| Class Number |
Class Name |
No. of Patents |
| 65/374.1 |
Apparatus made of special material |
50 |
| 65/374.14 |
Asbestos containing |
5 |
| 65/374.13 |
Ceramic material |
133 |
| 65/374.15 |
Elemental carbon containing (e.g., graphite, charcoal, etc.) |
104 |
| 65/374.11 |
Metal-nonmetal composite |
99 |
| 65/374.12 |
Metallic |
184 |
| 65/302 |
Article forming means utilizing mold motion (e.g., centrifugal casting) |
38 |
| 65/261 |
Blowing means with blow mold |
61 |
| 65/263 |
Combined with vacuum means |
13 |
| 65/266 |
Mold rotary about own axis |
7 |
| 65/264 |
Traveling mold |
32 |
| 65/265 |
With means heating and/or cooling apparatus |
47 |
| 65/267 |
With means heating and/or cooling apparatus |
62 |
| 65/262 |
With treating means |
21 |
| 65/181 |
Combined |
43 |
| 65/DIG.13 |
Computer control |
134 |
| 65/160 |
Control responsive to condition sensing means |
196 |
| 65/161 |
Glass working fluid or treating fluid control |
66 |
| 65/164 |
Molten glass dispenser or gatherer control |
110 |
| 65/163 |
Speed control |
170 |
| 65/162 |
Temperature or heater control |
199 |
| 65/167 |
Convertible to different operation |
11 |
| 65/DIG.3 |
Cracked glass |
3 |
| 65/227 |
Diverse distinct glassworking apparatus |
32 |
| 65/228 |
Marvering means with blow means |
3 |
| 65/229 |
Press means with blow means |
66 |
| 65/231 |
Blank mold encaseable in finish mold |
2 |
| 65/237 |
Diverse molds traveling concentric orbits |
9 |
| 65/238 |
With diverse motion of mold |
5 |
| 65/239 |
With movable work transfer means between orbits |
39 |
| 65/240 |
Plural traveling mold carriers |
27 |
| 65/241 |
With movable intermediate work transfer means |
82 |
| 65/242 |
Reciprocating mold bottom |
14 |
| 65/232 |
With mold inverting means |
12 |
| 65/235 |
Neck mold inverting |
25 |
| 65/236 |
With parison mold inverting |
7 |
| 65/233 |
With pneumatic charge compacting means |
10 |
| 65/234 |
Settle-blow means |
18 |
| 65/230 |
With reheating means therebetween |
12 |
| 65/352 |
Drawing bait |
2 |
| 65/353 |
With air supply means |
1 |
| 65/354 |
With heating or cooling means |
4 |
| 65/900 |
Drying, dehydration, minimizing oh groups |
114 |
| 65/DIG.4 |
Electric heat |
116 |
| 65/138 |
Electronic envelope header, terminal, or stem making means |
26 |
| 65/140 |
By press mold |
16 |
| 65/139 |
With means inserting wire into glass |
16 |
| 65/DIG.11 |
Encapsulating |
12 |
| 65/183 |
Extrusion die former with upstream discharge assistant |
16 |
| 65/483 |
Fiber making apparatus |
14 |
| 65/521 |
Centrifuge with fiberizing holes (e.g., rotor, etc.) |
62 |
| 65/522 |
Having adjacent combustion chamber, burner, or blower utilized |
43 |
| 65/523 |
With at least two concentric blowers or burners |
22 |
| 65/529 |
Having coating or treating means |
113 |
| 65/530 |
Having gas feeding or withdrawal means |
67 |
| 65/531 |
Having soot forming flame hydrolysis burner (e.g., flame oxidation, etc.) |
70 |
| 65/532 |
With means for recovery, recirculation, or elimination of excess gas feed or coating material |
42 |
| 65/516 |
Rotary-centrifugal fiber forming means (e.g., slinger, rotary disc, no fiberizing holes, etc.) |
17 |
| 65/520 |
Depositing glass on periphery of rotating fiber forming means (e.g., disc, rotor, wheel, etc.) |
19 |
| 65/517 |
Having fluid blast means for contacting glass |
24 |
| 65/518 |
With fluid blast guide, baffle, or deflector |
8 |
| 65/519 |
Having means to pass cooling fluid through apparatus |
6 |
| 65/515 |
Specified composition of slinger or rotary-centrifugal fiber forming means |
32 |
| 65/506 |
With assorting means |
10 |
| 65/503 |
With cleaning means |
20 |
| 65/504 |
With crimping or curling means |
41 |
| 65/492 |
With designated composition of dies, bushings, or nozzles |
38 |
| 65/493 |
Platinum group metal containing (i.e., ruthenium (ru), rhodium (rh), osmium (os), iridium (ir), palladium (pd), platinum (pt)) |
49 |
| 65/533 |
With drawing means |
47 |
| 65/537 |
From rod stock |
48 |
| 65/534 |
Movable furnace or bushing (e.g., rotatable, reciprocating, etc.) |
7 |
| 65/535 |
Pulling wheels or rolls |
49 |
| 65/536 |
With severing |
29 |
| 65/538 |
With fluid assisting means |
20 |
| 65/501 |
With fiber splicing or coupling means (e.g., fusion splicing, end to end, side to side, etc.) |
89 |
| 65/524 |
With fluid blast means |
24 |
| 65/528 |
Combustion or flame attenuation |
37 |
| 65/526 |
Having fluid discharge skirt or deflector |
36 |
| 65/527 |
Toration means utilized |
8 |
| 65/525 |
Having specified nozzle opening size or nozzle cross section |
23 |
| 65/540 |
With furnace charging means |
30 |
| 65/510 |
