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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7866187 | Press bending station for the bending of glass sheets A press bending station includes an annular mold (5) and a full-face mold (6). Holes (10), selectively connected to a negative pressure source, are placed in portions of the full-face mold (6) that are determined by the configuration of t... | 01/11/2011 |
| 7437892 | Apparatus having vacuum applying facilities and method of using vacuum to bend and/or shape one or more sheets One or more sheets, e.g. two glass sheets heated to their deformation temperature are shaped by positioning the sheets on a sheet supporting surface of an outline mold. The outline mold and press face of a shaping member are moved relative to one another to bias the... | 10/21/2008 |
| 7389655 | Apparatus for bending and tempering glass panels An apparatus for bending and tempering glass panels includes a number of ring moulds for supporting and conveying glass panels; a number of preheating sections for heating glass panels to a bending temperature; at least one prebending section for sagging a glass pan... | 06/24/2008 |
| 7389656 | Apparatus having a curved roller for bending a glass sheet A glass sheet is heated to a forming temperature in a heating furnace, the heated glass sheet is conveyed along a conveying plane defined by a plurality of rollers of a roller conveyer, and is moved up and down on the rollers according to a position of the glass she... | 06/24/2008 |
| 7331198 | Bending apparatus for a glass sheet A desired temperature distribution is efficiently formed on a glass sheet by a simple structure without lowering heat efficiency within a furnace. A heating furnace conveys a bending mold of a glass sheet and a radiation-heating device is provided in the heating fur... | 02/19/2008 |
| 7302813 | Method and device for bending glass panes in pairs In a method for bending, in pairs, panes placed one upon the other, heated to their softening temperature, the pair or panes is deposited on a bending frame and prebent under action of the force of gravity. The prebent pair of panes is transferred onto a suction ben... | 12/04/2007 |
| 7287401 | System and method for cylindrically forming glass sheets A system (10) and method for cylindrically forming and quenching glass sheets includes a furnace (12), a bending station (16) at the exit end of the furnace for providing cylindrical bending, a roll bending station (18) located externally... | 10/30/2007 |
| 7240519 | Apparatus and method for bending glass sheets An apparatus for shaping heat softened glass sheets includes an upper mold having a full surface press face with a shaping surface generally contoured to the desired curvature of the sheets; a support device to support the sheets below the upper mold; a shaping rail... | 07/10/2007 |
| 7237408 | Flexible surface mold and method of use A mold includes a pair of spaced elongated deformable members and spaced elongated flexible strap members between and connected to the deformable members with the axis of the deformable members parallel to one another and transverse to the axis of the strap members.... | 07/03/2007 |
| 7162893 | Glass sheet bending station and method for glass sheet bending A glass sheet bending station (20) and method for glass sheet bending utilize a primary actuating mechanism (154) for moving mold support linkages to provide glass sheet bending with a constant radius and utilize control link detachable connections ( | 01/16/2007 |
| 7159756 | Method of soldering and solder compositions The invention relates to using the heat generated during thermal treatment of one or more glass sheets to melt solder. In one nonlimiting embodiment, a lead providing external access to an electrical conductive arrangement, e.g. a conductive member between and conne... | 01/09/2007 |
| 7155937 | Method and device for bending a glass sheet A method for bending a sheet of glass involving heating the sheet of glass to a softening temperature, transporting the sheet of glass in an essentially horizontal path as far as a station for bending the sheet of glass between two forms, shaping the sheet of glass ... | 01/02/2007 |
| 7131295 | Roller assembly for a glass sheet bending apparatus and a glass sheet bending apparatus A roller assembly for a glass sheet bending apparatus has a guide shaft bent to have a predetermined curvature and a plurality of ring rollers fitted rotatably to the guide shaft whereby a glass sheet is bent while the glass sheet is transferred into a predetermined... | 11/07/2006 |
