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Method for producing glass soot deposit

US5250097A · kind A · utility

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Filing dateJun 5, 1992
Grant dateOct 5, 1993
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Expiry dateJun 5, 2012

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  • Technology area (CPC Y)Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
  • CPC primaryY02P40/57
  • WIPO fieldOther special machines
  • WIPO sectorMechanical engineering

Abstract

A glass soot deposit is produced at a high deposition rate by blowing a gaseous glass-forming raw material together with a fuel gas from a combustion burner in a closed muffle, hydrolyzing the glass-forming raw material in a flame to generate glass soot, and depositing the glass soot on a tip end or a peripheral surface of a starting member which is rotated to form a glass soot deposit, in which a lowest surface temperature of the muffle tube is maintained at 50.degree. C. or higher and an average surface temperature of the muffle is maintained in a range between 50.degree. C. and 150.degree. C., whereby corrosion of the muffle is prevented.

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