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US 11,512,015 B2Granted
Method and apparatus for glass ribbon thermal control
AssigneeCorning Incorporated
InventorsRobert Delia, Ahdi El-Kahlout, Soongyup Lee
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Abstract
A method and apparatus for manufacturing a glass article includes flowing a glass ribbon through a housing having first and second side walls. The first and second side walls extend between the glass ribbon and a cooling mechanism and at least one of the side walls has at least one closeable opening, such that a greater amount of heat is transferred from the glass ribbon when the closeable opening is open than when the closeable opening is closed.
Claims19
An apparatus for manufacturing a glass article comprising:
- a cooling mechanism;
- a housing comprising an interior area defined between a first side wall and a second side wall, wherein the first side wall extends between the interior area and the cooling mechanism, and the cooling mechanism is configured to isolate a first cooling fluid within the cooling mechanism from fluid communication with the interior area;
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- a first closeable opening in the first side wall, wherein the first closeable opening and the cooling mechanism are configured to allow a greater amount of heat to be transferred from a glass ribbon traveling within the interior area when the first closeable opening is open than when the first closeable opening is closed.
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An apparatus for manufacturing a glass article comprising:
- a convective cooling mechanism comprising at least one vacuum port configured to promote convection cooling of a glass ribbon with a cooling fluid flow generated at least partially by operation of the at least one vacuum port;
- a housing comprising an interior area defined between a first side wall and a second side wall, the first side wall extending between the interior area and the convective cooling mechanism, and an inlet of the at least one vacuum port is spaced away from the first side wall;
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- a first closeable opening in the first side wall, wherein the first closeable opening and the convective cooling mechanism are configured to allow a greater amount of heat to be transferred from the glass ribbon traveling within the interior area when the first closeable opening is open than when the first closeable opening is closed.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.