Apparatus for cutting laminated glass
OwnerRussell Tausheckinventor
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Abstract
A method and apparatus for cutting laminated glass, particularly large sheets. Laminated glass panes utilize two layers of glass having a thin layer of plastic material sandwiched adhesively between the two layers of glass. The apparatus simultaneously scores both sides of the laminated glass pane, i.e., both layers of glass that make up the laminated pane are simultaneously scored so that both layers of glass may be successively cracked along the score lines and the layers spaced apart along the score line while still connected by the layer of plastic material so as to give access to the intermediate layer of resilient plastic material, which is then cut in a subsequent step.
Claims12
Apparatus for simultaneously scoring both glass layers of a laminated glass pane having an intermediate layer of a plastic material adhesively sandwiched between the two glass layers, comprising:
- (a) a first elongated member adapted to underlie said glass pane;
- (b) a second elongated member adapted to overlie said first elongated member on the opposite side of said glass pane;
- (c) means for binding said elongated members to each other on opposite sides of said glass pane;
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- (d) means operatively associated with said elongated members movable therealong to simultaneously score opposite sides of said glass pane;
- (e) said means for binding said elongated members to each other and to said glass pane including resilient bale means pivotally mounted adjacent opposite ends of one of said elongated members and selectively engageable with the corresponding end portion of the associated other elongated member to resiliently bias said elongated members toward each other when engaged whereby said glass pane is clamped between said elongated members.
Apparatus for simultaneously scoring both glass layers of a laminated glass pane having an intermediate layer of plastic material adhesively sandwiched between the two glass layers, comprising:
- (a) a first elongated member adapted to underlie said glass pane;
- (b) a second elongated member adapted to overlie said first elongated member on the opposite side of said glass pane;
- (c) means for binding said elongated members to each other on opposite sides of said glass pane;
- (d) means operatively associated with said elongated members movable therealong to simultaneously score opposite sides of said glass pane;
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- (e) one of said elongated members comprising an upwardly opening channel having two upwardly extending webs;
- the other elongated member comprising an elongated flat plate beam spaced above said upwardly opening channel;
- brace means adjustably disposed between said channel and said plate beam;
- one of said carrier members being rollably supported within said channel, the other carrier member being supported and guided by said plate beam.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.