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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 24, 2018
Filed:
Oct. 13, 2017
Owens-brockway Glass Container Inc., Perrysburg, OH (US);
Zhongming Wang, Ypsilanti, MI (US);
Scott Weil, Maumee, OH (US);
Tilak Gullinkala, Perrysburg, OH (US);
Udaya Vempati, Perrysburg, OH (US);
Shivakumar S. Kadur, Perrysburg, OH (US);
Owens-Brockway Glass Container Inc., Perrysburg, OH (US);
Abstract
A glass furnace includes a furnace chamber including a side wall and a bottom wall and containing a pool of glass melt having a melt level. A batch feed hopper is adjacent to the side wall of the furnace chamber to supply batch material under gravity to a bottom of the hopper. A feed opening is in the side wall of the furnace chamber and feeds batch material from the bottom of the hopper to the pool of glass melt below the melt level. A conveyor is proximate the bottom wall of the hopper and feeds the batch material from the bottom of the hopper through the feed opening and into the furnace chamber.