Glass Sheet Bending System and Method for Bending Same
AssigneeCentral Glass Company, Limited
InventorsTakeshi MORI, Takeshi Hosokawa
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Abstract
Disclosed is a glass sheet bending system including a press bending station for bending a glass sheet into a desired shape. The press bending station includes a glass mounting bed on which the glass sheet is to be temporarily put until the glass sheet is pressed on the glass forming surface of a mold. This system is characterized in that the glass mounting bed includes a slat conveyer whose crawler is driven in the conveyance direction of the glass sheet or a belt conveyer whose belt is driven in the conveyance direction of the glass sheet. By this system, the glass sheet having no distortion can be produced.
Claims6
A glass sheet bending system comprising:
- a heating furnace (10) for heating a glass sheet to bend the glass sheet;
- a press bending station for bending the glass sheet heated by the heating furnace (10) and softened, into a desired shape;
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- a cooling station for cooling the glass sheet bent into the desired shape at the press bending station;
- wherein the press bending station (20) includes
- a glass mounting bed (21) on which the glass sheet is to be put,
- a mold (22) disposed above the glass mounting bed (21) and having a glass forming surface (23) at a lower surface of the mold, and
- a press ring (24) for lifting the glass sheet put on the glass mounting bed (21) and pressing the glass sheet to the glass forming surface (23) of the mold (22),
- characterized in that the glass mounting bed (21) includes a slat conveyer (50c, 50d, 50e, 50f, 50g) whose crawler (54) is driven in a conveyance direction of the glass sheet, or a belt conveyer whose belt is driven in the conveyance direction of the glass sheet.
A glass sheet bending system comprising:
- a heating furnace (10) for heating a glass sheet to bend the glass sheet;
- a press bending station for bending the glass sheet heated by the heating furnace (10), into a desired shape;
- and
- a cooling station for cooling the glass sheet bent into the desired shape at the press bending station;
- wherein the press bending station (20) includes
- a glass mounting bed (21) on which the glass sheet is to be put,
- a mold (22) disposed above the glass mounting bed (21) and having a glass forming surface (23) at a lower surface of the mold, and
- a press ring (24) for lifting the glass sheet put on the glass mounting bed (21) and pressing the glass sheet to the glass forming surface (23) of the mold (22),
- characterized in that the glass mounting bed (21) includes a slat conveyer (50c, 50d, 50e, 50f, 50g) whose crawler (54) is driven in a conveyance direction of the glass sheet.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.