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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 03, 2018
Filed:
Apr. 17, 2014
Applicant:
Owens-brockway Glass Container Inc., Perrysburg, OH (US);
Inventor:
Terence J Clark, Bowling Green, OH (US);
Assignee:
Owens-Brockway Glass Container Inc., Perrysburg, OH (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
C03B 1/02 (2006.01); C03B 3/00 (2006.01); C03B 7/096 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
C03B 7/096 (2013.01); C03B 1/02 (2013.01);
Abstract
An apparatus and process for making glass and glass gobs on demand. A sheet of molten glass is provided in a staging section. The sheet of molten glass is held within the staging section when there is no demand for glass articles. When there is a demand for production of glass articles, a portion of the sheet of molten glass is flowed into a gob forming section.