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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 11, 1979
Filed:
Jun. 19, 1978
Applicant:
Inventor:
Geoffrey Greenhalgh, Orrell, near Wigan, GB;
Assignee:
Triplex Safety Glass Company Limited, Birmingham, GB;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
C03B / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
428410 ; 65114 ; 65104 ;
Abstract
A method of thermally toughening a glass sheet in which the glass sheet is advanced into a flow of quenching gas directed towards at least one surface of the sheet to induce overall toughening stress in the glass sheet. The advance of the sheet relative to the quenching gas flow is terminated, either by halting the sheet in the flow or by moving the outlets providing the flow with the sheet, so that at least one surface of the sheet is subjected to localized gas flows. The toughened glass sheet so produced has a distribution of regions of more highly toughened glass interspersed with regions of lesser toughened glass.