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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 01, 2020
Filed:
Jun. 24, 2016
Ocv Intellectual Capital, Llc, Toledo, OH (US);
James Alan MacPhee, Newark, OH (US);
Steven James Mighton, Granville, OH (US);
Daniel A. Ertl, Noblesville, IN (US);
Owens Corning Intellectual Capital, LLC, Toledo, OH (US);
Abstract
A submerged combustion melting system () includes a submerged combustion melter () having a housing with one or more side walls (), a floor (), and a ceiling () which at least partially define a melt chamber (). The melter has one or more main burners () positioned along the floor of the housing and an oxygen/gas burner in a preheat burner system () removably attached to one of the sidewalls or the ceiling, the oxygen/gas burner arranged such that a flame from the oxygen/gas burner is directed downward into the melt chamber.