Abstract: A strapping head for a strapping machine of the type having a feed assembly and a chute that is configured to position, tension and seal strapping material around a load, includes a body and an anvil mounted to and movable relative to the body. A sealing member is disposed in the anvil for oscillating movement. A drive is operably connected to the sealing member and movable relative to the body to provide oscillating movement to the sealing member. First and second courses of strapping material overlie one another adjacent the sealing member, and oscillation of the sealing member effects a seal of the first and second courses of strapping material to one another.

Abstract: A separator tank assembly for use in conjunction with an oil-filled air compressor. The separator tank assembly comprises a tubular tank having opposed first and second ends and opposed upper and lower surfaces. The opposed ends are spaced a substantially greater distance from one another than the opposed upper and lower surfaces. An airend inlet port extends through the upper surface adjacent the first tank end and includes an internal outlet directed toward the first tank end. An air exit port extends through the upper surface adjacent the second tank end. Oil collects in a lower portion of the tank chamber and exits through an oil exit port extending through the tank lower surface.

Abstract: A grill assembly of a cyclone dust collecting apparatus for a vacuum cleaner capable of improving dust collecting function of the vacuum cleaner by preventing dust from being drawn to a vacuum-generating device after passing through a grill. The grill assembly is disposed at an upper part of an air discharge passage of a cyclone body for separating dust from a whirling air current by a centrifugal force by forming the whirling air current from a drawn air. The grill assembly prevents dust from being drawn into the vacuum-generating device of the vacuum cleaner. The grill assembly includes a grill body having a plurality of passages formed therein and a filter disposed along an interior wall of the grill body for filtering dust drawn into the grill body through the plurality of passages.

Abstract: A grill assembly of a cyclone dust collecting apparatus for a vacuum cleaner capable of preventing dust from being drawn to a vacuum-generating device even in a case that the vacuum cleaner operates when a sealing member is not assembled with a grill body. The grill assembly includes the grill body having a connecting passage connected with an air discharge passage of the cyclone dust collecting apparatus; a sealing member removably connected with the grill body in order to seal one opening of the grill body; and valve for sealing the connecting passage of the grill body when the sealing member is not assembled with the grill body.

Abstract: Horizontal, negative pressure centrifugal separator apparatus (48, 248, 348, 448, 548) is provided for separating particulate material from an air stream that exhausts from the outlet of a horizontal, industrial size, rotary drum dryer (32). The centrifugal separator is especially adapted to be connected to the negative pressure inlet of a primary fan (42) which pulls large volumes of air through the rotary drum dryer. The separator apparatus includes wall structure which defines two aligned primary spiral separation plenum chambers (e.g. 78, 80) joined to an intermediate spiral discharge plenum chamber (e.g. 82), all of which intercommunicate. A pair of oppositely facing plenum chamber divider members each having a central aperture therein are mounted in the plenum chambers on opposite sides of the discharge plenum chamber and function as pressure regain stacks.

Abstract: A method for providing support for an agricultural implement carried on a receiving device of an agricultural machine includes the steps of providing at least one support wheel connected with the receiving device and adjusting the load on the support wheel. A support wheel assembly for use with the disclosed method includes a support wheel and a wheel lifting cylinder connecting the support wheel with the receiving device, wherein the load on the support wheel is adjustable via the wheel lifting cylinder.

Abstract: A cylinder cutting blade for a lawn mower characterized in that it comprises at least two modular cylinder cutting blade sections each modular cylinder cutting blade section effectively being a short cylinder cutting blade which are rotationally connected together in succession in such a manner that rotation of one modular cylinder cutting blade section results in rotation of the other modular cylinder cutting blade section to form the cylinder cutting blade.

