Patents by Inventor Gordon A. Farrar

Gordon A. Farrar 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).

  • Electric melting of solidified glass in melting units
    Patent number: 4426217
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for electrically melting solidified glass in difficult to reach regions of a glass melting furnace not readily accessible with fossil fuel heating means and, more particularly, to an electrode arrangement for electrically heating solidified glass in difficult to melt regions such as a submerged outlet throat between a furnace melter section and the riser through which the glass is supplied in production.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 1982
    Date of Patent: January 17, 1984
    Assignee: Owens-Corning Fiberglas Corporation
    Inventors: Gordon A. Farrar, Melvin R. Friemoth, deceased
  • Wedge shaped electrode block
    Patent number: 4348767
    Abstract: An electrode block for use in the bottom wall of an electric glass-melting furnace comprising a body of refractory material having an aperture therein which is suitably sized to mate with an electrode, the body having a top and bottom and at least one side that is slanted such that the area of the bottom is greater than the area of the top.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 1980
    Date of Patent: September 7, 1982
    Assignee: Owens-Corning Fiberglas Corporation
    Inventor: Gordon A. Farrar