C03B 5/167
Means for preventing damage to equipment
Official title: Means for preventing damage to equipment, e.g. by molten glass, hot gases, batches (C03B5/20, C03B5/42 take precedence)
C03B5/167 (Means for preventing damage to equipment) appears on 182 US grants and 193 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in C03B- Granted patents
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- Published applications
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- Assignees
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- Latest grant
- 18 Aug 2026
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By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
Recent patents
- Glass manufacturing apparatus comprising a delivery conduit system with a low impedance drain assembly18 Aug 2026US 12,709,564 B2Corning Incorporated
- Glass, method for producing a glass, and glass melting apparatus16 Jun 2026US 12,655,055 B2Schott AG
- Support structures for accommodating thermal expansion and glass manufacturing apparatuses comprising the same26 May 2026US 12,637,379 B2Corning Incorporated
- Burner with removable shell for use in a melter26 May 2026US 12,638,175 B2Owens-Brockway Glass Container Inc.
- Powder-material flying melting furnace having dual regenerative chambers19 May 2026US 12,631,397 B2
- Apparatus and method for reducing defects in glass melt vessels3 Sep 2026US 2026/0257955 A1Corning Incorporated
- System and method for platinum free melting of high index glasses23 Jul 2026US 2026/0209100 A1Corning Incorporated
- Apparatus for glass manufacturing16 Jul 2026US 2026/0200784 A1Corning Incorporated
- Heater and apparatus and method for manufacturing glass product9 Jul 2026US 2026/0197905 A1AGC Inc.
- Method for reducing the amount of gas bubbles on the surface of a glass tube and apparatus therefore25 Jun 2026US 2026/0179871 A1Schott AG
Most cited
By later US patents
- Method and device for refining a glass melt using negative pressure61US 7,231,788 B2Schott AG · 2007
- Submerged combustion melting processes for producing glass and similar materials, and systems for carrying out such processes46US 9,096,453 B2Johns Manville · 2015
- Refractory metal substrate and coatings therefor42US 4,812,372 AOwens-Corning Fiberglas Corporation · 1989
- Submerged combustion glass manufacturing systems and methods39US 8,707,740 B2Johns Manville · 2014
- Plasma vitrification of waste materials32US 5,637,127 AWestinghouse Electric Corp. · 1997