Device and method for picking up, shaping, and placing a thin glass pane
AssigneeSaint-Gobain Glass France
InventorsStephan Gier, Nikolai Borchmann, Stefan Lücke
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Abstract
A device for picking up, shaping, and placing a thin glass pane, includes a frame with an upper side and a lower side, which is suitable to be directed at a glass pane with a thickness of less than 1 mm, and which is provided with a plurality of picking up pins that are arranged substantially parallel to one another and whose end directed at the glass pane is equipped with a suction cup, wherein the picking up pins are movable along their direction of extension independent of one another in order to adapt the arrangement of the suction cups to an intended shape of the glass pane.
Claims14
A device for picking up, shaping, and placing a thin glass pane, comprising a frame with an upper side and a lower side, which is suitable to be directed onto a glass pane with a thickness of less than 1 mm and which is provided with a plurality of picking up pins that are arranged parallel to one another and whose end directed onto the glass pane is equipped with a suction cup, wherein the lower side has a full-surface cover that is provided with passages that extend throughout the full-surface cover and through which the picking up pins extend and are guided,
- wherein the picking up pins are movable along their direction of extension through said passages independent of one another, wherein each picking up pin is movable out and into the frame via said passages, in order to adapt an arrangement of the suction cups to an intended shape of the glass pane, and
- wherein the picking up pins are provided with springs and the ends of the picking up pins facing away from the glass pane are in contact with a model mold, as a result of which the picking up pins are held against the spring force of the springs.
A method for picking up, shaping, and placing a thin glass pane, the method comprising:
- providing a device for picking up, shaping, and placing the thin glass pane, comprising a frame with an upper side and a lower side, which is suitable to be directed onto the glass pane with a thickness of less than 1 mm and which is provided with a plurality of picking up pins that are arranged parallel to one another and whose end directed onto the glass pane is equipped with a suction cup, wherein the lower side has a full-surface cover that is provided with passages that extend throughout the full-surface cover and through which the picking up pins extend and are guided,
- wherein the picking up pins are movable along their direction of extension through said passages independent of one another, wherein each picking up pin is movable out and into the frame via said passages, in order to adapt an arrangement of the suction cups to an intended shape of the glass pane, and
- wherein the picking up pins are provided with springs and the ends of the picking up pins facing away from the glass pane are in contact with a model mold, as a result of which the picking up pins are held against the spring force of the springs;
- bringing into contact the glass pane with the suction cups, and
- raising the glass pane, wherein the picking up pins are moved such that the arrangement of the suction cups is adapted to an intended shape of the glass pane in order to shape the glass pane.
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