With means for cooling newly formed fiber, filament, or preform (e.g., nascent fiber, etc.) |
57 |
| 65/513 |
Gas column (e.g., generally upward gas stream, etc.) |
63 |
| 65/514 |
Liquid stream or spray |
15 |
| 65/511 |
With cooling surfaces or fins |
16 |
| 65/512 |
Fluid cooling agent circulated |
36 |
| 65/507 |
With means for heating newly formed filament, fiber, or preform |
28 |
| 65/509 |
Electric or electromagnetic heating utilized (e.g., induction heat, etc.) |
41 |
| 65/508 |
Having means to shape or modify |
20 |
| 65/500 |
With means to align preform with drawing apparatus or form multifilament fibers (e.g., gathering shoe, etc.) |
47 |
| 65/505 |
With means to distribute fibers across collecting surface (e.g., blower, mechanical distribution means, reciprocating, oscillating, etc.) |
35 |
| 65/494 |
With means to form hollow fiber or preform |
17 |
| 65/484 |
With measuring, controlling, sensing, timing, inspecting, indicating, or testing means |
55 |
| 65/485 |
By optical means or of optical property |
39 |
| 65/491 |
Diameter or coating thickness |
69 |
| 65/489 |
Fluid pressure |
30 |
| 65/487 |
Having fiber breakout detection, compensation, or prevention means |
19 |
| 65/490 |
Molten glass level (e.g., sensor, check valve, etc.) |
9 |
| 65/488 |
Temperature |
67 |
| 65/486 |
Winder or puller movement (e.g., drawing sensor, etc.) |
39 |
| 65/502 |
With multiple crucible or multichamber system |
36 |
| 65/495 |
With specified bushing, tip, or feeder structure |
77 |
| 65/497 |
Noncircular tip opening (e.g., elliptical, polygonal, etc.) |
19 |
| 65/496 |
Tipless |
39 |
| 65/498 |
With cooling means for bushing (e.g., orifice plate cooling, etc.) |
30 |
| 65/499 |
With heating means for bushing |
74 |
| 65/539 |
With winding means |
40 |
| 65/DIG.5 |
Foil glass |
6 |
| 65/152 |
Fusion bonding means |
51 |
| 65/153 |
Concentric body making (e.g., vacuum bottle making, etc.) |
11 |
| 65/155 |
Electronic device making |
58 |
| 65/154 |
Glass to metal |
31 |
| 65/156 |
With article molding means |
18 |
| 65/336 |
Gathering or drawing pool type furnace |
6 |
| 65/339 |
Separate and distinct means defining pool (e.g., floor-supported dam) |
17 |
| 65/342 |
By bridge |
14 |
| 65/343 |
Floating bridge |
4 |
| 65/345 |
By suspended baffle |
13 |
| 65/341 |
Cascadingly connected |
2 |
| 65/340 |
Movably mounted |
8 |
| 65/344 |
With deputer, draw ring, or draw shield |
3 |
| 65/337 |
Supplemental heating or heat exchange means associated with pool |
113 |
| 65/338 |
With deputer, draw ring, or draw shield |
2 |
| 65/346 |
Glass conditioning channel section |
157 |
| 65/DIG.6 |
Glass electrode |
5 |
| 65/335 |
Glass furnace with furnace charging means |
237 |
| 65/269 |
Glassworking or preform by or with reheating means (e.g., flame severing) |
23 |
| 65/270 |
Envelope tipping off type |
29 |
| 65/284 |
Fire-polishing means |
17 |
| 65/271 |
Heating means movable relative to work during shaping operation |
52 |
| 65/275 |
Mechanical means to reshape preform |
72 |
| 65/276 |
Tubular type preform |
31 |
| 65/281 |
By bending means |
18 |
| 65/282 |
By internal forming means |
11 |
| 65/277 |
By resizing mandrel |
13 |
| 65/283 |
By stretching means |
21 |
| 65/278 |
Means supporting and orbiting preform |
13 |
| 65/279 |
Preform supported horizontally |
23 |
| 65/280 |
Preform supported vertically |
23 |
| 65/273 |
Planar sheet preform |
472 |
| 65/285 |
To reshape preform by flame pressure or gravity |
34 |
| 65/274 |
With spaced preheating means |
23 |
| 65/272 |
Work, workholder, or tool correlated burner control |
26 |
| 65/207 |
Gob charging means with shape imparting receptacle means |
35 |
| 65/221 |
By delivery from tank feeder |
13 |
| 65/222 |
To parallel mold tables |
4 |
| 65/225 |
With gob guide means |
57 |
| 65/223 |
With press means |
7 |
| 65/224 |
With diverse molding |
10 |
| 65/209 |
By fluid pressure discharge assistant means |
13 |
| 65/210 |
By suction gatherer mounted above supply |
1 |
| 65/212 |
Gatherer moving transversely from orbit of traveling mold (i.e., ram type) |
1 |
| 65/213 |
Mold is gatherer |
4 |
| 65/214 |
Parison mold |
1 |
| 65/219 |
With blow means |
5 |
| 65/220 |
Sequentially used, distinct molds |
1 |
| 65/215 |
With plunger movable relative to mold |
3 |
| 65/216 |
With separate, distinct blow mold |
0 |
| 65/217 |
Diverse molds traveling concentric orbits |
1 |
| 65/218 |
Finish mold pivotally mounted below parison's orbit |
0 |
| 65/211 |
With means correlating movable pool-closure |
0 |
| 65/208 |
With glass treating means |
13 |
| 65/226 |
With press means |
16 |
| 65/303 |
Gob shaping or treating means downstream of gob severing means |
