US 12,486,191 B2
Cullet and cullet water handling system
Philip J. Rausch, Perrysburg, OH (US); John Holmes-Libbis, Perrysburg, OH (US); Joseph Asmus, Bowling Green, OH (US); and Corey Beaber, Perrysburg, OH (US)
Assigned to Owens-Brockway Glass Container Inc., Perrysburg, OH (US)
Filed by Owens-Brockway Glass Container Inc., Perrysburg, OH (US)
Filed on Sep. 30, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/489,925.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/085,644, filed on Sep. 30, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2022/0098081 A1, Mar. 31, 2022
Int. Cl. C03B 9/44 (2006.01); B65G 11/02 (2006.01); B65G 19/08 (2006.01); B65G 51/03 (2006.01); C03B 7/14 (2006.01); C03B 25/04 (2006.01)
CPC C03B 9/44 (2013.01) [B65G 11/026 (2013.01); B65G 19/08 (2013.01); B65G 51/03 (2013.01); C03B 7/14 (2013.01); C03B 25/04 (2013.01); B65G 2201/047 (2013.01); B65G 2207/22 (2013.01); B65G 2812/0396 (2013.01)] 34 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A glassware manufacturing system, comprising:
an architectural installation having a forming floor and no basement beneath the forming floor;
a glassware forming machine carried on the forming floor;
a molten glass feeder configured to provide molten glass to the glassware forming machine; and
a glassware manufacturing waste handling system, including:
a sump pit in the forming floor;
a waste liquid trench substantially surrounding the glassware forming machine and flowing to the sump pit; and
at least one of a cullet material handler or a molten waste glass sluice, configured to receive molten glass from the molten glass feeder and hot glassware rejects from the glassware forming machine.