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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 20, 2017
Filed:
Jul. 17, 2014
Corning Incorporated, Corning, NY (US);
Tomohiro Aburada, Kakegawa, JP;
Jeffrey Robert Amadon, Lexington, KY (US);
Adam Charles Berkey, Pittsburgh, PA (US);
Terrence Richard Horsfall, Lexington, KY (US);
Gautam Narendra Kudva, Horseheads, NY (US);
Michael Yoshiya Nishimoto, Horseheads, NY (US);
Corning Incorporated, Corning, NY (US);
Abstract
Methods for producing a glass ribbon include the step of drawing a glass ribbon from a quantity of molten glass and detecting an instability in the glass ribbon. In response to the detected instability, the method can further include the step of automatically adjusting an operating variable for each of a plurality of stabilizing elements simultaneously with a controller to at least partially counter the detected instability.