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Class Number: 65
Class Title: GLASS MANUFACTURING
Subclass Subclass
Number Title
1 FILAMENT OR FIBER MAKING
2 .Processes
3.1 ..With coating
3.11 ...Having components with different refractive indices,
(e.g., optical fibers, optical wave guides, etc.)
3.12 ....By reacting metal compound, chemical vapor or soot
deposition, or using plasma
3.13 ....Multiple crucible process
3.14 ....With ion exchange to change refractive index of outer
layer
3.15 ....Leaching preform
3.2 ...Glass coating
3.3 ...Metal coating
3.31 ....With vapor deposition of metal compound
3.4 ...Resin, rubber, or asphalt coating
3.41 ....Silicon in coating (e.g., silane, silicone, etc.)
3.42 ....Asphalt coating
3.43 ....Thermosetting resin coating
3.44 ....Thermoplastic resin coating
4.1 ..With joining of fibers or filaments
4.2 ...Having components with different refactory indexes,
e.g., optical fiber, etc.
4.21 ....Utilizing preformed fibers or filaments other than for
attenuating stock material
4.3 ...Forming and joining in parallel alignment
4.4 ...To form mat
5 ..Fiber formation by utilization of fluid blast
6 ...During slinging or rotary-centrifugal distribution
7 ...Fluid blast comminution of solid filament
8 ..By slinging or rotary-centrifugal distribution
9 .With felting means
10 .With assorting means
10.1 .With winding means
10.2 .With severing means
11.1 .Combined
12 .Means for heating or cooling formed filament or fiber
13 .From rod stock
14 .By slinger and fluid blast means
15 .By slinger
16 .By fluid blast means
17 PROCESS
18.1 .With shaping of particulate material and subsequent fusing
of particles
18.2 ..Including flame or gas contact
18.3 ..Employing nonoxide additive
18.4 ..With treatment subsequent to fusing
19 .Slag, utilization
20 ..Foaming of slag
21.1 .Self-supporting particle making (e.g., bead, ball,
granule, etc.)
21.2 ..By molten glass comminuting
21.3 ..Spheroidizing or rounding of solid glass particless
21.4 ..Hollow or porous particle
21.5 ..With mechanical shaping or subdividing
22 .With pore forming in situ
23 .With destruction or delamination of transitory attached or
associated separate material
24 .Utilizing parting or lubricating layer
25.1 ..Providing a gaseous layer between glass and apparatus
25.2 ...Sheet
25.3 ....Formed from molten glass
25.4 ....Reshaping
26 ..Coating of apparatus
27 .Repairing or cleaning of apparatus; or batch dust prevention or
control
28 .With glass reclaiming, repairing or crack run interruption
29 .With testing or inspecting
30.1 .With chemically reactive treatment of glass preform
30.11 ..To enhance the ability to darken or change color in
response to radiation exposure (e.g., photochromic)
30.12 ..To hydrate the glass
30.13 ..With metal ion penetrating into glass (i.e., ion
exchange)
30.14 ...To temper or strengthen the glass
31 ..By etching or leaching
32.1 .Operating under inert or reducing conditions
32.2 ..With bonding or sealing
32.3 ..With crystallization or photochromism or phase
separation
32.4 ..With coating
32.5 ..With forming glass from molten state, with treatment of
molten glass, or with drawing of glass in softened state
33 .Devitrifying or vitrifying crystalline glass
34 .With sealing off of gas evacuating opening
35 .With vibrating, oscillating or agitating a preform
36 .Fusion bonding of glass to a formed part
37 ..Lens making
38 ...With bonding of at least three formed parts
39 ...With molding or reshaping of glass to assume shape of
configured lens part during bonding
40 ..Dielectric or joule effect heating of work
41 ..With annealing or tempering of glass
42 ..Bonding of sub-assembly with subsequent assembly and bonding
(formed parts only)
43 ..By or with coating at joint interface of a formed part prior
to bonding
44 ..With embossing or corrugating
45 ..With glass part forming from shapeless molten glass
46 ...With blowing to shape glass
47 ...In mold cavity
48 ....And bonding to part in same mold cavity
49 .....Bonding to metal formed part
50 ...Forming and bonding glass sheet to metal part
51 ....Contacting metal with molten glass prior to forming sheet
52 .....Forming of plural glass sheets
53 ...Forming plural sheets or sheet-like streams from same source
54 ..With reshaping glass preform prior to assembly or subsequent
to bonding
55 ...Prior to assembly
56 ..With severing, perforating, or breaking of glasss
57 ..Relative rotation of work and heating means
58 ..Of parts having opposed facing areas out of contact, e.g.,
building blocks
59.1 ..Of glass to metal part
59.2 ...Maintaining cavity in glass
59.21 ....Glass applied in powdered (i.e., frit) form
59.22 ....Named fusible bonding material employed
59.23 ....With firing in vacuum, in inert atmosphere, or in
pumped in gas
59.24 ....Metal part outside of glass part
59.25 ....Metal part inserted through hole or into groove in
glass part
59.26 ....Metal part forced through or into softened glass part
(e.g., pinch sealing, etc.)
