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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 01, 2023
Filed:
Feb. 24, 2020
Corning Incorporated, Corning, NY (US);
Raymond David Groh, Wilmington, NC (US);
Joseph Leroy Morse, Little River, SC (US);
Bradley Kent Shepard, Wilmington, NC (US);
Ian Anthony Smith, Kure Beach, NC (US);
Eric Wade Thornton, Wilmington, NC (US);
Corning Incorporated, Corning, NY (US);
Abstract
A system and methods are described herein for preheating a preform in a preheater furnace and then transferring the preheated preform to a consolidation furnace for chemical treatment and sintering the preform into a clear glass which can be drawn into optical fiber. In addition, the preheater furnace is described herein which is configured to heat the preform per a predetermined heat-profile until the preform is uniformly heated to a temperature above 1000° C.