Glass manufacturing – Glassworking or preform by or with reheating means – Planar sheet preform
Patent
1991-04-12
1992-08-11
Woodard, Joye L.
Glass manufacturing
Glassworking or preform by or with reheating means
Planar sheet preform
65107, 65287, 65289, C03B 23025
Patent
active
051375621
DESCRIPTION:
BRIEF SUMMARY
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
1. Field of the Invention
The present invention relates to the glass bending mold, which is located in an oven, which is heated for softening glass sheets so that when a glass sheet is laid in a horizontal position over the mold, it can with assistance of gravity be bent against the mold and be formed to have a curvature corresponding to the mold.
2. Prior Art
In U.S. Pat. No. 2,223,124 there is presented a method for bending glass sheets in which in the glass sheet to be bent is placed on horizontal runway rolls which are separately supported and spaced apart from each other. When the glass is heated, these rolls are lowered and while lowering the rolls define the desired curvature to which the glass sheet is to be bent. Different ways to guide lowering rolls give different curvatures in bending. To prevent soft glass sheet from bending down between horizontal rolls, the runway of rolls is rotated alternately back and forth during heating and bending and so the glass sheet is moved back and forth along the runway of rolls.
The device described in U.S. Pat. No. 2,223,124 has problems in guiding the of lowering of the rolls which is a difficult operation and has to be done inside the bending oven. Because of the construction of the roller runway, it is also impossible in any simple way to make the size of the mold smaller when bending smaller sizes of glass sheets. A rotating device makes the roller runway even more complex.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
The present invention provides a glass bending mold comprising:
an oven having a frame;
at least two vertical template plates mounted in the frame by fixing devices, the vertical template plates defining the shape of glass bent in the bending mold, the vertical template plates including recesses along an upper edge thereof;
horizontally extending pipes for supporting glass to be bent, the pipes being received by the recesses in the template plate and being supported by the template plates, at least one end of each of the pipes extending out of the oven through apertures in at least one wall of the oven; and
levers for moving the pipes back and forth to rock the pipes in the recesses while glass to be bent is lowered on said pipes.
The mold system according to present invention provides a significant improvement over the previously mentioned prior art devices. As a major benefit of a device according to the present invention is that pipe-like elements can easily be rotated back and forth because of the light construction of pipe-like elements.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS
FIG. 1 is a perspective view of a bending mold made according to the invention in which part of the oven is broken away to show interior detail.
FIG. 2 shows a template plate of the invention defining a bending form.
DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION
In FIG. 1 there is shown an insulator 16 which insulates a lower part 1 of a glass bending oven equipped with wheels. One of the wheels 2 is shown beneath lower part 1. An upper part of the oven (not shown) is laid on the top of lower part 1 on joint surface 3. The glass bending mold consists of horizontal pipes 7, which are laid on template plates 6. Template plates 6 are oriented vertically and they are laid between fixtures 9 mounted in the frame of the mold. Between the fixtures 9 there is located a plane bar 8 which is used to position template plates 6 in a perpendicular direction relative to plane bar 8. Ends of pipes 7 are led out of thee oven through apertures in special plate or wall 4. This plate is equipped with lift eyes 5. The special plate 4 can be lifted out of the oven while still containing the pipes 7. Ends of pipes 7 which are led out of the oven are equipped with levers 10 which are joined together by members 11 located between joint points. Device 13 causes the movement of the levers 10 back and forth with assistance of rod 12.
In FIG. 2 there is shown a template plate and over which is laid a mold pipe 7, which is located in one of formed pipe recesses 15. Recesses 15 are construc
REFERENCES:
patent: 2223124 (1940-11-01), Owen
patent: 2526359 (1950-10-01), Jendrisak
patent: 4540425 (1985-09-01), Bocelli et al.
patent: 4881962 (1989-11-01), Reunamaki et al.
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