Melting of glass
AssigneePilkington plc
InventorsThomas Barrow, David Alan Bird
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Abstract
A method of producing flat glass in which foam which appears on the surface of molten glass melted using oxy-fuel burners is dispersed by directing a diffuse, luminescent flame onto the surface of the glass carrying the foam.
Claims5
A method of producing flat glass in which glass batch is melted in a furnace using burners fired by fuel and oxygen resulting in the formation of foam on the surface of the molten glass, and a burner, provided in a side-wall of the furnace, downstream of such burners producing foam produces a flame which is diffuse, luminescent and impinges on the surface of the glass dispersing said foam, said flame being cooler than the surface of the glass it contacts.
An improved method of producing flat glass wherein the glass is melted in a furnace and subsequently formed into a continuous ribbon wherein the improvement comprises melting the glass using burners fired by fuel and oxygen resulting in formation of foam on the surface of the molten glass and dispersing the foam by directing a diffuse, luminescent flame originating from a burner provided in a side-wall of the furnace onto the surface of the glass carrying the foam, said flame being cooler than the surface of the glass it contacts.
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