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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:
Feb. 08, 1983
Filed:
Apr. 02, 1981
Applicant:
Inventors:
Alexander Coucoulas, Bridgewater Township, Somerset County, NJ (US);
John R Nis, Hamilton Township, Mercer County, NJ (US);
Assignee:
Western Electric Company, Inc., New York, NY (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
C03B / ; C03B / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
65 75 ; 65 83 ; 65 86 ; 65134 ; 65187 ; 65326 ; 65329 ;
Abstract
A fused silica glass tube (26) is extruded from a melt (21) in a chamber (11) pressurized with an inert gas. A shield is placed in close, spaced, relation to the melt (21) surface during the gas pressure extrusion process to substantially eliminate losses from the melt due to vaporization.