Ocv Intellectual Capital, LLC

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Owens Corning Intellectual Capital, LLC

The Boc Grpoup, Inc.

Owens Corning

Harry P Adams

David J Baker

William Wyatt Toth

Christopher Q Jian

William W Toth

William L Streicher

John R LeBlanc

Byron Bemis

Bruno Andre Purnode

Patrick John Prescott

Paul Robert Pirkle

Michael L Antongiovanni

John R Leblanc

Rifat M Khalil Alchalabi

James K Hayward

A process for optimizing the manufacture of decorative multilayer coatings for attachment to surfaces, including using a roll-to-roll printer to print a decorative layer on a surface of a film layer, wherein the decorative layer includes cutting lines and a first indication, using a curable roller coater to coat a layer on the surface above the print layer, using a laminator to laminate a mask over the print layer, using a cutter to cut the print layer into a cut print, and entering the cut print layer into a line printer to read the first indication and print a second indication on the cut print.

Process for manufacturing decorative multilayer coatings method of use thereof

Forehearths that create a substantially homogeneous temperature to molten glass forming materials across the end position are provided. A gas cavity, a weir, a refractory block, or a heating element in the forehearth may be utilized to reduce a temperature gradient of molten glass forming materials across the end position. Reducing the temperature difference of the molten glass forming material across the end position permits for improved chemical and physical properties of the glass fibers and the end products formed from the glass fibers. In addition, a reduction in the temperature gradient across the end position produces a more homogenous glass fiber and glass product. Further, a reduction in the shear break rate occurs when the molten glass forming material has a temperature that is substantially the same across the end position, which results in a reduction in the breakage of glass fibers and an increase in manufacturing efficiency.

Apparatuses for controlling the temperature of glass forming materials in forehearths

A front end for a glass forming operation comprises an open channel and at least one burner. The channel has at least one surface. The surface has at least one hole therein. The burner is oriented in the hole at an acute angle relative to the surface. In another embodiment of the invention, the channel has a top and a pair of sidewalls each having a surface. At least one hole is in at least one of the surfaces. The hole is at an acute angle relative to at least one surface. The burner is an oxygen-fired burner. In yet another embodiment of the invention, the top and sidewalls each have a super structure surface constructed of refractory material. The channel has an upstream end and a downstream end. At least one of the surfaces has a plurality of holes therein. The burners extend at an acute angle relative to at least one surface and in a plane extending between the upstream end and the downstream end and perpendicular to at least one surface. Oxygen-fired burners extend axially through corresponding holes.

Oxygen-fired front end for glass forming operation

A glass-melting furnace () has an upstream end (), a downstream end (), and a roof (). The upstream end is positioned upstream of the downstream end. A charger () is provided to supply glass-forming material () to the upstream end of the furnace. At least one burner () is provided to supply heat to the glass-forming material at the upstream end of the furnace. An exhaust () is in communication with the downstream end of the furnace, with the exhaust being positioned downstream of the at least one burner.

Exhaust positioned at the downstream end of a glass melting furnace

A front end for a glass forming operation including an open channel and at least one burner. The channel surface has at least one burner port and a burner oriented in the burner port at an acute angle relative to the channel surface. The surface may be a top, side or end wall and the burner port is at an acute angle relative to the surface of the wall.

Low heat capacity gas oxy fired burner

Briefly, according to the present invention there is provided a refractory lined glass melter for producing refined glass from raw glass-forming material using at least one oxygen-fuel burner recessed within a burner block mounted in the roof of the furnace and a process of using the burner. The velocities of the gaseous fuel and of the oxygen from the oxygen-fuel burner are controlled such that the velocities of the gaseous fuel and the oxygen are substantially equivalent to provide a generally laminar gaseous fuel and oxygen flow to combust proximate a top surface of the raw glass-forming material and produce a flame which impinges the surface of the raw glass-forming material and which has a middle portion of a columnar shape.

Roof-mounted oxygen-fuel burner for a glass melting furnace and process of using the oxygen-fuel burner

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Granville, OH, United States of America

Harry P Adams