Glass manufacturing – Processes – Reshaping or surface deformation of glass preform
Patent
1989-06-07
1990-09-18
Woodard, Joye L.
Glass manufacturing
Processes
Reshaping or surface deformation of glass preform
65106, 65273, C03B 23033, C03B 2704
Patent
active
049575287
ABSTRACT:
A bending and hardening installation includes a shaping bed, an evacuation conveyor positioned downstream of the shaping bed and a tilting device for tilting a glass plate exiting the downstream end of the shaping bed from the shaping bed to the evacuation conveyor. The shaping end is curved in a direction of advance of the glass plate and has a conveying direction different from that of the evacuation conveyor. The tilting device takes the form of a rotating drum mounted coaxially with a support roller. The drum includes holding rollers spaced from the support roller by a distance sufficient that a glass plate exiting the shaping bed is held between a holding roller and the support roller, so that the tilting device is tilted by the weight of the glass plate to a positoin where the glass plate is transferred to the evacuation conveyor. An air blowing box is provided on the tilting device for hardening the glass plate as it is being tilted.
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Dereims Philippe
Leclerco Jacques
Letemps Bernard
Saint-Gobain Vitrage
Woodard Joye L.
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