Patent ID: 11912608
Assignee: OWENS-BROCKWAY GLASS CONTAINER INC.
Field: Other special machines (Mechanical engineering)
Classification: CPC C  Y | IPC C

Claim 0:
1. A glass manufacturing system, comprising:
a hot-end subsystem, including:
a submerged combustion melting furnace that melts feedstock to produce molten glass;
a finer that receives and refines the molten glass from the submerged combustion melting furnace to produce fined molten glass;
a forehearth that conditions the fined molten glass to a uniform temperature and viscosity for downstream forming operations;
a glass feeder that receives the conditioned molten glass from the forehearth and produces a molten charge therefrom;
a forming machine including a forming mold that receives the molten charge and forms glass product from the molten charge; and
an annealing lehr that receives and anneals the glass product; and

a cold-end subsystem, including:
an inspection station downstream of the annealing lehr; and
a packaging station downstream of the inspection station

wherein the hot-end subsystem and the cold-end subsystem produce between 95 and 126 tons of glass per day, and are encompassed by an installation having a capacity-adjusted size of less than 440 cubic meters per each ton of glass produced per day.