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Method and apparatus for conditioning and homogenizing a glass stream
AssigneeBeteiligungen Sorg GmbH & Co. KG
InventorsHelmut Sorg, Richard Sims
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AssigneeBeteiligungen Sorg GmbH & Co. KG
InventorsHelmut Sorg, Richard Sims
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A continuously flowing glass stream is conditioned and homogenized along a conditioning stretch, which extends from an entry side to at least one extraction point, and at the beginning of which there is a cooling zone, to which at least one homogenizing zone for the glass temperature is connected. In the working end or the distribution channel the temperature is reduced from the entry temperature T1 to an outlet temperature T2. In order to achieve the necessary conditioning and homogenization, even at high throughputs, the glass stream in the at least one cooling zone of the working end or distribution channel has a cross section with a depth/width ratio D/W of a maximum 0.6, or 0.5, or 0.4, or 0.3 or 0.2, whereby the maximum depth Dmax amounts to 300 or 250 or 200 mm, achieved by at least one bank raised from the bottom, and at least 50, or 60, or 70% of that amount of energy which corresponds to the temperature difference between T1 and T2 is removed from the glass bath along the total length of all the cooling zones.
A method of conditioning and homogenizing a continuously flowing stream of glass along a conditioning stretch, said conditioning stretch extending from an entry side of at least one of a working end or distribution channel to at least one extraction point of said at least one of a working end or distribution channel, at a beginning of said conditioning stretch there is at least one cooling zone to which at least a homogenizing zone for homogenizing the glass temperature is connected, whereby in the conditioning stretch the glass temperature is reduced from an entry temperature T1 to an extraction temperature T2, said method comprising arranging for in said at least one cooling zone a vertical cross section of a glass stream having a depth/width ratio D/W of a maximum of 0.6, which is created by at least one bank raised out of a bottom of said conditioning stretch in said cooling zone, whereby a maximum glass depth Dmax of the glass stream is about 300 mm and the temperature difference in the glass stream between T1 and T2 is reduced by at least 50% in said at least one cooling zone.
An apparatus for conditioning and homogenizing a glass stream flowing along a conditioning stretch, said apparatus comprising:
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