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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 20, 2018
Filed:
Aug. 15, 2014
Corning Incorporated, Corning, NY (US);
Eliot Geathers, Painted Post, NY (US);
Kashyap Harshadlal Shah, Painted Post, NY (US);
Yuriy Yurkovsky, Corning, NY (US);
Corning Incorporated, Corning, NY (US);
Abstract
A method and apparatus for manufacturing glass are provided. The apparatus is configured to draw a glass ribbon and includes an evaporator unit having a liquid reservoir configured to receive a working liquid. The apparatus further includes a heat transfer element configured to be placed in thermal contact with the working liquid received in the liquid reservoir. The heat transfer element is configured to cool the glass ribbon being drawn from the glass manufacturing apparatus by receiving radiant heat from the glass ribbon and transferring the heat to the working liquid received in the liquid reservoir, thereby transforming an amount of the working liquid to a vapor. The method includes drawing the glass ribbon, cooling the glass ribbon by radiating heat from the glass ribbon to the heat transfer element, and then transferring heat from the heat transfer element to the working liquid.