24 |
| 65/DIG.1 |
Lens envelope |
2 |
| 65/901 |
Liquid phase reaction process |
140 |
| 65/300 |
Means applying pneumatic pressure inside of discrete charge (i.e., blow means) |
37 |
| 65/301 |
With selective control means |
14 |
| 65/184 |
Means charging continuous film or strip to separate and distinct former |
10 |
| 65/185 |
Into sheet rolling means |
9 |
| 65/186 |
With auxiliary heating or cooling means upstream of rolling means |
4 |
| 65/193 |
Means drawing sheet from bath |
13 |
| 65/195 |
Means dividing and recombining melt in draw chamber |
16 |
| 65/196 |
Vertically upwardly with means bending sheet to horizontal |
6 |
| 65/198 |
With coacting roll contacting surface of supply bath |
3 |
| 65/197 |
With moving endless drawing or flattening table |
1 |
| 65/194 |
With annealing or tempering means |
8 |
| 65/203 |
With auxiliary heating means for draw pot or drawing chamber |
7 |
| 65/204 |
With cooling means in drawing chamber |
7 |
| 65/202 |
With pivoted lip tile |
0 |
| 65/205 |
With radiant heat reflector in draw pot or drawing chamber |
1 |
| 65/206 |
With skimmer |
1 |
| 65/199 |
With width maintaining and/or lateral stretching means |
6 |
| 65/201 |
Adjustable width maintaining means |
2 |
| 65/200 |
Stretching means |
3 |
| 65/187 |
Means drawing tube or rod stock from bath |
18 |
| 65/188 |
Drawing vertically upward |
5 |
| 65/192 |
Air injection means extending through bath |
4 |
| 65/190 |
Means correlating air supply and bait movement |
1 |
| 65/191 |
With internal core or centering means |
4 |
| 65/189 |
With product take-down means |
0 |
| 65/355 |
Means heating or cooling apparatus |
126 |
| 65/356 |
Internally positioned |
233 |
| 65/157 |
Means providing special atmosphere |
118 |
| 65/144 |
Means shaping preform from granular material with fusion means |
91 |
| 65/141 |
Melt disintegrator and solidifier including fluid-melt contact means |
55 |
| 65/347 |
Melting pot or furnace with structurally defined delivery or fining zone |
176 |
| 65/375 |
Miscellaneous |
28 |
| 65/357 |
Mold with separating means or clamping means |
38 |
| 65/358 |
Core drawing means |
0 |
| 65/359 |
With mold support or carrier |
52 |
| 65/360 |
Pivoted mold sections |
40 |
| 65/361 |
Mold with supporting or carrying means |
84 |
| 65/324 |
Molten glass dispensing means (e.g., feeder or ladle) |
17 |
| 65/333 |
Discharge lip with discharge assistant |
12 |
| 65/325 |
Discharge orifice below melt level |
52 |
| 65/329 |
By differential gas pressure |
11 |
| 65/330 |
By reciprocating plunger-type discharge assistant |
38 |
| 65/331 |
With diverse motion |
14 |
| 65/332 |
With severing means |
30 |
| 65/328 |
Plural plunger-type discharge assistants or discharge orifices |
28 |
| 65/326 |
With auxiliary heating or cooling means |
46 |
| 65/327 |
At orifice |
44 |
| 65/DIG.15 |
Nonoxygen containing chalogenides |
32 |
| 65/DIG.16 |
Optical filament or fiber treatment with fluorine or incorporating fluorine in final product |
152 |
| 65/142 |
Particulate bead or ball making apparatus (e.g., pin heading) |
49 |
| 65/143 |
By rolling means |
0 |
| 65/166 |
Perforator for article or preform |
10 |
| 65/362 |
Plunger |
71 |
| 65/243 |
Plural distinct glassworking apparatus |
7 |
| 65/252 |
Fire-polishing means |
6 |
| 65/246 |
Plural presses |
13 |
| 65/250 |
Plungers oppositely disposed |
2 |
| 65/251 |
Plungers orbiting above orbiting molds |
1 |
| 65/247 |
Plungers sequentially coacting with same mold |
1 |
| 65/248 |
With relative rotation between plunger and mold during withdrawal |
0 |
| 65/249 |
Plungers oppositely disposed |
1 |
| 65/245 |
Sheet rolling means |
31 |
| 65/244 |
Spaced preform reheating means with reshaping means |
10 |
| 65/145 |
Plural sources feeding diverse glass melts to common forming means |
40 |
| 65/268 |
Preform reshaping means with treating means |
116 |
| 65/286 |
Preform reshaping means |
59 |
| 65/292 |
Cylindrical preform |
52 |
| 65/295 |
By crimping means |
7 |
| 65/294 |
By expansible mandrel |
4 |
| 65/299 |
By flaring means |
5 |
| 65/296 |
By internal and external forming means |
17 |
| 65/297 |
Both rotary driven |
8 |
| 65/298 |
Rotary internal, stationary external |
5 |
| 65/293 |
By threading means |
2 |
| 65/287 |
Sheet bending mold |
239 |
| 65/291 |
Having movable section |
102 |
| 65/289 |
Including auxiliary movable sheet support or movable sheet guide means |
145 |
| 65/290 |
Movable mold section |
82 |
| 65/288 |
With heat shield or heat sink |
40 |
| 65/305 |
Press molding machine |
101 |
| 65/317 |
Means reciprocating or oscillating female mold member |
5 |
| 65/307 |
Mold ring or baffle laterally and movably supported |
