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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 22, 1987
Filed:
Mar. 03, 1986
Applicant:
Inventor:
Rolf Clasen, Aachen, DE;
Assignee:
U.S. Philips Corporation, New York, NY (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
C03B / ; C03C / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
65 183 ; 65-2 ; 65-311 ; 65-312 ; 65DI / ; 65901 ; 65 17 ; 156D / ; 264 23 ; 501 12 ;
Abstract
A method of and arrangements for manufacturing glass bodies, in which method a thixotropic suspension, being the starting material for the glass body, is used to form a porous green body which is subsequently subjected to a purification step in a heated gaseous phase and then sintered to form a glass body, the starting material being homogenized and liquefied in a closed elastic mould by subjecting it to sound or ultrasonic, after which the liquid starting material is given the shape of the glass body to be formed and then solidified.