59.27 ....Metal part coaxial with and inside of glass part
59.28 ....Relative movement or manipulation of parts during or
immediately preceding fusion
59.3 ...More than two parts in overlaying series (noncavity)
59.31 ....Metal part inserted through hole or into groove in
glass part
59.32 ....Metal part forced through or into softened glass part
(e.g., pinch sealing, etc.)
59.33 ....Relative movement or manipulation of parts during or
immediately preceding fusion
59.34 ....Metal part outside of glass part
59.35 ....Metal part coaxial with and inside of glass part
59.4 ...Metal part outside of glass part
59.5 ...Glass applied in powdered (i.e., frit) form
59.6 ...Metal part coaxial with and inside of glass part
59.7 ...Metal part forced through or into softened glass part
(e.g., pinch sealing, etc.)
60.1 .With coating
60.2 ..Plural diverse layers
60.3 ..Organic coating
60.4 ..Free metal coating
60.5 ..Oxide coating
60.51 ...From inorganic metal salt
60.52 ...From organic metal compound
60.53 ...From inorganic oxides or hydroxides
60.6 ..Free carbon containing coating
60.7 ..Inorganic metal salt containing coating
60.8 ..Silicon containing coating
61 .With wearing away of surface material, e.g., abrading or
grinding
62 .Combined
63 .Sequentially forming, reheating and working
64 ..Reshaping
65 .Forming and fire polishing or product
66 .Forming product or preform from molten glass
67 ..Converting sheet to hollow product or hollow product to sheet
68 ..Initial forming of hollow product or preform in mold cavity
69 ...With annealing or tempering
70 ...With severing of formed product
71 ...Spreading of molten glass by rotation
72 ...With charging of mold cavity
73 ....By suction from upper surface of "pool"
74 .....With sequential blowing in charged cavity
75 ....Through orifice in bottom wall of dispenserr
76 ....With additional diverse shaping step
77 ...With additional forming step
78 ....Diverse
79 .....Press and blow
80 ......In separate lines
81 ...By differential gas pressure
82 ..Reshaping of hot parison in mold cavity to form hollow
article
83 ..With positive cooling of product or molten glass at forming
area
84 ...By direct gaseous contact
85 ...Of glass product
86 ..Drawing and simultaneously forming hollow stock from molten
glass
87 ...With additional shaping, or severing, or perforating
88 ...Vertically drawing upwardly while applying fluid internally
of stock
89 ..Forming hollow stock by surface filming
90 ..Sheet
91 ...With application of lateral tension to edge portion of moving
sheet
92 ...With smoothing subsequent to sheet formation
93 ...With reshaping or surface deformation
94 ....Subsequent to formation
95 ...With annealing or tempering
96 ....Conveying at different rate than speed of formation
97 ...With severing or perforating
98 ...Simultaneously forming plural separate sheets
99.1 ...By or with pouring molten glass onto forming surface
99.2 ....Utilizing molten metal forming surface
99.3 .....Maintaining molten metal temperature
99.4 .....Treating or removing impurities in molten metal or
glass
99.5 .....Maintaining or adjusting sheet width or thickness
99.6 ......By nonmechanical means
100 ....Onto moving roll or platen
101 .....Through bite of rolls
102 .Reshaping or surface deformation of glass preform
103 ..Utilizing heat shield or heat-sink
104 ..With annealing, tempering or fire-polishing
105 ..With severing or perforating
106 ..Reshaping of planar sheet
107 ...By sagging by gravity on mold surface
108 ..Reshaping of tubular preform, retaining cavity
109 ...During rotation
110 ...Utilizing vacuum or gas pressure
111 .Glass preform treating
112 ..With severing or preforating
113 ...By or with flame
114 ..Tempering
115 ...Differential or localized
116 ...Quenching in liquid bath
117 ..Annealing
