Bicheroux process
industry
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development of flat glass
- In industrial glass: Flat glass
In the Bicheroux process, introduced in Germany in the 1920s, about a ton of glass was melted in a pot and carried to the table, where it was poured through a pair of rollers. Rolling the sheet reduced the amount of grinding needed for flatness.
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production of plate glass
- In plate glass
…batch technique culminated in the Bicheroux process (1918), in which the glass was received by power-driven rollers that then delivered it in thinner sheets of greater length to be sheared into sections and annealed (heated, then cooled, to make it less brittle). A continuous process was then developed in which…
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