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US 12,201,972 B2Granted
Ion exchange systems and methods for ion exchanging glass articles
AssigneeCorning Incorporated
InventorsRichard Wayne Bernard, Tonia Havewala Fletcher, Christopher Lee Timmons
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Abstract
An ion exchange tank is provided. The ion exchange tank includes a processing chamber and an additive chamber separated by a weir system, the weir system having a flow channel fluidly connecting the processing chamber to the additive chamber, wherein the flow is divided from the additive chamber by a first partition and divided from the processing chamber by a second partition, wherein the additive chamber comprises a solids-absorbing material disposed therein.
Claims10
A method for ion exchanging glass articles, the method comprising:
- adding fresh salt and solid additives to an additive chamber of an ion exchange tank;
- applying heat to the additive chamber to form molten salt;
- flowing the molten salt out of the additive chamber, through a flow channel of a weir system of the ion exchange tank, and into a processing chamber of the ion exchange tank;
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- ion exchange processing at least one glass article in the processing chamber,
- wherein the additive chamber comprises a solids-absorbing material disposed therein.
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