Abstract: Disclosed is a mold used as a bottom mold for manufacturing glass molded bodies by accepting molten glass droplets that are dripped in and by compression molding of the molten glass droplets in conjunction with a top mold. The mold is provided with a base material that has a mold surface for compression molding of molten glass drops, and a coating layer formed on the mold surface. The surface of the coating layer formed on the mold surface has a rough surface region that comprises the center of the mold surface, and a mirror finished region that surrounds the outside of the rough surface region and has a lower arithmetic mean roughness Ra than the rough surface region.

Abstract: A method of manufacturing a glass blank for a substrate for an information recording medium, the method including steps of: cutting out a gob of a glass material from a molten glass material by cutting the molten glass material discharged from a glass material outlet at a predetermined timing; causing the gob of the glass material to fall downwardly; pinching and pressing the gob of the glass material by a press unit having a pair of molds, the molds' surfaces facing to each other being press surfaces which are planes without an unevenness, so as to contact the falling gob of the glass material only to the press surfaces; and forming a circular flat plate-shaped glass blank having a target flatness as a glass substrate for a magnetic disk such that a ratio between a diameter and a thickness of the glass blank is within a range of from 50:1 to 150:1, from the gob of the glass material.

Abstract: A method and a device whereby optical glass articles can be produced economically and can be reproduced at a high level of contour accuracy and surface quality. The cost effective press technology that is suitable for mass production is maintained, while at the same time, avoiding the associated disadvantages. A multi-phase press process is utilized whereby the final geometry of the blank is achieved iteratively. Accordingly, a pre-blank is produced from a gob of glass that is fed by way of a feeding device to a press device. The press device is a pre-press including a pre-press punch. The pre-press device produces a blank whose geometry, while coming close, does not yet correspond with the desired final geometry. This first press step is followed by a second one, whereby the pre-blank is transformed into the end product. The press process is broken down into two individual press steps.

Abstract: Disclosed are a molding apparatus for glass optical elements a plurality of molds each constituted of an upper mold and a lower mold, a matrix supporting the molds, and heating means wound around the matrix for heating the molds, wherein the matrix extends in a longitudinal form and has a constant width, wherein the plurality of the molds are arranged in the matrix in a line so that the center of each mold is located on a center line of the matrix, and wherein a distance between the heating means and the matrix is constant at least at an edge of the matrix in a transverse direction, and a molding method for optical elements comprising the steps of: softening a plurality of glass material pieces by heat; and making a simultaneous press molding of the glass material pieces with a plurality of molds, constituted of upper and lower molds, arranged in a longitudinal form matrix, in a line extending in a longitudinal direction, wherein each mold is heated by thermal conductance from the matrix heated by heating mea

Abstract: Method and apparatus for producing vitreous optical elements by injection molding, which essentially includes the stages of: melting down a glass material into a molten state in a viscosity at or lower than a working point of the glass material; injecting molten glass under pressure into a mold cavity defined between transfer surfaces of relatively movable mold members of a mold assembly unit in communication with a sprue connecting the mold cavity with an injection port on the outer side of the mold assembly unit; and applying a predetermined pressure on the glass material in the mold cavity while cooling the mold assembly unit down to a temperature in the vicinity of yielding point of the glass material.

Abstract: A glass gob production device for producing a glass gob from molten glass. The glass gob production device has a crucible which accommodates molten glass, a nozzle one end of which is connected to the crucible and from the other end of which the molten glass in the crucible is discharged, and a support member opposite to the other end of nozzle and having an indentation on the surface thereof for receiving and retaining the discharged molten glass in the indentation to form a glass gob. The indentation of the support member has a bottom surface and a reference surface extending in a direction perpendicular to the circumference of the bottom surface.

Abstract: A machine for the production of glassware articles by pressing and blowing molten glass gobs fed from a glass gob feeder, comprises at least a blank mold and a corresponding pressing plunger, mounted at a stationary parison forming station, and four forming stations mounted around a 90.degree. indexed rotary carrier, each comprising a blow head, a neck ring and a blow mold, so as to rotate to a first forming position coinciding with the parison forming station, and to second, third and fourth forming positions spaced 90.degree. from each other, for reheating, blowing, and take out operations.

Abstract: A molding apparatus includes a glass ejection chamber for pre-molding glass, a glass heating chamber having a heating furnace, a precision press chamber for molding an optical element, and a mechanism for transporting a glass supporting member. A method for molding an optical element using the molding apparatus includes the step of providing a molded lens receiving molded part and a supporting member in the glass ejection chamber. The glass is heated in the heating chamber while being supported on the supporting member after being separated from the receiving mold part. The glass is molded into the optical element by a pair of mold parts having molding surfaces formed in conformity with the major surfaces of the optical element.

Abstract: This invention relates to a process for injection molding hydrosilicate glasses and apparati useful therefor. This invention is also concerned with apparati for mixing hydrosilicate glasses while in the fluid stage, i.e., when the hydrosilicate glasses have a viscosity between about 10.sup.2 -10.sup.9 poises. Finally, this invention describes materials demonstrating ready release of hydrosilicate glasses after contact in fluid form.

Abstract: Apparatus and transport system for production of pressed articles from plastic material, e.g., molten glass. A series of molds is routed on non-linked carriages over an endless course defined by a plurality of cooperating conveyors disposed over the course. The course comprises a charging section, a molding section, a solidification section, and a discharge section. Means can be provided for varying the speed of the carriages by operation of the conveyors in accordance with the working time at the respective sections.