Did You Know...
...that it was melting ice cream that inspired the invention of the outboard motor? It was a lovely August day and Ole Evinrude was rowing his boat to his favorite island picnic spot. As he rowed, he watched his ice cream melt and wished he had a faster way to get to the island. At that moment the idea for the outboard motor was born!
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7026542 | Cover glass for a solar battery, a method for producing the cover glass and a solar battery module using the cover glass A transparent substrate for a cover for a solar battery and a method for producing the same are presented. Hemispherical concave portions are formed in a surface of light entering side of a cover glass almost over the entire surface wherein the ratio d/D of the dept... | 04/11/2006 |
| 6301932 | Method for forming an internally channeled glass article The present invention is directed to a method for forming glass articles containing enclosed channels. The method comprises the following steps: a) delivering and depositing a first length of a molten glass ribbon (18) to a surface of a mold (20) having a... | 10/16/2001 |
| 6134919 | Method for forming a glass article possessing an aperture The present invention is directed to an apparatus and method for forming glass article from sheet glass. More specifically the apparatus comprises a mold, a plunger being cooperative alignment with the mold, wherein the mold and the plunger form a cavity ... | 10/24/2000 |
| 5080705 | Method and apparatus for manufacturing profiled glass tubing Methods of an apparatus for producing profiled glass tubing utilizing the Danner process comprise flowing the molten glass over profiled blowpipe heads which are "super-profiled" in that the angles of ridges and grooves are more acute than the ridges and ... | 01/14/1992 |
| 5057136 | Method and apparatus for manufacturing profiled glass tubing Methods of an apparatus for producing profiled glass tubing utilizing the Danner process comprise flowing the molten glass over profiled blowpipe heads which are "super-profiled" in that the angles of ridges and grooves are more acute than the ridges and ... | 10/15/1991 |
| 5026413 | Process for manufacturing quartz glass pipes having a high content of silica with only minor diameter deviations A process is described for manufacturing vertically withdrawn pipes from quartz glass or glasses having a high content of silica with only minor diameter deviation. In an electrically heated furnace, the initial material is heated up to the softening poin... | 06/25/1991 |
| 4936891 | Process and apparatus for the vertical drawing of glass tubes with sealed bottoms A process for the vertical drawing of glass tubes, optionally with safety strips, sealed bottoms, and, if desired, a pressure equalizing aperture wherein specific tube lengths are severed in succession from a continuous glass tube rod. The glass tube rod,... | 06/26/1990 |
| 4917718 | Method of making capillary tube A method of making a thick walled glass tube by depositing glass particles on the surface of a glass tube, sintering the particles, and drawing the resultant structure to form a capillary tube having a predetermined desired inside diameter.... | 04/17/1990 |
| 4812344 | Composite capillary tube structure and method of forming A composite capillary tube structure made of a plurality of glass layers and methods for making same. This composite includes inner and outer layers of fused silica glass separated by an intermediate layer of a glass material having a higher coefficient o... | 03/14/1989 |
| 4685949 | Glass flower process In a process for preparing glass flowers having petals, the steps of preparing petals which comprise providing a blown elongated enlarged hollow bulb on a hollow glass tube, heating and manipulating the bulb so as to separate it into two vertical dish-lik... | 08/11/1987 |
| 4608071 | Method for reducing diameter of a glass rod or tube by drawing The invention provides an efficient and accurate method for reducing the diameter of a rod or tube of glass, e.g. fused quartz glass rod as a base material of optical fibers, by drawing when the rod or tube is heated and in a softened and plastically defo... | 08/26/1986 |
| 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 |
| 4303436 | Process and apparatus for the production of glass foil A process and apparatus for producing glass foil is disclosed in which a thin glass foil is produced by conveying a glass melt from a rotatable crucible of a smelting furnace through an annular distribution reservoir and a distributing disk having flow-th... | 12/01/1981 |
| 4052181 | Acoustic energy shaping A suspended mass is shaped by melting all or a selected portion of the mass and applying acoustic energy in varying amounts to different portions of the mass. In one technique for forming an optical waveguide slug, a mass of oval section is suspended and ... | 10/04/1977 |
| 4010022 | Apparatus for making fused silica tubing Tubes of transparent, translucent or opaque fused silica are made by heating a hollow cylindrical blank in a drawing zone, drawing the blank from the zone while maintaining its interior under pressure and rotating same about its longitudinal axis, and cal... | 03/01/1977 |
| 3981422 | Method of breaking glass fibers and tool therefor A method of uniformly breaking glass fibers in a bundle of fibers in which the apex of a cone is inserted into the end of the bundle. The fibers in the bundle are distributed in a single plane about the surface of the cone with the free ends of the fibers... | 09/21/1976 |
