Flat Drawn Sheet Glass

Types of glass from the float process.

Flat drawn sheet glass.

There was great demand for glass with an enormous amount of building going in the country. The logical evolution was to draw a flat sheet rather than a cylinder. The glass was annealed and then cut into 7 10ft cylinders which were then cut lengthways reheated and flattened. æsheet of glass is drawn vertically through a debiteuse a refractory block with a slit across its width immersed in the molten glass.

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. 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. 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. Float glass is a term that refers to a process of making glass that was perfected in 1959 by pilkington brothers ltd.

Technical sheet glass is fabricated by using advanced float glass processes or it is directly drawn into glass sheets. Most of the flat glass made by the float process is clear 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. This glass was drawn upward by a machine into sheets which was then cut into panes.

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. The glass was drawn vertically in a flat sheet until it cooled sufficiently to allow the glass to be cut. It offers a high optical quality that is far beyond what ordinary glass can provide.

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. There are two types of glass made by the float process clear glass and tinted glass. Drawn glass flat drawn glass flat drawn sheet glass sheet glass fabricated by the continuous drawing of the molten glass from a furnace.

This process was used in the uk up to the end of the 1920 s. Flat glass is a broad term that covers everything from float glass sheet glass and patterned glass rolled glasses to plate glass. Has fire finished surfaces not perfectly flat and parallel resulting in some distortion.