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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 11, 2004
Filed:
Feb. 04, 2002
Klaus-Dieter Duch, Bingen, DE;
Frank Karetta, Dittelsheim-Hessloch, DE;
Franz Ott, Mitterteich, DE;
Siegfried Breitfelder, Jena, DE;
Schott Glas, Mainz, DE;
Abstract
The invention relates to a device for the production of a glass melt from a batch; with a melt tank ( ) that has peripheral walls ( ) and a bottom ( ); with a discharge channel ( ) which is located under the bottom ( ) of the melt tank ( ) and which is in conducting connection with the melt bath ( ) over an entry opening ( ) and has an outlet opening ( ) for the finished melt in the zone of a peripheral wall ( ) of the melt tank ( ); with at least one heating arrangement for the heating of the melt bath ( ); the entry opening ( ) of the discharge channel ( ) is arranged in a central zone of the bottom ( ) of the melt tank ( ); the discharge channel ( ) has a covering ( ) which is located at least approximately at the level of the bottom ( ) of the melt tank ( ).