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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8051681 | Constant force scoring device and method for using same A scoring device is described herein that applies a constant force while scoring a piece of material so that there is a consistent score quality (or vent depth) within the scored piece of material. In one embodiment, the piece of material is a bowed shaped glass she... | 11/08/2011 |
| 7818981 | Device for cutting glass and removing coating therefrom On a carriage of a device for dividing glass sheets into patterns, there are a cutting tool to which a pivoting drive is assigned, and a stripping tool for removing a coating from a glass sheet with a stripping disk. The stripping tool is mounted on the carriage and... | 10/26/2010 |
| 7328641 | Method and apparatus for cutting glass material To provide a method for cutting a glass material wherein the glass material can be certainly cut a glass gob having a uniform quality and a uniform temperature distribution, without being deformed or damaged. Upon cutting a glass material 20 discharged from a... | 02/12/2008 |
| 7244083 | Cutting head assembly A cutting head assembly for use in cutting plate glass has a simplified drive train, all positioned about the vertical rotational centerline. The drive train includes a hollow bore drive motor having a drive adaptor directly engaged with a spline shaft that extends ... | 07/17/2007 |
| 7207250 | Process and device for moving and positioning sheets of glass In a system for cutting glass sheets into shapes there is at least one cutting site (A, B). In order to align the glass sheet which is to be cut or the glass sheet shape into a defined position, on the edge of the tables I and II there are contact edges (21, 44, ... | 04/24/2007 |
| 7195739 | Aromatic container heater An aromatic container heater and assembly adapted to enhance the release of desirable scent from an aromatic or fragrant candle by heating the exterior of a candle container and thereby melting the candle to release the desired scent. The heater includes a conductor... | 03/27/2007 |
| 7155938 | Method and device for loading a glass processing installation In the method for loading a glass processing installation (5) with loading portions (10a), glass plates (10, 10b) are extracted repeatedly from a storage unit (20) in a predetermined sequence and divided into a residual port... | 01/02/2007 |
| 7060991 | Method and apparatus for the portable identification of material thickness and defects along uneven surfaces using spatially controlled heat application A method and apparatus for testing a material such as the water-wall tubes in boilers includes the use of a portable thermal line heater having radiation shields to control the amount of thermal radiation that reaches a thermal imager. A procedure corrects for varia... | 06/13/2006 |
| 6810784 | Glass workpiece transporting and locating system A glass transporting and locating system for a glass cutting table with a bridge extending across the glass cutting table which is movable along the length of the glass cutting table. A glass workpiece feeding table is positioned adjacent the glass cutting table and... | 11/02/2004 |
| 6634186 | Process for cutting a glass sheet and a glass disk for a recording medium A U-shaped groove is formed in a glass sheet along a cutting line and the sheet is cut by breaking along the groove. The groove is formed by heating a sheet portion including the cutting line by a laser beam, cooling it to lower its density, and etching t... | 10/21/2003 |
| 6502423 | Method and apparatus for making individual glass panes A method and apparatus is described, with which individual rectangular glass panes of thickness between 0.03 mm and 2 mm can be cut from a glass band (2) drawn vertically from a hot forming device (1) in an in-line process with reduced rejects and reduced... | 01/07/2003 |
| 6497119 | Method for producing glass goblets, tumblers and similar hollow glasses, and corresponding device for carrying out said method A device and process for forming hollow glassware comprising producing solid glass blanks in a manufacturing line, storing the blanks, feeding the blanks to a manufacturing line for forming hollow glassware, preheating the blanks during the feeding step, ... | 12/24/2002 |
| 6463762 | Process and apparatus for breaking and transporting flat glass sheets A process for cutting glass sheets (10) includes the steps of: scoring each glass sheet on an automatic scoring table (12) having a scoring head (14) moveable on a bridge (16) and a track (18); transporting each scored glass sheet to a breaking table (22)... | 10/15/2002 |
