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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:
Dec. 31, 2002
Filed:
Oct. 05, 2001
Applicant:
Inventors:
Assignee:
Hoya Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
C03B 1/910 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
C03B 1/910 ;
Abstract
In a method of producing a glass gob by continuously dropping a molten glass from a nozzle in a dropping direction, a gas flow is caused to continuously flow in the dropping direction along an outer peripheral surface of the nozzle at a predetermined flow rate. The gas flow applies a wind pressure to the molten glass appearing from a nozzle end of the nozzle to drop the molten glass