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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 20, 2011
Filed:
Dec. 01, 2009
Nobuyuki Ban, Yokohama, JP;
Toru Kamihori, Yokohama, JP;
Atsushi Inoue, Yokohama, JP;
Motoichi Iga, Yokohama, JP;
Nobuyuki Ban, Yokohama, JP;
Toru Kamihori, Yokohama, JP;
Atsushi Inoue, Yokohama, JP;
Motoichi Iga, Yokohama, JP;
Asahi Glass Company, Limited, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
An apparatusfor producing a plate glass, comprising a bathfor float-forming for reserving a molten metalfor forming a band-shaped plate glass having a predetermined thickness by feeding a molten glass ribbonin a predetermined direction on the molten metal, and a pair of partition wallsprovided substantially above left and right edgesof the molten glass ribbonand substantially along the edgesto partition a space above a bath surface of the molten metal into an upper space A above a region covered with the molten glass ribbonand upper spaces B above regions not covered with the molten glass ribbonwherein the partition wallseach has a vertically dividable structure dividable into an upper partition wallA and a lower partition wallB, and the lower partition wallB is constituted by strip-shaped lower strip membersprovided continuously to each other in a lateral direction, and the strip membersare configured to be removable or openable from the upper partition wallA.