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the user with a natural fire finish, and without the defects inherent
in glass made by the flattening or ironing out methods, employed by all
other processes.
The machine will make glass from 1/24 of
an inch to 5/16 of an inch thick, the thickness being governed by
the temperature of the glass in the drawing pot and the speed of the
machine which varies from twenty-five to one hundred inches a minute,
according to the thickness of the sheet being pulled. The capacity of
one machine is six hundred fifty-foot boxes of single strength glass in
twenty-four hours.
It can readily be seen that the Libbey-Owens
process of making sheet glass is practically automatic and eliminates
the greater part of the strenuous, exhausting and nerve-racking labor so
common in the manufacture of most articles of glass. It has therefore
proved a boon to the artisans who produce the flat glass that
plays such an important part in the life of every community.
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