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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7260960 | Selective glass batching methods for improving melting efficiency and reducing gross segregation of glass batch components A method of controlling reaction paths of glass batch components added to a resident glass melt is provided, including the steps of providing a plurality of raw material batch components according to a batch recipe, selectively combining a portion of the batch compo... | 08/28/2007 |
| 7143609 | Low-temperature fabrication of glass optical components A method is provided for molding from glass certain complex optical components, such as lenses, microlens, arrays of microlenses, and gratings or surface-relief diffusers having fine or hyperfine microstructures suitable for optical or electro-optical applications. ... | 12/05/2006 |
| 7059155 | Method of bending glass A method of bending glass, in which glass (5) is heated in a bending furnace (1). After the heating, the glass (5) is transferred onto a mold (7). The glass-bending mold (7) is at at least one point arranged to be bent substantiall... | 06/13/2006 |
| 6447601 | Crystal puller and method for growing monocrystalline silicon ingots A crystal puller for growing monocrystalline silicon ingots according to the Czochralski method includes a housing and a crucible in the housing for containing molten silicon. The crucible has a side wall having a transmittance of at least about 80% gener... | 09/10/2002 |
| 6415630 | Method and device for producing a homogenous sheet of quartz glass without streaks In a method for producing a streak-free quartz glass sheet with a highly homogeneous degree of refraction, a quartz glass rod is lowered into a melting pot parallel to a longitudinal axis of the quartz glass rod. A cross-section of the melting pot is larg... | 07/09/2002 |
| 5851254 | Method for molding vitreous optical elements A method for molding optical glass elements including the steps of injecting molten glass material into a mold cavity through an injection port, runner and gate; cooling molten glass material in the mold cavity to a solidified state; and applying vibratio... | 12/22/1998 |
| 5649988 | Method for conditioning glass beads A process of removing flash from a molded silicone intraocular lens includes a step of tumbling (grinding) the lens body in a tumbling media. The tumbling media includes conditioned 0.5 mm diameter glass beads or a mixture of 0.5 mm and 0.3 mm diameter gl... | 07/22/1997 |
| 4832722 | Method of manufacturing flexible optical fiber bundles Flexible coherent optical glass fiber bundles are manufactured from rigid coherent optical glass fiber bundles by selecting the fiber bonding agent to be an acid-leachable glass having a silica content in the range 8-15% molecular and removing acid-leacha... | 05/23/1989 |
| 4793845 | Method for removing a cullet of a cathode-ray tube A method for heat sealing an electron gun mount, having a glass stem, into a neck of a cathode-ray tube includes a mount socket for supporting the mount within the neck and a plurality of burners for applying heat to the outside of the neck proximate the ... | 12/27/1988 |
| 4725300 | Glass sheet heating system including cradled roll conveyor A glass sheet heating system (10) is disclosed as including a cradled roll conveyor (48) incorporated with a furnace (12) having roll contacting seals (58) that directly engage conveyor rolls (60) to prevent heat loss from the furnace. Each roll contactin... | 02/16/1988 |
| 4680047 | Method for the manufacture of glass bodies A method for the manufacture of glass bodies, in which a thixotropic suspension, being the starting material for the glass body, is used to form a porous green body which is subsequently purified and sintered, the starting material being liquefied in a mo... | 07/14/1987 |
| 4632686 | Method of manufacturing quartz glass crucibles with low bubble content In the manufacture of a quartz glass crucible of low bubble content, a first layer of granular quartz material is disposed on the interior of a rotating mold through the walls of which a vacuum can be drawn. A second layer of finer quartz material is then... | 12/30/1986 |
| 4425148 | Device for the continuous production of glass bodies especially containing radioactive waste An apparatus for converting molten glass containing radioactive waste into molded pellets or spheres comprising means for generating a flowing stream of the molten glass and a rotating wheel disposed beneath the flowing stream. The wheel is preferably mou... | 01/10/1984 |
| 4373944 | Removal of glass particles from glass articles In the method of making hollow glass articles wherein the article is subjected to an operation such that glass particles are deposited and held on the interior of the glass article, the method of removing such particles which comprises contacting the glas... | 02/15/1983 |
| 3961929 | Method for embossing a pattern in glass A piece of glass may be embossed by initially heating the glass to at least its annealing temperature. A die is heated to a temperature higher than the temperature of the glass. The die is then vibrated against the glass so that it continuously makes and ... | 06/08/1976 |
