C03B 2211/70
Skull melting, i.e. melting or refining in cooled wall crucibles or within
Official title: Skull melting, i.e. melting or refining in cooled wall crucibles or within solidified glass crust, e.g. in continuous walled vessels
C03B2211/70 (Skull melting, i.e. melting or refining in cooled wall crucibles or within) appears on 68 US grants and 73 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in C03B- Granted patents
- 68
- Published applications
- 73
- Assignees
- 40
- Inventors
- 161
- Latest grant
- 14 Apr 2026
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By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
Recent patents
- System and method for platinum free melting of high index glasses14 Apr 2026US 12,600,658 B2Corning Incorporated
- Cast cullet-based layer on wall panel for a melter16 Dec 2025US 12,497,316 B2Owens-Brockway Glass Container Inc.
- Melting vitrifiable material with a biomass-type fuel16 Dec 2025US 12,497,322 B2Saint-Gobain Isover
- Feeder alcove and batch feeding apparats for a melter18 Mar 2025US 12,252,434 B2Owens-Brockway Glass Container Inc.
- Methods for melting reactive glasses and glass-ceramics and melting apparatus for the same23 Jan 2024US 11,878,932 B2Corning Incorporated
- System for manufacturing high refractive index glass bead and method for manufacturing high refractive index glass bead using same27 Aug 2026US 2026/0250175 A1
- System and method for platinum free melting of high index glasses23 Jul 2026US 2026/0209100 A1Corning Incorporated
- Feeder alcove and batch feeding apparatus for a melter12 Jun 2025US 2025/0187965 A1Owens-Brockway Glass Container Inc.
- System and method for platinum free melting of high index glasses28 Nov 2024US 2024/0391815 A1Corning Incorporated
- Hydrogen-fueled submerged combustion melter and glass melting system including the same15 Feb 2024US 2024/0051861 A1Owens-Brockway Glass Container Inc.
Most cited
By later US patents
- Submerged combustion melting processes for producing glass and similar materials, and systems for carrying out such processes46US 9,096,453 B2Johns Manville · 2015
- Panel-cooled submerged combustion melter geometry and methods of making molten glass35US 8,769,992 B22014
- Furnace for the continuous melting of oxide mixtures by direct induction with high frequency, a very short refining time and a low energy consumption23US 5,367,532 ACommissariat A L' Energie Atomique · 1994
- Method for rapid induction heating of molten glass or the like21US 4,780,121 APPG Industries, Inc. · 1988
- Direct induction melting device for dielectric substances of the glass or enamel type17US 4,471,488 ASociete d'Applications de la Physique Moderne et de l'Electronique SAPHYMO-STEL · 1984