29 |
| 65/308 |
Plunger coacting with successively presented molds |
20 |
| 65/311 |
Means providing orbiting mold with diverse motion |
6 |
| 65/312 |
Mold orbiting about horizontal axis |
0 |
| 65/309 |
Relative rotation between plunger and orbiting mold |
4 |
| 65/310 |
Independent dies actuated by common plunger |
2 |
| 65/313 |
Vertically segmented orbiting mold |
3 |
| 65/321 |
Plunger penetrating superimposed mold table |
16 |
| 65/314 |
Plural motors coaxial with plunger |
9 |
| 65/320 |
Selectively operated plural plungers |
7 |
| 65/315 |
With core drawing means |
2 |
| 65/319 |
With means for heating or cooling apparatus |
115 |
| 65/322 |
With means to adjust plunger stroke |
17 |
| 65/316 |
With means to rotate plunger during withdrawal |
0 |
| 65/318 |
With means varying plunger pressure during pressing |
30 |
| 65/306 |
With product treating means |
11 |
| 65/376 |
Processes of manufacturing fibers, filaments, or preforms |
41 |
| 65/469 |
By slinging or rotary-centrifugal fiber distribution (i.e., without fluid blast) |
23 |
| 65/470 |
Centrifuge with fiberizing holes |
22 |
| 65/442 |
Composite fiber matrix (e.g., carbon or metal fiber with glass matrix or vice versa, etc.) |
42 |
| 65/441 |
Electromagnetic, magnetic, wave, or particulate energy utilized |
27 |
| 65/454 |
Formation of fiber or preform utilizing fluid blast (e.g., from molten glass, etc.) |
23 |
| 65/465 |
Attenuation by fluid blast contacting glass |
21 |
| 65/466 |
Plural fluid blasts or jets contacting single glass stream |
9 |
| 65/467 |
Fluid blast penetrated transversely by jet (e.g., toration, etc.) |
19 |
| 65/455 |
During slinging or rotary-centrifugal fiber distribution |
22 |
| 65/459 |
Centrifuge with fiberizing holes |
22 |
| 65/460 |
Adjacent combustion chamber, burner, or blower utilized |
36 |
| 65/461 |
Having at least two concentric burners or blowers |
25 |
| 65/456 |
Depositing molten glass on periphery of rotating fiberizing means (e.g., disc, rotor, wheel, etc.) |
12 |
| 65/458 |
Fluid blast guide, baffle, or deflector |
20 |
| 65/457 |
Specified composition of slinger or rotary-centrifugal fiber distributor |
13 |
| 65/468 |
Flame or combustible fluid blast utilized |
8 |
| 65/464 |
Fluid discharge skirt or shield utilized |
13 |
| 65/462 |
Solid fibers comminuted by fluid blast |
7 |
| 65/463 |
Specified nozzle opening or configuration (e.g., opening size, cross section, etc.) |
8 |
| 65/436 |
Plasma utilized |
15 |
| 65/385 |
Process of manufacturing optical fibers, waveguides, or preforms thereof |
220 |
| 65/427 |
Consolidating preform (e.g., sintering, etc.) |
135 |
| 65/428 |
Collapsing tube |
106 |
| 65/426 |
Drying, dehydration, oh removal or prevention |
141 |
| 65/425 |
Electromagnetic, magnetic, wave, or particulate energy utilized |
133 |
| 65/401 |
Extruding |
38 |
| 65/397 |
Fluorine doping |
99 |
| 65/398 |
Germanium or boron containing |
48 |
| 65/387 |
Forming lens integral with optical fiber |
52 |
| 65/393 |
Hollow optical fibers or waveguides |
55 |
| 65/399 |
Incorporating dopant into porous body |
134 |
| 65/424 |
Inert, nonoxidizing, or reducing environment |
83 |
| 65/400 |
Ion exchange utilized |
42 |
| 65/394 |
Ion implantation |
12 |
| 65/406 |
Joining or bonding optical fibers, waveguides, or preforms (e.g., coupling, etc.) |
76 |
| 65/407 |
End to end (i.e., butt end joining) |
153 |
| 65/412 |
Rod placed inside of tube |
143 |
| 65/408 |
Side to side |
69 |
| 65/410 |
By fusing preformed fibers without attenuating stock material |
72 |
| 65/409 |
Having plural adjacent fibers or rods sheathed (i.e., bundle) in tube or enclosure |
85 |
| 65/411 |
With stretching or drawing |
87 |
| 65/392 |
Laser utilized |
121 |
| 65/389 |
Nonoxygen chalcogenide glass containing |
38 |
| 65/388 |
Nonoxygen halide glass (e.g., metal halide, etc.) |
82 |
| 65/386 |
Planar waveguides |
170 |
| 65/391 |
Plasma utilized |
126 |
| 65/402 |
Producing bent, crimped, twisted, textured, or curled optical fibers or waveguides |
74 |
| 65/403 |
Producing noncircular optical fibers or waveguides (e.g., particular cross section, etc.) |
88 |
| 65/390 |
Scandium (sc), yttrium (y), or rare earth doped core or preform (i.e., atomic numbers 21, 39, 57-72) |
81 |
| 65/395 |
Sol-gel or liquid phase route utilized |
133 |
| 65/396 |
Sonic or ultrasonic energy utilized (e.g., homogenizing, dispersing, etc.) |
16 |
| 65/405 |
Utilizing multiple crucibles or multiple feed streams of molten glass |
43 |
| 65/433 |
With cutting or severing |
51 |
| 65/429 |
With etching or leaching |
112 |
| 65/435 |
With fiber stretching, drawing, or pulling (e.g., from rod, etc.) |
