updraw machine

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  • Figure 2: The irregular arrangement of ions in a sodium silicate glass.
    In industrial glass: Flat glass

    …of the 20th century: the updraw machine, designed by Émile Fourcault of Belgium; and the Irving Colburn machine, developed at the Libbey-Owens Glass Company in Charleston, W.Va., U.S. In the Fourcault process, a one- to two-metre-wide steel mesh bait was introduced into molten glass at the working end of the…

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