Method for removing water from workpieces and apparatus therefor

摘要

A method for removing water from the surface of workpieces, particularly, glass workpieces, by dipping the workpieces into a boiling dewatering bath composed of an organic solvent which is immiscible with water and which contains surface active agents, and subsequently rinsing the workpiece in one or more baths of the pure organic solvent in order to remove the surface active agent. The subsequent rinsing baths may be boiling or at ambient temperature and vapors therefrom as well as from the initial dewatering bath are condensed and collected.