| 7024889 | Method and apparatus for bending glass sheets For bending a glass sheet so that the glass sheet has a compound curvature, an apparatus comprises a furnace including hearth beds on a bed support and a quenching unit provided with upper and lower air blowers. The final hearth bed may have a top surface with a sim... | 04/11/2006 |
| 7024264 | Designing method of a glass-plate-aimed bending mold making use of a 3-dimensional CAD application for solid models The present invention aims at providing a method for designing a glass-plate-aimed bending mold making use of a 3-dimensional CAD application for solid models, in a short time with simple operations, by utilizing a previously designed solid model. To this end, there... | 04/04/2006 |
| 6904771 | Method of forming and transporting curved glass A glass forming assembly and method for forming complex shaped glass, with the glass forming assembly having a hood assembly including a hood lift superstructure movable horizontally back and forth over a cold ring and a cooling shuttle and movable vertically relati... | 06/14/2005 |
| 6729160 | Apparatus and method for forming heated glass sheets Apparatus (26) and a method for forming heated glass sheets in a heated chamber (22) of a housing (20) includes an upper mold support assembly (28) for supporting an upper mold (38) within the heated chamber for cyclical vertical m... | 05/04/2004 |
| 6698243 | Method and apparatus for manufacturing bent glass sheet A heated glass sheet is bent by pressing together with at least one belt made of a heat-resistant material against a bending member. The glass sheet is bent as the glass sheet is conveyed with the belt along the bending member, and the bending member is c... | 03/02/2004 |
| 6578384 | Arrangement in a glass bending oven An arrangement in the loading end of a multi-section glass bending furnace, where the glass sheets travel along a special rail from one furnace section to the next section in mould carriages (8) moving in cycles on the said rail. For unloading and loading... | 06/17/2003 |
| 6578383 | Apparatus and method for roll bending heated glass sheets Apparatus (16) and a method for roll bending heated glass sheets includes a pair of sets of bending rolls (40) and a support and drive mechanisms (44) that supports and rotatively drives the bending rolls at progressively increasing inclinations within a ... | 06/17/2003 |
| 6543255 | Press bending station and method for job switching A press bending station (12) for heated glass sheets includes a lower wheel bed (36) having a lower support (38) and wheel assemblies (40) with detachable connections (46) to a drive mechanism (48) of the lower support to provide rotational driving of a w... | 04/08/2003 |
| 6526781 | Method for roll forming glass sheets A method for roll forming a heated glass sheet utilizes a forming conveyor (62) including forming rolls (66) that are pivotally moved upwardly between horizontal rolls (46) of a horizontal conveyor (44) on opposite sides of a centerline (C/L) of the horiz... | 03/04/2003 |
| 6397634 | Bend-shaping method and apparatus for a glass plate A plurality of rollers provided at positions where a transferred glass plate is moved vertically to form a transferring plane formed by the primary rollers into a curved plane, and the curved plane is shifted in the transferring direction of the glass pla... | 06/04/2002 |
| 6363751 | Apparatus for Bend-shaping a glass plate A method and apparatus for manufacturing a curved sheet of glass which includes a heating furnace for heating a sheet of glass therein, the heating furnace having an outlet opening for discharging a curved sheet of glass, and an array of beds housed in th... | 04/02/2002 |
| 6363753 | Curved glass manufacturing apparatus with improved bending and conveyor units A roll-forming unit of a curved glass manufacturing apparatus includes a cooperating pair of upper and lower forming roll mechanisms. Each mechanism includes a forming roll having a resilient rod covered with a cover member except opposite end portions th... | 04/02/2002 |
| 6357263 | Method for bending a glass sheet, a ring mold for bending a glass sheet, and apparatus using the ring mold In bending a glass sheet, the load applied to an intermediate glass sheet can be equalized to improve the quality of a final glass sheet. For this purpose, a forming ring 1 comprises a first forming frame 15 and a second forming frame 16, and the swingabl... | 03/19/2002 |
