The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document.
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:
May. 03, 1994
Filed:
Apr. 19, 1993
Hiromi Kawamoto, Ube, JP;
Yoshinori Kubota, Ube, JP;
Natsuya Nishimura, Ube, JP;
Akira Sakanoue, Ube, JP;
Central Glass Co., Ltd., Ube, JP;
Abstract
A method of forming a fiber glass preform includes the steps of: (a) pouring a cladding glass into a mold; (b) pouring a core glass on a flat horizontal upper surface of the cladding glass so as to form a united glass body having the core glass and the cladding glass under a condition that viscosity of the cladding glass and viscosity of the core glass are adjusted to certain predetermined values respectively so that the core glass is separated from and placed on the cladding glass; (c) cooling the united glass body to solidify the same so that the cladding glass is deformed by contraction thereof so as to produce a depression at a top middle portion thereof and that the core glass is deformed so as to form a projected portion thereof to fill the depression therewith; (d) separating the united glass body into an upper portion and a lower portion comprising the projected portion of the core glass; and (e) extruding the lower portion of the united glass body so as to form the fiber glass preform.