PCT No. PCT / EP97 / 03818 Sec. 371 Date Mar. 3, 1998 Sec. 102(e) Date Mar. 3, 1998 PCT Filed Jul. 17, 1997 PCT Pub. No. WO98 / 03440 PCT Pub. Date Jan. 29, 1998In a known process for the production of
quartz glass bodies, SiO2 particles are deposited of the mantle surface of a cylindrical carrier rotating about its longitudinal axis, forming an elongated, porous preform, where the SiO2 particles are formed in a plurality of
flame hydrolysis burners which are arranged in at least one burner row parallel to the longitudinal axis of the carrier and are moved at a preset translational speed forward and back between turnaround points at which points their direction of movement is reversed, and in which process the preform is sintered. In order to make available on this basis an easily accomplished process that makes it possible to manufacture a preform which is largely free of localized density variations, the invention proposes on the one hand that the base value of the surface temperature of the preform being formed be kept in a range between 1,050 DEG C. and 1,350 DEG C., that the average
peripheral velocity of the preform be kept in the range between 8 m / min and 15 m / min and the average
translational velocity of the burner row be kept in a range between 300 mm / min and 800 mm / min. On the other hand, the object is also accomplished according to the invention and on the basis of the known process in that in the area of the turnaround points (A, B) the
peripheral velocity of the preform being formed is increased and / or the
flame temperature is lowered and / or the distance of the burners from the preform surface is changed.