Stack of spaced sheets
AssigneeGemtron Corporation
InventorsDonald Lee Knoy, Jr., Aaron M. Bauer, Robert A. Moss
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Abstract
This disclosure relates to the manufacture of lites (glass sheets) which have at least a pair of thin spacers applied thereto which maintain the lites in spaced relationship when stacked upon pallets, wrapped and shipped. The spacers are preferably only partially adhered to the lites, either by weak bonding adhesive or electrostatically, and can be readily removed during end-use applications. The spacers are applied automatically during production runs of the lites, and the spacers are applied from above or from below relative to the path of travel of the lites.
Claims22
A stack of sheets comprising a plurality of sheets each having opposite first and second surfaces and a peripheral edge, a plurality of relatively spaced substantially thin flat spacers each having first and second opposite surfaces, adjacent first and second surface areas of the first surface of at least one of said spacers being respectively adhered to and nonadhered to the first surface of each sheet, said nonadhered second area including a peripheral edge portion of said at least one spacer, the second surface of said at least one spacer being in abutment with the second surface of an adjacent sheet whereby said sheets are maintained in adjacent slightly spaced protective relationship with each other, and means binding the plurality of sheets together in a stack.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.