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US 5,296,014 AGranted
Device for bending glass sheets on bending mold having a cover
AssigneeSaint-Gobain Vitrage International
InventorsJean-Luc Lesage, Jean-Marc Petitcollin, Arnaud Borderiou, Thierry Franco
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Abstract
A device for bending glass sheets which includes a furnace for heating the glass, a conveyor, a bending station within which there is suspended, notably from a plate, an upper bending mold at least partly disposed inside the skirt of a peripheral suction box, and the lower face of which is covered with a covering in such a way that this covering is supported by an attachment device which can be removed and is not integral with the upper mold.
Claims4
A bending station for bending heated glass sheets, comprising:
- a vertically movable upper plate;
- an upper bending mold mounted to the plate and positioned therebelow;
- a skirt forming walls of a peripheral suction box and mounted to the plate, said skirt at least partially enclosing the upper bending mold;
- a covering over the bottom surface of said upper bending mold;
- a support frame separate from said upper bending mold and having means for releasably supporting said covering over the bottom surface of said upper bending mold;
- a deflector forming a downward skirt extension;
- means for mounting said support frame to said deflector;
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- means for detachably mounting said deflector to said skirt.
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