Abstract: An open-end spinning device with an opening device for opening continuously supplied sliver material by means of a rapidly running opening cylinder, which opening device is arranged in front of a sliver spreading device (78) with cooperating pairs of spreading cylinders. The spreading cylinders (79, 80, 81, 82) comprise flanges that engage into recesses of the opposing spreading cylinder. The spacing between the particular cooperating spreading cylinders (79, 80, 81, 82) can be periodically varied. An unobjectionable opening process with a low speed of the opening cylinder and with a widened opening cylinder can be achieved with the sliver spreading device (78) of the invention which process is associated with a high-precision dosing and high yarn uniformity.

Abstract: A gas turbine comprises a compressor for compressing a gas supplied therein and discharging the compressed gas, a combustor in which the discharged gas from the compressor and a fuel are combusted, a turbine to be driven by a combustion gas from the combustor, and an injection unit which injects water into the gas to be supplied to the compressor, thereby lowering the temperature of the gas to be introduced into the compressor than the atmospheric temperature, and causing water droplets having been injected in the gas and within the compressor to be vaporized while flowing down therein, wherein the quantity of water spray injection is controlled while monitoring operational conditions of the gas turbine.

Abstract: A power generating system and method operating at high pressure and utilizing a working fluid consisting of a mixture of compressed non-flammable air components, fuel combustion products and steam. The working fluid is substantially free of CO and NOx. Fuel and compressed air at an elevated temperature and at a constant pressure are delivered to a combustion chamber, the amount of air being chosen so that at least about 90% of the oxygen in the air is consumed during combustion. The quantity of air and fuel supplied to the combustion chamber may be varied provided a constant fuel to air ratio is maintained. Superheated water is delivered under pressure to the combustion chamber, and is converted substantially instantaneously to steam. The quantity of water delivered is controlled such that the latent heat of vaporization of the water maintains the temperature of the working fluid at a desired level.

Abstract: A rotary ramjet engine generator set with impulse turbine. A rotary ramjet engine is provided operating with a very low axial flow component. The engine has a closely housed rotor and shaft mounted for rotary motion with respect to an engine case. An impulse turbine is mechanically coupled on a common shaft with a rotary ramjet engine. By properly setting the turbine rotating speed with respect to ramjet rotor rotating speed, the kinetic energy of the exhaust gas from the ramjet engine is efficiently captured by the turbine. In one embodiment, the turbine is mechanically coupled, via a planetary gear set, to the output shaft of the rotary ramjet engine. The impulse turbine includes a disc to which turbine blades are affixed, and an annular housing which connects the annular disc with a central body having a circular ring gear on the inside wall thereof. The ring gear meshingly engages a plurality of planetary gears, each of which are fixed with respect to the engine casing of the rotary ramjet engine.

Abstract: A rotary ramjet engine with rapidly replaceable rotating cartridge. A rotary ramjet engine is provided operating with replaceable rotating cartridge. The rotating cartridge includes a rotor and shaft mounted for rotary motion with respect to an engine case, and a first and second bearing package. The engine has an inlet duct assembly including bearing support structures from which the rotating cartridge is rotatably supported. A hot section assembly is sealingly but releaseably affixed to the inlet duct assembly. By disengaging the hot section assembly from the inlet duct assembly, and moving the hot section assembly from an operating position to an inspection position along a convenient slide track, space is provided for inspection and/or removal and reinstallation of the rotating cartridge.

Abstract: A single-shaft combined plant having an emergency shut-off oil system is provided. The emergency shut-off oil system is constituted such that when a steam governing valve tripping electromagnetic valve is opened, only a steam turbine is stopped; a master tripping electromagnetic valve is connected to a fuel gas control valve emergency shut-off oil line, a fuel oil control valve emergency shut-off oil line, and a steam governing valve emergency shut-off oil line via check valves; and when the master tripping electromagnetic valve is opened, both the steam turbine and a gas turbine are stopped. Thus, only the steam turbine can be stopped. Even if a tripping valve provided on the fuel gas control valve emergency shut-off oil line or the fuel oil control valve emergency shut-off oil line does not open because of a breakdown, the gas turbine can be stopped reliably.

