Abstract: Methods and apparatus for manufacturing glass sheets that comprise the use of platinum group metal alloy or metal-alloy-clad vessels or conduits having alloy compositions including oxidizable species capable of undergoing redox reactions with molten glass components to suppress oxygen blister formation at glass contact surfaces.

Abstract: The present invention provides a method of producing patterned and/or textured glass by applying a material onto at least a portion of a glass substrate, e.g., a float glass ribbon, at or above a softening point of the material and/or the glass substrate. The material is configured to affect the surface of the glass substrate to scatter light rays. An apparatus of the invention for forming patterned glass in a float glass process includes an applicator extensible into and out of a float bath chamber above a molten metal bath. A glass article of the invention includes a first surface and a second surface spaced from the first surface. The second surface includes a patterned portion configured to scatter light rays.

Abstract: A process for the fabrication of a rapidly solidified foil laminate composite. An amorphous metallic glass foil is flux treated and coated with solder. Before solidification of the solder the foil is collected on a take-up spool which forms the composite into a solid annular configuration. The resulting composite exhibits high strength, resiliency and favorable magnetic and electrical properties associated with amorphous materials. The composite also exhibits bonding strength between the foil layers which significantly exceeds the bulk strength of the solder alone.

Abstract: The invention gives a coating with a very high vitrification rate. The resulting surface has physicochemical characteristics which are similar to those of fluoride glass. In order to achieve this result, the material constituting the fluoride glass enamel quickly crosses the temperature range between the melting point and the glossy transition temperature. Moreover, the metallic substrate temperature must be high enough to enable an active physiochemical process at the glass-metal interface which results in a correct "hooking". A "hooking" temperature is higher than one where a physical adhesion occurs, which results from Van der Waals interactions without any formation of chemical bonds at the glass-metal interface. The particular chemical reactivity of molten fluorides, which otherwise results in critical problems of corrosion, is in this case a favorable factor which generally reduces the hooking temperature to a level which is far below the glass melting temperature.

Abstract: Reinforced float glass is produced by forming a glass ribbon on a molten metal bath, imparting a predetermined thickness to the glass ribbon and thereafter cooling the glass ribbon down to a temperature not higher than about 800.degree. C in order not to allow a metal wire to sink, superposing the metal wire and a molten glass having a temperature more than about 1000.degree. C onto the glass ribbon, thereby forming a laminated glass ribbon embedded with the metal wire, and further advancing the laminated glass ribbon along the molten metal bath to flatten the upper surface thereof.

Abstract: The industrial process hereinafter described begins with molten glass in which is imbedded a mesh for shatter-resistance, and is then extruded, cooled, and scribed in the size and shape of an injector-style razor blade. The scribed extrusion is inspected for quality control, after which is is broken along the scribed lines. The resulting glass razor blades are again inspected for quality control, after which they are packaged in whatever manner the manufacturer desires.