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Winery Bottle Manufacturing Defects

April 13, 2022 By Tom Read Leave a Comment

Read Consulting, a glass failure analysis laboratory, was hired to analyze defective glass bottles. These bottles arrived from the manufacturer with defects. Because only still wine is to be bottled, none of the defects discovered can cause cracking. Below are details of the two prevalent bottle defects from the glass bottle manufacturer.

Blank Tear

 

 

Figure #1: Photograph of a Blank Tear. It appears as a seam perpendicular to the bottle axis. Basically it is a shallow defect.
Figure #2: Close Up of Blank Tear. It looks like a wrinkle in the glass
Figure #3: Cross Section at the Blank Tear. It is a very shallow defect, and it has a “round” root.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Bubble

 

Figure #4: Photograph of a large glass bubble on the body of the bottle. Small bubbles are commonly called seeds.
Figure #5: Close Up of the Bubble.
Figure #6: Cross Section of the Bubble. If the thin crust breaks, there is a danger of cutting a user.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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