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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7160578 | Method for depositing aluminum oxide coatings on flat glass A chemical vapor deposition process for laying down an aluminum oxide coating on a glass substrate through the use of an organic ester having a β hydrogen on the alkyl group bonded to the carboxylate oxygen and an inorganic aluminum halide. The resulting article ha... | 01/09/2007 |
| 6303182 | Method for making optical fiber devices having variable thickness metal coatings In accordance with the invention, an optical fiber is provided with a metal coating of controlled variable thickness by the steps of disposing the fiber in position for receiving coating metal from a metal source, and depositing metal while moving a shado... | 10/16/2001 |
| 6269663 | Method of purifying silica and depositing on an optical fiber preform The deposit of natural or synthetic silica comprises a preform (1) set into rotation (7) in front of a plasma torch (3) which moves back and forth substantially parallel to a longitudinal direction (L) of the preform (1), a feed duct (9) for feeding the p... | 08/07/2001 |
| 6187089 | Tungsten doped crucible and method for preparing same A process for preparing a quartz crucible having a tungsten doped layer on the inside surface, outside surface, or both the inside surface and the outside surface is disclosed. One or more surfaces of the crucible is exposed to a vaporous tungsten source ... | 02/13/2001 |
| 5639337 | Apparatus for the fabrication of fiber composites with a vitreous or glass-ceramic matrix Apparatus is provide for the fabrication of fiber composites composed of a fiber-reinforced vitreous or glass-ceramic matrix by winding fibers preimpregnated with constituents of the matrix onto a mandrel. The apparatus includes a furnace into which a win... | 06/17/1997 |
| 5135554 | Method and apparatus for continuous sputter coating of fibers Apparatus and method for continuously forming sputter-coated glass fibers. The apparatus includes a sputter vessel into which freshly drawn fiber is passed before surface contamination can occur. The sputter vessel includes modular sputtering units which ... | 08/04/1992 |
| 4933129 | Process for producing nonwoven insulating webs A process for producing high performance, metallic coated staple fibers and nonwoven insulating webs made up of such fibers includes providing a nonwoven substantially two-dimensional web of fibers wherein at least a portion of 50 percent of the fibers ar... | 06/12/1990 |
| 4836837 | Metal coated glass fibers Provided is a process for making metal coated non-crystallized, amorphous glass fibers. The process fiberizes a glass containing a metal oxide such as cuprous oxide. The process then heat-treats the fibers to form a semi-conductive layer of copper oxide o... | 06/06/1989 |
| 4726822 | Fast response thermochromatographic capillary columns A thermochromatographic column has a fused silica capillary with a high temperature chemically inert polymer coating thereon supporting a thin heater film formed by the deposition of either a high resistance metallic compound auto-catalytically from a sol... | 02/23/1988 |
| 4343639 | Process for production of fiber mats In a process for the production of mats made of organic or inorganic fibres, comprising dispersing fibers in a flowing gas so as to issue together from a channel, depositing the fibers on a perforated conveyor belt for the formation of the mat, and removi... | 08/10/1982 |
| 4321073 | Method and apparatus for forming metal coating on glass fiber Glass fibers employed as optical waveguides are provided with a metal coating by passing the glass fiber, following its formation, through a chamber into which a metal-containing compound is introduced. A source of radiant energy, e.g., a CO2 l... | 03/23/1982 |
| 4194897 | Method for making fibers from glass or other attenuable materials Method and apparatus for the production of fibrous materials from attenuable substances, particularly molten glass, are disclosed, along with the fiber products which result. In the disclosed system the material to be fiberized flows into a region establi... | 03/25/1980 |