215 |
| 65/434 |
With quench cooling (e.g., forced air or cryogenic immersion, etc.) |
36 |
| 65/430 |
With significant coating step |
83 |
| 65/431 |
Free metal or metal alloy containing coating |
28 |
| 65/432 |
Synthetic or natural resin containing coating |
99 |
| 65/404 |
With step of casting or forming nonfiber workpiece (e.g., molding liquid preform, shaping molten glass against a forming surface, etc.) |
93 |
| 65/413 |
With step of vapor deposition |
157 |
| 65/414 |
Forming optical fiber or fiber preform by soot buildup (i.e., vapor axial deposition, vad) |
129 |
| 65/416 |
Consolidation in situ (e.g., sintering, etc.) |
84 |
| 65/415 |
Forming glass layers with graded or radially varying refractive index |
67 |
| 65/423 |
Inorganic carbon, metal oxide, or inorganic nitrogen containing material deposited (e.g., elemental carbon, carbides, nitrides, etc.) |
47 |
| 65/417 |
Inside of tube or hollow form by soot buildup |
97 |
| 65/418 |
Elongated material feed means within tube (e.g., reactant feed means place inside of tube, etc.) |
35 |
| 65/420 |
Maintaining isotropic conditions inside of tube |
25 |
| 65/419 |
With step of collapsing tube |
77 |
| 65/421 |
Outside of tube or rod by soot buildup |
172 |
| 65/422 |
With dehydration (e.g., oh removal, etc.) |
54 |
| 65/438 |
Producing crimped, twisted, or curled fibers (e.g., textured, etc.) |
44 |
| 65/439 |
Producing hollow fibers or tubular preforms |
31 |
| 65/437 |
Producing noncircular fibers (e.g., particular cross section, flat, elliptical, etc.) |
19 |
| 65/440 |
Sol-gel route or ion exchange utilized |
26 |
| 65/471 |
With bushing flood prevention, removal, or breakout prevention |
20 |
| 65/482 |
With charging or pretreatment of batch material (e.g., gas heating, crushing, etc.) |
41 |
| 65/472 |
With chemical etching or leaching |
22 |
| 65/443 |
With coating (e.g., lubricant, sizing, etc.) |
66 |
| 65/445 |
Free metal or alloy containing |
9 |
| 65/446 |
Vapor deposition of free metal or free metal containing material |
11 |
| 65/444 |
Glass (i.e., nonoptical fiber, metal oxide) |
32 |
| 65/447 |
Synthetic resin, natural resin, or asphalt coating |
59 |
| 65/449 |
Asphalt |
2 |
| 65/448 |
Organic silicon containing (e.g., coupling agent, etc.) |
70 |
| 65/450 |
Thermosetting or themoplastic resin |
71 |
| 65/451 |
Nitrogen or phenol containing |
46 |
| 65/453 |
With advancing, gathering, or winding continuous fiber or filament |
46 |
| 65/452 |
With severing |
19 |
| 65/475 |
With fiber drawing or pulling (e.g., attenuating, etc.) |
54 |
| 65/476 |
By modifying fluid pressure (e.g., vacuum, reduced or superatmospheric pressure, etc.) |
22 |
| 65/481 |
Cooling of molten glass at forming area (e.g., cooling fins, etc.) |
52 |
| 65/480 |
Cutting or severing |
22 |
| 65/477 |
Drawing fiber from rod |
28 |
| 65/478 |
Fluid assisted attenuation or directing of fiber or filament |
25 |
| 65/479 |
Reeling or winding |
45 |
| 65/377 |
With measuring, controlling, sensing, programming, timing, indicating, or testing |
108 |
| 65/382 |
Diameter or coating thickness |
134 |
| 65/379 |
Fluid pressure |
48 |
| 65/380 |
Molten material level |
7 |
| 65/378 |
Optical property |
101 |
| 65/384 |
Temperature |
116 |
| 65/381 |
Winder or puller movement |
66 |
| 65/474 |
With purifying or homogenizing molten glass (e.g., removing bubbles, etc.) |
45 |
| 65/473 |
With removal of coating (e.g., desizing, oxidizing coating, etc.) |
13 |
| 65/17.1 |
Processes |
37 |
| 65/121 |
Blending of separate molten glass streams |
69 |
| 65/122 |
Charging of molten glass into mold cavity |
39 |
| 65/123 |
By gravity and severing subsequent to charging mold cavity |
7 |
| 65/124 |
By suction |
13 |
| 65/62 |
Combined |
29 |
| 65/137 |
Cooling of molten glass |
55 |
| 65/33.1 |
Devitrifying glass or vitrifying crystalline glass (e.g., starting with or forming crystalline glass, etc.) |
131 |
| 65/33.7 |
Alumino-silicate containing phase |
131 |
| 65/33.8 |
Containing at least 3 percent lithium or lithium oxide (e.g., spodumene, eucryptite, petalite, etc.) |
94 |
| 65/33.2 |
Electromagnetic radiation or resulting heat utilized (e.g., gamma rays, x-rays, atomic particles uv, visible, ir, actinic, laser, microwave or radio wave, etc.) |
62 |
| 65/33.9 |
Forming product or preform from molten glass |
67 |
| 65/33.3 |
Halogen containing phase (e.g., crystalline or noncrystalline, etc.) |
68 |
| 65/33.4 |
With coating |
48 |
| 65/33.5 |
With fusion bonding glass to a formed part (e.g., devitrified seals, glass to metal, etc.) |
31 |
| 65/33.6 |
Glass applied in powdered form (i.e., frit) |
40 |
| 65/126 |
