PROCESS AND APPARATUS FOR DRYING & CURING A CONTAINER COATING AND CONTAINERS PRODUCED THEREFROM

• Main Authors: STEWARD, STERLING, POSTUPACK, DENNIS
• Format: Patent
• Language: English; French
• Published: 06.11.2008
• Subjects: CHEMICAL COMPOSITION OF GLASSES, GLAZES, OR VITREOUSENAMELS; CHEMISTRY; GENERAL TAGGING OF CROSS-SECTIONAL TECHNOLOGIES SPANNING OVER SEVERAL SECTIONS OF THE IPC; GENERAL TAGGING OF NEW TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENTS; GLASS; JOINING GLASS TO GLASS OR OTHER MATERIALS; METALLURGY; MINERAL OR SLAG WOOL; SURFACE TREATMENT OF FIBRES OR FILAMENTS MADE FROM GLASS,MINERALS OR SLAGS; SURFACE TREATMENT OF GLASS; TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER US CLASSIFICATION; TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC; TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC CROSS-REFERENCE ART COLLECTIONS [XRACs] AND DIGESTS

The present invention generally relates to apparatus and methods of coati ng glass containers and the containers produced therefrom. In particular, em bodiments of the invention provide a method of coating glass containers by a t least partially drying and/or curing one or more organic coatings on a gla ss container using accelerated drying.