Process for manufacturing technical glass and burner for implementing such a process

US6332340A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• L'Air Liquide, Societe Anonyme Pour l'Etude et l'Exploitation des Procedes Georges Claude · FR

Inventors

• Pierre Bodelin · Vanves, FR
• Patrick Recourt · Marcoussis, FR
• Takashi Oguro · Kasai, JP
• Kazuyoshi Nakano · Tokyo, JP
• Toshi Takaha · Nagoya, JP
• Hiroyuki Tanaka · Wako, JP

Key dates

• Filing date: Dec 4, 1997
• Grant date: Dec 25, 2001
• Expiry date: Dec 4, 2017

Classification

• Technology area (CPC Y): Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
• CPC primary: Y02P40/50
• WIPO field: Other special machines
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

Provided is a process for the manufacture of technical glass. The process includes, heating a glass bath with at least one flame, wherein the at least one flame is a non-hard flame which is blue in color and includes substantially no reducing species.