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Madrid has traffic jam on Friday as everyone is leaving the city. Try not to travel by car this day. As for taxis, they are obligated to leave the meter on, but they try to chat sometimes. you can avoid problems by asking a receit.
As we were in Toledo we wanted to go to the railroad station in the late evening. there were no taxies going there anymore. If you have the same problem, considering you dont want to go on feet to the far away train station, there is a busstation near outside the walls. you can buy tickets there to Madrid.
in 2007 there have been numerous reports on so called fake police. These "police people" wear civilian clothes and identify them with a fake badge. There is always two of them. You are asked to give them your valuables. Without that you notice they steal money from your wallet. Dont trust un-uniformed "police men" just insist walking to the police office before identifying or look for a nearby uniformed policemen. this will scare them off.
Leaving Barajas by plain can be troubles. You get a gate area (A B C etc) but not the exact gate number. Then at the monitors suddenly the gatenumber is showed and you can go sit at that gate. However, beware that the gate number can change suddenly a few minutes before boarding, then you can find yourself running to the other side of the departure hall. So dont go sitting without listening to the messages or watching the monitor constantly.
As we were in the Retiro park early morning we found some types lying in the bushes under trees who were "sjjj sjjj" at us, inviting us to have "chocolad" or alcahol. these people try to get you drunk or drugged and then rob you. nowadyas there is lots of police in el retiro but these people still try to hang around the park
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Lao Shan Dong is a Taiwanese noodle house in Burnaby on Kingsway at Nelson.
I eat here every few months, and everything I have tried has been fantastic. Great beef noodle soup, as well as their dry noodles. I like how their noodles taste, and the soup broth is very good.
Service is very fast and I find them pretty good overall. I have tried the dumplings my friends recommended and I thought they were good but not great. Still prefer getting a bowl of noodles and some appetizers,such as the seaweed salad or their assorted cold meats plate.. yum!
Went in for lunch at about 1:00 pm. Place was bustling but there was no problem getting a table. There is a small counter with small plates of appetizers and you help yourself with is a great idea. I had the large beef flank in noodles. Man it was huge, more like one of those large bowls of soup you order when you are dining with the family in a Chinese restaurant. The noodles were fresh with a little bit of chewiness. The soup was too thick and had too much going on with all the various ingredients. The beef was sliced too thick and was dry and chewy. The noodles are homemade but there is no exhibition of the noodle maker pulling the noodles as others restaurants have. My brief adventure into Taiwanese cuisine is now over and it's back to Pho for noodles.
Seems like good stuff here, like some of the other Taiwanese beef noodle houses that are around town. This is probably the cleanest of the bunch and has the advantage of having lots of other goodies to choose from too.
The place is quite packed, and no, the servers aren't going to make you feel at home. But do any of these Chinese joints ever do? Hmm... so no surprise anyways.
Yes, the food is tasty and quite well done. The noodles are sufficiently firm and not soggy. If I think about it, it might be the best place in town. Their dumplings are not bad either, though I'm quite disappointed they didn't have a good selection of vinegar for it. In the end, somehow I feel unimpressed, I came away feeling I've had better, that it could be better. Maybe what makes it frustrating is that it is so close.... yet not quite.
Don't let it stop you from going though, if all you've ever had is ramen or wonton noodle houses, this wouldn't be a bad place to start branching out.
A little bit expensive for Taiwanese noodle but definitely worth it cuz the portions are HUGE. I ordered a small bowl but still had to pack it up and take it home!
There are many appetizer dishes to choose from and service is attentive. Very yummy food for sure!
If you're lucky you can get the free parking next door but the spaces are tight! Go early to avoid the massive lunch rush. I like the little milk and coffee candies they give you at the end of your meal.
I'm used to the delicate blending of tastes of vietnamese pho... The taiwanese soup here is made with beef (like pho), but the broth is really hearty and the noodles are made with wheat flour instead of rice. the noodles are chunky, thick and velvety. A small soup was about 7.50, which I thought was very reasonable. I didn't leave hungry... I came in at around 1 PM for lunch and it was still full... a good sign. Service is quite efficient and the food comes out quickly as well. The place is kind of small with limited seating.
