Patents by Inventor Fritz Kraemer

Fritz Kraemer has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Method and apparatus for suppressing oxygen bubble formation in glass melts
    Patent number: 7021082
    Abstract: In the method of making glass a glass melt is formed from starting materials in a melt apparatus, which includes at least one metal part having a metal surface in contact with the glass melt in a first region of the glass melt having a predetermined oxygen partial pressure. This method includes suppressing oxygen bubble formation in the glass melt at a contacting surface between the metal surface and the glass melt; immersing an electrode in a second region of the glass melt not including the first region, which has a lower oxygen partial pressure than in the first region, and electrically conductively connecting the electrode and the at least one metal part. An apparatus for performing the method is also described as well as glasses made by the method.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 4, 2001
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2006
    Assignee: Schott AG
    Inventors: Patrick Hoyer, Gernot Roeth, Klaus-Dieter Duch, Fritz Kraemer, Thomas Pfeiffer, Franzo Ott
  • Method for suppressing oxygen bubble formation in glass melts, apparatus for performing same uses for glasses made by same
    Publication number: 20020026811
    Abstract: In the method of making glass a glass melt is formed from starting materials in a melt apparatus, which includes at least one metal part having a metal surface in contact with the glass melt in a first region of the glass melt having a predetermined oxygen partial pressure. This method includes suppressing oxygen bubble formation in the glass melt at a contacting surface between the metal surface and the glass melt; immersing an electrode in a second region of the glass melt not including the first region, which has a lower oxygen partial pressure than in the first region, and electrically conductively connecting the electrode and the at least one metal part. An apparatus for performing the method is also described as well as glasses made by the method.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 4, 2001
    Publication date: March 7, 2002
    Inventors: Patrick Hoyer, Gernot Roeth, Klaus-Dieter Duch, Fritz Kraemer, Thomas Pfeiffer