Class / Patent application number | Description | Number of patent applications / Date published |
065158000 | WITH SIGNAL, INDICATOR, INSPECTION MEANS, REGISTER, OR RECORDER | 13 |
20080236201 | SYSTEM FOR AND METHOD OF BATCH ANALYSIS AND OPTIMIZATION FOR GLASS MANUFACTURING - Certain preferred embodiments of the present invention provide a system for and method of analyzing and cleaning a cullet stream prior to bottle manufacturing. In accordance with certain aspects of the present invention, the system includes a raw materials feeder, a mixing stage, a melting stage, a bottle-forming stage, a cooling/annealing stage, an inspection stage, and a batch controller. The raw materials feeder further includes a cullet bin within which is cullet supply, a feeder, an analysis device, and removal assembly. Certain preferred embodiments of the method include the steps of feeding cullet onto the conveyor, performing real-time composition analysis of the cullet, removing contaminants from the cullet, determining whether the cullet batch is consistent with a predetermined tolerance threshold, adjusting the glass batch formulation, sending the batch ingredients to the mixing stage, and then completing the overall glass manufacturing process. | 10-02-2008 |
20080264105 | Method and a machine for the production of hollow glassware articles - A method and a machine for the production of hollow glassware articles, by the blow-and-blow, press-and-blow, press-and-blow paste mold and direct-press processes in a glassware forming machine including single or multiple machine sections each having single or multiple-cavity, comprising: forming a parison in an inverted orientation, into a blank mold and a first transferable and open-able neck ring mold held by an inverting apparatus having a first and a second diametrically opposed arms, each arm holding a transferable and open-able neck ring mold; inverting the parison held by the first transferable and open-able neck ring mold, by rotating the first arm 180° to an upright orientation at an intermediate station, while the second arm with a second transferable and open-able neck ring mold is simultaneously placed at the parison forming station; transferring the first transferable and open-able neck ring mold holding the parison in an upright orientation, from the intermediate station, to a blow mold station, by a transference apparatus; releasing the first parison into a blow mold, and turning back the first transferable and open-able neck ring mold empty to the first arm of the inverting apparatus, at the intermediate station to be placed again at the parison forming station by rotating the first arm additional 180°, completing a 360° turn, while the second arm reaches to the intermediate station; blowing the parison into a blow mold to form a finished article; and transferring the finished article in an upright orientation, once the blow mold is opened, by a take out apparatus, to place it at a dead plate or at a carrying conveyor. | 10-30-2008 |
20090000336 | Inner Treatment Method and Device for the Inner Treatment of Glass Containers - The present invention relates to a method for the inner treatment of a glass container ( | 01-01-2009 |
20100126226 | Glass Sheet Stabilizing System, Glass Manufacturing System and Method for Making A Glass Sheet - A stabilizing system is described herein that reinforces a bowed profile of a downward moving glass sheet which helps to reduce the creation of stress within the glass sheet. In another embodiment, the stabilizing system can also form a rigid zone within the glass sheet which blocks or dampens any disturbances (motion) to the glass sheet that is caused by the scoring and separating of the glass sheet from transferring up the glass sheet. In yet another embodiment, the stabilizing system can also flatten the glass sheet before the scoring and separating of the glass sheet which is desirable because it enables a laser scoring mechanism to cut the glass sheet with the required edge straightness and avoids having to perform another precision cutting process. | 05-27-2010 |
20100162766 | Method for Monitoring by Absorption Spectroscopy During the Forming of Flat Glass and Monitoring Device - The invention relates to a method for controlling flat glass forming by flowing a molten glass over a liquid tin layer contained in a forming vat wherein a forming characteristic quantity is measured above the glass surface during forming by means of beams generated by at least one absorption spectroscopy-based analyser, wherein the light beams generated by said analyser form a net above the glass surface. A device for carrying out the inventive method comprising an arm for supporting a vessel which comprises a retroreflecting means for receiving a light beam and transmitting it in an opposite direction parallel to an incident optical path is also disclosed. | 07-01-2010 |
20130000359 | GOB FORMING DEVICE - Gob producing device with a molten glass feeder having an orifice at its bottom portion and a cutter for cutting the molten glass pushed out through the orifice so as to be suspended and produce a gob. The gob producing device includes a cutter position moving for adjusting the height of the cutter mechanism by moving it, a gob observing device for observing the falling gob in three dimensions, an image processor for obtaining the gob length from spatial position data obtained by the gob observing device to determine acceptance or rejection of the length and calculating correction data for correcting the cutter's height from the difference between measured and set values of the gob length when the obtained length is determined to be inappropriate, and a control device for moving the cutter mechanism by controlling the cutter position moving mechanism's operation on the basis of the correction data. | 01-03-2013 |
