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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 27, 2005
Filed:
Nov. 22, 2001
Takashi Sugiyama, Tochigi, JP;
Toshimi Habasaki, Kanagawa, JP;
Takashi Sugiyama, Tochigi, JP;
Toshimi Habasaki, Kanagawa, JP;
Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd., Osaka, JP;
Abstract
To provide a method and apparatus for parting a glass rod without causing a crack or rupture at a grasped root portion of the glass rod in parting the glass rod for producing a glass preform. The apparatus for parting the glass rod in a predetermined length by grasping both ends of the glass rodis characterized by comprising a supporting unitof Y-character shape for supporting an intermediate position between both ends of the glass rodfrom the lower part, the supporting unithaving a carbon sleeve composed of a cylindrical body that is rotatable around each of two leg portions making up a forked leg portion as an axis, the carbon sleeve being rotatable along with an axial movement of the glass rod.