Abstract: Flame arrestor to cover aircraft engines made up of one ventilation wire mesh (6), one upper metallic plate (9) where wire mesh sits (6) on the edges of a circular hole (10) and a wall (25) which is located next to a chamfer (26) placed at the edge of a central hole (5) existing in the platform (3). On the lower side of the thin composite wall (25) there is a ring (16) with outer flange whose width coincides with that of the wall, and another flanged ring (14) coinciding in height with the chamfer (26), creating an interior cavity (27) where gases are conducted and accumulated. All these elements are joined together by some bolts (22) that go through them and finish with a lower metallic plate (12) and an octagonal shaped part (19) separated by a specific distance established by the appropriate elements.

Abstract: A joint assembly for limiting an extension of the joint in the direction of a load path derived from an impact comprising a first member having a portion and a second member having a portion, the portions overlapping one another and arranged generally parallel to one another and secured together via securing means disposed through corresponding holes defined therein. One of the overlapping portions further defines, sequentially in the direction of extension, a shear neck, a pocket and a catcher portion. In the event of a worst-case impact load the securing means shears through the shear neck and the pocket and is arrested by the catcher portion, thereby the extension of the joint assembly is limited and the joint assembly remains integral.

Abstract: The occurrence of cavitation is reduced in a rotary pump while the pump performance is maintained. A low-temperature source present in the pump system is utilized, and heat exchange with the fluid flowing to the pump is performed with this low-temperature source, thereby lowering the temperature of the fluid flowing into the pump and lowering the saturated vapor pressure of this fluid, which increases the allowable margin for a decrease in the pressure of the fluid and reduces the occurrence of cavitation. In the case of a liquid rocket engine, a coolant or another propellant B whose temperature is lower than that of the primary propellant A can be employed as this low-temperature source. The propellant B is passed through a heat exchanger 2 by a pump 4, which results in heat exchange with the propellant A from a tank 3, and lowers the fluid temperature. Since the fluid velocity of the propellant A is low at the time of this inflow, there is only slight pressure loss inside the heat exchanger 2.

Abstract: It is an object of the present invention to provide a technology capable of producing an appropriate combustible mixture in an apparatus for heating an exhaust-purifying catalyst disposed in an exhaust passage of an internal combustion engine, without providing a special pre-mixing chamber for mixing fuel and air, by burning the combustible mixture in the exhaust passage upstream of the exhaust-purifying catalyst when the exhaust-purifying catalyst is inactive.

Abstract: An exhaust system of a multi-cylinder internal combustion engine includes at least one first gas sensor, which is sensitive for at least one component of the exhaust gas and is arranged in the exhaust system, for determining an air/fuel ratio supplied to the internal combustion engine. It also includes a regulating device for regulating the air/fuel ratio as a function of a signal supplied by the gas sensor and at least one first catalytic converter arranged in the exhaust system. At least one first catalytic converter is arranged in a position of the exhaust system close to the internal combustion engine so that it is upstream from the at least one first gas sensor in the direction of flow of an exhaust gas of the internal combustion engine, and the regulation device includes a regulator which receives the signal of the first gas sensor as input, and in which an algorithm for cylinder-selective determination and regulation of the air/fuel ratio is stored.

Abstract: An exhaust manifold for a vehicle engine and a manufacturing process to prevent corrosion of the manifold during shipping and storage. The manifold includes a manifold body having a plurality of arms corresponding to the exhaust ports of the engine and a collector chamber for directing the exhaust gasses to the vehicle exhaust system. Attached to the ports of the body are flanges to facilitate connection of the manifold to the engine. The flanges are manufactured of carbon steel and includes apertures to receive mounting flanges. To prevent corrosion of the flanges, the flanges are subject to a process of ferritic nitro carburization which inhibits the formation of iron-oxide.