Not recommended for vegans and/or vegetarians though maybe if you're alright with just having some side dishes like the vegetable dumplings & cold appetizer plates. The dumplings are quite the bargain for 10 pieces. Most everything else is beef/pork related and the noodles are mainly in a beef broth with beef content with no real alternatives. The beef briskets are very juicy and tender. The soup itself has a light authentic taste while it's quite fatty overall--but that's all part of the experience. At the end of the meal, when you pay the bill, you get quite tasty coffee, etc, candy that goes well with post-meal taste bud cleansing--not the usual old mint candies.
I believe they are a cash-only establishment, but even with just pocket change, you can leave with a full belly. Quite busy during the usual prime time dining hours, but the wait usually isn't so bad.
I've eaten at Lao Shan Dong for some time now. I mostly go there on my lunchbreak for a quick hot lunch at great prices! The noodles are homemade and hearty served in a bowl of really rich broth. Mild or spicy.
My favorite item to order here are the steamed pork and vegetable dumplings. You can get 10 for about $3.50 or 15 for $5.50. The large size is plenty to fill you up at lunchtime. They also offer traditional Taiwanese cold appetizers here too.
The service can be better, but I come here for the food, not for the service. It can get crowded at some times since it's not a big restaurant.
Came here the other nite for takeout. I love tawainese beef soup and good handmade noodles. The server was very nice and took my order and said it would be 5 minutes...wow, it was a friday and fairly full so 5 minutes was awesome. I ordered the large no. 3. Like other people have said it's huge.......But it cost $11.50!!!! for a bowl of noodle soup????? wtf?? And to be honest it wasn't even very good, not really flavourful, not really spicy, I've had alot better even in the food court at Crystal Mall. For half that price I could get a nice bowl of pho, or even less than that, a wonton noodle soup, even in tawainese beef soup places they never charge that much. I've never paid almost 12 bucks for a noodle soup, it's not like it had foie gras or truffles in it. I wasn't impressed and won't be back..
Food: I'm not sure if they switch up cooks sometimes because my bowl of spicy beef tendon noodle was great one time and soggy/bland the other. They are known for their noodle soups, however, and this place generally makes better quality ones more often than not. Dumplings are a signature dish as well, order them if you like the slightly thicker wrapping. I would recommend against any of their appetizers/cold cuts. All refrigerated with poor ingredients.
Service: efficient although sometimes too enthusiastic at putting your bill in front of you before you wanted it, with the place not full either..
Value: not terrible if you want to pay for premium noodles
Ambiance: small little place, not much there
great little noodle place in Metortown area.
I always get the large bowl as it fills me up and is great value. The dumplings are also a good choice and go well with the bowl of noodles.
The soup base can be very spicy so if you dont eat spicy u may want to make sure u get the server to make it not spicy or beware. Small place that fills up quick during lunch time and a great location close to metrotown.
With the recommendation from chowtimes and many other food blog's recommendations....my family and I drove further than usual for our daily Sunday lunch. My god, it was bad. The layout of the tables were ridiculous, the servers were really pushy and rushed, aside from service....the food is where it's at (where it's supposed to be at!!!!) Well, the noodles were soggy and not al dente/chewy at all. the soup is GET THIS: SOY SAUCE BASE ughhh. there is a thin film of oil at the surface of the soup. TheRE ARE NO CONDIMENTS. you have to pay 50cents for "spicy mustard" is this a joke? I looked to the next table and their dumplings looked disgusting (true we didn't try it ...but I have a good judgement when it comes to these things). We ordered 2 small and 1 large bowl of their SPECIALTY (beef flank with regular "handmade" noodles)
i'm getting depressed you guys...is it just I with terrible taste or ironically and tragically the food bloggers. what in the hell....
The noodles are definitely very delicious. The service is just like anywhere else. For it's price, it is very good. Overall, very good place if you want a quick lunch or dinner. A great alternative to Pho. This place will definitely see me again when I'm around the Metrotown area.
Ahhhhh I love this place so much I've dragged everybody I know to eat here.
First. about the food - this place makes the best beef noodle soup I've tried in the lower mainland (and I've tried a lot of them). The soup is delicious. I really recommend the spicy one unless you can't handle any spice at all. For the really spicy eaters, you can request extra spicy broth to the server even though it's not available on the menu. The noodles are thick and chewy, just the way I like 'em. Heaps of meat (and tendon if you order it) on the noodles. Can't complain about portion size, as I can barely finish off a small bowl. The large bowl have been known to take down grown men.
