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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 19, 1999
Filed:
Aug. 04, 1997
Applicant:
Inventors:
David Martlew, St. Helens, GB;
Robert Emmett Trevelyan, Wigan, GB;
Graham Unwin, Wigan, GB;
Peter James Whitfield, St. Helens, GB;
Assignee:
Pilkington PLC, St. Helens, GB;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
C03B / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
373 32 ; 373 27 ;
Abstract
A float glass production facility comprising a furnace including a melter, a refiner and a working end, the working end having two or more exits, each of which supplies a separate canal and float glass forming chamber, the working end being operable so that the glass flow through each of the two or more exits is independent of the flow of glass through the other exits.