Abstract: A barge with a water turbine is anchored in a river. The turbine is immersed in the water between two separated hulls. Water is directed to flow in a concentrated state between the hulls, turning the turbine and generating electricity.

Abstract: A master cylinder for the clutch or brake of a motor vehicle has a housing for a reciprocable piston one end of which receives the spherical head of a reciprocable piston rod. The head is held in a desired position relative to the piston by a one-piece or composite coupling device having a first section exerting a pull or bearing upon the head of the piston rod and a second section which is confined in or surrounds the end of the piston and urges the first section in a direction to hold the piston rod against axial movements relative to the piston. The coupling device and/or the piston are or can be made of a plastic material, and the connection between such parts is or can be established by snap action.

Abstract: A four stroke cycle internal combustion engine including a crankshaft, rotating about a crankshaft axis of the engine. A power piston is slidably received within a first cylinder and operatively connected to the crankshaft such that the power piston reciprocates through a power stroke and an exhaust stroke of a four stroke cycle during a single rotation of the crankshaft. A compression piston is slidably received within a second cylinder and operatively connected to the crankshaft such that the compression piston reciprocates through an intake stroke and a compression stroke of the same four stroke cycle during the same rotation of the crankshaft. A gas passage interconnects the first and second cylinders. The gas passage includes an inlet valve and an outlet valve defining a pressure chamber therebetween.

Abstract: Variable geometry turbochargers comprise a turbine housing having an exhaust gas inlet and outlet, a volute connected to the inlet, and a nozzle wall adjacent the volute. A turbine wheel is carried within the turbine housing and is attached to a shaft. A plurality of movable vanes are disposed within the turbine housing adjacent the nozzle wall, and are positioned between the exhaust gas inlet and turbine wheel. The turbine housing includes a bypass exhaust gas flow port disposed internally therein having an inlet opening positioned upstream from the turbine wheel, and a outlet opening positioned downstream from the turbine wheel. The vanes are positioned adjacent respective bypass ports such that the inlet opening for each port is at least partially covered by a respective vane depending on vane placement. The inlet opening is exposed for facilitating bypass exhaust gas flow through the turbocharger when the respective vane is actuated or moved into an open position.

Abstract: An engine-turbocharger unit for a vehicle, in particular an industrial vehicle, having an internal combustion engine; a decompression brake device; and a turbocharger in turn having a variable-geometry turbine driven by the exhaust gas from the engine, and a compressor driven by the turbine and connected at the outlet to an intake manifold of the engine; the unit also has a throttling device located on the outlet side of the turbine and settable between a fully-open attitude and a closed attitude; the variable-geometry turbine and the throttling device are jointly controlled, thereby allowing independent control of the exhaust manifold pressure of the combustion engine and of the expansion ratio of the turbine.

Abstract: Installation for the production of synthesis gas from a hydrocarbon feedstock comprising at least one reactor for steam reforming, at least one reactor for converting CO2 that is equipped with at least one feed means by the effluent that is obtained from the steam reforming and at least one other feed means by a gas comprising carbon dioxide, characterized in that at least one reactor for steam reforming or for converting CO2 is heated by a hot gas.

Abstract: A gas turbine combustor is provided with a nozzle extension tube having an inclination outward in a diameter direction of a combustor inner cylinder and in a peripheral direction of the combustor inner cylinder. As a result, the premixed gas is transformed to a spiral flow passing into a combustion chamber while turning, i.e., an outward turning flow, thereby sufficiently mixing the premixed gas while the premixed gas is flowing in the combustion chamber.

