MUMBAI, India, June 13 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202517050403 A) filed by Corning Incorporated, Corning, U.S.A., on May 26, for 'apparatus and method for extracting heat during formation of glass ribbons.'
Inventor(s) include Bisson, Antoine Gaston Denis; Mclaren, Charles Thomas; and Wheeler, Nicholas Ryan.
The application for the patent was published on June 13, under issue no. 24/2025.
According to the abstract released by the Intellectual Property India: "A glass forming apparatus is disclosed including a glass delivery device and a heat extraction assembly. The glass delivery device includes a slot block through which molten glass flows and is formed into a glass ribbon, and the slot block includes a plurality of channels formed therein. The heat extraction assembly includes an outer tube, an inner tube, a cooling fluid source, and an exhaust manifold. The outer tube includes a proximal end and a distal end connected to one of the plurality of channels. The inner tube extends within an outer lumen of the outer tube. The cooling fluid source is fluidly coupled to the inner tube to thereby supply a cooling fluid to an inner lumen of the inner tube. The exhaust manifold is fluidly coupled to an exhaust channel defined between the inner tube and the outer tube for exhausting the cooling fluid."
The patent application was internationally filed on Nov. 09, 2023, under International application No.PCT/US2023/037049.
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