 | Apparatus for glass sheet forming with cross curvature A glass sheet forming system (20) provides continuous roll conveyed forming of heated flat glass sheets to formed shapes having a major axis of curvature and a minor axis of curvature perpendicular to each other. The forming is performed by a roll station ( | 06/12/2007 |
| 7213415 | Method for producing air-quench-toughened glass plate In a process for producing an air-quench-toughened glass plate, defective glass plates containing nickel sulfide (NiS) are removed by compulsory breaking the glass plates. Such compulsory breakage is carried out in the course of a batch-manner soaking process carrie... | 05/08/2007 |
| 7207193 | Method of fabricating low-warp flat glass A method of fabricating a glass sheet comprises modifying the thermal stress in the glass such that it is a tensile stress or substantially zero stress in a particular temperature zone of the glass, with that zone selected such that the glass sheet is formed substan... | 04/24/2007 |
| 7174746 | Method and apparatus for ceramizing the starting glass of glass-ceramics The invention relates to a method for ceramizing starting glass of glass-ceramics into glass-ceramics, comprising at least the following steps: 1.1 the starting glass is heated from an initial temperature T1 to a tempera... | 02/13/2007 |
| 7155937 | Method and device for bending a glass sheet A method for bending a sheet of glass involving heating the sheet of glass to a softening temperature, transporting the sheet of glass in an essentially horizontal path as far as a station for bending the sheet of glass between two forms, shaping the sheet of glass ... | 01/02/2007 |
| 7127918 | Method and apparatus for heating glass sheets in preparation of tempering A method and apparatus for heating glass sheets in preparation of tempering. A furnace (1) is provided with upper and lower convection blasting conduits (11, 14) extending lengthwise of the furnace. The furnace is also provided with upper and lower rad... | 10/31/2006 |
| 7128944 | Method for making thermally tempered glass comprising a non-abrasive, porous, SiOantireflection layer The invention relates to thermally tempered safety glass comprising an non-abrasive and porous SiO2 layer which is stable during sintering and has a refractive index of between 1.25 and 1.40. The inventive safety glass can be obtained by coating standard ... | 10/31/2006 |
| 7086252 | System and method for continuous forming of glass sheets A glass sheet forming system (20) includes a roll bending station (28) having a lower roll conveyor (30) and an upper roll former (32) between which a heated glass sheet is progressively formed with a curved shape by lower and upper rolls... | 08/08/2006 |
| 7081178 | Glass panel A method of constructing a glass panel which comprises two confronting edge sealed glass sheets, the method comprises the steps of providing a solder glass band around the margin of one surface of each glass sheet, forming, at a first temperature, an hermetic bond b... | 07/25/2006 |
| 7082260 | Apparatus and method for bending and/or tempering glass An apparatus and method for bending and/or tempering glass substrate(s) are provided. The amount of near-IR radiation which reaches the glass to be bent and/or tempered is limited (e.g., via filtering or any other suitable technique). Thus, the IR radiation (used fo... | 07/25/2006 |
| 7056380 | Aqueous black enamel composition for glass substrate A water-based black enamel composition capable of being deposited on a glass substrate, especially on a glass sheet. The enamel composition includes: 20 to 40% by weight of water-soluble sodium silicate and/or potassium silicate; a water-soluble base, in an amount s... | 06/06/2006 |
| 7000433 | Device for heating plates of glass A device for heating plates of glass (3) which are hardened or deformed, includes two ceramic heating plates (1) between which a plate of glass (3) is arranged. Compensation plates (20) are associated with the heating plates (1) at... | 02/21/2006 |
| 7000430 | Method of forming glass-ceramic parts and/or glass parts The invention relates to a method of producing glass-ceramic parts and/or glass parts by deformation of a glass-ceramic blank and/or glass blank. The invention is characterized in that forming is carried out using infrared radiation. ... | 02/21/2006 |
| 6986268 | Method for the preparation of plate glass having low residual stress A flat glass plate having a low residual stress, suitable for use in preparing a display, can be prepared without an annealing or polishing process by way of controlling the horizontal temperature gradient of a molten glass plate to a specific range during cooling. | 01/17/2006 |
| 6930285 | Firing furnace for plasma display panel and method of manufacturing plasma display panel In a firing furnace of plasma display panel, gas distribution piping and gas exhaust piping each have a circular cross section and a uniform diameter along the longitudinal direction of those pipings. The gas distribution piping has a plurality of circular openings ... | 08/16/2005 |
| 6923022 | Dual-stage blowhead assembly A blowhead assembly for receipt over a parison finish to blow the parison within a blow mold and simultaneously cool the parison finish includes a blowhead body having a first chamber at one end for receipt over the finish of a parison in a blow mold, and at least o... | 08/02/2005 |
