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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 09, 2014
Filed:
Aug. 30, 2010
Frank T. Coppola, Horseheads, NY (US);
Monica J. Mashewske, Horseheads, NY (US);
Frank T. Coppola, Horseheads, NY (US);
Monica J. Mashewske, Horseheads, NY (US);
Corning Incorporated, Corning, NY (US);
Abstract
An apparatus and method for heat treating a plurality of glass substrates. The glass substrates are supported on support platform and housed in a heat treating furnace. The substrates are supported in a substantially vertical orientation by restraining pins extending through walls of the furnace, and are separated from each other by frame-shaped spacing members. The spacing members reduce convection currents between the substrates and reduce or eliminate the post-heat treating distortion of each glass substrate to less than 100 μm over the entire surface of the substrate.