118 ...During conveying
119 ....Annealing by direct contact with gaseous heat exchange
medium
120 ..By flame
121 .Blending of separate molten glass streamss
122 .Charging of molten glass into mold cavity
123 ..By gravity and severing subsequent to charging mold cavity
124 ..By suction
125 .Gathering from upper surface of glass pool
126 .Discharging molten glass downwardly through orifice
127 ..With gob shaping or treating subsequent to discharge through
orifice
128 ..With temperature modification at orifice
129 ..Regulating or arresting of flow into or out of orifice
130 ...With or by differential gas pressure
131 ....With segregation prior to discharge
132 ...With segregation prior to discharge
133 .Severing of molten glass stream
134 .Purifying or homogenizing of molten glass
135 ..Melting in separate zone of glass container, e.g., tank
furnace
136 ..Fining by heating
137 .Cooling of molten glass
138 ELECTRONIC ENVELOPE HEADER, TERMINAL OR STEM MAKING MEANS
139 .With means inserting wire into glass
140 .By press mold
141 MELT DISINTEGRATOR AND SOLIDIFIER INCLUDING FLUID-MELT CONTACT
MEANS
142 PARTICULATE BEAD OR BALL MAKING APPARATUS, E.G., PIN HEADING
143 .By rolling means
144 MEANS SHAPING PREFORM FROM GRANULAR MATERIAL WITH FUSION MEANS
145 PLURAL SOURCES FEEDING DIVERSE GLASS MELTS TO COMMON FORMING
MEANS
146 WITH MEANS TO FEED DIVERSE MATERIAL TO GLASS WORKING MEANS
147 .Wire laminating means
148 ..Sheet rolling means
149 ...Sandwiching wire between opposed glass feeds
150 ...Roll coacting with platen
151 ....Embedding means on roll
152 FUSION BONDING MEANS
153 .Concentric body making, e.g., vacuum bottle making, etc.
154 .Glass to metal
155 .Electronic device making
156 .With article molding means
157 MEANS PROVIDING SPECIAL ATMOSPHERE
158 WITH SIGNAL, INDICATOR, INSPECTION MEANS, REGISTER, OR RECORDER
159 WITH APPARATUS SAFETY MEANS
160 CONTROL RESPONSIVE TO CONDITION SENSING MEANS
161 .Glass working fluid or treating fluid control
162 .Temperature or heater control
163 .Speed control
164 .Molten glass dispenser or gatherer control
165 WITH REJECT CATCHER, DEFLECTOR OR HOLDER
166 PERFORATOR FOR ARTICLE OR PREFORM
167 CONVERTIBLE TO DIFFERENT OPERATION
168 WITH POSITIVE CLEANING MEANS FOR APPARATUS
169 WITH MEANS PROVIDING PARTING MATERIAL
170 WITH APPARATUS LUBRICATING MEANS
171 WITH REPAIR, ASSEMBLY OR DISASSEMBLY MEANS FOR APPARATUS
172 .To replace worn or damaged parts
173 .To provide alternately used parts
174 WITH MECHANICAL CUTTER, SCORER OR SCRIBER FOR ARTICLE OR
PREFORMM
175 .With annealing means
176 .Running length
177 .Associated with article mold
178 WITH AGITATOR FOR MOLTEN OR SOFT GLASS
179 .Delivery area associated
180 ..Orifice associated
181 COMBINED
182.1 WITH FLUID SUPPORT FOR ARTICLE OR PREFORM
182.2 .Gaseous support
182.3 .Means for treating or maintaining molten metal
182.4 .Including preform width maintaining or stretching mean
182.5 .Structure or composition of lining material or arrangement
with shell
183 EXTRUSION DIE FORMER WITH UPSTREAM DISCHARGE ASSISTANT
184 MEANS CHARGING CONTINUOUS FILM OR STRIP TO SEPARATE AND DISTINCT
FORMER
185 .Into sheet rolling means
186 ..With auxiliary heating or cooling means upstream of rolling
means
187 MEANS DRAWING TUBE OR ROD STOCK FROM BATH
188 .Drawing vertically upward
189 ..With product take-down means
190 ..Means correlating air supply and bait movement
191 ..With internal core or centering means
192 ..Air injection means extending through bath
193 MEANS DRAWING SHEET FROM BATH
194 .With annealing or tempering means
195 .Means dividing and recombining melt in draw chamber
196 .Vertically upwardly with means bending sheet to horizontal
197 ..With moving endless drawing or flattening table
198 ..With coacting roll contacting surface of supply bath
