This article includes a list of references, related reading, or external links, but its sources remain unclear because it lacks inline citations. Please help improve this article by introducing more precise citations.(November 2022) (Learn how and when to remove this message)
A Japanese glass fishing float
Glass floats were once used by fishermen in many parts of the world to keep their fishing nets, as well as longlines or droplines, afloat.
Large groups of fishnets strung together, sometimes 50 miles (80 km) long, were set adrift in the ocean and supported near the surface by hollow glass balls or cylinders containing air to give them buoyancy. These glass floats are no longer used by fishermen, but many of them are still afloat in the world's oceans, primarily the Pacific. They have become a popular collectors' item for beachcombers and decorators. Replicas are now manufactured.
Glassfloats were once used by fishermen in many parts of the world to keep their fishing nets, as well as longlines or droplines, afloat. Large groups...
Floatglass is a sheet of glass made by floating molten glass on a bed of molten metal of a low melting point, typically tin, although lead was used for...
Glass production involves two main methods – the floatglass process that produces sheet glass, and glassblowing that produces bottles and other containers...
manufactures automotive safety glass, floatglass, architectural processed glass, and glass products. It also provides consumer glass offerings in the form of...
Look up float in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Float may refer to: Lowboy (trailer), called a float in Eastern Canada usage Float (parade) Float (sculpture)...
An ice cream float or ice cream soda, also known as a spider in Australia and New Zealand, is a chilled beverage that consists of ice cream in either...
pointed splinters similar to floatglass. For this reason, it is not considered a safety glass and must be laminated if safety glass is required. However, chemically...
glass against water, which is required especially for storage of beverages and food. Most flat glass is soda–lime glass, produced by the floatglass process...
plates. 1678: "Crown glass" first produced in London. This process dominated until the 19th century. 1843: An early form of "floatglass" invented by Henry...
Depression glass. In the 1950s, Pilkington Bros., England, developed the floatglass process, producing high-quality distortion-free flat sheets of glass by floating...
Soda–lime glass for containers is slightly different from soda–lime glass for windows (also called flat glass or floatglass). Floatglass has a higher...
Māori for the floats of fishing nets Native Hawaiians made fishing net floats from low density wiliwili wood. Glassfloats were large glass balls for long...
NiS), occurs during the process of manufacturing floatglass (normal window glass). In a batch of glass, contaminants that contain nickel might be present...
made from floatglass. Most floatglass is soda–lime glass, but relatively minor quantities of specialty borosilicate and flat panel display glass are also...
sized float can be used to sense the interface level between two liquids of different density. Float (liquid level) Fuel gauge Level sensor Sight glass Bela...
floating on top of the mercury there is a small glassfloat. A fine silken thread is attached to the float which passes up over a wheel and then back down...
Subaru, Tesla and Volkswagen. The company also produces floatglass and construction glass. First established as a joint venture company, it was listed...
of float sheet and flat glass and reprocessing of automobile glass. Luoyang Glass was established in 1994 by its parent company, China Luoyang Float Glass...
gillnets. These are suspended in the sea by flotation buoys, such as glassfloats, along one edge. In this way they can form a vertical wall hundreds of...
Glassblowing Studio entitled Glass, teams had to use glassblowing techniques in order to turn molten glass into a glassfloat before receiving a clue piece...
a significant problem in manufacturing of thin film solar cells. The floatglass process can be used to provide low-distortion sheets with very flat and...
Global Information
