Corning Incorporated

Corning Glass Works

Frank Thomas Coppola

Vladislav Yuryevich Golyatin

Monica Jo Mashewske

David Alan Tammaro

Josef C Lapp

Glen Bennett Cook

John Jerry Kersting

Alexey Sergeyevich Amosov

Matthew John Dejneka

John Christopher Mauro

Heather Debra Boek

Mark Owen Weller

Douglas Edward Brackley

Butchi Reddy Vaddi

Olus Naili Boratav

Randy Lee Rhoads

Steven Michael Milillo

Jae Hyun Yu

Peter L Bocko

George Clinton Shay

Victoria Ann Edwards

David Chen

Jufe Adam Brown-Tsai

Gunilla E Gillberg

Daniel Aloysius Nolan

Natesan Venkataraman

Jason Clay Lail

Michael Thomas Gallagher

James William Brown

Gilbert De Angelis

David L Morse

William H Dumbaugh, Jr

Roger A Allaire

Patrick Joseph Cimo

Laurent Joubaud

Shawn Rachelle Markham

Richard Curwood Peterson

Thomas P Seward, Iii

Bulent Kocatulum

William Anthony Whedon

Irene Mona Peterson

Anurag Jain

Antoine Gaston Denis Bisson

William Paul Ryszytiwskyj

Robert V Vandewoestine

Robert Delia

Rui Zhang

Nikolay Anatolyevich Panin

Douglas Dale Bressler

Nicholas Ryan Wheeler

William P Lentz

Chris Scott Kogge

Piotr Janusz Wesolowski

Jon Anthony Passmore

Anmol Agrawal

John Michael Feenaughty

Shyam Prasad Mudiraj

Gerard Kaper

Bruno Le Gallic

Hung Cheng Lu

Ronald Alan Davidson

Eric James Nichols

Matthew John Cempa

Nicholas F Borelli

Francisco Javier Moraga

Paul D Albee

Ibraheem Rasool Muhammad

Xi Xie

Shaan Leslian Yeershen Polius

Michael Ryan Harshberger

Michael Brian Gildea

Netesan Venkataraman

Bruno Legallic

Glenn B Cook

David A Tammaro

A glass manufacturing apparatus includes a forming apparatus defining a travel path extending in a travel direction. The forming apparatus conveys a ribbon of glass-forming material along the travel path in the travel direction of the forming apparatus. The glass manufacturing apparatus includes a cooling tube extending substantially parallel to the travel path and extending across the travel direction. The cooling tube includes a plurality of orifices spaced apart along the cooling tube and facing the travel path. Methods of manufacturing glass can comprise flowing a coolant from an outlet of a conduit in a direction toward a target location of a flowing ribbon of molten material. Methods can also include changing a phase of the coolant while the coolant is flowing towards the target location. The change in phase can cool the target location.

Methods and apparatus for producing a glass ribbon

Apparatuses for making a laminated glass ribbon may include an upper forming body including an outer forming surface bounded by a pair of upper dams, and a lower forming body disposed downstream of the upper forming body and including an outer forming surface spaced from the outer forming surface of the upper forming body by an interior gap. An edge guide may be disposed along an interior upper dam wall and spaced apart in the interior gap from the lower forming body. Surfaces exterior to the outer forming surfaces of the upper and lower forming bodies may abut and be joined. A formed glass ribbon having a core glass layer and a pair of clad glass layers may include inner and outer portions that have substantially equal thickness ratios based on a glass core layer thickness compared to a combined glass cladding layer thickness in each portion.

Laminated glass ribbons and apparatuses for forming laminated glass ribbons

A system includes an overflow distributor () including a weir (). The system further includes a thermal exchange unit positioned in proximity to the weir. The thermal exchange unit () includes a tubular focusing member () and a thermal member () disposed at least partially within a lumen of the focusing member. The focusing member extends distally beyond a distal end of the thermal member by a distance It. In an embodiment the thermal exchange unit comprises several focusing members and thermal members to control a thermal profile of a glass stream flowing over the weir, particularly of a portion of the glass stream in contact with the weir.

Method and apparatus for controlling thickness of glass sheet

An apparatus for making a glass ribbon can include a heating plane including a heat footprint facing the surface of an edge director. A projection of the heat footprint in a resultant direction of the heating plane within the heat footprint can intersect the surface of the edge director. In further embodiments, a fusion draw method of making a glass ribbon can include radiating heat within a heat footprint of a heating plane toward a surface of an edge director. At least a portion of the heating plane within the heat footprint can face the surface of the edge director so that the surface of the edge director is intersected with heat radiating from the heat footprint of the heating plane.