Abstract: A pilot nozzle diffusion-injects a fuel. A pilot swirler swirls a pilot air around the pilot nozzle. An air guide is arranged between the outer surface of the pilot nozzle and the pilot swirler. The air guide extends from the pilot swirler to a tip of the pilot nozzle. The air guide has a tip that protrudes beyond the tip of the pilot nozzle and this the tip of the air guide is bent away from a center of the pilot nozzle.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method of operating a gas turbine installation (1),

Abstract: A gas turbine comprises a compressor for compressing a gas supplied therein and discharging the compressed gas, a combustor in which the discharged gas from the compressor and a fuel are combusted, a turbine to be driven by a combustion gas from the combustor, and an injection unit which injects water into the gas to be supplied to the compressor, thereby lowering the temperature of the gas to be introduced into the compressor than the atmospheric temperature, and causing water droplets having been injected in the gas and within the compressor to be vaporized while flowing down therein, wherein the quantity of water spray injection is controlled while monitoring operational conditions of the gas turbine.

Abstract: A fuel delivery system for a gas turbine engine combustor, the combustor having at least two fuel injectors of substantially the same design. All the fuel injectors are in flow communication with a first fuel supply via a first manifold, and some but not all of the injectors are in flow communication with a second fuel supply via a second manifold. During normal operation of the gas turbine engine combustor fuel is supplied to all of the fuel injectors via the first manifold. However, during predetermined engine operating conditions a second fuel supply is used to supply fuel flow in those fuel injectors in flow communication with the second manifold.

Abstract: A device and method for controlling the temperature of a semiconductor module in which the semiconductor module is sandwiched by a first supporting unit and a second supporting unit. An area of the second supporting unit with which the semiconductor module comes into contact is shielded from heat of external ambient atmosphere, and has a temperature sensor provided thereat. The temperature of the first supporting unit is controlled so that the temperature of this area becomes equal to a predetermined temperature. The amount of heat moving from the heat-shielded area to the semiconductor module is small, so that the difference between the temperatures in the region extending from the heat-shielded area and the semiconductor module is small. The first and second supporting units may be separately controlled at different predetermined temperatures. By this, changes in the temperature of the semiconductor module caused by changes in outside air temperature are reduced.

Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for delivering pressurized liquefied natural gas to an import terminal equipped with containers and vaporization facilities suitable for conventional LNG.

Abstract: Novel sorption cooling devices capable of providing cooling over an extended period of time are disclosed. The sorption cooling devices are particularly useful for temperature-controlled shipping containers that are required to maintain a temperature below ambient for a time sufficient to complete delivery of the container and its contents. The shipping containers can be utilized to cost-effectively transport temperature-sensitive products.

Abstract: The within invention improves on the indirect evaporative cooling method and apparatus by making use of a working fluid that is pre-cooled with and without desiccants before it is passed through a Wet Channel where evaporative fluid is on the walls to take heat and store it in the working fluid as increased latent heat. The heat transfer across the membrane between the Dry Channel and the Wet Channel may have dry, solid desiccant or liquid desiccant and may have perforations, pores or capillary pathways. The evaporative fluid may be water, fuel, or any substance that has the capacity to take heat as latent heat. The Wet Channel or excess cooled fluid is in heat transfer contact with a Product Channel where Product Fluid is cooled without adding any humidity. An alternative embodiment for heat transfer between adjacent channels is with heat pipes.

Abstract: The present invention provides a convenient means for delivery personnel to deliver refrigerated goods to a building without having to wait until the building owner is home. The invention provides a dual-access insulated cabinet installable into the exterior wall of a home, with outside and inside doors. Both outside and inside doors contain lockable mechanisms for securing the doors. The insulated cabinet includes a main compartment for storing items to be frozen, an interior compartment for inserting into the wall of a building, and a cooling apparatus connected to the main compartment for selectively cooling the insulated cabinet to a selected temperature. An optional indicator light is inside whereby the light turns on when a delivery of refrigerated goods is made through the outside door of the invention. The indicator light then resets to the off state when the resident of the building opens the inside door of the present invention.