| 6321570 | Method and apparatus for tempering and bending glass A method of and apparatus for bending and tempering a sheet of glass heated to a formable state provides an improved rigid mold and pressing member for pressing the heated sheet against the rigid mold which cools and bends the sheet. The pressing member i... | 11/27/2001 |
| 6318125 | Method and device for bending glass sheets A process for shaping glass sheets with a surface-shaping mould, against which the glass sheets are pressed using a pressure drop produced by sucking out the air from the space lying between the moulding face and that face of the glass sheet on the opposi... | 11/20/2001 |
| 6279347 | Method and apparatus for producing bent glass sheet This invention provides a method and an apparatus for producing a bent glass sheet. A heated glass sheet (4, 24, 24*) conveyed from a heating furnace (1, 21) is bent by pressing with at least one belt (5, 9, 25) made of a heat-resistant material against a... | 08/28/2001 |
| 6257022 | Glass slumping process A glass slumping process includes the steps of supporting a thin sheet of glass upon a convex mold at a single, minimum area of contact of the glass sheet with the mold, the single area of contact being disposed inwardly of a perimeter of the glass sheet,... | 07/10/2001 |
| 6227008 | Apparatus for vacuum impulse forming of heated glass sheets Apparatus (20,120) for forming a heated glass sheet G is disclosed as including a vacuum mold (22,22a,122,122a) having a full surface (24,24a,124,124a) against which a peripheral mold (26,26a,126,126a) presses the glass sheet periphery and with which at l... | 05/08/2001 |
| 6192710 | Method and apparatus for bending sheet glass In a bending apparatus for glass sheets, at least some of distances between conveyor rolls are set so as to be unequal, forming glass sheets having good quality and free from optical distortion. For the purpose, the distances between conveyor rolls which ... | 02/27/2001 |
| 6173587 | Method for installing mold assembly A mold assembly (34) for cyclically forming heated glass sheets includes a lower mold (36) having an upwardly oriented mold face (356) and an upper mold face having a downwardly oriented mold face (56) that opposes the upwardly oriented mold face of the l... | 01/16/2001 |
| 6158247 | Apparatus for bending glass sheets The invention relates to a process for bending glass sheets. This process involves bending the glass sheet or sheets in at least two stages. The first stage employing the action of gravity leading to a shaped blank which is used in the formation of the fi... | 12/12/2000 |
| 6079227 | Method for manufacturing bent and tempered glass sheet and apparatus for manufacturing the same In a quenching apparatus for quenching a glass sheet that has been heated and bent in a heating furnace, a cooling gas blows onto the glass sheet to provide a distribution of a temperature and/or a distribution of a static pressure in at least one section... | 06/27/2000 |
| 6076373 | Apparatus and method for bending glass sheets The present invention provides an apparatus and method for a shaping sheet including a support frame and a shaping rail supported on the frame. The shaping rail has a sheet shaping surface that conforms in elevation and outline to a final desired shape of... | 06/20/2000 |
| 6076374 | Bending mold for bending glass sheets A bending mold for bending glass sheets is provided. The mold comprises a frame having longitudinally parallel side walls and a bottom. Support devices having support surfaces are connected between the side walls. An elongated member is provided on the bo... | 06/20/2000 |
| 6038886 | Mold support frame assembly having thermally stable center A mold support frame assembly including a pair of mold support frames between which a connector extends and cooperates with to provide a thermally stable center. Each mold support frame includes a linkage extending between a pair of spaced legs and having... | 03/21/2000 |
| 6038887 | Apparatus and method for forming glass sheets Apparatus and a method for forming glass sheets includes a topside transfer platen (44) that releases a heated glass sheet onto a mold supported in an upper position by a mold support frame assembly (62) which then moves the mold vertically downward and r... | 03/21/2000 |
| 6035666 | Apparatus for roll forming glass sheets A forming station (26) for roll forming a heated glass sheet include a forming conveyor (62) including forming rolls (66) that are moved upwardly between horizontal rolls (46) of a horizontal conveyor (44) on opposite sides of a centerline (C/L) of the ho... | 03/14/2000 |
