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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:
Jul. 14, 1987
Filed:
Aug. 15, 1986
Applicant:
Inventors:
Paulette I Onorato, Sudbury, MA (US);
Sophia R Su, Weston, MA (US);
Assignee:
GTE Laboratories Incorporated, Waltham, MA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
C08B / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
65 181 ; 65901 ;
Abstract
A silicate optical glass article is made by forming a gel from a hydrolyzed silicon alkoxide. The resulting gel is molded, cured, dried, solvents removed, heated to form a dense glass having near net shape dimensions thereby reducing expensive polishing steps to obtain the desired final dimensions and surface quality.