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US 2002/0000099 A1Published application
Method of and apparatus for working a glass plate
OwnerShigeru Bandoinventor
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Abstract
An apparatus for working a glass plate includes: a transporting device for bending a glass plate in a concave shape in a cross-sectional view in a transporting direction and transporting the glass plate from a cutting section to a bend-breaking section; a cutting device for forming cut lines on the glass plate in the cutting section; and a bend-breaking device for bend-breaking the glass plate in the bend-breaking section.
Claims17
A method of working a glass plate, comprising the steps of:
- bending a glass plate in a concave shape in a cross-sectional view in a transporting direction and transporting the glass plate from one section to another section;
- and
- working the glass plate in at least one of said one section and said other section.
An apparatus for working a glass plate comprising:
- transporting means for bending a glass plate in a concave shape in a cross-sectional view in a transporting direction and transporting the glass plate from one section to another section;
- and
- a working section for working the glass plate in at least one of said one section and said other section.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.