Discharging molten glass downwardly through orifice |
47 |
| 65/129 |
Regulating or arresting of flow into or out of orifice |
31 |
| 65/130 |
With or by differential gas pressure |
13 |
| 65/131 |
With segregation prior to discharge |
0 |
| 65/132 |
With segregation prior to discharge |
4 |
| 65/127 |
With gob shaping or treating subsequent to discharge through orifice |
35 |
| 65/128 |
With temperature modification at orifice |
31 |
| 65/134.1 |
Fining or homogenizing molten glass |
101 |
| 65/135.2 |
By agitating |
28 |
| 65/135.3 |
Mechanical stirrers utilized |
46 |
| 65/135.4 |
Spiral |
10 |
| 65/135.9 |
By charging batch material |
74 |
| 65/136.3 |
Burner directed towards batch or melt |
53 |
| 65/136.2 |
Directing batch feed to float on molten glass surface |
47 |
| 65/136.1 |
Preheating batch material |
95 |
| 65/136.4 |
By cooling molten glass |
50 |
| 65/134.9 |
By eliminating gaseous inclusions (e.g., bubbles, etc.) |
84 |
| 65/134.5 |
By injecting gas below surface of molten glass |
56 |
| 65/134.8 |
By melting toxic or waste material |
69 |
| 65/135.6 |
Electric furnace utilized (e.g., induction or radiant heat from electric source, etc.) |
63 |
| 65/135.7 |
With submerged electrodes |
44 |
| 65/135.8 |
Melting in separate zone of glass furnace |
23 |
| 65/134.6 |
Exhaust or top gas treated or recycled |
99 |
| 65/135.1 |
Glass conditioning channel section utilized |
99 |
| 65/134.3 |
Melt accelerator or color modifier utilized (e.g., fining agent, etc.) |
88 |
| 65/134.4 |
Oxygen enriched or nitrogen reduced gas utilized (i.e., modified air) |
95 |
| 65/134.7 |
Rotating furnace or chamber utilized (e.g., crucible, etc.) |
49 |
| 65/134.2 |
Subatmospheric pressure or vacuum utilized |
51 |
| 65/65 |
Forming and fire polishing or product |
45 |
| 65/66 |
Forming product or preform from molten glass |
131 |
| 65/67 |
Converting sheet to hollow product or hollow product to sheet |
16 |
| 65/86 |
Drawing and simultaneously forming hollow stock from molten glass |
34 |
| 65/88 |
Vertically drawing upwardly while applying fluid internally of stock |
9 |
| 65/87 |
With additional shaping, or severing, or perforating |
17 |
| 65/89 |
Forming hollow stock by surface filming |
4 |
| 65/68 |
Initial forming of hollow product or preform in mold cavity |
64 |
| 65/81 |
By differential gas pressure |
32 |
| 65/71 |
Spreading of molten glass by rotation |
24 |
| 65/77 |
With additional forming step |
32 |
| 65/78 |
Diverse |
8 |
| 65/79 |
Press and blow |
42 |
| 65/80 |
In separate lines |
14 |
| 65/69 |
With annealing or tempering |
15 |
| 65/72 |
With charging of mold cavity |
28 |
| 65/73 |
By suction from upper surface of "pool" |
1 |
| 65/74 |
With sequential blowing in charged cavity |
3 |
| 65/75 |
Through orifice in bottom wall of dispenser |
12 |
| 65/76 |
With additional diverse shaping step |
31 |
| 65/70 |
With severing of formed product |
23 |
| 65/82 |
Reshaping of hot parison in mold cavity to form hollow article |
33 |
| 65/90 |
Sheet |
41 |
| 65/99.1 |
By or with pouring molten glass onto forming surface |
22 |
| 65/100 |
Onto moving roll or platen |
13 |
| 65/101 |
Through bite of rolls |
12 |
| 65/99.2 |
Utilizing molten metal forming surface |
109 |
| 65/99.3 |
Maintaining molten metal temperature |
28 |
| 65/99.5 |
Maintaining or adjusting sheet width or thickness |
47 |
| 65/99.6 |
By nonmechanical means |
17 |
| 65/99.4 |
Treating or removing impurities in molten metal or glass |
35 |
| 65/98 |
Simultaneously forming plural separate sheets |
1 |
| 65/95 |
With annealing or tempering |
37 |
| 65/96 |
Conveying at different rate than speed of formation |
1 |
| 65/91 |
With application of lateral tension to edge portion of moving sheet |
7 |
| 65/93 |
With reshaping or surface deformation |
27 |
| 65/94 |
Subsequent to formation |
18 |
| 65/97 |
With severing or perforating |
28 |
| 65/92 |
With smoothing subsequent to sheet formation |
5 |
| 65/83 |
With positive cooling of product or molten glass at forming area |
47 |
| 65/84 |
By direct gaseous contact |
25 |
| 65/85 |
Of glass product |
39 |
| 65/36 |
Fusion bonding of glass to a formed part |
221 |
| 65/42 |
Bonding of subassembly with subsequent assembly and bonding (formed parts only) |
129 |
| 65/43 |
By or with coating at joint interface of a formed part prior to bonding |
207 |
| 65/40 |
Dielectric or joule effect heating of work |
51 |
| 65/37 |
Lens making |
91 |
| 65/38 |
With bonding of at least three formed parts |
34 |
| 65/39 |
With molding or reshaping of glass to assume shape of configured lens part during bonding |
38 |
| 65/59.1 |
Of glass to metal part |
81 |
| 65/59.5 |