| 6921546 | Antimicrobial glass and glass-like products and method of preparing same A glass or glass-like substrate having a contact-killing, non-leaching antimicrobial effective amount of metal ions contained in at least one surface region thereof, and having a color of b*≦+6 on the CIE international color scale is disclosed. The antimicrobial s... | 07/26/2005 |
| 6914621 | Shading correction method for heat development recording apparatus and heat development recording apparatus Upon adjustment before the adjustment of a heat development recording apparatus, a continuous recording pattern is outputted. The recording density of this continuous recording pattern is measured by a recording density measuring unit. A shading correction table for... | 07/05/2005 |
| 6901774 | Air-cooling/tempering device for a glass plate An air-cooling temperature device for a glass plate including a plurality of upper blowing heads for blowing air to an upper face of a bend-shaped glass plate heated to a high temperature and a plurality of lower blowing heads for blowing air to a lower face of the ... | 06/07/2005 |
| 6901773 | Semi-convective forced air system having amplified air nozzles for heating low “e” coated glass A semi-convective forced air system for heating glass sheets during a heating cycle comprises a heating chamber having a length and a width, at least one heating element located within the heating chamber, a conveyor having a length and a width, the conveyor extendi... | 06/07/2005 |
| 6881485 | Tempered glass sheet and method therefor There is provided a tempered glass sheet, which is air-cooled and tempered by a cooling medium blown from a plurality of nozzles provided in rows so as to have a stress pattern formed therein, comprising a stress pattern formed in the glass sheet such that a plurali... | 04/19/2005 |
| 6857290 | Method of applying barrier coatings to glass panels An index-matching coating is applied directly to a low-emissivity (“lowE”) thin-film coating. Nodules growing from a site in the lowE coating are removed to avoid propagation of defects through the layers of the index-matching coating. A tempering step in an oxy... | 02/22/2005 |
| 6845634 | Method for fabricating thallium-doped GRIN lens A fabrication method for a thallium-doped GRIN lens composed of a simplified glass composition is described. The composition is composed of silicon, oxygen, boron, zinc, potassium, sodium, and thallium. The method is comprised of preparing a cylindrical preform, ann... | 01/25/2005 |
| 6826929 | Method for simultaneously heating and cooling glass to produce tempered glass A system and method for heating, forming, and tempering a glass sheet includes pre-heating the glass sheet to at least a first predetermined temperature. The system and method includes also applying radio-frequency energy to the glass sheet to heat it to at least a ... | 12/07/2004 |
| 6827977 | Method of making window unit including diamond-like carbon (DLC) coating A method of making a coated article (e.g., window unit), and corresponding coated article are provided. A layer of or including diamond-like carbon (DLC) is formed on a glass substrate. Then, a protective layer is formed on the substrate over the DLC inclusive layer... | 12/07/2004 |
| 6796144 | System and method for glass processing and temperature sensing Techniques for measuring the temperature at various locations through the thickness of glass products and to control the glass processing operation with the sensed temperature information are disclosed. Fluorescence emission of iron or cerium in glass is excited and... | 09/28/2004 |
| 6782718 | Method of making matchable low-E I.G units and laminates A neutral blue-green heat treatable and matchable glass laminate or I.G. unit employs a layer system whose visible transmittance increases by at least 4% during heat treatment and whose ΔE*ab is less than about 3.0 and Δa* is less than about 0.7. The sp... | 08/31/2004 |
| 6776008 | Method and apparatus for heating glass A method and apparatus for heating glass, in which glass (4) is heated upon rollers (3) in a tempering furnace (1) from above and below of the glass (4). At least the upper surface of the glass (4) is heated with hot air jets direc... | 08/17/2004 |
| 6756330 | Knitted fabric of steel fibers with increased number of stitches A knitted fabric comprises fibers. At least part of these are metal fibers. The fabric has 90 or more stitches per square centimeter. The fabric is used as a separation cloth (12) between mould (11) and glass (14). The increased number of stitch... | 06/29/2004 |
| 6722160 | Method for air-cooled reinforcing of glass sheet An air-cooling/tempering device for a glass plate capable of providing uniform cooling performance and an air-cooling/tempering method for a glass plate capable of air-cooling and tempering efficiently are presented. ... | 04/20/2004 |
| 6718798 | Method for forming heated glass sheets Apparatus (26) and a method for forming heated glass sheets in a heated chamber (22) of a housing (20) includes an upper mold support assembly (28) for supporting an upper mold (38) within the heated chamber for cyclical vertical m... | 04/13/2004 |
