WIRE GLASS | AdventAI

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Jun 19, 1893

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 19, No. 32.

WIRE GLASS.

SOME of the recent improvements made in the manufacture of wire glass leave no doubt as to the practical value of that new and novel article. The form of apparatus by means of which the most satisfactory results are being produced is found to be a glass rolling table, having a three-roller carriage over it running on the side ledges, and upon this table the glass is rolled out, the ledges regulating its thickness; two of the rollers are smooth; the central roller has a series of grooves running around it, and between the leading and the corrugated roller a slide is placed for the reception of a sheet of wire gauze. Now, a proper quantity of melted glass being poured out upon the table, the hot sheet of wire gauze is placed in its carrier, and the roller carrier started; the latter having progressed a little, the wire is dropped; the first roller has rolled out the glass; the wire gauze strikes the partly fluid glass, and is drawn under the corrugated roller; the latter seizes it, and, by its corrugations, forces it into the pasty glass to the required depth. At this stage the compound mass goes under the third roller, where it is rolled to the smoothest possible condition, and the operation is completed. The sheet is subsequently annealed in the usual way, and is ready for use.—Selected.