Control system for monitoring and controlling the processing of glass sheets in a glass processing environment

A control system for monitoring and controlling the processing of sheets of glass in a glass processing system wherein the glass sheets are conveyed by driven rolls of a horizontal roller conveyor and vertically removed from certain rolls of the roller conveyor of a bending apparatus of the glass processing system to perform bending thereon, the control system including sensor means located along the path of conveyance for sensing the glass sheets as the glass sheets are conveyed by the roller conveyor past the sensor means and providing a glass sense signal upon sensing the glass sheets;

• and generating means coupled to the roller conveyor for generating a transport signal corresponding to the distance that the glass sheets are conveyed along the path of conveyance;
• and wherein the improvement comprises:
• signal processing means for processing said glass sense and transport signals corresponding to each glass sheet to provide control signals to the bending apparatus and a roll operator of the glass processing system for operating a plurality of rolls adjacent the bending apparatus to control the bending apparatus to remove each glass sheet from the adjacent rolls wherein relative horizontal movement between each of the glass sheets and the bending apparatus has been substantially reduced.

A control system for monitoring and controlling the processing of sheets of glass in a glass processing system wherein the glass sheets are conveyed by a roller conveyor system and received from certain rolls of the roller conveyor system, the control system including sensor means located along the path of conveyance for sensing the glass sheets as the glass sheets are conveyed by the roller conveyor system past the sensor means and providing glass sense signals upon sensing the glass sheets;

• and generating means coupled to the roller conveyor system for generating a transport signal corresponding to the distance that the glass sheets are conveyed along the path of conveyance;
• wherein the improvement comprises:
• programmable signal processing means for processing said glass sense and transport signals corresponding to each glass sheet to provide control signals to a roll operator for operating the certain rolls to control movement thereof and glass sheet conveyance thereon independent of the glass sheet conveyance on the other rolls of the roller conveyor system.

A control system for monitoring and controlling the processing of sheets of glass in a glass processing system wherein the glass sheets are conveyed by driven rolls of a roller conveyor system and transferred from certain rolls of the roller conveyor system by transfer apparatus of the glass processing system in preparation for further processing of the glass sheets, the control system including sensor means located along the path of conveyance for sensing the glass sheets as the glass sheets are conveyed by the roller conveyor system past the sensor means and providing a glass sense signal upon sensing the glass sheets;

• and generating means coupled to the roller conveyor system for generating a transport signal corresponding to the distance that the glass sheets are conveyed along the path of conveyance;
• and wherein the improvement comprises:
• signal processing means for processing said glass sense and transport signals corresponding to each glass sheet to provide control signals to the transfer apparatus and a roll operator for operating the certain rolls and to the transfer apparatus to transfer each glass sheet from the certain rolls without slippage of the glass sheets on the certain rolls.

A control system for monitoring and controlling the processing of sheets of glass in a glass processing system wherein the glass sheets are first loaded onto a roller conveyor system by a loading apparatus of the processing system and then conveyed by the roller conveyor system and received from certain rolls of the roller conveyor system, the control system including sensor means located along the path of conveyance for sensing the glass sheets as the glass sheets are conveyed by the roller conveyor system past the sensor means and providing glass sense signals upon sensing the glass sheets;

• and generating means coupled to the roller conveyor system for generating a transport signal corresponding to the distance that the glass sheets are conveyed along the path of conveyance;
• wherein the improvement comprises:
• programmable signal processing means for processing said glass sense and transport signals corresponding to each glass sheet to provide control signals to the loading apparatus for consecutively loading the glass sheets onto the roller conveyor system, to a roll operator for operating the certain rolls to control movement thereof and glass sheet conveyance thereon independent of the glass sheet conveyance on the other rolls of the roller conveyor system.

A control system for monitoring and controlling the processing of sheets of glass in a glass processing system wherein the glass sheets are first loaded onto a roller conveyor system by a loading apparatus of the processing system and then conveyed by driven rolls of the roller conveyor system and transferred from certain rolls of the roller conveyor system by transfer apparatus of the glass processing system in preparation for further processing of the glass sheets, the control system including sensor means located along the path of conveyance for sensing the glass sheets as the glass sheets are conveyed by the roller conveyor system past the sensor means and providing a glass sense signal upon sensing the glass sheets, and generating means coupled to the roller conveyor system for generating a transport signal corresponding to the distance that the glass sheets are conveyed along the path of conveyance;

• and wherein the improvement comprises:
• signal processing means for processing said glass sense and transport signals corresponding to each glass sheet to provide control signals to the loading apparatus for consecutively loading the glass sheets onto the roller conveyor system, to a roll operator for operating the certain rolls and to the transfer apparatus to transfer each glass sheet from the certain rolls without slippage of the glass sheets on the certain rolls.