Patent ID: 9475721
Filing Date: 2016-10-25
CPC Classification: C03B

Claim Text:
1. An apparatus for manufacturing a glass optical element, the apparatus comprising: a molding room having front and back plates facing one another; means for sequentially heating, pressurizing and cooling a glass material located in a mold set as the mold set moves along a transportation path in the molding room; an elongated inert gas supply conduit located in the molding room and having a longitudinal axis extending parallel to the transportation path, the inert gas supply conduit having outlets for releasing inert gas into the molding room in a plurality of directions which cross one another at different points along the transportation path; and a deflector that deflects at least some of the inert gas released by the outlets towards the mold set, the deflector being located on at least one of the front and back plates of the molding room.