Corning Incorporated

Steven Robert Wagner

Joseph Michael Matusick

Connor Thomas O'Malley

Lewis Kirk Klingensmith

Matthew Daniel Trosa

Elias Panides

Steven Roy Burdette

Keith Raymond Gaylo

David John McEnroe

Raymond Eugene Fraley

Systems for producing articles from glass tube include a converter having a base with a plurality of processing stations and a turret moveable relative to the base. The turret indexes a plurality of holders for holding the glass tubes successively through the processing stations. The systems further include a gas flow system or a suction system for producing a flow of gas through the glass tube during one or more heating, forming, separating or piercing operations. The flow of gas through the glass tube produced by the gas flow system or suction system may be sufficient to evacuate or purge volatile constituents of the glass from the glass tube and/or pierce a meniscus formed on the glass tube during separation, thereby reducing the Surface Hydrolytic Response (SHR) of the interior surface of the glass tube and articles made therefrom.

Systems and methods for minimizing SHR from pharmaceutical part converting using pulsed ejection

Methods for minimizing SHR in glass articles by producing a gas flow during pharmaceutical part converting

The present invention is directed toward a method of reducing contamination of a glass melt by oxide particulates, such as particulates of platinum oxide, which may condense on the inside surfaces of a stir chamber, particularly the stir shaft, and fall back into the glass melt. The method includes causing a flow of gas through an annular space between the shaft and the chamber cover. In one embodiment, the flow of gas through the annular space is caused by drawing a vacuum in the chamber. An apparatus for practicing the method is also provided.

Method and apparatus for homogenizing a glass melt

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Corning, NY, United States of America

Steven Robert Wagner