Glass manufacturing – With fluid support for article or preform – Gaseous support
Patent
1992-07-10
1994-08-09
Woodard, Joye L.
Glass manufacturing
With fluid support for article or preform
Gaseous support
65 254, 65268, 65273, 65289, C03B 2303, C03B 23035
Patent
active
053362888
ABSTRACT:
An apparatus and a process are disclosed for manufacturing glass sheets of a complex form for vehicles. The apparatus includes a roller heating oven, a supporting air bed in a shaping section, a shaping ring for conveying the sheet of glass in a vertical direction toward an upper shaping mold, and a ring for conveying the sheet of glass horizontally toward a tempering station. The air bed is formed with frustoconical nozzles of such a size as to enable the shaping ring to pass through them so as to be movable to a position beneath its floating position.
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Caico Vincenzo
Carlomagno Giovanni
De Leonibus Vittore
Tereo Edoardo
Societa Italiana - SIV - S.p.A.
Woodard Joye L.
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