Service is the typical chinese fashion - quick, efficient, not particularly chatty or friendly, but I don't care. I'm here for the noodle soup, not to talk to the server. Ambiance is pretty nice for a almost-fast-food chinese place, modern and clean with some bright colors on the walls.
Overall - highly recommended!!
I have been to this noodle house countless times and it is truly great here. The beef with noodle in soup is soo flavourful and tasty and the dumplings are a great deal. Perfect for the day after hangover meal! You can have a meal in a short time 30 to 40mins! Service is good and quick. Highly recommended!
This is a great little place for a quick snack or two. Everything on the menu is very cheap. I didn't get the chance to order the noodles, as I wasn't very hungry, so I opted for the dumplings. I heard that the dumplings were really good and cheap, and they were pretty standard for my taste. I thought they were sort of bland and lacking flavour. But for 10 pcs for 5 dollars, it's a steal. The service was pretty good. Very quick and efficient. The first server misunderstood my order, so I had to clarify what I ordered with another waitress. No big deal. As for the ambiance, the place is ridiculously small and somewhat cramped; there are only a few available tables. Nevertheless, the restaurant has that very quaint, cozy feel to it. A perfectly fine restaurant for a snack or break. I will definitely return to try their famous noodles with beef flank.
Homemade noodles in soup prepared just right cannot be beat! Price is unbelievably low too! Number 1 or 2 beef noodle soup is their specialty and you can't go wrong with either. There are also vegetarian options and different noodle types. The soup has a unique and a bit tangy taste. You also have a spicy option. Their dumplings also seem homemade. Appetizers are good too, but a large bowl of their noodle soup alone will fill most average people. Decor is modern, place is clean, and staff are prompt, friendly, and accommodating. I mistakenly ordered the wrong noodle soup once. I acknowledged my mistake and was going to accept it because the error was mine. The waitress insisted she correct it! *Note: This place, like many asian restaurants, has a cash/debit only policy.
I stopped by here on a Friday Night with a Friend of mine. I had the Beef Noodle Soup with the Spicey Soup. The Bowl of noodle was pretty big. The Noodle is the fat noodle. The Soup was plenty Spicey. There was lots of Beef in it. It'll fill you up, which is pretty decent. The price is a bit much, just over 10 bucks for a bowl. There wasn't any vegetable in it, it was pretty much beef and noodle. I guess there was onions in the broth, if that counts. I kinda think it's a bit over priced, but, atleast you'll be full at the end of it. Not exactly fine dining, not a high end joint in my opinion. I think it's one of those eat with your buddy places, not bring a date places. Just because the tables weren't the cleanest, and neither were the bathrooms. Service was alright, and you could get by speaking English, which is good.
The guy below stole my title. This is the best way to describe this place. Every time we go there I can't help but say this.
The noodles are beyond amazing and so are the prices. The serving size is huge. Regular will fill you up, the large will overfill you.
I always order the #1 spicy regular. I used to order the large, but realized I felt uncomfortably full afterward. I also get the spicy fish as an appetizer. It is a bunch of tiny little fish cooked with the spicy Thai red pepper. It looks unappetizing but is really good. Might be an acquired taste. The noodles are not an acquired taste. It is amazing from the first taste. The soup its served in is great and the beef is cooked well.
I come here often. For the price and the damn good noodles.
It was a month or so ago where I had some Beef Noodle Soup from Lao Shan Dong with my friends. After a nice day at Metrotown and Crystal Mall we were famished. They all recommended Lao Shan Dong So i gave it a go. First off, it is conveniently located near Metrotown, Nestled in the hustle and bustle of concrete Jungle of Burnaby.
The Food was good, although fairly bland, However a sort of...chili paste? was offered to spice it up. That worked. I washed it down with some excellent sparkling Apple Cider drink, and then bought some coffee and coconut milk candies. Very Good value for those.
The Service wasn't too bad, but I guess it would've been better had I been able to speak Mandarin. The food did take sort of a long time just for soup and beef.
Overall, I'd say it's definitely worth checking out, and I would go back again, but I'm all for looking to find a new Noodle House.
This is one of the best Taiwanese noodle places I've eaten at in the Vancouver area. Having moved back from Taiwan a couple of years ago, I really missed the spicy chewy noodles that were readily available on almost every street corner. Lao Shan Dong definitely satisfies that craving!
