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Class 65 | GLASS MANUFACTURING |
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| 376 | PROCESSES OF MANUFACTURING FIBERS, FILAMENTS, OR PREFORMS |
| 377 | With measuring, controlling, sensing, programming, timing, indicating, or testing |
| 378 | Optical property |
| 379 | Fluid pressure |
| 380 | Molten material level |
| 381 | Winder or puller movement |
| 382 | Diameter or coating thickness |
| 384 | Temperature |
| 385 | Process of manufacturing optical fibers, waveguides, or preforms thereof |
| 386 | Planar waveguides |
| 387 | Forming lens integral with optical fiber |
| 388 | Nonoxygen halide glass (e.g., metal halide, etc.) |
| 389 | Nonoxygen chalcogenide glass containing |
| 390 | Scandium (Sc), yttrium (Y), or rare earth doped core or preform (i.e., atomic numbers 21, 39, 57-72) |
| 391 | Plasma utilized |
| 392 | Laser utilized |
| 393 | Hollow optical fibers or waveguides |
| 394 | Ion implantation |
| 395 | Sol-gel or liquid phase route utilized |
| 397 | Fluorine doping |
| 399 | Incorporating dopant into porous body |
| 400 | Ion exchange utilized |
| 401 | Extruding |
| 402 | Producing bent, crimped, twisted, textured, or curled optical fibers or waveguides |
| 403 | Producing noncircular optical fibers or waveguides (e.g., particular cross section, etc.) |
| 404 | With step of casting or forming nonfiber workpiece (e.g., molding liquid preform, shaping molten glass against a forming surface, etc.) |
| 405 | Utilizing multiple crucibles or multiple feed streams of molten glass |
| 406 | Joining or bonding optical fibers, waveguides, or preforms (e.g., coupling, etc.) |
| 407 | End to end (i.e., butt end joining) |
| 408 | Side to side |
| 409 | Having plural adjacent fibers or rods sheathed (i.e., bundle) in tube or enclosure |
| 410 | By fusing preformed fibers without attenuating stock material |
| 411 | With stretching or drawing |
| 412 | Rod placed inside of tube |
| 413 | With step of vapor deposition |
| 414 | Forming optical fiber or fiber preform by soot buildup (i.e., vapor axial deposition, VAD) |
| 415 | Forming glass layers with graded or radially varying refractive index |
| 416 | Consolidation in situ (e.g., sintering, etc.) |
| 417 | Inside of tube or hollow form by soot buildup |
| 418 | Elongated material feed means within tube (e.g., reactant feed means place inside of tube, etc.) |
| 419 | With step of collapsing tube |
| 420 | Maintaining isotropic conditions inside of tube |
| 421 | Outside of tube or rod by soot buildup |
| 423 | Inorganic carbon, metal oxide, or inorganic nitrogen containing material deposited (e.g., elemental carbon, carbides, nitrides, etc.) |
| 424 | Inert, nonoxidizing, or reducing environment |
| 425 | Electromagnetic, magnetic, wave, or particulate energy utilized |
| 426 | Drying, dehydration, OH removal or prevention |
| 427 | Consolidating preform (e.g., sintering, etc.) |
| 429 | With etching or leaching |
| 430 | With significant coating step |
| 433 | With cutting or severing |
| 434 | With quench cooling (e.g., forced air or cryogenic immersion, etc.) |
| 435 | With fiber stretching, drawing, or pulling (e.g., from rod, etc.) |
| 436 | Plasma utilized |
| 437 | Producing noncircular fibers (e.g., particular cross section, flat, elliptical, etc.) |
| 438 | Producing crimped, twisted, or curled fibers (e.g., textured, etc.) |
| 439 | Producing hollow fibers or tubular preforms |
| 440 | Sol-gel route or ion exchange utilized |
| 441 | Electromagnetic, magnetic, wave, or particulate energy utilized |
| 442 | Composite fiber matrix (e.g., carbon or metal fiber with glass matrix or vice versa, etc.) |
| 443 | With coating (e.g., lubricant, sizing, etc.) |
| 444 | Glass (i.e., nonoptical fiber, metal oxide) |
| 445 | Free metal or alloy containing |
| 447 | Synthetic resin, natural resin, or asphalt coating |
| 448 | Organic silicon containing (e.g., coupling agent, etc.) |
| 449 | Asphalt |
| 450 | Thermosetting or themoplastic resin |
| 452 | With severing |
| 453 | With advancing, gathering, or winding continuous fiber or filament |
| 454 | Formation of fiber or preform utilizing fluid blast (e.g., from molten glass, etc.) |
| 455 | During slinging or rotary-centrifugal fiber distribution |
| 456 | Depositing molten glass on periphery of rotating fiberizing means (e.g., disc, rotor, wheel, etc.) |
| 457 | Specified composition of slinger or rotary-centrifugal fiber distributor |
| 458 | Fluid blast guide, baffle, or deflector |
| 459 | Centrifuge with fiberizing holes |
| 462 | Solid fibers comminuted by fluid blast |
| 463 | Specified nozzle opening or configuration (e.g., opening size, cross section, etc.) |
| 464 | Fluid discharge skirt or shield utilized |
| 465 | Attenuation by fluid blast contacting glass |
| 468 | Flame or combustible fluid blast utilized |
| 469 | By slinging or rotary-centrifugal fiber distribution (i.e., without fluid blast) |
| 471 | With bushing flood prevention, removal, or breakout prevention |
| 472 | With chemical etching or leaching |
| 473 | With removal of coating (e.g., desizing, oxidizing coating, etc.) |
| 474 | With purifying or homogenizing molten glass (e.g., removing bubbles, etc.) |
| 475 | With fiber drawing or pulling (e.g., attenuating, etc.) |
| 476 | By modifying fluid pressure (e.g., vacuum, reduced or superatmospheric pressure, etc.) |
| 477 | Drawing fiber from rod |
| 478 | Fluid assisted attenuation or directing of fiber or filament |
| 479 | Reeling or winding |
| 480 | Cutting or severing |
| 481 | Cooling of molten glass at forming area (e.g., cooling fins, etc.) |
| 482 | With charging or pretreatment of batch material (e.g., gas heating, crushing, etc.) |
| 483 | FIBER MAKING APPARATUS |