Gerald E. Kunkle
19Patents
7h-index
13Co-inventors
59Inventor score
Filing activity: Jun 13, 1974 → Dec 28, 1987
Most-cited inventions
| Patent | Title | Area | Cited by | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US4738938A | Melting and vacuum refining of glass or the like and composition of sheet | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 96 | Expired |
| US4632687A | Method of melting raw materials for glass or the like using solid fuels or fuel-batch mixtures | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 95 | Expired |
| US4634461A | Method of melting raw materials for glass or the like with staged combustion and preheating | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 94 | Expired |
| US4381934A | Glass batch liquefaction | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 84 | Expired |
| US4749400A | Discrete glass sheet cutting | Chemistry; Metallurgy | 21 | Expired |
| US4654068A | Apparatus and method for ablating liquefaction of materials | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 11 | Expired |
| US3930828A | Thermal control in a glass sheet forming chamber | Chemistry; Metallurgy | 7 | Expired |
| US4395272A | Pressure sizing of float glass | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 6 | Expired |
| US4091156A | Manufactured glass by contiguous float process | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 6 | Expired |
| US4197107A | Convex bottomed float glass forming chamber entrance | Chemistry; Metallurgy | 5 | Expired |
| US4838919A | Pretreatment of fused cast refractories | Chemistry; Metallurgy | 5 | Expired |
| USRE32317E | Glass batch liquefaction | General | 5 | Expired |
| US4741749A | Vertical delivery arrangement for float glass process | Chemistry; Metallurgy | 4 | Expired |
| US4604121A | Method of pretreating glass batch | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 4 | Expired |
| US4559071A | Ablating liquefaction method | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 4 | Expired |
| US3973940A | Delivery of molten glass to a glass forming process | Chemistry; Metallurgy | 3 | Expired |
| US4789390A | Batch melting vessel lid cooling construction | Chemistry; Metallurgy | 3 | Expired |
| US4564379A | Method for ablating liquefaction of materials | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 3 | Expired |
| US3932165A | Method and apparatus for forming a ribbon of glass on a bath of molten metal | Chemistry; Metallurgy | 0 | Expired |
Source: USPTO / EPO open patent data. Inventor disambiguation is heuristic; counts are objective bibliographic measures.