The servings of noodles are gargantuan, to say the least. If it's your first time, go for the small bowl even if you're super hungry. You'll be surprised at the amount of food in the bowl.
The spicy beef noodles are their specialty and my favourite. There are days when the beef is drier though, so on that mark it's a bit hit or miss. The dumplings are very tasty, handmade, cooked just right, and come with a soy sauce and vinegar sauce. If you like pickled veggies then you should order the extra side of "sour mustard". Most noodles will come with them but you can get an overflowing dishful for only 50 cents - sour mustard is a kind of pickled vegetable, not the kind of yellow mustard you put on a hot dog like some might misunderstand.
I like some greens with my meals so we usually order the "boiled vegetables" on the side. A simple dish of choy with a sauce (oyster sauce maybe?) and sprinkling of fried onions.
Note- the servers will yell! Not at you though, but to each other. Generally, once you sit down, they'll yell in Chinese, "TEA FOR TABLE 4!" or something along those lines. Don't worry, they're not mad, just efficient and Asian.
This is a great casual eatery for a satisfying bowl of beef noodles. It gets busy around 7 though so best get there early!
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Also I don't think enough time was spent on American history topics. I remember being frustrated at 6 weeks to cover ancient Rome but on 3 weeks for Civil war and 2-3 weeks for American Revolution. The last two years of their cycle have you going through all of the presidents and all of the states. I just wasn't interested in that and thought more time could have been spent on history or science instead. (just my own opinion here) Their science is weak.
There are no readers scheduled, instead you have the book basket which is a weekly list of library books that you can get to round out what you are studying. For some reason I had to force my kids to read them. When my library made changes to its system using the library was no longer easy, so it made this curriculum more hard to use.
The bible ingratation is wonderful in MFW and I love the easy of use of the teacher's manual. Not to mention for teaching all of your kids together it is cost effective and doable.
There are no questions generally related to the any of the books you read. All of the books are mostly santized, which I don't think SL does and it makes for better discussions with the my children. My children have really loved the readers and books we have read with SL. I am able to foster independence a little better SL. I love SL's LA much, much better than the Writing Strands MFW recommends. One thing that has been very very helpful has been having ALL of the books here. No library trips, no waiting for the book to come in, no trips out of the way to pick them up or drop them off. One more thing, SL uses more stories, where as MFW uses books that have just information.
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Posted 07 January 2012 - 07:26 PM
I liked the IG layout and the inclusion of all subject on one page in MFW but missed the extra information that you get with the SL IG and my dd missed the SL comprehension questions.
We tried the next level program but it just wasn't a good mix for our family and I was tired of hunting for the books. We went back to SL
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Posted 10 January 2012 - 03:17 PM
One major difference is that with SL you get all the read alouds and readers for the entire year when you order a core. With MFW there is an appendix that lists out relevant books for each week of study. This has its pros and cons...pro: I choose what we read. Con: then I have to schedule it in. lol. Pro: it can help save money by using the library. Con: using the library. : )
With SL, the ancient history is not biblically integrated. With MFW it is. That is the reason why we used Creation to the Greeks with dd last year and continued on with Rome to the Reformation. Next year we will be using Core H to finish out our world history study and moving on to the highschool cores.
Both MFW and SL have their pros and cons. MFW has a more laid back feel to it. SL has a more rigorous feel to it. Both are wonderful ways to educate and both have enabled us to read lots of great books with our children.
Edited by Grace4all, 10 January 2012 - 03:19 PM.
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Posted 10 January 2012 - 11:50 PM
Cons (for me):
Extremely repetitive. ECC [Exploring Countries and Cultures] was basically "Same thing, different day" for us.
Book Basket. I live rurally. Our library is not exceptional at all. With MFW I had to drive 60+ miles to a decent library to find most of the book basket books. While the program is ok without the book basket, you really need those books to flesh out the program. Sonlight gives you everything you need in a cute box. We will use the library to expand on our Sonlight topics, but we don't *have* to.
Six-Day-Creation-Only stance. I am a Christian who believes the earth is old. Really old. Sonlight allows parents to teach their own views on Creation. MFW does not. With MFW, it's 6-day-creation or nothing.
MFW will work for many families. It didn't work for my family. While it is a bit early to tell, Sonlight seems like a much better fit for us.
