Patent ID: 8528365

Claim:
An apparatus for forming a glass sheet comprising; an enclosure enclosing an interior volume; a forming body positioned within the enclosure, the forming body comprising a pair of converging forming surfaces that join along a bottom root of the forming body from which a ribbon of glass is drawn; a condensing device positioned below the root, the condensing device comprising a first elongate condensing element extending outward from an inside wall surface of the enclosure into the interior volume of the enclosure, the condensing device further comprising a second elongate condensing element extending outward from the inside wall surface of the enclosure into the interior volume of the enclosure, wherein the first elongate condensing element is positioned along a first side of a vertical plane parallel with and passing through the root and the second elongate condensing element is positioned along a second side of the vertical plane; and wherein the condensing device comprises a passage for receiving a flow of a cooling fluid, and wherein neither the first or second elongate condensing element lies adjacent to a principal surface of the glass ribbon.