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Front end of glass furnace

ca. 1950

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Front end of glass furnace
  • Title
  • Front end of glass furnace
  • Creator
  • PPG Industries
  • Date
  • ca. 1950
  • Identifier
  • 20170227-hpichswp-0036
  • Description
  • Front end of a glass furnace at an unidentified Pittsburgh Plate Glass Company plant, most likely equipped with a sheet line. Depicted are three large bins or hoppers in the lower left corner of the image that contain the raw materials drawn from the batch house needed to manufacture glass. Situated behind the three hoppers are brick structures, which are known as regenerators. Regenerators facilitate reuse of the heat coming from the exhaust of the furnace by reversing the air flow of the furnace exhaust reversed by flushing the heat from the bricks back into the furnace.
  • Type
  • still image
  • Genre
  • photographs
  • Subject
  • PPG Industries.
    Glass manufacture.
  • Source
  • PPG Industries Records, 1888-1995, MSS 667, Detre Library and Archives, Senator John Heinz History Center
  • Contributor
  • Detre Library & Archives, Heinz History Center
  • Collection
  • PPG Industries Records
  • Rights Information
  • Copyright Not Evaluated. The copyright and related rights status of this Item has not been evaluated. Please refer to the organization that has made the Item available for more information. You are free to use this Item in any way that is permitted by the copyright and related rights legislation that applies to your use.
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