199 .With width maintaining and/or lateral stretching means
200 ..Stretching means
201 ..Adjustable width maintaining means
202 .With pivoted lip tile
203 .With auxiliary heating means for draw pot or drawing chamber
204 .With cooling means in drawing chamber
205 .With radiant heat reflector in draw pot or drawing chamber
206 .With skimmer
207 GOB CHARGING MEANS WITH SHAPE IMPARTING RECEPTACLE MEANS
208 .With glass treating means
209 .By fluid pressure discharge assistant means
210 .By suction gatherer mounted above supply
211 ..With means correlating movable pool-closure
212 ..Gatherer moving transversely from orbit of traveling mold,
i.e., ram type
213 ..Mold is gatherer
214 ...Parison mold
215 ....With plunger movable relative to mold
216 .....With separate, distinct blow mold
217 ......Diverse molds traveling concentric orbits
218 .......Finish mold pivotally mounted below parison's orbit
219 ....With blow means
220 .....Sequentially used, distinct molds
221 .By delivery from tank feeder
222 ..To parallel mold tables
223 ..With press means
224 ...With diverse moldingg
225 ..With gob guide means
226 .With press means
227 DIVERSE DISTINCT GLASSWORKING APPARATUS
228 .Marvering means with blow means
229 .Press means with blow means
230 ..With reheating means therebetween
231 ..Blank mold encaseable in finish mold
232 ..With mold inverting means
233 ...With pneumatic charge compacting means
234 ....Settle-blow means
235 ...Neck mold inverting
236 ....With parison mold inverting
237 ..Diverse molds traveling concentric orbits
238 ...With diverse motion of mold
239 ...With movable work transfer means between orbits
240 ..Plural traveling mold carriers
241 ...With movable intermediate work transfer means
242 ..Reciprocating mold bottom
243 PLURAL DISTINCT GLASSWORKING APPARATUS
244 .Spaced preform reheating means with reshaping means
245 .Sheet rolling means
246 .Plural presses
247 ..Plungers sequentially coacting with same mold
248 ..With relative rotation between plunger and mold during
withdrawal
249 ...Plungers oppositely disposed
250 ..Plungers oppositely disposed
251 ..Plungers orbiting above orbiting molds
252 .Fire-polishing means
253 ROLLING MEANS TO FORM SHEET OR STRIP
254 .With treating means
255 .With corrugating or surface imprinting means
256 .Roll coacting with planar platen
257 ..Reciprocating platen
258 SHEET CASTING AND RECEIVING MEANS
259 .With pot handling means
260 WITH MEANS ABOVE MOLD TO TAKE-OUT OR TRANSFER PRODUCT
261 BLOWING MEANS WITH BLOW MOLD
262 .With treating means
263 .Combined with vacuum means
264 .Traveling mold
265 ..With means heating and/or cooling apparatus
266 .Mold rotary about own axis
267 .With means heating and/or cooling apparatus
268 PREFORM RESHAPING MEANS WITH TREATING MEANS
269 GLASSWORKING OR PREFORM BY OR WITH REHEATING MEANS (E.G., FLAME
SEVERING)
270 .Envelope tipping off type
271 .Heating means movable relative to work during shaping
operation
272 .Work, workholder or tool correlated burner control
273 .Planar sheet preform
274 .With spaced preheating means
275 .Mechanical means to reshape preform
276 ..Tubular type preform
277 ...By resizing mandrel
278 ...Means supporting and orbiting preform
279 ....Preform supported horizontallyy
280 ....Preform supported vertically
281 ...By bending means
282 ...By internal forming means
283 ...By stretching means
284 .Fire-polishing means
285 .To reshape preform by flame pressure or gravity
286 PREFORM RESHAPING MEANS
287 .Sheet bending mold
288 ..With heat shield or heat sink
289 ..Including auxiliary movable sheet support or movable sheet
guide means
290 ...Movable mold section
291 ..Having movable section
292 .Cylindrical preform
293 ..By threading means
294 ..By expansible mandrel
295 ..By crimping means
296 ..By internal and external forming means
