Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Methods and apparatus for fabricating glass ribbon of varying widths
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Application No.: US14647283Application Date: 2013-11-26
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Publication No.: US09834389B2Publication Date: 2017-12-05
- Inventor: Anatoli Anatolyevich Abramov , Donald Orrin Bigelow , Chester Hann Huei Chang
- Applicant: Corning Incorporated
- Applicant Address: US NY Corning
- Assignee: Corning Incorporated
- Current Assignee: Corning Incorporated
- Current Assignee Address: US NY Corning
- Agent Jeffrey A. Schmidt
- International Application: PCT/US2013/071777 WO 20131126
- International Announcement: WO2014/085357 WO 20140605
- Main IPC: C03B33/09
- IPC: C03B33/09 ; B65G49/06 ; C03B33/10 ; C03B23/023 ; B65H35/02 ; B65H23/04 ; C03B33/023 ; B65H23/195 ; C03B17/06 ; C03B33/033

Abstract:
Methods and apparatus provide for sourcing a glass web, the glass web having a length and a width transverse to the length; continuously moving the glass web from the source to a destination in a transport direction along the length of the glass web; and cutting the glass web at a cutting zone into at least first and second glass ribbons as the glass web is moved from the source to the destination, the first glass ribbon having a first width and the second glass ribbon having a second width, where the first and second widths are not equal.
Public/Granted literature
- US20150315059A1 METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR FABRICATING GLASS RIBBON OF VARYING WIDTHS Public/Granted day:2015-11-05
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