Abstract: A helium management control system for controlling the helium refrigerant supply from a common manifold supplies a plurality of cryogenic refrigerators with an appropriate helium supply. The system employs a plurality of sensors to monitor and regulate the overall refrigerant supply to deliver an appropriate refrigerant supply to each of the cryogenic refrigerators depending on the computed aggregate cooling demand of all of the cryogenic refrigerators. An appropriate supply of helium is distributed to each cryopump by sensing excess and sparse helium refrigerant and redistributing refrigerant accordingly. If the total refrigeration supply exceeds the total refrigerant demand, or consumption, excess refrigerant is directed to cryogenic refrigerators which can utilize the excess helium to complete a current cooling function more quickly.

Abstract: This invention increases efficiency of a refrigeration system by maximizing the cooling of the condenser and reducing unnecessary work done by the compressor. In air cooled systems it will also increase the stability of the fans by reducing fan cycling. The fan controller will utilize an algorithm that will consider the following inputs: oil pressure, compressor suction pressure, expansion valve position, compressor loading, last compressor loading change, and current fan stage. The algorithm uses fuzzy logic to characterize the inputs and generates an output that controls the system cooling fans.

Abstract: A thermal energy storage unit is provided in connection with an air conditioning or refrigeration condenser. Working fluid waste heat is stored in the thermal energy storage unit during at least a relatively hot part of the day. Heat stored in the thermal energy storage unit is then rejected to the air during a cooler period, such as night. By rejecting the stored heat directly to the atmosphere, there is no need to provide an energy-consumptive refrigeration cycle for cooling the thermal storage medium material. In this way, a refrigeration system compressor has a reduced load and/or reduced duty cycle during hot parts of the day and relatively less energy can be used during high-demand times when energy may be more expensive.

Abstract: In a constant-temperature liquid circulating apparatus provided with a constant-temperature liquid circuit section, a refrigerating circuit section and a control section, the refrigerating circuit section is provided with a main circuit section which comprises a compressor whose revolution speed is controlled by an inverter power source, a condenser, an electronic expansion valve and an evaporator, and a hot gas circuit section which bypasses the condenser and which has an electronic expansion valve; the constant-temperature circuit section is provided with a heat exchanger, a temperature sensor and circulating means; and the control section controls the opening degree of the electronic expansion valve, and the revolution speed of the compressor according to a signal from the temperature sensor, thereby controlling the temperature of constant-temperature liquid supplied to a load to a predetermined temperature.

Abstract: The object of the present invention is to provide an expansion valve unit which prevents a temperature-sensing error from occurring due to transmission of a temperature lowered by the expansion of the refrigerant to a temperature-sensing chamber.

Abstract: A control valve includes an accommodation cylinder, a coil, a stator, a plunger, and a valve body. Electromagnetic force is generated between the stator and the plunger and the plunger moves relative to the stator. The valve body adjusts the opening degree of a valve hole. A flat surface and a peripheral wall are formed in an end of the stator. The peripheral wall has a tapered cross-section with an inclined inner surface. The inclined inner surface and the flat surface define a recess. The plunger has a frustum portion. The frustum portion includes a flat distal surface and an annular inclined surface. The taper angle of the peripheral wall is equal to or less than twenty degrees. The diameter of the flat distal surface of the frustum portion is equal to or greater than eighty percent of the largest diameter of the annular inclined surface.

Abstract: Integrated mini ice sheets comprise an ice skating surface. At least one divider is disposed upon the skating surface for dividing the ice skating surface into a plurality of skating areas. The divider comprises one or more panels, optionally joined, and additionally comprises common or separate air conditioning means, optionally ducted, optionally integrated with the divider, for providing chilled dried air over the ice skating surface in each skating environment created in the skating areas separated by the divider.

Abstract: An air conditioning arrangement for an emergency vehicle or the like including an evaporator unit comprising closely spaced first and second tubing arrays, with each array being operably associated with a respective refrigerant compressor. The tubing of each array is formed into coils involving a number of essentially parallel tubing runs connected by curved end members, with substantial portions of the tubing being provided with fins. A low voltage blower is positioned to cause air to be pulled across the tubing of the first and second tubing arrays and between the fin members.