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MFW K - letter sounds - I preferred SL PK4/5 to this program. With SL, I can read age appropriate, engaging books to my children while letting them learn to read at their own pace. I thought MFW K was a very traditional "learn to read" phonics program. It also had a few science activities and Bible lessons, but mostly you were paying for "learning to read". This was not high on my list of priorities for K, and I also do not prefer to teach reading in that manner.
MFW 1st - This program was very reading intensive. Lots of phonics worksheets. It moved rapidly from three letter words to long vowels. Again, this is just not how I prefer to teach reading. I like to read lots of books to my kids and use a simple phonics primer (like Phonics Pathways). SL is just sold in a totally different way. I can buy SL Core A and it mostly comes with books, books, and more books. Books for me to read to my kid and books for them to read to me. The variety of books keeps us engaged and eager for the next day. I do not have to purchase their LA (and I don't) or their math or any other extras. I can just buy the core. That's what SL is to me. MFW 1st is a Bible and phonics program with a few other things thrown in. Not what I was looking for.
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dd11 6th - Core D, Science D, IEW/Growing with Grammar, MUS Epsilon, Geography (co-op), Drama (co-op), Art (co-op), Volleyball/Track
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Posted 14 January 2012 - 05:06 PM
I was so excited when I ordered the Deluxe package, with the 7th and 8th grade supplement for ECC from MFW (Exploring Countries and Cultures). I was still excited when the box arrived and I had a chance to look over the books, but as I perused them, little shimmers of doubt crept in. I had wanted to go with Core 5 (now F) from the get go but DH and I decided that it made more sense for Andrew to study the geography of the whole earth and not just the Eastern Hemisphere. Plus we reasoned that using their package with the7th/8th grade supplement along with an Earth Science text would make the whole thing worthy of high school credits in World Culture and Geography. We reasoned that it would be simple enough to add in whatever books from the SL catalog or our shelves that we wanted to during "book basket" time. We also figured that it would be a good fit for our youngest son later on. Those were our reasons for the choice last term.
As we got going with the study, we quickly found that much of the material was too juvenile, even for a struggling student. Actually, part of the reason it was such a dismal choice was due this. Anyone with a dyslexic/struggling student knows that babyish things go over like a fart in a space suit (mother of sons, sorry for the graphic euphemism). Then too, I really didn't enjoy the "schoolish" nature of the schedule with everything separated into the artificial subject areas. We much prefer to keep things integrated as much as possible. The science, as previously mentioned, was very light, but we did enjoy reading the AiG text in the full color version.
We struggled through North and South America before waiving the white flag and begging for a change. DH agreed and I was able to sell off the MFW set and purchase what we needed for doing Core 5/F. We've been happy in our studies since then! Instead of heading east across the Atlantic and studying Europe, we chose to go west and learn about the Pacific Rim with Sonlight. We've slowly been making our way ever westward in our trek around the world and expect to finish up the core in April before heading up to Europe in preparation for studying American history with Core 100. So, it all worked out, but it would have been far better if we hadn't taken the detour into MFW in the first place. Live and learn.
Edited by club190, 14 January 2012 - 05:08 PM.
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Hi, I love Sonlight. We have finished Core D/E, Core F, and have Core W to start next year. My 2 older kiddos have learned so much from these cores. SL truly makes learning enjoyable!
My youngest dd is 6 and has been a late bloomer. I had heard how wonderful the A Beka phonics program is so I bought it. We muddled thru most of the K program and I have the entire 1st grade curriculum. We tried it last year. She hated it. She moaned and groaned at school time. It takes forever. So I shelved it thinking she just wasn't ready and pulled out the old K wkbks. And ended up shelving them too. We focused on the 3 R's and stories and she is FINALLY starting to enjoy learning. She is writing her letters, reading short words and doing math facts with a smile. Unfortunately, A Beka really killed her love of learning. (My son however thrives with various A Beka things while my oldest dd loves her SL and devours books like candy...it is amazing how they are all SO different!)
I simply can't wait to start my youngest in SL but she just isn't ready for Core A. Not ready for sitting thru the read alouds or to read the readers. I need something between the Fun Tales and the Grade 1readers. Lol.
So, I began to research MFW. I figure I could sell the A Beka 1st grade stuff...get MFW grade 1, and then move into SL Core A in a year.
