Patent ID: 6763280
Filing Date: 2004-07-13
Classification: C03C,Y10T

Abstract:
A program storage device readable by a processor and storing thereon a program of instructions executable by said processor during the process of creating recycled glass products of a particular color from mixed color glass cullet having glass of at least two different colors, said program of instructions causing said processor to accept as inputs a designation of virgin glass raw materials, a designation of said particular color of said recycled glass products, a designation of desired transmission properties of said recycled glass products of said particular color, a designation of how much of said mixed color glass cullet, by weight percent, is to be melted as a fraction of a recycled finished glass from which said recycled glass products are to be created, and a designation of a percentage composition of at least two of amber, green, and flint glass in said mixed color glass cullet, and causing said processor to determine from said inputs the weight percentages of respective components of said virgin glass raw materials, weight percentages of at least said respective components of said mixed color glass cullet, glass coloring oxide agent levels and key glass indicator parameters of glass of said particular color with said specified transmission properties, and a composition of said recycled finished glass, said program of instructions further causing said processor to output an indication of said composition for use in the process of creating recycled glass products of a particular color from mixed color glass cullet, said composition including weight percentages of said raw materials, said mixed color glass cullet, said key glass indicator parameters, and said glass coloring oxide agent levels.