公开(公告)号：US20240391816A1

公开(公告)日：2024-11-28

申请号：US18555798

申请日：2022-04-12

Applicant: CORNING INCORPORATED

Inventor： Charles Collins Bentley, III ,  Ahdi El-Kahlout ,  Jason Arthur Howles ,  Chien Yu Hsu ,  John Thomas Pine, III ,  Jeremy Walter Turner

IPC: C03B7/088 ,  C03B5/167 ,  C03B7/094 ,  C03B17/06

Abstract: A glass manufacturing apparatus includes an exit conduit positioned to deliver molten glass from a delivery vessel to an inlet conduit of a forming apparatus. The apparatus also includes a leak blocking component that circumferentially surrounds a portion of the exit conduit and is configured to inhibit flow of molten glass towards an outer surface of the glass manufacturing apparatus.

公开(公告)号：US20250115508A1

公开(公告)日：2025-04-10

申请号：US18836574

申请日：2023-02-17

Applicant: CORNING INCORPORATED

Inventor： Benjamin Zain Hanson ,  Jason Arthur Howles ,  Edward Lee Kimble, III

IPC: C03B5/43 ,  C03B5/02

Abstract: Glass melting furnaces include a melting vessel that includes a floor, a feeding mechanism configured to feed raw materials into the melting vessel, a heating mechanism configured to convert raw materials fed into the melting vessel into molten glass, and a layer comprising an electrical resistivity enhancing material that is configured to diffuse into at least one layer of the floor that comprises a refractory ceramic material.