Flat Drawn Sheet Glass

The glass was drawn vertically in a flat sheet until it cooled sufficiently to allow the glass to be cut.

Flat drawn sheet glass.

Types of glass from the float process. On this page please find information about our technical grade clear flat glass and microsheet materials. This allowed larger panes to be cut and sold. This glass was drawn upward by a machine into sheets which was then cut into panes.

Promglas doo is a provider of products and services such as sheet glass opaque sheet glass flat drawn sheet glass coloured sheet and plate glass curved plate. Most of the flat glass made by the float process is clear glass. Flat glass stands in contrast to container glass used for bottles jars cups and glass fibre used. Also processed fabricated glass products such as mirrors window glass tempered glass laminated glass insulating glass bullet resistant glass and anything and everything else that started out as a flat.

It offers a high optical quality that is far beyond what ordinary glass can provide. There are two types of glass made by the float process clear glass and tinted glass. This glass is still quite common in american cities. Technical sheet glass is fabricated by using advanced float glass processes or it is directly drawn into glass sheets.

Float glass is a term that refers to a process of making glass that was perfected in 1959 by pilkington brothers ltd. The logical evolution was to draw a flat sheet rather than a cylinder. æsheet of glass is drawn vertically through a debiteuse a refractory block with a slit across its width immersed in the molten glass. This process was used in the uk up to the end of the 1920 s.

There was great demand for glass with an enormous amount of building going in the country. Drawn sheet glass was made by dipping a leader into a vat of molten glass then pulling that leader straight up while a film of glass hardened just out of the vat this is known as the fourcault process. Fourcault sheet draw process æthe modern sheet glass process was first developed by fourcault circa 1914 in belgium. This film or ribbon was pulled up continuously held by tractors on both edges while it cooled.

Has fire finished surfaces not perfectly flat and parallel resulting in some distortion. It also allowed for much larger production. Flat glass is a broad term that covers everything from float glass sheet glass and patterned glass rolled glasses to plate glass.