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Pennvernon window glass manufacturing process

ca. 1930

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Pennvernon window glass manufacturing process
  • Title
  • Pennvernon window glass manufacturing process
  • Creator
  • PPG Industries
  • Date
  • ca. 1930
  • Identifier
  • 20170227-hpichswp-0029
  • Description
  • Flow chart demonstrating the glass manufacturing methodology in the Pennvernon Process used by the Pittsburgh Plate Glass Company. As is depicted, molten glass is extracted from the tank using a drawing kiln and draw bar. Once drawn, the glass is transported upward by a vertical drawing machine. Once cut, the sheets of glass are then transported throughout the plant via a monorail and elevators to either the re-annealing lehr or the cutting and packing area before being shipped out. PPG created the Pennvernon Process in 1928.
  • Type
  • still image
  • Genre
  • photographs
  • Subject
  • PPG Industries.
    Glass manufacture.
    Pennvernon Process.
    Glassworkers.
  • 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
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