Abstract: A process of surface-treating a laser glass is disclosed which comprises coating a specific sol solution obtained by hydrolysis and partial polycondensation of a mixture containing a metal alcoholate on the glass surface and heating the coated glass to form a glassy coating, wherein the glass surface may be treated, prior to the coating, with an alkali aqueous solution and with an aqueous solution of phosphoric acid in sequence, or the coating and the heating may repeated to form a double- or multilayer of the same or different kind of glassy coatings. The thus treated laser glass has increased thermal shock resistance and water resistance.

Abstract: The individual needles of a glass feeder mechanism which control the volume of the streams of molten glass sheared into discrete gobs are displaceable to adjust the size of the sheared gobs. The controller for the motor, which raises or lowers a stream, receives positional data from the plunger, which forms the gob into a parison, and determines the Parison Formation Point for that parison and raises or lowers the needle to maintain that point at a desired plunger location.

Abstract: In order to prevent an uncontrolled collapse of a quartz tube whose inner surface is being coated with a vitrifiable substance in making a preform or parison of an optical fiber, one or more streams of carrier gas entraining the ingredients of the coating substance through the quartz tube are supplemented by a stream of supplemental carrier gas whose flow is being continuously controlled to keep the overall mass-flow rate substantially constant. The outer tube diameter is photoelectrically monitored and incipient changes thereof are compensated by controlling a flow of additional carrier or inert gas which does not pass through the tube but joins the traversing gas flow at the tube outlet, inside a solids separator with a restricted exit aperture, to modify the pressure differential across the tube wall.

Abstract: A bevelled glass assembly and method of making is disclosed. A sheet of annealed glass has at least one groove ground on one surface. At least one other groove intersects the first groove. Both grooves define an array of parallel striations. The sheet of glass is then tempered. The sheet of glass is normally surrounded by a frame.

Abstract: An apparatus for manufacturing a glass stem for an electron tube has a plurality of lead-in conductors and a plurality of fillets with the lead-in conductors extending through the fillets. The apparatus comprises a first stem mold assembly and a second stem mold assembly for forming the stem therebetween. The first stem mold assembly comprises a universal stem mold having a plurality of longitudinal fillet-forming openings formed through a mold block. A plurality of inserts are replaceably disposed and retained within the openings in the mold block. Each of the inserts has a first end, an oppositely disposed second end, and a shank portion therebetween. Each of the inserts has a recess provided in the first end and a lead-accommodating opening extending from the recess into the shank portion of the insert. The mold block also accommodates one or more solid inserts in the openings to produce stems having dummy fillets, i.e., fillets without lead-in conductors therethrough.

Abstract: In an apparatus for manufacturing containers out of glass, a parison is formed from a gob of molten glass and is transferred to a mould having a cavity in the shape of the required container. Instead of the conventional blowing operation, the parison within the mould is heated so that the parison flows to conform to the shape of the cavity. The heating may be by a gas burner and air may be blown on to a neck portion of the parison to cool it during heating of the parison.

Abstract: This relates to improvements in drives for shears, particularly shears for severing gobs from a glass runner. All of the drives incorporate a drive pinion for reciprocating racks which are secured to slides of the shear. The pinion is rotated first in one direction and then in the opposite direction to cause the blades of the shear to first move together and shear a gob, and then move back to the original position. Suitable reversing motors may be utilized, including an electrical servomotor or suitable hydraulic motor. On the other hand, the drive motor may be of the unidirectional type and an oscillating drive member may be incorporated in the drive system for converting the one-directional drive of the motor to an oscillating or reversing output. In addition, the drive of the pinion may be supplemented by a double-acting air motor which is connected to one of the racks.

Abstract: A device for forming glass sheets for using the forming process according to which the glass sheets are brought horizontally into a heating furnace then are brought to a forming station where they are transferred individually and vertically to an upper mold exhibiting a radius of curvature less than or equal to the one it is desired to impart to the glass, then are applied against the upper mold by a suction due to a low pressure created on their periphery and in the vicinity of their periphery. The device essentially comprises a suction box in which is placed an upper mold with dimensions slightly less than those of the glass sheet to be shaped and whose lower face, against which the glass sheet is applied, is located on the outside of said suction box.

Abstract: An apparatus used to manufacture a molded glass stem comprises a plurality of conventional lower stem mold assemblies and a plurality pre-heating, heating, forming, and annealing stations. The forming stations include at least one primary forming station having a primary upper stem mold assembly and at least one secondary forming station having a secondary upper stem mold assembly. The primary upper stem mold assembly includes a primary universal stem mold having primary fillet-forming means formed in a first mold block thereof. The secondary upper stem mold assembly includes a secondary universal stem mold having secondary fillet-forming means formed in a second mold block thereof. The primary fillet-forming means includes a plurality of longitudinal fillet-forming openings formed through the first mold block of the novel primary universal stem mold. A plurality of novel primary inserts are replaceably disposed within the openings in the first mold block.

