Flat glass stands in contrast to container glass used for bottles jars cups and glass fibre used.
Flat drawn sheet glass.
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.
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.
The logical evolution was to draw a flat sheet rather than a cylinder.
Plate glass flat glass or sheet glass is a type of glass initially produced in plane form commonly used for windows glass doors transparent walls and windscreens for modern architectural and automotive applications the flat glass is sometimes bent after production of the plane sheet.
æsheet of glass is drawn vertically through a debiteuse a refractory block with a slit across its width immersed in the molten glass.
This allowed larger panes to be cut and sold.
Most of the flat glass made by the float process is clear glass.
This process was used in the uk up to the end of the 1920 s.
Float glass is a term that refers to a process of making glass that was perfected in 1959 by pilkington brothers ltd.
It also allowed for much larger production.
Fourcault sheet draw process æthe modern sheet glass process was first developed by fourcault circa 1914 in belgium.
There was great demand for glass with an enormous amount of building going in the country.
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.
This film or ribbon was pulled up continuously held by tractors on both edges while it cooled.
Flat glass is a broad term that covers everything from float glass sheet glass and patterned glass rolled glasses to plate glass.
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.
Drawn glass flat drawn glass flat drawn sheet glass sheet glass fabricated by the continuous drawing of the molten glass from a furnace.
On this page please find information about our technical grade clear flat glass and microsheet materials.
The glass was drawn vertically in a flat sheet until it cooled sufficiently to allow the glass to be cut.
The glass was annealed and then cut into 7 10ft cylinders which were then cut lengthways reheated and flattened.
Has fire finished surfaces not perfectly flat and parallel resulting in some distortion.
