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Process for forming a glass sheet

US6311523A · kind A · utility

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Filing dateJan 10, 2000
Grant dateNov 6, 2001
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Expiry dateJan 10, 2020

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC C)Chemistry; Metallurgy
  • CPC primaryC03B35/246
  • WIPO fieldOther special machines
  • WIPO sectorMechanical engineering

Abstract

A process for forming a glass sheet, which is a process for continuously forming a glass sheet, and which comprises PA1 a step of introducing a vapor film-forming agent, which is not vapor at least around room temperature and which is vapor at a temperature above the glass transition point of the glass, into a support composed of a structure or a material capable of internally containing liquid, and PA1 a step of sliding the support and the glass of which temperature is above the glass transition point against each other via a thin layer of a vaporized vapor film-forming agent.

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