Glass applied in powdered (i.e., frit) form |
34 |
| 65/59.2 |
Maintaining cavity in glass |
11 |
| 65/59.21 |
Glass applied in powdered (i.e., frit) form |
20 |
| 65/59.27 |
Metal part coaxial with and inside of glass part |
26 |
| 65/59.26 |
Metal part forced through or into softened glass part (e.g., pinch sealing, etc.) |
23 |
| 65/59.25 |
Metal part inserted through hole or into groove in glass part |
22 |
| 65/59.24 |
Metal part outside of glass part |
18 |
| 65/59.22 |
Named fusible bonding material employed |
25 |
| 65/59.28 |
Relative movement or manipulation of parts during or immediately preceding fusion |
18 |
| 65/59.23 |
With firing in vacuum, in inert atmosphere, or in pumped in gas |
22 |
| 65/59.6 |
Metal part coaxial with and inside of glass part |
20 |
| 65/59.7 |
Metal part forced through or into softened glass part (e.g., pinch sealing, etc.) |
22 |
| 65/59.4 |
Metal part outside of glass part |
43 |
| 65/59.3 |
More than two parts in overlaying series (noncavity) |
28 |
| 65/59.35 |
Metal part coaxial with and inside of glass part |
22 |
| 65/59.32 |
Metal part forced through or into softened glass part (e.g., pinch sealing, etc.) |
13 |
| 65/59.31 |
Metal part inserted through hole or into groove in glass part |
13 |
| 65/59.34 |
Metal part outside of glass part |
31 |
| 65/59.33 |
Relative movement or manipulation of parts during or immediately preceding fusion |
1 |
| 65/58 |
Of parts having opposed facing areas out of contact (e.g., building blocks) |
58 |
| 65/57 |
Relative rotation of work and heating means |
21 |
| 65/41 |
With annealing or tempering of glass |
34 |
| 65/44 |
With embossing or corrugating |
25 |
| 65/45 |
With glass part forming from shapeless molten glass |
29 |
| 65/50 |
Forming and bonding glass sheet to metal part |
4 |
| 65/51 |
Contacting metal with molten glass prior to forming sheet |
4 |
| 65/52 |
Forming of plural glass sheets |
3 |
| 65/53 |
Forming plural sheets or sheet-like streams from same source |
15 |
| 65/47 |
In mold cavity |
11 |
| 65/48 |
And bonding to part in same mold cavity |
19 |
| 65/49 |
Bonding to metal formed part |
7 |
| 65/46 |
With blowing to shape glass |
11 |
| 65/54 |
With reshaping glass preform prior to assembly or subsequent to bonding |
59 |
| 65/55 |
Prior to assembly |
41 |
| 65/56 |
With severing, perforating, or breaking of glass |
50 |
| 65/125 |
Gathering from upper surface of glass pool |
1 |
| 65/111 |
Glass preform treating |
196 |
| 65/117 |
Annealing |
72 |
| 65/118 |
During conveying |
69 |
| 65/119 |
Annealing by direct contact with gaseous heat exchange medium |
57 |
| 65/120 |
By flame |
60 |
| 65/114 |
Tempering |
235 |
| 65/115 |
Differential or localized |
66 |
| 65/116 |
Quenching in liquid bath |
33 |
| 65/112 |
With severing or preforating |
115 |
| 65/113 |
By or with flame |
38 |
| 65/32.1 |
Operating under inert or reducing conditions |
120 |
| 65/32.2 |
With bonding or sealing |
47 |
| 65/32.4 |
With coating |
59 |
| 65/32.3 |
With crystallization or photochromism or phase separation |
47 |
| 65/32.5 |
With forming glass from molten state, with treatment of molten glass, or with drawing of glass in softened state |
133 |
| 65/27 |
Repairing or cleaning of apparatus; or batch dust prevention or control |
275 |
| 65/102 |
Reshaping or surface deformation of glass preform |
273 |
| 65/106 |
Reshaping of planar sheet |
442 |
| 65/107 |
By sagging by gravity on mold surface |
245 |
| 65/108 |
Reshaping of tubular preform, retaining cavity |
102 |
| 65/109 |
During rotation |
79 |
| 65/110 |
Utilizing vacuum or gas pressure |
88 |
| 65/103 |
Utilizing heat shield or heat-sink |
49 |
| 65/104 |
With annealing, tempering, or fire-polishing |
366 |
| 65/105 |
With severing or perforating |
110 |
| 65/21.1 |
Self-supporting particle making (e.g., bead, ball, granule, etc.) |
62 |
| 65/21.2 |
By molten glass comminuting |
33 |
| 65/21.4 |
Hollow or porous particle |
79 |
| 65/21.3 |
Spheroidizing or rounding of solid glass particles |
46 |
| 65/21.5 |
With mechanical shaping or subdividing |
21 |
| 65/63 |
Sequentially forming, reheating, and working |
51 |
| 65/64 |
Reshaping |
122 |
| 65/133 |
Severing of molten glass stream |
23 |
| 65/19 |
Slag, utilization |
113 |
| 65/20 |
Foaming of slag |
27 |
| 65/17.2 |
Sol-gel or liquid phase route utilized |
204 |
| 65/24 |
Utilizing parting or lubricating layer |
91 |
| 65/26 |
Coating of apparatus |
112 |
| 65/25.1 |
Providing a gaseous layer between glass and apparatus |
61 |
| 65/25.2 |
Sheet |
32 |
| 65/25.3 |
Formed from molten glass |
15 |
| 65/25.4 |
Reshaping |
37 |
| 65/30.1 |
With chemically reactive treatment of glass preform |