Abstract: A sorption cooling device capable of providing cooling over an extended period of time. The sorption cooling device is particularly useful in a temperature-controlled shipping container that is required to maintain a temperature below ambient for an extended period of time. In one embodiment, the cooling device includes a means for restricting the flow of refrigerant liquid to control the degree of cooling over an extended period of time.

Abstract: Novel sorption cooling devices capable of providing cooling over an extended period of time are disclosed. The sorption cooling devices are particularly useful for temperature-controlled shipping containers that are required to maintain a temperature below ambient for a time sufficient to complete delivery of the container and its contents. The shipping containers can be utilized to cost-effectively transport temperature-sensitive products.

Abstract: The invention is an absorption process for recovering C2+ components from a pressurized liquid mixture comprising C1 and C2+. The pressurized liquid mixture is at least partially vaporized by heating the liquid mixture in a heat transfer means. The heat transfer means provides refrigeration to an absorption medium that is used in treating the vaporized mixture in an absorption zone. The vaporized mixture is passed to an absorption zone that produces a first stream enriched in C1 and a second stream enriched in C2+ components. The pressurized liquid mixture is preferably pressurized liquid natural gas (PLNG) having an initial pressure above about 1,724 kPa (250 psia) and an initial temperature above −112° C. (−170° F.). Before being vaporized, the pressurized liquid mixture is preferably boosted in pressure to approximately the desired operating pressure of the absorption zone.

Abstract: An ornament/jewelry construction comprises a peripheral frame, a panel bounded by the frame, and a plurality of spaced projections extending upwardly from the panel in a chosen pattern. The frame and panel may be formed integrally or as separate elements. The spaced projections may be formed integrally with the panel or may be insertable, either individually or in groups, into apertures in the panel. individual frame and panel units may be interconnected to form a wide variety or ornamental and jewelry units. The spaced projections may describe a wide variety of patterns and designs, including numbers, letters and other shapes.

Abstract: A pressure pad array is used to float glass sheets from a glass heating furnace to a ring mold in a press bending station. The pressure pads have transversely spaced, longitudinally-extending slotted nozzles angled towards one another to provide a static pressure area for floating the glass sheet. The slotted nozzles are aligned with the direction of glass sheet travel and the space between adjacent pressure pads is covered by a spacer baffle to generate additional static pressure flotation areas. The static pressure areas formed by the slotted nozzles generally produce uniform pressure profiles extending longitudinally and transversely against the sheet's underside to stably float the glass sheets on a heated gas cushion.

Abstract: The method includes the steps include: providing first and second sheets of translucent glass having first and second principle sides coating at least a portion of at least on of the first principle sides of the first and second sheets with a layer of ceramic paint; placing the first and second sheets of coated translucent glass together such that the first principle surfaces are in contact with each other forming a sandwich; applying a layer of material on at least a portion of an external surface of at least one of said first and second glass sheets that will cause differential heating of the layer of ceramic paint applied to at least a portion of at least on of said first principle sides of said first and second sheets when the sandwich is heated to temperatures which will fuse the first and second sheets together; and heating the sandwich to a sufficient temperature for a sufficient time such that the first and second coated sheets of glass are fused together.

Abstract: A method for producing thin glass articles from low-viscosity glass, in particular of glass with viscositiesn<10 dPas is presented, in which a thin-bodied glass composition is fed into a lower tool (1), and the glass composition is compressed by driving an upper tool (4), positioned opposite the lower tool (1), and the lower tool (1) together. The invention also relates to the use of the method. A method for producing thin glass articles is to be furnished, in which the problem of rapid cooling that occurs in the prior art is eliminated, so as to enhance the quality of the finished glass and to create the possibility of producing thin glass articles by means of pressing.