| 6434974 | Device for dividing laminated glass A device for dividing laminated glass (3) has two supports for laminated glass (3) which has been scratched (13, 14) on both sides and in a gap (4) between them two beams (5) which are made as suction beams. The beams (5) can be swivelled using drives (8)... | 08/20/2002 |
| 6289696 | Apparatus for severing gobs from glass strands In an apparatus (1) for the severing of gobs from one or more strands (2;3) of molten glass, the severing of each gob is effected by a shear blade pair (5;6). A shear blade (7,8;9,10) of each shear blade pair is arranged on an associated, pivotably mounte... | 09/18/2001 |
| 6220056 | Device for handling thin panes of glass and fragile work pieces For handling thin panes of glass or similar work pieces and products in conveyance systems, machining installations, and the like, by means of pneumatic forces, a device is proposed that is characterized by two plates (1, 2) with flat surfaces on at least... | 04/24/2001 |
| 6128925 | Forming tool for structuring flat material, especially plate glass The forming tool with a special structuring surface includes a reusable ceramic base tool and a replaceable metallic forming member releasably attached to the base tool and provided with a structuring surface for forming a structure in the plate glass. Wh... | 10/10/2000 |
| 6098862 | Incrementally continuous laser cleaving process An incrementally continuous cleaving system allows for sequential flow of "material-to-be-cleaved" through a cleaving apparatus. In particular, a continuous feed tape membrane is used to support sequentially loaded optical bars (or, perhaps, wafers) that ... | 08/08/2000 |
| 6098426 | Method and apparatus for forming a glass article possessing an aperture The present invention is directed to an apparatus and method for forming glass article from sheet glass. More specifically the apparatus comprises a mold, a plunger being cooperative alignment with the mold, wherein the mold and the plunger form a cavity ... | 08/08/2000 |
| 6047567 | Shear blade for glass gob shearing apparatus A unitary shear blade (20) for shearing a plurality of spaced apart streams of molten glass into individual gobs, the shear blade having a free end (20a) and an opposed end (20b). The free end is provided with a plurality of side-by-side shearing surfaces... | 04/11/2000 |
| 5987925 | Glass gob shearing apparatus with internally cooled blades A parallel shear apparatus (20) for simultaneously shearing a plurality of streams of molten glass (A, B, C) into gobs comprising opposed carriages (22, 24) which are repetitively moved along rectilinear opposed paths toward and away from one another by a... | 11/23/1999 |
| 5983676 | Laser fiber chopper This apparatus uses laser beams in place of existing standard glass chopper units affixed to resin mix heads. Conventional glass choppers use steel blades that eventually wear out or break, adding to maintenance costs. The laser device operates in a manne... | 11/16/1999 |
| 5970748 | Glass gob shear blade mounting apparatus Glass gob shearing apparatus having opposed shear blades that reciprocate along generally parallel, opposed horizontal paths to periodically bring the shearing ends of the shear blades into partly overlapping contact with one another, to thereby shear a g... | 10/26/1999 |
| 5888268 | Glass-plate working apparatus A glass-plate working apparatus (A) includes a base (2) on which a glass plate (1) is placed; Y-direction movable bases (3) and (4) which are supported by the base (2) movably in a Y-direction perpendicular to an X-direction; a Y-direction moving device (... | 03/30/1999 |
| 5873922 | Process for dividing glass panels into blanks Lines are scribed on glass panes in accordance with the sections to be produced and the glass panes are then broken into sections susbtantially in a vertical position. A device suitable therefor comprises a station (2) for scribing the glass panes (1) wit... | 02/23/1999 |
| 5779753 | Method of and apparatus for treating a solid workpiece, especially a glass tube A solid workpiece, e.g. a glass tube, is shaped by a focussed beam of visible light or light in an adjacent portion of the electromagnetic spectrum in a material removal, cutting or drilling operation and is heat-treated or remelted or shaped in a plastic... | 07/14/1998 |
