Glass Manufacturing Patents (Class 65)
- With measuring, controlling, sensing, programming, timing, indicating, or testing (Class 65/377)
- Process of manufacturing optical fibers, waveguides, or preforms thereof (Class 65/385)
- Plasma utilized (Class 65/436)
- Producing noncircular fibers (e.g., particular cross section, flat, elliptical, etc.) (Class 65/437)
- Producing crimped, twisted, or curled fibers (e.g., textured, etc.) (Class 65/438)
- Producing hollow fibers or tubular preforms (Class 65/439)
- Sol-gel route or ion exchange utilized (Class 65/440)
- Electromagnetic, magnetic, wave, or particulate energy utilized (Class 65/441)
- Composite fiber matrix (e.g., carbon or metal fiber with glass matrix or vice versa, etc.) (Class 65/442)
- With coating (e.g., lubricant, sizing, etc.) (Class 65/443)
- Formation of fiber or preform utilizing fluid blast (e.g., from molten glass, etc.) (Class 65/454)
- By slinging or rotary-centrifugal fiber distribution (i.e., without fluid blast) (Class 65/469)
- With bushing flood prevention, removal, or breakout prevention (Class 65/471)
- With chemical etching or leaching (Class 65/472)
- With removal of coating (e.g., desizing, oxidizing coating, etc.) (Class 65/473)
- With purifying or homogenizing molten glass (e.g., removing bubbles, etc.) (Class 65/474)
- With fiber drawing or pulling (e.g., attenuating, etc.) (Class 65/475)
- With charging or pretreatment of batch material (e.g., gas heating, crushing, etc.) (Class 65/482)
- With measuring, controlling, sensing, timing, inspecting, indicating, or testing means (Class 65/484)
- With designated composition of dies, bushings, or nozzles (Class 65/492)
- With means to form hollow fiber or preform (Class 65/494)
- With specified bushing, tip, or feeder structure (Class 65/495)
- With means to align preform with drawing apparatus or form multifilament fibers (e.g., gathering shoe, etc.) (Class 65/500)
- With fiber splicing or coupling means (e.g., fusion splicing, end to end, side to side, etc.) (Class 65/501)
- With multiple crucible or multichamber system (Class 65/502)
- With cleaning means (Class 65/503)
- With crimping or curling means (Class 65/504)
- With means to distribute fibers across collecting surface (e.g., blower, mechanical distribution means, reciprocating, oscillating, etc.) (Class 65/505)
- With assorting means (Class 65/506)
- With means for heating newly formed filament, fiber, or preform (Class 65/507)
- With means for cooling newly formed fiber, filament, or preform (e.g., nascent fiber, etc.) (Class 65/510)
- Specified composition of slinger or rotary-centrifugal fiber forming means (Class 65/515)
- Rotary-centrifugal fiber forming means (e.g., slinger, rotary disc, no fiberizing holes, etc.) (Class 65/516)
- Centrifuge with fiberizing holes (e.g., rotor, etc.) (Class 65/521)
- With fluid blast means (Class 65/524)
- Having coating or treating means (Class 65/529)
- With drawing means (Class 65/533)
- With winding means (Class 65/539)
- With furnace charging means (Class 65/540)
- Sol-gel or liquid phase route utilized (Class 65/17.2)
- With shaping of particulate material and subsequent fusing of particles (Class 65/17.3)
- Slag, utilization (Class 65/19)
- Self-supporting particle making (e.g., bead, ball, granule, etc.) (Class 65/21.1)
- With pore forming in situ (Class 65/22)
- With destruction or delamination of transitory attached or associated separate material (Class 65/23)
- Utilizing parting or lubricating layer (Class 65/24)
- Repairing or cleaning of apparatus; or batch dust prevention or control (Class 65/27)
- With glass reclaiming, repairing or crack run interruption (Class 65/28)
- With program, time, or cyclic control (Class 65/29.1)
- With measuring, sensing, inspecting, indicating, or testing (Class 65/29.12)
- With chemically reactive treatment of glass preform (Class 65/30.1)
- Operating under inert or reducing conditions (Class 65/32.1)
- Devitrifying glass or vitrifying crystalline glass (e.g., starting with or forming crystalline glass, etc.) (Class 65/33.1)
- With sealing off of gas evacuating opening (Class 65/34)
- With vibrating, oscillating or agitating a preform (Class 65/35)
- Fusion bonding of glass to a formed part (Class 65/36)
- With coating (Class 65/60.1)
- With wearing away of surface material (e.g., abrading or grinding) (Class 65/61)
- Combined (Class 65/62)
- Sequentially forming, reheating, and working (Class 65/63)
- Forming and fire polishing or product (Class 65/65)
- Forming product or preform from molten glass (Class 65/66)
- Reshaping or surface deformation of glass preform (Class 65/102)
- Glass preform treating (Class 65/111)
- Blending of separate molten glass streams (Class 65/121)
- Charging of molten glass into mold cavity (Class 65/122)
- Gathering from upper surface of glass pool (Class 65/125)
- Discharging molten glass downwardly through orifice (Class 65/126)
- Severing of molten glass stream (Class 65/133)
- Fining or homogenizing molten glass (Class 65/134.1)
- Cooling of molten glass (Class 65/137)
- With annealing or tempering means (Class 65/194)
- Means dividing and recombining melt in draw chamber (Class 65/195)
- Vertically upwardly with means bending sheet to horizontal (Class 65/196)
- With width maintaining and/or lateral stretching means (Class 65/199)
- With pivoted lip tile (Class 65/202)
- With auxiliary heating means for draw pot or drawing chamber (Class 65/203)
- With cooling means in drawing chamber (Class 65/204)
- With radiant heat reflector in draw pot or drawing chamber (Class 65/205)
- With skimmer (Class 65/206)
- Envelope tipping off type (Class 65/270)
- Heating means movable relative to work during shaping operation (Class 65/271)
- Work, workholder, or tool correlated burner control (Class 65/272)
- Planar sheet preform (Class 65/273)
- With spaced preheating means (Class 65/274)
- Mechanical means to reshape preform (Class 65/275)
- Fire-polishing means (Class 65/284)
- To reshape preform by flame pressure or gravity (Class 65/285)
- With product treating means (Class 65/306)
- Mold ring or baffle laterally and movably supported (Class 65/307)
- Plunger coacting with successively presented molds (Class 65/308)
- Plural motors coaxial with plunger (Class 65/314)
- With core drawing means (Class 65/315)
- With means to rotate plunger during withdrawal (Class 65/316)
- Means reciprocating or oscillating female mold member (Class 65/317)
- With means varying plunger pressure during pressing (Class 65/318)
- With means for heating or cooling apparatus (Class 65/319)
- Selectively operated plural plungers (Class 65/320)
- Plunger penetrating superimposed mold table (Class 65/321)
- With means to adjust plunger stroke (Class 65/322)
