Flake glass breakout detector and method of controlling glass breakout

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IN APPARATUS FOR PRODUCING FLAKES FROM A BODY OF MOLTEN GLASS, A MELTER HAVING A FORMING ORIFICE TO PRODUCE A CYLINDER OF GLASS, A PAIR OF OPPOSED PULL CYLINDERS POSITIONED IN SPACED RELATION TO SAID FORMING ORIFICE TO ENGAGE THE GLASS CYLINDER AND PULL IT DIRECTLY AWAY FROM SAID ORIFICE, THEREBY REDUCING THE DIAMETER AND WALL THICKNESS AND THEN FRACTURE THE THIN-WALLED CYLINDER SO PRODUCED INTO FLAKES, MEANS MOUNTING SAID CYLINDERS FOR MOVEMENT BETWEEN AN OPERATING POSITION AND A RETRACTED, NON-OPERATING POSITION, COLLECTING MEANS TO COLLECT FLAKES FROM SAID CYLINDERS, MEANS FOR ACTUATING AND DEACTUATING SAID COLLECTING MEANS BETWEEN COLLECTING AND NON-COLLECTING CONDITIONS, A DETECTOR POSITIONED BETWEEN SAID FORMING ORIFICE AND SAID CYLINDERS IN OPERABLE ALIGNMENT WITH THE PERIPHERY OF SAID ORFICE AND THUS NORMALLY OUT OF DETECTING RELATION WITH THE REDUCED DIAMETER, THIN-WALLED CYLINDER, MEANS FOR MOVING SAID DETECTOR BETWEEN DETECTING AND NON-DETECTING POSITIONS, AND TIME SEQUENCE ACTUARTOR MEANS CONNECTED TO SAID DETECTOR TO RECEIVE A SIGNAL THEREFROM, TO SAID DETECTOR MOVING MEANS, TO SAID PULL CYLINDER MOVING MEANS, AND TO SAID ACTUATING MEANS FOR SAID COLLECTING MEANS, WHEREBY SAID DETECTOR WILL SENSE NON-ATTENUATED GLASS ISSUING FROM SAID ORIFICE, INDICATING A RUPTURE OF SAID THIN-WALLED CYLINDER, AND IN TURN WILL SIGNAL SAID ACTUATOR WHICH WILL IN A TME SEQUENCE RETRACT SAID DETECTOR, RETRACT SAID PULL CYLINDERS, DEACTUATE SAID COLLECTING MEANS, OR RETURN THE PULL CYLINDERS AND DETECTOR AND ACTUATE THE COLLECTING MEANS.