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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 30, 2003
Filed:
Oct. 23, 2001
Troy R. Lewandowski, Maumee, OH (US);
Glasstech, Inc., Perrysburg, OH (US);
Abstract
A furnace ( ) and method for heating conveyed glass sheets within a housing ( ) includes forced convection heaters ( ) spaced along the direction of conveyance both below and above a roll conveyor ( ). Each forced convection heater ( ) includes a gas burner assembly ( ) generally adjacent one of the housing side walls and has an outlet ( ) through which products of combustion are supplied to the housing heating chamber ( ) at a location intermediate its side walls. A hot gas distributor ( ) of each forced convection heater ( ) includes an inlet ( ) that is spaced from the outlet ( ) of the gas burner assembly ( ), and the hot gas distributor ( ) has a suction fan ( ) for drawing in heated products of combustion together with spent recirculating gas in the heating chamber ( ) for mixing to provide heated gas that is distributed to the conveyed glass sheets.