Glass manufacturing inventions 04/08

20080092596 - 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... Agent: Woodcock Washburn LLP

20080092597 - Glass manufacturing apparatus, a structural member thereof and method for heating the structural member by conduction heating: A hollow tubular body for molten glass in which local-overheating is reduced at the time of conduction heating. The hollow tubular body has a platinum or platinum alloy hollow tube, used for conduction heating, wherein a platinum or platinum alloy ring electrode is joined to the outer circumference of the... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080092598 - Dehydration-sintering furnace, a manufacturing method of an optical fiber preform utilizing the furnace and an optical fiber preform manufactured by the method: A dehydration-sintering furnace for dehydrating and/or sintering an optical fiber preform for use in production of an optical fiber includes a muffle for accommodating the optical fiber preform, a heater for heating the muffle, and a pressure fluctuation absorbing apparatus connected to the muffle. Since the pressure fluctuation absorbing apparatus... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080087044 - Selective batching for boron-containing glasses: A method of forming a glass melt, including measuring predetermined amounts of raw materials to define a glass batch, combining predetermined amounts of sources of silica, calcia and boron from the glass batch to yield a first pre-batch, substantially consolidating the first pre-batch into first pre-batch granules, combining predetermined amounts... Agent: Sommer Barnard Attorneys,p.c.

20080087045 - Method of manufacturing glass substrate for use in information recording medium, and method of manufacturing information recording medium: In a method of manufacturing a glass substrate for an information recording medium including a step for chemically strengthening the glass substrate by contacting the glass substrate with chemical strengthening processing liquid containing chemical strengthening salt, concentration of Fe and Cr is 500 ppb or less in said chemical strengthening... Agent: Sughrue, Mion, Zinn, Macpeak & Seas

20080087046 - Glass manufacturing apparatus and a structural member thereof: A hollow tubular body for molten glass by which local-overheating in the electrode for conduction heating is prevented. A hollow tubular body having a platinum or platinum alloy hollow tube, used for conduction heating is characterized in that a ring electrode is joined to the outer circumference of the hollow... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080087047 - Optoelectronic fiber codrawn from conducting, semiconducting, and isulating materials: The invention provides techniques for drawing fibers that include conducting, semiconducting, and insulating materials in intimate contact and prescribed geometries. The resulting fiber exhibits engineered electrical and optical functionalities along extended fiber lengths. The invention provides corresponding processes for producing such fibers, including assembling a fiber preform of a plurality... Agent: Theresa A Lober T.a. Lober Patent Services

20080087048 - Glass base material manufacturing apparatus and method thereof: An apparatus for manufacturing a glass base material, which is a base material of an optical fiber, the glass base material having a core rod as a central axis, comprises a holding unit having a plurality of scroll chucks connected in series along the core rod for holding an end... Agent: Smith, Gambrell & Russell

20080083250 - Method for electrically energizing and heating platinum composite tube structure: There is provided a method for electrically energizing and heating a platinum or platinum-alloy composite tube structure having a structure including a first main tube, a second main tube, and a branch tube connecting the first main tube and the second main tube, which prevents a local part of the... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.c.

20080078207 - Reinforcing method of silica glass substance and reinforced silica glass crucible: A process reinforcing a silica glass substance, such as a silica glass crucible, is provided without intermixing an impurity. The process comprises forming a silica glass powder layer on a surface of the silica glass substance, and crystallizing said silica glass powder layer under high temperature. As for a silica... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.