So, after that long description of our family dynamics... I am wondering about reviews of MFW grade 1. I did do a forum search...I read a lot about MFW...but couldn't find much about grade 1 which seems to be different than their older grades. I am just looking for a gentler approach to 1st grade, with a guide similar to SL, that won't take all day or have a ton of busy work but will teach her to read so we can switch to Core A next year. Btw...I don't like the ordinary parents guide or 100 easy lessons. I liked how MFW looked like it used a lot of Bible Stories, how the proverbs were used for writing, and the look of the simple phonics worksheets. I am fine with Math and a Science being weak in grade 1. BUT... I only read good reviews and read MFW's marketing. I haven't seen the books or spoke with real people who have used it. So I need help and am coming to consult the experts.
Any thoughts? Recommendations? Thank you all so much. Whenever I come to the forum for questions...you guys always come thru!
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Posted 28 June 2014 - 06:21 PM
I have ever had the desire to try another of their cores. It was really just a waste of money for us. Less busywork than Abeka, but still largely worksheet oriented.
Actually, to be perfectly honest, we liked Abeka a lot more.
Have you considered All About Reading for reading?
For Core-style books, try Five in a Row, Winterpromise, or Heart of Dakota, or Easy Peasy Homeschool ( allinonehomeschool.com).
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One of the reasons I chose to go with MFW last year was that it is a "hand-on" curriculum with lots of activities. I thought my kids would really enjoy this approach. The other reason was to combine levels in learning. Neither worked out well. My 1st grader whined and complained through nearly everything we did. My 4th grader was okay with the work, but didn't enjoy it at all. The book basket was difficult to implement. I had to assign my oldest to do book basket and summarize what she read or she wouldn't even go near the books. The science is ECC was very weak and it was frustrating to all of us. I hated teaching it and they hated learning it. I didn't like the country selections they had or the activities and by the end of the year we were just reading what we had to read to get through. I was initially resistent to SL because of the heavy emphasis on reading and lack of hands-on, but it turns out my kids didn't like the hands-on stuff anyway, so it was a frustrating year all around. I am much more excited about this year, although I am having to use separate cores for all my kids. In reality, though, I think that is how you have to teach unless your kids are really close in age. Mine are just too far apart to be able to effectively study the same subject without me having to do a lot of re-tooling.
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P 12, 1967 M. s. VUKASOVICH ET AL 3,341,314
GLASS BEAD MAKING APPARATUS Filed May 9, 1963 6 lo ss Bead Col lecror Tu be Ceramic Spherodizofion a "=k- INVENTORS Mark S. Vukasovich Theodore M. Hdrkulich urm J,
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United States Patent Office 3,341,314 Patented Sept. 12, 1967 3,341,314 GLASS BEAD MAKING APPARATUS Mark S. Vukasovich, Parma, and Theodore M. Harkulich, Cleveland, Ohio, assignors to Horizons Incorporated, Cleveland, Ohio, a corporation of New Jersey Filed May 9, 1963, Ser. No. 279,205 1 Claim. (Cl. 65-142) This invention relates to an apparatus for producing high quality glass spheres in substantially quantitative yield from finely divided glass cullet. More particularly it relates to improvements in the production of uniformly sized glass beads and hollow glass spheres quantitatively from finely divided glass particles.
Various methods have been developed for the production of glass beads from finely divided glass cullet. One approach exemplified in United States Patents 2,334,578, 2,619,776 and 2,794,301 involves the feeding of ground glass, air and gaseous fuel into a vertically positioned burner from which a flame carrying the glass particles issues upwardly. The mixture of fuel and air is proportioned so as to insure that the flame temperature is sufliciently high that the glass particles soften or melt in the flame and assume a spherical shape. In vertical bead making apparatus of the type indicated, the patentees rely principally on the fiuidizing action of the upwardly directed gas stream to maintain the glass cullet in the hot zone for a proper length of time. In vertical devices of this type, in actual practice the particles collide with one another to an appreciable extent and lose their spherical shape and adhere to one another and form larger agglomerates. In addition a build up of glass on the walls of the apparatus invariably occurs. In an effort to avoid these difliculties various materials have been added to the flame.
Another apparatus which has been suggested is one in which the flame is positioned horizontally. One such apparatus is described in Belgium Patent 495,779 in which an apparatus and method are described involving the feeding of finely divided glass particles directly into a flame. In apparatus of this type there is a pronounced tendency for the glass particles to fuse so rapidly that they collect at the base of the feeder and soon clog the apparatus.
