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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 28, 2022
Filed:
Aug. 01, 2017
Corning Incorporated, Corning, NY (US);
Curtis Richard Cowles, Corning, NY (US);
Gilbert De Angelis, Lindley, NY (US);
Nicolas LeBlond, Painted Post, NY (US);
David John McEnroe, Corning, NY (US);
Jeffrey Lee Merriman, Corning, NY (US);
Rand Alan Murnane, Big Flats, NY (US);
Katherine Rose Rossington, Corning, NY (US);
Michael Joshua Snyder, Almond, NY (US);
Corning Incorporated, Corning, NY (US);
Abstract
A method of melting glass and glass-ceramics that includes the steps: conveying a batch of raw materials into a submerged combustion melting apparatus, the melting apparatus having liquid-cooled walls and a floor; directing a flame into the batch of raw materials and the melted batch with sufficient energy to form the raw materials into the melted batch; and heating a delivery orifice assembly in the floor of the submerged melting apparatus to convey the melted batch through the orifice assembly into a containment vessel. The melted batch has a glass or glass-ceramic composition that is substantially reactive to a refractory material comprising one or more of silica, zirconia, alumina, platinum and platinum alloys.