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US 2025/0074809 A1Published application
Controlled cooling apparatus and methods providing preferential cooling or heating within a continuous glass ribbon
AssigneeCorning Incorporated
InventorsMAOPEI CUI, STEPHEN RAY HOWARD, JUI-HSIANG HUNG, MARK DAVID MCCARTY, ROHIT RAI
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Abstract
A glass ribbon processing apparatus to produce a glass ribbon with variable thickness includes a first device that cools a first portion of a width of the glass ribbon at a different rate than a second portion of a width of the glass ribbon, wherein the first portion is thicker than the second portion.
Claims19
A glass ribbon processing apparatus to produce a glass ribbon with variable thickness, the apparatus comprising:
- a first device that cools a first portion of a width of the glass ribbon at a different rate than a second portion of a width of the glass ribbon, wherein the first portion is thicker than the second portion.
A method of producing a glass ribbon with variable thickness, the method comprising:
- conveying the glass ribbon;
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- cooling a first portion of a width of the glass ribbon at a different rate than a second portion of a width of the glass ribbon, wherein the first portion is thicker than the second portion.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.