Abstract: According to the invention, ventilating air blown around and/or in the walls of a mould is cooled so as to maintain substantially constant, at least during predetermined periods of time, the temperature of the air around and/or in the walls of the mould, irrespective of the ambient temperature.

Abstract: A composite capillary tube structure made of a plurality of glass layers and methods for making same. This composite includes inner and outer layers of fused silica glass separated by an intermediate layer of a glass material having a higher coefficient of thermal expansion than the fused silica glass. The glass material of the intermediate layer also has a glass transition temperature on the same order as that of fused silica, so that the fused silica layers are maintained under compressive forces over a temperature range of up to about 400.degree. C. Preferably, the intermediate layer is a borosilicate or aluminosilicate glass.

Abstract: A method for manufacturing mineral fibers comprises forming mineral fibers from molten mineral material, continuously discharging an auxiliary stream of molten mineral material, continuously measuring the temperature and the mass flow rate of the auxiliary stream, calculating the viscosity of the material using the measured mass flow rate and modifying a process parameter in response to the measured temperature and calculated viscosity of the auxiliary stream.

Abstract: In a process for heating an object made of thermoplastic material along a predetermined zone, a ring of burners arranged in series is guided along the zone and heats this zone, the zone forming a closed path and approximately matching the outer contour of the object; in a device for implementing the process, series-arranged burner units circulate on a path covering the zone to be heated, the units being guided along a closed loop.

Abstract: A multilayered, cooled metal lid for a heating vessel has a main support plate fabricated from low carbon steel and a chromium steel overlay that is exposed to the hot interior portions of the vessel. The chromium steel overlay has a chromium content by weight of approximately 10 to 25 percent.

Abstract: A solid film lubricant composition for hot glass contacting surfaces of glass handling equipment and metal molds used in manufacturing glass articles. The solid film lubricant composition is a solution of a solvent, graphite, a solvent-soluble, further curable organopolysiloxane, and NaOH to make the solution alkaline. The solution is easily sprayed on hot glass contacting surfaces such as the interior of the molds to form a coating that is curable at room temperature.

Abstract: Process for bending and tempering glass sheets wherein the sheet (16) is heated up to its plastic state, and it bends by effect of gravity resting on a skelet-type mold (14), and next it is tempered by sudden cooling, in which process during the bending stage the glass sheet (16) is tilted with respect to the vertical direction by an angle of less than 90.degree.. Apparatus for carrying out said process, comprising a heating chamber (1) and a cooling chamber arranged in a sequence and assembled on a rotatable cylindrical frame whose axis is horizontal, said chambers being tiltable through rotation of the frame.

Abstract: Process for lubricating a surface for the manufacture of a glass object, in which a layer of lubricant is periodically deposited on the surface.This layer of lubricant is produced with the aid of a source of heat such as an oxyfuel flame having a temperature higher than 2000.degree. K. through which there is injected during a given period of time a gaseous hydrocarbon or a mixture of gaseous hydrocarbons comprising at least 15% of a constituent in respect of which the ratio fo the number oc carbon atoms to the number of hydrogen atoms C/H is higher than 0.75. The rate of injection of the hydrocarbon through the flame and the temperature of the latter are controlled in such manner as to obtain a porous layer of carbonaceous particles capable of burning in the air when they are deposited on the glass object when the latter is still hot.

Abstract: In the production of moulded glass articles, difficulty arises from the risks of adhesion of the glass to the surfaces of the mould, which is made unserviceable, at least for a time. A permanent anti-adherent coating for glassmaking moulds is provided on the mould cavity surfaces, by a metal layer comprising a molybdenum alloy containing 30 to 55% Mo and less than 4% iron. The metal layer may also contain nickel and chromium in significant quantities.

Abstract: An adjustable shaping mold is provided with an externally positioned adjusting arrangement. All adjustments to the curved configuration of the shaping surface of the mold are done without having to adjust any portion of the adjusting mechanism that is positioned between the flexible shaping member and rigid mounting plate of the mold.

Abstract: A partial press for shaping heat softened glass sheets as they are supported on a bending mold and conveyed through a lehr includes a press member that contacts selected portions of the glass sheet. The press member moves with the glass sheet so that there is no relative horizontal movement between the press member and the glass sheet as the glass sheet is conveyed through the lehr.