Corning Incorporated

Timothy Joseph Helmers

Gilbert De Angelis

Chunhong Chelsie He

Brian D Burns

Dale Madard Fisher, Jr

Benjamin Pelham Schrock

Lawrence Henry Kotacska

Kimberly Denise Smith

Brad Steven Barnett

Christopher Myron Smith

Kathryn Jean Russell Bourlotos

Andrea Ha Oac

Megan Aurora Delamiellieure

Brad S Barnett

Aaron E Giacomi

A glass manufacturing apparatus includes a delivery tube terminating at a lower end in a delivery slot. A stream of molten material is delivered along a travel plane in a travel direction. A first plate is positioned adjacent the lower end of the delivery tube on a first side of the travel plane. The first plate includes a first edge extending adjacent the travel plane and a first thermal expansion slot extending from the first edge to a first interior. A second plate is positioned adjacent the lower end of the delivery tube on a second side of the travel plane. The second plate includes a second edge extending adjacent the travel plane and a second thermal expansion slot extending from the second edge to a second interior. The second edge is spaced apart from the first edge to define a delivery opening through which the delivery tube extends.

Apparatus for manufacturing a ribbon

In embodiments, a method for operating a glass manufacturing apparatus may include heating a delivery conduit with resistive windings positioned around an exterior surface of the delivery conduit, the delivery conduit extending between a mixing vessel and a delivery vessel. The method may also include injecting electric current through the delivery conduit while heating the delivery conduit with resistive windings and prior to flowing molten glass through the delivery conduit thereby increasing a temperature of the of the delivery conduit, wherein an input heat flux into the delivery conduit is greater than an output heat flux away from the delivery conduit prior to flowing molten glass through the delivery conduit.

Glass manufacturing apparatuses and methods for operating the same

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Danville, KY, United States of America

Timothy Joseph Helmers