20140033770 | PROCESS AND SYSTEM FOR PRECISION GLASS SHEET BENDING - An apparatus and method for precision bending a glass sheet that includes an oven for heating the glass sheet to a temperature near the softening temperature of the glass sheet. A stage for supporting the glass sheet. A pair of reference surfaces on the stage for precisely locating the glass sheet on the stage. At least one bending mechanism on a pair of arms inside the oven for bending an edge portion of the glass sheet. Inward facing first stop surfaces on the arms that contact reference surfaces on the stage for precisely locating the bending mechanism on the arms relative to the stage and the glass sheet. | 02-06-2014 |
20140041415 | Dwell Time Control System And Method With Automatic Pressure Switch Point Adjustment - A dwell time control system and method for automatically adjusting the selection and timing of a sequence of pressures used to drive the plunger in a parison mold during the parison forming process. The timing of characteristics of the observed press curve from one or more previous parison forming cycles are ascertained and used to control the timing of the changes in pressure during a subsequent parison forming cycle. The timings of these changes of pressure are determined as predetermined percentages of the timings of the characteristics in order to prevent the blow mold from being forced open and in order to prevent the occurrence of an overpressed finish. | 02-13-2014 |
20140130553 | SYSTEM FOR AND METHOD OF MIXED-COLOR CULLET CHARACTERIZATION AND CERTIFICATION, AND PROVIDING CONTAMINANT-FREE, UNIFORMLY COLORED MIXED-COLOR CULLET - Methods of creating a batch of recycled glass from mixed color glass cullet. In one embodiment, the method includes receiving at a glass plant a weight and color composition percentage of a first batch of mixed color cullet. The glass plant also receives a weight and color composition percentage of a second batch of mixed color cullet. The weight and color composition percentage of the first batch and the second batch are combined to generate a combined weight and composition percentage. The combined weight and composition are percentage are used to generate, automatically at a glass plant, a formulation to produce glass of a desired color. | 05-15-2014 |
20150321938 | SYSTEMS FOR MONITORING GLASS AND/OR GLASS FOAM DENSITY AS A FUNCTION OF VERTICAL POSITION WITHIN A VESSEL - Methods and systems for determining density or density gradient of molten foamed glass in a glass melter, an apparatus downstream of a glass melter, or both. A molten foamed glass is generated having molten glass and bubbles entrained therein and/or a layer of glass foam on a top surface thereof in a melter. At least a portion of the molten foamed glass is transferred into an apparatus positioned downstream of the melter, and the density or density gradient of the molten foamed glass in the melter or downstream apparatus is determined as a function of distance from a structural feature of the melter or downstream apparatus, or both, using one or more electromagnetic (EM) wave-based sensors. | 11-12-2015 |
20150348853 | PRECISE ANNEALING OF FOCAL PLANE ARRAYS FOR OPTICAL DETECTION - Precise annealing of identified defective regions of a Focal Plane Array (“FPA”) (e.g., exclusive of non-defective regions of the FPA) facilitates removal of defects from an FPA that has been hybridized and/or packaged with readout electronics. Radiation is optionally applied under operating conditions, such as under cryogenic temperatures, such that performance of an FPA can be evaluated before, during, and after annealing without requiring thermal cycling. | 12-03-2015 |
20160023937 | APPARATUS FOR ELIMINATING HETEROGENEOUS GLASS AND GLASS MANUFACTURING APPARATUS COMPRISING THE SAME - The present disclosure provides an apparatus for eliminating a heterogeneous glass present in the top surface of a molten glass effectively, and a melting furnace and a glass manufacturing apparatus comprising the same. The apparatus for eliminating a heterogeneous glass according to one aspect of the present disclosure comprises a storage bath having an inlet and an outlet to receive a molten glass fed into the inlet and to discharge the received molten glass through the outlet, and an evacuating opening formed on the top of the storage bath, the evacuating opening allowing the received molten glass to overflow; a first gate being mounted close to the outlet of the storage bath to adjust an open area, thereby controlling the flow rate of the molten glass to be discharged through the outlet; and a second gate being mounted close to the inlet of the storage bath to control the height of the molten glass received in the storage bath at the section in which the evacuating opening is formed. | 01-28-2016 |
20160377419 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DEVELOPING THREE-DIMENSIONAL SURFACE INFORMATION CORRESPONDING TO A CONTOURED GLASS SHEET - A system for acquiring surface data from one of the surfaces of a curved glass sheet and developing a surface definition of the glass sheet includes a conveyor for conveying the glass sheet in a first direction, at least one display projecting a preselected multi-phase non-repeating contrasting pattern, and at least one camera, each one of the cameras uniquely paired with one of the displays. The system may also include a control programmed to execute logic for controlling each of the camera/display pairs to acquire the desired images, and logic for analyzing and combining the data acquired by the cameras to construct a definition of the surface of the glass sheet. | 12-29-2016 |