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Fourcault|ˈfʊəkəʊ|
The name of Émile Fourcault, Belgian inventor (1862–1919), used attrib. to designate a continuous process for making sheet glass in which the glass is drawn vertically upwards through a slot in a debiteuse. Also Fourcault machine, etc.
1908W. Rosenhain Glass Manuf. 359 (Index), Fourcault process. 1948L. M. Angus-Butterworth Manuf. Glass xvii. 158 The great disadvantage of the Fourcault process was that it was necessary to continue drawing the sheet up vertically after it left the furnace. 1949P. Davis Devel. Amer. Glass Industry viii. 192, 44 per cent of total window-glass production in 1929 was made by the Fourcault machine. 1965Glass Technol. VI. 27a The one-compartment Fourcault tanks..must necessarily have a certain length to permit the glass to cool down sufficiently on its way towards the drawing compartment. |