Glass plate bend-shaping apparatus and method of bend-shaping a

Details Glass plate bend-shaping apparatus and method of bend-shaping a Glass plate bend-shaping apparatus and method of bend-shaping a

1993-10-29

1995-02-28

Woodard, Joye L.

Glass manufacturing

Processes

Reshaping or surface deformation of glass preform

65273, 65289, C03B 2303

Patent

active

053933168

ABSTRACT:
A glass plate is bend-shaped by transferring a glass plate by way of transferring rollers in a heating furnace; sucking and suspending the glass plate by way of a glass plate sucking and suspending device which is disposed in the heating furnace and at the downstream side of the transferring rollers; moving arms of a positioning device disposed at the lower portion of the glass plate sucking and suspending device in the direction parallel to a glass plate suspension surface of the glass plate sucking and suspending device; sucking and suspending glass plate supporting portions each connected to the top end of each of the arms by interposing a joint portion so as to keep the distance between the glass plate supporting portions and the glass plate sucking and suspending device at a predetermined value; supporting edge portion of the glass plate by the glass plate supporting portions, and positioning the glass plate to a predetermined position by advancing and retracting the arms in the direction parallel to the suspension surface; moving the glass plate sucking and suspension device to the upper portion of a bending mold which the glass plate is sucked and suspended; placing the glass plate on the bending mold; and bending the glass plate on the mold.

REFERENCES:
patent: 5004491 (1991-04-01), McMaster et al.
patent: 5066321 (1991-11-01), Kramer et al.

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