Patent ID: 8891582

Claim:
An electric glass hot shop system for processing glass, comprising: an electric furnace; and an electric glory hole which comprises a video camera attached to one side of a lens holder which has another side attached to a camera casting, where the camera casting is located within an opening in a body of the electric glory hole, where the camera casting has an opening in communication with a core of the electric glory hole, where the lens holder has a heat block seal which comprises a quartz lens followed by an air purge gap followed by a glass filter lens, where the quartz lens is located adjacent to the video camera and the glass filter lens is located adjacent to the opening in the body of the electric glory hole; and the electric glory hole further comprises at least one refractory element baffle, where each refractory element baffle comprises a block with a passage through which an heating element is inserted and a cavity in which hangs the heating element, where the cavity is larger than the heating element, and where the cavity is sized to encompass at least three sides of the heating element.