297 ...Both rotary driven
298 ...Rotary internal, stationary external
299 ..By flaring means
300 MEANS APPLYING PNEUMATIC PRESSURE INSIDE OF DISCRETE CHARGE,
I.E., BLOW MEANS
301 .With selective control means
302 ARTICLE FORMING MEANS UTILIZING MOLD MOTION, E.G., CENTRIFUGAL
CASTING
303 GOB SHAPING OR TREATING MEANS DOWNSTREAM OF GOB SEVERING MEANS
304 WITH GOB HANDLING MEANS
305 PRESS MOLDING MACHINE
306 .With product treating means
307 .Mold ring or baffle laterally and movably supported
308 .Plunger coacting with successively presented molds
309 ..Relative rotation between plunger and orbiting mold
310 ...Independent dies actuated by common plunger
311 ..Means providing orbiting mold with diverse motion
312 ..Mold orbiting about horizontal axis
313 ..Vertically segmented orbiting mold
314 .Plural motors coaxial with plunger
315 .With core drawing means
316 .With means to rotate plunger during withdrawal
317 .Means reciprocating or oscillating female mold member
318 .With means varying plunger pressure during pressing
319 .With means for heating or cooling apparatus
320 .Selectively operated plural plungers
321 .Plunger penetrating superimposed mold table
322 .With means to adjust plunger stroke
323 PRODUCT OR PARISON CENTERING MEANS, OR MOLD AND/OR CORE ALIGNING
MEANS
324 MOLTEN GLASS DISPENSING MEANS (E.G., FEEDER OR LADLE)
325 .Discharge orifice below melt level
326 ..With auxiliary heating or cooling means
327 ...At orifice
328 ..Plural plunger-type discharge assistants or discharge
orifices
329 ..By differential gas pressure
330 ..By reciprocating plunger-type discharge assistant
331 ...With diverse motion
332 ...With severing meanss
333 .Discharge lip with discharge assistant
334 WITH MOLTEN GLASS CHARGE CUTTING OR SCRAPING MEANS
335 GLASS FURNACE WITH FURNACE CHARGING MEANS
336 GATHERING OR DRAWING POOL TYPE FURNACE
337 .Supplemental heating or heat exchange means associated with
pool
338 ..With deputer, draw ring or draw shield
339 .Separate and distinct means defining pool (e.g.,
floor-supported dam)
340 ..Movably mounted
341 ..Cascadingly connected
342 ..By bridge
343 ...Floating bridge
344 ..With deputer, draw ring or draw shield
345 ..By suspended baffle
346 GLASS CONDITIONING CHANNEL SECTION
347 MELTING POT OR FURNACE WITH STRUCTURALLY DEFINED DELIVERY OR
FINING ZONE
348 PRODUCT COOLING MEANS, E.G., TEMPERING
349 .With preceding reheater
350 ..Plural spaced reheaters
351 ..Plural spaced cooling means
352 DRAWING BAIT
353 .With air supply means
354 ..With heating or cooling means
355 MEANS HEATING OR COOLING APPARATUS
356 .Internally positioned
357 MOLD WITH SEPARATING MEANS OR CLAMPING MEANS
358 .Core drawing means
359 .With mold support or carrier
360 ..Pivoted mold sections
361 MOLD WITH SUPPORTING OR CARRYING MEANS
362 PLUNGER
370.1 ROLLER MEANS FOR GLASSWORKING, TEMPERING OR ANNEALING
374.1 APPARATUS MADE OF SPECIAL MATERIAL
374.11 .Metal-nonmetal composite
374.12 .Metallic
374.13 .Ceramic material
374.14 .Asbestos containing
374.15 .Elemental carbon containing (e.g., graphite, charcoal,
etc.)
375 MISCELLANEOUS
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* CROSS-REFERENCE ART COLLECTIONS
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900 DRYING, DEHYDRATION, MINIMIZING OH GROUPS
901 LIQUID PHASE REACTION PROCESS
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* DIGESTS
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DIG 1 Lens envelope
DIG 3 Cracked glass
DIG 4 Electric heat
DIG 5 Foil glass
DIG 6 Glass electrode
DIG 8 Quartz
DIG 9 Tube
DIG 10 Stemwaree
DIG 11 Encapsulating
DIG 12 Reed switch
DIG 13 Computer control
DIG 15 Nonoxygen containing chalogenides
DIG 16 .Optical filament or fiber treatment with fluorine or
incorporating flourine in final product