Fusion draw apparatus and methods of making a glass ribbon

A system includes an overflow distributor and a support member. The overflow distributor includes a first sidewall, a second sidewall opposite the first sidewall, and a floor extending between the opposing first and second sidewalls. Interior surfaces of the first sidewall, the second sidewall, and the floor cooperatively define a trough configured to receive molten glass. Exterior surfaces of the first sidewall and the second sidewall are configured to direct molten glass that overflows the trough. The support member is disposed between the opposing first and second sidewalls of the overflow distributor and abutting an exterior surface of the floor of the overflow distributor.

System for forming a glass article

A method includes forming a glass article. The glass article includes a core and a clad adjacent to the core. The core includes a first glass composition. The clad includes a second glass composition different than the first glass composition. A degradation rate of the second glass composition in a reagent is greater than a degradation rate of the first glass composition in the reagent.

Glass article and method for forming the same

An apparatus for forming glass tubing is described. The apparatus for forming glass tubing comprises an endless former with an outer surface and an inner passage defining an inner surface. The apparatus for forming glass tubing further comprises two chambers from which molten glass may flow. One chamber flows molten glass to the outer surface of the endless former and another chamber flows molten glass to the inner surface of the endless former. The two flows of molten glass meet at the bottom of the former to form glass tubing.

Overflow downdraw glass tube forming apparatus

An apparatus for forming laminated sheet glass comprises a first upper pipe and a lower pipe and an adjustment mechanism comprising first and second first-upper-pipe suspension rods supported by a first horizontally extending support member, third and fourth first-upper-pipe suspension rods supported by a second horizontally extending support member the first upper pipe supported, directly or indirectly, by the first, second, third, and fourth first-upper-pipe suspension rods, a first and second lower-pipe suspension rod supported by the first horizontally extending support member and a third and fourth lower-pipe suspension rod and supported by the second horizontally extending support member, lower pipe supported, directly or indirectly, by the first, second, third, and fourth lower-pipe suspension rods, each respective rod suspended so as to be horizontally adjustable and independently vertically adjustable.

Suspension and control system for glass laminate fusion

A glass fusion draw apparatus for molten glass stream thermal profile control, including:

Apparatus and method for thermal profile control in an isopipe

An apparatus for forming laminated sheet glass, including: a lower pipe and a first upper pipe separated by a first gap on one side and second gap on the other side, the apparatus being configured so that the position of the lower pipe relative to the first upper pipe are each independently adjustable to control the dimensions of the first gap, the second gap, or both, as defined herein. Also disclosed is a method for forming laminated sheet glass or articles thereof using the aforementioned glass laminating apparatus, as defined herein.

Apparatus and method for producing laminated glass sheet

A flexible seal positioned between two muffles of a glass laminate fusion draw machine comprises, in order from the interior to the exterior of the muffles, a radiation shield comprising overlapping rows of refractory material, a thermal seal comprising a blanket of temperature resistance material, and an air seal comprising a sheet of high temperature elastomeric material. The seal may further comprising a secondary radiation shield positioned between the thermal seal and the air seal.

Muffle gap seal for glass laminate machine

A glass forming apparatus and method include a weir on at least a first side of a molten core glass reservoir. The weir includes an inclined surface that, in the intended direction of molten glass flow, slopes downward in the vertical direction while extending away from the molten core glass reservoir in the horizontal direction. A source of molten clad glass is configured above the glass forming apparatus such that when molten clad glass is flowing down and molten core glass is flowing over the weir, the molten clad glass drops onto the molten core glass at a highest upstream contact point that is located directly above the inclined surface of the weir.

Glass forming apparatus and method

A method and apparatus for forming vents () in glass sheets (). The method includes repetitively performing the steps of: (I) bringing a score head () and a platen () into contact with, respectively, the front () and rear () major surfaces of the glass sheet (), (II) moving the score head () across the front major surface () along a predetermined path to form a vent (), and (III) withdrawing the score head () and the platen () from the front () and rear () major surfaces, wherein: (i) the thickness (&#x3b4;) of the glass sheet is less than or equal to 500 microns, and (ii) for each repetition of steps (I) through (III), the platen () is cleaned after step (III) and before step (I) to remove glass chips which if left on the platen () could cause the score head () to penetrate through the thickness &#x3b4;.

Methods and apparatus for scoring thin glass

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Elmira, NY, United States of America

Frank Thomas Coppola