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US 4,537,301 AGranted
Pressure shoe for glass processing apparatus
AssigneeZ. BAVELLONI S.p.A.
InventorFranco Bavelloni
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AssigneeZ. BAVELLONI S.p.A.
InventorFranco Bavelloni
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The shoe is used as a glass plate pressing or backing-up member attached on a conveyor of a glass plate edge bevelling machine. The shoe comprises an elongate body. On one face thereof the elongate body is provided with blocks adapted for abutment engagement with large plate glass workpieces to be processed. A small supporting plate member movably connected to the elongate body is positionable at a first position, whereat the small plate member defines an extension of the elongate body, adapted for engagement with and for pressing or backing-up small size plate glass workpieces to be processed. The small plate member is further positionable at a second idle position, whereat it is accommodated within the elongate body in association with the blocks, without interfering with larger glass workpieces to be supported by the elongate body.
A glass plate pressing or backingup shoe structure particularly for attachment on conveyor means of glass processing apparatus such as a glass plate edge bevelling machine comprising an elongate body having blocks on one face thereof, said blocks defining free engagement surfaces adapted for abutment engagement with a plate glass workpiece to be processed, and auxiliary supporting plate member, movably connected to said elongate body, said plate member being positionable in a first position, whereat said plate member forms a supporting extension of said elongate body and in a second idle position, whereat said plate member is accommodated within said elongate body behind said engagement surfaces.
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