A method and apparatus for producing glass products from tubular glass precursors is provided. In particular, a method and apparatus for separating tube glass into sized glass tube portions, produced glass tube portions, glass precursor portions, or glass product portions, and their use as pharmaceutical packaging are provided. The tube glass or the glass precursor or the glass product is provided with filaments along predetermined breaking planes. The filaments extend obliquely to the local wall radius and allow for clean separation of the tube glass or the glass precursor or the glass product.

A method and apparatus for producing glass products from tubular glass precursors is provided. In particular, a method and apparatus for separating tube glass into sized glass tube portions, produced glass tube portions, glass precursor portions, or glass product portions, and their use as pharmaceutical packaging are provided. The tube glass or the glass precursor or the glass product is provided with filaments along predetermined breaking planes. The filaments extend obliquely to the local wall radius and allow for clean separation of the tube glass or the glass precursor or the glass product.

A glass container that includes a base defining a hole, and methods of manufacturing and using the glass container, is disclosed. The glass container is manufactured by providing the container and cutting a hole in a wall of the container. The hole may be cut into the wall by any technique in which glass material is separated from the wall including by mechanical shearing, thermal energy, and/or fluid impingement. To use the glass container, a deformable blow-out plug may be inserted into the hole to fluidly seal the hole, a liquid beverage may be introduced into the container, a closure may be coupled to the container to close the container and provide a pressurizable package, and thereafter the package may be internally pressurized by introducing a pressurizing gas into the package.

The invention relates to a method and a device for separating the excess glass (32) in the production of hollow glass products (12), wherein the method comprises: centring a hollow glass product (12) in a receiving device (10), which is designed to hold the hollow glass (12) and to rotate about a rotational axis in such a way that a separation line (24) along which the excess glass (32) is to be separated from the hollow glass product (12) to be produced is centred in relation to the rotational axis; processing the hollow glass product (12) in a plurality of positions along the separation line (24) by means of a laser beam in order to generate local filaments with a weakened glass structure during a rotation of the hollow glass product (12) about the rotational axis; and introducing energy along the separation line (24) in order to separate the excess glass (32) along the weakened glass structure.

The invention relates to a system for producing a particularly rotationally symmetrical glass container, such as a glass syringe, a glass carpule, a glass vial, or a glass ampoule, from a particularly rotationally symmetrical glass tube blank, which defines a rotational axis, comprising a chuck for mounting the glass tube blank in a rotating manner, a length-cutting device for cutting to length glass containers of predetermined length from the glass tube blank, and an air bearing, which is arranged downstream of the chuck and upstream of the length-cutting device, for contactlessly mounting the glass tube blank.

A glass tube production method includes (1) preparing a tubular glass material, (2) irradiating an outer main surface of the tubular glass material with a laser to form an in-plane void region having a plurality of voids arranged on the outer main surface, and forming a plurality of internal void rows each having one void or two or more voids arranged from the in-plane void region toward an inner main surface of the tubular glass material, and (3) chemically strengthening the tubular glass material having the internal void rows formed therein.

A cutting method for a tube glass (G2) includes a crack forming step of forming a crack (C) in an inside of the tube glass (G2) through multiphoton absorption that occurs in an irradiation region of laser light (L) by irradiating in the inside of the tube glass (G2) with the laser light (L) having a focal point adjusted to the inside of the tube glass (G2). The crack forming step includes moving a position of the focal point of the laser light from an inner surface (G2b) side to an outer surface (G2a) side in the inside of the tube glass (G2), to thereby cause the crack (C) to propagate in the inside of the tube glass (G2).

Provided is a cutting method for a tube glass, including: a heating step of heating a preset cut portion (CP) of the tube glass (G2) by radiating laser light (L11) to the preset cut portion (CP); an inner crack region forming step of forming an inner crack region (C1) including one or a plurality of cracks through multiphoton absorption that occurs in an irradiation region of laser light (L12) by radiating the laser light (L12) having a focal point adjusted to an inside of the preset cut portion (CP); and a cooling step of cooling the preset cut portion (CP), to thereby cause the cracks to propagate in the inside of the preset cut portion (CP).

With a method of cutting a tube glass (G1) according to the present invention, the tube glass (G1) is irradiated with laser light (L) having a focal point (F) adjusted to an inside of the tube glass (G1), to thereby form an inner crack region (C1) including one or more cracks in a portion of the tube glass (G1) in a circumferential direction of the tube glass (G1) through multiphoton absorption that occurs in an irradiation region of the laser light (L). Then, in the tube glass (G1), there is generated a stress that urges the one or more cracks in the inner crack region (C1) to propagate in the circumferential direction of the tube glass (G1) to cause the one or more cracks to propagate throughout an entire circumference of the tube glass (G1), to thereby cut the tube glass (G1).

A glass tube production method includes (1) preparing a tubular glass material, (2) irradiating an outer main surface of the tubular glass material with a laser to form an in-plane void region having a plurality of voids arranged on the outer main surface, and forming a plurality of internal void rows each having one void or two or more voids arranged from the in-plane void region toward an inner main surface of the tubular glass material, and (3) chemically strengthening the tubular glass material having the internal void rows formed therein.