A principal disadvantage of the prior art described is that in spite of controlling the various aspects of the process by means of refinements in already costly and complex apparatus, it has been found that a high proportion of finished product is obtained in an angular and spheroid form, with high and unevenly distributed gas content and with a substantial portion of beads which are fused together.
This condition is so prevalent that the United States Government has a specification for glass beads to be used in blasting equipment as a cleaning and peening material issued by the US. Air Force as MIL-A9954 USAF which is as follows: (1) Size:
Sieve Size Grade A, Per- Grade B, Per Grade 0, Percent Passing cent Passing cent Passing 95min.
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(21) Grade A and B shall be at least 97% spherical and C at least 90%. No more than 3% shall be scored, ovate, broken, fused, elongated or irregular shapes for all glass beads.
1 The specific gravity is an indication sing, Le. the presence of of the extent of gasgas bubbles in the glass beads.
A principal object of the present invention is to provide a simple apparatus wherein glass beads meeting the above specifications can be prepared in quantitative yields from glass cullet ranging in particle size from minus 100 mesh to +325 mesh (Tyler Standard) and with bulk flame temperatures as low as 1800 F.
Other objects will become apparent from the description which follows taken in conjunction with the single sheet of drawings accompanying this specification.
As shown in the diagrammatic representation comprising the single figure of the drawings, the bead forming device of this invention comprises mainly two components: (1) a specially designed burner-nozzle which incorporates a feeding system and 2) a spherodization tube.
The bead making apparatus includes an air-fuel gas mixer system shown generally at 10. Any of the presently known air-gas mixing devices may be utilized provided that it delivers a mixture in the required amounts and at the required velocity to insure that the flow within the spherodization tube is laminar.
The mixture of fuel gas and air is delivered to a horizontally disposed feeder tube 12 having a venturi section 14 which contains a port 16 to receive a glass cullet feeding conduit 18 leading from a hopper 20 to the throat of the venturi section 14 in the feeder tube. A vibrator 22 may be attached to the hopper to prevent clumping and to insure a continuous flow of cullet into tubes 18 and 12.
A conventional feeder 24 furnishes cullet from a main supply bin 26 to hopper 20.
After the venturi section 14 tube 12 resumes a uniform diameter and terminates in a section 28 which extends into the spherodization tube 30.
Conversion of the cullet into spherical beads occurs in tube 30 and from this tube the beads pass into a collector of conventional construction.
It is believed that the operation of the apparatus will be evident from the above description, and is as follows:
The glass cullet is fed into the system by any of several common means and preferably in conjunction with a vibratory feeder as shown. The glass cullet flows into the venturi section wherein the cullet is injected into the air-fuel mixtures just prior to combustion. This avoids cullet build-up in the system and avoids the use of improper air-gas ratios as is often the case when the cullet is introduced into the air line in the manner commonly practiced with vertical burners. The cullet is then carried by the air-gas mixture through the prolongation of the tube in which section the mixture becomes greatly dispersed. As the mixture of air, gas and glass particles leaves section 28, it enters the spherodization tube 30. Combustion of the air and gas occurs in tube 30 and the glass particles are rapidly heated to between 2000 and 2500 F. and become spheres as they pass through the ceramic tube 30. From tube 30 the spheres flow into a collector wherein the solid spheres are separated from the gaseous combustion products in a conventional manner.
The function of the tube 30 is to maintain the glass particles in the hot zone for a time interval which is sufficient for the particles to become completely spherodized. Particle spherodization with the tube is 100% complete. Without it, only 60 to of the particles are spherodized under otherwise identical operating conditions.
