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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 05, 2015
Filed:
Mar. 15, 2013
Applicant:
Owens-brockway Glass Container Inc., Perrysburg, OH (US);
Inventors:
Witold W. Mastek, Waterville, OH (US);
Desikan Sundararajan, Toledo, OH (US);
Terence J. Clark, Sanford, MI (US);
Melisa Y. Zambrano Becerra, Lima, PE;
Assignee:
Other;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
C03C 1/02 (2006.01); C03C 3/087 (2006.01); C03B 1/02 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
C03C 1/02 (2013.01); C03C 1/026 (2013.01); C03C 3/087 (2013.01); C03B 1/02 (2013.01);
Abstract
A plurality of soda-lime glass batch materials are formed into granules that include a core and a shell surrounding the core. The core comprises a first portion of the plurality of glass batch materials, and the shell comprises a remaining portion of the plurality of glass batch materials. These core-shell granules can be melted in a glass furnace to produce molten soda-lime glass in less time and at a lower temperature than conventional soda-lime glass batch preparations.