Corning Incorporated

Douglas Edward McElheny

Daniel Warren Hawtof

Elias Panides

Gaozhu Peng

Chunfeng Zhou

Randy Lee Rhoads

Adam Charles Berkey

Kenneth James Kelmer

Jiandong Meng

Eliot Geathers

Yuriy Yurkovskyy

A glass tube manufacturing apparatus for manufacturing glass tubing includes a glass delivery tank with molten glass. The glass delivery tank has a bottom opening. A bell has an upper portion with an outer diameter located at the bottom opening. A heating apparatus is at least partially disposed around the bell. The heating apparatus includes a heated portion and a muffle portion located below the heated portion. A lower extended muffle structure extends downwardly from the muffle portion. The lower extended muffle structure extending about the glass tubing on all sides to manage convective airflow therethrough.

Method and apparatus for controlling glass tube taper

A method for threading a lead end of a fiber through the drawing apparatus of a fiber draw process. A prethread filament is fed through the apparatus of a draw process. One end of the prethread filament is then attached to the lead end of the fiber and used to pull the fiber through the apparatus of the draw process.

Method of prethreading a fiber draw process

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Big Flats, NY, United States of America

Douglas Edward McElheny