Apparatus for the manufacture of sheets of glass having a comple

Details Apparatus for the manufacture of sheets of glass having a comple Apparatus for the manufacture of sheets of glass having a comple

1992-07-10

1994-07-19

Woodward, Joye L.

Glass manufacturing

With fluid support for article or preform

Gaseous support

65 254, 65268, 65273, 65289, C03B 2303, C03B 23035

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053305493

ABSTRACT:
An apparatus and a process as disclosed for manufacturing a glass sheet having a complex form for vehicles. The apparatus includes a roller heating oven, a supporting air bed in a shaping section, and a shaping ring for conveying the glass first to an upper shaping mold and then to a tempering station. The air bed is formed with fustoconical nozzles of such a size as to enable the ring to pass through them and to be placed beneath the a floating plane of the glass. The ring undergoes a first vertical movement to lift the glass toward the shaping mold and a second horizontal movement to convey the glass to the tempering station.

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