Method of and apparatus for bending sheet glass

Details Method of and apparatus for bending sheet glass Method of and apparatus for bending sheet glass

1992-09-04

1994-04-12

Woodard, Joye L.

Glass manufacturing

Processes

Reshaping or surface deformation of glass preform

65273, 65289, C03B 23023

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053021762

ABSTRACT:
A furnace for heating a glass sheet therein has a gravity bending zone for bending the glass sheet due to gravity, a press bending zone for bending the glass sheet under pressure, and an annealing zone for annealing the bent glass sheet. In the gravity bending zone, the glass sheet on a ring mold is preliminarily bent due to gravity. After the preliminarily bent glass sheet has been fed from the gravity bending zone into the press bending zone, the glass sheet is transferred from the ring mold to a movable lower mold assembly. The lower mold assembly is lifted to press the glass sheet against a fixed upper mold for finally bending the glass sheet. Thereafter, the lower mold with the finally bent glass sheet is lowered until the glass sheet is placed on the ring mold. Then, the glass sheet is fed with the ring mold into the annealing zone in which the glass sheet is annealed.

REFERENCES:
patent: 4501603 (1985-02-01), Frank et al.
patent: 4514208 (1985-04-01), Nitschke
patent: 4756735 (1988-07-01), Cathers

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