Notes on the Early Development of Fourcault Process. The Development in Belgium

JSGT 1933 V17 T145-T148

 It is well known that Emil Fourcault had a sound technical and scientific education, rather above the usual standard, at a Belgian and German Technical High School. He came from a respected family of Belgian glass manufacturers, and it was therefore clear to him as a technical expert that window glass would not always be produced by means of the hand-and-mouth process. His ideas were different from those of Lubbers, who over-rated the value of the system of producing glass by mouth-blowing, and who produced machine-drawn cylinders. Fourcault wished to produce sheets directly from the fluid mass in the form of an ever-renewed glass band.

J. Max Mühlig