Heating and shaping system using microwave focused beam heating

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United States of America Patent

PATENT NO 9108875
APP PUB NO 20140352357A1
SERIAL NO

13905365

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A furnace for shaping glass sheets for aircraft transparencies using the cut-to-size method includes a preheat and cooling furnace defined as a first furnace, and a shaping furnace. A conveyor geared for reciprocating movement moves a bending iron supporting a glass sheet through the first furnace set to a preheat temperature. The glass sheet supported on the bending iron is heated in the shaping furnace by microwave beams from a gyrotron to heat portions of the glass sheet to be shaped to a complex shape. After the sheet is shaped, the conveyor moves the bending iron supporting the shaped glass sheet from the shaping furnace through the first furnace set to a cooling cycle.

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  • PPG INDUSTRIES OHIO, INC.

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Inventor Name Address # of filed Patents Total Citations
Bonaddio, Robert M Pittsburgh, US 4 36
Jiao, Yu Blawnox, US 34 486
Koepfinger, Joseph G Pittsburgh, US 1 8
Medzius, Joseph Cranberry Township, US 5 185
Priddy, James Franklin Huntsville, US 1 8
Schrier, Russell Willis Oakmont, US 1 8
Warren, Dennis D Fayetteville, US 4 15
Yu, Chao Gibsonia, US 110 257

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