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Article: French Inventors Develop Hollow Glass Product Manufacturing Process
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- US Fed News Service, Including US State News
- Article date:
- April 14, 2008
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ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 14 -- Remy Badin of Criel, France, and Lucien Fosse of Etalondes, France, have developed a hollow glass product.
According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, the invention relates to a "process of manufacturing a hollow glass product with an offset collar axis, including the steps of inserting molten material into a cavity of a roughing mold, allowing the molten material to penetrate into a bottom portion of the roughing mold, perforating a collar by moving a punch into the bottom portion of the roughing mold along a non-vertical axis, extracting the punch from the bottom portion of the roughing mold, thereby completing processes of shaping the molten material ...