Asahi Glass Company, Limited

Nihon Parkerizing Co., Ltd.

Hiroshi Mase

Yasuo Sato

Motoichi Iga

Koji Nomaki

Tsunehiro Saito

Masaaki Yoshikawa

Shoji Shimada

Kunihiko Karasawa

Katsuhiro Haruyama

Tokushiro Hosoda

Difference in height is provided between a first surface of a molten metal bath at the upstream side in a vessel and a second surface thereof by means of a linear induction motor. A glass ribbon supplied to the first surface is formed to have a predetermined thickness while it is moved from the first surface to the second surface.

Method of and apparatus for manufacturing float glass

A process for producing a flat glass, which comprises withdrawing a glass ribbon substantially horizontally from the surface of a molten metal bath while maintaining the level of the surface of the molten metal at a level higher than an end wall at the outlet of the bath from which the glass ribbon is withdrawn and preventing the overflow of the molten metal from the end wall by means of a force induced by a linear induction motor, wherein side walls at the outlet of the bath are made of an electroconductive material thereby to prevent a drop of the induced force in the vicinity of the side walls.

Process for producing a flat glass on a molten metal bath

One side surface of a continuous metal strip is continuously brought into contacted with a surface of a molten metal bath. The surface of the molten metal bath is flowed to the directions departing from both edges of the strip by a linear induction motor dipped in the bath. A one side surface metal coated product having no deposition of a molten metal on the reverse surface is obtained by the method of the present invention.

One side surface molten metallic coating method and apparatus thereof

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Yokohama, Japan

Hiroshi Mase