Corning Incorporated

Purushotam Kumar

Elias Panides

Sean Thomas Miller

Yujian Sun

Daniel Warren Hawtof

John Stone, Iii

James Michael Brown

Leo Young Zheng

Brian Charles Cook

Bruce Arthur Mourhess, Jr

James Westley Rogacki

A spray coating apparatus that applies a coating material onto outer surfaces of glass objects includes a coating material source that includes a coating material. A spray nozzle assembly includes a spray nozzle fluidly connected to the coating material source. The spray nozzle is arranged and configured to direct the coating material in a first direction toward the glass object and provide an overspray amount of the coating material by the glass object such that the overspray amount bypasses a non-line of sight area of the glass object. A turn nozzle assembly includes a turn nozzle fluidly connected to a pressurized gas source. The turn nozzle is arranged and configured to direct pressurized gas in a second direction different than the first direction toward the non-line of sight area of the glass package to redirect the coating material onto the non-line of sight area.

Spray coating apparatuses with turn nozzle assemblies and methods of coating glass objects

An enclosure for providing a controlled environment includes a central plane extending through a top end of the enclosure and a bottom end of the enclosure and bisecting the enclosure along a width of the enclosure, an inlet at the bottom end of the enclosure having an inlet width, W, an enclosure wall extending from the inlet to the top end of the enclosure, an entry port at the top end of the enclosure, and an outlet between the entry port and the chamber region of the enclosure wall. The enclosure wall comprises a chamber region and a transition region between the inlet and the chamber region. The width of the chamber region, W, is substantially constant through the chamber region. The width of the enclosure in the transition region decreases from Wto W, and a ratio of Wto Wis from 1:2 to 1:5.

Enclosures for providing a controlled environment during the production of glass articles

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