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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 14, 2025
Filed:
Aug. 22, 2023
Vitro Flat Glass Llc, Cheswick, PA (US);
Mark O. Naylor, Philadelphia, PA (US);
Lawrence E. Jansen, Broken Arrow, OK (US);
Larry J. Shelestak, Bairdford, PA (US);
Vitro Flat Glass LLC, Cheswick, PA (US);
Abstract
A method of making glass having a basic soda-lime-silica glass portion, and a colorant portion, the colorant portion including total iron as FeOin the range of at least 0.00 to no more than 0.02 weight percent, a redox ratio in the range of 0.35 to 0.6, and tin metal providing tin in an amount within the range of greater than 0.005 to 5.0 weight percent; the glass product has a tin side and an opposite air side, said tin side of the glass having a higher concentration of tin than the air side, the air side having a uniform concentration of tin from the air side of the glass product towards the tin side of the glass product.