| 5772718 | Glass gob shearing apparatus with internally cooled blades and method of shearing employing same A parallel shear apparatus (20) for simultaneously shearing a plurality of streams of molten glass (A, B, C) into gobs including opposed carriages (22, 24) which are repetitively moved along rectilinear opposed paths toward and away from one another. Each... | 06/30/1998 |
| 5759222 | Glass-plate working apparatus A glass-plate working apparatus includes: a glass plate carrying-in section; a main cut-line forming section disposed in proximity to the glass plate carrying-in section; a glass plate bend-breaking section disposed in proximity to the main cut-line formi... | 06/02/1998 |
| 5733353 | Glass-plate working apparatus A glass-plate working apparatus 1 includes a glass plate carrying-in section 2; a glass plate bend-breaking section 3; a glass plate peripheral-edge grinding section 4; and a glass plate carrying-out section 5. The glass plate bend-breaking section 3 is p... | 03/31/1998 |
| 5704959 | Device for dividing laminated glass The invention relates to a device for dividing laminated glass, especially two-pane laminated glass, comprising two, plate-shaped supports for the glass sheet in which one of the supports is rigidly attached in the machine from and the other support is mo... | 01/06/1998 |
| 5667552 | Machine to cut-off an end of a hollow glassware article A machine to automatically cut-off one end of a cylindrical hollow glassware article, comprising: a support structure including a shaft; an intermittent rotary driving mechanism mounted on the shaft, providing a plurality of positions corresponding to art... | 09/16/1997 |
| 5667897 | Plate glass edge strength This invention relates to first and second plate glass templates each having an outer smooth major surface and an inner rough major surface, only each of the major outer smooth surfaces being peripherally bounded by a chamfer formed at the cut edge. In th... | 09/16/1997 |
| 5639289 | Installation for the treatment of plates Unworked glass panes (9) are definitively positioned in a positioning station (15) by means of positioning stops (18) and transferred in a fixed position first to a grinding station (12) and then to a transfer station (7) by a translating device (20, 21, ... | 06/17/1997 |
| 5252113 | Moil crack-off system for a funnel A moil crack-off system for a funnel is provided, wherein a pick-up apparatus is arranged intersectionally above a conveyor that is extended from the shaping process of the funnel, and a pair of ware transfers are arranged in parallel on either side of th... | 10/12/1993 |
| 5138131 | Laser cutting method and apparatus for effecting said method A laser cutting method for a glass material, includes steps of forming a continuous scribing line at least on one side face of the glass material, and projecting a laser beam onto the scribing line. A laser cutting apparatus for effecting the laser cuttin... | 08/11/1992 |
| 5135727 | Automatic single crystal ingot disconnector for single crystal pulling apparatus An automatic single crystal ingot disconnector which is mounted on the uppermost chuck of the conventional single crystal ingot removing assembly, which uppermost chuck assembly is adapted to shift in the axial direction of the ingot being chucked; the pr... | 08/04/1992 |
| 5110340 | Apparatus for removing a marginal zone external of an outline cut in a glass sheet A glass sheet has marginal zones thereof removed by (a) subjecting the marginal zones to a heating flame, and (b) raising the glass sheet (during or after the flame heating) while restraining upward travel of the marginal zones. The lifting is performed b... | 05/05/1992 |
| 5040342 | Method and apparatus for processing glass sheets The glass sheet processing apparatus includes a sheet support stand which rotates the glass about a vertical axis and cutting and edging tools that move along linear axes generally perpendicular to the vertical axis. As the glass is rotated, the cutting t... | 08/20/1991 |
| 5022909 | Tube processing machine The invention is a machine for processing tubes. Preferably the machine is adapted to create glass flares by flaring an end of each tube and then cutting a length off the flared end. The machine includes several holding devices, each of which is adapted t... | 06/11/1991 |
| 5005318 | Method and apparatus for cutting glass blanks Apparatus for cutting glass blanks according to a particular contour, comprises a scoring maching for scoring the contour on the glass blank, a breaking machine for severing the scored contour from the glass blank, and a grinding machine for smoothing the... | 04/09/1991 |
