According to an aspect of the disclosure, a glass manufacturing system includes a hot-end subsystem, including: a submerged combustion melter that melts feedstock to produce molten glass; a stiller that receives the molten glass from the submerged combustion melter and that includes a stilling tank to still the molten glass and that is configured to control outflow of the stilled molten glass to effectively decouple viscosity of the molten glass from the flow rate of the molten glass and thereby control finer molten glass levels; and a finer that is mechanically decoupled from the stiller, and that receives and fines the stilled molten glass to produce fined molten glass. Many other aspects of the system are also disclosed and claimed.

Microspheres comprising a plurality of hollow microspheres, each of the plurality of hollow microspheres comprising a plurality of glass walls, and a plurality of hollow spaces, wherein the plurality of glass walls enclosing at least one of the plurality of hollow spaces, wherein the plurality of glass walls comprising a second glass, wherein the second glass comprising a processed first glass melt, wherein the processed first glass melt comprising a melt of a batch and a plurality of redox active group components capable of providing at least one of a plurality of redox reactions and a plurality of events in the second glass.

The present disclosure discloses a glass assembly, for forming an electrochemical sensor, comprising a glass immersion tube, a glass membrane connected to a distal end of the immersion tube, wherein the glass which forms the immersion tube contains no lead, no lead compound, no lithium, and no lithium compound.

According to an aspect of the disclosure, a glass manufacturing system includes a hot-end subsystem, including: a submerged combustion melter that melts feedstock to produce molten glass; a stiller that receives the molten glass from the submerged combustion melter and that includes a stilling tank to still the molten glass and that is configured to control outflow of the stilled molten glass to effectively decouple viscosity of the molten glass from the flow rate of the molten glass and thereby control finer molten glass levels; and a finer that is mechanically decoupled from the stiller, and that receives and fines the stilled molten glass to produce fined molten glass. Many other aspects of the system are also disclosed and claimed.

The present invention relates to a roto-linear mechanism for a glassware forming machine adapted to be connected to a funnel-holding arm, a shutter arm, an arm for a blowing head or a similar mechanism, to simultaneously perform an axial and radial movement to each of such arms from a first position to form glass articles to a second position outside the forming process thereof.

A mixed raw material for a glass of the present invention is a mixed raw material for a silicate glass, including at least a silica sand and a feldspar, in which with respect to the silica glass, a D.sub.50 value is 100 m or more and 300 m or less, the uniformity represented by a value obtained by dividing a D.sub.60 value by a D.sub.10 value is less than 2.0, and with respect to the feldspar, a D.sub.50 value of is 100 m or more and 400 m or less, and the uniformity represented by a value obtained by dividing a D.sub.60 value by a D.sub.10 value is 1.5 or more and less than 4.0. The mixed raw material for a silicate glass is melted and formed into a tube shape.

A mixed raw material for a glass of the present invention is a mixed raw material for a silicate glass, including at least a silica sand and a feldspar, in which with respect to the silica glass, a D.sub.50 value is 100 m or more and 300 m or less, the uniformity represented by a value obtained by dividing a D.sub.60 value by a D.sub.10 value is less than 2.0, and with respect to the feldspar, a D.sub.50 value of is 100 m or more and 400 m or less, and the uniformity represented by a value obtained by dividing a D.sub.60 value by a D.sub.10 value is 1.5 or more and less than 4.0. The mixed raw material for a silicate glass is melted and formed into a tube shape.

A glass food and beverage container constructed of 100 wt. % recycled glass-forming materials selected from the group consisting of post-industrial cullet, post-consumer cullet, and a combination thereof.