One possible explanation for the complete spherodization achieved may be as follows: When glass cullet is injected by the gas mixture into the combustion zone, the cullet can follow one of several paths. Most of the cullet will remain in the combustion or hot zone sufliciently long to be completely converted into spheres, although some of the cullet may be swept out of the hot zone by convection currents or flame turbulence before it is completely spherodized. Such cullet is angular or nonspherical in geometry and thereby lowers the spherodization efficiency. The non-spherodized product then must be recirculated through the device for spherodization if it is to meet the military specification noted above. Some cullet, due to the force of gravity, may fall out of the hot zone too soon, again yielding angular or partially spherodized particles. Still other cullet, by virtue of striking one another, may be ejected prematurely from the hot zone or fused to produce spheroids. This phenomenon is most pronounced in a turbulent stream and is aggravated by increasing turbulence. In the present apparatus, the behavior of the cullet is controlled by placing a tube 30 around the burning gases to produce a more laminar flow pattern and to minimize convection and turbulent flow of the burning gases. As a result the cullet appears to remain in the hot zone for a sufliciently long time that it is completely converted into spheres. In addition air inspirated into tube 30 from the atmosphere further aids in producing a laminar flame pattern, retaining the cullet in the high velocity gas stream and minimizing premature cullet ejection by gravity or convection. The stream, being more laminar than it would be in the absence of sleeve 30 produces fewer glass particle collisions both with the wall and with other particles, thus minimizing particle adhesion and build-up on the wall. Unlike many tower devices used in bead production, little or no glass adheres to the hot walls of the tube 30.
In the glass bead making apparatus described, the diameter of tube 30 should be from 4 to 6 times the exit diameter of the nozzle 12. A preferred tube diameter is about times the exit diameter. The length of tube 30 should be at least as long as the flame and up to twice the flame length with a preferred length of 1.5 times the length of the flame.
The tube can be made of any ceramic or metal. In the case of some low softening point metals and ceramic materials, external cooling can be accomplished by gases or liquids passing around the outside of the tube. It has been found that quartz, alumina, and mullite ceramic tubes perform most satisfactorily, and do not require external cooling.
Many bead specifications severely limit the amount of beads with visible gas inclusions. The instant process produces a product having a low degree of gas inclusion content. Gas inclusions result from entrapped air or reaction products in the cullet being expanded to visible size by heating during spherodization. The device normally produces a product having less than percent beads with microscopically visible gas inclusions and usually the gassing content is less than 5 percent.
As in the practice of other known bead making processes it has been found convenient to utilize glasses having alkali contents of 7% or more, one particularly preferred glass being soda lime glass of the type widely used in plate glass, window glass, bottles and commonly available as cullet.
Glass beads produced in the above described apparatus are useful in other applications requiring beads of uniform sphericity and size such as filters, burnishing material, reflectors in highway paints, motion picture screens and other applications which will readily suggest themselves to persons having a need for uniform glass beads.
In a laboratory test, an apparatus in which sleeve 30 had a diameter of 1.25 inches and a length of 5 inches, and the venturi throat and diameter of tube 18 were each 0.1695 inch and the exit diameter of tube 28 was 0.250 inch, using oxygen and natural gas, a production rate of approximately one pound per hour was achieved.
The said apparatus has been scaled up to produce about 10 pounds of beads per hour using air and natural gas and has been operated for runs of long duration without experiencing any build up of glass on the inside of sleeve 30 and with substantially quantitative yields of beads meeting the above noted military specification in every respect.
Having now described the invention in its preferred form it is not intended that it be limited except as required by the appended claim.
We claim:
A glass bead making apparatus which comprises:
means for forming a flowing stream from a combustible mixture of air and gaseous fuel;
a horizontal tube for conducting said flowing stream from the entry end of said horizontal tube into a horizontally disposed combustion zone at the exit end of said tube, said tube including a venturi section intermediate the ends of said tube;
means for feeding glass cullet into said tube and into said flowing stream at the throat of said venturi section;
and a horizontal sleeve defining a combustion zone, said sleeve being disposed about the exit end of said horizontal tube whereby the resulting flowing stream comprising a mixture of fuel, air and glass cullet is confined 'by said sleeve and is caused to flow in a more laminar and less turbulent flow pattern during the combustion of said fuel in said sleeve whereby the cullet is heated and forms spherical beads while it passes along the bore of said sleeve the diameter of said sleeve being between about 4 and 6 times the diameter of said horizontal tube at its exit end and the length of said sleeeeve being about 1.5 times the length of the combustion zone in said sleeve.
References Cited UNITED STATES PATENTS 2,421,902 6/1947 Neuscholtz -21 2,619,776 12/1952 Potters 65-21 2,794,301 6/ 1957 Law et al 6521 FOREIGN PATENTS 495,779 9/1950 Belgium. 1,161,396 8/1958 France.
DONALL H. SYLVESTER, Primary Examiner. G. R, MYERS, Assistant Examiner.
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