293 |
| 65/31 |
By etching or leaching |
343 |
| 65/30.11 |
To enhance the ability to darken or change color in response to radiation exposure (e.g., photochromic) |
99 |
| 65/30.12 |
To hydrate the glass |
23 |
| 65/30.13 |
With metal ion penetrating into glass (i.e., ion exchange) |
226 |
| 65/30.14 |
To temper or strengthen the glass |
137 |
| 65/60.1 |
With coating |
144 |
| 65/60.6 |
Free carbon containing coating |
23 |
| 65/60.4 |
Free metal coating |
93 |
| 65/60.7 |
Inorganic metal salt containing coating |
31 |
| 65/60.3 |
Organic coating |
105 |
| 65/60.5 |
Oxide coating |
185 |
| 65/60.51 |
From inorganic metal salt |
80 |
| 65/60.53 |
From inorganic oxides or hydroxides |
87 |
| 65/60.52 |
From organic metal compound |
103 |
| 65/60.2 |
Plural diverse layers |
162 |
| 65/60.8 |
Silicon containing coating |
163 |
| 65/23 |
With destruction or delamination of transitory attached or associated separate material |
69 |
| 65/28 |
With glass reclaiming, repairing or crack run interruption |
57 |
| 65/29.12 |
With measuring, sensing, inspecting, indicating, or testing |
100 |
| 65/29.16 |
Batch or feed material |
31 |
| 65/29.13 |
Combustion chamber atmosphere |
17 |
| 65/29.14 |
Diameter, width, or thickness of formed article |
35 |
| 65/29.15 |
Fluid pressure |
33 |
| 65/29.17 |
Level or flow of molten material |
37 |
| 65/29.18 |
Magnetic, electromagnetic, or wave energy utilized (e.g., light, infrared, ultrasonic, etc.) |
68 |
| 65/29.19 |
Temperature |
80 |
| 65/29.21 |
Of molten glass |
43 |
| 65/22 |
With pore forming in situ |
114 |
| 65/29.1 |
With program, time, or cyclic control |
55 |
| 65/29.11 |
Electric computer or data processing system utilized |
73 |
| 65/34 |
With sealing off of gas evacuating opening |
54 |
| 65/17.3 |
With shaping of particulate material and subsequent fusing of particles |
175 |
| 65/17.5 |
Employing nonoxide additive |
71 |
| 65/17.4 |
Including flame or gas contact |
155 |
| 65/17.6 |
With treatment subsequent to fusing |
101 |
| 65/35 |
With vibrating, oscillating or agitating a preform |
13 |
| 65/61 |
With wearing away of surface material (e.g., abrading or grinding) |
171 |
| 65/348 |
Product cooling means (e.g., tempering) |
198 |
| 65/349 |
With preceding reheater |
65 |
| 65/351 |
Plural spaced cooling means |
123 |
| 65/350 |
Plural spaced reheaters |
51 |
| 65/323 |
Product or parison centering means, or mold and/or core aligning means |
90 |
| 65/DIG.8 |
Quartz |
64 |
| 65/DIG.12 |
Reed switch |
4 |
| 65/370.1 |
Roller means for glassworking, tempering, or annealing |
54 |
| 65/253 |
Rolling means to form sheet or strip |
39 |
| 65/256 |
Roll coacting with planar platen |
7 |
| 65/257 |
Reciprocating platen |
1 |
| 65/255 |
With corrugating or surface imprinting means |
13 |
| 65/254 |
With treating means |
7 |
| 65/258 |
Sheet casting and receiving means |
5 |
| 65/259 |
With pot handling means |
0 |
| 65/DIG.10 |
Stemware |
7 |
| 65/DIG.9 |
Tube |
27 |
| 65/178 |
With agitator for molten or soft glass |
64 |
| 65/179 |
Delivery area associated |
18 |
| 65/180 |
Orifice associated |
6 |
| 65/170 |
With apparatus lubricating means |
55 |
| 65/159 |
With apparatus safety means |
60 |
| 65/182.1 |
With fluid support for article or preform |
67 |
| 65/182.2 |
Gaseous support |
118 |
| 65/182.4 |
Including preform width maintaining or stretching mean |
49 |
| 65/182.3 |
Means for treating or maintaining molten metal |
68 |
| 65/182.5 |
Structure or composition of lining material or arrangement with shell |
37 |
| 65/304 |
With gob handling means |
67 |
| 65/260 |
With means above mold to take-out or transfer product |
136 |
| 65/169 |
With means providing parting material |
64 |
| 65/146 |
With means to feed diverse material to glass working means |
9 |
| 65/147 |
Wire laminating means |
1 |
| 65/148 |
Sheet rolling means |
3 |
| 65/150 |
Roll coacting with platen |
0 |
| 65/151 |
Embedding means on roll |
0 |
| 65/149 |
Sandwiching wire between opposed glass feeds |
0 |
| 65/174 |
With mechanical cutter, scorer, or scriber for article or preform |
57 |
| 65/177 |
Associated with article mold |
8 |
| 65/176 |
Running length |
11 |
| 65/175 |
With annealing means |
4 |
| 65/334 |
With molten glass charge cutting or scraping means |
53 |
| 65/168 |
With positive cleaning means for apparatus |
36 |
| 65/165 |
With reject catcher, deflector, or holder |
32 |
| 65/171 |
With repair, assembly, or disassembly means for apparatus |
54 |
| 65/173 |
To provide alternately used parts |
39 |
| 65/172 |
To replace worn or damaged parts |
65 |
| 65/158 |
With signal, indicator, inspection means, register, or recorder |
228 |