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US 2015/0021311 A1Published application
Electric glory hole heating element baffle
AssigneeSpiral Arts Inc
InventorsSteven Thomas Gibbs, Fred Charles Metz
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Abstract
An electric glass hot shop system is described herein that has at least one electrically powered heating unit (e.g., electric furnace, electric glory hole, electric pipe warmer, electric color box, electric annealer, electric crucible kiln) used in the processing of glass.
Claims16
1-15. (canceled)
An electric glory hole comprising:
- a body comprising a first opening;
- a core comprising a first opening, wherein the first opening of the body is in communication with the first opening of the core, and wherein the core is positioned inside the body, and
- the core comprises interconnected fire bricks and a series of refractory element baffles, wherein each refractory element baffle comprises a block with a passage through which an heating element is inserted and a cavity in which hangs the heating element, wherein the cavity is larger than the heating element, and wherein the cavity is sized to encompass at least three sides of the heating element.
An electric glory hole comprising:
- a body comprising a first opening;
- a core comprising a first opening, wherein the first opening of the body is in communication with the first opening of the core, and wherein the core is positioned inside the body, and
- a plurality of molybdenum discilicide heating elements positioned inside the core.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.