Provided is apparatus for fabricating materials, including: a first mold including a first forming unit pressing a first material, and a second forming mold arranged at a bottom surface of the first forming unit to have an opening exposing the first material and to form at least a part of the first material by being meshed at a part with the first forming unit; a second mold arranged at a bottom surface of the first mold to support a second material; and an interlocking mold including a fixing unit interposed between the first and second molds to fix the second material arranged at the second mold by pressing the second material, and an interlocking unit ascendably and descendibly coupled to the fixing unit to form the second material by pressing the second material in association with the forming of the first material.

A method for manufacturing a hollow glass is provided. The method includes the steps of placing at least one drop of glass in a cavity of a mold, inserting a punch into the cavity of the mold, forming the hollow glass item by using the punch and simultaneously imprinting at least one raised or hollow pattern at a chosen location on an inner surface of at least one wall of the hollow glass item, thereby superimposing the at least one raised or hollow pattern on the shape of the hollow glass item, removing the punch from the cavity of the mold and stripping the hollow glass item, which includes the at least one inner raised and/or hollow pattern. The punch has a body with an end portion, the end portion has an outer side surface. The body includes a raised or hollow pattern on the outer side surface of the end portion. The raised or hollow pattern is independent of the shape of the hollow glass item. A device for manufacturing a hollow glass item is also provided.

A method for producing a component with portions of a rare earth metal-doped quartz glass, an intermediate product containing voids and consisting of a SiO.sub.2 raw material doped with rare earth metal is introduced into a sinter mold the interior of which is bordered by a carbonaceous mold wall, and is melted therein into the component by gas pressure sintering at a maximum temperature above 1500 C. A shield is arranged between the mold wall and the intermediate product. In order to indicate a modified gas pressure sintering method that ensures the production of rare earth metal-doped quartz glass with reproducible properties, a bulk material of amorphous SiO.sub.2 particles with a layer thickness of at least 2 mm is used as the shield, the softening temperature thereof being at least 20 C. higher than the softening temperature of the doped SiO.sub.2 raw material, and the bulk material being gas-permeable at the beginning of the melting of the intermediate product, and the bulk material sintering during melting into an outer layer that is gas-tight to a pressure gas.

During the glass bottle forming process a pair of arms is used to form the bottle one after another is rapid succession; a bottle is formed in a glass machine in approximately three to four seconds. The machine is exposed to extremes in temperature as well as extremes in pressure. One of the chief issues with the operation of this machine are the interruption of use of the machine if the machine should fail or begin to produce defective bottles. Any shutdown of the machine leads to disruption in production and is unwelcome.

An optical element manufacturing device includes a mold set including: a first shaping mold and a second shaping mold facing each other with a shaping-target material between the first and second shaping molds, and a sleeve located around the first and second shaping molds; and a plurality of stages on which the mold set is conveyed and which heat, press or cool the shaping-target material. The sleeve is conveyed to the stages in such a manner that a conveyance-direction front side of the mold set in an arrangement direction of the plurality of stages has a heat insulation portion with a heat insulation property that is higher than that on a conveyance-direction rear side of the mold set in order to reduce a temperature distribution in the shaping-target material.

The invention relates to a method for forming a glass item, in particular a three-dimensionally formed flat glass item, wherein the following steps are carried out: arranging a flat formation of glass, for example a flat glass pane of homogeneous thickness or a flat glass pane of inhomogeneous thickness or a preformed flat glass pane blank or liquid two-dimensionally spread glass, between a mould plunger and a melt of liquid metal, in particular tin; tempering of at least one part to be formed of the flat formation of glass to a forming temperature of the glass at which the glass has a viscosity in the range from 10 Pas to 106.5 Pas, preferably in the range from 10 Pas to 104 Pas and particularly preferably in the range from 10 Pas to 103 Pas; forming the flat formation of glass by moving the mould plunger and a surface of the molten metal towards each other, preferably by means of at least one linear movement, for example by means of a linear motor or servomotor, so that the flat formation of glass is pressurised either by the mould plunger on the one hand and by the molten metal on the other hand and is formed by the pressurisation on both sides and/or by suctioning and conforming the flat formation of glass onto the mould plunger; cooling the formed flat formation of glass to a handling temperature below the forming temperature at which the glass has a viscosity of ?107 Pas; and demoulding the cooled flat formation; as well as a device for carrying out the method and a use of a molten metal for carrying out the method.

A blank mould base pressing system (9) for forming a burr-free mouth entry for a glass container to be produced, which blank mould base pressing system comprises a piston (9.1) which is operated by charging with gas pressure, preferably with compressed air (18), and a pressing element (10) having a pressing-element profile (10.3), wherein the piston (9.1), when it is charged with gas pressure on one side, brings the blank mould base pressing system (9) into a pressing position in relation to a glass gob (1) which is in a blank mould (2) and is to be moulded and, on contact of the pressing-element profile (10.3) with the glass gob (1), forms a base for the glass container to be produced, wherein the blank mould base pressing system (9) has a means for controlling or regulating the stroke of the piston (9.1), wherein said stroke of the piston (9.1) serves to compensate for mass fluctuations of the glass gob (1), and a method for producing a parison (1.1) by means of the aforementioned blank mould base pressing system (9), wherein the blank mould base pressing system (9) has an internal cooling device for cooling by means of a cooling medium, and a method for producing a parison (1.1) by means of the blank mould base pressing system (9) according to the invention.

An apparatus for processing cover windows includes a first mold including a first support a second support spaced apart from the first support, where the first support and second support are configured to hold processing targets; a second mold; and a third mold spaced apart from the second mold. The second mold includes a first pressurizing portion overlapping with the first support, having a first thickness, and a second pressurizing portion connected with the first pressurizing portion and configured to overlap with the first support, having a second thickness thinner than the first thickness. The third mold includes a third pressurizing portion overlapping with the second support, having a third thickness, and a fourth pressurizing portion connected with the third pressurizing portion and overlapping with the second support, having a fourth thickness thinner than the third thickness.

Provided is apparatus for fabricating materials, including: a first mold including a first forming unit pressing a first material, and a second forming mold arranged at a bottom surface of the first forming unit to have an opening exposing the first material and to form at least a part of the first material by being meshed at a part with the first forming unit; a second mold arranged at a bottom surface of the first mold to support a second material; and an interlocking mold including a fixing unit interposed between the first and second molds to fix the second material arranged at the second mold by pressing the second material, and an interlocking unit ascendably and descendibly coupled to the fixing unit to form the second material by pressing the second material in association with the forming of the first material.

Disclosed are various approaches to creating optical windows in glass covers. To create the glass cover with the optical window, a sheet of glass is reformed using a mold that includes a male portion having a first recess and a female portion having a second recess. The female portion of the mold mates with the male portion of the mold. The first recess is configured to form a first gas pocket and the second recess is configured to form a second gas pocket when the male and female portions of the mold are mated, where a cross sectional area of each of the first recess and the second recess is less than 15 square millimeters. A portion of the reformed glass corresponding to the optical window is positioned between the first gas pocket and the second gas pocket.